Inside Japan's WORST Hotel Room | Feat. @CDawgVA

NOTIFICATION SQUAD: Come on guys, don't deny it. 12:35 is literally Connor in scarecrow form. Sorry for the delay in this episode! Both Connor and I have have been moving around these last few weeks (Connor and apartment, me a studio). We've got lots of adventures planned, with the next one appearing on his channel CDawgVA later in the month. WHERE do you guys want to see us go next?!

Chris with Joey: Journey across Japan to see the wondrous sites the country has to offer Chris with Connor: Journey across Japan to see the many different ways you can suffer

Connor: "I booked the sh!ttiest hotel room." The hotel room: *being sh!tty Connor: *surprised Pikachu face

Legitimately crying laughing at Connor trying to convince you to leave a situation he created.

Fun fact: James May visited the scarecrow village as well, back in 2019 for his travel documentary. He had the chance to speak with the Ayano-san about her scarecrows and she made James May scarecrow for him. You can vaguely see it at 10:07 on the right side of the gym and the far right of the shot; it is wearing a blue shirt, has blond hair and is situated behind the outstretched hand.

My favourite bromance on Youtube strikes again

Connor: "It's not a love hotel..." -Turns out: It's indeed rather a hate hotel

Chris not wanting to leave the hotel because it would be so awkward is the most British thing ever

That hotel room was giving me all sorts of anxiety attacks. That pillow you laid your head on had blood on it. I wouldn't be surprised if that ammonia smell was their failing attempt to prevent black mold. The walls are falling apart before your eyes. I'm surprised that you only found a dead fly. I expected you to pull back the bedding and find a horror movie of insects and body fluids that would make a criminal pathologist vomit. My sister once booked a room that just had bed bugs. I thought it couldn't be worse than that. Playing "Guess the Stain" wins the trauma award.

I swear both your accents really intensify when you’re left alone in the same room. The British-ness is really feeding off one another, in the best way possible!

Notice how both of their plans to annoy one another ended up backfiring. Connor somewhat enjoys the adrenaline rush from crossing the bridge meanwhile Chris is battered and drenched. Then, Chris got some enjoyment out of the hotel seeing Connor's suffering more than him, even though he was supposed to be the victim.

ONE PERSON MADE ALL OF THESE DOLLS?!?!? That is an insane effort! Even just the amount within the school is like a lifetimes work but there's an entire village. It's amazing honestly.

Connors laughing now but one day he’s going to come home after a long day and find those two scarecrow children in his apartment with their suitcases.

That bridge was like an actual action movie sequence

The Japanese government has a crisis task force working around the clock to clean up that hotel room.

The staff was probably so nice because they didn't have to do the other tedious parts to their job, such as cleaning the rooms. 😂

Full confession: I rewatch Chris's videos A LOT. I love the discovery and exploration of them on the first go, but they're jampacked with so many different things and jokes that it makes them super rewatchable with so many different facets to each video, but also surprisingly comforting and relaxing. I often find that my Youtube algorithm brings me back down an Abroad in Japan rabbit hole that I'm pretty much always down for. All this is to say, I've rewatched this video many times, but I always forget that the worst hotel room has this amazing visit to the scarecrow village embedded in it, and I get this epic wave of warm melancholy, almost nostalgia, when that music comes up and we enter the scarecrow village. Chris has endlessly great editing, but this is one of the segments where I feel Chris's sensibilities really shine: Connor is stating how sad the whole situation is, almost afraid, it could have been edited like a horror movie; instead, Chris turns to this soft, melancholic tone that is also bright and hopeful, turning it into this gorgeous moment of seeing the loss of the village through so many different lenses at once, while still having this bumbling Welshman make jokes throughout. I just love it.

Connor: Haha I’m gonna prank Chris so bad and book him the worst hotel ever. Also Connor: “I don’t want to breathe in here.”

Chris: I don't want to spend one more second in this hotel Also Chris: well I don't want to walk out because it would be MILDLY AWKWARD

Somehow the funniest thing I took from this was the staff being "mildly angry" at you for trying to check in after midnight. I felt that.