Japan Trip Recap - Part 1 - Packing & Travel Tips

[Music] hi so we're back from our trip to Osaka  Japan and I just wanted to do a quick hopefully quick recap of our trip and  what I bought and what worked what didn't um so I think I'll start with the packing stuff  and then get into the things that we bought hopefully it's not a long video but I did choose  the beige beige bag from my last video where I was talking about which one I was going to choose so I  did return the black one and I'm really glad that I went with this one and thank you f

or the people  who did write in and like give me their opinions so I really appreciate that the bag was super  light because I really packed it to the brim and it was really heavy um with the stuff inside and  I did really appreciate these pockets on the side um and that they were sensible so like I would  have my hand sanitizer here and sometimes my phone and also like you know drinks that  you buy from the vending machine plus my kids drinks so it was really great to have  these pockets on the

side and on rides when I would have my phone I would just stick it  in here and cinch it up as tight as I could and then you know how you have to put  your bag by your feet on like most rice so it was really good I felt it was  secure enough that it wouldn't fall out and it actually held up pretty well like dirtiness  wise I guess like I do see some like little like scuff marks and little discoloration  here here but overall I mean it looks decent and that's pretty good for being  this color wh

at else it was really great to have this trolley pocket in  the back I did use it for over my suitcase and so awesome that you can choose to  zip it up and I did put this bag in here a lot of the time well not a lot of time  but what I didn't need to like go to the train and you know I it was nice to have a  little pocket back here that was easy access the things I didn't like are mostly the shops I  mean they were very comfortable and they're still comfortable on but I feel like they look very

warm  and I did wear for a week straight I did carry a bunch of stuff I mean we walk so much and you know  I did have like my puffy jacket on a sweater so I don't know it looks okay like there's a memory  foam in here I feel like and it didn't puff back out like I we came back maybe four days ago so if  it was gonna puff back out it would have already so I do think like these shouldn't look as worn as  they do like when I use that jujube bag on a trip it the pads on that shoulder strap look fine

even  though it's the same type of trip same kind of jackets you know that you're wearing so quality  wise I'd say the shops are not like super great it's just okay everything else worked really great  I did not mind that it was a two-step opening and it was nice that it was light on the inside like  I really don't like the dark interior color dyes um yeah I mean it held up so much like I had  all my masks and things in here and I have like my Band-Aids in one my charger so this  charger was aw

esome I bought this from Costco they do sell it at Best Buy and Amazon  and it's just the my charge I want to say I don't remember how much the capacity is but um  it worked really well so going there my kids like to play on their iPad and the USB lightning cord  we had one and we tried to charge the iPads and it didn't work it was just not enough power coming  from the seat Outlet but they could charge it with this so that was good the bad thing was we only  had two so they pretty much used the

whole thing like the going there it was 10 hours so and they  were up the whole time so they pretty much used the whole thing um when I was playing on  their switch and that ran out of battery this would charge it the USBC um but it  had to be off when charging I want to say I didn't really get to try it too much  because my kids used the whole thing so this was good and I had that in here all the  time because you never know you need your phone so much in Japan like when you go like you're  na

vigating on Google Maps you have it out you keep checking well we keep checking to make sure  we're on the right train so that's essential anyways back to the bag I really like this  and yeah I would totally bring this again so I always have this one on my back and I  will always have this one like in the front because when you go in and out of the trains you  need the cards and I had my kids cards with me you know I didn't want them to lose it so  this was really good I had my my Yen here um my

coins in this one although it is hard to get  the coins out because so skinny and yeah I'll I'll talk about that after and as I saw my cards here  and I could also fit my passport so I would have my passport my whole family's passports in here  and it was really handy for shopping when you want to do the tax-free and also going in and out of  customs and immigration so and I also had the um ikoka cars like the the refillable Transportation  cards so yeah I totally recommend having a bag that yo

u can carry easy access in the front and  then having your backpack it's just easier for me um you also might want a coin purse this is my  mom's but it's like a a wide open one where you can see all the change I actually had like  I won one of these little coin purses from oh I don't have it in here well I had  another little bunny coin purse that I want from one of the claw games there  there's so many and I did use like a on the plane I had like a bag and it had the  tissues wire and headphon

es I had all my wires and another thing that was awesome was this  airfly so I was watching a bunch of like um Essentials to bring on the airplane kind of  videos and everyone talked about this how good this was and this is really good especially if  you use airpods I mean you can't really compare the cheap wired earphones to like the air the  quality of the airpods like Wonder like noise canceling and two you're not like Tangled Up  in all the wires when you have to get in and out of the seat o

r you know when it's time to eat  you have to bring the tree down it's just nice to be like Wireless so what this is is you just plug  this in and it creates like a Bluetooth connection to your airpods and it worked really well it  does last I want to say like three hours maybe something would quit either I  would have to charge this or this I think it might have been more of my air pods  I have to put them back in the case and charge them and then I could use it again anyways it  may not last y

our whole flight if your flight is 10 hours but when you are watching a  movie or something it's really nice and I think I bought this on Amazon for like thirty  dollars around there so yeah that was really good I had another pack um a little like fanny pack  because you know all these people recommend having like a comfort pouch and it's usually just a fanny  pack filled with like essential things so you don't have to keep going to your bag underneath  the seat or above you and what I had in th

ere I already put the stuff away but I had cross wipes  so I wiped down all the seats the screen that um hand rest and armrests and the trace  for all of our seats just to you know not get sick on a trip so I had that and regular  hand wipes you know for the kids and everything tissues I had like lip gloss I had eye  drops and all these other things but I didn't really need that mostly it  was just these and the lip gloss and there's something else oh and a pen but actually  we didn't need a pen

until later on in immigration so yeah okay the next thing I want to talk  about is the hulkin bag so this was amazing like even though it's two inches wider than the  carry-on you know dimensions for Hawaiian Airlines I was still able to bring this on fold it up no  one tried to measure it or anything you know it looks compact enough where it would fit underneath  the seat so when we got to the airport I opened this up and Now open up just  in case you didn't see the other video so this is a me

dium sized bag there's a small and  a large also on the website and there's also cute colors there's silver and a rose gold so it looks  like this it's just a really big stable bag and the best thing was we put all our  backpacks in here so it could fit like three backpacks easily plus you know  our water bottles and everything and the wheels are so smooth like sometimes I'm  walking and the bag is like going in front of me because it's just that smooth it's like  zero gravity like just floating

on its own but we know when your stuff is super heavy it was  so nice especially for the kids so like we had to walk obviously really far in the airport just  having all that weight off of you was so good so we had this from the from our car to  where we checked in and then I folded it down to go through security just so  they wouldn't ask like what is that um super fast to close you can just go like  this fold it in and then tuck it and then it's nice it has a handle you just wear it  with the

wheels out and yeah it was awesome um also when we got off the plane same thing  put it in there especially on the train and we had everything contained I didn't have to  worry so much about the kids backpacks it had their iPads and everything in it so yeah that  was awesome I wish I used it more during our trip so the first day we went to Vegas Park and  met up with friends um then we you know did more exploring went to Nada and all those places I  should have bought it then but I did bring it

to Nada I didn't bring it to the day we went to  Kyoto but where our backs were killing us like the kids didn't even bring their backpacks  so it's just me and my husband and we had the jackets we had all the stuff and like our  backs are so sore from walking around everywhere carrying our backpacks we should have bought that  bag just thrown it in because the last day when we planned to go shopping and we went to Nada we  brought that and it was like amazing and like just to walk around and yo

u know be be able  to stand up straight and not have that weight it was so good you might get like a couple weird  actually no one even looked at us weird because everywhere on the train in Japan people have like  their carry-on suitcases everybody has like some kind of luggage like backpack or you know um so  yeah it was totally fine so totally recommend that especially if you have kids and you got to carry  their stuff too if you're an adult by yourself um and I would only Bring It shopping if

  you're by yourself but yeah if you have to carry other people's things too that was really  awesome um another thing is it was pretty cold it was like warm and cold so it was  rainy some days cloudy but most days like we wore heat tech so this is the kids ones  I don't know if you can see so every day our kids will wear this plus like a t-shirt t-shirt  and jeans and their puffy jacket and I just use like I just bought them a puffy jacket from  Uniqlo it's like pretty cheap maybe like forty do

llars and it's really lightweight and  you can shove it in your bag when it gets hot but the kids he took is so good because it's  really thin and stretchy and comfortable so this is the my bigger Sons my 10 year old son's  shirt I could probably wear it and the leggings so because it's so thin it's not uncomfortable  when you wear jeans but that was super helpful and the kids like to wear this anyways oh and  another packing item is I totally recommend using packing cubes it really kept everyon

e organized  so each of us had two of these cubes a big one and a small one and the big ones are for your we  went for six days so all of our clothes and the smaller ones will be for your underwear socks  and heat tech items so everyone had two sets these big ones are this black one I  bought from e-bikes like a long time ago so I have a red one also and I also have oh  yeah this is the red one and I bought this pink one off of Amazon and it came with  a lot of I don't know like seven bags so my

younger son and I had pink  he doesn't care right now but these are so good the pink ones especially  have these like cinching straps so you could like um Buckle this and then really pull it tight  so yeah I totally recommend packing cubes and on the way back I can't see I'm  the most organized I just use like the laundry bags from the hotel and shove all  of our dirty clothes in and then throw it in the suitcase and use it as padding for the  things that we buy my husband bought this like Wi-F

i router I'll link it down below we  actually did not need it but what it's for is um they say your hotel only provides  you one link or one Wi-Fi connection and you have to pay extra for the rest you  just get this plug this into the router um and then you can use multiple I devices on  one Wi-Fi connection hope that makes sense but yeah the we stayed at the Hilton Osaka  and we could all connect easily and so we didn't really need this but I know other  hotels like you do have to pay individua

lly and then these are just the bracelets from  Super Mario World we all have to have one and you actually really do need to buy this  even though it's like thirty dollars or it was like forty two thousand no 4200 yen it  was like I guess it's the equivalent about thirty dollars but you do need to have this or  buy one to participate in all the activities and another good thing was tagging our luggage  luckily we did not have any issues but highly recommend tagging your luggage even your carry-o

ns  if you tend to like misplace them we also tagged the kids while we were walking around Japan and  that didn't work out as well the when you're like so one time my son kind of ran off in Daiso in  like a shopping area that's really crowded and I kind of panicked I was like oh my gosh where  did he go but he followed his dad to the bathroom anyways I was trying to use the find my app on my  phone and I couldn't connect to because it was in like one of those tall buildings with multiple  floors

and that's how it is in the train too so all the shopping malls all the train stations are  multiple floors sometimes underground so it's not going to work in there it only works if you're  Outdoors somewhere so not super helpful but I mean for a little bit of peace of mind I guess  for your luggage though this would work perfect also the little bottles the air airless bottles  worked out great and I can even see using it not traveling so for my Foundation I usually mix these  two 3n and 2N and

every day I was like getting both of these out uncapping it squirting like one  pump on my hand and another one then mixing it every morning and it's just so nice to have  like your custom mix like in one bottle so I think I'm just gonna once I use it up I'll  just kind of push the thing back down um you just get like a skewer or something like that you can  push down and fill it up again it was really good it would also work great for like when you have  just a little bit left so this is my ey

e cream and I put most of it in here I tried to fill  it up all the way but there's still a little bit left but when you have just so little bit of  a product and then it's like so annoying to like get out you know you have to like squeeze it out it's kind of just actually easier to put it in  one of these bottles and then throw this away okay so the next item are the shirts so I  just washed and dried these I didn't iron it or anything so it's so wrinkle but these shirts  were so cute and unfor

tunately I didn't take any fun like family photos because it was raining  that day like pouring and a lot of the day we had to like use an umbrella or wear this like Poncho  it was like meaning that hard where the umbrella wasn't cutting it like her legs are getting wet  so we had to go ahead and buy these Universal you know ponchos um so I washed and dried  these and for the most part the vinyl is good I did I usually would try to hang it up like wash  and then hang dry so there are little piec

es like the pointy parts that are kind  of lifting and all I will do after this is repress it like turn it inside  out and repress it and it's good to go so yeah these are nice um I think this video is  going to be very long so I think I'm going to do it in two parts so this is going to be the  recap and what I like Packing Tips and the next part will be what I bought even though it's not  much just so that it's not a super long video so see you in the next part so as I was editing my  video I r

ealized I didn't include this I totally forgot and this is just a selfie stick tripod  and I'm never using selfie stick before and I thought oh we're gonna be on our own a lot during  the trip and we want to take family videos in my pictures so I got this off of Amazon it was  like less than 25 dollars and it had really good reviews and so all you do is to get the  tripod out is you push this button on the bottom and it comes out like that and it's really  stable and this extends like up to 60 i

nches but I won't do it all the way right now um you stick  your phone in and I'm able to put my phone case with my phone in here so that's really handy like  my other tripod I have to take it out of the case and I I don't know I hate that so you can change  it horizontal vertically and you can angle it which was so key like when you're holding it out  or when you're standing it up to get that really more flattering angle I guess um yeah and then if  you don't want to use a tripod you just close

it and then use it as a selfie stick this way and  then this little remote connects to your phone via Bluetooth so you can have it all all the way  and then just take your photos with the clicker so it was super easy and I really enjoyed it it  was really great it was easy to take our family photos we set it up as a tripod at Osaka Castle  and you know we had it out and then just took our photos with the clicker and then at The Shrine in  Kyoto I think it's Fushimi Nadi I could be wrong but it'

s a really crowded place it has all the  red gates so it's really hard to get a good photo um because so busy and then I was able to  also get a video of us walking by having it extended out and angled towards us so we  could take a video walking through the gates if I have if this video is not too long I will  insert a photo or a short clip but yeah I think this is really good for travels where you're by  yourself or a foreign country where you don't want to let people use your phone or you don

't know how  to ask them in their language how to please take a picture of us so yeah just want to include  this so I'll see you in my next video [Music]