48 Hours Living in Tokyo's Best Capsule Hotels (and surviving off vending machines)
We lived in 4 different capsule hotels in Tokyo, and ONLY ate from vending machines 😂 I think we finally redeemed our first nightmare experience!
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Episode 876 | Filmed February 2023 | #Tokyo #Japan #capsulehotel
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Who are Kara and Nate?!
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Originally from Nashville, Tennessee, we got married 2013 and were super “normal.” I was a teacher and Nate started a small printing business from the spare bedroom of our apartment.
We discovered the world of “travel hacking” while planning our honeymoon & became addicted ;)
So after 2 years of obsessively saving $35k and over 2 million miles and points, we sold our cars and apartment and left home January 10, 2016 for a “one year” trip around the world.
Our goal was to see as many places as possible before we ran out of money and went back home to “normal life.” We started this travel vlog to share our experiences with friends and family, but quickly fell in love with living on the road and found a new passion for capturing our travels through video. So we did everything we could to keep going.
4 years later, we achieved our new goal of visiting 100 countries and all 7 continents. We had no plans to slow down, until 2020 forced us to ;) Which is when we bought a converted van to start exploring our own country for the first time.
After ~2 years of van life, we are back to full time traveling! And now we are finding the best adventures the world has to offer :)
We are incredibly grateful to be able to continue doing something we love every day. 😊🎥🌎 Thank you to everyone who has been a part of our journey :)
00:00 Capsule hotels & vending machines
03:01 Capsule hotels 1&2
07:14 TeamLab date night
10:33 night 1
12:47 24 hours of vending machines
22:16 Capsule hotels 3&4
26:40 eating bugs from a vending machine
31:28 Miles and Points 101
32:21 Bloops
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