00:12 John Daub: Hey everybody, it's John here and I am in Shimbashi. This is one of my favorite areas of Tokyo. I say that about a lot of the areas of Tokyo, but for this one, it's kind of true because Shimbashi retains this really unique retro charm. It's like an area of Tokyo that's really loud and it's really old. In fact, this is, I believe, the second or third oldest train station in Tokyo. The oldest being Shinagawa.

00:41 John Daub: This one was opened in 1909, which is like 110 years ago. And right up there, you can see part of the original facade of it underneath the Yamanote line. And you can see a lot of the trains. I think there's six train lines that go through here, so it's very central. Behind Shimbashi station, where all these high-rise buildings are, is called Shiodome, which is a new site, a new part of Shimbashi, closer to the sea. But this side is on the older side. And you can see a lot of the old buildings that are here.

01:11 John Daub: And you can see it because, well, you can just tell because you can see this building right here. And this is another staple of Shimbashi. This is the New Shimbashi Building. It says New Shimbashi Building. It was built like way back in the, I think it was like late 70s and the early 80s, I believe. It's not new anymore. The style is very retro looking. And inside, a lot of the businesses are retro as well. But it just is part of the charm.

01:39 John Daub: Behind me is an SL train. And I want to show you a little bit about that. You can see people getting off of the Yamanote line right now. And the Yamanote line comes every two to three minutes. So this is one of the major stops along the Yamanote line. Let me clean up the lens here. All right. Now I want to take you over here and show you just a little bit. It is quite loud. We're going to walk around in this live stream. We're going to be walking around Shimbashi station, kind of giving you the lay of the land. This is also a place where a lot of people are getting their hotels.

02:09 John Daub: There's a lot of hotels around Shiodome. There's the Conrad Hotel. There's a gosh, there's a Prince Hotel. There's a bunch of hotels over there. And there's also some on this side. So hopefully this episode will be quite useful for you to decide if you want to stay in this area. Now this is one of the big meeting points in all of Tokyo. One of the most famous one in front of this SL train. And I believe SL means steam locomotive train. This is the C11 series for those train otaku. The C11 series. It was kind of built, I guess it was like around 1936, 1945. And they were using these until the 50s until the 60s. And then they retired them. And I think it was in 1972 that this train, the steam locomotive moved here to the plaza. And it's been here since 1972. Which makes this one of the oldest and one of the most famous meeting points in the entire city.

03:12 John Daub: From here, there's an, we call this SL Locomotive Plaza. The SL plaza. This is in front of the locomotive train. It's a, it's a big square. A lot of people will meet here. I'll say to my friends, I'll meet you in front of the train. And that's right there. So as a result of this being one of the biggest meeting points, there's lots of advertisements all around it. There's one for Suntory Whiskey. There's one for DMM Bitcoin. There's some live stream, live TVs. There's a big one right in the center. And then there's a statue. Like, this stuff has not changed in the 20 years that I've been living in Japan. It's like, Shimbashi's like good old faithful, you know? It's not gonna really change. It stays true to itself.

04:06 John Daub: Now behind me is the station. All around this side of the station is just filled with bars, clubs, karaoke. Really interesting nightlife. It's because a lot of people have office buildings, offices here. When they get done with their job, they come to Shimbashi. Or they come out here to play. So there's a ton of nightlife around here. Right now I'm walking past the New Shimbashi Building. Honestly, they write new right there. It's anything but new. We can't go inside because they don't have permission to film, but you can get an idea of the retro feel of this building. They have some pretty cool retro arcades. If you're looking for retro arcades, you can go to the retro arcades. This is one of the places I was thinking about featuring it in my Tokyo Retro Game Center video. But it's hard to get permission to film in here. There's some really neat places. I think it's up on the third floor. Definitely check it out if you're in Shimbashi. You can spend a couple of hours just in this building alone. Because there's so many unique things in there. Like really old mom and pop shops that just seem to be just sputtering along from the 1970s. And that's kind of cool. It's a little bit of a surprise. It's cool to see.

05:37 John Daub: This is one of these discount train places. Let's see how much they cost in here. So you can get a shinkansen to Tokyo. You see that there? It's 13,910 yen normally to go to Kyoto. But from this shop you save 900 yen. That's sweet. So there's a lot of discount places where you can buy tickets. You save maybe 9 or 10 bucks off of each one. The weather. I saw somebody asking about that. It's hot. I'm going to try to stay out of the sun so the phone doesn't overheat.

06:19 John Daub: So we're now on the other side of the New Shimbashi Building. From this intersection you can see in the distance a really nice view of Shiodome. There's the train rolling by. And you have to keep looking up to see the end of the skyline. So let's cross the street now. Right in front of us is a really big pachinko place. You can see down this street. There's not that much. But Shimbashi gets really interesting this way. So let's go back along and around the New Shimbashi Building. Now this New Shimbashi Building pretty much is a landmark that you're going to get used to if you're staying in this area. You're thinking about spending a lot of time in this area.

07:26 John Daub: Have their dinners at around 6:30, 7pm. This street is just full of people. Salarymen with shirts and neckties. Shirt sleeves rolled up. Just getting a little bit trashed because they've had a hard work week. So Sean, thank you very much for the super chat. I love what you do. Better than TV. Thanks, Sean. Robert Shigoto. Buy your wife some flowers. You got it, buddy. Bear. Hi, John. Sorry for the cap locks. We can't see anything. Bear, thank you. We had some black screen after the phone overheated. It is hot outside. I can't tell you how hot it is. But it feels hotter than probably the air temperature is.

08:07 John Daub: Right here is an izakaya (Japanese pub). And you can see just left and right of me lots of bright lights, lots of izakaya. And this street is just full of personality. Thank you, Matt. At nighttime, like it's still like before 3pm. So there's not a lot of people around here. But in a few hours, this place is going to come alive. And you're going to see so much action. So I'm going to have to come back here at another time and show you a lot more of Shimbashi at night. But this is just an overview of what the area is like.

08:43 John Daub: Now, this izakaya is what's it called? Yakitori Marukin. I think you can see it right there. This is one of the cheapest izakayas like I think in Tokyo. And I've come here with people I work with too many times. If you look on the right side, I'm going to translate this for those who don't know. It says here, nomihodai (all-you-can-drink), which means all you can drink for 30 minutes for $3. Do you get that? 30 minutes of all you can drink for $3. And it's not non-alcoholic drink. It's a drink that you can drink for $3. But it includes beer. Is that crazy? So you can have all the beer you can drink for $3 in this izakaya. And it's actually true. They have these machines where you put your jocky jar, your beer in there. You push the button and it automatically fills your beer. And then you can drink it real fast and go get a new one real fast. And really is that cheap. Because I've tested it by trying to drink a lot. Not just beer but like everything. And at the end, I never paid more than $20. I always left here full. It's insane the price for quantity. You don't get that a lot in Japan. So Yakitori Marukin, I recommend it. You have to go up here to the third floor I believe. Get here early because it definitely gets packed. And I've been, had to wait there for like 30 minutes in order to get a table before.

10:07 John Daub: Alright, lots of other. This is a yakiniku (grilled meat) place here. You can see these are the grills that they'll use. And they'll bring out, um, what is that? I think that's horumon (offal). So they have lots of horumon yaki here. Horumon are like the body parts of the pig or body parts of the cow. Some more yakiniku places. Yeah, this is yakitori (grilled chicken skewers). Oh, this is a famous place. This place is not opened yet. It looks like they're having a meeting. But in a couple of hours, this place will be completely packed. It says here charcoal yakitori. Here's another one. So the nightlife, if you're looking for like eating nightlife, Shimbashi is your town. If you're looking for that experience where you want to sit next to a salaryman and drink beer and get the really crazy pictures.

11:08 John Daub: I think Tom Hanks, get this, okay, Tom Hanks came to Japan last year. And I remember seeing an Instagram snapshot of him sitting next to four salarymen. At a Japanese bar and eating and drinking. And it was the most hilarious. Like just he went outside of his hotel and he went out and sat next to these four salarymen. They're like, are you Tom Hanks? He's like, yeah, yeah, yeah. I can't imagine what was going through their mind. Whoa, check that out. Look at that. There's a yukata and a t-shirt. So I guess this is what they wear. This is what they wear when they cook and they're airing it out now. But this is a robatayaki (fireside cooking). Whoa. All righty then. You can check it out. I guess this is what happens in there. I've never been in here. Oh, it looks like they've had movies filmed in here. So a lot of these places have such an amazing personality inside. Like a lot of character to the restaurants inside. Oh, you can see kind of, you can kind of see in there. Like the places here are really retro. They're really retro. So if you're going to film a TV drama, you want to be in a place that kind of reminds you of 1960. Yeah, you're going to come here to Shimbashi. And for a lot of people, oh, that feels really cool. And for a lot of people who are coming to Japan and you want to get like that retro, we call it Showa (pre-1989 era), which is the period before Heisei, which is now. You want to get like that Showa feeling. Yeah, you come here to Shimbashi. That's the place you go.

12:49 John Daub: Here's another yakitori stand. Loads of yakitori. This one is also police friendly. Wow. Check out the dumpling. Oh, that looks good. Anything fried in oil has got to be good. Look at this. So we got your friendly police. Check this out. We have a lot of sake here. And I like that when the izakaya has put the bottles outside so you can see what they have on offer. Like, what are they serving? The menu is pretty good. This is yakitori. This is a kushiyaki (skewers). Momo (chicken thigh), which is a regular part of the chicken. One piece is a dollar fifty. So only start from a dollar fifty per piece of yakitori. Not bad. Edamame costs two dollars and fifty cents about for a bowl of edamame. Kimchi is three dollars and twenty five cents about. You can get a potato salad for three dollars here. Oh, karaage (fried chicken). Oh, man, I love karaage. Oh, this is nankotsu, which is like chicken cartilage. Chicken cartilage is five dollars about. That's pretty rare. It's pretty reasonable. You can usually tell the price of the places by how much one nama beer or draft beer is. So this one has a draft beer costs about four hundred and eighty yen. So this is pretty cheap. It's about four fifty for one draft beer. So you can tell them the food is going to be pretty reasonably priced. That's how I decide. Pretty much it's pretty much true. If you get one beer for two hundred and eighty yen, the food's going to be pretty cheap to match the beer.

14:40 John Daub: So these businesses are getting are setting up for the night action coming up. Tons of personality here. Just that there's so much character in the style of the buildings. And I love it in the distance on the other side of the Yamanote line is Shiodome. And you have these really new all glass skyscrapers. And then underneath it right here where I am is where Shimbashi, like the old town, has such an old feel to it. Oh, there's some gyoza (dumplings) up there. Nice. Oh, if you come in there, they give you free gyoza.

15:17 John Daub: Hi, John. First time making a live stream planning ten day trip in February to Tokyo. Is that a time to recommend time to avoid high travel? This is for Pardew zero nine eight. Yeah. You know, February is a great time if you want to avoid the crowds because there's not a lot of people here. But at the same time, I got to tell you something. It's kind of cold. And the days are shorter. So you're limited to like the day. It starts getting darker. It's like four thirty. And if you're OK with that, the cold temperature and spending more time in the dark, then yeah, I think February is an awesome time because a lot of things are more available in that time. Gosh, I love the personality here. Maybe not a Santa Fe, which is a stripper club, right? Or a hyper salon. I don't know what hyper salon means, but the place next door looks pretty good.

16:08 John Daub: This is tsukemen (dipping noodles). Tsukemen is like dipping ramen, I guess. But I think these noodles are made of wheat. It's a dipping ramen. It's a different ingredient than udon, but it looks very much like udon. And you dip this into the soup and slurp it up like ramen. And it's so good. You can get for a little bit extra. You can get extra noodles. I always get the largest volume of noodles because I want extra gluten in my diet. The whole world is trying to avoid gluten. I'm trying to get more of it. So if you don't want any gluten, send it my way. I'll take care of your gluten for you.

16:47 John Daub: I don't know what this club is. Club Olive. It says here they have girls and high grade school kaba... It's a high grade school kabukicho? Interesting. What does high grade mean? Like the girls are high grade or the food is high grade? Just like an arbitrary word. Welcome to the tropics. What is this tree doing out here? There's just so many like random... Random stuff here. This looks very Okinawan. I'm guessing that's goya champuru maybe? This is spam and goya which is like a very bitter cucumber looking vegetable that does really well when you grill it. But you know Okinawa loves spam. Yeah that's an Okinawa bar. Oh man that looks good. Again just it's closed like a lot of the businesses at this time.

17:57 John Daub: Alright. So I'm gonna take a left here. I'm gonna go back to the station and go to the other side. Kinda give you an overview of what it's like over there. There's another yakitori restaurant. Tons of restaurants. All of them really cheap. So you can actually go underneath the tracks here. We're gonna go through the station. Here's a Chinese restaurant. This chain is also super cheap. Highly recommended. Gyoza. I think you can eat here for like a thousand yen or less. Shinjidai. That's a chain restaurant. So all these restaurants are okinawan. They're underneath the Yamanote line. You can hear the trains rolling by above. Ya-ka-na-ya. So are you getting a feeling of the area now? This is just a taste cause it's gonna get so much better in a couple of hours. So we're gonna have to do another. Check out this alley. There's some weird stuff. Once again like the salaryman lifestyle is. People work hard. And I guess they play hard. Alrighty. Welcome to Shimbashi. Where everything's kind of a little rusty. Kind of retro. Kind of old. There's a straight on shot of the New Shimbashi Building. So we're back almost where we started.

19:44 John Daub: And now I'm gonna take you through the station. So here's an old sign. We're gonna go through this entrance. You guys ready? Here we go. We're cutting through JR station. So this is outside of the tickets. If the signal gets a little weak we'll be back in a second. I do like these digital lockers. You can. When you open it. You pick the locker that you want. Close this. It tells you. On the menu it'll activate which one. Click it. And then say how you wanna pay. If you wanna pay with your Suica or cash. And then it'll give you a ticket with a QR code. You scan it. And then it opens your locker. It's a pretty cool system.

20:38 John Daub: We're going through the Shimbashi. New train to Nagano. We're going to the Shimbashi. A lot of construction. It's for the 2020 Olympics. So this place is gonna be looking really good. In next year. Alright. This is where you get the tickets. You can also charge your Suica. Suica is an IC card. On the left where the black ones are. And you can buy tickets on the left. On the pink ones. But you can buy tickets at all of them I believe. Up there above the tickets is the prices of the. How much a ticket would be to each of the locations. Tokyo you can see is a massive, massive city. This is all for Tokyo. Maybe a little bit in the Chiba and Saitama. But it's massive. This is also the point from the city where you take the monorail to go to Odaiba. And that's why I'm taking you onto this side.

21:36 John Daub: 30 minutes into this live stream. We're on the other side of Shimbashi station. And what you see is the Yurikamome line. The Yurikamome line is a monorail. I don't know if it's a monorail. It's like a driverless train that goes across the Rainbow Bridge and Tokyo Bay to Odaiba. Which is Tokyo's man-made island. And the Yurikamome line is kind of pricey. A ticket to Odaiba from here I believe is about $3 or 320 yen. It'll take you across the Rainbow Bridge. It's not even that far. But I always take this because I like the experience of riding in the front car where there's no driver. And I'll sit there sometimes. Just like I'm a 12 year old kid. Where's the driver? Where's the driver? Pretend like I'm driving the train across the Rainbow Bridge. It never gets old. You can keep driving. If you have kids, it's probably the most fun experience. The train is really cool too. It goes between the buildings if you start off here. And you can see a little bit of Tokyo Tower. And then loop around and go across the Rainbow Bridge. I will do this on a live stream. How about this guys? If I have time next week. I'm going to take you on the... Driverless monorail train. I'm going to give you that experience in a live stream. I kind of did it in the 360 question and answer video that I did a couple of summers ago. I answered some of the questions. And I showed you 360 on this driverless monorail train. It's pretty cool.

23:07 John Daub: Oh, there's one of those Tokyo 2020 taxis that look like an English cab. These are so spacious. And the taxis in Tokyo. The prices used to start at 780 yen. But... The prices went down to 410 yen. But it's just for a less... They start at 410 instead of 780. And I think that's a good thing. I would never take taxis now. I'll jump into it if I'm in a hurry. And I don't want to sweat. The door is automatically open. You can see. Gosh, they're really, really spacious now. These taxis. Hey, Phil. John, I miss Japan too much. We're coming in November. Hey, welcome back. My life has been in hyperdrive for the past few months. I'm going to take you on a ride. I'm going to take you to a nice, neat onsen (hot spring). I hear you. I'm so happy I could catch you live. What an awesome area. Have a beer with me. Thank you, Phil. I will. Did you see how the door closed automatically? I also love just standing at a taxi booth and watching the doors automatically open. That never gets old either. Watch this. Cool. Did you see that? They've been doing this for like decades where the doors would automatically close like this. One of my first experiences 20 years ago was getting into a taxi and going, that door just opened automatically. And I would get into taxis and just to see the door close and open. It's just so cool. It's like the... Do you know with Japan, it's like these little teeny things that just completely will blow your mind like this.

24:47 John Daub: There's something I want to point out to everybody. I was going to do this in a live stream, but it's a couple of months ago, but the bus came before I could start it. Do you see that bus over there? That bus is a very famous bus. It's a bus that goes from Shimbashi on this side of Tokyo towards Shibuya. You can take the Yamanote line, but there's also a bus that does it. And the bus cuts across through Roppongi. And there's no real easy way to get to Roppongi. There's the Oedo line, but this bus will take you across the town. And it's one of the more famous Toei buses. Now the bus fare starts almost... It's almost the same price as the train. It's about... Everything's like $2. $1.50 to $2 to get anywhere. It's about $1.50 to $2.00. You can get anywhere in the city on the Metro. The bus fare starts at 210 yen, I believe. You can pay when you get on the bus. If you have an IC card, like a Suica, just touch it and you're paid. It's really easy. The buses from Shimbashi are very, very convenient. And I use this bus often, because I live on a Toei line. And I have a day pass. Let me turn it around here. So this is a day pass. It allows me to ride the subway unlimited for one day. And this day pass is 700 yen, or about $6.50, or $7. I can use this on all the Toei subways, and I can use it on the buses, which is super cool. You just have to know where the buses are going, right?

26:16 John Daub: Hey, Ellis is here. Ellis, great question on Uber. I rode an Uber back from Tokyo Disneyland just a couple of days ago. Uber does not have a huge presence here. They have a lot of, they don't have a lot of normal Ubers, but what they have is a lot of Uber Blacks, which means that the prices for an Uber are Uber high. Like, they're really high. So I remember, I have friends that are YouTubers called What's Inside. They got a really good YouTube channel. Just a short plug to them, What's Inside. And they always, when they come to Tokyo, they just, they always use the Uber app. And I learned about Uber from them when their first trip to Tokyo. And I noticed that the Uber prices were about 20% higher than the normal taxi prices. And I thought that was a little bit weird, because I always thought Uber would be cheaper. Uber is more convenient, but taxis in Tokyo, the normal taxis are actually come out to be cheaper than Uber, which I thought that was really interesting. There's also like a flag charge. Uber in Tokyo is not cheap, but it is convenient. If you have the app, it's convenient to pay if you have a credit card registered.

27:31 John Daub: That building is also cheap. There's also a retro building that's been here forever. You see that up there? Such a weird, like unique shape. It's the Shizuoka Shimbun and Shizuoka Hoso building. But it's got like this, like this pole with rooms jutting out of it. Pretty weird. You can hear the train rolling by. This is also where you would go to Shiodome. And that's where, I think that one of the TV stations has a network there. So there's a lot of neat stuff happening. All right. So now we're going back underneath, underneath the train tracks. There's a 7-Eleven ATM here. I want to point that out. 7-Eleven is one of the ATMs that takes foreign ATM cards, which is pretty cool. You want to mark them out so when you need cash, you can get them. The other, the Japanese banks, they're starting to take, this is something of news. Japanese bank ATMs are starting to take foreign bank cards, maybe because they realized they were missing out by not being on like the Cirrus. And the Plus systems. So now you can go just about anywhere and get cash on your foreign ATM card. Just about. But with that said, for foreigners visiting Japan, the post office and 7-Eleven still are the best places to take out cash. I don't, I think 7-Eleven might be the cheapest too.

28:54 John Daub: This is where Japanese salarymen get their breakfast. And I want to come out here one day just to film what do people, what do salarymen eat for breakfast? They eat like soba and udon, like real fast. And they get it at places like this that have vending machines. Now this one's not really busy because no one's eating at 3pm, but you can see how cheap it is. This is ebi, and Dave's not going to like this one, okay Ellis? This one's ebiten soba. This has ebitenpura, right? So this is about $4.50. Super cheap. This is tanuki soba. This is even cheaper. Just like a piece of tofu skin on the soba. It's $3.25. But don't stop there. It gets even cheaper. We gotta get the kake udon, which is just like shredded potato. It's super healthy. $2.50 for a bowl. This is your breakfast. It will fill you up. So I'm going to try to come here one of these days. And you can get an egg for an extra 70 yen. Or a beer for $3. This is crazy. And you just keep getting tickets. You take the tickets in to the guy, and then hand him the tickets and he'll give you your food. And you don't have to pay when you leave. It's super fast. And they take 1000 yen notes, which is really convenient. You can see some of the sets that they have. This is like what people eat for breakfast. Really powerful. Really cheap.

30:30 John Daub: So I'm going to walk with you just a little bit more until we get back to the steam locomotive train. Steam locomotive train. There's a lot of stuff. There's a lot of history underneath the Yamanote line. Tons of restaurants. Now, a lot of the history, a lot of these old places are starting to close down. And it's just because after the big earthquake in 2011 and with the 2020 Olympics coming, a lot of the old buildings are being renovated or fixed up so there's more security if a big earthquake does happen, which isn't a bad thing. But on the same token, it's like, I'm really sad to see some of these old businesses go. Some of the places that I would frequent a lot. I'm going to walk with you. So you can see in the distance, like, across from here. Oh you can't see it. Actually, I might cross the street and show you. There's a motsunabe (offal hot pot) shop. A motsunabe is like the original After World War II food. It's like, just body parts of the pig and cow and they would just put it into a stew. And it's really good. Like, it's strangely good. And it's on the other side of this wall. You can't see it, but I might cross the street to go over there. We're going back to the steam locomotive going underneath the Yamanote line right now. It is so hot.

31:52 John Daub: A lot of people are big fans of Pokemon. So Itoen Vending Machines are having a Pokemon campaign. So I guess until September 28th. You can get like some kind of Pokemon drink. What is this? Is that a Pikachu drink? Should I get this? What do you guys think? Should I get a Pikachu drink? This Pikachu drink is available until September. Okay, you know what? Let's do it. Pikachu drink time, guys. I got 500 yen. Hey, Linkats. 500 yen. This is from the Super Chat. Hey, thanks, guys. We're going to use the Super Chats right now. We're going to put this in. Buy it and share it with Kanae. Kanae is not a big Pokemon lover. I don't think she's going to appreciate it as much as you guys are. Alright, here we go. Pikachu drink time. 500 yen. This looks interesting. But I promise Pikachu. Okay, here we go. Hey, Ellis. Pikachu on the house. Here we go. Pikachu. Wait, hold. No, it says it's sold out. What? I'm on a mission now. No, it says it's sold out. I'll try it again. No. These are lit up. These aren't because they're gone. Oh, man. Don't worry, Ellis. We're going to find something. I refuse. I refuse. Now this changes everything. I refuse to go down. I refuse to go down easy. Here's another one, Ellis. Okay, we're in business. Guys, there's two of them here. And they look like they're in business. Okay, let's do this again. Alright, here we go. Three. Two. One. Oh, that's a thing of beauty. Whenever you hear a drink coming out. Look at all that change. You give them one coin. They give you 20 in return. Wow, that's not Pikachu. This is one of the Pokemon. Anybody know who that is? Poke-beji. So no Pikachu, but it's one of the Pokemon. That's pretty neat. So basically what they're saying is. You could get Pikachu. But you might not. You're going to get like. Every single Pokemon character has its own drink. That's pretty neat. Oh, and that's what the stickers are. That tells you which Pokemon has their own drink. And I got this one. Which is this one right here. Psyduck. Yeah.

35:00 John Daub: Alright, let's open Psyduck up. Try it and be electrified. What does that mean? Oh, because Psyduck was going to electrify me? Should I give this drink away to somebody else? Alright, I got a tripod that I'm going to put this on. Just give me a second guys. I had no idea that they had Pokemon drinks. Alright, I can't find the tripod. Oh wait, I put it in my. Oh, I don't know. Alright, we're going to just try it. Like this. Alright, let's just do it. Alright, here we go. Alright. Oh, I can already smell it. Down the hatch. Psyduck. It's not bad. That's not bad. It's a vegetable. I can taste the carrots. It's like a vegetable and apple and orange juice. That's really good. It's vegetable juice. It's fruit and vegetable juice. You can see that on the. Right there on the top. It's healthy. That's not bad. Alright, I'm going to recycle this. Always recycle your drinks. Usually there's a recycle bin. Oh no, where's the recycle bin? Almost there. There's always in Japan they have the recycle bin next to the vending machine. I guess I'm going to have to carry it. When you can't find a trash can that means you have to carry your trash. That's interesting.

36:53 John Daub: Here's some more of these yogurt waters. Some weird stuff. But there's no place to put your. Put your empty bottles. That Pokemon drink was pretty good. I found another one, check it out. Should I go for another one? Check it out. So I have a chance to get. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8. There's an 8 in one chance to get Pokemon. So I'm going to go for Pokemon. Because I got so many coins. Alright dudes. I feel you. Everyone's telling me to do it. So I'm just going to do it. I got all this coin stuff. You know when Ellis and Katz gave me the 5 bucks. I guess I should use it all. I'm not stopping until I get Pikachu. I shouldn't have said that. Oh no. I'm not even that thirsty. Alright here's another one. Here we go, ready? This is for you guys. 3, 2, 1. Who is that? Ah. That be. Kaidu. It says here Kaidu. Interesting. He's 210 kilograms. He's a dragon. Alright. I got a feeling though that it's going to be the same juice. I'm going to be drinking the same juice. Okay. Here we go. Kaidu. It's not bad. I really like that. Now I've got my pockets full of bottles. I got my pocket full of plastic bottles. There's no place to put it. Oh my, I'm so full. That was awesome.

39:30 John Daub: Alright. So Moriyuki writes in. Get a Pikachu. Aiee gash. It's like gacha (capsule toy). Alright I'll tell you what. I'm just going to finish this livestream. And I'm going to go one more time okay? So stick with me for like another minute or two. I got juice spittle all over this camera. I just want to finish this livestream. And then we're going to go back for bonus time okay? We'll do one more. And it's not for me. Even if I get Pikachu I'm not going to drink it. I'm going to give it to Kanae okay? Alright. I can't go back empty handed. Here you go everybody. This is the temperature gauge. It's 31.2. The air temperature is 37. But it feels like 46 degrees because of the. Whoa baby. Because of the humidity. Sorry about that everybody. Whoa. It's hot. Seriously it feels like 46. This is just all. It's all like Pikachu juice now. Sorry about the burp. You guys asked for it. So there you go. That's the actual temperature in Tokyo. It's 37 air. 46 feeling. And yesterday I think it was like more 50. It was so hot. I'm telling you people don't realize how hot it is in Tokyo. Until you've been here in the summer. It is seriously like dangerous hot when the Olympics comes.

41:03 John Daub: They do have here on the corner. Something that annoys me a little bit. But it's okay. I mean they have a smoking area. And this area you can. People come here smoke. If you smoke outside of the smoking area. The police will find you. This is the train smoking area. So it's kind of neat that. All the smokers will smoke in the smoking area. But. Yeah. It's still kind of annoying that. There's still like a big puff of smoke around the train. Which is basically what the train is. It's a steam locomotive. So there should be puffs of smoke. I guess coming from it. But. It's a different kind of smoke. On the other side of the station there is also. An electronic store. So if you need batteries and stuff. Lobby is a good place to do it. If you don't have a point card. You can ask them for. For the points in advance and get 10% off. These are one of the stores that you can. You can kind of bargain the points and get 10% off of items. Just ask them nicely. There's a cafe. There's a shu cream (custard puff). There's a couple of bars down here. And then that's it. Shimbashi building.

42:06 John Daub: Okay let's get to it and get another Pokemon drink. You guys asked for it. You guys get it okay? I'm not gonna eat it okay? I'm not gonna drink this one. This is not for me. And this is the last one. Unless you know. You make me. You make me drink more. I'll just explode full of Pokemon juice. Okay here we go. Oh Trekkers is in the house. Is that a bottle in your pocket? Or are you just happy to stream to us? That's a good question. Alright here we go. 300. 130 yen. Which is about a dollar twenty. About a dollar fifteen a dollar twenty for this. Alright good. Alright. Cross your fingers and your toes. We're looking for Pikachu. Although I'll be happy with anything different. Here we go. Three. Two. One. This is really. What? No I just had Caillou. No. So this is a repeat. Aww. See this is how. This is why they get you right? I didn't want another drink. But they got me. I am now officially a collector. If you collect these stickers. You can apply and try to get a prize. So I'm going to be giving this fruit juice to Kanae. I'm not drinking it. I'm putting it right now in my bag. Shinbashi Adventure everybody. I hope you enjoyed this.

43:54 John Daub: Up above you can see another one of the Yamanote Line trains have come in. And they brought in a lot of people from all over the city. Or getting off the train. Going back to work. Or they're coming here from other places. To go out to start their drinking adventure. And that's what happens when you come to Shimbashi. No Pikachu. Maybe next time. Maybe next time you know. Alright you know. I didn't even know that this drink was available. But now that I know. Every time I go past an Itoen vending machine. I'm probably going to try to get the Pikachu right? It's like literally. And they just got like five bucks from us okay? So they're. I mean how many people actually paid for the Pokemon Go? Go app. They're. I'm paying for the drinks. That's a pretty good racket they got on there. Pretty good. Alright. The Ginza Line is also one of the main lines from Shimbashi. And that's it. That's all she wrote ladies and gentlemen. I'm going to end the stream at the end of this street. At the intersection over there. Because that's my favorite intersection in Shimbashi. I'm walking along the Yamanote Line. On the right side is the new Shimbashi building.

45:06 John Daub: Do you have any questions about Shimbashi? Ask away. No more Pokemon. Well you can try. But there's no vending machines around here. Shimbashi hmmm. When you come to Shimbashi. You come here because it's cheaper. Because it's retro. Because it has a personality. And you get some really neat pictures. It's a place where like the 1960s meets with the 2010. So you have a huge contrast of the architecture in the buildings. It's really great for photography as well. A lot of old school like oya-ji (old guys). We'd say like old businessmen. You know like. Like from another era. That have been drinking here for decades. They're just like kind of left over from the 1970s. And they never stopped drinking here. That kind of person exists here in Shimbashi. And it's so authentic. It's so cool. Here you go. That's like a scene from Shimbashi. The train going by. So much character in this area of the city. It's one of my favorite places. To come to go out at night. Because it's authentic you know. It's very authentic.

46:30 John Daub: I can't believe we spent so much time on the Pokémon drink. But it was so worth it. It's not bad at all. Just to show you on the map. Where did we walk today? So today we started at the SL train. We walked through here. And then we walked this way around. Came underneath the tracks. This way and then we ended. Here's where we got the Pokémon drink. And then we ended right here. And now we're back here. You can hear the trains going above. One of my favorite intersections. Because this is where Santa is. And if Santa's here. You know anything is possible.

47:27 John Daub: So a little bit of programming notes. I'm going to be going outside of the city. I'm in Singapore from the 16th to the 20th. And then I'm in Korea in Seoul from the 21st to the 24th. And then I'm in Kyoto at the end of the month. So it's going to be a pretty busy summer schedule. So you're going to see lots of places outside of the city. And you're going to see lots of places outside of Japan actually. So I'm going to keep live streaming. Even when I'm in Singapore. Even when I'm in Korea. When I'm in Korea I'm there for the YouTube Creator Summit. So you can get a chance to meet with other creators. Other YouTubers that you've probably seen. From the Asia Pacific region. I'm going. This is the Asia Pacific YouTube Creator Summit. It's being held in Seoul. From the 21st to the 24th in Korea. It's going to be a pretty cool time. I don't know who's going. I do know. I'm not supposed to release the names. But I do know that there's a couple of other people that are going. That are friends of mine. So it should be a lot of fun. So the next day after I come back from Singapore. I go straight to Korea. So it's going to be extremely busy. I have a new video. I'm going to try to get that out tonight. It's based in Kyoto on the main channel. I've been working on it for a long time. It's with Kevin Reilly. So that's going to be fun to release.

48:50 John Daub: So that's where I'm going to end the livestream. So those are some program notes. I'll probably do another livestream tomorrow and the day after. I want to keep it going in the city. There's a couple more streams in the city of Tokyo that I want to show you. Because after the middle of the month. I'm not in Tokyo much at all. So this is the last chance to really get a good look of Tokyo. Before I move to different areas. So with that said. Thank you everybody for watching. Thank you so much for the super chats. I saw one just come in here for the questions as well. Mike Hemphill, thank you. Go back at night please. I absolutely intend to. I want to come back here with maybe Kanae's father. Or with somebody who knows this area really well. And kind of show you. Kind of show you like a really authentic walkthrough at night. Where we can dive into a couple of places. And get our hands into some yakitori and stuff. Right? I think that's going to be a lot of fun. So look for that livestream. And look for the main channel's video. It's going to be uploaded soon.

49:46 John Daub: So I'm going to turn this around. Take a look at this amazing blinky light. Because of the frequency of the electricity. The lights blink here in Tokyo on the camera. But just kind of absorb it. Absorb this atmosphere for the next couple of seconds. And I'll see you next time everybody. Thanks so much. Have a good night or day wherever you are. And don't forget to click that like button. I got to say that don't I? Bye from Shimbashi.