00:00:00 John Daub: This is absolutely beautiful. Isn't it? Have you ever seen anything like this before? Actually, I really like it with the fog and everything here. It is beautiful with the fog. In fact, the more it rains, the more beautiful it gets. I'm a little surprised. I wasn't ready to like this place.

00:00:17 Kevin Reilly: Oh, really?

00:00:18 John Daub: Yeah, it's too gold. It is really golden. Actually, I'm liking the park itself. The park itself is very... Oh! Oh, hi, everybody! Hello. Hi! This here is Kevin Reilly. I am me, John, and we are at Kinkaku-ji (Golden Pavilion), which is the golden...

00:00:37 Kevin Reilly: There it is.

00:00:39 John Daub: Look at that. This is one of the more famous sites in Kyoto, and one of the attractions that I actually avoid because it's just insane. Actually, let's scrunch over here. Okay, we got a nice view here. This is live from Kinkaku-ji. We've kind of scrunched in to give you this view. It's raining right now, lightly. We got here 30 minutes before it opened, and I think you can see here...

00:01:08 John Daub: Oh, yeah. Swing over there. Look at the crowds. The crowds are insane here. But if you come here at 9, it's okay. If you come here an hour later, I can't even imagine. And on a sunny day.

00:01:22 Kevin Reilly: And on a sunny day, yeah.

00:01:24 John Daub: Think about it. It's raining. It's 100% chance of rain. I got my umbrella down just because we're hardcore. Kevin's a smart guy. Vaughn's in the house. Hey, Vaughn.

00:01:35 Kevin Reilly: Hey, Kevin. Oh, thank you.

00:01:37 John Daub: Yeah, but we are here just to check out the Golden Pavilion called Kinkaku-ji. And what you can see is a lot of people, and it's still early. It's only opened about 10 minutes ago.

00:01:49 Kevin Reilly: Yeah, it's crazy.

00:01:51 John Daub: It is really crazy. There's not even much tourists yet. Usually, it's so crowded to get to the point that we're in. It takes you about an hour just to get here.

00:02:00 Kevin Reilly: That's what I've been told. I'm not sure if it's true.

00:02:02 John Daub: But it's 400 yen to get in.

00:02:04 Kevin Reilly: Do you have the tickets?

00:02:06 John Daub: Yeah, yeah. Here somewhere. Yeah, it's 400 yen to get in. It's a pretty cool ticket. Pretty fancy ticket, right?

00:02:13 Kevin Reilly: It is. That's a ticket for the Golden Pavilion, Kinkaku-ji.

00:02:19 John Daub: I have to tell you, though. The last time I was here was 20 years ago. The first year I came to Japan in 1998. It's now 2018 and it still looks the same. When was the last time you were here, Kevin?

00:02:34 Kevin Reilly: Actually, I've lived here 21 years. This is my first time here.

00:02:37 John Daub: What? I don't come to Kyoto much. It's like, you know, it's an hour away.

00:02:42 Kevin Reilly: Okay. Well, not even, right? So this is your first time here. What's your thoughts on Kinkaku-ji?

00:02:48 Kevin Reilly: Well, I saw pictures of it and I thought, ah, gold. You know, like, I like more the wabi-sabi (beauty in imperfection) type. You know, like a little aged looking.

00:02:54 John Daub: Yeah. But now that I'm here and with this park and the fog up in the hills, you know, it's quite beautiful actually. It actually, yeah, it's nice on a sunny day, but I would say even in the rain, the gold really does stand out. There's a contrast between the green trees. The green is actually greener when it's raining right now, which I really like. But there is a really nice contrast between the golden temple and, well, or is it a tea house?

00:03:22 Kevin Reilly: I'm still not quite sure.

00:03:24 John Daub: I think it was a tea house, wasn't it?

00:03:24 Kevin Reilly: Yeah.

00:03:25 John Daub: And then it kind of became a... It's actually just... It's a pavilion in English, so... The golden pavilion. Tea means temple, so...

00:03:34 Kevin Reilly: I'm not too sure.

00:03:35 John Daub: I think they're confused. You can't go in there, just so there's no confusion. So it's not like an exclusive club that can go in there and drink a beer or something. There's just no entry inside. But you can walk around and it's more for taking pictures, I think. It's more of a sight from where we're standing right now. I mean, so is it wabi-sabi?

00:03:59 Kevin Reilly: Wabi-sabi.

00:04:01 John Daub: Yeah, I mean, if we could, we'd be sitting in there having a cup of tea, right? Looking out over our property. It's just not possible.

00:04:06 Kevin Reilly: Yeah, you can't do that.

00:04:10 John Daub: What we're going to do is walk around really quickly and I'm going to come back here. The reason why I'm here is to film for the main episode, an episode on Kyoto's temples and kind of a new take on it, because Kevin's here to give a second opinion. But we're going to do a battle on these temples. It's going to be a pretty fun episode. However, I thought we'd go live and just show you a little bit of what it's like in the moment. And you can already see there's tons of people and it's a battle to get in position. We've been here for... We were here first. Kevin, you look like a warrior.

00:04:48 Kevin Reilly: Yeah.

00:04:50 John Daub: He is a warrior. I don't wear those like that much. You are a warrior. Where's your helmet, my friend?

00:04:55 Kevin Reilly: I don't wear hats. I actually have to use the restroom, so this will not be...

00:05:01 John Daub: They're grooming the gardens right now. I have to use the restroom. Kevin bought... We came here on train at 7:15. We got here... Oh, hey. Houston Edwards, yeah. So we got here at 7:15 and on the train Kevin bought a cup of coffee that was like gargantuan. It was a venti size. And I've had to use the restroom ever since. Thanks, Kevin. It was a long train trip. We needed a lot of coffee. It was early in the morning. Now I'm real jumpy from all that coffee and I got to use the restroom. I hope the restroom is golden like the golden temple. So we're in this spot right now. We're going to walk around, I guess, and show you different sides of the temple for a couple minutes. And then Kevin and I are going to film a little bit for the main channel and then we're going to a couple of other temples before going back. It's supposed to rain all day.

00:05:51 Kevin Reilly: Yeah.

00:05:51 John Daub: And rain is not enough to... It's supposed to rain more later on. But rain is not enough to keep us away from live streaming. So keep us away from Kyoto. So I'm really happy to see all of you joining us. If you have to use the restroom, just be happy that you don't have a line. I mean, it's literally... If you look, there's a procession of people you see walking around the garden. And that's just the beginning. We're early. Okay? And the tour buses start coming. The fights to get in start taking place. And yeah, it pays to get here early. Wake up early, get your coffee at 6 a.m. and get here 30 minutes before and line up and run in here and get your pictures. But you know, it's kind of a shame though that... Nice to see you on here. It's kind of a shame that more people don't... There's not really a way to just sit down and enjoy the garden. It's you walk around it and you get out. A couple benches right here. That would be really nice. But you'd probably have to line up to get to the bench. And if you got a bench, you probably wouldn't give it up. Ever.

00:07:00 Kevin Reilly: Nah.

00:07:01 John Daub: Although... We have a majorly big coffee then sitting back here. All right. Let's turn it around here. But you know, if you are a photographer and you call in advance to the temple, you can get an armband if you call in advance. And they let you in about five minutes earlier than everybody else. You can go to the official too. I wish I'd called in advance. I didn't know that was possible. You have to call about a week in advance and you can get an armband. They let you in five minutes earlier, which gives you a chance to take pictures for the crowds. But you know, in this area, it's not too bad. You can see... This is good. Turn it around. Yeah, I know. Sorry. This is the side that nobody ever shows you. When they make a video on Kinkaku-ji, you never see this side. But we got a lot of students and it's Sunday. This is the thing, right? It's Sunday. So I didn't expect... I saw somebody say students work Sunday. They go on school trips and stuff. Yeah, schools like... They don't get much time off really here. School's 365 days a week. But it's still pretty cool. You know... All the kids are going to hit the light. Thanks, Keplina. But it's still pretty cool. So everybody, if you're watching this, slam that like button. Let's get up to 150 likes and then we're going to walk around and show you what it looks like in the Kinkaku-ji area. Now, they have signs that tell you where to walk, which makes it easier to walk. It's easier to get around. But apparently, there's a usual route and an unusual route.

00:08:25 Kevin Reilly: Are we taking the unusual route?

00:08:27 John Daub: Oh, yeah. I never follow the usual route. That's pretty cool over there. You can see on top of this gate, they have some mossy gates. I guess the viewers are just as tired as we are. We can't get to 150 likes. Hey, slam that like button. Like button. So, Kevin, can I ask you why, after 21 years, you never made it here?

00:08:55 Kevin Reilly: Yeah. My sister used to come up here a lot. She spent like a whole day here taking pictures and things. I saw all the pictures. I was like, well, I don't need to go there.

00:09:03 John Daub: Yeah. Is it different to be here? I mean, you can feel the crowds.

00:09:06 Kevin Reilly: It is. You know what I'm like, there's actually that little island out there with the matsu (pine tree) on it. That's beautiful. To me, that's more beautiful than Kinkaku-ji.

00:09:13 John Daub: That right there is an island. And if we had a boat, we could go out there. We'd be in everybody's picture. Just stand there, take off your shirt, make it an attractive view. But yeah, we got to 150 likes. So why don't we go around here and then we can try to... Push through the crowds here. So Kevin and I are going to show you a little bit of the ground since we got to 150 likes. It's... Press the like button to play kind of a live stream. So if you're watching... We can go for another five minutes. If you're watching this... We need active participation from the viewers if you're watching it live to make this happen. I'm going to put a card in the description. If you've ever been to Kinkaku-ji, that might be interesting to see how many people watching this have been here. It looks, as you can see right now, the crowds of people. It's kind of insane. I can't even get out. How do you get in? They got cops here just to... Look, they actually have police officers here. So once you take the picture from there, Kevin, you can't go back in. Once you take the picture, that's why we're there so long, you cannot go back in. You can kind of get an idea of what it's like. Actually, I think they're really close. You get to go closer, but from this point, we can... We can kind of look back and see what that point is, the viewpoint. I guess it was like about 15 years ago that George Bush and Koizumi took a picture over there. Do you remember that? It was after that that a lot of tourists started to come here because many people had never seen Kinkaku-ji before. It was that picture that sort of launched a desire for everybody to come here and get the same picture that the President of the United States had with the Prime Minister of Japan.

00:11:25 Kevin Reilly: That was our Richard Gere Prime Minister.

00:11:27 John Daub: Yes. Oh, I like... I did like Koizumi. He had the great hairstyle. He had the lion hairstyle. So there you go. This is Kinkaku-ji from the side now. You get a lot closer the more you walk around it. You can kind of see down at the bottom floor there where you'd sit there and look out over the pond. I really wish we could. You know, tea type thing. I really wish we could go in there. And I wonder how quick... I mean, I think it's a little bit... I think the police officers would surround us if we did try to make it in there. Swim over there? Yeah, I think that would end badly. Now, there's a lot of history to this tea house, to this temple, but I'm not going to ruin it by trying to give you a history lesson. I think searching online... Do you know any of the history... Do you remember that... The book that you brought on the train, neither of us read it.

00:12:17 Kevin Reilly: Actually, I read the part about Ginkaku-ji (Silver Pavilion).

00:12:20 John Daub: Ah, that's the other one. But I think this one here was... It was built also the same... Kind of like as a pleasure house and all that, you know, a fun place.

00:12:27 Kevin Reilly: You're just making this up, right? No, I'm not. Are you being serious?

00:12:31 John Daub: Ginkaku-ji was... While everybody else was starving, they were in here having a party. This is where we were on the corner where all those people are. That's where we were about two, three minutes ago. So Kevin and I are going to make our way around a little bit more. And then we're going to cut this live stream because I got to go to the restroom because you bought me a venti size.

00:12:54 Kevin Reilly: Wait. You're going to make that the...

00:13:00 John Daub: So this is as close as you can get from the side. And people have told me that this is... Kevin, is this made of 24 karat solid gold?

00:13:12 Kevin Reilly: I'm not too sure. You're the wrong person to ask. You've never been here. You have questions about Osaka? Okay. Kyoto? Nah. But this seems to be a popular place for people to take photographs. I wouldn't know. Yeah, you probably wouldn't know the bottom level enough. This, the selfie zone. I guess the selfie sticks are still alive. I don't, I wish I had it. I had one of those. I don't, I didn't bring any sticks. But you can see this is also another take a picture point. So you got people from all over the place here. It's very international. Oh man. If we just had a sixer, we just sit right there and watch the tourists. That would be our view. Just sit right there and enjoy a couple of beers. I don't even care that it's like 9:15 in the morning.

00:14:07 Kevin Reilly: I'm covered by Gold Lee. Cheese, yes. Cheese would be much better.

00:14:10 John Daub: Glenn is giving us our history lessons. Thank you, Glenn, for chiming in and accepting us. Don't you have a drone now? I do. You know what? I do have a drone, but you can't fly the drone. You need permission in order to fly. You'd be in big trouble. The weather right now is cold. Oh, oh, oh. Look at that. Bird flying, bird flying. Did you catch that, Internet? Beauty. Oh, and he's landed on top of a tree to go doo-doo on all the tourists. He's swinging around. Oh, he's coming back. He's coming around. Oh, he's coming right over us. That was a show-off, huh? I know. He's just showing off for the camera. All right, we got it. We figured you out, Mr. Bird. I think that's one of the national birds on the currency, right? I think so. I think it's on the back of the 5,000 or 1,000 yen note. Five or one. I just know that the 10,000 yen has got the old guy looking a bit like my father. All right. All right, we got the 200 likes, so what we're going to do is move around the Golden Pavilion. Kinkaku-ji. Hey, look, we can get around the back side here. Hey, look, we can get into everybody's pictures if we stand here. They're taking pictures of Kevin. The dude is in town. Hi, Avery. Thank you. Here's a little something for you. Thank you for everything you do. Love all of your videos. Hey, guys, definitely check out Kevin's channel, Kuma's Kitchen. He could use some love over there. And Kevin's channel is all food.

00:15:38 Kevin Reilly: Actually, tomorrow will be alpha macaroni for Switzerland.

00:15:45 John Daub: All right. This is a selfie spot. Do you want to take a selfie with me, Kevin?

00:15:49 Kevin Reilly: Yeah.

00:15:50 John Daub: All right. A digital selfie. Here you go. Digital selfie. All right, guys, we're going to take a selfie for you. Oh, this is a selfie. This is a nice spot. But we're not taking it. You take a screenshot and send us to us on Instagram. Oh, there we go. That's a good idea. All right. Put that umbrella down. You got to man up. All right. Here's our selfie. I don't have a job anymore now. All right. All right. Okay. Here we go. Selfie. Three, two, one. Okay. All right. There's no... You know, it's not as much fun if there's no click. We should have said click or something.

00:16:27 Kevin Reilly: Yeah. Click. You're pretty.

00:16:30 John Daub: It's pretty neat from behind. You know, I think if you have to wait in line for a significant amount of time in order to get in, I don't think it's worth it. Thank you. Hello. Hi. That's Jim. I think if you have to wait to get in, it's not worth it. But we didn't wait that long because we got here early. I think that makes it more worth it. But I just don't see... We're pretty much done. You can see the rain coming down right now. It's coming down a lot harder. It's a little chilly as well. It's weird for me because it should be absolutely hot right now, but it's not. I know. It should be... Yeah, this is... May is a time when it gets really, really hot and the heat starts coming on. It's still slightly cool in May. May is my favorite month to be in Japan.

00:17:19 Kevin Reilly: Yeah, it's not bad. Actually, April. I prefer April.

00:17:22 John Daub: April is still too cold. It's perfect. Oh, look at the... I guess those are like water lilies or something. Yeah. If you take your attention off of the gold tea house, the gold pavilion, you get to see some of the nature around it. And that might even be more impressive. Once the shock and awe of, well, there's a big gold tea house and it's... Metal. As soon as that wears off, you kind of look around the garden and you discover that Kinkaku-ji is a lot more than this gold pavilion. It's a garden. It's a really beautiful garden. Eric, thank you. Yeah, you might have missed. Somebody just said they would like you to go to Ghibli Museum next time.

00:18:08 Kevin Reilly: Yeah, that's not going to happen.

00:18:09 John Daub: That's not going to happen. Look, you know what? There's a lot of copyright. I'm being serious here. You can't get permission. There's a lot of copyright problems, especially not just with the music, but with the images. And Ghibli is not Disney and they're very, very protective. Even so much so that it almost makes you not be a fan. Did you ever... Well, I do like their drawings. Well, it's very good drawings, but they're so protective of green. I guess maybe it's almost like green. What is Kevin's shirt?

00:18:40 Kevin Reilly: It says, tomorrow... Oh, sunset time. Tomorrow is another day.

00:18:46 John Daub: Tomorrow is another day. Yeah, I don't know. You know I've had a lot of people like this shirt. Tomorrow is a sunny day. Actually. Tomorrow is supposed to be a sunnier and then Tuesday is going to be really nice. Going back to social media. Some of the companies, especially with idols and AKB48 and Ghibli in Japan, they're so darn protective that it almost turns you off of being a fan. Which is funny. Do you remember when we first came here? How many copyright infractions did we see? Oh, loads of copyright infractions. Disney would have had a heyday here. We need the poo pictures everywhere. Look at the rain coming down now. Every time a drop hits, you get a puddle and the frequency is increasing. Hell yeah. I'm going to have to get my umbrella out and we're going to have to end the live stream. So we'll keep going if we can get the 300 likes. I told you these live streams we're doing more viewer participation. We'll keep the stream going for 300 likes. It's up to you guys now. We're going to go to the other side. Everybody likes this shirt, right? You know what I got it for? 500 yen.

00:19:57 Kevin Reilly: You did not get that for 500 yen.

00:19:59 John Daub: Yep. One coin t-shirt.

00:20:01 Kevin Reilly: One coin t-shirt.

00:20:05 John Daub: Okay, look. Now, now it's so, this path is so crowded, Kevin. Literally you're, it's like a death march. Like a walk. It's so slow. I mean really, we're walking so slow. Funeral march walk.

00:20:22 Kevin Reilly: Funeral march.

00:20:25 John Daub: It's so crowded and it's dangerous too because everyone has an umbrella. Yeah. I hate being at this height during when it's raining because everybody else is shorter. I'm always walking into umbrellas. Let's take a look. Let's, oh, oh, okay. Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. All right. We're not quite at 300 likes, so this might be the end. We got some koi (carp). This is koi. Do you have any, oh, they're not, one of the rules of coming into Kinkaku-ji is that you cannot bring food or beverages into, there's no vending machines. They're waiting. They're hoping. I know they're waiting and hoping that somebody throws in like pieces of bread, but nobody has anything because of the rules for Kinkaku-ji, which is a shame. All right. We're almost at 300. I don't know whether or not to keep going. Little ways to go. So. Little ways to go. We're almost around the corner. So Kevin, just one last thing. Let's put a ribbon on this and we'll decide if we want to keep going. So Kinkaku-ji, what's your impressions?

00:21:25 Kevin Reilly: Oh yeah. Crowded. Which is probably a reason I've never come here.

00:21:29 John Daub: Yeah. Just turn it around. You can see the crowds of people going around the corner here. It's very, very crowded. And this is on a rainy day and this is early in the day and it's this crowded. I cannot imagine what it's like in an August afternoon at around 11 a.m. You know how hot and snotty it gets up here in August? This place is, this is why they don't come here in summer. It's too humid here.

00:21:55 Kevin Reilly: It's worse in Osaka.

00:21:55 John Daub: In winter it's too cold. Autumn is nice, but autumn is nice outside of Kyoto. You know, up in the hills and stuff where you got a lot of red leaves here. It's beautiful. From Osaka, these are some interesting points that you guys can take a note of. From Osaka station, it took us about 30 minutes to get to Kyoto station. And then from Kyoto station, 30 minutes to get to here. But we went, you can take a bus which takes about an hour. But what we did is we took JR, a local line. Yeah, a little line to a place called Emmachi. We just grabbed a taxi. We came by Emmachi. It was three stops to Emmachi. Three stops, yeah. Through Nijo Castle to Emmachi. And then from Emmachi, we took a taxi which was less than $10. I think it was like $8 to take the taxi here. Much, much easier and faster to do it. Because when you're doing something like this, going around the city looking at temples and shrines, time is of the essence. So, you know, if you're only going to be here once, take a taxi. And don't try to wait for the bus. You're going to spend all of your day waiting for buses and public transportation. Kyoto is one of the... You know, somebody asked me, can you do Kyoto as a day trip? The answer is from Tokyo. The answer is you can, but you're really rushing and you're not going to get a chance to see stuff. And if you do, you're going to have to spend more to get a taxi. Because taxis are the best way to get around Kyoto. Because it's too far. And Uber is very, very...

00:23:20 Kevin Reilly: Do they even have them?

00:23:21 John Daub: They do, but they're rare. Yeah. Uber is not big in Japan yet. Taxi companies have got too much pull, too. They've got a lot of pull. Taxi companies have an app, but I... It's like Kuma. Taxi companies... I'm going to turn it around now. Taxi companies have an app, but the problem is that the app is new and they sometimes have been charging you before they pick you up. And if they don't come and you meet them, you've been charged for a ride that you didn't take. So the Japanese taxi app is getting mixed reviews. Uber is a better app, but the problem is that because of the lobbyists and the unions and stuff, it's really hard. It's a very hard time. Airbnb is getting cracked down on too. Airbnb as well. All right. We're at 300 likes, so we'll keep this going for another five minutes. And we're actually not going to spend the entire day...

00:24:12 Kevin Reilly: Yes, Kuma is bear.

00:24:14 John Daub: Kuma means bear in Japanese. I'll put a link in the description later on where you can go and check out his channel. Because he's got a really good cooking... You got like 100 videos up, don't you?

00:24:24 Kevin Reilly: No, around 60 or 70 or somewhere. It's getting there. Around it up, yeah, at 100. Getting up towards there. Kuma's Kitchen. We hit 50 around Christmas time, so I did a little extra video. Yeah. Talk about it and stuff. Thank the people who've been coming. It's really coming down. Now the rain has doubled. Look at it. My shirt's wet. It's worth it to be out here. Once you get out here and it starts raining, it's okay. But if I was in my hotel waking up and saying... If I was in my hotel right now waking up and saying, let's go to Kinkaku-ji, I would close the window and go, never mind. I'm staying here. Because it's kind of chilly and the rain just is the clincher. But despite that... Back to the fancy Starbucks. Despite that, you can see just the lines of people to walk around the pavilion right now. I'm coming back here on Tuesday to get some shopping. We got some snacks because it's just not. This is not a very good day to be in Kyoto.

00:25:26 Kevin Reilly: No.

00:25:27 John Daub: It's getting worse too. It's getting worse. But for live stream, why not because we just happen to be here. The carp are eating the raindrops, I guess, right now. And we're going to take you just a little bit further because we got to the 300 likes as a gift. So thank you all for that. Somebody said earlier, you like the fish cakes. I'm glad to hear that.

00:25:48 Kevin Reilly: I love those.

00:25:48 John Daub: This means the usual route follow the people they cannot be wrong oh yeah the die right the the big yeah we should be able to see that from up there hall yeah lunch at udon forget the name oh who dodo who dodo is up in the hill here yeah I saw them now and then from there we might go see the big time by Monday oh wow it says no photography that means like from this point on no no just there oh just there okay yeah okay yeah no pictures sorry no pictures of the omiyage (souvenirs) you have to buy them but if what if we're in the pictures and it's in the background you can see all right so it looks like the video has gone Minecraft sorry we we are deep we are deep in the mountains so sorry about the Minecraft everybody and there's more the more people are in the area and we're deep deep into the hills so we're gonna end this live stream uh Minecraft style apologies but uh yeah thank you very much uh for yeah we need windshield wiper that would help but thank you very much for watching this Minecraft now video we do have a lot of school kids here I want to say thank you and and it's nice to see Kevin again dude his channel um Kuma's Kitchen and uh we're gonna be I'm gonna be here till Tuesday so Kevin will probably be in another live stream either later today or sometime tomorrow we're going to be doing um an episode on another food episode I'm not gonna I'm not gonna give away anything it's one of my favorite foods in Osaka oh really is it oh pizza it's not pizza oh we got a waterfall yeah enjoy some Minecraft waterfall and then this is where we're gonna end the live stream is that rain or is that what is that actually rain or is that just from is it always like that or is it because of the rain

00:28:00 Kevin Reilly: I don't know well it's sort on the map as being a full waterfall yeah so it's nice to see this guy again if you want to see him come to Osaka because he's very rarely in Tokyo yeah is it because you just you just don't like Tokyo or oh it's kind of far away and uh enjoy it I love Shinjuku area I've had a fun there and uh down to Shibuya but um Tokyo people are a little different from Osaka people I think most likely people are warm it's true you met them last night we had a cool place last night we had an amazing time last night uh that's sort of cool yeah we did have an amazing time last night we are filming uh a bar uh bar izakaya (Japanese pub) but it's outdoor yeah but it's out totally outdoor and you can see the Golden Temple the Kinkaku-ji hidden behind the trees here from this view you can go around the corner it's it's pretty nice um it is a pretty cool view and once again the it the path wraps around so you go all the way around and then behind it and it wraps back around this way and you can see the path coming so that's going to do it I'm going to have to put my umbrella up my arms are wet you know what my arms are wet now I'm going to go and not because of the rain but because of your umbrella I'm dry that's all that matters yeah you're dry that's not fair that's not fair um once again just in Kyoto if you do come to Kyoto and you want to go temple hopping be aware that these temples especially the main ones like Kinkaku-ji Ginkaku-ji Kiyomizu-dera Fushimi Inari they are all spread out it's almost impossible to do it in one day you're going to have to be here because they don't open until like eight or nine you have to get here at nine you can get the Ginkaku-ji at around 10:30 you can walk all the way to Kiyomizu-dera getting to the Honden shrine maybe in the middle you get there by two you get the Fushimi Inari by five and that's a long long day I'd say go to Kiyomizu-dera and sun ends up yeah that's the best one to see do do Fushimi Inari before or after 24 out Fushimi Inari is open 24 hours and uh you can go before the guidebooks will tell you it's like nine to five no you can go there at 6:00 a.m or you can go there at 11:00 p.m it's open 24 hours a day so try to avoid the crowds in fact you could go there first come around and then and but the problem with Kinkaku-ji it's so small that this is probably the place that you want to start because once the day starts it just gets worse all right just that the the crowds just get worse and sometimes actually one of people's least favorite once you get your picture um people usually get out of here uh I'm quite amazed I the people that I saw when we first entered here are probably already on a bus going to the next next Temple yeah so I don't know if the quality has gotten any better but if you have any questions we'll we'll answer your question for the next 30 seconds because I'm freezing and still got to use the restroom because he bought me it would be frightful so great yeah yeah because I I really do have to use the restroom uh because Kevin bought me a venti size coffee on the train and it wants to I'm looking for the gold Pavilion toilet uh that's probably probably around here yeah we might tree over here we might we might do another live stream later on today I don't know if we're gonna make it to Kiyomizu-dera but I I knew we're gonna go to uh Ginkaku-ji next and if we if the weather now the weather reports of lightning and thunder in a couple of hours didn't it this is Kevin yeah as little as possible yeah Kevin does a little as possible that's a full-time job he enjoys life a lot he got he's also got a YouTube channel so I keep plugging it because I want to see I want to see more people um subscribe to Kuma's Kitchen he cooks food and he he you know Kevin has actually made his own set inside of I don't know I'm not gonna tell them where the location is although we kind of did well we showed it yeah we sort of did go back and find that he's by by trade i tell you carpenter right so yeah yeah so can i say that old stuff yeah yeah he's a builder um i came here as a carpenter actually yeah i built houses i came here as an english teacher you came here as a carpenter and uh he actually built the studio yourself right yeah yeah so if you when you go and watch Kuma's Kitchen uh you'll see the studio that he's in it's like he just built up from scratch just went to the to the home center it's a one room and i made on one side i've got the kitchen on the other side where you see me introduced to the yeah looks like an outdoor outdoor of a building he is a window and everything but i know now i guess we can consider you a chef right yeah you can chef carpenter chef chef chef youtuber because you get noticed when we're walking around we people will notice us and go hey that's Only in Japan and that's Kevin Reilly yeah i get stopped in osaka you get stopped in the south both of those went went uh viral so we had a really good time um are we going to Yasaka shrine i have no plans to go to any other shrines except for over so i don't know yeah just these two shrines uh we're gonna go to but in general my impression is that Kinkaku-ji is extremely crowded yeah if you get here early you have a really good chance of enjoying it a little bit more but after about 15 minutes around 9:15 it's it's it's it's tough question what's the best season to come here the best season would be no season-wise uh i would say late spring uh or autumn uh autumn or late spring avoid summer summer you got a holiday in summer so you can come here but summer is also the most crowded and it's hot yeah it's hot you're melting from so much much sweat and in the in the in the in May and I guess around November end of October November sweet so beautiful it's so beautiful and the weather is better and there's less tourists because most of them have left cherry blossom season is beautiful but it's also it's it's it's also extremely crowded so it's good big hug from Argentina very good so thanks a lot for all of these questions yeah I'm out of Switzerland yeah originally well because from Austria that's not really good for each single 30 shingle and I we've had discussions that's not actually cut what I think I believe from Austria last time that we talked my job I don't use it much yeah I don't get to meet Swiss people here yeah haha I do appreciate it hello from Costa Rica why don't you guys chime in where are you all from Columbia where are you watching from and well I know the live stream close from Austria yeah Elizabeth right Elizabeth is in the house so everybody's from Philadelphia from Pennsylvania USA Los Angeles Seattle Hawaii Brazil Indonesia Osaka gracias Osaka Taiwan South Dakota Portland Sweden Florida Kansas City Vegas baby Deutschland Hawaii nice Antarctica only in our to go of course the only one out there Silicon Valley El Salvador Albuquerque Wisconsin Chicago Netherlands wow I can go on and on Northeast Ohio Guatemala Syria really Toronto awesome Texas Sydney Canada San Diego India India Sydney Indiana North Pole I somehow doubt that North Pole Columbus Ohio go box Turkey yes all right thanks Philippines New York City good so that's it for us thank you everybody for joining us yeah there's another live stream oh hello oh hi I know you actually are John right?

00:36:20 Kevin Reilly: Joe yeah where are you from Canada okay your sister who is now gone in Montreal okay I live for a while in British Columbia Victoria

00:36:44 John Daub: ah well we're gonna um was filming it for a show about about this temple and And now we're doing a live stream because it's really raining and I gotta come back another day. But actually it's nice with the rain. It looks different. It does look different, yeah. And it's just as crowded as I thought it would be. It's just as crowded and getting more crowded. Nice to meet you. Nice to meet you. Thank you for all the videos. You're very welcome. And thanks for saying hi, I appreciate that. You're welcome. Actually, I didn't expect you to come here. Because I think you wanted to go to Osaka. Oh right, yeah. So I didn't know you were coming in. Nobody knew. We didn't announce it to anybody. We do it by stealth, yeah. Didn't really announce it, but yeah. We're here for another couple hours and we're going back to Osaka. Are we? Yeah. We're going to stay here maybe for two days. Oh wow. Maybe come to the shopping. Tomorrow's going to be a lot better day. Today looks really awful. Alright. Well, bye. We didn't say to come today. We thought it was going to be less people. No. No, no, no. Rain does not stop the tourists from coming. We're still here. Rain just makes people think, oh, there's going to be less people. And then you come here and go, oh, it's worse than I thought. It's worse than I thought. If you go to the USJ, it'll get even worse. Yeah. It's everywhere. Oh my God, Kevin, it's starting to really come down. We're going to have to get out of here. Puma is intimidating in Sweden. You're scared. I'm not intimidating. You're scaring the people away. It's really starting to come down, everybody. I don't know. I'm going to have to. This shit is boring. Well, we got to 350 likes, which is pretty cool. So I'm really, really thankful for that. Thank you for watching this livestream. I don't know if we can go to the next temple, actually. This might be it. Actually, Kevin, I want to go back and film a little bit in the front. Do we have to buy a new ticket to go back or can we just walk around again? What were you fighting your way back to or what? Jake. Jake. But doesn't the path come back to there? Oh, right. Does it wrap around? It does wrap around. Let's go again. That's what we think. And then when it doesn't, then we're really in deep trouble. Oh, hey. They knew us too. That's pretty cool. Yeah, you're famous. I'm just some guy following behind a big bear. All right. So weather report, it's getting even rainier, wetter, and you can see that the road is getting wetter. Puddles. This is what Kinkaku-ji is like in the rain. Oh, man. I'm drenched. Yeah, it's coming down now. All right. Let's go up to the top and then say goodbye. Maybe there's another view we can show people. Yeah, I think right up ahead here. It looks like it. It's opening up. Oh, man. This was a bad idea, Kevin. This was a bad idea. Oh, man. What were we thinking? What were we thinking? Oh, man. We were thinking. We weren't. All right. This is another pond up there. All right. Okay. Now, this is rain. This is proper rain. Although there's something proper about it. So we have another scene here. Hold on a second. Let me balance on. There we go. This is another garden scene. It's really nice. There's a golden pavilion here. A lot of tourists just... A lot of people just go right by it. They don't even notice this view, but... I don't know. But for me, I kind of like this. This is really nice. It's a lake behind the pavilion, and in the center, there's another island. This is very, very beautiful in the autumn, I believe. Yeah. Yeah. I'm thinking, the tea and coffee itself, it probably looks better when it's green, because with the red leaves behind it, you might not see it as much, right? But when you get up here in autumn, you come around this area with the momiji (Japanese maples). It's just beautiful. It is. It's just beautiful. The water turns red. About November is really when you get the most red. Kevin, I was just thinking. I have a feeling we're not going to be able to get a taxi. Everyone's going to... It doesn't matter. It's raining. We're just as wet. All right, everybody. So that's it from here. I don't see any more views of the golden pavilion, so that looks like we've come full circle. So Kevin and I are going to have to say goodbye. We're heading up to another place. That's it. Thank you. Thank you. So thank you to everybody for smashing that like button. We did pretty good. We got 368 likes, which is impressive. Oh, my. Look at the line of umbrellas. It's just a line of umbrellas, Kevin. This is ridiculous. All right. I'm going to go to the left and then enter the fast lane. Fast lane. Oh, my God. It's freezing. Kevin, it's so darn cold. Yeah. I was the one thinking, yeah, I don't want to bring it back. No. Oh, gosh. It's cold. No. Okay. We did get Kevin. We do have one more view. Here's the last view, everybody. I want you to stay warm wherever you are. Kevin and I are freezing. This is not the best weather. Get out of the weather. Get out of the weather. That's the best advice I've heard. So thanks a lot. I'm glad I got the bigger umbrellas. We got this at the station. There was a 100 yen umbrella. I got the bigger one. We splurged. Well, John splurged, actually. Jim, thank you for promoting the Patreon page. I really appreciate it. And everybody, thank you for the super chats. He's still warm. Oh, no. That's what I got a beard for. Yep. Yeah. He's keeping warm. The last 20 seconds, we're going to turn it around, this camera. Say goodbye to Kinkaku-ji, the Golden Pavilion from Kyoto. Thanks for joining us on a rainy, rainy, cold spring day. We're going to live. We'll make it. Kevin, we're going to make it. We're going to make it through this one piece. I think we might. If we do, it'll be just barely. We might survive. Barely survive. It's coming down harder. I didn't think it could get any harder. I was wrong. Wait till rainy season. Oh, don't even start. Don't start, Kevin. Oh, man. Bye, everybody.

00:43:30 Kevin Reilly: Bye.