00:00:12 John Daub: A lot of people ask me to buy Shinkansen tickets in English, so it makes it a lot easier for those who want to, who aren't using a Japan Rail Pass, to go and buy Shinkansen tickets. I'm going to go to the vending machine and buy Shinkansen tickets in English for you just as a resource so you know what you're getting into. Over here are vending machines to buy tickets to go back to Tokyo. Now I'm going back to Tokyo from Shin-Osaka, and I'm going to do this in English this time. I hope this is a good resource for those visiting Japan who want to use the vending machines rather than the people.

00:01:12 John Daub: Alright, so we're back. It asked me to insert my Suica card. Now that I've done that, I'm going to click all tickets inserted. Now I'm gonna pick Tokyo—you can pick where you want to go. It's very convenient. Tokyo is where I want to return to from Shin-Osaka. Oh, select it. Alright, so this is the part—I'm buying this right now. I'm gonna confirm it. That's how much I owe. I have a credit card here. I'm gonna put the credit card in—there's an actual spot to put the credit card in, so I'm gonna insert that right now.

00:02:06 John Daub: This is how easy it is to buy Shinkansen tickets. Here's the amount—it's about a hundred and twenty dollars. I'm gonna put my code in—I'm not gonna show you that. Alright, I'm gonna hold on a second. I want a receipt. It's now printing two tickets—three tickets. Whoa, so there's three pieces of paper coming out. Alright, take my card, take my Suica, and take my tickets. My tickets are right here. So there you have it—it's as easy as that.

00:02:57 John Daub: So what I'm gonna do is get on the Shinkansen with these tickets. I got a lot of pieces of paper. This is my receipt. I'm gonna put these two tickets into the machine. Let's see what happens. So both the tickets went through, both the tickets came out—Osaka to Tokyo. So now I have to find out which train I'm on. Non-reserved tickets means I can get on any Nozomi train, but I have to pick a time. This is the Hikari—I don't want to get on the Hikari, I want to get on the Nozomi. So let's go over here. Oh, there it is—it's at 8:40 p.m. Okay, so I'm gonna get on this train at 8:40 p.m. and go back to Tokyo. There's one more at 8:56 p.m., so they're every 15-16 minutes right now.

00:04:27 John Daub: Kind of want to get gifts for people, so I don't know if I have some time. Last time I wanted to get a sandwich here—it looked so good. Once you even get into the Shinkansen area, there's places where you can buy things like sandwiches. They have ekiben (station bento) and sandwiches. So I thought maybe I would try to find something here. What we got here—we have a katsu sando (cutlet sandwich) that looks really good, and we have other ekiben here. Everything is about 1,000 yen, about $10. Wow, check out these different sandwiches. This is a beef katsu sando—sold out. Alright, so the one I wanted is sold out.

00:05:23 John Daub: I'm just gonna look over here—8:40 is the time, so I have approximately seven minutes to get on the platform. Okay, hold on a second. Sandwichi—do you see that? Right in the center of the screen, it says ekiben and sandwichi. If they gotta have something here, they can't be completely sold out. Alright, some of these are sold out. There's a menchi katsu (minced meat cutlet) on the right—that's 580 yen—and then we have roast katsu sando, which is number nine—number two sold out. Oh man, and then this one is a chicken katsu box, number 42—that's available. Alright, I might go for the menchi katsu sando. It's hard, but the ekiben looks really good too.

00:06:30 John Daub: I thought there was another sandwich—I thought that looked really good. Let me see up here—it looks like the same ones. This is like a massive onigiri (rice ball)—an octopus onigiri and some sushi down there. It's a hard call. Here's the sandwich—it's a katsu sando. Hide katsu sando looks good too. Huh, this is a hard call. That one looks good as well—it's very very hard. Hide katsu sando—I don't know. In the end, sometimes I just run out of time. I'm very indecisive with what I want to eat—it all looks so good. But there was a sandwich shop here last time. I know there was, and it had some sort of roast beef sandwich that I really wanted to eat. I don't see it. I don't give up that easily—so maybe maybe I made a mistake. It could be around the corner. No, I'm not getting a pizza.

00:08:03 John Daub: Alright, bear with me. There's another omiyage (souvenir shop) right here. Alright, I don't see another sandwich shop—those are my choices. So I might just go with one of these sandwiches for the Shinkansen. What? These are Kobe vanilla fromage cakes from Kobe. No way—check that out. No, that's plastic, but that looks so good. Oh, if I got this one, you know who's gonna be really happy—my wife. She's gonna love me if I get one of these. No, but I'm getting home so late—I don't know if I'm gonna be able to buy one. I bet you they go bad. Kobe vanilla fromage cake. Alright, I'm gonna get one.

00:09:08 John Daub: [inaudible Japanese]. Guys, you're in my car. I carry my suit. This people got sick—she said I gotta eat it in three to four hours. Wow. Oh, wrapping. Hi guys—mas hi hi, I guess I'm on. I'll eat it. Thank you very much. Thank you very much.

00:11:44 John Daub: But through my negligence I might have missed the train. Hold on. Awesome. Oh that's alright—there's another one. Okay. All right, I'm going to show you what I got. Hold on—I gotta show you this. This is not the last train, but I've been looking for this sandwich in Osaka for a long time and I saw it at the last minute. Pretty cool how at the last minute fate turns your way.

00:12:25 John Daub: Oh no, I just missed the train. I could have gotten onto that one. Oh, it just literally closed. Oh wait, I could jump on right now—I'm not gonna do that. Should I? No, I can wait 15 minutes—I don't want to get in trouble. Haha, I was just one minute too late. Actually the doors are still open. Wait a minute now—hold it. Wait, no no no, I could totally make it—just hold on, I gotta get to the non-reserved. This is reserved seating. Oh, this is the green car. No no no, oh it's closed. But it's okay—there's another train in 10 minutes, so we're all good. That says 20:56 Tokyo, Nozomi 430. There you go—so I got to get the car numbers one to three, non-reserved cars. They're one to three—that's the green car. There it goes. I could have been on this train—I chose not to be. That's cool.

00:13:57 John Daub: Check out that guy—his head sticking out. Alright, this is a shot for you guys as the Shinkansen just rolls through the station—ready, three two one. Bye bye—nice. Now that's what I'm talking about. There's always another one—never rush for the train. We're adults here—mostly adults.

00:14:30 John Daub: All right, so I'm going to show you what I got. It's a pretty good haul actually—I did some last minute shopping. I turned it off because I wanted to film it in 4K—this is for the Only in Japan main channel, the last sandwich for an episode I want to put online tomorrow. This is lucky—so I'm going to try to actually film this and unbox it on the train. This is kind of crazy. Uh, hope the Shinkansen is not crowded. I have a feeling that it's going to be because it's almost the last train—so all the business people. Hey shout out to Ichiro—kanpai. Ichiro's in his final year as a baseball player in Seattle—I don't think he plays anymore, but he certainly drinks beer. Kanpai Ichiro.

00:15:20 John Daub: All right, the complimentary Shin-Osaka shot right here—it's proof where I am. I'm not in Tokyo—I've been here. Now it's time to get in line. The good thing, if there is one, about missing the train is that you get your choice of seats. Okay, because all of the people just went on the last train. And that means that you're going to be able to pick your seat here—there's less people now. Oh, should I get a beer? Let's do it—I'm doing this for you guys. This is not for me, right. Hey.

00:16:56 John Daub: It's non-reserved—the train just came. How did that come so fast? I keep forgetting this is the Shinkansen—don't mess around with the Shinkansen. These things come fast—you miss it, snooze you lose, it's over. Now I'm somebody who likes to win—I go to the front. Alright, I'm sitting—if I'm sitting anywhere, I'm sitting in the front. Ironically, it's the back. But oh yeah, we're gonna have plenty of seats. This train originates in Shin-Osaka. Yes, in 700 baby—that's what I'm talking about. Alright, everybody get your screenshots ready—we're gonna do a complimentary front of the train screenshot. Okay, if you're an Instagram follower, tag me on Instagram if you take a screenshot of this—this is cool. Shinkansen. All right, send me that if you're a fan of the train—if you take a screenshot, I always appreciate it. It's such a beautiful train, isn't it? Oh man, I can stand here all day. The problem is I would end up having to sleep here—it could be a problem. Look at the driver looking at his watch.

00:18:32 John Daub: Alright, let's go inside everybody. Thanks for the super chat—I didn't see who gave that. Thank you, William. Do you put money in the tray when you pay? I do—I do do that, William. Alright, I'm gonna go into car number one because I like to be first. The Nozomi bound for Tokyo—yes please do it. Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the Shinkansen. This is the Nozomi super express bound for Tokyo. We'll be stopping at Kyoto, Nagoya, Shin-Yokohama and Shinagawa stations before arriving at Tokyo terminal. Cars one, two and three are for passengers without seat reservations. Smoking is not allowed on the train except in the designated smoking areas.

00:20:12 John Daub: We did it—we're sitting on the Shinkansen. Oh man, this has been a very long day. And I apologize if there's any audio problems or anything like that. But we've had—hold on—I'm doing this for you guys, okay, because this is celebrating three and a half really hard days of editing and shooting. I've been here doing three and a half days of really hard shooting for the main channel and we're done. Oh yeah—come by, I got—turn the camera around. Sorry, that's what it's about. Feels good—it feels good to finish, man. So good. Yeah. The train is pretty much empty and we're leaving Shin-Osaka station. Let me see if I can get the tripod out. I think I put it up there—oh no no no, it's in my pocket. Sometimes things go right. Tripod for this is in my pocket so I can talk to you for another couple of minutes before we leave. The other Shinkansen just arriving—you can see it. So let me put this down and we can talk for a little bit like a couple of minutes before we leave.

00:22:10 John Daub: Ika the sandwich—and this is a half-size sandwich. It's a wagyu cutlet sandwich. But I'm not gonna eat it for you guys—I'm doing it for the main channel. So this is gonna be what I eat for the next episode. However, when that next episode comes out tomorrow—it's coming out tomorrow—I'm gonna give you guys a chance because you watch this to see it edited. A lot of people been complaining, where's the edited content? It's coming tomorrow—so just bear with me and we had a couple of really good—someone's calling me. I can wait. Oh, that's a badass movie. Look out the window—look out the window. I'm gonna go to the Shinkansen. Wow, look at the eye of the Shinkansen—that's just so cool. You see that, the nose and the eye of the Shinkansen—two of them, oh man. That's so cool.

00:23:39 John Daub: Hey, this is our time. I'm gonna see you in an hour—so this is our time. Okay, I got a lot of stories to tell you. The shoot and kill though with Kevin went really really well. And Kevin is a complete professional, and whenever we do—not just live streaming, what we do episodes together—they always do really well. So I'm looking forward to editing these videos and then putting these up in a couple of weeks. We have two videos with Kevin. I have this one that I took tonight and then I have the one that I took this morning, and I've been working hard since I came here. Tomorrow I will be editing the video, putting it up by night. And then when I get back to Tokyo, I'm gonna actually start—what I do when I edit the videos is that I take the SD card from all the cameras, meaning the micro SD from the GoPro, and I take all the video from the iPhone, and I move that to a hard disk and back it up before I go to bed. I always back up my content before I go to bed.

00:25:01 John Daub: That's close—that's just so cool. Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the Shinkansen. This is the Nozomi super express bound for Tokyo. We'll be stopping at Kyoto, Nagoya, Shin-Yokohama, and Shinagawa stations before arriving at Tokyo terminal. Cars 1, 2, and 3 are for passengers without seat reservations. Smoking not allowed on this train except in designated smoking areas located in cars 3, 7, and 15. The smoking car number 10 is for passengers in the green cars. Please refrain from smoking in the train, including areas at either end of the cars. Okay, is that it? Hazardous items are prohibited.

00:26:06 John Daub: I thought I had this completely memorized, but it's an English voice—it's not an American voice. So I really don't have anything else to tell you guys. I'm done—I'm going back home to Tokyo. And every time I finish a live shoot for the Only in Japan main channel, it really is a celebration. When I went to Abashiri a couple of months ago to film two episodes up there, it was like this. At the end of the shoots, I'm like, yes! I finished the shooting! And now the editing starts. I finished the hitchhiking! And then the editing starts. And then there's a couple more steps with that one. So it's a pretty good feeling to finish one step of an episode.

00:26:41 John Daub: Now the editing begins, and there's more to the ways that I do in the main channel than what I do with these live streams. When I click the end button on the live stream, that's it—you've got an episode right there, and I like that. But the main channel requires work—like a lot of work and creativity in the editing. And that's the way I cook. A chef cooks food with the ingredients he has. I just collected the ingredients, and now I'm going to cook, edit these contents to make shows for you guys. So I hope you enjoy it. Yeah. Actually, somebody just wrote in the time that I will be arriving in Tokyo—very cool. If you guys want to arrive with a big sign that says Welcome Home John, that'd be cool—but not necessary. I'll be back in a little bit over two hours—it takes to get from the super express, the Nozomi, to Tokyo. It's pretty fast.

00:27:42 John Daub: If you have a JR Rail Pass, you cannot ride the Nozomi—you have to take the Hikari, which stops at more stations and it's slower. So you know, just saying—there's power to paying full price, which is what I did. I hope this video was useful—I made this with an English menu so that you guys would be able to see how you would buy tickets to take the Shinkansen in English, which is a supplement one from the video I made last summer. And I might do this again because each time is a little bit different with new information or new destinations. But I have to tell you, buying Shinkansen tickets in Japan is super easy from the vending machine. You don't have to go to the window—sometimes it takes you a fifth of the time as it would to go to the window to buy the tickets.

00:28:32 John Daub: The train is about to leave, so I'm going to say goodbye to you guys. Thank you very much for following the live stream. Kevin and I want to thank all of my Patreon supporters and all of you out there for the support for each of these live streams. Thank you, and I will see you in Tokyo on the next live stream. I'm going to turn the camera around in the next 20 seconds to say goodbye to the Shinkansen. Wait a second—no, this way. No no no—this way. That's it. Yeah.