00:00:00 John Daub: Hey everybody, so I thought I would bring you live to show you a little bit of the Bon Odori. I think they've already finished actually, but let me turn the camera on. You can see this is from Tsukiji, near Tsukiji Market. This is the station, it's called Tsukiji. Everyone is actually finished. It looks like we've just finished it, but it's quite an amazing sight. And I thought I would just bring you here for a couple of minutes to take a look at what it looks like here. I got here a little bit too late.

00:00:26 John Daub: In the center of this, there's a drum here, and they bang the drum with the taiko drum with the beat of the music. And everybody is dancing around a circle, around this amazingly brightly lit stage. And it looks like we're a little bit too late for it, but what I can do is take you down there, and we can go inside of the lanterns here and kind of experience what it's like where they were dancing the Bon Odori. This Bon Odori just finished. I'm like five minutes late. But anyway. But it's right near Tsukiji Station. You can see it's a very old traditional building. It's a temple. Everyone's starting to funnel out of here. But for us, that's an opportunity. Now we can go down there and check out the lights.

00:01:12 John Daub: It was about five minutes ago, right before I started this live stream, they were banging the taiko drum in the middle there. And we had an amazing scene where there were just, I guess, a couple thousand people were dancing in a circle around the taiko drum in the middle. And this is one of the bigger Bon Odori, which isn't on a street, but actually, you know, here inside of a temple park. So let me take you around and give you kind of a look around what this festival looks like. And then you guys can decide if this is something you want to come to in the future. So there's lots of food stands, lots of tables. This goes on for, I guess it was about two hours, but we just got here a little bit too late. You can see some people still in summer yukata (light cotton kimonos). People are starting to put the chairs away and going home. So definitely too late. But what are you going to do?

00:02:08 John Daub: Behind me is Kanae. You going to dance the Bon Odori? Yeah. But it's finished. Alright, I'm down here. Hey Bloody Bricks, how you doing? Next episode's coming out tonight. So, we're now here underneath the lights. So this is where there were just like thousands of people. Probably more like several hundred. But dancing underneath the lights. And it's really a surreal experience. It's quite packed with people. A lot of people have their summer yukata on. Their cotton kimonos. It's such a beautiful sight to see. So why don't we walk around. I'm going to walk around. We can pretend like we're doing the Bon Odori. But the music is off. I'm surprised it doesn't last longer.

00:03:10 John Daub: She's making an announcement. Oh, there's the taiko drum you can see in the front there. Very cool. Wow, a lot of non-Japanese walking around here. So we'll do once around the stage. There's a taiko group. Are they going to perform? Daibutsu, no? Oh, what the? They're doing something, I think. That'd be pretty cool if they put on a performance. Actually, it looks like something's going to happen, guys. So, we're not out of luck. Something is bound to happen. So, stay tuned a little bit. Let's stick around a little bit longer and see what happens in the next couple of minutes.

00:04:07 John Daub: She's taking a picture back there. Oh, wow, they've got food stands all around here. Everyone seems to be going home. So, I wonder if they really are going to put on some kind of a performance. Oh, no, look. Kanae's going to be taking a picture of them. She got roped in to taking a group photo. It looks like they're going to... It looks like they're starting to take stuff down. The festival literally just ended. Five, ten minutes ago. No, five minutes ago. And he's already taken us down. I'm telling you, in Japan, they're super efficient. Look at that. That's crazy. It's over. Look. Isn't that amazing? They're literally, like, taking down the lights already. That's crazy. We should have came here earlier. I know. We should have came here 20 minutes earlier. Next year, we'll come back.

00:05:24 John Daub: Oh, he's got one of these cool fans. So, they put these decorations away. Chochin (paper lanterns), right? So, they put these chochin away for next year. Right? Do they save them? I think so. I think so, yeah. I think they save the chochin. And they have the name of the sponsors. Or if a family has given money, they'll write the name on it. And it's kind of a way to help to support and pay for the event by sponsoring a chochin. Chochin means lantern. So, if you go in front of an izakaya (Japanese pub), you'll see a red chochin. Which is these paper lanterns right here. It's a lot of chochin.

00:06:12 John Daub: Hello from London! From Daniel. Jonathan writes in, it looks warm and humid. You got that right, brother. It is really warm. Hey, Florencia's here. I wouldn't say it's less humid. I'd say it's just not as hot because the sun is down. It's still really humid. It's kind of cool, though, to see everybody in a yukata. Hey, why are you wearing a yukata? How come we don't have a yukata? A festival? Yeah, but why aren't we wearing it? Yeah, we have to wear it. Next time. Next time. The summer season is just starting. It's literally, I mean, once August 3rd, this weekend starts a lot of the summer festivals. So, we will have a lot more. In fact, Obon (Buddhist festival honoring ancestors), the Obon holiday doesn't start until next, next week. So, this is the build up. Tonight is the Edogawa fireworks festival. Decided not to go there because Bloody Bricks, I'm editing the video. So, we should have that up real soon.

00:07:21 John Daub: I was hoping that they were going to play something. I don't know what to call this. If you look at the thumbnail, you can see them dancing. That's about as far as we go with that. But it's sort of neat just to walk around underneath the lights here. To bring you guys with us. If you watch this and you like it, hit the like button. And I'll try to bring you to another festival. Oh, look at that little doggy. It's a princess dog. Yeah, it's so hot here. They have these mist fans. I don't know if you've ever seen. Oh, it feels so good. Oh, yeah. Do you ever stand in the mist fan? Ah, I can't wait to see. It got all over the lens too. That felt pretty good. Don't have to take a shower tonight.

00:08:46 John Daub: Check it out. It's a lot of different colors. A lot of very colorful summer yukata here. This one's really nice too. Look at, he's got a very colorful yukata. Alright. Some patch of grass out here. Yeah, it's a shame. I mean, this is over. I just got here and it's over. I'll show you around.

00:09:15 Kanae Daub: For those who have left their luggage, the yellow card is 19. The yellow card is 19. They found a bag of yellow cards. Anybody with a yellow bag, if they lost a yellow bag, please go and pick it up. Over there.

00:09:36 John Daub: Alright. What is this building, Kanae? What can you tell us about it?

00:09:40 Kanae Daub: This is Tsukiji Honganji. Tsukiji Honganji? This is a very big temple in Tsukiji. Very big temple in Tsukiji.

00:09:53 John Daub: It's made of stone and not out of wood. Why is it made of stone? It's kind of interesting that this temple is made out of stone. Usually temples are made out of wood in Japan. Yeah, I think my dad knows. Yeah, her dad knows. She doesn't know. Sorry everybody. It does look kind of European in style. Now, I have kind of an idea about this. This area of Tsukiji, I did a livestream in May where I showed the first American embassy during the Legation of Americans in the middle of the 19th century. This is where the first U.S. embassy was and also where the foreign community was based when Edo opened up to non-Japanese. I think that the influence... St. Luke's Hospital is right over there. There's a lot of non-Japanese influence in this area. It could be because of that. We have a stone temple. You guys get it? STP? No. Is this before your time? When I was in college, there was a group called Stone Temple Pilots and they were pretty popular.

00:11:16 John Daub: Oh, hello! Oh, hey! Hello! Yeah. So they watch the show. Oh, yeah? Did you participate in the Bon Odori? Yes. We came as it was ending. Is it fun? Oh, I missed it! Wow! Nice to meet you! Really? All of them? Wow! Wow, you're on it now! Where are you from?

00:12:01 Guest: India. Oh, okay. Which city? Which area? I'm from Chennai, North India. Oh, yeah. Chennai, Madras, the old name. Yeah. She's from Hyderabad. Hyderabad. Oh, okay. Hyderabad. Wow, so from the south part. Yeah. My mother, her, I family near in Kolhapur and near Bangalore. It's kind of south. Neighbors in a way, kind of.

00:12:29 John Daub: So what are you doing here in Japan?

00:12:31 Guest: We're working here.

00:12:32 John Daub: Wow! Here at this temple?

00:12:34 Guest: No, no.

00:12:35 John Daub: Okay, well... We're working for our client. It's a Japanese client. Okay. From our company, we have been moved to on-site here. Oh, that's wonderful! Yeah. How long will you stay here in Japan? It's been almost two years, so it's going to be... Wow! So you speak Japanese?

00:12:51 Guest: A little bit. A little bit. A little bit of Japanese.

00:12:55 John Daub: Oh, very good! I have 10th exam. Yeah. JLPT. Japanese Language Proficiency Test. So that's where I think. So a little bit, you know. Yeah. So this is my wife, Kanae. Hi! Hi! Nice to meet you! She's never been to India, but we will change that soon. Yeah, we'll be there soon. Yeah, we'll be in India soon. Okay. Yeah, well it was good to see you. Thanks for saying hi! Nice to see you, actually. Yeah. Bye-bye! Oh, that was nice.

00:13:28 John Daub: Okay. So, there's no real answer why this is a stone temple. We should ask. I don't know. I don't know who to ask. But I do notice that there is an extraordinarily high amount of non-foreign tourists here, or residents, foreign residents living in Japan here. And I think, you know, this is just another testament that this is where the foreign community was originally based. And a lot of embassies and a lot of offices are still based here because this is where the historical area of the foreign community in Japan. At least in Tokyo. At least in Edo. I've never seen a stone temple, so, like in Japan. It's kind of cool.

00:14:19 John Daub: Alright, so, we don't get to see the Bon Odori. You got to see like five seconds of it from a distance. Not exactly what we were after, but, you know, these Bon Odori start to really get built up a little bit later on in the month. This is probably the first, one of the first weekends where the Bon Odori takes place. So, mostly, uh, fireworks festivals and Bon Odori festivals where the community and a lot of neighborhoods will dance. And, you know, that's one of my favorite things about each community. If you're a foreign resident and you're living here in Tokyo or any city, even if it's like, I used to live in Aichi-ken in a place called Okazaki. And, uh, you know, even within the town of Okazaki and Aichi-ken, they had neighborhoods and each neighborhood would have their own Bon Odori. And it was a way for you to participate in the dance and get to know your neighbors. Um, so, since I moved to a new area, I'm getting, I'm looking forward to going to my local festival to meet some of the people who live near me.

00:15:21 John Daub: And just today, I met a couple of people from abroad that said hello to me. They watched the show. And they had just moved here, I believe from the United States, to Japan, I guess, for work. I didn't get a chance to see them or talk to them for very long, but it was pretty neat to, like, these events bring the community together. And that's really what the Bon Odori, um, as much as it is like a cultural event, it's also a really, um, great bonding event for communities all over Japan. So this one is the Tsukiji one, and yeah, I guess it's bringing out the community, but the community seems to go home real early. They seem to be done pretty fast. Oh, that guy just tripped on that light. That would have been kind of funny if he had done that, but yeah, yeah.

00:16:18 John Daub: Alright, so I saw Kelly, uh, sorry, Kelvin had a question about the livestream. I always, almost always post on Patreon. All you have to do is to contribute a dollar a month, and on Patreon I'll always put, almost always put a link in there, but I haven't been able to do that because these are like absolutely last second. I click the button and just livestream. And if I didn't, I wouldn't have gotten anything, so like 99% of the time, I will put an advance notice on the Patreon page and often on Instagram. I go Patreon, Instagram, livestream on YouTube, and I kind of don't do a lot of with Facebook. But if you want to catch these livestreams live, then Patreon might be the best place, and then Instagram Stories. I'll post a story where you can swipe up and see it. Uh, Kelvin. Sorry, Kelvin. Did I get that right? Yeah, and Okopee's at home. I know Wang Yao is asking about that. Uh, Bloody Bricks, thanks for the shoutout, man. I appreciate it.

00:17:22 John Daub: Oh, look at the kids playing down here. So it's kind of fun. I've never been in here. This is closed usually, right? Yeah. I've never been in here. Yeah. Alright, let's go. Like, literally, outside this area where we are is Tsukiji Station. So, I mean literally. I'm not joking. I guess the only way would be to go and show it to you. Then you have proof. Is this a restaurant? It's pretty neat. A cafe? Tsukiji Cafe. And this is the subway station. So, that's pretty cool. So, the subway station has a gate. Like this, into the temple. Very cool.

00:18:14 John Daub: So this is Tsukiji Station. Once again, this is not the ideal station to go to if you're going to Tsukiji Market, believe it or not. You gotta go you have to walk around to get to Tsukiji Market. Let me just show you on the map here. Um, Tsukiji Shijo is here. So we're here and Tsukiji Market is way down here. So you actually have to, you actually have to walk to get to Tsukiji Market about 10 minutes. Yeah. So the best place to go if you're going to Tsukiji Market is Tsukiji Shijo Station, which is on the Oedo line. Yeah, the Oedo line, which is the circle subway line. Not the Tsukiji Station here. Tsukiji is its own neighborhood. Tsukiji neighborhood doesn't have much to do with Tsukiji Market, actually. They're like two different towns, almost. And Tsukiji Market's almost like a city within a city. In many ways. So I don't recommend going to Tsukiji Station. Go to Tsukiji Shijo Station. Shijo meaning the market. Alright.

00:19:15 John Daub: So that'll do it for us. I'm gonna take you up here and then we're gonna walk to eat dinner. That's why we're on a walk about. This is Chuo-ku. This is the ward that we're living in right now. I used to live in Shinozaki where the Edogawa Hanabi Taikai (fireworks festival) is. And if I still lived there, I would be showing you the fireworks, but I don't. And so I'm not. Instead, what I did was I showed you this, which is pretty cool. This is an aerial view of the stone temple. I can't stop saying that because it's just in my mind now. And there on the left side is the temple and on the right is where the Bon Odori was held. Maybe this event was held yesterday, Friday, and Saturday. And tomorrow, I'm not sure. I think because they're taking down the chochin, it's the last day. That's where we were, everybody. Yeah, they said yeah, game over. We gotta come back next year. Gotta come back next year. Stone temple. Alright.

00:20:23 John Daub: So with that said, everybody, I want to thank you. Oh good, we got to 100 likes. Boom. That means I might continue for another minute just out of respect for all of the likes. I like it when you like it. This is a school, and this is kind of a rare opportunity to look into a Japanese school. A lot of people have asked me to broadcast in there, and I can't really do that. It says no photography, but I'm not really photographing it. I'm videoing. I don't know. You're not supposed to film inside of a school, but you can see there's a track. This is where the kids will play. The school is out of session, so I don't see why it's a bad thing to film. There's no kids there, actually. But it's pretty neat that in the center of Tokyo, this is, Tsukiji's just about as center as it gets. They have a school illuminated like this, and I think they do that because of the festival happening over there, and the community, and this is why I think it's okay to film, the community can play tennis in the school grounds, and it doubles up as a community center. Yeah. How do I know this? Because I've been here for a long time, and I know these kinds of things. Oh, yeah.

00:21:44 John Daub: Hey, did any of you guys see the What's Inside when I cut open the square watermelon with Lincoln and Dan from What's Inside? If you didn't see that, go check it out. It's on the What's Inside YouTube channel. They came here for one day. You tell me if this is not crazy. Crazy, right? Yeah, just one day. Like a day trip. They came from America to Tokyo. We bought a watermelon at night, and in the late evening, late afternoon, sorry. They went to a hotel, and then in the morning I went over to meet them, and we cut it open, and then they went straight to the airport. That was really crazy. But, you know what? I think the crazy thing, the reason it was, because it was crazy, that made it really cool. Um, if they'd stay for a week to do the shoot, that'd be like weird, but one day, that's just so weird it's cool. So I have a lot of respect for Lincoln and Dan for being spontaneous and just doing it. Sometimes you just gotta do it, you know? Don't think. Do it.

00:22:53 John Daub: It's a nice restaurant. Should we do this? Should we do it? Just go in there and eat there? Yeah. Hey, we could do an almost midnight snack run, maybe. I don't know. This one looks good, too. What is it? Oh, this is sushi. Ah. Just do it. Shelly's got it right. Just do it. Hey, Daniel. Oh yeah, I'm treating her tonight, because we've been getting, actually, a lot of super chats, so it's time to treat her. Somebody gave me something to give flowers. I haven't gotten that yet, by the way, just so you know. I love sushi. Yeah, that looks good. Oh, what's happening? Oh, it's plastic. Oh, this is plastic sushi. It's not real. It's plastic under plastic. And this is, uh, oh, this looks really good. Is this the Kani Miso (crab miso)? Oh, yeah, that's crab brains. Kani Miso. I ate Kani Miso in the, um, Kani Dorayaki. This is in Osaka's Dotonbori. I ate this. This one looks, like, way better, though. And the price is way higher. It's, uh, like, $18 for this. Alright, let's get out of here.

00:24:10 John Daub: They're still announcing the end of the event. Now the internet is cracking up with the hashtag FeedKanae. The internet wants to feed you. I don't know. Why? They're hashtagging. I don't know if they're hashtagging yet, but they're... Why? The internet has gone berserk saying to feed you. We're on the way. Actually, this road that we're on right now, this is Tsukiji. And when I did the Tsukiji run, um, by the way, if I do feed her, I'm probably gonna cut the livestream, so think about that, everybody. This livestream's gonna end. There's the signs. You can see where we are right now. Kabuki-za. Kabuki Theater is 400 meters away. I love signs. Filming signs gives you kind of an idea of where we are. The cancer center. I used to teach a doctor there. Uh, I haven't seen him in a while. I guess because I don't teach anymore. But there's, across the street, there's a Jonathan's. You see that? And every time I went to the Tsukiji fish auction at 4 a.m., I would sit here and drink at the drink bar, which is like coffee and tea, all you can drink, until 2:30, and then I would go to Tsukiji market. The entrance is right there. You go down the street, you go to the entrance, and then you can wait in line for the four. You wanna go to the Maguro (tuna) auction?

00:25:34 Kanae Daub: Yeah, I love Maguro.

00:25:36 John Daub: You're, no. You wanna go to the auction? Auction? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Not to eat. To the auction. Yeah, I wanna go. It starts at 4 a.m. You didn't know that, did you? I know. I knew it. So what, you really wanna go? That means you have to wait here for five hours. More. Wait. Seven, eight hours. You okay?

00:26:03 Kanae Daub: Yeah, I'm okay. I will do that.

00:26:07 John Daub: You will do it, she says. Alright, this road that we're going to, I walked it during, um, the live stream in May when I showed you St. Luke's Hospital and the First American Embassy. This leads towards Ginza. The streets, believe it or not, they're not as crowded as they usually are on a Saturday night because a lot of people went to the other fireworks festivals. The Edogawa and the Itabashi. Itabashi. Fireworks festivals in the north of Tokyo and Edogawa's closer to Chiba. So, the streets are kind of quieter. But that's the way. That's the way we roll. Oh, there's a sushi place. Sushi-ko. Sushi-yoshi. Sushi-yoshi? It says Sushi-ko. What about this place?

00:27:10 John Daub: Just while we're in Tsukiji, I have something I gotta tell all of you that are still watching. When you go to Tsukiji, do not eat inside the Tsukiji Market and wait in line with the 500 other tourists that are gonna sit there for two hours to eat at Sushi Dai. It's not that good. The sushi place is around here. No waiting. And they get the fish from the same place. I'm telling you right now, don't wait in line for six hours at Sushi Dai. It's what the tourists do. And you're not a tourist because we have each other. That makes us friends. And friends give advice that will save you lots of time. This is a sushi place. You can get really good sushi here. More comfortable. And it comes from the same place across the street. Just saying. Yeah, this is an old one. Alright, let's take a look at the menus then.

00:28:08 John Daub: Wow, Mr. Seiichi is the same age as this restaurant. So this, you get this nigiri set is about $35, $36. That's pretty good for the quality. You're getting quality stuff here. And you don't have to wait. That's a big anago (conger eel). Yeah, I like unagi (freshwater eel) as well. Yeah, yeah. That's a good nigiri here. This one's about $30. And this plate is also $30. But they have really large sizes. It looks super good. Bella, you're very welcome. Oh, this is so bright. Alright, it's like daytime here. This nigiri set, that's the one I showed you before. And then you can get them uni (sea urchin). The uni's $6 for that. Does that look $6 worth of uni? I don't know. You be the judge. That anago looks good. Look at that. They smother it in sauce. Oh, man. Stop it. And the restaurant looks pretty clean inside. Check it out. Let me show you the inside. That looks high class to me. Alright. I'm just saying.

00:29:28 John Daub: Alright, we're gonna walk a little bit longer and then we're going in for dinner. What do you want to eat? Really? Yeah, because we're in Ginza. Yeah, but we're in Ginza in a minute. Because I don't want to eat sushi tonight. Ginza? Maybe, yeah. Almost in Ginza. See, I just see that actually, I think they're foreign residents here. They live here. They're not actually Tokyo has a lot of foreign residents. People who are living in the area like me. So, um, not everybody is and this is why I get slightly upset when people they say, oh, thank you. Like they speak English to me before because I look foreign because there's a lot of people that are not Japanese but they've been living here for a long time and I just think, maybe you should say Konnichiwa (hello) and if I don't understand then you say hello. That's how I would do it but the world doesn't work according to John. And if it did, it would be a complete disaster. So, don't listen to what I have to say.

00:30:43 John Daub: There's the bus. Buses in Tokyo have free Wi-Fi. And I was telling, I think I said it in another live stream, okay, I just want to tell you this secret. If you need to get Wi-Fi and you're in a not convenient place and you see a bus go by, just walk along the bus and you can snag their Wi-Fi signal off of the bus. It's pretty cool. Um, yeah, so often I won't take the subway because like from Shimbashi to Shibuya there's a bus and I'm in Shimbashi, I'll jump on the bus there and I'll sit comfortably watch everything go by the window which is better than a subway and I get free Wi-Fi and I can just snag that for it's pretty fast too. I don't know if it's a if I'm a pirate by doing that but maybe I could just say smart. It's free. Right? It's free. It's not, I'm not breaking the rule. Did you ever use the bus Wi-Fi?

00:31:37 Kanae Daub: No.

00:31:39 John Daub: See? Not even Kanae knows about the secrets of the bus Wi-Fi. Yeah, all the Tokyo buses have Wi-Fi. It's pretty easy to log on. Subway stations. But the bus has it the whole ride. That's what I'm trying to say. You gotta live the bus life. Alright, there's Ginza. We're gonna end the livestream. Um, Yeah, Higashi Ginza. That's where the first, one of the first um, um, first dogs for I think it was the blind or the disabled people that had physical disabilities. Instead of putting the dogs, um, instead of, well, killing the dogs, the stray dogs, they started to train the dogs to do services to people and the statue is over there. Do you know about that story?

00:32:31 Kanae Daub: Konohanashi shiteru? (Talking about this story?) Eh, shiranai no? (Eh, I don't know?) Okay, I'll show it to you. Hachiko? No, no, it's not Hachiko.

00:32:36 John Daub: This dog, this dog might in many ways be more important to Japan than Hachiko. You, hontou ni shiranai no? (Really don't know?) Yeah. Really? Sorry, John, I'll tell you. I don't know Japan, I just came here. Hey, Bloody Bricks, thank you. Chirori! Yeah, do you know Chirori? No. This is Chirori and Chirori's story, I'll tell you on another day, but Chirori is um, it's, it's so dark. Okay, there's the story. You know what, I'm gonna get the light out. And for the, I think some people are getting the notification now, so I can welcome the 250 extra people that completely missed the start of this livestream. Alright, I got a light. Do you know Chirori now? Yeah. So you've heard the story before? Really? Yeah. The story is big time. Check it out, okay. No, seriously. This is the, in memory of the legendary Chirori. Okay, I'll read this to you.

00:33:50 John Daub: Chirori was abandoned along with her five young offspring and was about to be put down, put to sleep, after having been given another chance. So Chirori was given another chance to live. She became a therapy dog. So Chirori and her family was, um, they were gonna be euthanized because they were abandoned. And so instead of putting them down, they gave Chirori a chance to be a therapy dog and, uh, yeah, she did it. She inspired a lot of people. And so instead of treating animals like animals, they found a second purpose. And Chirori, uh, you know, it's such a, it's such an amazing story. So Chirori, thank you. You can see right there, there's her name tag. It's a really nice story and, uh, thank you Chirori. That's right. You better touch Chirori. If I have a dog, I want one that's as smart as Chirori. But, and look at the, look at the um, one, two, three, four, five Gopiki. Five little doggies that she had. I'm glad that they, that somebody gave her a second chance and she came through and found work as a therapy dog and now, um, I think this is when Japan started to respect dogs a little bit. I think the story was before Hachiko.

00:35:10 Kanae Daub: Eh, Hachiko mai desho? (Eh, Hachiko is earlier, right?) Kono hanashi nan nen desu ka? (This story, what year is it?)

00:35:16 John Daub: Nan nen mai? Eh, chigau. (What year ago? Eh, wrong.) Sore wa kono ta- Naku natta. (That time she died.) Ah, Chirori naku natta sono toki? (Ah, maybe not at Hachiko, eh, ha, but she died, Chirori died in 2006. So not that long ago. You can see right there. Yeah. Wow! So I thought this story was like a hundred years old, but it's not. Wow. Nashi isn't dead. Nashi is here in Japan. It's probably jet lagged. I told you, this story is really, it's an inspirational story, um, if you don't know Chirori, to come out to this um, statue here in Higashiginza. But don't just do it for the statue. On the other side of this statue is where the highway is. And this highway uh, has a history too. I, I, I'm like a dat, database of, of information that nobody needs to know. From this point you can look down to the highway. Here, I'll show you.

00:36:21 John Daub: Um, in the 1964, before the 1964 Olympics, Tokyo drained the river. And they built a highway in the river to help with the infrastructural needs and demands of the population growing. And to show that they were a modern city, they needed to build fast. So what they did was, this used to be a river, and now, it's a highway. And it's been like this since uh, 1963, 1964. But this highway goes like this, and it meanders because, it used to be a river. And it's this kind of useless information which is why she really loves me. I'm a database of useless information. It's true. Well, useful, maybe, to you. Alright, so we're gonna go and eat. Uh, this dinner has been brought to you, brought to us by Bloody Bricks. And a few other uh, really nice people who added the super chats in here. Let's see. Yeah, Daniel, and Photo Look Hawaii, thank you. And Timothy, Timothy. Yeah. Thank you. Thank you. So this dinner is, is sponsored by you guys. Oh, thank you. So I can't take, Kanae, I can't take any credit. This is all from, from the internet. Alright, thanks internet. Thank you Timothy, and Bloody Bricks. And Daniel, and uh, Aloha Luke. Ah, Luke! She saw, she saw, she got your presents. The macadamia nuts, Luke. Yeah, yeah, yeah, thank you. Yeah, we've been eating that, and uh, like the flavored macadamia nuts from Hawaii are so, like, Yeah, these are sweet. Sweet? I thought they were salty. And the coffee has been keeping me, keeping me caffeinated. Yeah, the coffee's been keeping me going, so thank you. And actually, if you check out Photo Luke Hawaii's um, uh, YouTube channel, you can see me meeting with his family and his son, Austin. Austin is like this, he's, I'm not sure how tall he is, this tall, but he's got, like, the same personality as me in many ways. I could talk to him for hours and hours. That was pretty neat to meet with him. Uh, when they, here just like, like ten or, like two weeks ago, I think. Really, he was over here recently.

00:38:56 John Daub: Alright, thanks guys for sponsoring the di- oh! Oh, okay. No way, this is where I ended the lives, the last time I did this, this route. Why's that guy jumping up there? Oh, he's cleaning it. This right here in front of us is Kabukiza Theater, this is where the Kabuki Theater plays. Just as I was gonna end it, they'd bring me back in. Heh heh. Alright. Everyone's wishing us a good dinner, and I keep streaming because it keeps getting interesting. Alright, you see up here, this is Kabuki's at Night. It's a really- this has all been redone in the last few years. I think it was about two years ago- two and a half years ago, they finished the construction, and after the 2011 earthquake, there was some questions on the structural integrity of this building, and they knocked down the old one, and they built a new one, which looks really cool, but really, it's, it's so strong. And I heard from friends who know some of the Kabuki actors that just- it's so nice inside. So I think one day I'll get a chance to film and bring you- bring you that story. But, one of the cool things about this theater is if you- if you pan up, they didn't just make a theater. When they rebuilt it, they said, you know what? We're just gonna build a whole big skyscraper and add in a- like a million office towers, and then charge rent, and then people can say they're- Yeah. Oh, yeah. Just reconnecting. Alright, so that's it. This is Higashi Ginza. We're going out to dinner. Probably sushi. If that's okay with you bloody bricks.

00:40:48 John Daub: And... Yeah, you know what? I think that was the bus Wi-Fi. Shauna's got it right. Yeah, the bus Wi-Fi kind of probably connected to it, and then it ran- it ran away along with the livestream. This is Fuji- is this Fujisoba? No, it's there. It's like a- it's a competitor to Fujisoba, but they make really cheap and- Oh, yeah. Fujisoba. I like Fujisoba. This plate they make really fast and inexpensive Japanese soba and katsu-don (pork cutlet rice bowl). And if you ask me what's some of my top five foods, katsu-don. Oh, man. Check it out. Kurokei soba. Yeah. Kurokei soba. It's really good. Just get a ticket from the vending machine there. Pick what you want. Give it to the guy. Eat. You don't have to pay when you leave. It's all taken care of. I like it. I like it a lot.

00:41:40 John Daub: Alright, and the lights right in the center of your screen is Yonchome, which is the big intersection in Ginza. So we brought you pretty far from Tsukiji Station all the way to here. Shanna, Kanai does not work 100 hours a week. How many hours a week do you work?

00:41:59 Kanae Daub: How many hours? It feels like I never stop working.

00:42:08 John Daub: Yeah, it's a lot though. It's a lot. Well, if you compare it to, you know, salary guys, it's not as much, but you still work a lot. This, by the way, this Indian restaurant is one of the, I wouldn't say the first Indian restaurant, but it's one of the most famous and historical Indian restaurants in Higashi Ginza. This is, um, yeah, Nairu-san's restaurant. He makes some of the best curry, chicken curry in Japan. Seriously. It's really good. Right there. Nairu-san. His father was just a little bit of quick history. His father was, is in pre-production of a movie. The story of his father is in pre-production for the movie and Jackie Chan is set to star in it. Believe it or not. Jackie Chan is set to star in this guy's father's story. And this guy's father was ordained by the Emperor of Japan because of, I mean, I'm gonna go back in history. He was a freedom fighter in India, which meant he fought against the British, which was the enemy, which was the, uh, I guess the enemy of your enemy is your friend kind of a deal. So, it's maybe, yeah, some kind of grey history. But the enemy of your friend, so during World War II, India was somewhat aligned more towards Japan because they were fighting against their enemy, which was the British. So there's some interesting background history with that. So, even today, there's kind of an affinity between India and Japan. Culturally, that goes back to when the British boats brought Indian cooks to Ginza and the Japanese loved the curry so much. That's why curry rice became one of the staples here in Japan. That's a pretty interesting story. It was the British ships that came in with Indian chefs that started to cook back in the late 19th century. This is what I've heard anyways. I hear a lot of stuff.

00:44:17 John Daub: Alright everybody, I'm gonna say, we're gonna say goodbye and get some food. She's hungry. I'm hungrier. I'm hungrier. She's really hungry. So there you go. Higashi Ginza Station. Hope you have a good day, good night everybody, wherever you are in the world. Thanks for joining us on this little mini adventure around Tsukiji, even though you didn't get to see the Bon Odori, but it was fun.