00:00:06 John Daub: I'm live in central Tokyo. This is the Akasaka area, pretty much near Aoyama. And this is the Only in Japan Go channel to show. That's all. Live streams only in Japan, baby. So today—

00:00:22 Peter von Gomm: You look like you should be shot out of a cannon.

00:00:26 John Daub: Yeah, I look like I should be shot out of a cannon. This is pretty cool. So you need to wear a helmet when you're riding a motorbike in Tokyo.

00:00:33 Peter von Gomm: Yep, yep.

00:00:34 John Daub: It's the law. It's the law. And what should—what about these glasses, you think? No. Good.

00:00:41 Peter von Gomm: Sunglasses are not mandatory. And yeah, those one might get us a ticket.

00:00:48 John Daub: I don't know what happened. Just sort of bent. All right, no glasses on this one, folks.

00:00:53 Peter von Gomm: So where are we going?

00:00:55 John Daub: I'm thinking let's take the motorbike up towards Harajuku. Just find—find something to do over there. All right. Yeah, I've never streamed live from a motorcycle before, our motorbike, so we're gonna see how this thing goes.

00:01:09 Peter von Gomm: Okay, now hang on a second. Word of caution. Stay stable on the bike. Don't move around a lot.

00:01:17 John Daub: Okay. Stay stable on the bike.

00:01:19 Peter von Gomm: Right, because you're—you're heavy and we might topple over and knock our front teeth out.

00:01:24 John Daub: All right? So don't—not a lot of movement.

00:01:26 Peter von Gomm: Yeah.

00:01:26 John Daub: Okay, so we're between the buildings. We're out to the main road. If the video is laggy, I apologize. We're going to try to get back onto the onto the main road. Okay. Oh, the—go. Okay. I'm holding on to the thing.

00:01:44 Peter von Gomm: Are you on?

00:01:45 John Daub: Yeah, I'm on.

00:01:46 Peter von Gomm: Put your feet on these pegs.

00:01:48 John Daub: Okay. Done and done.

00:01:49 Peter von Gomm: You got one hand on the—

00:01:51 John Daub: One hand on the thing. We're there. Okay.

00:01:56 Peter von Gomm: Where's your other hand?

00:01:57 John Daub: It's held on to the—the whatever I'm holding—

00:02:03 Peter von Gomm: For NHK called design talks, so sorry about the connection. We're going in and out right now.

00:02:11 Peter von Gomm: Are we going to turn left here?

00:02:21 John Daub: It's not too windy.

00:02:24 Peter von Gomm: We're not moving yet.

00:02:26 John Daub: We're not moving. So there you go. There's also on this thing, so I—

00:02:36 Peter von Gomm: I don't know if people can see over here, but that's the—we're in Akasaka area right now.

00:02:42 John Daub: Okay.

00:02:43 Peter von Gomm: And that is part of the Imperial family's residence over there, I think one of the palaces.

00:02:49 John Daub: Oh, the—the green area there.

00:02:51 Peter von Gomm: Yeah, yeah, it's quite big. And then if you go further east—

00:02:57 John Daub: East,

00:02:59 Peter von Gomm: That's the way to head—this other way is to where the Imperial Palace is.

00:03:02 John Daub: Okay. But we're going to Harajuku, right?

00:03:05 Peter von Gomm: Oh, yeah. Heading west, we're gonna go up. This is called Aoyama Ōtō. Hope you're all right.

00:03:11 John Daub: Yeah. Are we in the wrong lane? If Peter's getting us in the right lane. It is so sunny out here. This is such a beautiful day. I apologize for the lag. Hopefully that signal gets a little bit better as we get more into the center of the street. All right, here we go. Oh, this is pretty cool. There's gonna be a lot of wind noise, so I could put it behind Peter's head. So we're now driving you. Do you know the route? This is—is this 246? Yeah, 246. All right. This is Route 246.

00:04:09 Peter von Gomm: Look at how big these grounds are over here.

00:04:11 John Daub: Yeah, the grounds are really big.

00:04:18 Peter von Gomm: Over here.

00:04:27 John Daub: Woo. Whoa. This thing's got some kick to it. The brakes. Hey, come on. Now. This is not actually really dangerous. I would be doing this. I'm just—one hand is—I'm holding on to the rail. The other hand is towards the camera. And the camera has a hand wrist—something around my wrist so it won't fall under the ground. That worked pretty good. And we did this before and did a practice run, so it's not like our first time. My biggest worry is that there's going to be some wind noise. So I apologize if the wind gets a little bit too strong. Just bear with us. This is the normal Tokyo traffic on a Thursday afternoon. And what a beautiful Thursday it is, isn't it? We can see—

00:05:23 Peter von Gomm: Peter, is it Thursday or Friday?

00:05:26 John Daub: Thursday. Oh, wait, Friday.

00:05:27 Peter von Gomm: Friday.

00:05:28 John Daub: Well, it's Thursday. I think it's Thursday. Thanks. I think it's Thursday in the US right now, so it might be some places.

00:05:40 Peter von Gomm: So up here on the corner is the Honda showroom where they have a bunch of the Honda vehicles. Cars and motorcycles.

00:05:47 John Daub: That's where the ASIMO show is.

00:05:49 Peter von Gomm: Yeah, yeah, yeah. The robot. And I know a lot of people are probably wondering why I'm living in Japan, but riding an Italian bike. Yeah.

00:06:02 John Daub: Why?

00:06:02 Peter von Gomm: It's a really good question and I don't want that—yeah. Well, Japan's the largest producer of motorcycles in the world, so you think I would have a Japanese bike. But I have two bikes and neither of them are Japanese, I'm sad to say. But one of these days I will get a Japanese bike. I just like the—I like European designs.

00:06:23 John Daub: I mean, it's a nice bike.

00:06:24 Peter von Gomm: That's great.

00:06:25 John Daub: Oh, there's our competitor. Are we racing him? Look, he's got a white scooter on.

00:06:34 Peter von Gomm: All right, so coming up on the left is the Honda showroom.

00:06:37 John Daub: All right. Yeah, there's the Honda building. Massimo, hear me now, believe me later. Okay,

00:06:53 Peter von Gomm: Coming up in a very short distance is the Tesla showroom.

00:06:57 John Daub: Oh, the Tesla showroom. Is it on the left or the right? Oh, Lamborghini. All right, so this is a sports car showroom episode. This is a very popular street. Oh, yeah, right. This is it. This is the guy in my area. And this is where the national stadium, the Olympic stadium, is going to be built in this area. It's being built right now. It's just—whoa. Osmo is not used to wind. Sort it out. Yeah, we're cool.

00:07:37 Peter von Gomm: Here's Tesla.

00:07:38 John Daub: Okay, the Tesla's right there. Boom. They're famous for cars with batteries.

00:07:48 Peter von Gomm: All right, and we're continuing forward a little more till we get to—

00:07:52 John Daub: Did you break wind?

00:07:54 Peter von Gomm: No. Oh, you'd like me to.

00:07:59 John Daub: No, I don't want you to.

00:08:02 Peter von Gomm: A request or—

00:08:03 John Daub: You can see us in the—in the mirror in the window there. All right, we want to get over—

00:08:23 Peter von Gomm: Yeah.

00:08:24 John Daub: Is it legal to just go between the lanes like this?

00:08:26 Peter von Gomm: Yeah.

00:08:27 John Daub: Really? It's called gaijin power. I don't want any gaijin power, dude. I just want to get there safely. Peter, how long have you been driving these motorbikes?

00:08:43 Peter von Gomm: Oh, I just picked it up this morning. No—

00:08:51 John Daub: Seven years. You didn't just get it this morning, or else I'd be, like, running right now off of the bike and the median to the sidewalk. Bye.

00:09:01 Peter von Gomm: All right, so this is—this is Moto Sando, which is a very ritzy area of Tokyo. Lots of the designer showrooms are here. And we're gonna turn right here and head down into Harajuku.

00:09:15 John Daub: All right. We're not going down to the Aoyama—

00:09:19 Peter von Gomm: Wait a minute—

00:09:20 John Daub: The next one is Harajuku. Okay.

00:09:25 Peter von Gomm: Did I—I think I'm—I made a mistake.

00:09:27 John Daub: Yeah, you made a boo boo. Yeah, we're almost at Harajuku. Whoa. He's got a real motorcycle. That's got some power on it. Oh, he's doing the turn.

00:09:39 Peter von Gomm: All right. Yeah, sorry, kids. I took the wrong turn, got all excited. Turn left on one of these side streets and make our way over to Harajuku.

00:10:00 John Daub: Uh oh, police station. Yeah, that—this is—this is legal, right? There's a police station right there.

00:10:07 Peter von Gomm: Put it in your other hand, then—

00:10:09 John Daub: Put it in my other hand. I'm holding onto the bar with—to my—to my—this—my life is depending on me holding on to this other bar with—with the hand down. So this is pretty cool. This is where the MTV office is, right down here. I've been there a couple times. The MTV Japan office is down that road. Now we're turning into a smaller street. This is the—this is more like Aoyama Omotesando. Buffer zone, right?

00:10:38 Peter von Gomm: Yeah.

00:10:39 John Daub: Yeah.

00:10:39 Peter von Gomm: I made a wrong turn, so I'm heading towards Harajuku now through a side street.

00:10:44 John Daub: Right. Incredibly hot today. Yeah, it is hot. Oh, they're building something new here. What was that before? That was a cafe, too. A lot of these shops in this—in this area, they—a lot of these shops on the—a lot of the shops in this area don't last for a long time. They're very trendy, meaning they'll be in style for about a year and a half, and then they go out of business and a new shop will come. And that's how you get the crowds. I don't think shops intend to be here for more than two years. Right. So we will see.

00:11:33 Peter von Gomm: We are.

00:11:35 John Daub: Oh, we're really close. I know that FamilyMart. Oh, that's a cool cafe. And Brands & Evans, they call it F and E, which is iron for all of you studying chemistry. So a lot of the shops down here are very trendy. We can try this way. Are you lost?

00:12:04 Peter von Gomm: I'm lost.

00:12:06 John Daub: That wasn't part of the plan.

00:12:10 Peter von Gomm: This is an interesting cafe.

00:12:11 John Daub: Oh, it is Earth Cafe. And they spelled Earth Y-U-R-T—I don't know, man. That building looks weird enough to be part of Mondo. Oh, that is—that's the—that building up ahead. The tall one? Yeah, that's the—that's near Takeshita Dori, I think.

00:12:41 Peter von Gomm: Okay. All right. Yeah, we're on the right—

00:12:44 John Daub: That's the H&M building, I think.

00:12:51 Peter von Gomm: Should I ask him?

00:12:52 John Daub: I guess so.

00:13:01 Peter von Gomm: Hi.

00:13:05 John Daub: That looked complicated.

00:13:13 Peter von Gomm: Not all—not all. Okay. So—

00:13:16 John Daub: Okay. Did you get that? Yeah.

00:13:23 Peter von Gomm: To the right and then that was it.

00:13:26 John Daub: To the right and then that's it. Yeah, that's what I sort of got, too.

00:13:30 Peter von Gomm: All right, hold your horses, Peter.

00:13:32 John Daub: We'll be there shortly. Hold your horses. I'll just—I'm just going to hold on to this metal rod. It's like right underneath the seat here. This is pretty cool. So this is—this is more convenient than riding on the subway.

00:13:51 Peter von Gomm: This is the very scenic route, which I've never taken before.

00:13:54 John Daub: Yeah, there's a lot of really small animals. What happened to her head? The headless forest. Oh, I know—

00:14:07 Peter von Gomm: This is a really famous coffee here.

00:14:09 John Daub: Okay. Famous coffee shop.

00:14:11 Peter von Gomm: I'm into that.

00:14:14 John Daub: Oh, yeah—

00:14:15 Peter von Gomm: You know that?

00:14:15 John Daub: Yeah, I've seen them before. I've never actually been in here, but—

00:14:20 Peter von Gomm: What's the mascot here?

00:14:22 John Daub: Yeah. Oh, okay. What's that?

00:14:24 Peter von Gomm: Hawaii, man.

00:14:27 John Daub: They just opened up. They put—they put those things in the front of shops that are just open—

00:14:33 Peter von Gomm: Oh, really?

00:14:34 John Daub: Yeah. So that's—that's—that shop's new.

00:14:37 Peter von Gomm: It's a branch. There's another one, I believe—that's same, same. Okay.

00:14:49 John Daub: All right. We don't have very good connection in this area. Sorry for the bad connection. It's probably getting a little pixelated. Peter is absolutely lost. This is supposed to be a fast live stream, but Peter is taking the scenic route.

00:15:03 Peter von Gomm: Go, man. This side.

00:15:05 John Daub: Yeah, big—sorry this is not going as planned, but I'm still safe on the bike.

00:15:14 Peter von Gomm: I promise we'll be there shortly.

00:15:29 John Daub: Okay. Oh, there's a kimono shop when you come to Tokyo. One of the—one of—I'll turn it around. Hold on. When you come to Tokyo, one of the best things you can do is get lost. So the connection is a little bit bad right now because we're off the main roads.

00:15:46 Peter von Gomm: Peter, we're still in Tokyo.

00:15:50 John Daub: We're still in Tokyo, but the connection's bad. One of the best things to do when you come to Tokyo is to get lost. And I mean that seriously. Get lost in Omotesando or the Harajuku area, go down the side alleys, and you're gonna find a lot of really interesting places. Are you going right? Or are you saying right to me about—okay, the connection's bad because these side streets don't get a lot of good denpa. That's probably a good thing. The signal's bad. All right. We got a good signal connection now. You guys are from Hawaii. We passed a FamilyMart. That's the Brands & Evans Cafe that we passed five minutes ago. Wait, you've been driving it? I don't know you. I know you're not really lost.

00:16:49 Peter von Gomm: Wait a minute. Are we gonna go this way?

00:16:51 John Daub: Yeah, we are. Because if we go the other way, that's what we were five minutes ago. I know you're not lost because you do a lot of jobs down here. Right?

00:16:58 Peter von Gomm: Right.

00:16:59 John Daub: I know you're just taking us for a tour. I'm not paying by the kilometer. Okay. Actually, I'm not paying—

00:17:11 Peter von Gomm: Here's the Starbucks.

00:17:13 John Daub: Oh, there's a Starbucks. That's—that's a—that's sort of a new one. That's been here just for four or five years. I say new, but I've been here for a while, so that's new if you compare it to me—

00:17:24 Peter von Gomm: So this is the main street of Harajuku coming up here, right?

00:17:27 John Daub: This—this is—this is the Shibuya of Tokyo. Yes, the Shibuya of Tokyo. So this does look pretty bad. This is a scene out of Dumb and Dumber when they're taking the motorcycle to Aspen. That would make you Jeff Bridges, I think.

00:17:49 Peter von Gomm: Which one's dumber?

00:17:51 John Daub: I'm not sure—

00:17:54 Peter von Gomm: So here's Apple. Here's the Apple Store.

00:17:56 John Daub: Okay. The Apple Store. This is where I bought this iPhone 7 Plus. So this camera is home right now—

00:18:05 Peter von Gomm: It's the heart of Harajuku.

00:18:09 John Daub: Look at all those people. Should I buy this $10,000 computer? Sure. It works better than Windows because it's Apple. Do you have an Apple?

00:18:19 Peter von Gomm: Yeah, I do. So do I. I like Apple products.

00:18:24 John Daub: Yeah, I listened to the lady and bought one too. Yeah—

00:18:30 Peter von Gomm: Yeah—

00:18:30 John Daub: They always give female sales ladies for the guys and guy sales people for the ladies. That's been my experience. And I'm helpless. I have to buy whatever they—I've got no choice—

00:18:41 Peter von Gomm: We've got—we have to turn left here, which is not—

00:18:46 John Daub: Oh, right. Yeah. This is one—one way left.

00:18:48 Peter von Gomm: Right. So what we can do is you can get off—

00:18:51 John Daub: Oh, you want me to get off here?

00:18:53 Peter von Gomm: Well, in the corner here and then I'll walk it—

00:18:54 John Daub: I'll just get off now—

00:18:55 Peter von Gomm: Yeah—

00:18:57 John Daub: Oh, that hurt me. Okay.

00:18:59 Peter von Gomm: Meet you on the other side of the street.

00:19:02 John Daub: Okay. So I'm gonna go to the other side and we'll hit that place we were talking about. About—

00:19:06 Peter von Gomm: Yeah—

00:19:07 John Daub: Okay—

00:19:08 Peter von Gomm: Okay. See you in a bit.

00:19:09 John Daub: Where was that place again? There, that's—that's that other one.

00:19:14 Peter von Gomm: Yeah—

00:19:15 John Daub: Okay. That's down by the Kitty Land, right? Okay, I know where it's going. Can I take the helmet off? Your choice. My choice. Okay. All right. Let's keep the helmet on because that's what psychotic people do that fall down quite often to protect their head. So Peter's now looking for a spot. Is it gonna be hard for you to get a parking spot? Are you gonna walk across the street like a small child? So I should do that too. I kind of ruined it, you know, by—

00:19:53 Peter von Gomm: You can just hang on to the bar here.

00:19:55 John Daub: Oh, that's where I was hanging on to—

00:19:57 Peter von Gomm: Yeah—

00:19:57 John Daub: For dear life onto this bar. I can see my fingerprints and there's some trickles of blood on it as well. Biting my teeth. He was lost on purpose. You trying to make a tour right out of it? Yeah. He took us to some really bad areas with no—no 4G connections. So all of you people complaining about the bad connection—I'm gonna write down his email address in the description below. That was fun, though. That was a lot of fun. Come on. Is it okay? Is it bad? How bad is this? What—I'll meet you at that place. I'm gonna go up—up the steps and get it—get a good look through there. Okay. I'm gonna take you up the steps here. It's a red light. I'm gonna cross real fast. There's nothing coming. So let me give you a very short—I'm gonna—okay. All right. It's pretty—it's pretty bad. Let me give you a quick look at—at the main—main drag here in Omotesando. That—all right. There's—there's Peter down there. All right. So he's gonna scoot down to the parking spot. And this is the main drag in Omotesando. They call it the—of—I am pronouncing that right? People from France of Tokyo. And in the winter, these trees are lined with Christmas lights. It's very beautiful. In the summer, it's just really hot.

00:22:08 John Daub: That was great. I'm glad that Peter invited me along for a little drive by. I might do more of those if this works out. Well, it's a different way to see Tokyo, I think. And a lot of people have been asking me about motorbikes riding around in Tokyo. Is that safe? And the answer is sort of—get the OSMO back on here. Okay. Is it safe? Yeah, it's sort of safe. So this is the main drag. There's a lot of people. What—I thought I was gonna meet you at that place. Are you want to go to the place we don't have—you don't have to meet me at the place. Well, we're gonna meet at the place. Are you gonna park here? No, no, no—

00:22:58 Peter von Gomm: I'll meet you over there.

00:22:59 John Daub: Is this illegal?

00:23:02 Peter von Gomm: You have coins for the coin parking?

00:23:05 John Daub: That's coin parking.

00:23:06 Peter von Gomm: Yeah. How many coins?

00:23:08 John Daub: I got coins. How many do you need?

00:23:10 Peter von Gomm: But I don't know if I can, like, monopolize/utilize this entire space with a bike. So I'll just—I'll just go over to the side street where we were talking about meeting.

00:23:20 John Daub: Oh. So I'll meet you over there. Okay—

00:23:23 Peter von Gomm: You know exactly where it is because I do not—

00:23:30 John Daub: Kitty Land.

00:23:31 Peter von Gomm: Okay, right—

00:23:34 John Daub: No, not right. Left. It's—it's around there. Remember the Shaky's Pizza? Pizza, yeah. Left—

00:23:42 Peter von Gomm: Okay, before—

00:23:43 John Daub: Before there. Right—

00:23:44 Peter von Gomm: Right—

00:23:45 John Daub: No, no, left. All right. Okay. I'll see you there. All right. He's gonna meet me there. Osmo is not behaving, so let's see how far we can get before this gimbal conks out. There's a lot of trendy shops here, but if you look past the name brands, you can find places like this is the—the Niigata Prefecture shop. And I like to buy Japanese sake there because it's a lot cheaper. It's a lot better. I'm gonna beat you there. And you're on a scooter. All right, so the Osmo is dead. Osmo, I've been treating you right too. What's wrong, buddy? Eyes all shot. I can't quite balance her out without it turning her on. So Peter and I are gonna go get a drink somewhere. You probably can guess where. If you've been watching the channel, the main channel recently, you probably know what we're doing—going—but the purpose of this episode was just give you a feeling of what it's like to—to drive a motorcycle or a motorbike through Tokyo. It's a little bit more hectic than—than United States, but it's less hectic than Vietnam or Thailand because there aren't a lot of other motorcycles on the street. Motorbikes on the streets. It's pretty—yeah, relaxed. Drivers are crazy here as well. That means motorcycle riders are going and weaving between the cars. Normally, I don't know if it's legal or not. Probably not, but they're doing it anyways. And when you drive a car in Tokyo, you have to be extremely mindful of motorcycles and bicyclists trying to go between the cars. Don't switch lanes instantaneously, or else we would have bit the dust. But the Japanese drivers here in Tokyo are used to that. Thankfully. Thankfully. Peter's been riding the motorcycle for over seven years, so he gets around to jobs. He's always going around Tokyo from studio to studio because that's part of what he does. And it's easier to ride the motorcycle than it is to—we're losing the Osmo. It is—he's not even moving anywhere. Look—look at that doofus. He's stuck in traps—traffic. I saw me. He caught me. I gotta get out of here. And John passes Peter on foot once again—a race to see who's slowest. Actually, I'd probably be able to tell him where to turn—to turn left. This on the right is Omotesando Hills. It's a really expensive shopping mall that you go into when you have to use the restroom. I don't know anybody that's bought anything except for maybe a beer. There's a couple of nice bars inside there. But like these shops where you window shop and you never buy anything unless you have a private jet and a Rolls Royce. I don't have that. Somebody's asking—I don't have that yet. Yet. Oh, there—he beat me by five seconds. Yeah, right here. I believe so. I could be wrong. Now—Harajuku. This is the Omotesando—Harajuku area. But this is the Omotesando—I would call this Omotesando. And Peter, I made a mistake. It's not this way. For me—it's easy to get to the cafe, go down the steps here. But for Peter it's not gonna be that way. He's gone. He didn't even stop. It's one more straight. Sorry—where's the middle finger? Again? Sorry—

00:28:15 Peter von Gomm: Absolute disaster. My apologies. But yeah, we're clueless.

00:28:20 John Daub: And Lark, is this my revenge now? Because you got me lost for—you got us lost for 15 minutes. Now you're lost the next street. I think I can go down these steps though. I'll be there. Wait, I can't go down these steps. This is an all-out race. I'm not gonna let little Italian bike dude get there before me. Sorry. The connection is going in and out. Probably because this is a very populated part of the city. It's hard to do a live stream in this area, but it's going in and out. I apologize for the quality of the video. That's not Peter. He changed into a Japanese delivery man. So hard to deliver here—the UPS or the parcel people, they do delivery by hand. You see there's a hand truck parked. So you can see he's making delivery of parcels by hand, which is pretty cool. Yeah, I don't know where Peter is. He said he knew there's a parking spot. So this is the Only in Japan Go channel. This is what I do. I just saw—I saw that shirt too. I—this is a weird area of—of the city. That is not Omotesando. That's weird. That's not good. So this is a very trendy style part of the city—Omotesando. And this is what I do with the channel. We just kind of go. That's Only in Japan Go. Just go. And we went on a motorcycle. It's pretty cool. I need a cold drink. It's very, very hot. I wanted to ask Peter, just finish off this episode, a little bit of question Q and A about motorbikes here in Tokyo—what it's like driving around here and if it's worth renting one. If you come to Tokyo, do you want to get a motorcycle? Do you want to get a motorbike? Is it worth riding around on one? Or is it better to take a subway? Or do you need a license to do that? Is there limitations on the engine size, things like this? I want to ask Peter, but he is helplessly lost. As I said, this is a very stylish area of the city. I'm gonna get in trouble. Don't worry. I'm wearing a bandana and I'm all sweaty. No one's gonna talk to me—sweaty bandana dude. But, man, I don't see him. I have a choice. So Jim, I saw the Superchat. Jim from Tacoma. I'm very thankful for that. We were pretty safe. No crashing. So, yeah, there's a vending machine. So I can either get a drink from here or one behind me from this Starbucks. And I have to wait for Pietro—Peter. I know Peter. We met at an NHK shoot. I climbed Mount Fuji for NHK about 2010, maybe 2009—2010, I climbed Mount Fuji. And he was the narrator of that episode. And he came to the studio, and there's so much dead time when you do a TV studio shoot waiting for—for things to set up and cameras to set up and waiting for directors to say the go ahead. And you just sit there and you talk with the people around you. And Peter was one of the people there. And, yeah, we instantly became friends. And he's been in Japan as long as I have. So a lot of the foreigners, I'd say most foreigners who come here, they live here for about a couple of years, and then they go back to whatever country they came from. A lot of people don't stay in Japan very long. But he's been here for almost 20 years as well. And yeah, he's got a house here. He's very well settled in, more so than me. And if you want to, I put a link in the description as well into some of his work. He does some stuff that you probably have heard before, no matter where you are in the world. He does narrations for the big airlines here, for cars, for products. And the biggest one, I think, on YouTube, is the one for the Pokémon Go, the one before the release of the game. And I think that's like 20 or 30 million views on YouTube. But he's the voice of that, so you might have heard him before. And I don't think he's gonna be making it back. I'm really tempted to get this lobster thing. You know what? The heck with Starbucks. I'm gonna go to Luke's Lobster and Peter can find me if he wants. Wow, she's so thin—

00:33:54 Peter von Gomm: Street's there and if you keep going on here and off to the left there's these awesome homes—like really cool Western style homes.

00:34:06 John Daub: Oh, you parked the bike there.

00:34:08 Peter von Gomm: Yeah, well, and it kept stalling, so I was—I was getting desperate. So I parked right here. But doesn't look nice right here. I'm increasing the property values.

00:34:21 John Daub: It matches with the shop's shop decor. The outside matches with your bike. So you've ever gotten a ticket? Have you ever gotten ticketed?

00:34:35 Peter von Gomm: Yeah. In fact, let me show you—

00:34:37 John Daub: You have a ticket.

00:34:38 Peter von Gomm: I have outsmarted these people—

00:34:41 John Daub: By that you mean the authorities?

00:34:43 Peter von Gomm: Yes—

00:34:44 John Daub: You know this is being filmed. Yeah—

00:34:46 Peter von Gomm: Oh, okay. Maybe you're live—

00:34:48 John Daub: I don't know. I want you to consider this very—you know much before you—

00:34:53 Peter von Gomm: Yeah—

00:34:54 John Daub: Dive into the—your underworld connections. Yeah—

00:34:57 Peter von Gomm: I won't give you all my secrets, but I have a way of—of skirting the—the coppers that come by—the parking guys. So the parking police is a pretty new thing here. Before, people on scooters and motorcycles would park anywhere—sidewalks, there was no problem. And then about seven, eight years ago, they hired a private entity. These green guys, they go around, they're wearing these ridiculous green outfits—

00:35:25 John Daub: Yeah—

00:35:26 Peter von Gomm: And they go around and they check and make sure dorks like me are not parked where they're not supposed to be. And then you get a 9,000 yen ticket. Yeah, I've gotten umpteen of them.

00:35:37 John Daub: How many is that? Can you say that again?

00:35:38 Peter von Gomm: Um—

00:35:39 John Daub: Okay—

00:35:40 Peter von Gomm: So yeah, so they've really cracked down. And the problem is there's not enough posted motorcycle cycle parking places in Tokyo.

00:35:51 John Daub: So it's—

00:35:52 Peter von Gomm: It's really kind of a catch-22. You—you have nowhere to park, but there's tons and tons of people riding bikes in town. So they've got to bend the game a little bit.

00:36:03 John Daub: A little bit. This is big though—I—I thought this was a scooter would be a lot smaller. Yeah, it's just—I don't remember you riding this. You had another one that you were scooting around with.

00:36:13 Peter von Gomm: Yeah, I've got a big bike as well. I mean, it's bigger than this thing. It's a Triumph.

00:36:19 John Daub: So why'd you pick this one for us to ride today?

00:36:23 Peter von Gomm: Because it's easier to navigate with—

00:36:26 John Daub: You mean through the side streets that you pretended to get lost on earlier?

00:36:30 Peter von Gomm: That's right—

00:36:31 John Daub: That's right. Yeah—

00:36:32 Peter von Gomm: Yeah, but with two people riding, it's—it's more nimble and small streets.

00:36:40 John Daub: I got a request from Brent in—I'm trying to indulge him. You keep just talking. We can hear you. I—I have to agree with him. Panning around is a good idea—

00:36:51 Peter von Gomm: Yeah, it's really a neat street. But is this—is that lobster? Did you already finish that lobster thing?

00:37:01 John Daub: Yeah, it was small. That was just a normal sized—10 bucks. No, they had one for 15. That's the US size. That was a Japanese size—

00:37:14 Peter von Gomm: Well, I won't be going there—

00:37:17 John Daub: Oh, takoyaki. You want—you want in on that?

00:37:21 Peter von Gomm: Yeah, I can get a takoyaki. I'm gonna order one, I guess.

00:37:29 John Daub: You know, Peter looks like—he looks like that dude from—from Breaking Bad. Heis—Heisner—Heisner—Heisman, Heidelberg. I don't think they know. Heidel something—

00:38:28 Peter von Gomm: It's Heisenberg—

00:38:29 John Daub: Not Heisman, not Heisman. I forget. The great thing about your—this bike is it doubles as a table, right?

00:38:37 Peter von Gomm: No, no, no. Not there—

00:38:40 John Daub: Not down there. No. Heisenberg. Boom. Sorry, I just spilled some ginger ale on—

00:38:49 Peter von Gomm: There's an extra hashi here for you if you'd like a takoyaki—

00:38:52 John Daub: I can go for one—

00:38:53 Peter von Gomm: Do you know takoyaki? Have you had takoyaki before? It's—what is the—the Japanese or—the English translation is octopus balls. Although they're not what you're thinking. I wouldn't be putting them in my mouth. Oh, my God—

00:39:18 John Daub: It's hot, right?

00:39:19 Peter von Gomm: Yeah—

00:39:19 John Daub: Yeah. That's why I'm waiting. I've done this before. If you've seen the—the Dotonburi Osaka video, never put takoyaki in your mouth right away. And you're—

00:39:31 Peter von Gomm: Oh, my God—

00:39:33 John Daub: Spit it out. Spit it out—

00:39:34 Peter von Gomm: Spit it out—

00:39:35 John Daub: Spit it out—

00:39:37 Peter von Gomm: Ham, let's give you a ham—

00:39:38 John Daub: I'm not gonna give you my hand. Just put it on the ground. That takoyaki could still be alive. Look—it's—it's piping hot. Why did you put that whole thing in your mouth, dude? You gonna be able to work anymore? Pieces of skin—burnt skin coming out of your mouth? Spit on the microphone—

00:40:03 Peter von Gomm: Oh, man, that was hot. But, yeah, you can't go wrong with the food in Japan anywhere, really. I mean, it's just—it's incredible experience, culinary experience wherever you go. I'm gonna—I'm gonna cut this one open and air it out a little bit.

00:40:36 John Daub: A good idea—

00:40:37 Peter von Gomm: Help yourself. Although—okay, here's—what's inside, kids. Let's have a look. For the enormous amount of dough, here's what we get. Part of an octopus leg. See that?

00:40:55 John Daub: Got one comment. Those balls are too hot for you, Peter. I'm not sure what they mean—

00:41:02 Peter von Gomm: I don't know either. This is a Christian show. Watch your mouths—

00:41:09 John Daub: They're still pretty hot, aren't they? That's why you're walking away from the camera. You burned your mouth again. No—

00:41:13 Peter von Gomm: I'm offended at that. Naughty—

00:41:16 John Daub: Do it once, shame on you. Do it twice, shame on you. Expression goes—

00:41:24 Peter von Gomm: Help yourself, man. All right, that's the one with no takoyaki—

00:41:29 John Daub: Oh, you ate the takoyaki out of that? Yeah, yeah, the one with no value. All right. It's—it's—

00:41:35 Peter von Gomm: I gutted it—

00:41:37 John Daub: Yeah, it's pretty cool. It's mushy, savory. That salt is like a sweet and salty sauce, right? It's pretty good—

00:41:44 Peter von Gomm: Yeah. And the—the stuff that you see on top here, that was kind of moving on around—that's called katsuobushi. Is that right? Katsuo bushi, which is a bonito. It's dried—it's bonito flakes, right? And they put that on the top of some dishes.

00:42:03 John Daub: I like that sack you got on your chopsticks there, dude. Eat it—

00:42:08 Peter von Gomm: Cooling it off, man—

00:42:11 John Daub: One bite. Nice. Very nice. All right, so that's all for you. I finally—finally caught up with Peter. He wasn't lost—he was—he. His cheap Italian bike sputtered out right in front of this Paris Miki shop. And—what are you—why are you laughing? What's so funny about that? Dude, I just spit takoyaki on me—

00:42:43 Peter von Gomm: Gross—

00:42:44 John Daub: I'm sorry. That's the live stream that—I don't got anything else. I don't need anything else to teach you about this area. He's gonna—he's gonna suck down these—these takoyaki balls, these octopus balls—

00:42:55 Peter von Gomm: Yeah—

00:42:56 John Daub: And we're gonna end it right here—

00:42:57 Peter von Gomm: Four and a half left—

00:42:58 John Daub: Four and a half left—

00:43:00 Peter von Gomm: So next time, guys, we promise that we'll have better navigators working for us—GPS, that kind of thing. And—yeah, but—welcome to Harajuku. We made it.

00:43:16 John Daub: Barely. Barely. All right, take care. Ah, dude, I just found your spit on my shirt there. So that's all I got for you. I got nothing else to show you in this area. Thanks for watching this live stream. It's going on way too long thanks to Peter getting lost twice. So subscribe if you haven't. Make sure the notifications are on. I'll put some information description on Peter's work and see you next time. I'll leave the last 10 seconds of Peter and his motorbike—

00:43:47 Peter von Gomm: Can I do one more? Shameless plug—

00:43:48 John Daub: Hurry up. Do it. You got five seconds. Really? Three, two—

00:43:53 Peter von Gomm: I'm Spring Man from ARMS—

00:43:56 John Daub: Oh, right, right. You're Spring Man from ARMS in the Nintendo Switch—Nintendo Switch. He's the voice of Spring Man. Spring Man. All right.