00:02:12 John Daub: Garden on the top of this and I'm going to show you on that PDF but I just want to give you an overview of what it looks like when you arrive. There's a beautiful rooftop garden. It's got grass on it, very natural, and gives you an amazing view across the bay to Tokyo Tower. That's part of the attraction. Inside there's a platform, kind of a museum. I think there's restaurants inside here and you can buy fish and stuff like that. On the other side is where all the selling goes on. You can see here there is an actual fruit and vegetable market. You can observe the fruits and vegetables being sold here. There's also the fish wholesale market. They've done a really good job, I believe—I haven't been in there yet—of showing you what is by giving you an observation gallery.

00:02:46 John Daub: It used to be really painful to go see the tuna auction at Tsukiji. Now here they've made it really easy and a lot more comfortable for everybody. So let's walk in that direction first because everybody loves this place and it's a really nice place to go and see the fish and vegetables. That tuna auction, I know, I did when I was there except for the fact that I had to go there at 2:30 in the morning and wait. But it was still a pretty good experience.

00:03:21 John Daub: For those people who are watching, I can't see the live chat for some reason. Very weird, YouTube updates the app all the time and when you do sometimes there's bugs. So I cannot see any chats right now. So I'm gonna actually stop the app just for a second and be right back. Here we go, hey guys I'm back so I can see the chats now. I'm sorry about that. I want to make sure if you guys ask a question I will be able to respond. Let's see, here's Mr. Swastik Das—is Toyosu like Tsukiji? Did a lot of the outer stores move? The outer stores are gonna be the same. This is an awesome question to start off. The outer stores are gonna be the same, they're not moving anywhere, they're gonna be there. Tsukiji has a long history of being a place for sushi and it's right here in Tsukiji near Ginza. Those shops aren't moving here. Why would they move here? Because all the business is over there. It's kind of a hassle to come out here. Alright? There's more people over there. So it's going to be, they're going to stay there and maybe they're going to open up a branch in Toyosu.

00:04:25 John Daub: Toyosu is in this direction, two stops on the Yurikamome (ゆりかもめ, automated guideway transit line) line. And at that place there's a ton of other restaurants as well as a shopping mall, lots of things for kids to do. There you go. There's the new market. It looks kind of futuristic. What do you think? This is the building. There's offices in there. I'm going to pan down and we're going to go down to the street view. But we cannot actually go inside. You can see the market officially opens on the 13th and there's a sign right in the middle that says no entry. So it's off limits for us for now, but I think it's going to change soon. Yeah. So the market opens up on the 13th. Not today. So you can't go in here until the 13th. But if you do come on the 13th, you'll be able to go in. So this is just a quick overview. That's what it looks like on the other side. It's really clean. It's very orderly. It looks like Holland or Almere [?], which is a city in Holland. Everything is just perfect. And that's what I get the feeling right here. It's just really beautiful.

00:05:43 John Daub: All right, now let's take a look at this map. This is the PDF that I have in the description and this will help you with everything on your trip here to Toyosu Market. I'm gonna put this right here and we're gonna take a look at it. Maybe the sun's better over here. Okay, take a look on the ground here. So this is the PDF that I downloaded and printed out for you. This is the Toyosu Market's Visitor's Guide. Since you can't go in you don't have access to it except by PDF. And you can see this is where we entered here and I took you this way. We're actually right now between the buildings. They've kind of separated it into three main buildings here. This is the fruit and vegetable building, which is that way. On the left side that I showed you is where they do the fish, the tuna auctions. And you can see here on the map they clearly wrote that in here. You can view the tuna auction up close. That's so cool. We've got some people writing in that they've already printed this out. Awesome.

00:06:50 John Daub: This is the other building, block six, and you get a panoramic view of the city and you can see up on the top there beautiful garden with grass up there. It's very green and a lovely view of the city. But you don't actually have to go up there to get that nice view. I'm going to show you a place where you can do that without having to enter the building. The station is the Yurikamome line Shijomae (市場前, market front) station, which is the new station, 160 yen from Toyosu or about a dollar seventy-five. It's not too much and you have a choice. Here comes some fishy people. The fish people are here and you have a choice. You can walk from Toyosu station. It's 20 minutes. Or you could take the Yurikamome line and it's one minute, like literally. That's the entrance to the Yurikamome line. This is where we entered to get here right there, this building here. The Yurikamome line is a monorail, a driverless monorail. So it's kind of the future. It's pretty cool. But you can see that they're still kind of getting used to the traffic, getting used to the flow of people.

00:08:00 John Daub: And lots of people, even locals here, have questions about the market, and they're asking the security guards, can we walk here? Is this open here? And even for locals, there's a little bit of confusion, but not a lot of people live out here. Apparently, there's some TV networks here making news reports. But we're here first live, baby. Across the bay here, you have a wonderful view of, right there is the Olympic Village. So I showed this to you in February in another video, but you can see it right now. It's really starting to come together, the Olympic Village. And the day before yesterday, you see this bridge right here? They had the turrets, the carts that... They're all over the old Tsukiji Market. They came in like a convoy from Tsukiji Market over this bridge to the new market, and the police let them on the road just at a certain time in the middle of the night. And you can see online some of the videos of the turrets, the carts making their way across to the new market, and that was pretty cool. But once again, we cannot actually get in. We cannot actually get into the market until the day after tomorrow. But that doesn't mean I can't show you guys stuff. Because I got a ton of stuff to show you.

00:09:34 John Daub: And there's a TV company. They're filming me now. Terubi Tokyo [?]. All right, I'm going down now. And this is because I know exactly where I'm taking you. I'm going to give you some more information. Going to miss hearing trails to Tsukiji. That's right, that's an NHK show. I'm not actually sad about Tsukiji anymore. I was for about two days that it was leaving and gone. I've been expecting this for a long time. And I'm going to give you some history right now. So about 20 years ago in 1997, 1998, the city of Tokyo was contemplating renovations to Tsukiji market. And they wanted to see if they had to move sites or if they could just fix up the existing market. And after a couple of years in 2001, it was decided that they wanted to renovate because through their research, they just could not make it. Tsukiji was so old, so rundown, so difficult to renovate. The cost would have been so high and they didn't know where to put the displaced market while they were doing the renovations. It just would have been a disaster. The easiest thing for them to do would be to move it to the new lands. And 20 years ago, that was this. There was nothing really here except for a gas processing plant.

00:10:59 John Daub: I remember not the first time I came to Tokyo because I didn't come here. But I think it was the second or the third time. And going to Odaiba and then seeing this area was nothing. Just kind of settling. Toyosu was not... It was just like new land. And it was in 2001 that the city of Tokyo decided to build this area up for the new fish market. But that was about as far as they went. They didn't start building it until 2008 or 2009. And there's a reason for that. It was... I guess the Tokyo Gas... The story goes that the Tokyo Gas had a plant here. And it was in 2000... I guess it ended in 2006 or 2007. And they cleaned up the area and they did their own tests. And they said the ground was fine. And then 2008, the Tokyo government said, hey, we're going to take our own tests. And thank goodness for that because they discovered that there were a ton of contaminants in the soil.

00:12:01 John Daub: And what had happened was... They weren't sure what they were going to do. But it was the new mayor, Mayor Koike, who made the final decision, which was very unpopular with the business leaders. You don't want to make the business leaders in Tokyo mad. She decided that she would delay the move to Toyosu market indefinitely until the area was completely clean. I mean, it's a no-brainer, right? You would want that to be for fish, a fish market and produce market. You'd want the cleanest place possible. But it took a brave politician to do that. She won a lot of trust with the public after that. She's very popular. Yeah, and I like her. She's a very strong mayor. Good balance between the business leaders and the people. So she's a populist. So the market was delayed. And we didn't know for how long. I guess the information on the contamination was done 10 years ago. But the market was delayed just a couple of years ago. So that means they were going to move here and it wasn't finished with the decontamination process, which took a decade to do. Talk about time overruns and stuff. So now you have two years. This was supposed to open two years ago. All the businesses had ordered refrigerators, new equipment for this market right here. And they couldn't do anything with it. So what do you do for two years? So that's why there's a lot of not happy people. But I think it was the right move. And I think it gave Tsukiji another two years to kind of figure out what they wanted to do with stuff.

00:13:40 John Daub: Because I don't think it hit a lot of people until maybe last week. Like what's going to happen with the neighborhood? What are they going to do with the ninja rats that are there? So now it's 2018. It's October 11. In two days this will be open to the public. And you're going to see a ton of people making their way. All the media in the world is going to be here. And it's an exciting time because it took such a long time. It took such a long time for this to culminate into what you see up there. Tsukiji Toyosu Market. So there you go. That's the end of Tsukiji and the start of Toyosu Market. Boom. But there's a lot more to this than just this fish market which we cannot go into yet because it's off limits. Even though I kind of tried. But they said no.

00:14:58 John Daub: Now why do they need to build a new market? I get this question a lot after walking through the Tsukiji Market a couple of days ago. And you can see that video which shows the movie of Tsukiji back last week. They needed to move markets. It just makes sense to do that. All the markets now are indoors. So that means it can be temperature controlled. And that means that it's probably cleaner. The food won't get spoiled as fast. The supply chain will be more protected. This is a big city. You don't know what's going to be happening outside. So things are kind of blocked off. Well, it's indoors. So things are better controlled when everything is indoors. Like if this was a baseball stadium. This is a dome. And the old Tsukiji would have been an open field. Because Tsukiji was pretty much windowless. It was just kind of like a market that you would have seen last century. And these days, everything is indoors and domed. And everything is controlled.

00:16:04 John Daub: This is the entrance to the market. And this is where a lot of trucks... They did an extremely good job with these roadways. You see here? They're wide for a lot of these trucks that are coming in with fish. Coming from Aomori. Coming from up north in Tohoku. Coming from down south. Loads and loads of trucks. And they've done a great job with it. I cannot stress enough. When you're given all this time, you're going to do a good job. And Tokyo has done a really good job. It's just so wide. On the right side, you see Toyosu Market. You get the auction. And on the left side, the market where they sell. And they said there's going to be a museum in there as well. They don't sell fish at Tsukiji now. But they still sell food. That's important to know. I'm going to go underneath the market. The Tsukiji Outer Market. I've already said this a dozen times, but I'm going to say it a hundred more times. The Tsukiji Outer Market is still open for business, and they sell awesome sushi. I was there two days ago with another YouTuber making a show at one of the sushi shops. And you're going to find some really good places.

00:17:40 John Daub: [inaudible Japanese exchange with passerby, angry tone]. Fishermen are not the happiest people in the world. He's talking to me. How am I supposed to see where I'm going? All right, maybe he's going to call the cops on me or something. I can't walk to the river, but everyone's walking here. Alright, let me figure out what the heck he's talking about. So I'm gonna go to the Kanri Center (管理センター, management center). What's he so angry about? So I'm gonna go talk to the Kanri Center and ask them what I can do and where I can't go.

00:19:11 John Daub: So I'm gonna ask the main gate. And if they say no, you say no. So there you go. This is the main gate. I'm gonna ask them, but he doesn't have to be so angry. Love and peace. Okay, hold on a second. We're gonna figure out what just happened. [inaudible Japanese exchange with staff]. Okay, so we cannot walk this direction and you cannot actually take pictures apparently, but you can here. Oh my gosh, that guy was so angry. That guy was so angry at me. So I got a little bit angry too, but I told him, look man, if you just tell me, I can tell you guys not to go into that area, right? He told me that there were skateboarders that were going through there and it was making him really mad. And as soon as I started talking Japanese to him and telling him, look, I just want to understand, there's no sign here. I don't know where I can go and can't go. And the security guards, nobody stopped me. Just some guy and you don't look like a security guard. So what's the deal. But once he explained, okay, I understand. Just you have to understand that if you don't have signs and no one is going to know where to go, you know. And the market actually is officially opened today, but not to the public until the day after tomorrow.

00:22:25 John Daub: This is information they got to tell you, the city of Tokyo, you know. And there are lots of tourists who were at the station. They saw the sign that the opening day was the day after tomorrow. And there's a lot of not so happy people. So the opening of this Tsukiji market has not been perfect, but I'm just glad that we can sort of figure that out and then make it work out a little bit better. So if you come here tomorrow, be careful where you walk, you're going to get a really angry guy at you. But we're okay. So I'm walking out to the top of the bridge and there's some places that I wanted to show you this being one of them. I wanted to get off of this road. It's the area around Tsukiji market that has changed the most. And it's just absolutely beautiful. So let me get away from here where there's a bunch of crazy people.

00:23:00 John Daub: [Conversation with skateboarders]. Yeah, he was really angry. He's the guy on the trike, the moped. Well he's telling the security guards that not to let anybody in, but there's just no signs or control and you see people going by there. The security guys aren't even going to say anything unless he was there. So our friends were split up right now. Our friends, we both took two cabs and I'll do it on the other side. And they got in over there and we can't get in. They got some guy that was pretty nice. He got his Google translate out. Oh, he was angry at me, but I could speak Japanese. So I sorted it out with them. I said, calm down, dude. And then he just said, look, you can't go in there. So we got to read a sign. Like we don't like to do that. I mean, it's our fault we can't speak Japanese, but we're just trying to meet up with our friends. What are you guys doing here? Just on a skate trip. Cool. Well, we got about a thousand people watching. You guys want to say hi? From all over the place. You guys are having a good day? This is a good place to skate up here on this riverside. And you're just trying to get over there. You don't care about the market at all. We just want to get to the park. Yeah. That's what I'm trying to go now too. Get away from the crazy people. We've been dealing with craziness all day. Cause we were supposed to have a tour guide, but they couldn't meet up today. We're supposed to have a translator too. So yeah, it fell through cause this is our first day. We got into like five in the morning. We've moved from LA and so we're trying to make the most of it. You guys got a YouTube channel or something? It's called Sovereign Skateboards. Sovereign Skateboard guys. What are you vlogging? Yeah, YouTube live. YouTube live? What do you do? I got a channel called Only in Japan and I introduce Japan to people outside of here. Oh, perfect. So today I'm introducing the market, but there's a lot of uncertainty. Let's just say. So you make your own videos and people watch it. You don't actually show them in person, right? Like you introduce places in Japan to people that never been to Japan. Hey, you say where it is. So you do it online, you're not a tour guide. No, I'm not a tour guide. No, yeah. I actually report for the TV station here, but YouTube is much more profitable. Awesome. Where are you from originally? New York, New Jersey, Virginia, Ohio. Oh, sweet. I'm from Massachusetts. Oh, cool. My brother lives in Vermont.

00:25:55 John Daub: Alright, here it is! So this is what I wanted to show you on the other side of Tsukiji Market for those of you who are still here, which is 850 of you now. A beautiful view of Rainbow Bridge. It's kind of hazy out here. But if you want to put the market behind you and you come out here with a family, there's a playground. It's really nice. Those are the skateboarders that got in trouble. So because of what they were doing, the security guard was angry at us. I was like, no! But they're not bad people. They just didn't know. So I'm going to take you down here. I'm going to show you why. Maybe you just want to walk here. Now that's Odaiba there. I've taken you there before. Over the Rainbow Bridge. And you can take a look at the beach there. They have a man-made beach. The skateboarders are going to the playground. Very cool. Yeah, there's a ton of skateboarders here. This area here that I'm going to take you to before we end the livestream is famous for having a ton of skateboarders. We're almost here. This is also the ramp. You guys can see this here? This is a ramp that brings the tuna to the tuna auction. So it's just so clean and so well done.

00:27:26 John Daub: I'm kind of happy that Tsukiji Market is closed and this is open. Because Tsukiji Market was kind of dangerous. If there was an earthquake, a big one, you don't know what would happen there. Because a lot of the stuff at Tsukiji Market was just built in the 1930s. So we're much better off having everything done, redone. Like this building right here. And this is the fish market. I'm looking back now at the fish market. And you can see the trucks bringing in loads of fish and other construction stuff. They're still doing some construction in the distance. And now you guys can get a first look at Toyosu. Just kind of take it all in. For the next five minutes, we're going to walk over to the riverside. This is Toyosu Gururi Park (豊洲ぐるり公園, Toyosu encircling park). And I introduced this park in a livestream at night a couple of months ago. It's really nice. And if you keep on going here, there's a lookout where you just get one of the most amazing night views. This, I believe, is the most beautiful night view in all of Tokyo. And that's kind of like a big statement. Just putting it out there. I came running here yesterday and I love to run in this area. It's one of the most relaxed places because there's no traffic lights. Running around this area of Tokyo.

00:29:32 John Daub: Now you can see all of the ramps of the new fish market here. Cool live broadcast with real action. Yeah, real action. Tell me about it. Me and my sister and our families are going to Kyoto and Osaka at the end of this month. Take care, John. Lots of crazy people. Yeah. Tsukiji is known for the crazy people. You know, if you look back at the livestream that I did last week, the guy who was selling all of his goods because the market was closing, everyone was calling him Crazy Boy. I think that was just custom. Oh, there are the skaters. Check it out. Crazy Boy. You see them? Check it out. That's a pretty neat scene. This is one of the most beautiful places for walking around, for skateboarding, for running. It is very jogger friendly. Tokyo as a city is okay. I'd say it's a lot better than New York and a lot of other places. But it's not ideal. However, this area and the newer parts of the city, especially on the bay, are made for running. And I'm going to take you down there. If you give me just one more minute, I'm going to take you down there and show you. In fact, if you come at night on many nights every month, I come running through here. You'll be able to catch me going for a run because there's no traffic lights. I also go the other direction. It's kind of a far run. I come out here especially for long runs because you don't want to meet any traffic lights or anything like that.

00:31:36 John Daub: It's kind of hazy today, a little bit humid. But it's not hot hot. Not like the summer. You can see this land is still settling. And they're not building anything on it yet. But I think if you give it some time, this might turn into something. So you're seeing it here first. This is history. When you come to Japan, there might be something built here on the left side. But right now it's just grass that's settling and nobody can go in there. It's actually very easy to get here from Toyosu Station. There's two ways to get here from the city. And I just want to go over a little bit about this new Toyosu Market. For those of you who are joining us right now, if you want to get to Toyosu Market, which is the new Tsukiji, do not come tomorrow. Come the day after tomorrow. On October 13th, that's when it opens. You can come from Toyosu, which is probably the easiest access point. You can take the Yurakucho Line, which runs through Ginza-Itchome, Yurakucho, Ichigaya. It goes all the way to Ikebukuro. You can take that all the way to Toyosu, which is almost the last stop. And it's just $1.75 on the Yurikamome Line, or the monorail. This driverless train, which is so cool. Two stops, and you're here. This is the new fish market behind me. You see that? And if you don't want to pay $1.75 and you just want to walk it, it takes 20 minutes from Toyosu, and you're here at the fish market. And I highly recommend walking along the bay, because you're going to get one of the most stunning open views of the city of Tokyo.

00:32:46 John Daub: And I'm going to pan now, because out right in front is the Olympic Village being built. Check it out. That's the Olympic Village being built. They've made a lot of progress. Check it out. So if you're an Olympic athlete watching this, this could be where you'll be staying in Tokyo. Very cool. There you guys are! Woo! Banned at Toyosu Fish Market. But we love them, that free spirit of skateboarding. Very awesome. They're from California. They're here just for a skateboard tour. That's cool. I'm kind of digging the fact that all these people are coming from all over the world. Skateboarders are coming here because skateboarding has become an Olympic event for 2020. How cool is that? And the skateboarding events will be held here, not that far away. They're building a skateboard venue. So yeah, that's kind of a big deal for skateboarders all around the world. And why we want more skateboarders to come here. So Toyosu crazy people, Toyosu Fish Market crazy people, please, don't be hard on the skateboarders. We want them to come here. We want them to have a good time. Beautiful view, isn't it? So that's the Rainbow Bridge. And what looks like Space Boat, but is not. Lots and lots of boat tours and cruises that go through Tokyo Bay here.

00:34:47 John Daub: Alright, another reason that they built... Why did they pick Toyosu? Some people were asking me. Why did they pick this area? You can see right there at the end where this tower is. This tower separates the Sumida River and the backside of it, which is where bigger boats can go. Now one of the reasons why Toyosu was picked is because bigger boats can come here. And they can't go to Tsukiji. Almost all of the fish were coming by truck to Tsukiji. Like big trucks. And now they can come by boat almost directly to Toyosu. And I'm going to take you down there now to the landing pier. This is Toyosu Gururi Koen. It's a beautiful place. And you can check out how nice is this. This brick goes entirely around this island. And if you want to go running from Toyosu, you can start at the station, run all the way around this island. It's about 7 kilometers. 6.5 or 7 kilometers. And it's a beautiful, no traffic light run. So this overpass here. Do you see right there? That's where cars can come and unload fish from boats and go directly to the fish market. And no boats have done that yet. And I don't know when that's going to start. But one of the reasons why they built it here is because they can do that. That option exists. Kachidoki Bridge. It was closed, I guess, like 3 or 4 decades ago. It used to be a drawbridge that could go up and down and allow bigger ships to go through into the Sumida River. But the Sumida River no longer takes traffic of bigger boats. It's very limited.

00:36:39 John Daub: So we're walking down now underneath where trucks can unload fish to go to the market. The new market. And if you see on the top, I opened this up by giving you some information. I'm going to show you once again, for everybody who's still watching, a little bit of the layout. There's a PDF file attached to the description of this video. And I highly recommend that you click on it. You don't have to download it. I guess you do have to download it in order to view it. But you don't have to print it out. But just take a look at it if you're interested in coming to the new fish market. It lays out all the information. And it's hard to find. Now on the top of this, the fish market, where you can buy the fish. You see where the fence is there? You won't be able to get up there until the 13th for another couple of days. But it's a beautiful garden up there. With really spacious views. But you don't have to go up there. You can get the same views from right here. Just look this way. It's so flat looking over the river that you don't need to be elevated to see anything more.

00:38:01 John Daub: You can rent bicycles in Toyosu and also ride around here. It's really nice and very family friendly. Loads of playgrounds. This bridge is the new bridge that I showed you. The turret carts from Tsukiji that would buzz around. Made a convoy from the market to the new market. From Tsukiji to Toyosu a couple of days ago. And that made international news. Watching those carts that you stand on drive across Tokyo. Because they can't leave the actual market outside of the outer market. But that day it was a convoy. It's pretty cool. Now this is a landing for ships. You can see this on this side. It's closed off to people. But this is all a landing where ships can dock. Bring the fish directly to the market. And then the trucks or maybe they even have hand carts. They can push it up here. This is so cool. And it goes straight into the market. And it's so much more convenient than Tsukiji. Now Tsukiji did have, Tsukiji was literally up against the river. But it was built for like the 1930s. Not the same kind of boats. Not the same kind of traffic that we have these days. So it just made sense to move it. And now that we have, it makes sense now.

00:39:18 John Daub: So I'm going to walk around the market some more and then take you back to Toyosu Station. Let me give you an idea of what, this is the PDF file that's included in the video description. Alright, this might be a little bit better than before. Alright, here we go. So this is the Toyosu Market's visitor course. Now I arrived by the Yurikamome Line right here. At the Yurikamome Shijomae Station. And that's accessible by Toyosu right there. And when you exit the station, you can go left or right. If you're going to the tuna auction, you want to go to block number 7, which is on the left side. This is the Fisheries Wholesale Market Building is what they call it in English. And even on the map it says there, you can view the tuna auction up close. Now if you make a right, you can go to the building that's right in front of me right now. This is where you get panoramic views of the Rinkai area and Tokyo Tower. And you can see on the top of it, those strips of green, which is grass and plant life. Inside this building is also a museum. Apparently they have turret forklifts on exhibit there. As well as some other places. This is where local fishmongers and sushi restaurants come to purchase their fish. This is where all the sushi shops are going to be buying their fish. This is where all of the fish is auctioned. This is where stuff is sold in bulk in auctions. And you can see this with an observation deck.

00:41:04 John Daub: And the observation deck looks like this. So do you see this building here? This is where tourists can stand separated from what's happening inside the market. This keeps you safe, but also, it's not as cold. Because I got to tell you, the auction was pretty cold with all those blocks of flash frozen tuna out there. Here's the visitors hall. It's just so beautiful and modern. And it does, I will miss the personality and character of the old market. But it had to be renovated. It just had to be redone. Some of the other stuff that's here, if you go behind the market station, there's a fish and vegetable building. And I believe anybody can go in there. So if you want to buy some vegetables in bulk, you might be able to get a better deal there, which is pretty cool. And I've run around this island. All around this island is a beautiful brick sidewalk. And you can walk around it. If you walk it, it takes you a little bit less than an hour or about 20 minutes running. Sorry, longer than that, I think. It's about six kilometers. Depends how fast you're going, I guess.

00:42:20 John Daub: Up on the top of it, if you want to get off of the walkway, are a lot of playgrounds, a lot of green areas, places where you can sit and relax. My image is that me and my wife, we ride bicycles down here and have a picnic. We ride our bicycles, we park them here, and then we'll just sit in the grass, looking over the river and the harbor, eating a bento or something. It's pretty cool. That behind us is the fish market. So I guess you can walk straight from here to walk up the steps and get to the top observation deck. And maybe it's going to be open 24 hours a day, I'm not really sure. And that's the thing right now. I'm really shocked at the city of Tokyo. We started this about 30 minutes ago. The city of Tokyo really is not doing a good job with the traffic patterns here. And we had some guy who's not even a hired security guard, angry at us. And actually, he was angry at the skateboarders actually, not with me. But how do we know where we can walk and not walk without a sign? So Mayor Koike, if you're watching this, would you do us a favor and have one of their assistants make a sign in English for all the world media to come up here and say, yeah, maybe not, come this way.

00:43:54 John Daub: All right, let's hike up this mountainside. So I guess cars are on patrol here, but you get a really beautiful panoramic view of the city of Tokyo. There are a ton of benches. And they're all around. And I'm guessing that they see a lot of people coming here now that the market is open. But to be honest, we don't know how many tourists are actually going to be coming here. We don't know if people are going to still be interested in the tuna auction. I'll be honest with you, it was pretty cool at Tsukiji, but that was because it was Tsukiji. It's so sanitized, the auction. It's in an observation platform, which is made for tourists, which is cool and keeps us safe. But it loses that appeal of feeling like you're inside of the market, like you're watching it happen. You're now separated with glass, and you can't go out there onto the floor. So I'm not sure how popular it's going to be because it loses its authenticity a little bit. But it's still not bad. This place is just far enough away to make it slightly annoying to most people.

00:45:36 John Daub: So you can see sort of inside of the market here. This is where all the sushi chefs are now. So Jiro Sushi, Sukiyabashi Jiro, is going to have to come here on his bicycle. And he's going to have to buy fish from here. Because this is where the market is. And it's a little bit further. It's a little bit further than Tsukiji market for him. Like 1.7 kilometers further. But he's in pretty good shape for being like almost 100, right? If you're coming from Tsukiji market, you're going to be taking this bridge. You can walk from Ginza. It's 2 kilometers to walk from Ginza to this area. But it's, once again, it's far enough that it's just annoying. That's St. Luke's Hospital right there. The two buildings. That's Tsukiji area. Oh no, that's not St. Luke's. St. Luke's is the next building after that. Okay, I'm still a little bit disoriented with what I see because the city is changing so fast. I can see Tokyo Tower. You can see it. Right now, right there. It's pretty hazy. On most nights, it's a very clear view. And if you walk a little bit this way, you get the entire city skyline.

00:47:11 John Daub: There's no shuttle bus because we have a monorail. If you're in Ginza, there is a bus. From Tokyo Station. That will come directly here. I believe it's bus 45 or 47. I'm not sure. The bus system here in Tokyo is not a lot of people know about it unless you have to take the bus. But from the Yaesu exit of Tokyo Station, there's a bus that goes to Big Sight. It'll say Big Sight. Big Sight is in the direction of Big Sight. And then you can get to the Tsukiji Market and get off on the way. I believe. Or at least you get a lot closer. But there's no shuttle bus. You gotta go to Toyosu or to Shimbashi. And if you go to Shimbashi, which is across the Rainbow Bridge, it's kind of a long ride because you gotta go all the way around the island. The best thing to do would be to take the metro to Toyosu, the Yurakucho Line. Switch to the Yurikamome at the end of the Yurikamome Line. And then take it two stops for $1.75. Now this is where I got in trouble. Do you guys see this road? This is where the fish dude on the cart got angry at me and told me that I cannot come down this road yet. Now it's still closed to the public. It'll be open the day after tomorrow. But right now, there's no sign saying not to go here. In fact, look guys, there's a bus stop. Do you see that? Those two green signs? That's a bus stop. So there's got to be a bus that goes through here that we don't know about yet.

00:49:09 John Daub: So check, I'll be here again in the next couple of weeks to take you through the market. I'm going to see if I can get some access. But right now, they're so busy with the opening that it's hard to get in touch with anybody. I usually try to call ahead and get permission to do stuff like this. But today we're just walking through here. And there are people that are just walking down here. So it's very confusing. That's interesting. Tsukiji never had a parking garage. This here is a parking garage. Right there. And then on the right is the market. And you can see, you can kind of see inside, there's some pallets and stuff. I can see the turrets, turret forklifts. Kind of can hear them. But the building is so new, it almost seems out of place to me. Yet, John versus the fisherman. That was quite crazy. What are the rules regarding pedestrian traffic? It seems complicated. That's a fair question. And I think right now, it's kind of hard to figure it out. But there seems to be a path. And if you download the PDF that's in the description, you can kind of see that.

00:50:44 John Daub: So what we've done is we've walked like this and then through here and then to the park and then around to here. So we've walked quite a ways in this video. This is the building with the rooftop garden that I showed you before. It's kind of a long walk to go from here back to Toyosu. But this is what you have. All the stuff that you need for the fish market is here. This is where they auction it. And this is where they sell it. This is where all the sushi chefs will be coming to buy their fish. And this is where they're going to be bidding for the quantity of the fish. So all the fish, whether it's fugu (河豚, pufferfish), whether it's bluefin tuna or honmaguro (本マグロ, bluefin tuna), whatever it is, they're going to be auctioning it here. Up here, just north of it, is the fruits and vegetable market. And then over here, there used to be, I guess it's still here, but this is the gas museum. They're not very popular because they're the ones who contaminated the land. But they're there. And then Toyosu is on the top. Why are they murdering a whale? I don't know. It's just a drill that sounds very painful. It's a drill.

00:52:08 John Daub: I'm walking back to Toyosu. We're going to end this livestream. I'm very happy to take your questions. I've been researching this, going through the history. I kind of went through the history in the first 10 minutes of the livestream. But if you have any questions, I'm happy to help you. So when you do come to the market, you're going to be prepared. That's what we are watching for. Monorail. It's the Yurikamome Line. It is like a monorail. It's like a driverless train that goes through Odaiba, which is the new lands of Tokyo. The reclaimed land. Have you tried fugu? Yes. And it's not bad. Thanks for the map. I'll use it next weekend when I'm back in Tokyo. The city of Tokyo has not done a very good job of promoting this move. They said that the market opens on the 11th. But they didn't say that the market opens to the public on the 13th. There's no signs to help you figure out if you do come on the 11th, where you can and cannot walk. There's angry fishermen who are very good at yelling at people and making you feel like a fish. And then there's a lot of problems with just kind of understanding on the web. There's a lot of problems with the maps. Like Tokyocheapo.com, which has a really good guide. That's my friend's company that does that stuff, Greg. They have some good information on there. But not even they have the map that's in the PDF that I've added into the description.

00:54:20 John Daub: John needs to practice his angry Japanese. I totally do. I need to have some more venom in my Japanese. But it's hard because nice guys don't have venomous anything in Japan. You just kind of speak politely. That guy was venomous. He had some pretty snakish Japanese going on. I bet he's a nice guy. These kinds of situations, you get into a fight and then after 30 minutes, you go and you have a beer and you eat some sushi or something, right? I don't see that. I can understand why he's angry because there's all these people. You don't know if he could be attached to some syndicate. I don't think so. He's just angry because a lot of people that look like me, foreigners, are going through there. But it's not even the foreigner's fault. There's just no sign. But he's frustrated because he can't control it and the guards aren't controlling it either. And accidents could happen. A pedestrian could get struck by a forklift or something right now. There's so much uncertainty that they just don't want you to do that. But they didn't tell you. So I could see why he's frustrated. And I could see why the skateboarders were frustrated. And I was frustrated for two minutes. This just sort of happens. And he was angry at the skater foreigners. But they're actually nice guys. So it happens. Misunderstandings lead to frustrations. Which leads to wars and battles. In the center of the screen, that's why you have to have cool heads prevail.

00:55:54 John Daub: In the center of the screen is Toyosu LaLaport (豊洲ララポート, shopping mall). This is where there's a neat shopping mall with Kidzania inside of it. So if you've got a kid, a couple of kids, they can actually try a job out. Like, they give the kids a job that they can do inside. Like a chef or airline pilot or... There's a bunch of stuff in there. And you can make reservations for it online. If you search for Kidzania Toyosu. Fam, you giggled when you were arguing Japanese. I didn't know what to say. I knew what he was saying to me. But he wasn't... He was just... When you see foreigners' face, don't assume that they speak English. And don't assume that they don't speak Japanese. So if he just explained it to me in Japanese, then I would have been okay. But I didn't know not to walk there. But he sure had some venom in his Japanese. Then he said that I almost walked into a car. He said, because you're talking to me. How am I supposed to know? I walked into a bicycle. Sorry. That was funny. Go back and watch the replay. I'm okay. I don't get angry very much. Yeah, Kidzania is really cool.

00:57:48 John Daub: This did not get very good Google reviews. If you look at the Google reviews. This looks like a cafeteria food lab kind of a thing. I haven't been in there. But this you can see on the walk from Toyosu. And you can see there's a runner going by. But this is where you would walk if you're coming from Toyosu Station to the new fish market. You'd come this way. I would recommend you coming this way along the water because it's so much more scenic than coming the way that they probably tell you which is along the highway. Which makes no sense. Loads and loads of construction going on here. Just to look back here on the city. We do have a really hazy sky today. But you can see all those cranes on the other side of the bridge. That's the Olympic Village that they're still constructing. For those of you who are still watching after almost an hour. Bless you. I appreciate it. I do keep these live streams a little bit longer. Not just because I'm walking back and naturally I could have ended it 30 minutes ago. But because there's people who are always coming online to want to watch this. And I get a lot of comments saying, I just missed the live stream. Well, if I stay on for another 15 minutes, those people will not miss the live stream. They're going to be quite happy being able to have caught history. It is kind of historical to be here.

00:59:09 John Daub: Can I bid a chunk of tuna and ship it to the USA? I don't know. Could that be a side business? Could I go in the morning at 4 a.m. and bid on a tuna, cut it up and freeze it? And send it to people via FedEx? I don't know. What's my markup? Very cool. We're getting to a place where there's a skateboard park up here. And there's also a barbecue area. It's very nice here. I really like this side of the city. Because it's open and free. You don't feel the confines, the really crowdedness of the city of Tokyo. It just melts away on this side. Which is another reason to build it. That round building I believe is the gas museum. I'm going to tell you the history one more time for those that are joining us. So it was in 1997, 1998 that the city of Tokyo was thinking about moving the market from Tsukiji to somewhere else. Or whether or not they renovated. They were discussing this 20 years ago. And they made the decision that they could not renovate because it was too hard in 2001. It would have cost too much. And it would have been so much hassle. Because the building was so old. They didn't know what they would do with the auction and all this other stuff. So they just left it as is. And they were looking for other sites. They decided on Toyosu which was the area of a gas processing plant. I guess it was around 2004. And they moved the gas processing plant. And the gas processing plant did their own assessment of the contaminated ground. And said that it looked okay. But in 2008, after getting those results and not being happy with them, the government of Tokyo found that the ground was contaminated. Then for a while, that news kind of got lost in the shuffle. And they were going to open the market anyways. Until Mayor Koike discovered and saw this information and said, no! No! It's not done yet! We haven't decontaminated anything! Not enough! So they spent two years longer delaying the opening of it from 2016 to now 2018. And now, starting the day after tomorrow on October 13th, the new fish market, which is now about 300 meters that way, will be open to the public. And I might be here! It's on a Saturday, I believe. So, it's going to be very cool to see all the people from around the world coming here for the first time to see the new market and see the tuna auction. The first tuna auction. It's going to be pretty special.

01:02:03 John Daub: There in the center of your screen is LaLaport, which is the shopping mall in the area. That's where I'm walking to take the subway back to the city. But you can see just how open and beautiful it is out here on the river. And this is another reason why you might want to make the trip out to Toyosu fish market. And instead of just seeing the fish market, you can make an entire day on this side of the city. This is the bay side. This is the bay zone. This is the harbor zone. In 2020, when they have the Olympics, this is one of the two zones. There's the legacy, the old area from the 1964 Olympics, and then there's the bay zone, which is all the new places like right here. This is where they're going to be holding many of the venues and the Olympic Village, which is over there. There's something going on there. Check it out. Or it could be a zombie apocalypse in there. They found a victim and they're all taking turns to pounce on people. It's a very weird sight. Very orderly lining up in Japan. I don't know. So that's sort of the history behind it. And all comes to fruition the day after tomorrow. Today is the opening of the market. That's not the official opening. I think they did a tuna auction this morning, so the public will miss that. But it is pretty cool up here. This is where the skateboarding events are going to be held on this island, I believe. Any questions? Not about the zombie picketers above me. Which looks like a scene from The Walking Dead. It does. It looks pretty creepy. Look at those humans on the bridge behind me. That is really creepy, right? Look at them.

01:04:23 John Daub: Alright, guys. So we're going to end this livestream. Thanks for joining me. If you want to write in where you're from, it's always nice for the record to see where everyone who's watching is from. It's fun to see. Don't write any of the planets. Not the seventh planet. The eighth planet. I don't know which one it is. That's where I'm from. Honolulu, Hawaii, San Diego, San Francisco. Hey! Is Tsukiji worth going to now? Tsukiji is worth going to. The Outer Market, if you want to eat fish. The Inner Market is closed. That's all here. But the Outer Market is still there, and the history of the Outer Market is still there. And it's got a pretty cool vibe. They might renovate the area, but I highly recommend, if you're in Ginza, go ahead and walk over to Tsukiji and take a look and have some sushi. You can get some really good deals now. It's never been cheaper than now because they're afraid of losing people. So they're just trying to sell as much as they can. So go to the Outer Market and support them. From Indonesia, California, Vancouver. Wow! Canada, Saskatchewan, Finland, Australia, Melbourne. Queensland. Cool! Malaysia, Philippines, America, Minnesota. From Nihongo, hey! Nihongo Benkyo. England. This is cool. Nagasaki. Wow! One of my neighbors from Earth. Hey, no one's written... Argentina, Denver, Paris, Trekaris. Oh, Trekaris! I know Trekaris. Will angry fishmongers be a part of the 2020 Olympic events? I don't know! They should have a forklift Olympic event where there's forklift turrets go through here. I hope not. The angry forklift drivers are scary, man.

01:06:15 John Daub: I was getting something of an adrenaline rush when he was yelling at me because I wanted to yell back. I said, look, nobody puts John Daub down, okay? I'm going to fight back. That's right. Somebody punches you, maybe not punch back right away, but you think long and hard and then you punch back. That's right. And maybe your kids are watching here, violence is not the answer. It's not. But if you have to protect yourself, then it can be the answer. So these tents here, it's part of a barbecue area that you can come to. It's a little bit pricey, but they have these Coleman tents here with barbecues and picnic tables, and you can rent one. And it's a pretty awesome afternoon if you do that. Right now, there's nobody here because it's still kind of early. But at night, a lot of businesses will do little outings. And yeah, have a good old time. The barbecue. And there's your view. I mean, this is a pretty good view, right? You're sitting in the tent having a barbecue and you got a view of the city. It's great for sunsets. The sun sets over the city from this direction. There's different kinds of tents over there. They look like teepees you can get to. It's kind of neat. That's the gas museum, the round building behind us. And this is the Toyosu area. This is what you can expect here. You can have barbecued fish. You can. There's a supermarket, by the way, guys. There's a supermarket and lots of stores inside of the Toyosu LaLaport and on the other side. So if you do come and barbecue here, be aware, especially on the weekends. You need a reservation for this. Don't try to just come here and be a hero with your family and go, I'm going to barbecue. You can't barbecue anywhere in Tokyo. Open flames, the police will bust you down. That's why it's reserved on the other side of this fence.

01:08:20 John Daub: There's a little kid in the window. So this is a model house area or the set of the Walking Dead Japan version. This could be the town where Rick saves. You can see them in here. Kind of creepy. I want the greenhouse. Everybody gets their own house. This is the Alexandria safe zone. Yeah, look at the big windows. Very cool. I love Toyosu. I wouldn't want to live here. But if there was a zombie apocalypse, maybe you would. It's pretty safe. There's LaLaport. This is a great place to say goodbye. Thanks everybody for watching the live stream. This is fun. We got to see the fish market, get kind of an overview. I started off saying that the most valuable thing in this live stream will be the PDF. Maybe it was my showdown with the fishermen and new friends with skateboarders. But definitely check out that PDF. And if you come here on the 13th, be prepared for some fun and some crowds because it's going to be the first day of Toyosu Market. I don't know if I'm going to be here for that. But if you are, send me a message. Leave a comment below. Let me know what you think. I really appreciate the support. This channel passed 100,000 subscribers last week. Which is really cool. And I appreciate all the love out there. And if you're coming to Japan, I hope that this series is useful for you. Alright guys. Have a good day, good night. Last 20 seconds overlooking the beautiful panoramic views of Tokyo Bay from the Toyosu side. Have a good day, good night, wherever you are in the world. See you next time on the Only in Japan Go channel. I'm not sure where Spaceboat is. Spaceboat does come here twice a day. Just not right now. Bye guys.