Name: Tokyo Food Truck Festival | City, Mountains, Islands All-in-One Event (東京周穫祭2024)
Uploaded: 2025-06-18T10:46:46.000Z
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So here we are in Yurakucho, in the heart of Tokyo.

I was invited to come check this festival out.

I live in Chuo Ward, which is one of the 23 wards in the city of Tokyo.

But what's interesting about this festival that's taking place for the next two days, it's called the Tokyo Shikaku-sai, which is a play on words.

It's sort of like the all of Tokyo in one spot festival.

You get a chance to kind of taste and sample some of the foods.

This is the second year that they've been doing this.

They actually gave me a drink ticket, which is cool, so you can have some sake at the end of the event hall.

But Tokyo's broken down into three distinctive parts.

There's the 23 wards, or the central city area, with some of the other cities around there.

There's the Shima region, which are the islands that go out into the Pacific.

And then there is the Tama region, which is the mountainous area.

I was just there yesterday, if you want to see a live stream from a hotel, a Japanese traditional inn, on the top of a mountain.

But the event is popping, and you can see the beautiful autumn colors of Tokyo also right now, close to peak, which makes this a little bit more special as well.

They have a VR event where you can see places like Shibuya on scooters and stuff.

They really sold it pretty good to me, I'm like, yeah, I gotta go check this out.

There's also something like a stamp rally, and if you get the stamps you get a free onigiri, which sounds a lot of fun.

Maybe we can get a couple of stamps here, but I have to avoid that Shake Shack cheeseburger place too.

But that's kind of hard, because you can smell all sorts of food here.

The International Forum was one of the events for the Tokyo 2020-2021 Olympics here.

I'll show you the map exactly where I am.

So Tokyo is one of Japan's 47 prefectures.

It's a lot bigger than people think, mainly because of those islands that go out into the Pacific.

It goes all the way down to the mountains, close to the Saitama-Yamanashi border.

There's the city of Tokyo with all those skyscrapers, and we're at this event, that weird-shaped looks like a sliver or a seed.

That's the International Forum, and we're in between that and the other building here.

Very close to Tokyo Station, Yurakucho is not that far away from Ginza as well.

So you get a lot of people coming to these kinds of events too, which makes it real colorful.

I'm in between the buildings you can see right now, and yeah, if you get a chance to come check it out this weekend, get a chance to go to the islands.

Here's the pamphlet fort for the 2020-2040 event.

This is the second event that they've been holding.

It's nice that they brought it back here, but you can see there's a spot on the top for the stamp rallies.

So you go around, the more stamps you collect, you get free stuff too, so that's kind of  Especially if you've got kids, you can work for it.

And down here is the information on the boots.

This pamphlet's in English too, so they've done a pretty good job of making sure that international visitors, they come, can also take advantage of all the neat stuff around here.

Alright, the first section, according to the brochure, is the 23 wards.

So you have the 23 wards of Tokyo, and these boots.

It's called Chuo Ward, which is the central area.

But it's amazing, because in Japan, one thing that I learned, you have to wait in line for everything, so it's always going to be a lot.

So the 23, that's one thing people don't quite understand, and they've got Godzilla right there, is that Japan is not really a city in the same sense that New York City is.

And within Japan, there are 47 prefectures.

And within Tokyo, the city of Tokyo, there's 23 cities.

The metropolitan area of Tokyo, there's 23 cities.

But internationally, we're still going to call it a city.

That's a dachiku, and they have some kind of food in the window.

You're always impressed with the packaging.

And I probably do need to cut my fingernails.

You get all of it mixed up into one here.

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