00:04 John Daub: Well, I got some yen! So I'm at Narita Airport and there's this really famous story that Japan wants to keep the coins in their country. In order for you to dump off all your Japanese yen before you get on your plane and go home with all these coins, they put a lot of gachapon (capsule toy vending machines) in the airport. Check it out.

00:35 John Daub: We have tons and tons of gachapon terminals here where you can find something you like and get rid of your yen coins. They made it super easy to understand. Everything's in English. How to use gacha. These are gachapon and they put the price total here and you can see what the goods are inside, of course, and decide what you want to do to get rid of your coins. But as I live here, I had to change money to get the yen.

01:01 John Daub: What I'm going to do in this live stream is show you how to get rid of your yen. I'm going to get some gachapon because my nieces are coming from the United States to visit me. They just arrived from a flight from Boston and landed here. They're going through immigration and I had some time to kill, so I said why not get them a present, some gachapon. Once again, the purpose of the gachapon in Narita Airport is so you can get rid of your money. Whoa, I don't think they would want these characters. These are pretty nice though. Look at that. This is Nagano. Oh, look, you got Nagano soba in there. That's pretty cool.

01:37 John Daub: The sign here clearly tells you the purpose: Japanese capsule toy gacha. Take advantage of your leftover yen coins. Prepare some 100 yen coins to play. Select your favorite toy and insert the proper number of coins, which is shown, and turn the handle and boom, you got your gachapon. I did this episode a few years ago in 360 in Akihabara and now I'm doing it right here. You can get some pretty cool gachapon. A lot of these things are pretty small, but they're well made and collectible. Oh, I saw these with my friends. The shells have taken over the heads, so they're shell heads. Oh, here's a cool one. Look at that. So this is Narita Airport Terminal 2.

02:46 John Daub: What we're going to do is get some gachapon, okay? Why Japanese people like this? Why? What? They ask a question and they don't answer it. That's pretty funny. All right, let's see if we can find one to get. Gas mask people? Some weird ones. I don't think my nieces want this. I know it's an exclamation mark, but why start it with why? It's very confusing. Whoa, look, it's like vomiting statues. Oh wow. This is definitely high on my list. Oh, check this one out. Kancho. No way.

03:27 John Daub: Kancho is when you go up to your teacher or a kid goes like this, up somebody's butt. We call it a kancho and it's right between their legs. It's the worst thing that can happen to you. Kids always do this to adults. No way. Check it out. Look at their hands and they're putting their hands up someone's butt. It's called a kancho. That's wrong, man. Oh man. Why Japan? That's just weird. But that's high on my list because it's kind of interesting. A Star Wars. Oh, they might like this. Some dolls.

04:02 John Daub: Oh, thank you, Vaughn. I'm going to get you a weird one. When I give this to my niece, I'm going to say it came from Vaughn. All right, I'm going for the kancho just because you guys... Why am I doing this? All right. Kancho. Here we go. Gachapon. It's 200 yen. Insert the proper amount of coins. One, two, three. Turn the handle. Maybe it's 300 yen. No, it's broken guys. I'll try it one more time. Somebody kanchoed this machine. Ah, it took my money. Vaughn. Oh, they're sold out. That's why. And still took my money. Okay, well I got you some air, Vaughn. Sorry about that.

05:13 John Daub: Here's the Narita Airport. You can get purikura (photo sticker booths). I believe there's purikura for Narita Airport 'cause everybody wants to get one before they leave. That's cute. No, I broke it. The kancho was sold out. Oh man. I got to find something else. There's Mr. Potato Head. That's kind of neat. And then there's Elsa and... who is that? Red. Disney people. These are like foxes. Daba masukotto. Snoopy. Snoopy's here. No, I wanted the kancho. Why? These look neat, but they're not that interesting. Oh, what's this? These are like clips. You see that? That's interesting. No, I can't believe I wasted 200 yen.

06:23 John Daub: Oh, what's this dude doing here? What is like a government official? Gourmet. I guess it's a cookbook. He's a famous chef. These are boring. All right, let's go over here again. The purpose of these gachapon is to get rid of your coins. Oh, this is sushi. Check it out. Little teeny sushi. The purpose is to get rid of your coins before you go travel home. It's genius. And they have a ton of them here in Narita Airport in English too. But I can't find anything that's worth getting my nieces. What do you guys think? Biohazard? Really? I'm not getting that for my nieces. These are like for boys. Ultraman, Mario, toy cars. They don't want any of this. Boy stuff. I got to go to the girl zone.

07:44 John Daub: Wood puzzles. That is cool. That is pretty. Trecherous. Any miniature lap pillow? Trecherous, you got me there, buddy. Oh, okonomiyaki. Check that out. That looks pretty real. Is there any mini lap pillows? I don't see it. Oh, here's a little watch. Do you think they'd like a little watch? Check it out. It's a Gudetama watch. That's cute. I wonder if they'd like this. This one is the prize one because it looks like you can see the food on the wristband. That's pretty cool. That's not really high on my list though. I'm kind of disappointed. I was looking for something with more impact. I just don't see it.

09:00 John Daub: This is for real otaku. Look at these little mini cameras. Do they actually work? Oh no, they're just miniature ones. Look, it's got the zoom lens on it. Whoa. Camera geeks are going to love this. Mini camera gachapon. Check it out. Most of them are sold out. There's pizza. There's some pizza. Cup of coffee. Some bread. Sweet buns. This one has modern mini light bulbs. That's kind of neat. I think let's try this. Modern mini bulbs. Is it sold out? Oh, there's still some in here. All right. Gachapon. Boom.

10:14 John Daub: Okay. I think the kids are going to like this. I'm going to get another one. So I'm going to open this up real quick. Let's see what we got here. That's pretty cool. So I think they're going to like this because it's something they could probably use and it looks like a light bulb. Check this out. That's neat. How does it work? Does it actually work? How do you turn it on? It does work. Oh, they're going to love this. Check that out. And you put it on your bag and it... Oh, that's awesome. Okay. I'm glad I got this one. And the other one looks like it's the same thing. Very cool.

11:12 John Daub: Hey vibes by design. What's the fastest, least crowded during Golden Week to get heading to Kyoto in 10 days? The fastest way without the crowds to get there from Haneda. The fastest way is by Shinkansen. Go get from Haneda to Shinagawa Station. You don't have to go to Tokyo Station, go to Shinagawa Station. Try to get your tickets in advance. If you can buy the tickets at Haneda, then give yourself about 20 minutes and try to get a seat reservation. There's no real way to do that, but that'd be the... Oh, this is pretty cool too. This one is an orange glow. The fact that it works is pretty cool.

12:49 John Daub: Okay. And we got security and the officers, they're really good with directions and speaking English here. So we're live right now in Narita Airport. I got my gifts for them to welcome them. That's pretty much it. I'm going to take you upstairs just for a second to the arrival lounge and we're going to wait for them. But right behind me is tons and tons of gachapon that you can use here freely. Once again, this is from the departures and arrivals, going towards the train. This is the same floor as where the trains are. So there you go. Gachapon for everybody.

14:02 John Daub: The funny thing is I don't think that they speak Japanese. There's tourists from all sorts of places all around Asia. Some of them can speak a little bit of Japanese, but they're not from here. You can watch them. Bye-bye, gachapon. Once again, if you do want to get rid of your coins, it's cool to have some 100 yen coins, dispose of them, and get some gachapon. They do have some cool stuff. Apparently the kancho ones are sold out, which is a big shame, but I think my nieces are going to like these lights that I got them. And they should be getting off their flight real soon.

15:01 John Daub: Over the course of the next week, you're going to get a chance to meet them. So I'll be doing more live streams. I hope you like the new episode that I put online a couple days ago, which was the Retro Game Center. That was a lot of fun. So definitely leave me a comment. And if you have a gachapon that you want me to get, leave me a comment because I'll be back in Narita, and I might do another episode and try to get that kancho one. Gachapon. You know what? It kind of is because of all the gachapon there. There's a lot of good stuff, but that kancho one is absolutely 100% bizarre.

15:45 John Daub: So this is the arrivals hall for Narita Airport. As you can see, they have prepaid SIM cards, which I think are pretty cool. So if you have a phone that's SIM-free that you can use in Japan, all you got to do is buy from the vending machine a SIM card. Just charge it. Put your credit card here, and out comes your SIM card. Boom. Add it into the phone, and you have access. You know, there's a couple other companies here that do the same thing. And there's an ATM for Japanese banks. Very cool, right?

16:18 John Daub: I'm really happy because when I first came to Japan, we did not have this kind of service. It was pretty basic. I'm William Winning. Always entertaining. Many thanks for your videos. A housewarming gift for your new place. Yes! I just moved in this morning. I look really tired. You know why? Because I got in really early. This is the arrivals hall where they're coming. So I should see them soon. Yeah, my family's coming. I don't know if I'm going to stream them coming.

16:53 John Daub: John, thank you. Yes, I just moved into the new apartment. It was really hard to move the sofa. That was the tough one. But I got everything in, 50% of it. I still have another 50% to go. So I have one more trip. But it's an awesome neighborhood that I live in. And I'm going to introduce it to you. I'm going to talk to you over time. But I appreciate the housewarming gift. It's really cool. I have some more big news to tell you about. Not just the neighborhood that I'm in. So definitely stay tuned to the live streams.

17:16 John Daub: I'm glad that we got a chance to do this. I'm going to go now and look for my folks. And then yeah, welcome them to Japan. This is the first time that my mom's been here four times, I believe. But my dad has not. He's never been to Japan before. And neither has my brother. My brother and his children and his wife are coming too. They've never been to Japan either. So hopefully they get here real soon. Immigration. I think they must be going through immigration and getting their bags now. Here's the board up there. You can see the flight from Boston. Boston is a JAL 7. And it's arrived. Oh, they're in customs right now. And they're coming out from A. And we're at A right now. So I have another minute.

18:12 John Daub: Richard, enjoy the new apartment. Thank you, my friend. You know, before I got into the apartment, I filmed everything because it's like the only time where you're going to have nothing in the apartment. Right. So I filmed what my apartment was like without anything in it. So I could do sort of an apartment tour for you. But because the time is so short, I had to move this stuff in really quickly. So I don't think I can do a live stream of the move-in. But I was able to film a little bit of what the apartment looks like. And now I'm cleaning my old apartment. You'll be able to see both. And I want to do another episode on renting apartments here and getting contracts and stuff.

18:54 John Daub: Well, she has a lot of luggage. It's not easy to get an apartment here. And actually, the amount of money I had to put up front was pretty significant in order to move into this neighborhood. But I want to give you more information on this because it's really interesting. I'm going to go back and wait for them. I'm afraid I might miss them. They're probably disoriented. Oh, you can get some cards here too. I'm really surprised for unlocked phones. You got that, everybody. So you can get online real fast. How much is it? Three gigabytes for 30 days. That's about $30. So it's a dollar for 100 megabytes. About. That's pretty reasonable. Prepaid SIM cards. Please note that.

19:51 John Daub: And while you get the SIM cards, get some delicious confections to take home. Look at that. Oh man, that's so good. Here's the Tokyo Banana, the ever famous Tokyo Banana. Oh, and I like the boxes on that. Very nice. And they usually have Kit Kats here too. And I was looking for my friend Keith to get some Kit Kats for him. Oh, here. They got grape flavored Kit Kats. They have sakura flavored. Here's cherry blossom flavored. Here's green tea flavored. This is Japanese strawberry flavored, melon flavored. That's interesting. And then Tokyo Banana flavored. So the flavors are pretty limited. Kind of.

20:51 John Daub: Anyone want an I love Japan hat? Sorry. All right, everybody. Thanks for joining the live stream. I appreciate the super chats to welcome me into the new apartment. I'll do some more streams on that later today. I'm actually doing a really unplanned meet up. I'm doing an unplanned meet up in Asakusa at 7:30 tonight and underneath Kaminarimon (thunder gate), which is the big red lantern in Sensoji Shrine. So if you're in Asakusa at 7:30 tonight, I will be there because my family staying in Asakusa and I'm doing a meet up for some patrons, Patreon supporters. But if you're in the area and watching this live stream, step by Asakusa at 7:30 underneath Kaminarimon.

21:41 John Daub: All right, everybody. I believe they're coming out and I don't want to record that because they're going to be tired. And my mom's going to kill me if I show her all messed up after a long haul flight. No way. So I'm going to let you guys go. Or you know what? Let me go so I can go and greet them. Thanks guys. That's it from Narita Airport. See ya. I keep thinking they're waving at me.