00:00:03 John Daub: There is the Shinkansen, one of the last ones to leave Tokyo Station, cruising through Yurakucho on its way to Kyoto and Osaka destinations the other way. Hey everyone, this is the Only in Japan Go channel. Thanks for watching. Ah, here comes the other one, the other Shinkansen. I'm so obsessed with trains, train spotting. This is one of the best places for it. I'm in Yurakucho tonight. We're going to be doing a midnight snack run, or at least hitting the vending machine and seeing what happens. Kind of walking around this area. And what's different from this than other snack runs is that I was in the middle of nowhere before, and now I'm actually in the center of the city. Thank you Tasty Chronicles, I appreciate that.

00:00:49 John Daub: It's a pretty cool scene. There aren't that many trains. There aren't that many people. Typically this area is totally crowded. But on a night like this, Sunday night, yeah, this is what you get in the center of Tokyo. I'm just going to pan around so you can get an idea. Yurakucho is a big square. It's kind of an entertainment area. It's the closest JR station to Ginza. This is how you would get to Ginza from here in the Tokyo International Forum. But at midnight, or just a little bit before on a Sunday, it looks like this.

00:01:34 John Daub: Hey Mix, thank you. I've waited too long for another snack run. Well, wait no longer. And Yoshinoya is a prime suspect right in there. But it's quite crowded, so we're going to give this a little bit of time and see what it looks like in a little bit. Thank you Tasty. Tasty says the drinks are on Tasty Chronicles. Thank you. I appreciate it. So let's go for a little walk around.

00:02:01 John Daub: And you know, the great thing about midnight is that you kind of have the streets to yourself typically, but in the center of the city you see, there still are a lot of people. Tokyo is a city that does kind of sleep, believe it or not. It's not like New York City. And there's another prime target, the Family Mart. We might be back. Just hold on tight. We're just getting warmed up right now.

00:02:29 John Daub: So we're going to be taking a walk through the Lumine building. And on the other side, there's some Christmas lights. And Christmas has already started in Tokyo. That's kind of crazy. It's like Halloween just ended. Like people are still uploading Halloween videos from the events that happened in Shibuya, like less than two weeks ago. And the Christmas stuff is out. Kanae and I went to Costco today. You can see some of the Insta stories that I did on the Instagram, Only in Japan TV. And it was pretty amazing. All the decorations are out. All of the candy for sale is out. Oh, there goes another Shinkansen.

00:03:10 John Daub: All right, but we're kind of focused on this. I love going through this building. I've been doing it. This is the way I've been doing this for years. You cut through here in order to get to Ginza. And we're going to take a quick look and see what Ginza looks like at midnight. And then we're going to wrap around to the vending machine area, I think. So if you're visiting Tokyo, I might see you there.

00:03:41 John Daub: Look at that. See, I told you Christmas is already up. This is crazy. Although this building, which used to be a shopping mall, used to be a cinema, a Toho cinema where they had movies playing in here. It's now Planetarium Tokyo, which is kind of neat. And I guess they kind of, I haven't been in there, so I don't know if it's neat or not. But to me, the decorations outside, a little touch of Christmas, and a little touch of the interstellar, milky way. It's like the city of the future, the pulsing lights, LEDs. Nice. I like this. As you can see, Christmas is alive and well.

00:04:34 John Daub: This is Ginza, Tsukiji-bashi. This is where Jiro's Sushi Shop is located in the basement. Now that, how dare I just say, that would be an interesting midnight snack run. How could I call Jiro's Sushi a midnight snack at $300 a pop? That would be quite a lot of super chats for something like that. But, you know, you never know. Jiro's probably does not have a seat for me down there. This is the Tokyo building, the shopping mall in Ginza. It's really beautiful. It's very nice at night as well. It's all lit up. This is the intersection here. I've walked by there many times, but at night, it's just a little bit more special, isn't it? It's different. The intersection, there's nobody crossing. Here's Ginza Station. This is one of the entrances to it.

00:05:33 John Daub: So there you go. It's actually not, oh, there's a photographer. Let's see. I guess he's taking video. Oh, no, he's like a construction worker. He's like taking video of the traffic patterns or something. Most photographers don't wear helmets. That's what I'm kind of guessing. See, Jiro's is down in the basement there. Wow. This is beautiful. And this building, I think, is the Hermes building. And up there, they have a restaurant. I haven't been up there before. But you can also go up here and get a night view from the top of the Tokyo Plaza building. It's very nice. Indeed. So let's go. Let's get on with it, huh? Thanks, everybody for joining. We have 600 plus people. How cool is that?

00:06:26 John Daub: Downtown Tokyo at night is a totally different vibe from where I've been doing these midnight snacks, as I said opening this up. It's just there's more people here. This is the back alleys of Ginza. And this is where I used to film back there. About 10 years ago, I filmed a video of the Tokyo Plaza building. I tried filming back there, and I had a black car with shaded windows pull up, and they put a stop to my filming. Apparently, yeah, you have to be careful filming at night in this area because there are certain heads of families of syndicates and stuff. That's all I'm going to say about that. Like, if you go in there. If you go into Ginza. Back to Ginza. Back on the other side. Just don't maybe not film there. There's a lot of hostess clubs, and there's a lot of, you know, like, extracurricular activity happening. But there's a lot of people who don't want to be filmed. And if you just have a camera out, it's not the M word. It's more like the Y word. But you just have to be careful. Don't walk around the city filming like me right now. Don't do this at home.

00:07:48 John Daub: There's Jonathan's. Jonathan's is a family restaurant. That's pretty neat. Oh, do you think I can make this light? Should I even try it? Let's do it. Oh, no. It's just three steps. One, two, three. Okay. All right. Thank you. Yeah, we're looking for a snack here. Bright lights. Big city. Jonathan's is a good place. It's usually open 24 hours. That's on the second floor. But we're not doing a family restaurant thing. Now Kanae will be joining me in the next midnight snack run. Kanae is my wife for those of you who are unsure.

00:08:40 John Daub: Yeah, these streets. This used to be a lot of street food, kind of like restaurants that spill out to the street. But on a Sunday, it's sort of not really happening. Let's go take a look and see if the underpass has any yakitori going on. Maybe we can get a yakitori. I'm not sure. No promises on that one. Oh, there we go. You can see like on the street here. It's very cool. They have kind of it spills out into the alleys and you can get a drink or some yakitori after a hard day. But these are all closed left and right. I was kind of expecting maybe more than one in the alley would be open, but we just have that one there. Everything is shut down because it's Sunday night. It's not exactly. Let's go out. Let's go out and celebrate the start of the work week. I mean, nobody goes and celebrates the start of a work week. There's always one guy. One guy there. You can see the Shinkansen passing in the reflection.

00:09:51 John Daub: All right, here we go. Oh, they're closed. Midnight snack downtown is getting hard. We're going underneath the Yamanote and the Shinkansen tracks right now. There are loads of vending machines. It does smell. They did have the yakitori going on. On the left side, they grill some. Some mozuyaki, which is like parts of the pig that are pretty good. I filmed the show in NHK there a while ago. By a while, I mean like 10 years ago. No! Look, I'm telling you, everything is closed. This is Ikinari Steak. This is one of the cheapest steak restaurants in town. I think you can get a ridiculously cheap steak. Now, for those who are here for midnight, this is also one of my options. It just depends how crowded they are because I don't want to film in the middle of the night. I don't want to film if there's a ton of people in there.

00:11:04 John Daub: All right, there seems to be too many people. This is Sushi Zanmai. Sushi Zanmai is a pretty cool place because of one thing. Well, actually several things. One, they got pretty good sushi for the price, but check it out. It's open for 24 hours. Nijuuyonjikan (24 hours). Do you see that? 24 hours and it doesn't have any holidays. It's just always open. So Sushi Zanmai is my go-to sushi place. I wish they'd sponsor me. I totally would. Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh. I got to get some food. This is getting ridiculous.

00:11:37 John Daub: This is a German restaurant. Not the Hofbrauhaus, but it's like the Hofbrauhaus, but it's not. The menu was pretty small. Speaking of which, Kanae and I will be doing an around the world trip and we'll be in Munich on December 17th to December 19th for a meetup. And then we'll be in Paris from the 19th to the 21st. And then we'll be in Reykjavik if you're in Iceland on the 22nd and 23rd. So there you go. This looks nice. The thing is it's just so crowded here. On the right side is the Yamanote Line. On the left side now we have some restaurants. I was introduced to this really late in the game. This is called Torikizoku and Torikizoku is one of the cheapest chains available. Everything is super cheap. In fact, you can get a draft beer for less than 200 yen. I don't know if the beer is any good. In fact, I doubt it, but I was introduced to this by two friends of mine that are new here. And I don't know how they knew it before me, but let's just take a quick look at the menu. Wow. This is ridiculously cheap. I'm suspicious of the quality, but yet it is yakitori and it does look good. We're going to have to get something.

00:13:36 John Daub: All right, here we go. We're going to cross the street right here. But before that, let's get some snacks. I'm a big supporter of the vending machine corner there. I've been supporting them forever. It's just, it's kind of like an institution and you're not going to show that has not gone out of business, but it might. So I really want to protect them and give them all my spare coins. But let's get something right now. I'm going to go into the 7-Eleven and get a snack. Okay. Hold on a second. Let's see here. All right. Any requests? I'm going into 7-Eleven right now. Any requests? What do you guys think?

00:14:41 John Daub: Hey, hello from New York. This is pretty cool. Let's meet in Munich. I'm all for that. We'll be there. Bread. Oh really? Bread. Come on. We do get melon pan. Melon pan is pretty good. Ice cream. Now we're talking. Only Gatti, only Gatti melon pan, custard. Oh, you had me at custard. Yakisoba pan sandwich. When he Gatti not, why would you get not? You don't voluntarily get that in the middle of the night. Hot dogs. We don't have that in here. Taiyaki, sandwich, katsu sandwich, poke, gyudon bro. Oh, okay. I'm going to go get the beer at the vending machine corner. Let's just go in and get some food.

00:15:25 John Daub: Okay. All right. I don't know how we're going to work this, but I don't want to actively film. So I'm just going to put it in beast mode. Okay. We're going in beast mode. I have 1000 yen. This is from the super chats guys. Thank you very much for keeping up with me. I'm keeping the show running. If they do have sushi, I'm actually up for that. Eat healthy. Kiwi fruit. Oh my God. That's Janice from Friends going, Oh my God. Tiramisu choux cream, pasta, yakudon. That's got the spice on it too. And the raw egg. Oh my God. I don't know. Let's try this. It's got a raw egg on there. All right, we're going to try this here. Here's natto. This has natto. All right, we're going to try the one with the raw egg.

00:17:33 John Daub: You don't usually warm it up, do you? I do warm it up. Oh, you do it yourself. I see. Thank you. It's only one minute. Oh, one minute? Yes. Okay. Thank you. All right, so we got to microwave this ourselves. We have to put it in there for one minute. So just put it all in there. I'll take the spoon out. There you go. It says for one minute. It's one minute. All right, it's doing it. Came with a spoon and not chopsticks. Do you think it's going to cook the raw egg that was on top of it? I don't want to do that too much. All right. You know what? We're going to do it early. Boom. This is how we do it.

00:20:33 John Daub: Actually, they have up on the second floor. I like this 7-Eleven because up on the second floor, they actually have a restaurant, which is you can buy the food in 7-Eleven and then you can go upstairs to eat it. That's pretty cool. I wanted to go to the vending machine corner. So you know what? We're going to do that after we do this. Okay. I want to eat this right here. I'm putting the tripod back onto this. I'm really excited about this because I've never seen a raw egg in a 7-Eleven food. I mean, I've seen it like uni or something, but usually it's been processed one way or another. This is a raw egg oyakodon (chicken and egg rice bowl) and oyakodon in itself is one of the most bizarre. Oh yakodon is one of the weirdest Japanese foods because it's chicken and egg. Egg meets the chicken, so it really means like the mother meets the child. That's just cruel. So oyakodon, just the name and the concept is so cruel. It's egg meets chicken. Like, what? Who came up with this idea? Only in Japan, right?

00:21:54 John Daub: Alright, I'm putting it down here. We're going to do an unboxing. Because that's what we do. We unbox stuff. And then we eat it. Because that's what I love to do. Now this is just bad. Look at this. Tiramisu choux cream. Choux cream is a cream puff. Tiramisu flavored. I'm not sure if I'm going to eat this. Yeah, I'm not quite sure if I'm there yet. But I am going to be eating this. Hey, Faye's in the house. Buy something good, John. Faye, thank you. We got this. And Ryan... Gio... Vint... Go... I'm sorry. Hey, finally catching a live chat. Hey, welcome Ryan. Thank you very much. This is what I got. In fact, I'm going to be taking... Oh wow, it's so loud. Check it out. There's a street cleaner. Wow, so this is what happens at midnight. Street cleaning. I thought it was just midnight snack runs. I didn't know we were doing street cleaning today.

00:23:01 John Daub: This is what I call it? iPhone XS? I don't know. But I want to say thank you to somebody. I got a really amazing drawing from Boris. So in a way, this livestream is sponsored by Boris. Boris did this and this is... You can also see this on my Instagram. Only in Japan Go. He did it. It looks like a woodblock print. People who've been going on Instagram have been pushing my chest and seeing if it'll play because the play button's on there. That's just so cool. Thank you, Boris. And you kind of inspired me to get this knife. And I'm going to do a night food run going again. So much appreciated. I'm going to do a quick thumbnail. And I'm going to take it with you guys here. Of this. This is just weird.

00:24:06 John Daub: Alright. This is what it looks like. Oh, that's just not... No, I can do better than that. Did you ever take a picture and like, eh, we can do it again? Yeah. This is what we got here. What do you think? I like this angle that we got going on. Alright, here we go. Check it out. Boom. That's somebody else's booze. I'm not drinking that. Look at it. Is that weird? Why do they have a raw egg on it? I've never seen 7-Eleven bentos with raw eggs before. So, this is the first time for everything. They gave me a spoon, too. And that would make sense because some things you can't really eat with chopsticks. You have to eat it with a spoon. This is one of those things. Anything with rice. Curry rice? Look at that! Spoon? It would have been more fun. It would have been cool if it was a spork.

00:25:28 John Daub: Alright, I like this. And there's a little cutout. That's interesting. A little cutout for this. This is just some extra spice that goes onto it. How cool is that? Alright, we're gonna put this on there. What? This is just so weird. Alright, I'm gonna go now. The spice. Gotta do this right. It comes with spice. You gotta use the spice. This is just weird. What? Look at it! Is that a raw egg? No, it can't be. It's like semi-congealed. That spice must float, right? It's like a little bit more Only in Japan. Alright, it's not really congealed. Could be because I microwaved it for a couple of minutes. I don't know, it looks kinda gross. And actually, you know what? I know it's not gross. It's really good. But oyakodon is one of my favorite foods. But the egg is always gonna be semi-raw.

00:26:53 John Daub: Let's give this a try. Oh, wow. Hold on a second. Oh! Wait! I totally missed this! Come back, come back, come back! I totally missed this. Yep. BWW Irving writes, chemicals? Yeah. I'm almost positive that there are chemicals in this. It's not healthy. Everyone raves about Japanese convenience stores when they come here because it's just weird. And it's good and tastes good. But I wanna point out one thing. The food, it has a load of chemicals in it. And that's why the expiration date is longer. Check it out. Dun dun. Underneath there was the rice! What? Did anybody see this coming? Alright, now this is going on top of... Oh, look at that! Now this is totally different. The mysterious rice underneath there. I didn't see that coming! 7-Eleven got me there.

00:28:09 John Daub: Alright, let's try this out. I'm gonna pan down so then we can... We'll do the squat and eat on the side of the street. 7-Eleven. Here we go. There's pieces of chicken and pieces of egg. And that's what oyakodon is. It's the meeting of the child and the mother. Which is just bizarre! It seems wrong. And yet, it tastes so right. Here we go. Down the hatch. Oh yeah. This is so good. Convenience stores are open most—almost like 99% of them are open 24 hours. Out in the countryside, they might close. But in Tokyo, they're open 24 hours. And the food is so good. But do mind you—and you were right to say that it is loaded with chemicals. Just don't eat it every day that you're here. As convenient as it is.

00:29:14 John Daub: Dinner on the street. At midnight. Do not eat convenience store food the whole time you're in Japan! Non-visitors to Japan! Don't do it! I know you want to and it's easy. Go to a restaurant. Eat proper food. But I had friends here that only ate at convenience stores and McDonald's. Don't do that! But it is good. I can see why you would do that. Here's one with egg. The rice is a little bit hard. I think I should have—that's why you want to microwave it for the entire one minute, I think. The rice is hard. Here's the chicken. It's a little bit hard. It's not bad. I mean, it's really good. Kanai makes a better oyakodon, though. Kanai's oyakodon is way better.

00:30:23 John Daub: Alright. Now, we're going to go in—you're right to say that chemicals. There's loads of chemicals in convenience store food. I never eat it. Just except for midnight snack runs. We're going to go now into this congealed egg. Now, I thought that this was—this was a raw egg and it pretty much is. But we're going to try—we're going to try to eat it. We're going to taste test this now. Okay? How many of you would eat this? It looks better—it tastes better than it looks, maybe. I'm pretty sure it tastes better than it looks. Here we go. Mmm. It got just to that spice that I put on there. Touch of that spice in there was good. Half boiled eggs in Japan are so good. Hanjuku tamago (half-boiled egg). You got to order it on every bowl of ramen. Have one on the side. Order it on everything. If they have it, order it. Pay more for it. It's worth it.

00:31:41 John Daub: Man! How have we not been doing these midnight snack runs for six months? This is the first midnight snack run in six months. Alright. I'm shotgunning this. Okay, guys? Check it out. This is a massive chunk of chicken with congealed egg on rice. So good. I wasn't even hungry. Wow, look at that piece of onion. I wasn't even hungry. Mmm. Alright. Now, ladies and gentlemen, I present to you the most amazing dessert ever. And I think I'm going to be doing a main channel episode on this, okay? Because it's one of my favorite desserts. The choux cream. Yes! It is that cream you put on your shirt. You put it on your shoe to keep it clean? No. That's like the biggest old guy joke. Choux cream is cream for your shoe. But we're going to unpackage this.

00:33:08 John Daub: Now this choux cream—yeah, and definitely click the like button. In fact, I will stop talking and eat this thing if we get to 300 likes right now. We have 900 people watching. We should have 300 likes. If we can get to 300 likes, I'll stop talking and just eat this thing, okay? You want to shut me up? Click that like button. So, this is a cream puff tiramisu. This tastes like tiramisu. It's 130 yen, which is about $1.20. And this one's unique because it has tiramisu taste to it. Usually it's vanilla or custard in a cream puff. Whoa, we hit 326 likes in like five seconds. How do we not do that? Mix, thank you. Mix gives a super chat because it's been six months since the last—I think Mix is liking these runs, huh? He's liking these midnight snack runs.

00:34:08 John Daub: Oh, that smell. Chocolate and cream smell. I want to send this through the signal to you. How do I get that chocolate and cream smell to you? And it's got some volume to it. It's chocolate. There's a hole in it. You can see where they injected the cream in there. It's got some volume to it. Eat it already. I will. But first, like in Japan, we always play with our food. Here we go. Well, don't you want to see what's inside? Oh man, this is insane. They've really stuck a lot of cream in here. It's like mochi mochi kind of—uh oh. It's melting. Oh, it's got that coffee taste to it. No way. Oh man. They've infused espresso in the cream and put a chocolate cream puff pastry around it and made it a little mochi mochi so there's a springiness to it when you put it in your mouth. Oh my god. Check it out. It's totally worth $1.25. This is what I call a happy ending. This is so good.

00:36:12 John Daub: Now, it's high in calories. And if you're going to wash this down with water, you're going to have to wash it down with a beer. Whoa, big truck. If you're going to wash this down with a beer, yeah, you're probably going to have to run tomorrow like 20 miles to get rid of all this, but don't let that stop you. You only live once. This is like my tenth midnight snack run in a year, but you only live ten times. Until the eleventh time. Alright. Guys, I'm going to throw this away, so just stay here, okay? Don't go anywhere. And don't let those guys that are drunk guys shouting—they're going to carry you away. Stay right here. Nice to see you again.

00:37:20 John Daub: Oh, that was so good. Oh, that was insanely good. That took a long time before we got to it. Now, underneath the tracks, there's a restaurant. I can't recommend that restaurant. It's a little bit touristy, and I thought the food wasn't very good, but it's a pretty interesting restaurant that has some history. Alright, we're going to cross the street here. Sorry, that can make you dizzy. It does have some history, that restaurant underneath the Yamanote line, but just keep on going, and you're going to find some even better restaurants underneath the Yamanote line. The mozuyaki that I showed you underneath the Yamanote tracks about 30 minutes ago is an amazing place, and they've been operating for decades. And if you get it on a weekday night, it's all smoky in there because they've got so many—just the smoke billowing out of the tunnels underneath the Yamanote line. This is usually on a weekday when all the salarymen are out there eating, and they're just cooking tons and tons of meat. Man. That was just way too good.

00:38:25 John Daub: So we are past midnight now. A lot of people are making their way to the last train. But what we're going to do is going to jump over these bushes and make our way now to just see if my favorite vending machine shop is open. It looks like there's nobody there. In fact, it looks kind of deserted and kind of gross, actually. This is the vending machine corner that I always go to get a drink. Oh man, I guess I missed the party. Geez, I really missed the party. Ah, that's nasty. Ah, it smells worse than it looks. All right, you know what? I might pass the drink. Ah, that's not like it. Like Tokyo to leave it so messy. This is a beer vending machine. I'm going to go inside here, just take a look, see if they've got anything new. No, there's nothing new. Just Asahi, Super Dry. And some highballs and stuff.

00:39:59 John Daub: Stuff like that. I know Shiga Lynch, there's Shiga. I could go for a juice or something. What do you guys think? What drink should I get? I'm not taking instructions from the viewers—speak, tell me what to get. I can't get this sake though cuz this cup of sake would be yeah. That's a little bit too much maybe I don't know. I know everyone's right and get the sake. Oh gosh, Asahi is really good right? Some Lamont Downey, I believe you. I believe you. Custard Paul, I can't drink custard. They don't—I don't think they have it in a bottle or do they? This is custard color goon goon guru doll. That's interesting. Everyone's writing beer. Who wrote H2O? Somebody get their mother off. Green tea, juice, tea, hot chocolate, sake, get the highball. Ah, kelp is water, tea, apple or peach. All right, I'm gonna get a small beer. I'm gonna get the really small beer because this is just weird. Yeah, they do have Guinness in here. I'm getting a really small beer. They have like this. What do you do? Here's the coins. They have this really small sized beer. It's cute. All right, I'm gonna get that. And the drinking age is 20 guys, so don't drink unless you're 20 years old. And never drink and drive. It's my message.

00:41:31 John Daub: This is—this normal size and this is a small size. Oh look at that, it fits in the palm of your hand. I know smartphones are bigger than this. It's pretty funny. All right, this is just—this is just for guys, this is just to say good night. Okay, I'm gonna do this as quickly as possible because I do actually have a last train that I want to catch. I don't want to be stuck here. I don't live that far away so if I do I can just walk home. In April I moved to the center of the city into Chuo Ward. All right, here we go. Um, this is Premium Malt's. This is made by Suntory. I'm not a big fan of Premium Malt's. I'm more of an Asahi, I'm more of a Sapporo guy these days with the red star Sapporo. Here we go. Come by everybody, good morning on the east coast of the United States. And on the west coast you probably don't want to be doing this but if you do have the refrigerator open you might as well just, you know, join me. Come by. Oh yes, Suntory. The problem with me with Premium Suntory is that it's a little bit too acidic. I like it a little bit—I prefer it more hoppy maybe and a little bit more—let a little bit less acidic, more different flavors, but it's good.

00:43:22 John Daub: Oh, there's the street cleaner again. This is why Tokyo is so clean. You think if I throw this beer can underneath it it'll piss off the driver? No, I'm not gonna do that but I bet you somebody has. Midnight Tokyo street clean. I did—that's not mine. I still got mine here. I didn't do that. Is this a lot of beer cans on the street? Wow, look how clean the street is now. No, all it took—all the cigarettes and tobacco and everything that was sitting around. I just screenshot the street and that's it now. Alright, we got 10 more sugar cans. Just wiped it right up and look at it, it left it... You could eat... well I wouldn't eat off that, but it left it pretty clean. The things that happen in the middle of a city in the middle of the night, huh? It's good stuff.

00:44:24 John Daub: I'm now gonna just take you around this area one more time to give you a quick look at Yurakucho in the middle of the night, because I think most people who come to Tokyo are not out here in the middle of the night. This is just a rare look. That was good. And... There are actually leftover snacks from somebody. So if you're hungry, bon appetit. This is an old beer poster. I like that some of this retro stuff... The beer companies bring back the retro stuff because everybody who's like 60 and over, who probably drinks during the day, they have a connection with these old retro ads. I like them. I'm not 60 and over. So there you go.

00:45:15 John Daub: Now we're well past midnight. This is Big Camera. This is one of the big camera stores. Totally shut down. And in the middle of the night, you have... There's a group of salary guys. Looks like a horde of zombies. The thing with the middle of the night is I wouldn't cross on red lights at big intersections. Just be really careful. Cars do come out in... Especially if you're not familiar with the city, just, you know, wait for the prompt. There you go. Okay. I'm kind of watching too many zombie TV shows recently. So we're gonna cross the street here. I'm gonna take you through JR and then we're gonna make our way to the other side. I'm gonna show you Yurakucho Square. That's where we... Oh, and if you go straight here, it'll take you to Tokyo Station. Either along the tracks or this way, we'll take you to the Maru Building, which is where I was the other day. Very cool.

00:46:30 John Daub: They are fixing up Yurakucho. They do the construction mostly at night. They're fixing up Yurakucho. You can see they're gonna fix it up for the... I think you can just see through the gates. They're fixing up a lot of the stuff in the city for the 2020 Olympics. The amount of construction going on is incredible, but it's done in such an orderly way in the middle of the night that I think by 6 a.m. you don't even know that they've done anything here. The construction just works so well in the middle of the streets. Look at that. But traffic is light until about 6 a.m. Loads of taxis here. I'm gonna go check out the other side. Everyone hitting the last train. But because I live not too far away, we're golden. Even if I miss it, I can kind of walk home.

00:47:36 John Daub: So there you have it. I started this livestream right here and you can see there's like nobody here now. Well, except for those guys. But it's really a lot less than before. And Tokyo really isn't a 24-hour city. This is the center of the gate, Yurakucho. And Tokyo is the center of the city. The subway is not 24 hours. The subway pretty much shuts down around 12:30. This is the entrance to the Yurakucho line and it's closed. JR is running. You can hear the jingle of the Yurakucho station. And there's not a lot of people on a Sunday night. It's really, really quiet. And about 30 minutes ago, because the last train was an hour away and now it's like right now, Yoshinoya is pretty much empty. And Yoshinoya is 24 hours too, right? Check it out. Oh, man. Ah, gyudon. Why do this to me? This is the gyukarabidon. 590 yen or about $5.25 for that. That looks so good too. I'm a big fan of gyudon. Not so much Yoshinoya but the other chain.

00:49:04 John Daub: All right, guys. Thanks for joining me on this live stream. I will do another midnight snack run. It's been a while but it's nice to share with you a little piece of Tokyo in the middle of the night when we get to eat like zombies on something from a convenience store or whatever's open. Next time, Kanae said that she'll join us so that's going to be a lot of fun. This is the Tokyo JR line. You can see we're in Yurakucho which is right there. And Tokyo Station is the 140 yen in the box above it. That's Tokyo in Japanese kanji. Okay. All right, guys. Good night. I hope you enjoyed this oyakodon special from 7-Eleven. See you next time. Thank you very much for supporting it. Click that like button and don't forget to subscribe. Hit the bell for the notifications. And if there is a live stream coming, I usually will put it up at least 30 minutes to an hour in advance. Click the reminder button on it so it'll give you an update 30 minutes before the live stream starts and you'll never miss it. Everybody who's supporting on Patreon, by the way, gets a link also. So before everybody else so join me on Patreon and support there. I really appreciate it. Thanks, guys. Last 20 seconds we'll be following these nice people into the last train. Happy Diwali.