 Hey guys, Thundie here. I'm in Japan. I've been here for a week and I'll be using the Galaxy Z Fold 5. It's been a fun experience, but I figured this video I will show you and tell you how to actually do Japan properly. So let's go ahead and start off. Before we do, I want to give a big shout out to our sponsor, Pulseway, in this video. They make some really cool technology, especially for remote work access. So stay tuned and check them out. Now, let us begin. You want to go to Japan. You've got your Galaxy Z Fold 5, but a couple of things you need to know. Japan is a fun country and they have a couple of things you actually need to get beforehand to make sure that you make this experience really cool. Now, one of the things of course is internet service and connection. Now, you may have T-Mobile, AT&T, Verizon back home, but I'll tell you this, my T-Mobile sim did work here and T-Mobile is probably the better of all the three carriers for you to just carry your service around the world, but you will have limited access. It will slow down a lot of times. Verizon, you can pay for, of course, international plans, but it gets expensive. I believe it's similar to AT&T. I am not sure about that, but my favorite sim to use or my favorite service to use is actually Google Fi. I do have a second line with Google Fi and Google Fi works great here. Now, you can go with a cheaper plan, but just know yet you must likely going to run through your data cap pretty quickly. I would suggest if you're going to be traveling internationally before you do, make sure you bump up to the maximum plan which is about $60 a day, $6 a month, and you will have unlimited internet access. So whenever you travel, you have that. I actually had that on my Google Pixel Fold. The one thing in my folder, it kept on switching in and out. I don't know why. It shouldn't be the case, but I had service in Japan and it worked really well. I was able to also hotspot with service. Now, when I mentioned you do have to move that plan, it's because I used about 30 GB of data in the week I was here in Japan. So just take that as you go. Now, the other thing you can use, of course, are eSIM services. They're two, AirAlo and HoloFly. AirAlo gives you, I bought a 30 GB plan which is about $30 something. It's a bit expensive, but it will last you for 15 days if you want to use that. It was pretty consistent. And then HoloFly actually got a limited plan for 7 days which was really good and worked pretty well. I prefer HoloFly just because it's a cheaper rate. And if you need an eSIM, you can use that. You will not work with voice calls. You can, of course, use things like Telegram and services like iMessage if you're using it on your iPhone. So that actually works. Now, that aside, going around Japan and seeing the country has been pretty great. The experience has been so much fun. And also capturing it on my Z Fold 5 as you're going to see all the b-roll here has been pretty sweet. Now the one thing you need to know is you're going to be walking around a lot in Japan so make sure you get really comfortable sneakers and you're going to be using the train a lot. The train system here is impressive. Very expansive. It makes everything... I used to live in New York and that's child's play complete to this. I use the train system in Korea which is really good but this is on a whole different level honestly. Now with the train system here, you can get this Sucar card which I use quite frankly. You can either get it on your iPhone. You can get it on Android. Android is a bit convoluted. There's an app you have to get. You can just put it into your wallet via Google Wallet or Samsung Pay. So you do have to get a separate app since it's become blue. So I used it on my iPhone. Now the Sucar card is simple because you can actually just fill it up or the other option is to get the GR Pass. Now the GR Pass allows you to use it for certain periods of time. It's like a monthly pass or a weekly pass depending on how long you want it. The cooling of the GR Pass allows you to not only use the subway but also use the trains to different cities. So whether you're going to say Kyoto, Osaka, Hiroshima, Okada, wherever you want to do you can actually use that with it as long as the trains do fit. But in my case I was here for a week so I used the Sucar card and I was able to just load it and use it everywhere and go. Now you're going to find vending machines across this country and a lot of vending machines accept the Sucar card as well. Now to use that payment make sure you select the IC option because the Sucar card is under a payment system, IC which is a bunch of different payments. You can use credit cards in some locations but the Sucar card works well. It works well for vending machines. It works well also if you waste your money at giggle locations to win different anime figurines and statues which I did not win. That was so sad. But it was a lot of fun to actually do that and traverse around there. Now I steered a couple of locations in Japan. I stayed in Ginza and then we moved to Kyoto. Now Kyoto was a lot of fun but before we do since I've been away for a while how do I connect and also access you know remote workstations especially if I'm in business. Well that's where our sponsor Pulseway comes in. Definitely check out. Are you tired of constantly worrying about your IT systems and the health of your IT infrastructure? Or do you have multiple systems in various locations you want to keep an eye on? Well Pulseway was designed to make your life easier. Do more while doing less with Pulseway's cutting-edge technology. 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But I was able to purchase it and then catch the train. Now the experience is amazing because the train system is super fast when I have all. That distance from Tokyo to Kyoto is roughly longer than the distance from New York to Washington D.C. or New York to Boston which normally if I drive would take me about 4-5 hours. This was a 2-hour, 10-minute train ride. Now I was able to get some bento boxes, tried it out. It was a very fun experience. One thing I noticed is that the bento boxes you're going to get are kind of cold but it's still very delicious and it was a great experience going to Kyoto, seeing the city. That city is amazing. You got to spend more time there. It was a lot of fun. Got to spend time with this older gentleman at his bar called Bar Niko Museum in Kyoto. If you ever go, go check it out. Great drinks, great atmosphere and it wasn't expensive. Also got some wagyu in Kyoto which is a really nice, great standard experience for my wife. But the city was fun. A lot of fun little places to check out and see. We got the fluffy pancakes there as well. They were amazing. Again, fun experience in Kyoto but we came back to Tokyo and jumped in the train system. Now using the subway in the city can be daunting at first but you've got a couple of friends. First, the train staff definitely asked them. They are very knowledgeable. They helped me find trains that were on the express line. Everyone's willing to help. A lot of people in Japan are just willing to help you out and to check out different things. The other thing also is Google is your friend. Google and Maps works really well in Japan so you can use it for your train services and also Google Translate. Especially if you're trying to just figure out something or location, use Google Translate. It works out very well. Especially the camera feature, the lens. It's been a life saver and it works. But we took the train system back and we took the train line because I wanted to go see the Gundam Factory in Yokohama. Now, here's a quick one for you guys. If you're heading to that factory, the best thing to do is take a train from Shibuya and you can take the Fukushima Line all the way to Mikto Shinkan. That is where it goes all the way to. Take the express train there. It leaves every 15 minutes so just make sure you take the Fukushima Line to Mikto Shinkan. If I'm not mistaken, but it's on screen. I'll put it on there for you so you can take that train and it takes you all the way to the Gundam Factory. And boy, that was amazing to see. This was a fun experience. I love Gundams. I'm not the biggest Gundam fan, by the way. I know your average Shinkan is and bro, it was fantastic. It was great to see. I got to go to the very top. Recorded all I could. See the Gundam move. I got some stuff. I got some gear. It was great. Now, it's a whole day experience so just take that as you will in terms of light. It's going to take you, with the express about 45 minutes, not the express, but an hour 15. If you don't come on time to get into the right time to go to the top, that will spend an extra hour. So, we spent about three hours there and then we took the train back into Tokyo. So, that was fun. That was great. Ordering food was also a very simple process. You can go to machines. Again, Google Translate is your biggest friend here and you can do that to just capture and experience everything in Japan. Honestly, I can lament because there's so much I have seen and so much I need to do and love to see more. Shibuya itself is fun. It's a bit chaotic. I saw the Shibuya Crossing and it was great. It's organized chaos. We also got to the Shibuya Sky which you can see the whole city. Great view around also great view looking down at Shibuya Crossing. There's just a lot of little elements like that. Now, at Shibuya Sky, you do have to get tickets for and if you use the poke app that I mentioned to poke tickets there as well if you want to. We went to Shibuya. We went shopping around there. We found the manga store called Mandrake. Do not go to Animate. Animate is like this very, I don't know it wasn't great. Mandrake in Shibuya is basement level about three fourths down. It's basement level two but it's three fourths down. Massive, huge manga collection, older toys, stuff you can find, really affordable prices and you will go crazy. You will spend a lot of money but things are not that expensive. The night life here, the bars, there's so many bars that are great for you to check out in the city, great places to drink great cocktails the bartenders are so they didn't know what they were doing. Honestly, it's been a great experience and I would love for you guys to enjoy this too but also experience it through the Galaxy Z45. I really like using this device to record and capture I'm doing this aero directly off the device and I think it does a really good job. Battery life has been great. I've had my single card on here recording the whole day and it will last me almost the whole day, especially extensively recording around the city. So if you guys have any questions or comments about my trip to Japan and also just the Galaxy Z45, let us know. Otherwise, if you get to like, share, subscribe and always enjoy in the city.