Japan 2016 | Our Tokyo SnapChat Diary

I'm sure you've all heard about Snapchat. It's a kind of like Whatsapp, Instagram and Vine rolled all into one as a chat, messaging, and imaging app. The unique thing about the free app is that the videos and pictures taken, aka Snaps, will self destruct after a few seconds of a person viewing them. Or, you can add it to your "story", a 24-hour collection of your photos and videos, which you broadcast to the world or just your followers.

Even though it was created 4 years back, I hopped on the bandwagon pretty late and only started getting really into it this year. It reminds me of the good o' days of Instagram when the things people posted were really "instant", raw and not so pose-y. No using of DSLRs or heavy editing to get the perfect photos that we deem "Instagram-worthy" nowadays. Just plain old snap and post.

With Snapchat you can't usually transfer old photos / videos to post {but there's a new function now called Snapchat Memories that allows you to}. You've to use the in-app camera to take the shots and the available in-app filters, stickers or lenses to edit. Everything seems so raw, so unedited, so amaturish.. and I love it.

I love it for being "less fake" than what can be seen over at Instagram. 

Not saying that I don't like using Instagram anymore {still love the community there!} but I'm sure you get what I mean ( ◞･౪･)

Some of the Snapchat lenses are sooooo hilarious!!! I'm really amazed by how well it works. It basically uses a facial recognition software that’s able to distort your expression and apply various effects to your face.

Lil Pumpkin gets such a kick out of playing with the Snapchat lenses sometimes too haha.

Anyway I don't usually blog during holidays so during our recent Tokyo trip I used Snapchat to capture the places we went to, things we saw, food we ate, and the feelings of the day.

Basically like a visual diary and I combined it all in the videos here.

Have a look and I'll be writing in detail some of the more interesting and new places we visited, like Setagaya Play Park, where kids get to build a bonfire and chop wood.

Yes, you read right. The kids really got to play with fire and chop wood!!

If you're on Snapchat too, add me as @AiSakuraHaruka and if you haven't gotten to playing around with it too, well, go try it out and let me know what you think!

If the videos above aren't playing properly, watch directly on my YouTube channel here:

Tokyo Japan 2016 Snapchat Diary {Part 1}

Tokyo Japan 2016 Snapchat Diary {Part 2}

Tokyo Japan 2016 Snapchat Diary {Part 3} 

Read more about our Japan travels here. 

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