7 Eleven Japan Top 5 Bakery Items
7 Eleven Japan Top 5 Bakery Items
Overview
In this late-night live stream, John Daub takes viewers on a midnight snack run to a local 7-Eleven in Tokyo. With the streets deserted around 1 a.m., John raids the convenience store's bakery section to select five top items for a taste test. He purchases a mix of sweet and savory options, including a unique yakisoba bread and various cakes, before heading to a nearby park to eat.
The video doubles as a cherry blossom (sakura) check, as John examines the local trees to gauge the bloom status for the upcoming season. Along the way, he encounters local police questioning a transient sleeper in the park, highlighting the safety and politeness of Japanese law enforcement. John concludes with a detailed review of each bakery item, ranking them by taste, packaging, and healthiness, and announces an upcoming viewer meetup at Yasukuni Shrine with friends Peter von Gomm and Jennifer.
Highlights
- 00:11 John starts the live stream on a midnight snack run in a deserted Tokyo neighborhood.
- 01:01 He announces the plan to raid the 7-Eleven bakery for five top items.
- 07:34 John arrives at the local park to check the cherry blossom bloom status.
- 12:46 The five bakery items are introduced and lined up for review.
- 15:03 John reveals the ingenious packaging of the yakisoba pan that keeps noodles intact.
- 18:10 Taste test of the Uji matcha pancake with green tea cream.
- 20:51 Review of the whip chocolate bread, noted as being too dry.
- 24:28 Trying the satsuma-imo mushipan (sweet potato steamed cake).
- 28:02 The final item: Saku saku cream brulee, declared the taste winner.
- 31:11 John announces the winners in various categories (taste, packaging, health).
- 35:05 Cherry blossom update: approximately 10% bloom in Tokyo.
- 39:15 Announcement of a viewer meetup at Yasukuni Shrine with Peter von Gomm.
Timeline / Chapters
- 00:00 Intro & Midnight Walk
- 01:01 7-Eleven Bakery Plan
- 04:34 Leaving 7-Eleven
- 07:34 Arriving at the Park
- 12:46 Item Lineup
- 15:03 Yakisoba Pan Review
- 18:10 Matcha Pancake Review
- 20:51 Chocolate Bread Review
- 24:28 Sweet Potato Steamed Cake Review
- 28:02 Cream Brulee Review
- 31:11 Final Verdict & Awards
- 35:05 Cherry Blossom Check
- 39:15 Meetup Announcement & Outro
Japan Travel Tips
- Convenience Store Quality: 7-Eleven Japan bakery items are high quality, often using real butter compared to other brands that use margarine.
- Safety: Walking alone at 1 a.m. in residential Tokyo is generally safe, though police patrols are active and polite.
- Cherry Blossoms: In late March, Tokyo blooms may only be at 10%. Yasukuni Shrine is often one of the first places to bloom.
- Etiquette: Be respectful of noise levels in neighborhoods late at night (John turns off music out of respect).
- Meetups: Viewer meetups often happen at major landmarks like Yasukuni Shrine, accessible via Kudanshita Station (Hanzomon/Toei Shinjuku Lines).
Japanese Language & Culture Notes
- Sakura (Cherry Blossoms): A major cultural event. John checks the bloom status (kaika) which is often reported by media as a percentage.
- Yakisoba Pan: A classic convenience store item combining fried noodles (yakisoba) with bread (pan).
- Mushipan: Steamed bread/cake, often considered slightly healthier than baked goods.
- Satsuma-imo: A type of purple sweet potato from Kagoshima, naturally sweet.
- Saku Saku: Onomatopoeia for "crunchy" or "crisp."
- Police Interaction: Japanese police (koban system) are community-oriented. John's interaction with them regarding the transient sleeper was polite and non-confrontational.
Food & Drink Guide
- Yakisoba Pan (15:03): Fried noodles in white bread with ginger. Innovative packaging keeps noodles intact. ~$1.50.
- Uji Matcha Pancake (18:10): Green tea pancakes with matcha cream. Mochi-mochi (springy) texture. 108 yen (~$1).
- Whip Chocolate Bread (20:51): Chocolate cream on bread. Critiqued as too dry/hard.
- Satsuma-imo Mushipan (24:28): Steamed sweet potato cake. Moist, heavy, naturally sweet. 110 yen (~$1).
- Saku Saku Cream Brulee (28:02): Crunchy cream brulee bread. Declared the taste winner. ~$1.20.
People
- John Daub: Host. Conducts the live stream, food review, and park walk.
- Peter von Gomm: Mentioned. Fellow American YouTuber in Japan. Planned to attend the upcoming meetup.
- Jennifer: Mentioned. Friend of John. Planned to attend the upcoming meetup.
- Local Police: Encountered in the park questioning a transient sleeper. Described as polite.
- Transient Sleeper: Unnamed individual found sleeping in the park, escorted away by police.
Key Takeaways
- 7-Eleven Japan bakery items are innovative, particularly the packaging that keeps savory fillings intact.
- The Saku Saku Cream Brulee was the favorite for taste, while the Yakisoba Pan won for packaging design.
- Tokyo cherry blossoms were at approximately 10% bloom in late March 2018.
- Late-night walks in Tokyo residential areas are safe but monitored by polite police patrols.
- Convenience store items vary by location; items sold out in one store may be available nearby.
Notable Quotes
- 01:01 "We're gonna raid the 7-Eleven Japan's bakery and the 7-Eleven Japan has pretty good bakery items."
- 04:34 "I'm gonna hit the local park where I can sit down like a gentleman and zombie eat this."
- 15:03 "What 7-Eleven has done I think maybe this is what they've done is you can see there's another layer of plastic inside of it. So the plastic keeps the yakisoba in place. That's ingenious."
- 20:51 "You need milk. That's exactly—you need coffee or milk with this because it's just dry."
- 31:11 "If I ever was a parent someday I'm not going to be one of these kind of parents that everybody gets a medal. Okay. There's one winner and that's it."
- 35:05 "I don't recommend Tokyo is a very good spot to watch cherry blossoms uh in Japan. I think it's one of the worst places because it's just too bright it's too crowded."
- 39:15 "Put me in a room with Jennifer and Peter von Gomm all bets are off—anything can happen."
Related Topics
- Japanese Convenience Store Food
- Cherry Blossom Season in Tokyo
- Late Night Tokyo Walks
- YouTuber Meetups in Japan
- Japanese Bakery Items
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Full Transcript
00:11 John Daub: Good evening everybody. I'm on a midnight snack run. I brought some music. Yeah, so I'm hungry and in the middle of the night I often go for a snack run. It does not fit the mood at all, but 7-Eleven Japan—we got a lot of yeah, this isn't gonna work. Sorry, I'd be respectful of the time. So it's like 12:55 or 1 a.m. and you can see the streets are deserted. Sorry about the music everybody. This is more like it. You gotta be respectful in a Japanese neighborhood.
01:01 John Daub: We're gonna raid the 7-Eleven Japan's bakery and the 7-Eleven Japan has pretty good bakery items. It's pretty much like Little Debbie's—they've taken baked items and individually wrapped them and you can go in there and find really sweet bakery stuff. We're gonna go in there and get five items that I think will be pretty good. Are they the best five items? I don't know. They're the best five items that are available and that's what I'm gonna get. I'm gonna go in there and then just get what I can get and we're gonna go eat in the park. So yeah, it's a 7-Eleven Japan bakery run everybody. What do you think about that, Mr. Cat? No comment.
02:01 John Daub: So often if you're joining this live stream for the first time, this is a live stream. The signal might go Minecraft on us. We're at the mercy of the 4G signals in the sky. Just about every day I've been bringing you a live stream from here in Tokyo, showing an interesting part and you get to come along with me. This is the Only in Japan Go channel and I'm going to go. I've actually already bought three items—they're in this bag. Sometimes even though there's a 7-Eleven about a hundred meters away, sometimes they have completely different items in the 7-Eleven that's next door because some items sell out and some items are not available. So the items that I have here might not be available in here, but they might have something else. I bought three of them already and it's in this bag and I'm gonna go inside to this 7-Eleven and I'm gonna take the camera in there and I'm gonna try to find two more items that are kind of unique and then we're gonna see it and then we're gonna maybe unbox it like right there on the corner because you know all cool people hang out on the corner of intersections in the middle of the night. There's a park this way so I might go over to the park. We'll see how I feel after I go to this. Without further ado, it's time to attack 7-Eleven and get some bakery items, you know for science.
03:21 John Daub: But that said the gimbal is gonna go down. I'm gonna put you guys to the side because I don't want to go in with a gimbal. Yeah, we're going in raw commando, okay. Thank you, Thomas. I'm gonna get into all of the live chats, but I'm gonna leave this big gimbal outside. I don't think anybody's gonna...
04:34 John Daub: Look, watch a cream sandwich. Oh, that looks really good, but that's not 7-Eleven. We're clear so we put you back in the gimbal, okay. Drunk people—must be some kind of J-pop. All right, we're clear. You know that matcha sandwich. We are back in business. Boom. All right, so give me back my change very good. So this cost me about five dollars believe it or not. Those kids were singing some crazy J-pop tune. They're way down there now. See them, don't know who they are. We're clear. I'm gonna take this road—this show on the road. We're gonna hit the local park where I can sit down like a gentleman and zombie eat this and you know what I mean by zombie eat. That's just when a bunch of zombies get into a feeding frenzy and there's a victim and they all swarm around the victim. Have you ever seen that? This is kind of how I feel because of the situation. Anything can happen out here because it's the middle of the night. I just never know and a live stream and if it happens it happens live. I don't think it can happen. Japan's really safe, but if it did happen like, oh dear man, this is the end of the world. I'm gonna go find some things for them just to be touted like this fucking idiot, like we would be able to share that experience you know, me well being the victim and you sort of just watching it from wherever you are in the world. Kind of creepy really. Let's not think about that. I am all alone out here so let's just keep this between you and me okay.
07:34 John Daub: I know for a fact there's a park here. There it is. The second reason why I wanted to take you to the park—it dawned on me that the cherry blossoms are now just very close to blooming and I want to take a look in this park how close we are to the bloom. I think this is where the park was—is that this? This is not it. All right, just hang out with me just for one second. Must be this way. We're gonna find it. Yeah I have a light here so the light sort of helps. Yeah so I've got five items here from 7-Eleven and we're going to unbox, unwrap, just eat these very tasty morsels and I don't have anything to wash it down with. Maybe I'm gonna get a drink. It is just creepy out here because it's 1 a.m. Oh there's the park okay we are in—we're in luck. No zombies, no walking dead, no people which is the problem. There's no people that means anything is here—something's out here. Cats, Dracula. All right here we go. You know only like transients and really bad people hang out in the park in the middle of the night I think—well that's other countries but not in Japan.
09:22 John Daub: Oh look that's like if you're a Chicago Red Wings fan that would be—this might mean something to you. Really cool. Have a rest on the park. That English is not quite good. Have a rest on the park? I mean in the park, right? In the park. Silly people they completely got that wrong. All right where can I do this? You know what we can do it right here. Oh and look look up here cherry blossoms cherry blossoms—sakura (cherry blossoms). Sakura sakura sakura. So there's words to this song I just don't know. All right here we go I'm gonna put this up here this is gonna work out perfectly. You can see the cherry blossoms right in the background here so this is a really nice spot. It's now time for the 7-Eleven top five bakery item zombie gorge—basically the top five items that I could find that were available because the items are always changing and every couple of months they'll change it up and you'll see something new and innovative because all of these bakeries are very innovative. They're always having new items to keep people coming anyway—they'll be looking like oh that's new and then they'll buy it.
11:07 John Daub: Basically what I got here—wait should we start from the sweet and then go to the salty or should we start from the salty and go to the sweet? That makes sense. Okay I'm taking it out. You can't see it yet. Salty first. Oh I'm gonna put them all—line them up here and then you guys can decide which ones first. Mix hey mix how you doing thanks for the super chat. And I will take some questions at the end of this because I know a lot of you have questions about this. Okay I've lined them up and I've done my best to find five items. Some of you that are fans of the 7-Eleven bakery might be disappointed but this is what's available at the time. Okay turn the light around here we go number one. This happens to be—oh turn around. Should I get the creepy bad music out? Hold on let me get some music. It's better with music isn't it? Sorry I put some royalty-free music on the internets so I could access it. When people ask me what your favorite music is John I say royalty-free music because that's what I listen to the most and to be honest the royalty-free music is actually pretty good.
12:46 John Daub: All right I'm gonna go with the butchers—that you might recognize this one. Okay here we go. Number one this is the whipped cream chocolate eclair-looking bread. Number two this is the Uji matcha (green tea) pancake—that's right it's green tea pancakes not bad. Number three the yakisoba (fried noodles) roll—this is something I ate just a couple of days ago but 7-Eleven had it so I got it too. It's priced at a dollar and 50 cents about. This is the—what is that—zakuto crepe cream blue blue day? This is the crunchy cream brulee—very this looks good actually. And this here is the satsuma-imo (sweet potato) mushipan (steamed bread) which is a steamed cake with potatoes in it. And they all expire on March 25th so very—except this one's March 23rd. This is our lineup for tonight, everybody. And we're going to try eating all five of these. Which one are you excited about?
14:05 John Daub: All right that's enough with the music. Turn the music off. There's my introduction. People are looking at me funny. It could be zombies. There's people out here. So now I'm going to go ahead and eat this for you. What do you think? Now because these chats are public domain, everything that you write in here—what do you think I should eat first? I don't really care what you think so much because I know what I'm going to eat first because obviously we're going to start with the salty, right? A sweet potato brulee? No we don't start with that first. What we do is we—meaning the people. That's what Anthony's got to write. I saw you get a yakisoba. I like the packaging, how somehow just magically the yakisoba never comes out of the bread. Oh 7-Eleven's done something really interesting with this. Hold on a second. You've got to see this. This is pretty cool.
15:03 John Daub: What 7-Eleven has done I think maybe this is what they've done is you can see there's another layer of plastic inside of it. So the plastic keeps the yakisoba in place. That's ingenious. All right let's open this up and see how it looks like. That's a really good idea. It's like going to a festival. Yakisoba is the smell of festival. This is really smart. So what they've done is you can see there's a second layer of plastic in here that keeps the yakisoba from falling out of the bread. So you can be in a bag and swing it left and right and it's just going to stay all intact. That's ingenious. Here we go. So this is what—let me get the light. You've got to do this properly you know. I'm kind of a camera geek so you have to do this properly. So this is the yakisoba pan. It is just a regular piece of bread, white bread, a roll. And they've just cut it open. They shoved a bunch of yakisoba in it. And yakisoba is buckwheat noodles with a tangy sauce in it. And on top they put some ginger. And the ginger what it does is it adds a little bit of sharpness to the taste. So what's good about this is that it's mostly vegetarian. I don't think that they put any pork in this yakisoba. So it's not like kosher or halal or anything like that. But what it is it's pretty much vegetarian. But I don't recommend vegetarians eat it because I don't know. I'm just hungry. All right here we go.
17:02 John Daub: It's good. It's really good. It's interesting. The yakisoba is really salty and it's soft. And then the bread around it it really does work. And this is why a couple of days ago in another live stream I ate a yakisoba pan. And it's quite popular. I don't know why. It's weird. Somebody said it was an Asian thing. I don't think it's just that. It could be. But it just works. And I don't know why. But you can see inside of it. It just looks like a bunch of spaghetti. And I bet you can put the spaghetti—it's like you know I think must have been like a kid. You know when I was a kid I used to play with my food like every other kid. And I would wrap up the spaghetti inside of the garlic rolls. And then my mom would say don't play with your food. And I said why not? And look at Japan. They came up with the perfect idea. So this is yakisoba pan. So it's very good. Very good.
18:10 John Daub: Number two. What's it going to be? Do you even remember the lineup? Yakisoba—I just ate the yakisoba. This is from Nosh Abroad our wonderful moderator. Thank you very much. I'm going to go next with the Uji matcha pancake. This is the Uji matcha pancake. It costs 108 yen. So it's a dollar. This is a dollar. And it's quite voluminous. And you can see it's got green tea. They put in green tea into this. It smells like green tea. And it smells like really good green tea. You can tell from the smell if it's good or not good. It smells like really good. It smells like matcha. Basically it's the green tea powder. Slightly burned. And they put it into a powder. So I can smell it. Let's see what's inside. Ready? I love this. This is when I was a kid I used to do this stuff. I say Mom look. My mom would slap me. She goes what are you doing? Don't play with your food. And here I am on YouTube and we're going to be doing it. Hey Mom check this out. Actually this is really cool.
19:42 John Daub: So what they've done is they put some matcha gel and then there's a matcha cream. So it's all green. And it looks pretty good. There's your screenshot right there. So let's give this a try. We have to eat it intact. It's like an Oreo. Who doesn't twist the Oreo off and lick the cream out? Right. Well that's good. This is good. It's got of course it's got a green tea taste to it but the pancakes are really mochi-mochi. So they're kind of springy. And the green tea cream to it. What I like about it is that 7-Eleven has not—okay eclair next. What I like about this is that the 7-Eleven they don't put too much cream. It doesn't make it too sweet. It's very—how do I say? It's very well balanced I think.
20:51 John Daub: Next up. Thank you Steven for going for the chocolate whip. This is a whip chocolate. And let's open it up. Guy walked by. He can't sleep like me. Here we go. This looks like an eclair. It almost actually smells like an eclair but it's not an eclair. It's a piece of bread. It's the same kind of—well thank you Marcus. Greetings from Sweden. I just want to say I love your live streams and watch them daily. Thanks for all the time you put in to these live streams. You're very welcome. By the way everybody I have a new show for the main channel coming out this weekend. So I apologize for the delay for everybody who's watching the main channel. They are coming. It's just I've been really busy with a lot of other stuff. So back to this. This is the same kind of bread that they used for the yakisoba bread believe it or not. It's slightly harder and a little bit longer. But what you can see inside basically they put the cream in there and just the chocolate just on top. And it's hard. And then here we go. Ready? This is the—hey Mom. All right hold on. Let me do it this way. And actually the bread feels a little bit stale. And that's not a good sign. That's why eclairs are better. It's a pastry puff I think that brings it all together. But this is—it's got everything that the eclair has except not enough cream. And the bread is kind of hard. Let's give it a bite. Yeah. You know it's not bad. It's not an eclair. You need milk. That's exactly—you need coffee or milk with this because it's just dry. It's too dry.
22:57 John Daub: I'm going to put this away. It's not bad. It's just too dry. A lot of the confections in Japan it does look dry. Go buy some milk. That's not a bad idea. You should have got some at 7-Eleven. But a lot of the bakeries they don't use butter. They kind of skimp on the ingredients and they use margarine. And I think more and more Japanese are reading the labels. And 7-Eleven is the only place that makes processed bread using real butter. And a friend of mine told me they use real butter. And if you check on all the Yamazaki breads if you read the ingredients they have margarine as the main ingredient. And that's sort of like skimping on it. But probably margarine. Actually I can read the labels here. Ha-ha. Let's see what is in the ingredients here. So this is the matcha green tea cakes. Well there's a lot of ingredients. This one has shortening. And any margarine? No margarine. But it does have caramel. That's not good. But you know you don't eat prepackaged baked goods and go I'm looking for something. You don't do that. You eat it because it's sweet and it's good for right now.
24:28 John Daub: Next up we're going for the satsuma-imo steam cake. And this satsuma-imo—imo means potato in Japanese. Satsuma is a type of purple potato that comes from Kagoshima. And this is a mushipan. And mushipan is like steamed. So it's a cake that's been steamed. It's actually very heavy. And this cost a dollar—110 yen. So it's about a dollar. Everything costs about a dollar. Ingredients—eggs, [inaudible]. So nothing too bad. This one's a little bit healthier. It smells good. It smells very good. All right there we go. So it's so soft. It's very soft. Here we go. Check it out. Very very soft. You see that? I'm going to break it up. It's very very soft. It just has a very—it's very moist, has a very—how do I say—it's heavy, the potato is very...
26:13 John Daub: So this so there's another man that's here and the police are here and just asking him some questions. But I live actually down the street so I'm not busted. It's the I told him I was a YouTuber and they're okay. So this is the satsuma-imo mushipan. It's really heavy. It's moist. I like that. The potato I'm actually now on the side of my eye looking at the drama that's happening over there and I think the guy is here to sleep for the night. But it's okay. This is pretty good. I like the volume to this. It's very heavy and I believe that if you're really really hungry this is gonna fill you up compared to all the other ones. It's not that sweet. This is what I like about satsuma-imo. It's naturally sweet. There's I think no added sugar. I thought that was pretty good. So probably this is the healthiest. It's not baked. It's steamed. Very good. Very very good.
28:02 John Daub: The final one before I get busted too. I'm actually really happy because if the police are coming here and searching the neighborhoods and patrolling it makes me feel really happy that because I do live in a very safe neighborhood. There's a patrol car over here. I'll turn it around. See that's the patrol car. So they are doing their job. The final one. And this one I've saved for last because I think that this is probably the best one because I got a massive sweet tooth. This here is the saku saku (crunchy) cream brulee! You see this here? They show you the cream just popping out. Look at that. Wow. And they put an exclamation point in the title of it. You see here? Saku saku. And that means just like I think crunchy. Yeah. It's got a little to it. And they put the exclamation point on the name of the bread. So that's pretty cool. Right. You see that?
29:01 John Daub: So the police are leaving. I was worried that they're coming for me. I'll be honest with you. But there's a guy here. They came in. I guess he was going to sleep here. And being someone who hitchhiked last year who also slept in parks I kind of like to look out for other park sleepers. I think he'll be okay. I don't know if he's still here. Here we go. Saku saku cream brulee. Cream brulee is so good. This has got to be so good. This one is a dollar about a dollar twenty. So it's a little bit more expensive. A little bit more. Here we go. And this is junk food. But it's big. Wow. They put another piece of plastic. This keeps it intact. It smells so sweet. Oh my gosh. Hold on a second. Shortening. Maple syrup. These are the ingredients. Right. I'm reading the ingredients. The shortening, maple syrup and margarine. This is the devil. Literally the shortening maple syrup and margarine. And I don't think this is like Canadian or Vermont maple syrup. This is going to be like the bad stuff. Vitamin C. So it's been enriched with vitamin C. That's something. This looks like the guys that were singing in the beginning of this. What are they doing here? All right. This is what it is. This is a cream brulee. Saku saku. We're just going to give it a try. Here we go. You hear the crunch? You rip it open. You tell me if there's cream inside. Ready? Oh there's cream inside. Oh yeah.
31:11 John Daub: It is crispy on the top. It is crispy. So it has a saku saku to it. All right. So the verdict. Which one wins? You know if I ever was a parent someday I'm not going to be one of these kind of parents that everybody gets a medal. Okay. There's one winner and that's it. And the winner is—yeah it's a saku saku. If I go on taste alone the saku saku cream brulee because it's just a little bit of a sweet. And I feel very satisfied. Now if I was one of those parents that give everybody a medal for original design of packaging I would have to go for the yakisoba pan because it was pretty cool how 7-Eleven found a way to keep the yakisoba intact. Even though you shook the bag it still would be all inside of the bread. That was pretty good. For the award for healthiest would be the satsuma-imo mushipan because it doesn't have a lot of sugar and it's naturally sweet and I thought that 7-Eleven did a really good job maintaining the naturalness of the satsuma-imo. And for mushipan it's pretty much egg and steamed bread—it's nothing complicated. It was good.
32:45 John Daub: The award for best supporting eclair goes for eclair the whipped chocolate bread which was not satisfactory which is why it's a supporting role. It gets an Oscar for supporting role probably wouldn't even win the Oscar. It's very disappointing with that one. The bread was just too hard and you'd have to microwave it and melt all the stuff inside of it maybe you would have a chance. I need some milk but if you need milk or another drink to go with the bread then it's disqualified right there so that one's gone. And what was the other one? Oh the matcha Uji matcha pancake was very good. I think if you want to get breakfast in Japan and you don't want to pay for the hotel breakfast which is sometimes kind of pricey a lot of people will go to the convenience store they get a coffee and they'll get something like these pancakes and the Uji matcha pancakes I think would be a really good breakfast replacement. If your pancakes are a little bit more expensive than what you're getting for the first time it's pretty good and the price was right. It was a dollar and less than a dollar with the exchange rates the way they are right now.
34:03 John Daub: So I'm not gonna eat all of this right now but I will as I work so I'm gonna be working very late tonight on editing video. This is sort of what I do. The last thing I'm gonna do before I end this livestream and this is pretty good. The cops came by I saw transient try to sleep in the park and the cops came by and took him away. I've got taxis—it's been pretty eventful live stream. I'm gonna be moving from this neighborhood soon so it's okay to—I've been in this neighborhood for 13 years and I've seen these cops before. The nice guys—Japanese police are usually very very very polite. Just don't break the law.
35:05 John Daub: All right I'm gonna leave this here for a second it's trash. I'm gonna take you around to the park too. There's a guy behind me—no they're not—they're actually leaving oh they're actually leaving these people. All right you can see up here this is the situation of the cherry blossoms. The light's going up here and uh they are not—they're just blossoming right now. Um we had a cold spell yesterday it was so cold I think it was like—it was pretty much at zero and there was reports of snow in Tokyo but uh warmed up pretty good the next day. Camera's not very good. I'm gonna take you over to this other tree—that tree looks a lot better some reason. The back camera's not in focus as well sorry about that. This one looks really beautiful and what I love about the cherry blossoms at night is when it's lit up like this the contrast between the dark sky and the white blossoms is just really incredible. And I don't think you get such a dark sky in the center of Tokyo. This is why I don't recommend Tokyo is a very good spot to watch cherry blossoms uh in Japan. I think it's one of the worst places because it's just too bright it's too crowded it's too loud and you don't get such a contrast between the blossoms and the sky like this. And when you do have light and you light it up you can see it's like black and white—it's such a big difference. I like that.
37:00 John Daub: So these are different blossoms—this isn't a cherry blossom it's just—they're definitely blossoms but the kind of the feeling that you get is pretty much the same as what's going to be Tokyo in about a week from now. Oh man I'm so excited. And those—I was sitting over there underneath the cherry blossoms and uh those are the trees that are about to bloom. It's a very exciting time of year even though I'm in Tokyo and it's not an ideal place it's still a very exciting time to be in Japan. There you go. So we have about 10% bloom and the Japanese media actually does put a chart and tells you what the percentage of bloom is and right now it looks like we have 10% bloom. Yeah I'm looking at the screen and looking up—this area isn't bloomed at all and uh yeah about 10% not bad not bad at all.
38:00 John Daub: So the final report—the dude was asleep here and he's not here and he's not sleeping anymore. The police took away the transient and then they left—they left me alone. The joke's on them just kidding sort of. Okay I'm gonna make my way back. This has been really fun uh midnight snacking. I still got a lot—five is just too much to eat for one sitting but uh it's not gonna go to waste. My stomach is unlimited over a period of time. Um here's a little bit of a video of what we have on the vending machine offering oolong tea and it looks like they put [inaudible] kind of like that. I'm gonna have to pass that up though—that stuff will kill you. So thanks everybody for joining me on this live stream. I'm going back home taking a bath get back to editing.
39:15 John Daub: And uh I'm gonna be doing a meetup on Monday. I just talked with Peter von Gomm and I talked with—do they have milk hold on a second blend coffee I thought that was milk what the heck is this. It's a real obnoxious looking can—jelly inside okay sorry. I'm gonna be doing a meetup in uh—this is our tentative plans okay. Doing a meetup in Tokyo—Peter von Gomm and Jennifer are gonna be there. Yes if you've been following the live stream that should excite you. Um it should frighten you it should get you very—I don't know—crazy mad because it's gonna be a lot of fun. Um we're gonna meet—I have to think about it okay. We're gonna meet on Monday at between four and six at Yasukuni Shrine and uh I'm planning I think the easiest place to meet us although you can't miss um Dr. Evil who is uh Lex Luthor which is uh Peter von Gomm—can't miss him but he's hard to miss. I think we're gonna be there from four to six pm at Yasukuni Shrine. That's the station is called Kudanshita—Kudanshita is on the Hanzomon Line and the Toei Shinjuku Line and you can get there from four to six pm at Yasukuni Shrine and you can get there pretty quickly um from the station to Yasukuni Shrine. Yasukuni Shrine is a really beautiful place—it was the first place where the cherry blossoms started to bloom in Tokyo so I'm guessing by Monday it's gonna be awesome.
41:00 John Daub: So um I don't know if we're gonna find a spot to sit down because it gets quite crowded but I think and I could be wrong although I'm not—it's there's gonna be a lot of people who probably invite us to sit with them and that's always a lot of fun. So uh get a chance to sit with them and I'm gonna be there just to use some of my uh skills of communication with the locals and we're gonna try to find some people who may be drunk business dudes or whatever who will uh accept us into their clan and feed us perhaps and we'll leave Jennifer behind with the drunk salarymen so uh they'll feed her until she has to go home because that lady can eat a lot and drink a lot. I can't keep up with her I'm telling you right now. I'm gonna try to live stream that as well so it should be a lot of fun. So make sure you tune in on Monday at 4 to 6 p.m. about that time because you can't hold me to a reservation. I'm gonna put the event on Facebook so you might want to check that out—that's where I put all the events so you can kind of get an idea of who's coming and who's not coming. Peter von Gomm said that he's in and Jennifer checked her schedule and she said she thinks she can make it so which is a good sign. Jennifer's really busy right now so that'd be a lot of fun for all of us because you know I'm kind of a boring person maybe but you put me in a room with Jennifer and Peter von Gomm all bets are off—anything can happen that's right. Maybe it's Peter von Gomm's turn to feed Jennifer. That'd be like let me take the pressure off me.
42:37 John Daub: Alright everybody have a good night wherever you are. The weekend's coming. I'm gonna be doing another livestream tomorrow. I had about five hours—I came up with—this is pretty—oh that's it obnoxious looking can goblin debonami what the heck. Wow it's melon cream soda—no this is gotta taste like crap. Oh yeah I gotta be back here no way I already have a massive sugar rush. There's no way if I put that I'm you might as well just put me down because I'm not gonna—I'm gonna be like running around the city right now. That it's so city like a zombie—I'll be the one who's a zombie you know. You never see yourself until you look in the mirror and then you see like yeah I'm the zombie that's what people are freaked out about. I thought I was safe—it's too late.
43:38 John Daub: Oh one other thing I want to show you—this guy has always creeped me out. It's been here since I moved to this area 14 years ago—13 years ago and it's just a creepy looking guy and I never ate the ramen here—it's just creepy right look at him. This is why I never ate the ramen here I get the light on high just—oh my—it's really good but he just looked creepy to me I don't know like why is he wearing a jacket without a t-shirt or an undershirt—kind of creepy. I never ate the ramen there I kind of just passed and there's nobody really ever in there. I think it's like the headquarters for a syndicate or something—there's always really interesting people inside there. It could be listening—I don't want to insult anybody. That was fun I hope you enjoyed the live stream. I'm going to go back home. I think everybody already is home—most of the city is asleep and oh I found it—there was the corn I wanted to get one of these. That's what I would have liked to have had—next time that's corn soup in a can yeah. All right get that next time. I'm signing off now thanks everybody see you next time on Only in Japan Go—the show where anything can happen because it's just completely insane cuz we're live streaming live streaming in the middle of nowhere whoa alright see everybody good night sugar rush.