00:00:01 John Daub: We are live in Tokyo, Japan. Hey everybody, this is Asagaya and I'm here to pick up some packages that have been sent to me from viewers on Patreon. I gave people who support me on Patreon my address where they can send stuff and apparently three packages arrived. So I'm kind of excited. I'm walking to my friend Shingo's office. That's the address that I gave. The office is right there. Hey Florencia. Hey Boris. How you doing?

00:00:35 John Daub: We're gonna get there in like 30 seconds. Now we're still under the influence of a typhoon meaning it's sort of swirling off the shore. So I've got rain coming in my face. There's some wind. It's not that strong yet but it's expected to make land soon. So I gotta do this real fast and get out. I don't get a lot of time. But the great thing about where Shingo works is that it's also a studio where they do a lot of other stuff. This is where I shot the manga and anime studio tour episode for the main channel a couple of years ago with Patrick Galbraith. This is the office. This is Wow Corporation and they have their own building here in Asagaya. Very cool. And we're gonna go inside and crash their little party to get my packages. Are you ready? Let's do this. Okay. Very cool. You look familiar. I shall follow you deep, deep into the bowels of the office.

00:01:49 John Daub: Thank you, Timothy. Should I wipe my feet? Take off my shoes? Whoa, look at that big one. No. What? How am I gonna take this home? That's my problem. Well, it's good to see you. How you doing, Shingo? Good. Oh, this is where they have the Spokon as well in this room. Hold on a second. You guys need a little bit of a little wipe. There you go. Looking good. All right. Unboxing part one.

00:02:30 John Daub: Part two, is it? Part two. Actually, yeah. This is unboxing part two. Take two on that one. Yeah, let's open these things up. Do you have any knives? Oh, wow. This is stolen from the reception lady. Theft is always a good thing. Add for the drama. We will return it. Yes, we will. Which one were you? Oh. Yeah, that's true. That's true. All right. Let's start with the medium size. Is it ticking? No. Don't say that. It's not ticking.

00:03:03 John Daub: All right. We're gonna start with this medium sized one. I'm not gonna show you the address, but I will tell you who this is from, though. This is from Samantha. We love you, Samantha. Thank you so much. This comes from Germany. And we're gonna do it right now. I'm not gonna show your address so that unless you want mail back, people might. Yeah, let's be protective of everybody's address. There you go. I'm gonna zoom it, pan it down. It's gonna be harder to do for the big box, but this comes from Germany.

00:03:34 John Daub: So thank you. We're opening it upside down. Can I even do that? All right. It's not that sharp. Is it? Yes, it is. It is very sharp. Okay, here you go. I think we got this part open. Oh, DHL. I know them. They send stuff. Thank you, Samantha. Wow. Look at this. I wonder if Samantha's watching. All right. Tape. Knife. Incision here. Anesthesia. Not needed. All right. Cut. Careful. Very careful. What could be in here? Hold on a second. You asked some pretty good questions. What could be in here? You said it was ticking. I think you were joking. Samantha, if you're here, say something. Samantha might be here. I don't know. Oh, hey. Well, first of all, I want to say. Oh, unboxing. I have to show the unboxing. Okay. Is that funny? All right. Okay. There it is. Unboxed. So there's a letter from Samantha. I'm going to read this right now, but it starts off on the top with chocolates. Thank you. Oh, this is awesome.

00:05:17 John Daub: All right. Okay. Hold on a second. I'm going to go in there, but very quickly. Hey, John. Hope you and Kanae are both doing well. We're doing good. I will shortly explain what I have sent to you and why. Okay. Last strong. Can we get Kathy here? Kathy is German. These were my favorite chocolates as a child. Oh, okay. Great. And when I come to live in Germany. What did you say? So Samantha was born in England. This is Lindt. It's okay. We'll get to that. Lindt Pralines. In my opinion, this is the chocolate brand number one in Germany. Yeah. It's a Swiss chocolate. Oh, don't say that. I love Lindt as well. So thank you. This is number one in Germany. Cool. The factory is in a city called Drachen. Drachen. They make every Eastern chocolate. Lots of variations. I got it. Okay. There's coffee. Dallmayr Café. Personally, I am not a coffee drinker, but I know that this is a good brand in Germany. Thank you. I'll show this one here. I'm going to show everything in here. And we have Jägermeister. No, you did not. Samantha, no. This is going to keep me going on weekends.

00:06:17 John Daub: Whoa, look at this package. It's real good. Thank you, Samantha. Look at this. I can, Brute Force can open this one up. Wow. I haven't had Jägermeister since like college. It's one of the drinks that students get because it's powerful. Yeah. Give me that. Samantha did a pretty good job with packaging this up. Wow. This came all the way from Germany. Super awesome. We've got Jäger. Very good. We've got one of the top brands of coffee in Germany. Dallmayr, which looks really good. Boy, this isn't good. This is going to be drunk real quickly. Thank you. And then Lindt Chocolates, Pralines, which are good. And last but not least, we missed this one. This is the chocolate that Samantha used to eat when she was a kid. And it looks really good. I like the kitty cats on there. Whoa. I've never seen that shape before. Oh gosh, this looks really good. Okay.

00:07:24 John Daub: So we're going to eat that. I'm going to eat that with Kanae, not with you. Sorry, Shingo. Sorry. We're going to save that one. All right, here we go. Box number two. So this is what was heavy. Shingo, do you want some of this? Right now? Do you know what this is though? Jägermeister, of course. Okay. He knows what it is. Thank you, Samantha. And that's Samantha's letter. I'm going to read that with Kanae tonight. All right. We're going to try for the small one. This comes from Australia. Thank you very much. This comes from Queensland. I can say that. Oh, I know what this is. We were talking about this earlier. So I know exactly what this is. I also know because the customs forms, you have to declare. It's hard to have a surprise when you have to declare stuff because you have to write exactly what the contents are. That's okay. Oh, this is awesome. Oh, it's like in several forms. And it came in a different form. It came with a letter.

00:08:26 John Daub: All right. I'm going to show you what this is. But imagine one of the most iconic Australian foods. What do you think it is? One of the most iconic Australian foods right now, right in the chat. What do you think is sitting on the desk that you can't even see quite here? All right. Hey, John, here is some blah, blah, blah. I can't say it for you. In a recent video, I heard you mention that you liked it. That's true. When you had visited Australia. That's true, too. I visited Australia in 1999. I was there. I was living on Bondi Beach, waiting for the millennium. And when 2000 hit, I was in front of the Harbour Bridge and between the Harbour Bridge and the Opera House watching the year 2000 start. This was awesome. I came across your videos in the beginning and when I was planning a trip to Japan and have been watching them since. Thank you. Both main channel and live streams. Awesome. That made it. So I'm going to save the rest of this and read it with Kanae tonight.

00:09:26 John Daub: So I did about a three day stop over in Tokyo and look around. But you definitely have to come back. You're right. I do love this. I'll give you a hint. It's yellow. It comes in many forms. And some people, I think, got it right. Vegemite. Yeah, Mr. Rushlow has it right. I got some Vegemite. Do we have, we can't find this in Japan, can we? It's not really. Not really. You might find it in one or two stores in Tokyo. I guarantee you. I don't find it in pocket size. This is awesome. I'm going to have this for I don't know, maybe not for lunch today, but I will have this. I will carry it with me. And you might see this in live streams when I pull out a piece of Vegemite and just start eating it on bread or something. So thank you very much for this. I appreciate it all the way from Australia.

00:10:26 John Daub: Now, this is so huge. Can you lift it? Sort of. Let me see here. This is massive. This comes from California. Yeah, I know who this is from, but I'm going to keep it. I'm going to keep it. I believe it comes from one of the dynos. I don't know if I should say his first name or his handle name. I'm going to call him Keith. I believe there's no name, no address. I just have theories right now. Okay. This really creeped the office out. This creeped the office out. What, do you think it was a person inside? There was no sender. That's why. Yeah. All right. Careful with that. This comes through Amazon, but it's from the United States of America. Oh, I can smell America with the smell of cardboard. It smells like Costco, sort of. All right. It's inside the box is another box. That's the mystery build now. Inside the box is another box. Whoa. And this is the heavy part. So this is a good sign. The box is getting smaller. All right. Thank you. Oh, wow. Yeah. Thank you. This is from the customer. We're very thankful for the gift. Yeah. Receipts. Well, Amazon, they didn't do a very good job with the receipts. Yeah, they could have done a better job. This looks like it came from the restroom. I wonder what that's. For you, it says. A gift for you. Okay. Thank you. From who? Does it say yet? Scan it to find out who sent it. I know who sent it. And you know who sent it.

00:12:59 John Daub: Well, what I see is this. It is. And she's going to love this. Kanae is going to love this. This is a 7-in-1 multi-use programmable pressure cooker. This is exactly what we needed. Wow. This is like the ultimate wedding gift. I think this is the gift that you get for somebody who just got married because we cook a lot at home. We don't have one of these. In fact, I don't think these are common in Japan. Are they the pressure? Yeah. Not in this kind. Not an automatic one. Yeah. Not really. I don't see these used a lot. So this is actually really amazing. And I guess I cannot thank you enough for this. This is going to be so much fun to use. Look at this. They know how to build stuff. Look at that. Awesome. Thank you for this. We're going to use this for cooking. Kanae is going to be absolutely thrilled. Thank you, Samantha, as well. And gosh, I'm going to make sure I hide the addresses here. Yeah. And thank you, Corina. I really appreciate it. All right. Now we got to clean up the office. We're not done yet. OK. It's one o'clock and we have to get out of here. But I'm going to take you on a little bit of a tour and crash. Who is live streaming here? Doki Doki Drawing. Doki Doki Drawing. Here's this for you. I brought a bag for me to carry everything. The Vegemite and the Jäger is going in my bag. Oh, God. We're going to have a lot of fun tonight. Thank you. Oh, this is going to be you can't have it upside down. Thank you. And if you want to send stuff, the address is on Patreon and I will give it to you. Should we send more stuff here? If you keep it small, maybe. He's saying that, Dingo's saying that it was so big it kind of freaked people out. Sorry about that. So while we break down these boxes to make these boxes, we're going to take you to the office to make the office a little bit smaller. We're going to take you on a tour of the area. Should we just leave this here? Just leave it here. All right.

00:15:49 John Daub: This is one of the meeting rooms. I don't remember being I came back here with Aoi to do the Spokon episode. I won't film the reception lady. OK. I'm not even filming. That's cool. They're playing the Wagyu episode. Thank you. That's me. All right. Follow him in. So the livestream might cut out. The livestream might cut out as a result. We're going to the top floor. They have a studio here. What's inside? Also, a gachapon machine on the sixth floor, right? Yes. Same place. Is it still a blue color that will hurt you, will melt your eyes and your brain? Here we go. Oh, hey. Are you live streaming? Oh, wow. Oh, I'm over here. OK. So we're live streaming. What? What? So this is Doki Doki Drawing. Oh, they know there's a Nihongo Gamer. Yes, that's right. It's a mother dude! Oh, you can see the chat in here. Yeah. Wow. So we're live streaming live and you can see you're live too on the Doki Doki Drawing Channel.

00:17:47 John Daub: Do you know who this is? I don't know who this is. Who am I? I do not know who this is. Whoa! And he's got good gear! Whoa! Hey, Perfect Blue just donated $100! Whoa, are you serious? Woo! Because Tony... What, what, what? Support these guys chat. Okay. Support these guys? Support this guy? I don't even know who he is. You got airborne. If you know who this is, can you write it in the chat? Write in the chat. Perfect Blue, thank you for the $100 donation. That was a lot of money. You were massively treated badly. Treated badly. For the padlock. As a child. He was given a padlock for Christmas. It sucks. What is that terrible for? Oh, good point. It's pretty cool to be behind the scene, guys. Thank you for not inviting me. I totally crashed this. Did you even know I was coming? You didn't even notice. Didn't know. This is a surprise. This is what makes live streaming so much fun. Whoa! What's happening? This is the power of Tree Waifu. Tree Waifu. It's all Tree Waifu.

00:18:48 John Daub: So, I have a question. I have no idea what they're talking about either. Yes. Tree Waifu. Who are you? I am. My name is... And why have you made it our show? Yeah. Well, my name is John Daub. I produce a show called Only in Japan, a show that goes all over the country showing you really neat and unique things about Japan. We go deep into history and culture in a fun way. Cool. Neat thing. Pretty neat. What's the most neat thing about Japan? I spell it K-N-E-A-T to make it cooler, but... I'm just saying. That's cool. But the neatest thing about Japan, there's so many things, and it's not just limited to Tokyo. It really spreads out the entire country.

00:19:30 John Daub: I actually, I'm not a big fan of manga and anime. I know. Reverse horn. Points for honesty, but... That's fine. Yeah. But... Wait, wait, wait. So you understand Japanese? But you're telling me there's more to Japan than manga and anime? Yes. Get out. No. There's no... Get out? No. No. But yeah, there's a lot more. A lot of it has to do with the culture. This country, this culture goes back millennia. It's really, really old, and there's a lot of stuff that goes... In fact, manga and anime has roots going back hundreds of years, too. So that's the kind of stuff that really fascinates me, and connecting that with the present today. Like we have with capsule hotels, for example. They actually go back to the 1970s, which is interesting. I thought you were going to say the 1700s. I don't know. They might. I'm not really sure. Sure. They got like the tatami. They put out the tatami, and then like build it into a capsule. They would roll you up in the tatami, and then they'd shove you into like a... That's the original Caps Hotel, everybody. It starts with being rolled up in a carpet. Do they even have carpet back there? Tatami, right? Yeah. No, I actually heard that those old school rolled up capsule hotels was the basis of the sushi rolls. Wow. Oh, no, no, that's right. That's right. And that idea actually came from California, right? Yes. It did. It was... Yeah, it was... That's right. They invented sushi in California in the 1970s. They brought it over. No, no, 1700s. 1700s, right, right, right. And that's how they invented the capsule hotels. That's what it says in my textbook. I learned this all the time. Anyway. There's a ton of amazing stuff with this country. You can check out the Only in Japan channel. Plug, plug, plug. Check out the Only in Japan channel to see a lot of stuff.

00:21:15 John Daub: In fact, this guy behind me, Shingo Carlos, he goes by many names. He was with me in that episode, a men's only capsule hotel. You guys could have come, but maybe half of you probably couldn't. What makes you think that we're men? Could be. You know better. Don't assume my pronoun. Don't you know assuming things? Don't assume... No, no, no, we're just... It's okay, it's okay. Hey, while you're here... Yes. Would you do us the honor... Yes. ...of drawing a picture... Of a... Of anything? Of something blue. No, not something blue. Something perfect. Something perfect? We've got a real VIP in our chat. So we've got about 500 people watching here. Whoa! And they're... Well, they're asking who you are. We're nobody. We're nobody. And this is Tony. I'm nobody. Yeah, yeah, yeah. All right, we're Doki Doki Drawing. Doki Doki Drawing. They do a show where they draw stuff, and they're doing it live, and it's pretty cool. If you're into manga and anime, into drawing, and you're interested in this, this is a pretty cool show to watch. Sketchfix. Sketchfix. So you could go over to their channel. You can watch this live. So we're now in stereo. Yes. I don't want to bother you too much, but I will... We're not bothering you. We want you to draw pictures. I'll draw something. We're going to be able to watch this live on their channel. Yes. Yeah, man. Doki Doki D-O-K-I D-O-K-I Drawing. Drawing. Yep. With a D. So let's have Tom Poole... Got to get that D in there. Here, let me switch places with you. It's important to get that D in there. Oh, sure. Okay, well... Oh. I don't know. It's okay. I'm not sure how... Yeah, it's all good. I'm a stick figures guy, but you know what? Well, tree fu are mostly made out of sticks, so... Okay. So I'm just... Tree fu. Eventually, we'll get there. All right.

00:22:52 John Daub: Tony, can you explain for our man here, John, what a tree fu is? So we've come up with a... Well, we didn't come up. It was brought upon our attention of a tree fu. So a tree fu is a tree waifu. So basically, it's a... It's the weebiest weenie thing that you could possibly do. It's like subculture within subculture within... It's... And we're proud of it. Yeah. Look, you can... You should be. There's only four people here in Japan that have drawn tree fu. It's true. It's true. And you're the first to... I don't even know why. You're about to be the fifth person on earth to ever draw... Well, it was nice to meet you guys. I was just... No, no, no, no. It's an exclusive elite group of five tree waifu... Tree fu drawers. All right. All right. Tree fu. John Doe, you're live. So what... You don't have the theme. It's gonna be perfect. It's gonna be blue. No mistakes. Okay. There's gonna be a tree, and it's gonna look like it could be your waifu. Right. Yes. Waifu. Waifu. Okay. No, for kids. All right. By the way, what is... It's blue. Yeah, man. Get in there with the color. All right. For our VIP. A tree that looks like my wife? It doesn't have to be your wife. Like, it could be your wife. It could be. Yeah. Okay. Kanae, if you're watching this, I apologize. My wife could be watching this. You're a cheater. I'm sorry. She's a graceful tree, and it would have to look like a dancer tree, so I'm not sure how. All right. I'm just gonna go... Your Only in Japan already has about two anime episodes. Oh! Okay. Cool. There's an Only in Japan Anime? No, no, no. Only Japan... Are you an anime character? I am today! Husbando! Husbando! We have heard that term, husbando. No. We need to start a new... So when you find like an ideal anime character who could be your husband... That's a bold choice. Bold choice. Very nice. Subarashii. Subarashii. Should I put in some knots? Hey. If you're a tree fu. I'm loving the hair. This... This is some serious tree fu. You've got some cauliflower in there. No, no, don't, don't. You can't skew. You can't skew that. Can't jump, can't jump the, oh yeah. And I'm putting in a tree knot here. Subarashii, Subarashii. The detail, the attention to detail. This is the quality you get from Only in Japan. Oh, yeah, that too. What is going on here? What am I doing? No, no, no. Dude, that's full on, yes. Oh, nice.

00:25:17 John Daub: John here. We're gonna make sure it's out of the way. Is drawing you a fantastic picture. Okay, this is it. On the Wacom Cintiq Pro 16. Hashtag sponsor us. Please, please. Is that, we are done. When you're done, you have to say, Kansei desu. Kansei desu. Woo! Where's the air horn? Where's the air horn? Oh, yeah, where's the, where's the air horn? Stand up. Am I really here? What is going on? This is awesome. Okay, good. So this is a, should I explain what this is here? Yeah, we wanted to explain. Yeah, tree is thick. All right. Do you want to turn this around? Oh, no, no. It's being streamed. Oh, you're streaming this live. Okay. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So basically, my wife who is, is this, is Ms. Tree Fu. I call this Tree Fu, Kanae Tree. Kanae Tree. Okay, okay. She's a dancer, but I love dancing. I love expressing yourself. And there's a lot of trees, especially bonsai trees. They sort of take on their own graceful form. And sort of what I have here is, in the center, we have what could be a head. And I love the way that the bonsai limbs sort of extend almost in human form, but gracefully as though they're in a pose. And what I've done is kind of have my tree wife, wife tree. How do you say it again? Tree Fu. Tree Fu. Okay, so I'm one of five people I should know the lingo, right? No, but you're now, you're part of the brotherhood. Part of the brotherhood. And I've given her some shape. I've even put a little, a knot to give her some personality. So. Does she have a face? Her face is, is, oh really? Do you, in your tree fu, you have faces? Yeah, we have faces. We have faces. But she could have her back turned to us. So that's okay too. Yeah. Oh, oh. It is a dancing tree fu. Is her back turned to you? I will not embarrass my existing tree fu with another tree fu. Fair enough. I don't want any controversy. Okay. Yeah. So this is good. Yes. Can you sign it for us? I will absolutely sign it. Oh, please, please. If you want your own tree fu shirt. No, no. A tree fu shirt? No, I'm just kidding. So we'll have posters of this tree fu. What an honor. Oh. This says John. Only in Japan. Yes. Yes. Thank you very much for joining us. Thank you. On the Doki Doki. Drop the mic. Drop the mic. I have never seen anyone do that. No one dropped the. No one has ever dropped the pen. Let's get a clap. Let's get a clap. I'm out. I'm out. We're done. All right. We are done here. It's officially your channel now. We are done here. No, no, no, no. Don't get up, guys. It's okay. Have a seat here. We've got to see your viewers. Yes. I'm going to turn it around. Sorry. I look left-handed because this is inverted here, but this is what we drew here. You can see it on their channel. Kanae, this is my tree fu dedicated to you. This could be you, but it's a tree fu, so. It's like an ideal version. Right. Yes. It's the inner spirit. The inner spirit. Very wonderful. Very wonderful. Guys, don't forget to check out Only in Japan. Only in Japan. You can check out pretty much every video. I assume every single video has this man, John Daub, being an excellent artist. Yes. We tried to draw. We did actually have some drawing episodes where Patrick Galbraith and I, Patrick Galbraith is the author of the Otaku Encyclopedia, a good friend of mine. Oh. We were here in this room and downstairs where they do some anime drawing, and we worked on some of the software down there. Some of the computers and made an actual character. A maid? Did you say maid? Who's a maid? Me! Tree fu! Maid! Echo! Okay. It's all right. Please. You know, for a man who doesn't like manga and anime, he seems to know a lot about it. Well. Yeah. I'm a student. I'm a student. I'm no master. I'm a student. And I will always be a student. Always. Always a master and apprentice there is. Exactly. Exactly. Yes. John, it's been great having you on. Yes. It is a pleasure. Thanks guys for making some time and letting us crash your party. Well done, Shingo. Please come again. Yes. Thank you. So, we have it next week? Let's just say I shall surprise you and make it completely unannounced. It's more fun that way because it's live! Thanks everybody! Bye! Awesome. Dude, that was a special. I'm walking in front of your camera. Oh, sorry. We're going to save this image and we're going to make it the official artwork of the channel now. This is the... Now, it's going to be all the thumbnails. Really? Going forward. This is going to be our official. That's so wrong. That's so wrong. Thanks guys for your time. No, stay there. Have a good day. Bye. Bye. Woo! More airwaves. Please come again. Enjoy your tree fu. Treat food. I hope you enjoyed that. I'm not sure what just happened there. But, oh yeah. Hey Jim, how you doing? Ellis, that was crazy indeed. They put on an interesting show. It's very entertaining. Very entertaining. Oh, it's even worse. What is happening? Can it get that way? It's pretty nice to bring you and meet another livestream. Doki Doki Drawing. Actually, I do watch this sometimes because I'm kind of interested in the Japanese aesthetic of drawing and they kind of have more insight than I do. So, we don't have any elevator music in the... Notice we don't have any elevator music. We have to protect the integrity of the secretary or administration. So, this camera is going to be on. I'm going to go back in the back room and take... We'll take some questions for a sec. I will show you that we do have this wonderful mascot here. That's all I'm going to show you. All right. All right. Go quickly. Go quickly. We're not here. We're not livestreaming. We sort of are. All right. Well, thank you for sharing that with us, Shingo. We kind of had fun. Oh, yeah. I'm not sure exactly what we were into. I didn't know what to expect. Well, we're back here with the pressure cooker and the Jäger. After that, I might need some of that Jäger. Yeah. That Jäger Samantha. Thank you. Vegemite taste test. Like, I need something for... You can't just... Can you just eat Vegemite and just put it in your mouth? Look, you're going to need some major super chats for something like that to happen. I'm telling you right now. And look at Shingo smiling. I also want to just give a little shout out to myself. Can you do shout outs? I uploaded a video comparing the Kinkakuji and the Ginkakuji. Tenkakuji. I uploaded a video comparing the Ginkakuji. I'm going to show you a couple of examples with Kevin Reilly. If you haven't seen that one, check out right here. Go ahead and click and take a look at it at the end. It's also be at the end of this video. You'll be able to click on. I'll put a card in there with the subscribe button because we definitely want...

00:32:13 John Daub: A lot of people ask me, can you do Kyoto in a day? And I'm going to ask Shingo this as well. You've been to Kyoto many times, right? Yeah, a couple of times. A couple of times. Somebody asked me when I was live streaming down there, can you do Kyoto in a day? And I actually stopped in my tracks when I saw this and I've never thought of doing Kyoto in like a day trip because I live here. I do Kyoto in installments like I would go there for a day and just see a couple of things and then I would go home. I used to live in the Kansai area back in 2000, 2001 in a place called Kakogawa. So I would go to Kyoto on the weekend sometimes to see stuff. But if you're a tourist and you're visiting here, can you do it in a day? The answer is kind of yes. You have to get the first train out of Tokyo or Osaka and start early. But if you're starting at Kinkakuji, which is where I would start or end with Kinkakuji. But it's easy to miss it. If you don't do that the problem with Kinkakuji and a lot of people. Do you know the history of Kinkakuji? The golden one the gold pavilion. But yeah one viewer wrote in and I do read the comments wrote in that I totally missed the point the reason why people visit Kinkakuji is because of the historical importance of Kinkakuji to Japan. It's everything that encompasses the country. But I think though with the gold I'm not sure because Japan is a very humble country. I don't think like flashy is my impression. Maybe Japanese subculture is flashy, but people in Japan they wear black and white suits. They're very conservative. Kinkakuji is everything that Japan isn't in a way to it's kind of interesting like this, but historically the style of it is very inspirational at the time, but I just can't get I made this video. And I want to ask Shingo about this. What do you think about Kinkakuji and Ginkakuji? Oh they're pretty much. You almost said the same. The same not the same, but it does have a significant everybody about the Timothy everybody else talks about Kinkakuji all the time, but it's basically it's one of the highlights of our history books so it's very your life i can't take this stuff off my plate, so yeah it's very much, very good.

00:34:25 John Daub: Right. And it's always been there. And uh, Kinkakuji has been, well, it has, sometimes, some people say it is too flashy. It's got all, gold, uh, foiled all over. Right. And as you know, in the history, it was actually burned down once. And uh, in 1950, yeah. Yes. And there's a huge, uh, there was a, there was actually a book by Yukio Mishima, the novelist who actually talked about this. And it does have a single different meaning for everybody, but it is in a way a symbolic, uh, figure for Kyoto. Right. Because it's pretty much, uh, well, it's, it's anti-Kyoto, but it's also pro-Kyoto as well. Right. And Ginkakuji is, uh, there's always, every school kid would look at Ginkakuji and say, why is it not silver? Yeah. And in fact, I think every tourist will say why is Ginkakuji not silver? And um, I kind of explained it in the video, which I want you to watch. But I'll say a little bit here. Um, after the eighth Shogun died, do you know his name? No. As, as, as, as, yeah. Which one? Okay. After the eighth Shogun died, he was building it. The, the, the temple, the villa, this was his summer home sort of was incomplete. So they never got to the silver foil. And by that time you're like, look, he's dead. Ah, you know, it doesn't need the silver foil, but they retain the name Ginkakuji, even though it doesn't have silver. And what Kevin and I talk about is that we actually like it maybe more. You have to watch the video to see our opinions on that one. Kevin has some, Kevin is a carpenter. So he has a lot of insight into some of the designs, but he really loved um, one of them a lot more than the other one. I think you can figure it out. Um, Ginkakuji to me was one of the first temples that I visited in Kyoto. Cause it's like a symbol it's on all the guidebooks actually. And uh, I went there just like everybody else to try to get a picture and to try to feel it. But I never really felt, you can't feel at peace there. And to me, a temple is a place where you feel the harmony with nature. All I felt was a lot of people fighting to get the same photo. And if you hashtag Kinkakuji, Kinkakuji, you can get um, a bazillion of the same photos. You'll see what I mean. Everybody takes the same photo and you should, it's nice to be there in person to see it, but then you get out. There's nothing else really to that um, temple grounds. It's kind of neat, but there's other places that are more just as historical, if not, or more better or more feeling that Zen harmony with nature. Um, so definitely check out that video of the Kinkakuji vs. Ginkakuji. Um, I've been doing these vs videos like Hiroshima vs. Osaka Okonomiyaki or um, uh, Asakusa Ramen, three shops versus one another. And it's kind of neat to pit things because then you get more insight into that one when you, when you can compare it to others. Um, it's kind of a neat format that we have with this uh, vs going on here.

00:37:18 John Daub: Uh, any, any, uh, anything going on with, with you Shingo before we end this live stream? Uh, check out Doki Doki Drawing, please. Check out what? Doki Doki Drawing. Yeah. Check out the Doki Doki Drawing. And keep uh, oh yeah. For the notification, you have to push the uh, thank you for subscribing to Only in Japan. Uh, please put the notification button on whenever you actually have to put the bell on. Oh yeah. For, yeah. So please thank you for subscribing to Only in Japan. Click the notification button. There's actually a bell uh, that you can click. Yeah. And if you want to see the videos, um, I do also put um, advanced notices for the live streams on Patreon for supporters there. And uh, you know, I also on Instagram, I will announce when the new videos go on there. So there's lots of ways that you can be notified through social media. I don't do Snapchat. I don't do uh, Facebook that much, but we do have a Facebook page and I always share the videos there as well as Only in Japan. Dot TV, which is a website. So there's lots of places you can go. Um, definitely check out Doki Doki Drawing. Those two have a pretty fun thing going on up there in the blue room. They see, they really love what they're doing and it's kind of a neat insight into drawing, especially if you're interested in learning about um, drawing manga and characters. And um, this show has like what, a hundred episodes now? Uh, nearly. Yeah. Nearly a hundred episodes of drawing. So it's kind of fun. Um, and they're pretty crazy up there. Oh yeah. Yeah. It's just as entertaining just watching those two go crazy. I do have um, a uh, uh, Instagram. It's only in Japan TV is the handle name for Instagram. In fact, I think if you just search people with only in Japan should come up on the top. Did anyone send Shingo presents? Can people send you presents here too? Uh, pretty much. Yes. So if you just change the address from John to Shingo, they can show their love and appreciation for you. It's the same address. Just a different name. We send things that tick. But I would say poor Shingo. Okay, sure. I'll release that just on Patreon again. We don't want too many stuff here, but I want to thank Nosh Abroad and Jim for moderating. Jim is moderating right now in Tacoma, Washington, and Nosh Abroad is here in Japan. He was here last night and got some really great insight for him. But that's about it for the live streaming. I want to thank Shingo. Thank you. Yes, and what's your main show? Let's Play Japan, Let's Play Japan. It's coming, but check out Doki Doki Drawing. Yeah, okay. That's what I mean. So we got some people writing in here. So thank you, everybody. Thank you to I never know if I should say his first name or his handle name. I'm just going to say Mr. Keith. Thank you, Mr. Keith, for this. And thank you very much for the other gifts, everybody. I will see you in another live stream. I'm going to keep the live stream going. By the way, I'm going to be on an island from September 1st to September 12th. We're going to be in Ogasawara on a tropical island swimming with dolphins and maybe sharks. You'd rather see me with sharks. Great white whale sharks, not the tiger sharks. Those are okay. All right, I'll take that. We get safety first. Thanks, everybody. See you. The last 20 seconds of Shingo dancing. Dance! Thanks for the thanks to the plug. Bye bye.