Speakers:

• SPEAKER_00: John Daub
• SPEAKER_01: Kanae Daub

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00:00:01 John Daub: Greetings from Tokyo. Hello, everybody. I don't think that these trees got the message. It's not 100% bloomed yet. What? But this is one of the moats here in Tokyo, right outside of Kudanshita Station, which is the Toei Shinjuku Line and the Hanzemon Line. What is this place called? Kanai. I mean, look, not even the cherry blossoms that are stuck inside of the trunk of the tree are blooming yet. Look. Not quite there yet. No. This supposed to be 100%, as you can see. We're gonna take you around this area. Yeah, like, like. No, it's. It's only like 70%, 75%, but you can see the traffic pattern. People really do walk on the left and. And come back on the right, which is pretty cool with Japan. And it's actually, there are police officers, sort of like Rent A Cops that are here to make sure that the traffic patterns go smoothly. That's Japan for you. All right, the straight ahead is one of the famous scenes where you have all of the boats paddling in the water, people on dates as those beautiful white cherry blossoms just surround you with this nature of like, snow, winter, spring. Do you come here every year?

00:01:32 Kanae Daub: Yes.

00:01:35 John Daub: Yeah, it's a very convenient place because there are lots of train lines that come to this area, and it's not as crowded as some of the other places. But this weekend is the weekend. This is the big one, everybody. So if you're here in Tokyo, you're going to want to come to this place. There we go. True story. Kitanomaru Park It's a garden, all right. I came here last year and earlier this year, just a couple of weeks ago, and they weren't bloomed at all. So this is a huge, huge. These are 100% or very close to it, like 90. 90. These are 90% bloomed. And we'll get a chance to take a closer look at some of them. It's been cold, though. For those of you who are coming to Tokyo, please be advised that in. In March, the weather, the temperature goes up and down all the time. And every year it's the same. It's hot, like in the 20s, like upper 60s, and then it's low down into the, like, upper 40s. That's nice here. So from what I understand, the some Yoshino trees, then that's a variety that most of Tokyo, they live for about 60, 70 years, and then they start to wither. So the big ones are probably around 60 years old. The other varieties of sakura trees will last a lot longer, hundreds of years, but the Some Yoshino ones don't last very long. And I know this because I researched it before. I'm not a botanist, but I did research just a little bit. It's beautiful. I love how the sakura on the Somayoshino kind of grow out of the trunks and little teeny sprouts like that. Do you see that on the bottom of your screen? All right, let's go to the other side. That's even more impressive.

00:03:42 Kanae Daub: It's. Should you see that yellow one?

00:03:44 John Daub: Oh, yeah. Flower.

00:03:46 Kanae Daub: So it's too cold. This season we can enjoy yellow flower called Nanohana and sakura collaboration.

00:03:55 John Daub: Oh, yeah. So there's a little bit of yellow, but they're not out yet because it's been so cold the last couple days. Are you cold? Uniclosed HE tech. That's right. I buy nothing but the best. Stay warm, everybody. All right, let's go to the other side. And that's even more impressive. This is one of the more famous views, and I'm saving this for. For after showing the other side because it's just a little bit more special. We're waiting for everybody to get the notification and join us live. Let's walk over here. Everyone's got their smartphones out, taking the selfies and the photos to get to get a view. That famous view. Oh, real nice. Oh, it's so cold. There aren't a lot of. A lot of daters out there just

00:04:51 Kanae Daub: smooching underneath the cherry glasses.

00:04:58 John Daub: It's just too chilly to be out there. I think it's about. All right. Eight or nine degrees Celsius, which is like under 50, maybe. All right. And there's a new boat in the competition. It's a family boat come to destroy the love love of those underneath the trees. To the right, to the left, all around. Game of pros in the house. Ciao. It's nice. Do you want to ride the boat?

00:05:34 Kanae Daub: I don't know. I have never tried it.

00:05:37 John Daub: You've never tried the boat because you don't know? Oh, all right. If you look on the other side, do you see there's a line of people that's in front of the Indian embassy, actually, I think there's some street food. Kanai. Yes. I wonder if they have Indian street food. I don't know. I've never gone to that side during the cherry blossoms. So, guys, you know what this means? The title of this video might have changed From Sakura at Hyakupusen 100 Full Bloom to Street Food Street Food Episode Another Street Food binge and I'm starving. Yeah. It is really nice here.

00:06:22 Kanae Daub: Is very close from water.

00:06:25 John Daub: Yeah. The sakura living right off of the water. You can see it's very close. Very close. What happens when it touches the water? Game of Pro maybe after. In one week. Yeah.

00:06:39 Kanae Daub: So sakura flower is.

00:06:43 John Daub: Yeah. They're gonna fall off like a sakura liver. Yeah. It's gonna make a whole. This water that you see here in about 72 hours is going to be just white with petals. And that starts the second stage. And it's going to be really beautiful. I think we're like at 90% bloomage. So tomorrow will be good. Which is good actually because it's supposed to rain. I see. I do see some petals. There's a light breeze. I do see some petals falling from. From the trees. But it's nothing like the flurry that you get. The blizzard that you get when they've hit 100 and the first rain makes them fall. The first little breeze makes them fall. But it's a beautiful scene here. That's a tongue twister. If you say it ten times with me. That's hard for you. It's hard for me. Just say it 10 times. Can you do it? See? Just one time. You gave up too early. See what I mean? It's not that easy. Huh? I think it's so simple. It's complex. Look at those people. No one's smooching. They go underneath there to hide from people. That's where the kissing action happens. I'm just saying that because I'm an immature 45 year old man. All right. Let's go to the. Let's go up a little bit. Take a look at some more of the cherry blossoms. I guess maybe we should go over. I know it's really hard to take the photos. Let's just show some of the blossoms up by the gate. And then we're gonna go over there for Gamer Pro to check out the street food. Much appreciated. Brother. It is really nice that this is an angle that you don't see the nasal angle. But the blossoms really are beautiful. And this is the gate into Kitanomaru Park. Going into the Budokan which you can just see the roof of through the gate. It is very beautiful. All right. Let's turn around. We don't have to go all the way through there. Go to the Indian Embassy. That's where I get my OCI card. All right. Let's turn around here. Back the way we came. It is. It is very nice though, right now. But for those of you who are. Who are kind of worried, you can tell the tourists they're walking on the wrong side of the road, but. Yeah, you could. There's a big difference between the Some Yoshino and the other cherry blossoms that bloomed seem to be bloomed really early. But those who are worried about missing it. I think you're gonna be just fine. But do realize that Tokyo blooms earlier than other cities in Japan. It's just because it's warmer and the countryside is cooler, especially in the mountains, where it blooms a month later than Tokyo at night. This is also a pretty stunning site. You got to catch it probably tomorrow night or maybe tonight. And you can see Tokyo Tower in the distance, illuminated with the white flowers of Chitorigafuji. I'm saying pretty good now. Chidoriga Fuchi. After you said it like a dozen times. It's like second nature now. Tons and tons of tourists. You know, 20 years ago, when I first came to came here, there weren't that many people. This is a Saturday. We're in search of food. Hey, Matsumi's in the house. I see. This is Matsumi's gimbal. She bought it for me. Oh, look. It's like steamed Nikuman Kana. You want a Nikuman? Smells good. We got it. We have to investigate. We're investigating the food scene on the other side. We saw a ton of people. That must mean that there's food now. Over on the other side of Kitanobaru park and Chidorigafuchi is Yasukuni Shrine. You can see there the Tori, the gate right here. And traditionally there was street food there, but I think they might have gotten rid of. Seemed like they've cracked down on alcohol as well. Because people would be boozing right outside in the shrine. Nothing wrong with that. But they. They have a lot of signs and looks a little bit kibishin these days. Kibishi means strict. Oh, this is beautiful here. Kanai. Look at this right outside. Yeah. Let's take a look at this tree. It's not as popular as the other trees. Therefore, it shall receive a hug. Wow, this is. It's not quite bloomed here. You can see it's. Yeah, they're just blooming right now, these cherry blossoms. So, yeah, you know, tomorrow might be the day for 100% bloomage. But if you look at this and the white behind it, it's pretty. Pretty. It really is. See what? See your skills here. Not bad. Not bad at all. Trackers is in the house. Yes. Pig bloom will occur Monday and Wednesday here in Washington, D.C. wow. It's pretty similar. So everyone who was worried about missing it. Don't worry. There's so many different varieties as well. Even if this so many Yoshino are gone, you will have other variety. Oh, that's so nice. Soak that in, everybody. Can I. Jason just bought us lunch. Date night. Thanks, Jason. Yeah, it's coming soon. Hey, Queen of tacos is in the house. I'm so envious of your view. Always nice to see both of you. Perhaps you can use this for some street food. We absolutely can. We absolutely can. Thank you, Jason. Just so you know, I have brought your postcard with me, and it's now going to be sent this exact one. So look for it in your post box. As soon as April starts, I'm putting it on the cherry blossoms. Look at this. Your postcard is celebrating cherry blossoms, Jason. There you go. I better take it off. I don't want to damage them. All right. From cherry blossom to your mailbox, my friend. Good. Yeah, you don't want that pose where you. You're staring through the cherry blossoms. Yeah, but you're not in focus. Hold on. That's silly. Don't be silly. There you are. Okay. Wonderful. See the crowds of people here? It's a popular place. I would. I'm afraid to see what Nakameguro looks like right now. Nakamegudo is. Is the most popular place in Tokyo in the city. And. Oh, check it out here. There you go. That's what I'm talking about. Like that. Let's. Let's just take. Can we look from there, Right? So why is everybody flocking to there? You have to plan this strategically. Well, that gate's busted. Oh, you can't see anything from there. All right. We better show the show our posse of 500 strong. What's everyone taking pictures of? It's everyone taking pictures out here. There we go. I bet you that boat feels like we're all paparazzi just taking pictures of them. They're going, oh, how do we get privacy? Can't get privacy. Look at. We have to. You have to get away from here. You know? Can I. If we get a boat, I'm doing an old school rowboat. What? I'm gonna do the rowboat, not the paddle boat. You gotta earn it. You know what I mean? You work hard and you earn it. The way it goes. Hey, Faye's here. Very nice job. I love seeing the blossoms with you and Kanai. Thanks Fay. Thanks fay. That's nice. Emmer580s thanks for showing us around. Excited to see Tokyo and May. That'll be a good time too. May is. Has wonderful weather here. Way has. May has really good weather. And a Shuffington's here too. Thank you very much. All right. This is really nice scene. And this is looking back at the gate of Shirigafuchi. That's the gate towards Kitanomaru park here. The closest station is Kuranshita. Let's get out of here. They were lining up behind me. I was. I was showing you guys this. This view and there was a line four people deep behind me for that position. People are so respectful in Japan. If this was another country, they'd be pushing me and say, get out of my way. I gotta take the picture. I'd be going like this with the camera because people would be. People would be pushing me to get that shot. They were. Yeah, very polite. This is the other view. Apparently somebody tried to break through to the other side. Break on through to the other side. Break on through. Break on through. Couldn't do it. Oh, look. Are they trapped? Do you need help? Somebody call down. Do they need help? Maybe they're stuck on the bank. Wow. We need like a Louis Armstrong song. I don't know how that one goes. Someone from the James Bond on your Majesty's Secret Service. I like that song. It's romantic and just. If you keep paddling, sir, you'll have more blossoms to celebrate over there on that side. And a lot more privacy. Oh, I think that's the ferry down there. Kanai. These people over there. These people really went far to get to the paparazzi area. All right, let's go back. All right, let's go back here. Wow, Are these tour buses? No, that's a city bus there. Yeah. Look at all the people. All right, let's see what we can get in terms of food. This seems to be the food area of. I guess maybe because they can't go inside there to celebrate. These Sakura. Wow. They're lined up. Look at the people lined up to go and take the pictures. I told you, there's copper like a rent of cops here to make sure that it goes smoothly. What is this line for?

00:18:43 Kanae Daub: It's for us.

00:18:45 John Daub: It's for people. If it gets too crowded, they have like a Disney esque lineup. So you can line up and take a good picture. So I'm gonna. I'm gonna bring you guys with me. And show you what everyone is taking a picture of. Wow, there's a lot of people. It's gonna take a little bit of time. He's telling us don't stay there too long. All right, guys, we don't have a lot of time. I want you to soak it up. We gotta take the pictures and go. We're supposed to take the pictures and go. We're not allowed to linger. That's crazy. Can I get your shot? Can I got a nice camera. We just have an iPhone. Xs. Hi, guys. Soak this up. This is where the thumbnail is from. See the thumbnail? This is it right here. That's nice, huh? I could just soak this up, but there's people behind me waiting. Five deep now. Three, two, one. We're out of here. Oh, can I. Already took off. Where'd you get the picture?

00:20:26 Kanae Daub: Good, good.

00:20:30 John Daub: That's funny. The Rent A cops are telling us they're called K. Bean, right?

00:20:35 Kanae Daub: Yes.

00:20:35 John Daub: So the cavemen are telling us to. To not linger and to keep moving and to take your pictures again. There's other people waiting. It's really funny that they need. They need crowd control. It's very light crowd control too. Very polite crowd control. It seems that this. This line is going towards something, and then it makes a right. So I. I guess this is the standard route in Japan. There's a route that people usually take. So you're getting the complete Chirorigafuji park tour today. Thanks for. Thanks for joining us on this amazing tour. As you see the people enjoying. Actually, Kanai, the most relaxing place is probably in the water. Yeah. On a boat.

00:21:26 Kanae Daub: Yeah, I know.

00:21:28 John Daub: It's quiet, it's relaxed. Yeah. Romantic. It's a Louis Armstrong song. Okay. There's a map here. Can I. Okay. All right. This shall be clear not just to us, but to everyone watching. Oh, wow. That's a good idea. Save paper. Don't give out maps to everything. Just put it here in big scale. All right. As I was saying, there's the Embassy of India, which has prime real estate in Tokyo. Right in the middle of the cherry blossoms. I wonder how they swung that. So we've walked. We've walked from here all the way up around to here. So we're right near the India embassy. Wow. So this. This actually, it goes pretty far. Kanai. Yeah, I'm. I thought it just. Just this area. I've never been this way. Greenway. I guess we gotta do it now. All right, let's do this. And there's Yasukuni Jinja, which also has a ton of trees. You can see the last video I made here last week on the Tokyo index tree, which is the first tree that blooms. Oh, did you see that? The cherry blossom bus. The cherry blossom bus. All right, so we got a lot of people from India watching. Namaste. And here's your embassy. Here's your embassy. I would sing the Indian national anthem, but I've never heard it sung before. I think it's because of the Olympics. I don't know. We need more. Oh, they have notification. Is strictly forbidden to use alleys for picnics. So no hanami. This is important to hanami visitors. You cannot do hanami here. It's just too crowded. Chota city regulations is strictly forbidden to smoke. All right. No smoking here. By the way, they actually have seen fines. People getting fined for it. It's strictly prohibited to sell food, drinks, and items in this area. Offenders will be moved by force. What kind of force? I'm not gonna find out. I'm not going to find out. That's just. That's enough. There's no food here. Do we go or do we stay? All right, Walk this way. Should we talk this way, too? Yeah, just walk this way or talk this way? Just give me a kiss.

00:24:10 Kanae Daub: We can try a little bit.

00:24:12 John Daub: She doesn't get it. All right. Aerosmith. All right. We're in the usual route, walking in front of the Indian embassy right now, which has prime real estate. One of the most beautiful sakura spots. Yeah, one of the most beautiful sakura spots in all of Tokyo. Oh, and they illuminate this. At night. You can see the lights on the left side here. So we're now going underneath the sakura tree. It's almost like a tunnel here. Very nice. It's almost like a tunnel. There's a light breeze now. A lot of people here. All right. Since we're going past the Indian embassy, I thought I would just swing over there. For our viewers, this is what the. Your embassy looks like in Tokyo, Japan, with the incredible India banners advertising. Please come to India. Thank you for sneezing on me. It's nice. And if any of you actors that are. It is a beautiful embassy. If any of you actors are on the billboard, please chat in right now. Say hi. This could be any one of you watching from all over the amazing country of India. Good. There it is. The flag is flying high, too, by the way. All right. I did get sneezed on. It was kind of gross. Supposed to do the. When you see. Supposed to do the. The Ninja cover. He didn't do the ninja cover. Might be a tourist. Although actually not everybody has amazing manners like Kanai. That's beautiful too. Look at these flowers. That's not a cherry Bloss. Oh, see? And most like in most places they have a sign explaining what it is. I don't know what that is, but it's nice. It's very nice. So it's strictly forbidden to sell food here. What a shame. Because I'm starving. Let's go a little bit longer. I want to find out where there's boats where we're come being launched from. What are they selling? Oh, donation for Sakura. For what? What are we donating for? Because it's Sakura are beautiful. And here's some money. Oh, I can get behind that. Look at that. I can get behind that. Use the force and get rid of. Use the force and get rid of the crowds. They are not the cherry blossoms you're looking for. I like this. I love how in the so Yoshino trees the blossoms just bloom out of the trunk like that. Life finds a way. To quote Jurassic park, it is quite crowded. I'm glad that the signal seems to be pretty strong. But if you are in Tokyo, you can come here at night too. Because on the left side you can see on these sticks of wood are lights. So it is illuminated. And that's. You know, when you do look at the cherry blossoms at night. When you do look at the cherry blossoms at night, it really does look like it snowed. Sure.

00:28:33 Kanae Daub: Yes.

00:28:35 John Daub: And it's odd especially. Yeah. And you know, not. Not. Not everywhere in Tokyo will illuminate them up. But this. Actually I did not know about this. I don't know why. But you can see they have like these really powerful LED lights pointed up. So we gotta come back at night now. I guess. Come back tomorrow maybe. Yeah. Night. Hanami is awesome, but they are very strict. You cannot sit here and drink and. And eat. You can't put down blue sheets, which is what a lot of people will do. They'll put blue sheets down and then you'll picnic. You can't picnic here. Oh, wow. It is. It is pretty much like a tunnel. I'm just going to be quiet for a minute. Just enjoy the. Enjoy the walk, everybody. It. Wow. It's a lot of white. Be more beautiful if it was a blue sky. It's a big lens. Wow. These look. These look closer to 90% than a hundred percent. So they're still. So this weekend's is a big weekend. I guess we can Go to Nakamaguru. Yeah. We can try to go to Nakamaguru tomorrow morning. That's why we should go in the morning before all the tourists wake up. Jump on the train. Very nice. Cross over. He's telling people not to linger. There's a staff member. Keep moving. Can I. Don't linger. Take it and run. Good. All right. Let's get out of here. That's right, Peter. Look and go. Smile. Click. Move. I'm looking. Angles photography. Can I. If we look down here, we can see there's more romantic boat goers.

00:32:11 Kanae Daub: Nice.

00:32:12 John Daub: Yeah. That branch looks like it's not going to make it. Look at that one, dude. He's just like smartphoning. And she's doing all the paddling. That's not right. She's gonna hit him with the paddle. She's gonna hit him with the paddle or something because he's smartphone in. Look. Do it.

00:32:43 Kanae Daub: He's resting.

00:32:45 John Daub: Totally do it. Do it while it's online. It's getting like a million views. Do it. Just kidding. Just kidding. Sort of. It would be cool if she did do it, but she's not gonna do it. No violence, people. This is a romantic, romantic thing. The boats are probably sold out. According to Ken. That's real pessimistic, Ken. But it's probably true. You're probably tr. All right. We're walking towards the boats. We're gonna figure this boat thing out for all of you and for. For us because we might come back and take a boat or we have to get there early. Very early. Talking like 7am early tomorrow. Tomorrow is Sunday. Sunday is fun day. Everyone is off on Sunday. I'm not off. I just uploaded a new video last night. Night. Wow. I'm digging this pace that everyone is walking. Oh, it's like very slow walk. It's a natural pace of the people. This is Chidorigafuchi. Chidorigafuji is accessible by Kuranshita Station, which is the Toi Shinjuku Line or the Hanzaman Line. And this is going around the moat. The Tosei Line as well. Yeah. Good. Good call. Jinpocho is about a 10 minute walk. And Ichigaya is not too far away. But this is central Tokyo's Cherry Blossom Festival. There's a. There's a. Maybe about five really good places like this. And this is one of them. Nakameguro is by far the most popular. That's where they just opened up the world's biggest Starbucks. And I heard there's a three hour wait to Get a seat in there. Three hours. They're waiting for three hours to get into that star. No, no. Yeah, just for the Starbucks. You have to get a ticket and come back. It's crazy. A gamer pro writes in how long will the cherry blossoms last? I will reach Tokyo April 6th. I don't think they're going to be here much in Tokyo. There'll be some varieties that bloom late, so just take. Get on a train and go a little bit inwards, go towards the mountains in the countryside and you'll find them blooming. For example, hirosaki blooms around the 20th of April. And it's so beautiful. It's even more beautiful than here. I've got a couple of live streams from two years ago at Hirosaki Castle, and it's just absolutely beautiful. They have a wonderful Sakura tunnel. There's the. Yeah, I say the boat place. Now there's no vendors at all. Chris, I'm very disappointed. And Kanai and I are starving and we want to go buy something because we got some lunch money from everybody. So we're gonna. We're gonna try to find something. We're just walking, stuck in traffic. There's a lot of traffic here. But it is a beautiful, beautiful walk. It's a good pace. Nobody stops. Everyone's very polite not to just suddenly stop and you just hop. You can wobble at this PA. If you want to skip. You'll be breaking the law. You have to hop, wobble. Just kind of shift your body left and right. Take small step. That's what the gimbal's for, to stabilize the wobble. That's what you pay for. A lot of people. The good thing about this, if this was a line at Tokyo Disneyland, I'll be pretty happy because it doesn't stop, it just keeps moving. So this would be a fast pass line because it just keeps moving, right?

00:37:29 Kanae Daub: Yes, that's right.

00:37:30 John Daub: Yeah. I speak the truth. That's one of our viewers, Solaire's. He likes it. Likes. Disney probably could attest to that. Oh, look, they've stopped. They're breaking the law. Take and move, click and go. It's the rules. I didn't even click Filming. No click. You're not taking any pictures. Really? I like how you edit yourself before you even take the picture. You're like, nah, it's not worth it. How could this not be worth it? You have like a 64 gigabyte memory card. I'd be taking 100 pictures and there. Oh, yeah, that's what you're talking about the yellow with the white. So this is Kanai's suggestion. You come here not just for the cherry blossoms, but for the nanahana, which is the mix of the yellow with the white. You like this collaboration? They've collaborated. These two flowers are working together as collaborators. Spring has come. When you see it, that's good. It's a good reasoning. It smells like spring. These yellow flowers have a really pungent smell. Click and move. Click and move. That's two clicks saying, Oh, there's the boats. Now I can see. Now I can make it out clearly. It does look like a Disney ride. It looks like it's. This is like a Disney ride. So are these all. All these people lining up for the boat? Can I. There seems to be boats. Can I. There seem to be some available. The swan boat's open. Oh, the swan boat's open. It's the boathouse. Looks like the. Look like the entry to a ride at Disney. He's got an old school. He had an old school selfie stick supported by the two rubber bands. I should do a live stream on other selfie sticks. Wow, this is really nice. I'm gonna step. Can I. I'm stepping off here. Wow. It's being presented to you in glorious 720p live stream quality, which means could be better, could be worse. If this was two years ago, it would have been worse. At least we got some news. Oh, yeah, that's a good one. Hold on a second. All right. Can I show us your picture? It's pretty good. Yeah. This branch looks a little dead, though. Oh, sorry. That's your shower shot we took earlier. Sorry, just kidding. I love the romantic boats in the background. This is a nice picture. Can I look at this screenshot? Click. Supposed to move on, but I'm just gonna sit here for a minute. I like how you can see the traffic in the background. That. That's another artery of the city. But this one, I'd say 90 bloomed. The thing though, when it gets to 100, is that once they get to 100, then they start to fall. So this might be perfect. This might be perfect. I'm gonna swing over here. Are you allowed to pick flowers, Chris? No, I wouldn't try. I bet you a grandmother would whip me, take her bag and say. And just hit me on the head with it and say, how dare you pick nature? It will fall off naturally. Let us all enjoy the flowers yet the cherry blossoms in Japan, a lot of people have a big connection to it. And I said in an episode of Only In Japan, that Japanese have more of a connection to nature than other people. That's a very generalized statement. But there's a word that I like to go back to called mononu aware, which is a kind of a Buddhist term. There's a connection with nature. The trans. Transnations. I can't. I forget the word. But it's just a connection that. A deep, strong feeling to nature that people in Japan have. And the mono no wa is actually a Wikipedia on it. And samurai would watch this. And if you're. When you're prepared to die, then you, you appreciate life a little bit more. A lot more, I guess. And that might be. They might have some sort of connection with the cherry blossoms. Because the cherry blossoms, life is so, so short. We're only all just here for an instant, just for a moment, and then we move on. Yeah. See, we got. We got the community filling in the blanks of what I was just saying. But yeah, there is a Wikipedia with the mono awareness. Being Japanese, do you have a strong connection to nature? You are a city girl.

00:43:34 Kanae Daub: Yeah. I, I, Yeah, I born.

00:43:36 John Daub: You're born in Tokyo. Do you have a strong connection to the nature?

00:43:43 Kanae Daub: Yeah.

00:43:44 John Daub: Why are you thinking about it? I'll be like, yeah, because I'm city.

00:43:48 Kanae Daub: So Tokyo is not much nature city.

00:43:54 John Daub: Yeah.

00:43:58 Kanae Daub: Love nature.

00:44:00 John Daub: Sometimes when it's convenient, you're not. I know it's hard to get you to go camping. She's not a big camper. Yeah, because I forced you to camp. Said camp. If you want to come. Oh, you like the green color. So you don't like the purple, then I'm putting words in her mouth. That's it. You know, I think we're getting close to our first anniversary, but I think she's starting to get the references because we both came from different cultures. So, like the, the Aerosmith references she doesn't get. Or Star wars references she doesn't get so much. So we have to work on these references. But I don't. I don't get a lot of the Japanese references either. So it's. There's that always moment of hesitation. Like, what did. What does that all mean? Why is everyone laughing? Oh, it's a cultural reference from an era I wasn't here. It's all right. Nice. All right. Looks like 144p. That's not a good sign. I'm. I'm gonna try to get to a clear area, but I think there's a lot more people on their smartphones here. So we've reached an area that might be a dead spot. So let me see if I can get away from there. Yeah, but I think we're gonna end this live stream very shortly. I just wanted to share with you little piece of. Of Tokyo's cherry blossoms at the peak. This is one of the most beautiful places in the city. Tokyo. I would not recommend as being your primary cherry blossom place. I think if you. If I think the parks are not. Are nice in Tokyo, but they're not the same as going out to like, you know, to the countryside. It's not like going to Hirosaki and Aomori and seeing, seeing that festival. This was amazing. Or going out to the countryside where you have a place like this, you have cherry blossom tunnels, but there's nobody there. There might be five people. And that's when you connect with nature. Here. I'm connecting with the other million people that are here. Some of them probably need to take a bath. Or is that me? I'm not sure. It's a mix of humans and flowers. This is not potpourri. But what I'm trying to say is that when you got to the countryside, you'll have this. The same type of thing. Well, with no people and no crowds, and you'll be able to hear the chirping of the birds and the nature and the rustling of the. Of the blossoms as the wind sort of blows through them. And if you close your eyes, you can hear it all. And that's more outside of the city of Tokyo. If I close my eyes, I'm just gonna hear. I'll hear some birds and a thousand people. And that's. That's sort of the reason why Tokyo is. Will never be in my top 10 or 20 of cherry blossom spots. It's just not natural enough. I heard a bird. All right, that there's the problem. Everyone is on this platform taking pictures and uploading to live stream, to live to social media. That's a lot of people. Do I even dare go up there? All right, we gotta. We have to do it. I'm fighting for the 500 people watching. We're gonna fight for you. We're going it. We're going up here.

00:47:29 Kanae Daub: You going?

00:47:30 John Daub: Yeah. You're not going. You have to fight. Look, we have to earn. Earn our lunch. I know we can do this. We're fighting to get to the top. These people have given up. They're leaving. We're fighting. Or is there. There could be a rent a cop telling us I'm coming up here because I've never been up here before. So if I'm coming up here for the first time, it's better to do that with all of you than it is, you know, when I'm by myself, I don't want to come up here by myself. So I'm bringing the 509 people watching. Oh. And that's why they're watching. This is really nice. All right, I'm gonna extend. I'm going to extend the gimbal up. It's nice, huh? That's nice. That's nice.

00:48:36 Kanae Daub: Yes.

00:48:37 John Daub: These people are not clicking and moving, though. They're not clicking and moving. They're lingering. There's not enough officers of the rent a cops up here. I'm gonna give you. We're gonna have a good 10 seconds together. Okay? So get in here and have some 10 seconds. And we're gonna stick and move. Kanai, you want a picture? Sticking. Oh, that guy got in there. This is hard work. He's got body checked. All right, we got our 10 seconds. Hear the boats down there. Very nice. So many boats. This is like Tokyo at rush hour, except there are no lines. This could be like in a highway in Mumbai. There are no lines on the road. It's just chaos. Everyone's honking, but they don't even have horns. It'd be better if they had horns. They're just bumping in. This is like bumper boat. Actually. This is more interesting than the blossoms. Just watching the boats. All right, I'm getting body checked in the back. So I say I. I have to click and move. Click and move. Click and move. See what I said? Click and move. We can move. Click and move. Just getting body checked. That's fun to watch the boats. It's just chaos at the. I bet you. I bet you it takes like forever to get back in. Check out the line. Check out the line. The boat. That's a boat line. Ken was right. The boat line is crazy. Ken was right. I don't think we're gonna get a boat. Even if you want a boat. This is worse than Disney. And it's not a space boat. Kcn. This is just those boats. It's a mosh pit for boats. Those people probably been waiting all day. I don't want to wait all day.

00:51:01 Kanae Daub: I think it's not all day because there are many boards.

00:51:05 John Daub: Yeah. That nice lady, she's holding on for dear life. I'm clinging to the left and the right. Five minutes to the oars. Now she's comfortable. It's. It is a little bit nerve wracking. Getting, Getting it off of the, off of the pier. But it is moving pretty fast. The line is moving fast. They put you in the boat and they kick you off. They should have. I want to see somebody with high heels get on the boat. That's next. Only in Tokyo. Only in Tokyo. Yeah. Because someone will come in with high heels and jeans and sit. Try to. Try to navigate onto the boat with high heels is crazy. Chris, that would be totally awesome if you could just bring your own boat. And then there's all these different styles of boats in here. You wouldn't even see the water if that was possible. That would be pretty cool. Bring your own boat. Just blow it up. My friend has an inflatable kayak. Let's get out of here. I have a friend with an inflatable kayak and we tried. It was. It was in 2005. We blew. We inflated his inflatable kayak for two and we started paddling from the one of the canals into the Semita River. And it took about 10 minutes before a police boat with sirens came and told us to get off of the Sumita River. It was pretty funny. I mean we were scared to death. It's funny now. It wasn't. It was. It was pretty interesting to be kicked off of the river. I think it was also because we didn't have life jackets on maybe. I mean, you know, it's Samita river. It's. You need life jackets. I guess so I'm sure you do. Safety first. I'm somebody who rode, rode down Japan's scariest road terrifying bridge without a helmet. And half of the comments are John Ware helmet. But nobody wears a helmet in Japan riding a bicycle. Very rare hard heads. Helmet usage just might be the lowest in Japan. Oh look, we've got. Oh I love this too because we got the brand new green color. The new hapa. I love that, that brand new green color to the trees. Thank goodness winter was over. It still feels like winter. Everyone's got winter jackets on cuz it's about 8 degrees C which is under 50 like 40, 49 degrees felt Fahrenheit but oh, this is the different variety of sakura. It's now. Yeah, Hazakura is hapaha. Yeah, the hapa is Hapa means leaf. Well they do it in, in four languages. Line up for the boat pier. Thank you officer. One and a half hours. One and a half hours. Actually that's better than Tokyo Disneyland. Just slightly because one time we were at Tokyo Disneyland there was a line of four and a half hours for the volcano ride. Do you remember? No. You were there. They wanted four and a half hours and there was no more fast pass. Four hours and 30 minutes to ride it. And it was all students with lots of free disposable time. I would have paid to ride that. Just not to wait. Because what is your time? What is your time really worth? You ever thought about that? In high school kids, their time seems to be worth minimum wage. Okay. Should we donate? All right. Let's donate something. Good. We have donated to the cause Protect and Serve. All for protecting the cherry blossoms. And it's a good thing that they're doing. It's a good thing they're. They should try to do everything they can to protect the beauty of these cherry blossom trees. And it's not free to do that. It's cost money. Again. It's so much better with blue skies and because right now the sky is brighter than the trees. That's why nighttime is such an amazing time to see the cherry blossoms. Because they're even. The contrast is amazing. They're even brighter. It's even easier to see the white of it when at night. Actually you know what? Tonight I might do a special live stream and take one of my lights and go to one of my favorite trees and I'll show you the blossoms at night. And this is the way I celebrate. Hanami. I will just take a light and I go out to a quiet tree after everyone is gone. And I just look around the tree. Enjoy the blossoms. That's what I do. That's my way. What's your way? Leave a comment below. So this is where we just walked. Yes. You pleasure at you pleasure at night is really nice. I'm sure there's a bunch of drinking parties too in Yoyogi Park. I'm not bringing fireworks. But you do. People do bring beer and snacks and picnic and Hanami and maybe I'll do that. I don't know. I got a lot of work to do. I got a lot of editing stuff still to do. It's going to be a busy neck Busy week. And then Kanai and I are going to Miyazaki Prefecture in Kyushu to film an episode next. That's. That's like almost next week. So. All right. Can I. I'm hungry. Let's go get some food. Yeah. I'm starving. I thought there's gonna be food here. Gamer Pro from India gave us. Gave us some money to eat food. And we didn't eat food. We failed you. So we'll have to take this to Instagram now and Instagram our lunch. That's what people do on Instagram. The food is amazing on Instagram. Pictures. But I also like to think it's about the experience. We're gonna go get. Get some lunch, a late lunch. But tonight or tomorrow night, sometime in the next 48 hours, I'm gonna be doing a live stream at night of the cherry blossoms just for you guys and. Yeah, I guess I'll see you then. Do you have anything you want to say to the people

00:58:32 Kanae Daub: to Japan to see Hanami?

00:58:36 John Daub: Okay. I guess if you don't have a ticket by now, you're. You're out of luck. Yeah.

00:58:41 Kanae Daub: We have a beautiful sakura here.

00:58:43 John Daub: Yeah, the sakura is beautiful here. That's Kanai's message to the world.

00:58:47 Kanae Daub: Yeah. So if you like Japan, so you have to come.

00:58:53 John Daub: Yeah, I like Japan. I live here. It. I don't know. I don't think it's the best season. I disagree slightly. I think it's a season. It's a good season. The best season would be right after Golden Week in the beginning of May. It doesn't rain and it's warm. It's really nice. So that's pretty much the end of it. Thanks, guys. The last five seconds is.