00:00:01 John Daub: Hello everybody, welcome from Osaka. This is the Shinsekai area. Yeah, it's sort of retro. It's so retro, I've decided to ask my friend here to join me. You know who he is. It's Kevin Reilly. How are you doing, Kevin?

00:00:20 Kevin Reilly: Doing good, really good. Hot day, but good.

00:00:25 John Daub: It's a really hot day. I'm going to turn the camera around and give you a quick look and see what Shinsekai is like. It's one of the more colorful areas of the city, isn't it?

00:00:37 Kevin Reilly: Oh yeah, there's a lot of old history here.

00:00:40 John Daub: A lot of old history. So old, they sell tiger t-shirts on rickshaws. Now this is, these tiger shirts are kind of famous because it's the oba-chan, the old ladies who wear them, right?

00:00:53 Kevin Reilly: Yeah, and of course we have the Hanshin Tigers too.

00:00:56 John Daub: Oh right, yeah, so the Hanshin Tigers is the Japan baseball team. The Osaka team.

00:01:01 Kevin Reilly: The Osaka team.

00:01:04 John Daub: Okay, so let's have a walk through Shinsekai. I call this Osaka's retro town.

00:01:14 Kevin Reilly: Yeah. But its history goes back to about, what, 110 years, I think.

00:01:18 John Daub: 110 years ago they called this New Town, that's why it's called Shinsekai, it means new world.

00:01:25 Kevin Reilly: New world?

00:01:26 John Daub: Yeah.

00:01:27 Kevin Reilly: It's not that new anymore, is it?

00:01:29 John Daub: No.

00:01:31 Kevin Reilly: One of the mascots of Shinsekai is the Japanese... Shinsekai is right in front of us here. What do you know about this character?

00:01:39 John Daub: Billy Ken. Billy Ken?

00:01:41 Kevin Reilly: Yeah, Billy Ken. You rub his feet, get good luck.

00:01:47 John Daub: Billy Ken, rub his feet, get... okay so. Alright, yeah. You feel lucky, punk?

00:01:57 Kevin Reilly: I feel lucky already.

00:01:59 John Daub: You feel lucky, punk?

00:02:02 Kevin Reilly: He seems pretty happy about this. I'm gonna smile.

00:02:07 John Daub: It's a little creepy. Yeah. But, uh, Osaka, things in Osaka are a little bit over the top. And it's like that on, for a reason, right? Osaka is an over the top city.

00:02:19 Kevin Reilly: Oh yeah.

00:02:20 John Daub: It's over the top, I mean. So you wanna, you want in on this, Kevin? Kevin's gonna do it.

00:02:27 Kevin Reilly: Okay. Boom! Kevin Reilly, overweight. What have you been eating, my friend?

00:02:37 John Daub: Getting ready for the tournament. Getting ready for what tournament?

00:02:43 Kevin Reilly: Yeah. So it's been about, when was the last time I saw you? About six months ago.

00:02:48 John Daub: Yeah, Kevin and I did a show in Nara. Alright. The deer and the, eating deer poop. Eating deer poop, yeah. We were in Nara, we were eating street food. One of them just happened to be, um, deer poop. And I'll put the link up right here, to pop up here, if you wanna check that out.

00:03:26 Kevin Reilly: Honestly, this place is gold! Now I know what to get you for Christmas.

00:03:38 John Daub: It's so random, isn't it? It's so random. Yeah, it's always been like, yo, we got a shoe store over here, and weird clothing, uh, really the most, uh, tasteless clothing you can find in Osaka, you know.

00:03:52 Kevin Reilly: Yeah, style, style is not a strong suit of Shinsekai. It's pretty much anything goes kind of an area.

00:04:00 John Daub: And you can see the fashion is definitely old world. Look at those pants.

00:04:06 Kevin Reilly: Tigers are popular here because of, um, I don't know, the, not just the baseball team, right? This is the Shinsekai. No, tigers have always been popular, I think, for power and everything, you know.

00:04:17 John Daub: Yeah, for power. So you'll see a lot of old ladies wearing tiger t-shirts for power.

00:04:24 John Daub: Tiger prints, leopard prints. Anything goes. Anything goes here. Including if you're a manga fan, you know, we have prints down here for ya. There's a little Goku action from Dragon Ball.

00:04:41 Kevin Reilly: Tommy the Turtle.

00:04:45 John Daub: Weee! Osaka.

00:04:49 Kevin Reilly: Hey, you wanna go down this way?

00:04:51 John Daub: Alright, let's take a look. You want some food?

00:04:54 Kevin Reilly: Uh-huh.

00:04:55 John Daub: Well, wait, first I'm gonna get fit for a suit. Oh, we gotta get the red one, right?

00:05:06 Kevin Reilly: Red one looks good.

00:05:07 John Daub: I don't know, the blue one's looking pretty cool, too. Okay, well, you get the blue, I get the red. Wait, are those jeans? No way! Those are jeans! This is a pair of white jeans. Beautiful Struggle Blood Rain. Beautiful, wait, Beautiful Struggle Blood Rain. The price has been slashed to $140.

00:05:32 Kevin Reilly: There you go.

00:05:33 John Daub: Look at the pockets and the embroidery on it. This is pretty cool. I would love to see that. I've never seen one of those jackets.

00:05:47 Kevin Reilly: I think that red one would really go with you.

00:05:49 John Daub: I think we have to classen up Shinsekai a little bit. Definitely. And a couple of these shirts here. Oh my god. Some of these hats are pretty cool, too.

00:06:05 John Daub: That's weird. So we've gone from a really loud place. That's sort of the main route through. You're getting close to the big tower there, so it's like, oh, I'd be able to hang around there. Yeah, this area's a little bit quieter. You see places like this. Turn around. This is a standing bar. And you can get some booze in there. Hirano-ya? Is that what it says?

00:06:44 Kevin Reilly: Hirano-ya.

00:06:45 John Daub: Yeah, Hirano-ya.

00:06:46 Kevin Reilly: And that's what I say about standing bars is that you drink until you can't stand there anymore, so you'll still be able to walk home.

00:06:55 John Daub: That's funny. They didn't really think about that. You know, if it's a standing bar and you get too drunk, you're probably not going to be on your feet much longer, right?

00:07:06 Kevin Reilly: Exactly. We have a lot. There's a lot of standing bars in Osaka. Not just here. Honestly, the tiger...

00:07:24 John Daub: On train stations.

00:07:25 Kevin Reilly: The tiger theme runs deep in Shinsekai.

00:07:29 John Daub: Yeah, it does, baby.

00:07:32 Kevin Reilly: That's a backpack.

00:07:34 John Daub: Yeah, that's a backpack. So this is still part of Shinsekai. Yeah, this is what we call Janjan Yokochō, or Janjan Side Street.

00:08:05 John Daub: Janjan Side Street. Yeah. And so, we're down through here. This is the place I like to eat. It's called Kushi Katsu. Ah, Kushi Katsu. Like, for example, this is a big chain.

00:08:48 Kevin Reilly: A Kushi Katsu chain.

00:08:49 John Daub: My favorite is a bit further down here. Daruma.

00:08:58 Kevin Reilly: These guys have been here forever. It's great. Really cool. See, they got in there too. You don't have to be out here going. Just stand at the bar eating.

00:09:28 John Daub: Yeah, I love the feeling of these kinds of shotengai. Especially here. A lot of these shops look like they've been operating for, I don't know, 50, 60 years. And they haven't changed ownerships at all.

00:10:07 Kevin Reilly: No, this place hasn't really changed since I came here. No. A lot of Osaka's changed. Like, my neighborhood's kind of gentrified a bit now. This place here, it's really, I mean, the clientele's changed. You get a lot of tourists here now.

00:10:48 John Daub: Some of these look a little bit newer. A couple of them. I think they've been remodeled, but... Remodeled up a bit. The main thing is the same old stuff. Kevin's been here for 20 years.

00:11:04 Kevin Reilly: Yep.

00:11:05 John Daub: Yeah, I've been here for 19 years. I'm in Tokyo. He's here in Osaka. So whenever I come down here, I enlist this guy for his expertise on this area of Japan.

00:11:31 John Daub: Whoa! Retro Game Center!

00:11:33 Kevin Reilly: Yeah, look at this.

00:11:35 John Daub: Retro Game Center. Some of these games go back to the 1980s. So, yeah. What is that? That looks like Street Fighter.

00:12:06 Kevin Reilly: Street Fighter?

00:12:08 John Daub: This is, of course, some old Mario Brothers. Where's the Street Fighter? Oh, that is Street Fighter there. Very nice. So, I could waste an entire afternoon there.

00:12:44 Kevin Reilly: This is my favorite restaurant we have here.

00:12:47 John Daub: Oh, okay.

00:12:48 Kevin Reilly: This one right there with the big Tengu sign.

00:12:54 John Daub: Oh, yeah. This one.

00:12:55 Kevin Reilly: This is just fantastic. It's Kushi Katsu. I don't know if we can go in there and film, though. Big long bar. I don't know. You have to ask. I don't know if that's possible.

00:13:26 John Daub: It's right through the window though.

00:13:27 Kevin Reilly: That would probably be okay.

00:13:29 John Daub: Wow, look at all. They're playing shogi.

00:13:38 Kevin Reilly: Eagle.

00:13:39 John Daub: Yeah. That's a... See, that's shogi. That's a really old traditional kind of chess. I don't even know the rules. I remember I played it once. I didn't know the rules. The game was over pretty quick.

00:14:06 Kevin Reilly: I didn't even try to learn that game. It's like, no, thanks. I don't have the patience for it.

00:14:19 John Daub: I do like that restaurant. It's still pretty early. You can see behind me nobody really is in any of the restaurants.

00:14:26 Kevin Reilly: Well, it's kind of mid-afternoon lunchtime. There's a big line-up outside here. Especially, today's Friday. Tonight's going to be crazy.

00:14:38 John Daub: Tonight's going to be crazy.

00:14:40 Kevin Reilly: And then if you come here on the weekend, you can't get in. I don't even try to get in this place on the weekend. But during the week, I usually will have to wait a little bit to get into Tengu.

00:15:08 John Daub: Do you think this is one of the other places where you can get kind of a look at this shop here? Do you think it's worth coming here if you come to Osaka? Is this one of the attractions?

00:15:32 Kevin Reilly: Oh, yeah, yeah. Whenever people come here to visit me, or they're here in Osaka, and we get together, I like to bring them here. Here?

00:15:50 John Daub: Yeah.

00:15:51 Kevin Reilly: Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's kind of like, oh, this is real Osaka. This is real Osaka. So I like to bring them here and get a taste of this. And I've never had anybody say they didn't like this.

00:16:12 John Daub: Yeah. You cannot not like this because, well, that's what I like about Osaka in general. It's authentic.

00:16:23 Kevin Reilly: Yeah, it is.

00:16:24 John Daub: You know what you're getting into when you get into Osaka. Agreed.

00:16:30 Kevin Reilly: Yeah, agreed.

00:16:33 John Daub: I'm reading some of the comments. Let's see if I can look under the curtain here. You can see here there's no customers into this. This is the place that Kevin had recommended before, but there's no customers inside right now.

00:17:05 Kevin Reilly: No, it's funny because I guess because of the time of day, because at lunchtime, this place is packed. Oh, this is a little shooting gallery.

00:17:24 John Daub: Funny thing was, I mean, the food in there is so good. I had a guy here from Australia. We were hiking together.

00:17:32 Kevin Reilly: And so we came here for lunch one day, and he's eating a doteyaki, and he's like, oh, this is so good. He says, what is it? I'm trying to figure out what it is. It's like gyu-suji, right? I'm thinking about like beef tendon or something. He goes, you do know I'm a vegetarian, don't you?

00:17:58 John Daub: Oh, my gosh. You didn't tell him that it was vegetarian?

00:18:01 Kevin Reilly: Oh, no. No, no. Well, I actually totally forgot he was vegetarian. There's a lot of foods here that we don't have in the West, so when you eat it, you don't actually know it's meat.

00:18:22 John Daub: No, no, no. I mean, it doesn't taste meaty.

00:18:26 Kevin Reilly: Not when it's... Anything that's deep-fried, it kind of...

00:18:32 John Daub: Deep-fried tofu could taste like meat.

00:18:34 Kevin Reilly: I don't know.

00:18:35 John Daub: I'm just... Well, exactly.

00:18:39 Kevin Reilly: I'll still take the meat. Thank you very much.

00:18:49 John Daub: Check this place out. So this is a 290 yen ramen. Oh, yeah.

00:19:00 Kevin Reilly: How good is that?

00:19:01 John Daub: I'm guessing it's pork-based.

00:19:03 Kevin Reilly: It says oishi, but I don't know.

00:19:06 John Daub: It says oishi, but it's... Yeah. For that price, it's gonna be... That's kind of hard sell.

00:19:20 Kevin Reilly: Tonkotsu for 390.

00:19:22 John Daub: Pork broth. Wow. You get a big piece of katsu in there for 290? Yeah. That's a pretty good deal.

00:19:42 John Daub: All right. We're gonna look for some food. I don't think I'm in the mood for ramen, though.

00:19:52 Kevin Reilly: No.

00:19:53 John Daub: Maybe something lighter?

00:19:57 Kevin Reilly: Light?

00:19:58 John Daub: You're saying light in the neighborhood. Something light. Wait. Are we going the wrong way? Can we walk around this way?

00:20:15 Kevin Reilly: What we're gonna end up here is we're gonna walk into... Over there is the zoo.

00:20:25 John Daub: Okay.

00:20:26 Kevin Reilly: So really, we can get back over to Hankou. Oh, yeah.

00:20:30 John Daub: Let's stick with Shinsekai.

00:20:33 Kevin Reilly: Hey. What? You want some ramen?

00:20:38 John Daub: We could have some light. We have kaki gori and snow ice.

00:20:44 John Daub: You know what? I have a problem with paying money for kaki gori. It's pretty much just ice. Ice with a little bit of flavored syrup on top, right?

00:21:07 John Daub: He's taking a leak against the wall. Here. The guy was taking a leak against the wall. I thought everybody was gonna try that one. What he's thinking. That dude. Did he... Is that okay? Can you just piss on the street?

00:21:40 Kevin Reilly: Yeah, just part it down.

00:21:42 John Daub: And he's taking... I used to do that.

00:21:49 Kevin Reilly: I used to do that.

00:21:51 John Daub: Here's some booze machines. Here's the alcohol machines. You got some beer. Some sake mixed in. This is really cheap booze. Hitomebore. This means love at first sight. It's so bad they call it hitomebore?

00:22:01 Kevin Reilly: It's made from mugi.

00:22:03 John Daub: It's made from mugi, okay.

00:22:05 Kevin Reilly: That's why it's so cheap. It's shochu.

00:22:17 John Daub: Yeah, but what's this here? This is more just sake, right?

00:22:21 Kevin Reilly: This is sake, yeah. So these are small cups of sake. And ume. But this is a pretty interesting vending machine because it's so thin. It just perfectly fits in the corner here.

00:22:48 John Daub: That's a first time. 20 years and Kevin Reilly meets his first thin vending machine.

00:22:57 Kevin Reilly: I've probably been here forever and I've just never walked by here.

00:23:03 John Daub: There's the offender right there.

00:23:09 Kevin Reilly: Oh yeah, yeah. He's reloading more liquids.

00:23:20 John Daub: That's the guy. He's getting warmed. He'll be back in that alley for another visit to the restroom in like 30 minutes, probably. Alright, wait, wait, wait. I said light. This is something we could air.

00:24:03 John Daub: Alright, I guess you all can guess what this is. Do you remember the anthem? The one where you go... Takoyaki! Shall we get one? Yeah, let's do it. Alright, hold on, I got some cash. Boom. Alright, I'll go with the Kevin Reilly recommended takoyaki. You want to get one with negi?

00:25:17 Kevin Reilly: Sounds good.

00:25:18 John Daub: Man. Is the mayo okay?

00:25:22 Kevin Reilly: Oh yeah. Here's a shot of some chairs. Here's another. And some oil bins while I adjust the camera.

00:25:44 John Daub: 680, right?

00:25:48 Kevin Reilly: Yeah, 680.

00:25:49 John Daub: Oh, so there's a vending machine. Soy sauce. Soy sauce. Salt and mayo. What's this? What do you do with the onion and mayo? I want the onion and mayo.

00:26:11 John Daub: What?

00:26:13 Kevin Reilly: Speak Japanese. Onion and mayo.

00:26:22 John Daub: No.

00:26:23 Kevin Reilly: Well, shio mayo.

00:26:26 John Daub: Okay, so mentaiko mayo or negi pon would be good. Negi pon is good. But if you eat the mayo... No. Oh, there's curry too. Which one? Which one? Up to you. Up to you. I'd say go with negi pon or something weird maybe. I don't know.

00:26:59 Kevin Reilly: How about the curry? We've never had the curry.

00:27:02 John Daub: Alright. Do the curry. Do the curry. Okay.

00:27:15 John Daub: Hi.

00:27:16 John Daub: Hi.

00:27:20 Kevin Reilly: Mr. Friendly. You tell us too many tourists come here, right? That's why I asked him, do you speak Japanese? Cause he's being a fucking idiot.

00:27:44 John Daub: There are a lot of tourists who come to this area recently and when you get to a touristy area, sometimes people...

00:27:51 Kevin Reilly: Yeah, they get on the train. Sometimes. They get on the train. You get that in Nara. In Nara, you'll find that. Yeah. We had a lot of store owners. She warmed up to us once she realized we were from here. Right? Then she got really friendly. But she... I was just back there the other day.

00:28:37 John Daub: I still remember you. Hold on. Let's take a look at this takoyaki here. This is 300 yen or about $3.

00:28:50 Kevin Reilly: Boy, they really skimped on the...

00:28:54 John Daub: Yeah. This is... You can tell it's a touristy area because in my neighborhood, they would be much better and they're a lot cheaper. Yeah. You wouldn't be paying 300 yen for six.

00:29:21 John Daub: So... When I wanted something light, it's mostly like Rice Krispies. They were pretty cheap. Let's try this.

00:29:39 Kevin Reilly: This is tenkasu. Leftovers from making tempura.

00:29:44 John Daub: There you go. Look at that. Oh, sauce. Bottoms up.

00:29:58 Kevin Reilly: Oh!

00:30:05 John Daub: Oh, here we go.

00:30:07 Kevin Reilly: Wait, they're hot.

00:30:12 John Daub: Oh!

00:30:16 Kevin Reilly: There we go. And he's burning again. I think I'll wait with mine.

00:30:29 John Daub: Yeah, yeah. Two, three bucks, you get it. You're right.

00:30:35 Kevin Reilly: 300 yen, I expect.

00:30:38 John Daub: Nine.

00:30:41 Kevin Reilly: Oh, man.

00:30:44 John Daub: I'm going to lose the skin on my mouth on that one. I got the curry taste, which is good. Oh, yeah.

00:30:55 Kevin Reilly: It's not bad. Just cheap roux, but you know.

00:30:59 John Daub: That beer back there is looking pretty good.

00:31:03 Kevin Reilly: You started eating takoyaki.

00:31:05 John Daub: Guess John didn't learn from Dalton. No, he didn't.

00:31:10 Kevin Reilly: No. Remember he said...

00:31:11 John Daub: He said eat! You said eat! So I just put it in my mouth. I wasn't thinking. I'm hungry.

00:31:18 Kevin Reilly: Yeah, I'm from Osaka. I know better.

00:31:22 John Daub: Is it the sauce that's giving it the curry taste or...

00:31:27 Kevin Reilly: Yeah, yeah.

00:31:28 John Daub: Okay.

00:31:29 Kevin Reilly: It's like... He does like a sweet Japanese curry roux taste right there.

00:31:57 John Daub: Don't even try to read the comments.

00:32:00 Kevin Reilly: It's hard to keep up.

00:32:05 John Daub: It's hard to keep up with the comments. Kevin noticed you. You have been noticed by Kevin. You have been noticed. The problem is when you get to Japan, like some of us, you'll be stuck here for life.

00:32:42 John Daub: Hurry up and eat these mamas because the trip must go on.

00:32:53 Kevin Reilly: All right, well, let's move on.

00:32:57 John Daub: I'm going to let this one ride a little bit.

00:33:01 Kevin Reilly: I see a big Kaiten Sushi sign down there.

00:33:02 John Daub: Oh, really?

00:33:04 Kevin Reilly: Yeah. See on the wall?

00:33:06 John Daub: Why do they put all of these... I guess they're good advertisements, but do Osakans really get their picture taken in these little... I don't know.

00:33:29 Kevin Reilly: Tourists come here. There are so many tourists here now. That's why you notice it. The other store there, earlier you went and the guy spoke English to you, right? Try to speak English?

00:33:58 John Daub: Or like this guy over here doesn't speak anything because he thinks he can't speak Japanese.

00:34:04 Kevin Reilly: He don't even speak, right? Yeah, that's the guy you guys like to give him a hard time.

00:34:15 John Daub: Alright. So we got... Here we go. So thank you, Dawn, and Jackie and Nasha abroad. Get some melon, soft cream melon.

00:34:42 Kevin Reilly: That will take the fire out.

00:34:44 John Daub: That will take the fire out. Yeah.

00:34:48 Kevin Reilly: Why don't some of them show up like orange and yellow, some of stuff.

00:34:55 John Daub: Oh, that's the SuperChat. Some people are giving us gasoline for more food. Basically.

00:35:15 John Daub: Yeah. Thank you. If you want to feed us, keep sending in Super Chats and we're going to just fill our bellies with food until the Super Chat stop maybe. You know what? Osaka is really, really cheap. You don't have to pay a lot of money to eat a lot of food. That doesn't mean the ingredients are the best ingredients, though. It means essentially you're getting cheap food.

00:36:02 Kevin Reilly: But this is not the best takoyaki I've ever eaten.

00:36:06 John Daub: No. It's about the fun, though.

00:36:10 Kevin Reilly: Exactly.

00:36:12 John Daub: Wait a minute. What are these black caps here? What's inside these?

00:36:20 Kevin Reilly: Arrow.

00:36:23 John Daub: Oh!

00:36:26 Kevin Reilly: 18 and over. You have to be 18 and over.

00:36:31 John Daub: You want to buy one? Want one?

00:36:36 Kevin Reilly: 500 yen, huh?

00:36:39 John Daub: 500 yen? I don't know. Do you want to see what's in those black gachapon? 18 and over? I just turned... I'm a 18, so I'm not really sure. It's not really, you know, in my age, get carded for taking a black cap. Would they card any? There's nobody there to card you.

00:37:09 Kevin Reilly: Hey, you know what's up? When I first came here, I saw little kids buying cigarettes out of the cigarette machine for their dad, right? One kid would stand and the other kid would back. That's Osaka only.

00:37:28 John Daub: I don't think, yeah. Only Osaka kids would buy it.

00:37:32 Kevin Reilly: Buy it. Beer.

00:37:34 John Daub: Kids would buy beer for their dads. So Osaka kids are drunk and stoned.

00:37:41 Kevin Reilly: No, no. They actually would never drink it. They'd buy it for their dad. But it was just funny watching these little kids buying cigarettes. But now they've actually got some new machines that you have to use your ID card or something like that. Oh, I've seen those recently for the beer.

00:38:02 John Daub: I haven't used that either. Tako tamago. Is that here? If we see some tako tamago, I'm going to go get it, okay? I haven't seen that here. That's just limited to Kyoto. Nishiki Ichiba. We went to Nishiki Ichiba. Yeah, that was a garbage dump. Just leave it there. Just leave it there and run. Nothing happened. It's Osaka. We just saw a guy take a leak, pissed in an alley. I don't think we were really breaking any laws, were we?

00:39:10 Kevin Reilly: Nah.

00:39:12 John Daub: Nah. I love these places, man. Look, I mean, you see here? It's so inviting. There's no doors or anything, but you just go inside and have a seat at a... at a counter, and they serve you really decent food. I was going to... I almost said good. But it is good food. And this also looks very inviting, doesn't it?

00:39:55 Kevin Reilly: It might be at the right place like that one I was showing you earlier. There's some really good food here.

00:40:08 John Daub: You've got to take a chance and go to the other one. Yeah, yeah. If you don't know where to go, don't take any risks. I mean, I've gotten... I mean, Japan in general is a very clean country, but I've gotten food poisoning a couple of times. So... So... We'll go through the tower. Take you all to the tower. So this is Tsutenkaku.

00:40:50 Kevin Reilly: Yeah.

00:40:51 John Daub: Tsutenkaku, which is... What is the tallest building in Japan? I think I want to point in time way back, but... Yeah, this used to be the tallest building in Japan. A hundred and... A hundred years ago.

00:41:06 Kevin Reilly: Yeah. A hundred and ten years ago.

00:41:08 John Daub: Okay. Now it's one of many. But it does have a lot of personality.

00:41:14 Kevin Reilly: Oh, yeah, yeah. It does have a lot of personality. That's got like a symbol. The whole stuff. You'll see it everywhere.

00:41:27 John Daub: Is there anything else we can eat back there? It's kind of loud.

00:41:32 Kevin Reilly: Not really in the way of like street foodie type stuff.

00:41:37 John Daub: All right. So we got a good morning from Texas. And if I come to Japan, could you show me around?

00:42:01 Kevin Reilly: Oh, here's ice cream.

00:42:04 John Daub: There. Somebody was telling me to have ice cream.

00:42:11 Kevin Reilly: Oh, they wanted it, but in a melon pond.

00:42:16 John Daub: I'm actually looking for the things that you've asked me to eat.

00:42:26 Kevin Reilly: So Texas wanted to know if I come to Japan to show you around. Well, it depends if you come and get a hold of one of us, right?

00:42:47 John Daub: Yeah, you got to... We'll show you around if you can find us. If you can find us. But if you, you know... I don't know. You know what? I'm always on the move. So I can't make any promises to show anybody around. But, you know, if I'm around and you were here right now, I would show you around.

00:43:21 Kevin Reilly: Right?

00:43:22 John Daub: Oh, yeah. Anybody who's here right now in Shinsekai will show you around. Kevin will. He's the professional.

00:43:39 Kevin Reilly: I've had quite a few people come here and hook up with me and have lunch together or something like that. Yeah, it's fun. I like showing off my neighborhoods. So this is your neighborhood? Well, this is actually my old neighborhood. Like, I used to live just over behind here.

00:44:11 John Daub: Oh, wow.

00:44:12 Kevin Reilly: I just about rented a place in 97. We've been right under this. Just beside. Just beside this. But then I ended up a little further over in Daikokucho.

00:44:27 John Daub: Oh, so you live pretty... I never noticed the pattern underneath the tower.

00:44:36 Kevin Reilly: So we're underneath... It's like looking up a girl's skirt.

00:44:45 John Daub: I'm usually using a metaphor. We're right underneath the tower and we're looking up and there's this beautiful pattern underneath this 110-year-old tower. Flowers, peacocks, nothing illegal. There's a bush. Different clubs. It's a big bush.

00:45:17 Kevin Reilly: Yeah, I actually lived here 20 years before I noticed it.

00:45:23 John Daub: He's lived here for 20 years. It's the first time he's noticed that.

00:45:28 Kevin Reilly: I've never been in this tower either. One of my friends did go in and he said there wasn't much I could see up there.

00:45:43 John Daub: I went up the steps and then they asked me to pay. I'm not going to pay to go up the tower. You have to pay to go up the elevator or something like that.

00:45:58 John Daub: This is Shinsekai. For the money they want for a ticket to go up to the tower, I could eat like three meals in this area.

00:46:11 Kevin Reilly: And you could go now. I mean, now people go to Harukas. From there, there is a fantastic view. I went up there last year. I could look down and see our apartment building. It was so cool. I took a big photo. And you see all of Tennoji and all across Osaka.

00:46:38 John Daub: I do love that building. I know it's not really old. It's just made to look old. They've made... They've made this with all these banners up here. And there's... It looks like it's made out of sheet metal. That's all rusty. But it's basically like painted, right?

00:47:09 Kevin Reilly: It's not sheet metal. But it is actually corrugated stuff.

00:47:15 John Daub: It is corrugated sheet metal. But it's painted to make it look authentic. So we're going to do one more walkthrough. If we could find like a beer or something dessert-y, I'd like that.

00:47:43 John Daub: Alright. Let's see what we can find. Let's see what we can find. We're going to make one more pass through the center of Shinsekai. You're going to get a wonderful view of the tower up there, right? And search some food. It's gotten a little quieter. I guess we're getting close to 5 p.m.

00:48:26 Kevin Reilly: Come back here in the evening. It'll be loud again. Yeah. It's a Friday night now.

00:48:38 John Daub: One reason that I came at this time is because it's not crowded. I get a good 4K signal.

00:48:52 John Daub: Wow. This is new. Look at that big boat. They've stuck a boat on the roof. So this is a restaurant that you can fish for your own dinner, right?

00:49:06 Kevin Reilly: People are fishing right now.

00:49:09 John Daub: People are fishing right now for their dinner. Catch it. Catch it. Don't jump. They should jump.

00:49:21 Kevin Reilly: You think we can go in and have a look? I don't know. Let's go up to the side. Can I take a look? Wow. This is new. From today. From today.

00:49:44 John Daub: This wasn't here.

00:49:47 John Daub: No, no. She said it was from today. It's just open. This is cool. So you can... So this is a new kind of restaurant that you can just film.

00:50:12 Kevin Reilly: Or get your own food. Look at that. Get your lunch. There's a TV crew filming. There's a TV crew.

00:50:27 John Daub: I'm going to hide behind.

00:50:33 John Daub: This is cool. All these fish are going to be somebody's dinner. What?

00:50:48 John Daub: Oh, he got one. Oh, he got one.

00:50:54 Kevin Reilly: He got one.

00:50:55 John Daub: This is happening live. This is happening live. That fish is alive now. And in five minutes... Wait. Oh, thanks. So this fish is going to be somebody's dinner, right? So this turns into sashimi.

00:51:27 Kevin Reilly: Oh, my Lord. Look at the wall. You got all different sashimis up there. That's awesome.

00:51:34 John Daub: Compact sashimi, salmon sashimi. All kinds of good stuff. It's so good. Kevin, it's so hot. I'm really thinking about jumping in with the fish. I'm really... Can I film this? I'm like drenched in sweat. It's so hot how Osaka is in the summer.

00:52:01 Kevin Reilly: Well, since you're now in rainy season.

00:52:04 John Daub: So let's go get that beer. All right. We got a super chat. I think we earned it. Yeah. I think we earned the beer.

00:52:23 John Daub: We're getting to the end of the live stream.

00:52:35 John Daub: Let's see here. Have a beer on me. This is from Von. Von. Keo Malavog. Malavog. Thank you so much. And thank you from... Good morning in Texas. Good evening from Osaka. And we're having a beer. Thank you for me too.

00:53:16 Kevin Reilly: There's a beer right here.

00:53:18 John Daub: Oh, here too.

00:53:20 Kevin Reilly: Okay. Beer everywhere. You want to get a beer here? Let's get a beer here.

00:53:29 John Daub: Sounds good. Okay. Let's get a beer here. You want a beer too? Here. Let me give you a... Just take it.

00:53:43 Kevin Reilly: Oh, yeah. Thank you.

00:53:44 John Daub: I gave him my wallet.

00:53:52 John Daub: So this is the beer. Here's the main drag in Shinsekai. This Tsutenkaku, the tower. And Kevin is getting two beers in this restaurant here. I wouldn't call it a restaurant. It's more like a stand.

00:54:24 John Daub: And we're going to get two cold ones to end this live stream because you have been really awesome. I'm in Osaka just for today. I have a couple of business meetings and then I'm going tomorrow to a place called Otsu, which is on the tip of Lake Otsu. Lake Biwa. Otsu is about 10 minutes by train from Kyoto. It's a place that if you're in Kyoto for a few days, you might want to take that trip to Otsu to check out that town because there aren't that many tourists there. You might be the only one. And I think that makes it off the beaten path and something that's really special.

00:55:49 John Daub: Kevin is still working on those beers. Oh, and by the way, this is the Only Japan Go channel, not the main channel. I'm now broadcasting live. So did you get it that fast?

00:56:12 John Daub: Beer is on.

00:56:13 John Daub: Beer is on. Okay, hold on a second. So this is the Only Japan Go channel. We are actually live right now. I do appreciate your support. We're at almost 1 million views for this new channel and 20,000 subscribers, which is like incredible. So thank you so much for that and definitely subscribe because this is different from the main channel. Kevin, you started without me. I haven't drank yet. I'm waiting.

00:57:13 John Daub: Okay, hold on. All right buddy, kanpai.

00:57:20 Kevin Reilly: Kanpai.

00:57:21 John Daub: Yeah. So thanks. Thanks everybody for joining in on this livestream. We really had a lot of fun. I hope that you got some entertainment and some knowledge about Shinsekai, which is the new old, old new area of Osaka. Yeah. The old new world. Because shin means new. So, Shinsekai means new world. It's not new anymore. As you can see, that tower is 110 years old. So, I hope you got some knowledge about this new old neighborhood.

00:58:23 Kevin Reilly: I don't even want to talk about this anymore.

00:58:26 John Daub: There you go. I'm going to leave you. Kevin and I are going to leave you with the last 20 seconds looking back at the tower. Thanks everybody for joining us for the live feed. Thank you for the super chats and supporting the channel and for the beer and the good mornings from wherever you are in the world. Have a great day.

00:58:50 Kevin Reilly: Yeah.

00:58:51 John Daub: Great night.

00:58:53 Kevin Reilly: Bye.

00:58:54 John Daub: Great night.

00:58:55 John Daub: Bye.

01:05:07 Kevin Reilly: I think it's still.

01:05:09 John Daub: Oh, Shinsekai is your favorite place?

01:05:12 Kevin Reilly: Yeah, I don't know. I just like coming here and eating. I love the kushikatsu and stuff. I come here with my friends a lot. Over in my neighborhood is great. We've got some really good restaurants. You haven't been to my neighborhood yet.

01:05:27 John Daub: No.

01:05:28 Kevin Reilly: Oh, I think I'll do that one day. Because we have the best okonomiyaki restaurant ever. It is perfect okonomiyaki. We've got a really good takoyaki place by the train station. We've got a couple of little izakayas that are fantastic. Why don't you go to Nipponbashi? Nipponbashi is better. I don't know. I'm going to argue with that. That's kind of...

01:06:05 Kevin Reilly: It's okay but if you want to go to maid cafes, I'd say Nipponbashi.

01:06:13 John Daub: That's where we just walked through, right? Did you get here? That was Nipponbashi.

01:06:20 Kevin Reilly: Yeah, we walked through. Nipponbashi is like the Akihabara bar. It's a lot of maid cafes.

01:06:31 John Daub: Yeah, capsule toys.

01:06:33 Kevin Reilly: Those little figurines and stuff like that. You can tell we're not in Tokyo.

01:06:41 John Daub: I like the way back 20 years ago it was tools and stuff. Back then I was a car price. I bought my tools cheap there. That's great. Yeah, it was good. But it's just changed a lot. Talking about Yakuza. Actually, there used to be a lot of those around here but I don't see them anymore. I guess because all the tourists have kind of moved on to other places. It's not there.

01:07:21 Kevin Reilly: I used to hang out here a lot. I've walked through and you see a ton of them.

01:07:28 John Daub: That's what I like about this area. A lot of these shops haven't really changed owners in decades. These are all very old shops.

01:07:42 Kevin Reilly: Yeah, or they go down through the family, you know, get passed on. Yeah.

01:07:49 John Daub: They're doing maid.

01:07:50 Kevin Reilly: I know.

01:07:51 John Daub: Can do that next time. There's a tourist getting directions from... What are they talking about? Haha. This place looks pretty interesting as well. But, you know, part of the attractions of this is that the decorations go over the top here.

01:08:26 Kevin Reilly: Yes. The decorations... In order to attract customers in, you have to go... Just swing on a bit further there and show them the big abyss it's in. On the side of that building.

01:08:39 John Daub: Alright. See if you can switch it. There you go. There you go. See? There goes... Yeah, that guy. Look at that. And you have to have this to get people to come into your shop. Ah, this is just so cool.

01:09:22 Kevin Reilly: Haha. Now you see why this is one of my favorite areas to hang out, right?

01:09:31 John Daub: Yeah.

01:09:33 Kevin Reilly: I was gonna say, yeah, you really should do it in my neighborhood. Alright, let's do it next time.

01:09:40 John Daub: Next time I'm going to his neighborhood, we're gonna do an eating binge, I guess.

01:09:46 Kevin Reilly: Yeah, yeah, yeah. Usually when we're together, we eat a lot.

01:09:49 John Daub: We eat a lot. Kuidore. Yes. Kuidore.

01:10:04 John Daub: I love a pun. You don't talk as much as me.

01:10:15 John Daub: If this is a competition, I'm gonna... If this is a competition, I'm way, way behind. Alright, turn... You better hold the camera. Let me get rid of this. Alright. What do you do? It's just kind of like...

01:10:33 Kevin Reilly: There we go.

01:10:34 John Daub: Ah, okay.

01:10:35 Kevin Reilly: There we go. Oh, okay. What is... Ah, kuidore. Um, difference in engine. Kuidore means to eat until you pop, basically. It's a very Osaka thing to, you know... People are... What else is it called? Kuishimbo?

01:11:00 John Daub: Yeah.

01:11:01 Kevin Reilly: The person who eats too much. Um, he's got to get that one. Next time, invite him to hike, too.

01:11:14 John Daub: Oh, yeah.

01:11:15 Kevin Reilly: Okay. Sure, sure. Are you reading my comments? Yeah. Next time, invite him to hike. You want me to kill him off? I just did a... What? It's a 24 kilometer hike in the heat on Tuesday.

01:11:39 John Daub: In Nara?

01:11:40 Kevin Reilly: In Nara. Yeah, yeah, yeah. All around Nara, in the hills behind. So...

01:11:47 John Daub: If you're gonna look for him, look for him in the hills of Nara. And bring a compass, because you can get lost back there.

01:11:55 Kevin Reilly: Yeah, trails that go all over the place. The thing is, you can never get too lost in Japan. You can use... Sorry.

01:12:13 John Daub: He's behind. Now you're gonna get lost.

01:12:20 Kevin Reilly: The beer just went down the wrong...

01:12:23 John Daub: Wash that phlegm down with the beer. Yeah, there you go.

01:12:29 Kevin Reilly: I think it was in Japan. I've gone off the trail. And sooner or later, you're gonna run into something.

01:12:42 John Daub: A bear?

01:12:43 Kevin Reilly: I've run into, actually, a wild boar a couple times. Wow.

01:12:51 John Daub: It was a little scary the one time, because the one was pawing at me and getting ready to charge.

01:12:59 Kevin Reilly: So I just hid behind a tree and the bull had gone by.

01:13:04 John Daub: Very nicely.

01:13:05 Kevin Reilly: He did. Yeah. No problem.

01:13:11 John Daub: But I did end up once in the wrong valley. I ended up in this little town all bloody and muddy and everything. I'd fallen down a hillside and...

01:13:29 Kevin Reilly: Why do I believe that? People told me I was nowhere near a train station. They offered me a ride although I was... And I said, I can't go in your car. They put out a blanket for me. I just figured they had a great story to tell on Monday when I went off to work, you know.

01:13:57 John Daub: Boom. Okay. All right. Shall we... Let's make a run for the... Somebody stop. Somebody stop. So when you finish, even if you just finished your beer when you leave a restaurant, it's nice to say, Gochisousamadeshita. Yeah, you fed me. Yeah, you fed me, or it was a feast.

01:14:35 Kevin Reilly: Yeah.

01:14:36 John Daub: Gochisousamadeshita. Say it a thousand times so you can say it without blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, right? Gochisousamadeshita. Gochisousamadeshita.

01:14:56 Kevin Reilly: This place is so cool. Let's open up. I'm going to have to come here.

01:15:04 John Daub: Yeah, this place looks really cool. Now, we've only been here for about 40, 45 minutes. It's not enough time, obviously.

01:15:16 Kevin Reilly: To see everything.

01:15:18 John Daub: But Shinsekai, it's about, I don't know, you can walk here from Dotonbori in about 30 minutes.

01:15:28 Kevin Reilly: Yeah, not even that.

01:15:31 John Daub: Or, if you go to Tennoji Station, it's about time to walk over to here.

01:15:38 Kevin Reilly: Of course, I've got long legs, so maybe 15.

01:15:42 John Daub: He walks fast. We're going half your normal pace, right? Yeah. I'm going down the cylinder right now. Right.

01:16:02 Kevin Reilly: But, yeah, it's not that far from anything. And you actually can come to Shinmachi Station on the JR Loop Line and walk right over here. It's very close.

01:16:18 John Daub: Right. It's a cool area. So, we're walking one more time underneath here. What is this shop here that looks like?

01:16:36 Kevin Reilly: This is new, actually. I don't remember seeing this here before.

01:16:41 John Daub: There are a lot of new shops. It's getting a little trendy around here.

01:16:47 Kevin Reilly: Yeah, I think, unfortunately. With tourists coming, I think it's going to change. Which doesn't make me happy. I think it will stay the same.

01:17:01 John Daub: Yeah.

01:17:02 Kevin Reilly: You know, hopefully, Tengu will always be there because it's my favorite place to go.

01:17:09 John Daub: That's sort of the... You know, if Shinsekai changes... I would say, gochisousamadeshita. If Shinsekai changes, I don't think it's going to be as attractive to me to come here.

01:17:31 Kevin Reilly: Yeah, I know. So, they've got to be careful with that. They started getting a few fancy people. They were going, well, it's easy going here. You can go anywhere, right?

01:17:46 John Daub: Right. This is kind of cool. If you're looking straight ahead here, there's a little... This part of shopping is here.

01:18:04 Kevin Reilly: Yeah. If we used to go here, let's go down here. There was just the most tacky little sex shop down here.

01:18:17 John Daub: So, my wife and I would go down and look through it because it was just... It was funny.

01:18:28 Kevin Reilly: Like, the toys they had were just really cool.

01:18:30 John Daub: Sex shop, toys, wife. I'm kidding. I've got really weird stories coming now.

01:18:39 Kevin Reilly: Yeah. Oh, it was just fun to go and see what they had there. It was stuff.

01:18:46 John Daub: I want a family-friendly show, Kevin.

01:18:49 Kevin Reilly: Okay.

01:18:50 John Daub: Family-friendly.

01:18:52 Kevin Reilly: And you came to Shinsekai.

01:18:54 John Daub: This is a live stream. And I came to Shinsekai to do a family-friendly show. That doesn't happen very often. This is a very vibrant, lively place. And I like the fact that it's retro. But one thing that I like about Osaka is that people just don't give up about anything. And they just let things go old. They let things get a little bit out of shape. And that creates a lot of character and personality, which you'll see more so in Osaka than in Tokyo. Because Tokyo, everything is brand new. Here in Osaka, you'll see a lot more retro, I think.

01:19:40 Kevin Reilly: Yeah. People just, like you say, don't give a... Don't give a beep. Don't keep it family-friendly. And I don't know. Osaka people are just different. They're full of life and energy and fun. They're all about fun and not really following the rules, which is what I love. Yeah.

01:20:07 John Daub: You know, it's like, you know, red light, we just walk across. That's why on the escalator, Osaka people stand on the right. And in Tokyo, they stand on the left. In Osaka, they stand on the right. Osaka doesn't really follow the rules. And that's a good thing. It's really refreshing.

01:20:39 Kevin Reilly: Yeah. When you come up to Shinkansen, it's like, what? Why are people standing on the wrong side of the escalator? Oh, that's the right side of the escalator.

01:20:55 John Daub: But...

01:20:56 Kevin Reilly: Yeah. I don't know. I guess it'll be... We're ornery, you know?

01:21:05 John Daub: That's Osaka.

01:21:08 Kevin Reilly: That is Osaka.

01:21:10 John Daub: And just a couple of sites here. This is another shotengai?

01:21:20 Kevin Reilly: Yeah, this is a little shopping street with a lot of food. It's like a market. This is where you get meats and fish and all kinds of stuff. Actually, a lot of stores are closed. It might be the day they're... Each of these shopping streets is the day when they're closed. This might be it. I don't know. Either that or a lot of stores are closed now. Yeah. I hope it's the other.

01:21:54 John Daub: I think they're closed because there's not a lot of business actually. I'm not sure.

01:22:01 Kevin Reilly: Like my local area, I can't be sure but... Tuesdays it's always closed.

01:22:08 John Daub: Oh really? Okay.

01:22:10 Kevin Reilly: There'll be a couple shops that stay open but most of them will be closed on Tuesday. Here it might be Friday. I'm not too sure.

01:22:20 John Daub: Kebab stop is not open. Oh yeah, the kebab is not open. There's a lot of places that aren't open. I'm looking for the melonpon that a lot of people gave me super chats to eat specific foods but I can't find them.

01:22:43 Kevin Reilly: I don't know if there's one around here or not actually. At my local train station, every once in a while this van pulls up and he makes the melonpon. It's the best melonpon you'll have. The van, yeah. Unfortunately, I don't know where he is.

01:23:08 John Daub: The closest train station is Ebisu-cho. Left. So this is the subway and the subway is just literally... The exit will take you straight to Shinsekai. Exit number 3.

01:23:33 Kevin Reilly: Exit number 3.

01:23:36 John Daub: We'll take you here from the... Which line is it? Oh, this is the Sakaisuji. Sakaisuji-san. So Sakaisuji line to Ebisu-cho. Okay? So if you want to come and check out Shinsekai, come out to the Sakaisuji line to Ebisu-cho station. Exit 3.

01:24:13 John Daub: Kevin, that was awesome.

01:24:18 Kevin Reilly: Classic.

01:24:19 John Daub: Next time we're going to your neighborhood. Where is it again?

01:24:25 Kevin Reilly: Tanenacho. Just two stations on the JR loop line from here.

01:24:30 John Daub: Okay, so we're going to his place and the next livestream here in Osaka for some food. Oh yeah. Lots of it.

01:24:41 Kevin Reilly: Takoyaki, okonomiyaki, you name it.

01:24:44 John Daub: Booze?

01:24:46 Kevin Reilly: Booze, yeah.

01:24:48 John Daub: Chocolate?

01:24:51 Kevin Reilly: It's not that kind of neighborhood. I'm probably the biggest chocolate eater in my neighborhood. I'm Swiss.

01:25:04 John Daub: But there is this great little izakaya where they have these little mini gyozas in the challenge.

01:25:12 Kevin Reilly: Actually, a friend of mine and I are going to do the challenge. If you eat 80 of them, you get your name on a plaque on the wall. So we're going to do that.

01:25:28 John Daub: There's a place in Tokyo, in Ebisu, that has 100 of them and you get the same kind of deal. And you get it for free. And they also have one gargantuan gyoza. If you look up, I'm going to put a link here. This is the Tokyo Monster Gyoza Challenge. It's about 3 kilograms of one gyoza. And if you eat it, it's free. But it costs 12,000 yen, I think. About $100.

01:26:09 Kevin Reilly: I failed miserably.

01:26:12 John Daub: It's so oily. You know, you can't eat it. Chirashi sushi. Yes. Actually, we eat that during Hinamatsuri. Yeah. Which was in spring. Right.

01:26:30 John Daub: Well, thank you so much for joining us for this live stream. We really had a lot of fun. I hope that you got some entertainment and some knowledge about Shinsekai, which is the new old, old new area of Osaka. Yeah. The old new world. Because shin means new. So, Shinsekai means new world. It's not new anymore. As you can see, that tower is 110 years old. So, I hope you got some knowledge about this new old neighborhood.

01:27:20 Kevin Reilly: Yeah.

01:27:21 John Daub: I don't even want to talk about this anymore. There you go. I'm going to leave you. Kevin and I are going to leave you with the last 20 seconds looking back at the tower. Thanks everybody for joining us for the live feed. Thank you for the super chats and supporting the channel and for the beer and the good mornings from wherever you are in the world. Have a great day.

01:27:49 Kevin Reilly: See you guys.

01:27:50 John Daub: Great night. Bye.