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TRYING to get a cheap room in the slums of Osaka [2eCzKFG66Mo]

2019-12-04 · 12 min

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    I'm

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    sorry.

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    Hello and welcome back to the slums of

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    Osaka, my favorite place in all of Japan.

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    Look at this, look at this one, it's

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    massive! What would happen if the

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    wind was really strong and it got blown

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    away?

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    Excuse me.

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    No one here.

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    Weird place.

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    Very weird.

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    Um, could I have a room for one night?

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    One, uh, empty room? No empty

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    room. No empty? Okay, thank you.

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    Um, could I have one room, one night?

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    No, no. Okay, thank you.

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    Every time I go into one of these stupid

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    hotels, they say they don't have any

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    rooms.

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    So I've had the worst day ever. Ever.

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    I've never had an idea for a video go

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    so badly. Usually when I have an idea, I

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    go out and I make it happen, but this is

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    one of the first times that I went

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    out to get footage and I completely failed

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    in what I was supposed to do for the

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    video. So the idea for the video was I was

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    going to stay in the cheapest hotel in the

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    slums of Osaka, because when I went there

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    last time, there were loads of these

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    hotels that only cost about $10 a night.

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    There was even some that cost about $8 a

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    night. I thought they must be really bad

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    rooms, so that might be interesting for a

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    video. And then I go there and I went to

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    several of the hotels, and then 2 of them

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    said they didn't have any rooms, which I

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    find very hard to believe. I mean, it's a

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    huge apartment building, how could you not

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    even have one room free? And then one of

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    them I was waiting at the reception

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    counter thing for a bit and no one even

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    came. There was no one there. I don't know

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    if they were hiding around the corner or

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    something. Maybe I should have spoken in

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    Japanese. I don't know. I didn't think it

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    really mattered. Maybe it's because I

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    wasn't a homeless old man, which is what

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    most of the people there seemed to be. It

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    was so annoying. Well, I'll try again

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    tomorrow. I'll go back and this time I'll

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    try speaking in Japanese, see if it makes

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    any difference. And I might have to take

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    the GoPro off until I get the room at

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    least. Such an irritating,

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    frustrating day.

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    Station number M16. Passengers can

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    transfer here.

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    That guy's taking a piss. Whoa, there's so

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    many police over here. What's going on?

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    Um, do you have any rooms?

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    One night? One night? No, no,

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    one week. One week?

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    Um, okay, thank you. It says

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    one night on the stupid sign.

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    Why does it say ¥1,500 a day? If you're

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    only allowed a minimum of 7 days.

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    Stupid place.

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    Looks very fancy.

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    Excuse me, uh, do you have a room?

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    Do you have a room? No English. No,

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    um,

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    okay, thank you.

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    Well, at least I tried.

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    No English, my backside. Stupid Park

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    Hotel. Come on, they must have at

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    least one room. What a load of

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    BS this place is.

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    I can't believe they don't even have one

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    room.

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    Excuse me, do you have any rooms?

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    Any rooms? One night?

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    Oh, no vacancy. Oh, okay. Sorry.

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    Thank you.

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    Did not see that sign there. My bad.

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    So weird, there's no reception.

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    Hello?

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    It says it's a hotel. I go into

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    all of these places, none of them have

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    receptions. You just go in there, there's

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    no people. So strange.

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    There's no one here.

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    Stupid places.

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    Oh, it says to phone that phone number.

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    None of these places have receptions.

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    This idiot put his bicycle right in front

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    of the entrance.

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    It seems like You can't just walk in and

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    book a room. You have to phone them up or

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    something. It's very confusing.

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    Look at this tiny Japanese alleyway.

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    It's so narrow.

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    Well, I'm very sorry, but it seems like I

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    failed. Failed everyone on

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    today's video. I was unable to book

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    myself a room in the slums.

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    Well, I hope it was interesting anyway.

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    So annoying. I'm back home now and I'm

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    just very frustrated with how that video

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    went. Didn't go how I expected it to go at

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    all. I went to 8 different places. Half of

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    them didn't even have any reception staff

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    at the reception. The other half just said

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    they didn't have any rooms, which I find

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    extremely difficult to believe. Come on,

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    they must have had at least one room in

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    one of those places. They really shouldn't

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    advertise themselves as a hotel if it's

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    supposed to be a place for homeless

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    people. All of those places had the word

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    hotel written above the doorway,

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    and none of them gave me a room. How could

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    I go to 8 different places and not even

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    get at least one room in one of them? If

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    they don't want to act like a hotel, they

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    shouldn't call themselves a hotel. Maybe

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    they just didn't want to give me a room

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    because I'm obviously not a homeless old

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    man. Well, then they shouldn't advertise

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    themselves as a hotel. Then they should

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    advertise themselves as cheap housing for

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    homeless people. So annoying because I had

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    this idea of a video where I would show

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    you these really cheap places in that area

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    where you get a room for about $10 a

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    night, and my

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    plans just completely failed.

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    Maybe that's why there's so many homeless

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    people in that area, because it's so damn

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    hard to get a hotel room. Never ever going

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    back there ever again. If you're looking

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    for a cheap hotel Do not go to the slums.

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    That's my advice.

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