00:00:01 John Daub: Alright, second livestream of the day. I have a ticket right now to go back to Tokyo from Osaka. I just got it from a vending machine. There's lots of vending machines. It's so convenient you can buy your ticket without even talking to a human. So now that I got my ticket to go back to Tokyo and I have trains every ten minutes just about. You can see the schedule is listed up above here with a clock in the middle. Very efficient. Every now and then it'll switch to English so you don't have to worry about not being able to read Japanese. Actually these are the local trains. The Shinkansen is this way. And the Shinkansen always has it in English.

00:00:51 John Daub: We have trains every ten minutes. But you can't just get on the Shinkansen without getting the essentials. So that means you gotta get a beer, you gotta get a drink, and most importantly, you can get a beer. You gotta get an ekiben (station bento). And it just so happens that Shin-Osaka Station, inside the station after you've already entered, has a place that has tons of ekiben. It's the perfect place for bento. This is 7-Eleven, okay. There's tons of gifts. These are takoyaki crackers. They're so small. I just had some with Kevin. That's a pretty nice gift. Hanshin Tigers. This is not the Tokyo Giants area anymore. Kushikatsu (deep-fried skewers) crackers. Wow, this is only in Osaka! Here we go. Here's some frozen takoyaki. Lots of frozen takoyaki. So you can take it home with you. We know this from Shinsekai (Shinsekai district).

00:02:21 John Daub: We're here for the ekiben. Let's try to find some ekiben here. I love this place. There's also something I want to show you that's pretty shocking. One of the most expensive ekiben in Japan is also in this station. It's pretty crazy. Let me see if I can find it. So this ekiben area is called Ekimachie. I'm over here. And Ekimachie, here's the sign up here. Boom. This is where you're going to find loads of bentos inside here. And you have to actually enter the station before you can get in here. Oh, there's a Starbucks. Okay, alright. I think this is it. There's a yakiniku (grilled meat) bento. It's insane. This is it. Wow. Here's Kobe beef.

00:03:51 John Daub: This one's $200. And they cook it right before you get it, right now. So when you get on the train, it's hot. Which is a good thing, right? I can't afford that. That ekiben is about $200. Did you see it? I'm not going to pay $200 for an ekiben. And anyways, I'm not even hungry. The one in the thumbnail is a lot more reasonably priced ekiben. I just wanted to show you that one because it's pretty unique. It's been in the news a few times for having a $300 bento. And the only reason to do it is just because you get in the news if you have something outrageously priced like that. And every now and then there's a YouTuber who will buy it and unbox it on the train, which is what I'll do next time. Probably some other YouTubers are going to do it now that I've introduced it. But that's here in Shin-Osaka Station.

00:05:11 John Daub: I'm going to show you some of the bento here and I'm going to let you pick the one that I buy. Okay. So go ahead. You can tell me which one that you like. I'm just going to go through them all. This is a Kansai bento, Meguri bento. And you can tell because it has octopus and there's takoyaki and there's kushikatsu. So this is all Kansai stuff. This is a Hello Kitty bento. Samurai kitty in the house. I like the colors of this one. I really like the colors of this. Here's uni (sea urchin). Oh, this is sold out. Uni ikura (sea urchin & salmon roe). This one's sold out. This is gyutan (beef tongue). More gyutan. This is a bit more of a Japanese style. This is a lot of meat in these. Kansai. Oh, a kanjuku tamago (soft-boiled egg). You know how I love this. Half boiled eggs. Oh, this looks so good!

00:06:45 John Daub: These are all plastic. But this is sold out. Unagi (eel) sold out. I wanted this one. This is steak. This is ten dollars. This one is a good mix. It's unagi with yakiniku, beef. But this is sold out. All the good ones are gone. This is beef rice. So the rice underneath it is infused with beef. Here's unagi. Oh, sorry, anago (conger eel) meishi (rice). This is ten dollars, about. This looks good, too. Oh, there's more down here. I don't... There's too many. There's a point where there's too many choices. I can't decide. They all look really good. Sometimes it's better just to get something simple. I'm not that hungry. Oh my gosh. There's like a hundred different bentos there. That's pretty cool.

00:08:23 John Daub: You know, in Tokyo Station, in a livestream that I showed you before, I'll put the link up here. You can click onto it. I ran in to catch the Shinkansen, and they have a store that has about a hundred different bentos just like there. I think that might be the same type of store, but you just tell the lady which one you want. That's insane. There's too many. Right now, I'm walking away from it so I can process all the stuff that I saw to try to come up with an idea of which bento I want. There's a Starbucks in here as well. You don't even have to buy a bento. You can just eat here. Let's take a look at some of the restaurants here. Again, this is Shin-Osaka's Ekimachie. This is Kushikatsu. You don't have to eat Ekimachie. You can just eat the Ekimachie bento. It's awesome.

00:09:53 John Daub: This place is famous. 551 Horai. So this is shumai (shumai dumplings). That's what they sell. Shumai. That looks good too. This is a lemon pie. Nice. They got a lot of good stuff in here. Whoa, cheesecake! How dare you put this in front of me! Here's some Kyoto matcha raw cheese rolls from Kyoto. Uji matcha. That looks so good. Matcha cheesecake. Whoa! Stop it! Arrest me now! Here's some sushi. This is a nice looking boxed bento for the train as well. That's a nice sushi bento. This is about $9. There's lots of really good places to eat here.

00:12:05 John Daub: Now I'm back at 7-Eleven. I don't know what bento to get. I'm so lost! There's too many of them. There's tons of restaurants here. We went through it all, but there's a board with them all. You get sandwiches. This is the one that I showed you before with the $300 bento. The Kobe beef steak. It's $300. I passed. Here's the 551 Horai, which everybody gets one of these to take back home. Oh, I love this! This is like a beef katsu sandwich. This is like the best sandwich in Japan. How much do you think this is? Any guesses? Tell me how much you think this is. I'm guessing it's like $15. 1500 yen. Alright, let's go find it. It's number 16.

00:13:19 John Daub: Ah, here's a map. You are here. See, it's easy to navigate here. Number 16 is directly across behind this thing. Alright, let's go see if they have that beef sandwich. The beef katsu sandwich. It was right across from here. Number 16. Oh, there it is. Beef... here katsu sandwich. It's so cheap! It's only $10. Beef katsu sandwich. Okay. You're coming with me. I've decided. This is what it looks like in real life. That's a full size. The smallest is half. Wow, can I eat it? Tomorrow's not good, right? Oh, one day. Oh, until tomorrow morning. Yes, yes. Will I be okay? You'll be fine. Can I eat it all? You'll be fine. Oh, then one. Thank you.

00:15:07 Staff: Wow, it looks delicious. Thank you. It's $10. Yes. Do you have 5,000 yen? Oh, do I have it? Yes, please. 50 yen. 50 yen. Yes, you do. Wait a minute. Yes, please. One, two, three, four... You really have it! Yes. Yes. Yes. Go! Yes, I have $10. That's almost the exact 10. That's a good deal. It's the same as the main branch. Okay. Yes, thank you.

00:16:03 John Daub: Where is the main branch? Shinsaibashi [?]. Oh, Shinsekai. That's why. Yes, thank you. Thank you very much. Thank you. Thank you. There you go. So, I got my change back, which is cool. It cost me about $10 for that. So I'm going to eat this on the train. I have my ticket. Let's go to the train. Pretty cool. So that restaurant's head restaurant is in, this is a satellite. So a lot of famous restaurants in the area have a satellite here so people can buy bentos or something to take onto the train. It's a pretty smart idea. People in Osaka are clever like that because that's sort of a reputation. And yeah, I'm happy I could decide on something. That took forever.

00:16:56 John Daub: So I have my ticket here to go from Osaka to Tokyo. It was really easy to get it. I had a comment, somebody commented in the last stream, is it easy to get between Tokyo and Osaka? It's so simple. And you can see how many trains there are. The next one's at 5:30. I'm going to catch that one. It's in seven minutes. And the next one's ten minutes later. This says Tokyo. I'm waiting for it to turn to English. It turns to English every couple of minutes. They also have the schedule up here. So in order to get in, you have an express, you have two tickets. One of them is an express ticket for 8,000 yen. That's this one. And the bottom one is the base ticket, I think. But you have to put both tickets into the ticket machine. There you go. Yes! I'm in! There you go. Tokyo. Platform number 26.

00:18:20 John Daub: Osaka's crazy! Alright, platform number 26. See it? Platform 26. Okay, there we go. 26. That kid really does not want to go home. Alright, 26. Oh, I see it. Okay. Here's another beef sando. How much is this beef sando? Oh, it's ¥250. Thank you. That one was ¥200 more, and it looked ¥500 better. Alright, number 26. Here we go. Up. We're going up. I'm running. By the way, there's a Starbucks in here too. In Osaka, stand on this side, walk on this side. So I have what's called a juseki (non-reserved seat). Juseki means a non-reserved seat. So that means cars number 1, 2, and 3 are non-reserved.

00:20:11 John Daub: Okay, so I have the bento. I don't have the drink. So I'm going to get the drink here at the kiosk. Oh, the Shinkansen is here. I don't really have time to get a drink now. Actually, I have a bottle of water. That'll do. Number 6. So you have to go to the end of the train. Run, run, run! It's really bright! Oh, it's so crowded. I don't know if I'm going to find a seat. Oh, there's some seats here. Okay. It's pretty crowded. Next train out to Tokyo. It's a little bit crowded, but I found a seat. I snagged it.

00:22:06 John Daub: But I can't do the unboxing because I can't talk to you on the train. So I'm going to show you the sandwich after we say goodbye to Osaka. It was nice to know you, Osaka. I'll be back. Thank you for staying behind. Take care of Osaka for me. How am I going to do the unboxing? It's really crowded in there. I don't want to be rude to the guy next to me. I think maybe you can see what it looks like. It's not an ekiben, okay? I didn't get an ekiben. I think you've seen a lot of them and I showed you a lot of them in this video. And I'm sorry for not buying an ekiben, but this is just as good, if not better. The thing is, you know, you don't want to overeat. You get sick and it's not good for the ride.

00:24:12 John Daub: So let's say goodbye to Osaka. This is the Osaka side. As we leave the city, the train's going to absolutely fly. I want to thank everybody for the super chats for helping me afford this $10 bento sandwich. Let's look at Osaka as we say goodbye. Another Shinkansen is passing us. You can count the train. You can see the numbers on it. That's pretty cool. When you're in Shin-Osaka, that's a pretty good place to buy the bento before you get onto the train. Definitely get one. If you forget to get one, you don't have time, you have to rush. They usually have bentos on the cart that they push by. But the problem with those bentos is you probably have two or three choices. And this is from Osaka. This is a beef sandwich from Shinsekai. $10. It's a good one. Take care everybody. I'm going to have my steak sandwich, my beef sandwich. See you in the next livestream. See you in Tokyo.