00:03 John Daub: Good evening, everybody. Over there is our target. These are some cherry blossoms that are illuminated at night. And this is Tsukudajima (Tsukuda Island). I was here just about four hours ago, and at night, it's a totally different view. They've lit these up. I think there's a couple more lights than usual. This is going to illuminate the area, probably maybe even get me arrested because I'm sure there's a lot of mansions here—these condos. These people might not like it. We're at about 11 p.m., so should be okay, I reckon. But we're going to try it anyways.

00:56 John Daub: The reason why I like to come at night and do this is because with the backdrop of the darkness, do you see the sky there? I'm using the iPhone XS. It's got really good dynamic range—better than the other phone. Sky Tree's over there. You can see it just to place us in history because every live stream is historic. There's the Tokyo Sky Tree in the distance at a man walking very briskly. Actually, Tokyo Tower's just over there. Now, this is Tsukuda Koen (Tsukuda Park), and I love this island. This is where Kanae did a dance last year at our first one after we got married, and this is a park along here.

01:42 John Daub: We're going to take a look at these beautiful cherry blossoms at night. But at night, it's even better when you have your own light. At night, it seems a little bit scarier, but when you have your own light, you can make your own amazing view. I'll stop talking like a psycho because it's really beautiful. It really is. When you have your own illuminations, I can take it back a little bit, then it starts to really come out. But with the dark background, you see, it's all dark. Before we had blue skies popping through. Now it's just the blackness. And this is when it really starts to look like it snowed, doesn't it?

02:30 John Daub: Yeah. And we're just getting warmed up, everybody. So sit back, get some popcorn. We got a long way to go. We got a lot of trees. And there's just, on the other side, if we have some time, I might take you to show you some more personalized trees. In this neighborhood, the neighbors, the local residents, have a great love for the trees in their neighborhood. And sometimes they'll light them up in very personalized ways. And I don't know if we'll be able to get a look at it. They might turn the lights off because it's quite late. It's maybe a little bit after 11 p.m. But as you can see here, this is really nice. Even without John's lighting, this is a really nice color. Here's what it looks like with John's lighting. Without and with. Just kind of adds a little bit more.

03:24 John Daub: But at night, really is something special to just walk through here. Normally, you'll see the cherry blossoms in the daytime. Most of the YouTubers will do it in the daytime. And at night, people are focusing on the drinks. But not me. I focus in on these blossoms. Looks like little popcorn, maybe cotton balls. Or snow. Yeah, I saw this in Fukui. I did a couple of live streams at night. Konbanwa (good evening). People don't talk to each other at night. Wow. It's quiet because it's a neighborhood. This is full bloom, everybody. This is 100%. And there's not a soul on this road. I'm gonna pan down. You guys can take a look. We have this all to ourselves.

04:46 John Daub: This is what I'm talking about. When I just love Japanese sakura. This is why. It's because when you're by yourself and you have an area like this, there's nobody around. It's quiet. You really can connect to nature. And if I stop talking for a little bit, maybe you can too. But I'm gonna look back here. Again, I have a light going on it, so it's a little bit different. Without the light, it's not quite as bright. But again, you have the blackness of the sky all around as I walk backwards. There's nobody to bump into here. The city of Tokyo has a lot of light that bleeds off into the sky, especially when there's clouds. So you can see the clouds and make them out because the city is quite bright. And we're gonna walk a little bit closer to the river now.

05:54 John Daub: But there is this one spectacular tree right here. We're gonna call this tree Esmerelda. Don't ask me why. But that street light is giving it kind of a green hue. And my light is a bright white. Give it another—it's kind of bleeding in as red now. Let's see if I can turn the light more white. Now that's as white as it goes. This is 3700K white. Alright, we're gonna get a little bit closer to the cherry blossoms on this side. There's Tokyo in front of you. Tokyo Station is right there. Those two buildings in the center of your screen.

06:45 John Daub: Let's take it over here. And there's some more cherry blossoms. These go down towards the river. But again, if I have some time, I want to take you to a more personalized tree, which is around the corner. It's probably gonna take about 10 minutes to walk to. But I think it might be worth it if the lights are still on. And even if they're not on, I have a light. And if you have a light, you have power. If you have power, you can abuse it. And I just hope that the neighbors forgive me for turning on the light. Alright, I'm turning it on to white light. Oh, it's bright. Here we go. I'll turn the camera on. Alright, we got some more popcorn here. Wow, it is really nice. And again, without the light, it looks like this. And with the light, it looks like this.

07:50 John Daub: Kira writes in, why midnight? Because this live stream will probably be going on until midnight. It's interesting. The lanterns, the street lights make it look kind of green. But what I'm seeing is white. Romantic couple making out on the riverside. You gotta do it in the middle of the night. It's not the middle of the night. It's just the beginning. Sumida River. The river, the artery of Tokyo. Not quite the center, but kind of goes around the city. The river that goes around the city of Tokyo is called the Kanda River. And that was the original Yamanote Line. People would go by boat. Tokyo is very much a canal city, just like Amsterdam. But you don't see it as much because for the 1964 Olympics, they dried up some of the rivers and turned them into highways, which is a travesty. But we'll let it slide.

09:10 John Daub: It is a little bit chilly. In April, the end of March and April, it'll be like three days warm and three days cold. And the cycle goes up and down, just like this. And it's very famous for going like this. Ah, it's really beautiful, isn't it? Wow. This, to me, is hanami (cherry blossom viewing). Never mind the parties and the drinking and all the salary men that have been drinking in the trees and go home slightly inebriated. Now, for me, this is what hanami is. Slight breeze in the air up towards the river here. Get the light going in front. We got a headlight here. Light breeze. You might be getting some wind noise. I apologize. Not much I can do about it. I'll walk a little slower.

10:15 John Daub: So if you were to look up, this is what you would see. It's nice. And some of these blossoms haven't even bloomed either. Let's look in. Look. There's still some that haven't bloomed yet. Interesting. We're going to make you famous, this one bunch right here. Hey, stand still. Come on. It's not going to cooperate with us. Keep walking. Yes, I have heard that PewDiePie is in Tokyo, and he did repass T-Series. And it's quite an amazing duel that's going on right now. And I'm glad that PewDiePie's not here. He's got the fighter spirit in him. It would be a little bit too scary for these cherry blossoms.

11:41 John Daub: The visual of popcorn is making some people hungry. Sorry about that. Not much I can do. This light isn't as strong as the bigger light. This is just handheld enough where I can hold it up. And when we get into view, like right here, they come out a little bit better. To me, this is hanami. This is cherry blossom viewing, John's style. You guys are watching this live right now. It's nice to see Ramsey Silent here. One of our moderators is up and awake. It's quite early in the United States right now. Waking up to cherry blossoms at night. All the kids out there might be watching and going, Mommy, Daddy, why is it dark? This is live. It's because the world is round. The sun is not here. It's where you are.

12:38 John Daub: Again, these street lights are making it look greenish. Now this toilet here, and that's a toilet, not a lighthouse, is kind of significant because this island is where all the fishermen from Osaka used to live. You guys can see me. This island, Tsukudajima, is the original island. It was just a little teeny island. And all the Osaka fishermen used to live here during the Edo period. And there wasn't all these buildings that you see over here. All these buildings weren't here. It was just basically this area. And this is all man-made on that side. And this is an original island. And the fishermen for Tokyo were on this island from Osaka. And there was a ferry that would come across from Edo to Tsukudajima. And it would come here to the landing. And that's kind of the meaning of this lighthouse-looking thing. And if you ride the Himiko boat (space boat), you'll see this going by. And you'll know that it's not a lighthouse. It's a restroom. Boom. Inside information. It's the nicest restroom, too. Very spacious for Tokyo, actually.

14:02 John Daub: Part two. Beautiful. Absorb this, everybody. Absorb the tunnel. This is a white tunnel of popcorn cherry blossoms. Let's go for it. So I think we're going to use this. I think has some places where we can look closely at the cherry blossoms. And once again, I really like seeing them at night because they're even whiter. They're even more vivid because of the black sky and the lack of the ultraviolet sunlights. I think it's just the light. It really makes them take on a completely different view than about four hours ago at another live stream that I did, talking about the historical significance and how Japanese feel about the cherry blossoms.

14:47 John Daub: As samurai, the life of the cherry blossoms are very short and so are the life of the samurai. And they saw a parallel between that nature and these blossoms. So the life of the samurai was very short and they didn't fear death because they knew it was going to be short. Just like the blossoms because the most beautiful blossom, the most beautiful flowers of them all in Japan are right there. The cherry blossoms and the best men, according to medieval texts, were the samurai. Because they could die at any time just like the blossoms. And they're very significant here in Japan, not just for the samurai, but because it's a way for you to look at your own life. Now I don't want to go back and do what I did four hours ago and talk about this. But it's a way for you to take a look at your own life and say, look, the beauty of it is that it lasts so short. So take advantage of it while they're here. Because in 48 hours, these blossoms probably be gone. They'll blow away in a blizzard. It looks like a blizzard. It looks like a hurricane, like all these petals coming down like it's raining petals. It's quite beautiful.

16:02 John Daub: The next 48 hours, I come down and you can see the tunnel like little popcorn. These are 100% bloomed. They're not going to get any fuller than this. And this is the best when it is bloomed like this because that's when it looks like snow. Like it's just snowed. And we're supposed to have some warm weather in the next couple of days. So definitely these are not sticking around. They're supposed to get up to about 20 degrees, which is 68 Fahrenheit. Oh, here's some victims over here. We can take them, pick them off with the light. Low hanging fruit. Very nice. Good evening to you. Didn't think I'd come here with artificial light and confuse you, did you? Blossoms. So beautifully pink and white, green, slight leaves popping out. You in several days will become just another tree. Let your beauty shine tonight. Okay, I'll stop talking now.

17:22 John Daub: If you like this, hit the like button. And if we can get to 300 likes, I'll take you on a tour to the other side of the river. Come on. I'm sure there's no notifications that went on to everybody. And if you're watching this in playback and get the notifications, you can blame YouTube. They only send notifications out once a day. So you might miss an important one. Unless you're a Patreon supporter. And if you are, then you got the notifications about 30 minutes in advance. Just saying. Oh, this is where the ladies were having a secret party four hours ago. It's underneath there. Wow. They're like looking—it looks like you're getting showered by blossoms. Let's take a look a little bit more down the road here.

19:03 John Daub: This is what it looks like in the natural light. And even this is really beautiful. I mean, I can't complain. Why would I complain? It is kind of cold. I will let you know. It's not exactly summer yet. Hey, Lenny's in the house. How you doing, Lenny? Thanks for that. She looks green without the light, doesn't it? That's street light. The thumbnail came from the other side of the bridge. We're going to the bridge right now. And then on the other side of the bridge, there's some more cherry blossoms. I'm going to show you some new blossoms that we haven't seen. But even from a distance, you can see beyond that, those two bushes. Wow. Even with this iPhone XS with the better low light capability, it does look pretty good. It does look really good.

20:02 John Daub: All right. We're going to go over to the other side underneath the bridge. So I'm going to take you down. And then for the next couple of minutes, just bear with me. We're going down to the riverside underneath the bridge. And walking around in Tokyo at night is pretty safe. This might be one of the safest countries in the world. I've never been afraid to walk around Tokyo at night. Maybe a little bit. But I think it's all internal fear from watching too many horror movies. You know what I mean? All right. We're going to go underneath the bridge. And on the other side, there's also some really spectacular looking cherry blossoms. And I parked my bike over there. I can just come back.

21:06 John Daub: So this is the view. I started this live stream on the bridge over there on the left side. And the Skytree is on the left side as well. You can see it doing a Knight Rider kit headlight thing going on. A little Michael Knight reference here. And now we're going to walk over underneath the bridge. So this is kind of dead time. Probably I will delete this in the playback. You can do that in YouTube. So you guys are keeping me company. So where's everyone watching from, huh? We have 330 people from all around the world watching this live stream. It's pretty interesting. Come on, guys. Keep me company now. I can pretend like I'm scared, but I'm not.

22:08 John Daub: Oh, India. Okay. New Jersey. Hey, what exit? Florida, Minnesota, Singapore, Belgium, Australia, Italy, Mexico, Manchester, Switzerland, Germany, Arizona. Look at this. We basically went around the world and back. Berlin, Singapore. Look at this. Jamaica. Awesome. Yeah, it's three degrees. It's pretty chilly. Oh, from Israel. Okay. From California. From Perth. We're going underneath the bridge now. Scotland, Belgium, Philippines, Manila, Nagano. Hey. They haven't blossomed in Nagano yet, but I'm sure that they will soon. I knew someone was going to say that. Singapore, Seoul, Bronx. Yeah, this is the Sumida River. It's very, very quiet at this time of night. And the phone's doing a pretty good job of picking up. There's not a lot of light here. So the iPhone XS is doing a stellar job.

23:12 John Daub: And Kanae danced about a little bit less than a year ago over there at the corner. And it's the place I like to come. I run a lot. And I run along the river. And this is a nice area to run. We're going up the steps. We've just gone underneath the bridge. So I'm going to show you now from this part of the live stream, a different kind of cherry blossom. I think they're just still some Yoshino. But there's one that's about a 10-minute walk from here that's really been lit up in a personal way. I think just somebody took private lights and made their own cherry blossom celebration. Okay, here we go. Here's some more. So we're back online, everybody. The cherry blossom midnight run. Wow.

24:21 John Daub: So if you never get the chance to come to Tokyo to see the cherry blossoms, this is pretty close to an experience that you'll have at night. It'd be a lot cooler in 4K, but it's also pretty cool to be live right here together. All right, this is the tree from the thumbnail. It's pretty beautiful. And that's just a street light. And the street light makes it look like snow. And the further away you get from it, from this angle, yeah, that's the thumbnail. Look at that. Honestly, it looks like it snowed last night. Doesn't it? It looks like it snowed. We're going to get right into it now. Wow. I can get excited over blossoms as much as I can over a pizza or a steak or my wife's cooking. Beautiful. And again, it's just because of the darkness of it, the contrast is so much better. And you can see the blossoms in so many different layers. Because they're everywhere.

26:09 John Daub: Yeah, Kanae's doing okay. She had a stomach problem. Ate something bad, I think. She'd be here if it wasn't for that. I think she's watching on the Apple TV back home. She'll know what time I get back. She'll be looking up. Oh, there's a different flower here. Didn't notice this. It's just budding as well. All right, now I got to cut across. And this is the point where Kanae danced. And there's a Skytree. We're going to go around this way. And the street this way is lined with it. And it's about a five-minute walk from this point. We're going to be able to see some more really nice blossoms.

27:33 John Daub: I wish I'd gotten some hanami food, like something from the convenience store. I was looking for that pudding cake. Family Mart has this pudding cake, but they didn't have any. Sold out. At this time of night, there's not much left at convenience stores. We're walking towards the backside. This is the side that goes towards Toyosu. And eventually, if you go straight, you'll see Toyosu. If you go straight, you'll hit Toyosu Fish Market, which is what replaced Tsukiji last year in October. Now I had some reports of a friend of mine who went to the fish market. See those blossoms? You can't see anything. But there shall be light. Give me a second. There shall be light.

28:35 John Daub: Jamie, now you've got some. Oh, here on this side, you can see that they've lost the cherry blossoms, you see? And this is what it looks like when the blossoms have fallen. They've fallen to the ground. And these green buds that are very visible are going to come out and make this look like a normal tree. And you won't really be able to tell that this was a cherry blossom at all, unless you know the variety of tree. It's only when the blossoms come out that you say, oh, that's a Somei Yoshino. But if you know from the blossoms, you can tell. This is the most typical type of cherry blossom. We're still 100 likes short of 300. Oh, there's one. We've lost it. The wind is pretty strong on this side, though. So I can see why. Once it hits 100%, these blossoms are like, we're out of here. If I turn the light off, you won't be able to see anything. It's really dark.

29:41 John Daub: And the great thing about now from this walkway, I'm sorry about the wind noise. There's a little bit of wind in here. The great thing is that we have cherry blossoms all the way to the end, to the bridge that goes towards Monzen-Nakacho. I'm turning the light off just to save the battery a little bit. So estimated time of arrival about from here, five minutes, maybe a little bit less. But we're going to walk without the light through here. It's pretty nice just like this. This is what it looks like walking through a Tokyo neighborhood with streetlights. And you have some of the views on the left and the right. I can ride the bike, but it's dangerous. I'm not supposed to ride with a smartphone. Neither should you.

30:35 John Daub: You see these cherry blossoms have no light. I'm going to try to get a little closer. Oh, that was a lot lower than I thought. Nigel Wrightson, who's that person behind that tree? It's not the same when you ride it. It's not as scary. Tokyo is not my favorite place for cherry blossom viewing. It really isn't. It's okay. When you have moments like this, you can connect with nature. But for the most part, it's not really easy to connect with nature because there's a lot of buildings around. I don't know. It just seems a little bit different. The best place that I've been to was in Nara Prefecture. There's a place called Mount Yoshino (Yoshinoyama). And there are several thousands of blossoms all in one spot. It really takes a long time to get there. It's kind of a hike. But if you make the trip, it's definitely worth it. Wow. And this light here is really making this thing glow. This one's past 100%. You can see there's some green. Some sprouts. Some of the leaves are starting to come through.

32:19 John Daub: Okay. We're going to book. There's a bridge right there. It's on the other side of this bridge. And then we're going to make it to the other side. It's a lot of apartment buildings in this neighborhood. Here's the gym or the pool. I was going to join this gym. I thought about it. I looked at about 10 different gyms in the neighborhood. This one's a little bit further away from my house. But it was $150 a month. And the gym I go to is half that price. So kind of did better by looking around. You just don't know what the price of these gyms are. You know what I mean?

33:12 John Daub: Now, when I go back running in a couple of days, it's going to be completely different. This is a nice place to run. Great place to run. There's three really prime locations. One is around the Imperial Palace. The other one is along the Sumida River, which is this way towards the Skytree. On the opposite side of where we are. And then the other one is around Tsukiji, the Toyosu market, the fish market from Toyosu station all the way around to Odaiba. There's a beautiful brick walkway that just goes around. I think it's about seven or eight kilometers, one loop. It's a pretty nice run. No traffic lights. Just goes on and on and on.

34:06 John Daub: This bridge takes you towards Monzen-Nakacho. And this is where Kanae and I did a live stream of Cherry Blossom Festival with the boats. The Wasen (traditional boats) about three days ago, I think. And Kanae's dad came out. That was pretty cool. It's the first time he'd been in a live stream. Oh, hello, old lady. Haha, I got you, Jonathan. All right. We're about two minutes away. Just got across the street here. Oh, the one cherry tree, the sakura on the corner of this roadway looked really nice. Oh, I love cherry blossoms. So you get a chance to see. I got favorite trees. Hold on a second. So I got some sakura trees that I really like. And for me, it's about making a connection to a particular tree or a particular area.

35:14 John Daub: Here's what they look like without the lights. It's a little washed out without the light. When you put the light on there, it's a little bit more beautiful. But you make a connection with a tree. And if it's in your local area, you will see that tree grow. So when you're a kid, you might have a Somei Yoshino tree in your neighborhood and then you'll come back through your teenage years and the tree will grow with you and then you'll be an adult and then an old man and you will see that tree grow from a little seedling to maturity like this tree is probably around 60 years old. Now, maybe a little bit, maybe 40, 50 years old. It's hard to tell. I mean, you don't know how old the trees are until you chop them down. You can check the rings or something. 265 likes. We're doing pretty good. Thanks for doing your part. Do your part. That's for Mr. PewDiePie. He asked everybody to do your part. He went from like 50 million to 92 million subscribers in like less than a year or something. It's ridiculous. But you can if you make a call to action, people usually respond. You know, he's here in Tokyo right now. The number one YouTuber in the world. It's pretty cool. He's on vacation. He really likes Japan and that's good.

36:52 John Daub: Some people just make special connections with certain areas. And I think with cherry blossoms, you make a connection with a tree. And that's a reason why you stay in one place. All right. I don't have the lights on either. This is all just from street lights. All right, let's get across the street. I just want to show you this tree. Now I'm hoping that the lights are still on, but it seems like the local neighbors have lit this tree up in their own special way. And that was pretty neat. Hey, Tasty Chronicles in the house. Hey there. Hi, John. Here's some lunch money for your next live stream. Love those sakura. Thank you. Yayo Kanae. Good lunch. She made dinner tonight. So it's my turn. It's nice. The city looks so gorgeous. This bridge is boring, but it's a lot more exciting when there's some cherry blossoms here. Oh, I love cherry blossoms. Oh, this is where I did the end of the Japanese candy episode. The candy making episode. I was eating my face myself right there. I was sitting on that stool. Some memories I wrote out here because it was a quiet place. Oh, wow. Good memories.

38:21 John Daub: Hey, Cyberstorm is here too. Hey, John. This is the first stream I've managed to catch. Loving the streams. Looking forward to my next visit to Tokyo next year. Grab some midnight snacks. Nice idea. I'm going to find a konbini (convenience store) on the way. I might just stop in. Say thank you. I do. I'm overdue for a midnight snack run. Oh, wait, guys. This is it. This is one of the trees I was talking about. This area is so beautiful. Check it out. This corner is just rocking it. I'm going to turn the lights on, but there's lots of cars going by, so I can't turn it on as bright. I can turn it on a little bit. Oh, it's too yellow. Get it up to 56. Get it like white light. You can see here. It's so beautiful right on the corner of the road here. And we're going to look at this one corner tree. And as soon as that light turns green and I'm going to book to the other side and then I'm going to show you another tree. I've been building up this tree. I bet you watch. The neighbors will have turned off the lights.

40:02 John Daub: I've been building it up and the neighbors will have completely destroyed it with the black. The contrast. I just love it. This is the best thing I've ever seen. This is where we walked from. Check it out. We just walked down this kind of sakura tunnel. You see that? It's a nice walk. We just did that whole thing and no people at all. This is why I tell people Ueno Park is kind of overrated. All right, we got a green light. We're going to do this. This light takes forever to change. So you can see there's some more special trees over there. This is a side that not many people come to Tsukishima. There's Tsukishima this way. Very few cars at midnight. And this is looking back at that tree that we were just enjoying.

41:21 John Daub: Yeah. Hey, Daniel. Welcome. I did try to do the live streams a little bit longer in the playback. It can seem annoying, but it really is because I want as many people to experience the live stream because I think it is kind of special when you watch it live, even though the quality might not be 4K. 720p is okay. It's the best we can do. Missed a lot of live streams, writes Pozo. Because a family medical emergency. This is very beautiful watching to resume watching. Thank you. Oh, they've got some kind of hanami. There's some drunk people. I think they thought some drunk people over there. Okay, we're going to go quickly. Wow. This is one of the most beautiful areas to look at this. Nomsy is going yay. It's all right. What's the worst they can do to me? They could heckle me. That's a nice tree. The tree I want to show you anyways is just really close to here. Hey, Ramji Silent. Two more likes only if you can do that. We're good.

42:58 John Daub: Oh, we got the 300 likes. Hey, guys, we did it. Awesome. All right. It's down here. No, the local people turned it off. No, I built it up too much. Do you see this tree down the steps? I was running through here about two hours ago and they had several lights turned on. Oh, and you can see already. You can see already the cherry blossom petals are starting to come off of the tree and people clean it up pretty quickly. In the morning, you won't even see this. This is how clean people like to keep their neighborhoods. But this light was lit up by three lights and now they've turned them off. But it's a really special tree. Let's see if I can turn on my own light. I'm not going to do it for very long because they might get in trouble. You can check it out. This is a very nice tree just in the middle of the town. This is the quiet side of Tsukishima Station, but it's pretty beautiful. And you can run around here. It's a nice place for running. It's a shame. It was so much more beautiful when it was lit up.

44:12 John Daub: I think it's because people are sleeping and they turn off the lights. But the drunk people are worse than the lights, aren't they? Yeah, you can see here. Wait, can I turn them on? Oh, the light, it's turned off. I thought I'd be able to turn on the light. There's a switch here. It's off. I guess you have to plug it in. Where is it connected to? That's all right. Oh, that's what I'm telling you. Do you see that? The switch is connected to somebody's house. Oh, my word. The wire goes into somebody's house. I can't plug it in. I think it goes through their window. What? That's crazy. Do you see that? The neighbors lit it up. It looked like a Christmas tree. There's the light right there. Do you see it? And it lit it up just so beautiful. And when I ran underneath it, I just said, I got to bring you guys here. But it looks like we're not going to be able to see it. Oh, man. I do have my own light so you can see. See a little bit of the cherry blossoms. These are at 100% and they're going to be gone soon.

45:44 John Daub: I know. It is annoying. I used to live near the train station and it got very loud on the weekends. It's not prohibited. Just people don't touch the trees. I mean, old people will tell you not to do it, but I've seen people touch them. And they accidentally hit them. I mean, it happens. It's very nice. And then there's no cherry blossoms at all. It looks like we've come to the end of the road. We've come to the end of the road. Stephanie Perez celebrating the 300 likes and more videos. This is pretty much going to end my cherry blossoms for this year. I think I've done seven or eight live streams about the cherry blossoms. And I know it can get kind of annoying to see the same cherry blossoms. But we've just got a little bit of content over and over and over again.

46:39 John Daub: So let me just run down what we're going to be doing with the channel with this. Only in Japan Go for the next couple of weeks. Kanae and I are going to be going down to Miyazaki Prefecture, which is in Kyushu. And I'm going to highlight a city called Kobayashi, which invited me to come down there. Kobayashi is like in the inside of Miyazaki. And I don't think you would really know about it unless like a YouTuber went down and showed you. There's a ton of things that are unique and way off the beaten path. And one of the things I like to do with the channel is to take you to new places like Kobayashi. I'm going down there really to film mangoes. Because I've been thinking about this episode for a couple of years. And we're going to get a chance to try some of the Miyazaki mangoes and figure out what makes them so special. And I'm looking forward to that. Kanae, my wife, is coming with me on this trip if she can feel better. And then we're going to have some fun. I'm going to rent a car and we're going to drive out to the countryside. And get a chance to see another side of Japan. Because we've been in Tokyo live streaming for a while. It's time to get out there again.

47:52 John Daub: A new video is coming on the main channel tomorrow night. It's about ramen. I think you're going to like it. Oh, and one more thing. There's a bonus scene in the ramen video, okay? So just keep watching until the next couple of minutes after it looks like it. And if you're not a fan of ramen, I slam in a bonus scene for another few minutes. So I think you're going to really like that. Alright, I'm going to swing back now. Swing back to my bicycle. I've got to walk for another 10 minutes to get there. But, uh, oh, check this out. So, there's not really a lot of space for gardens and stuff in Tokyo. Usually, you can do it on the top of your building on the roofs. There's some space sometimes. Or your balcony. But what the city has done, or at least this ward, Chuo Ward, has done, is that they've put a lot of space for the garden. The central ward. They've given people little spaces along the river that you can apply for and get. And you can have your own garden. And these all belong to people. And, of course, like, thieves could come and steal it. But you just don't do that.

48:55 John Daub: I go running past here every day and you can see some of the older people. They'll be grooming their trees. And I use this pull-up bar sometimes. They'll be grooming their trees and taking care of it. In the summer, especially. These are all just local residents taking care of their trees. And the river is just on the other side of this embankment. It's pretty cool, huh? There's some bonsai trees. I'm sure they're not cheap. But nobody steals this. Actually, only local people know about this side of Tsukishima Station. How many pull-ups can you do? I can do 20. But I usually do just 14. I do 15. And then I just keep running.

49:49 John Daub: The last thing I want to show you is this. This used to be the site of a very famous inn. It was a beautiful view. This is Tsukudajima. A monument of Kaisuiso. And Tokyo is full of these monuments. Tsukudajima is an island. It's been an island well past its Edo period. But the rest of this is all man-made. And it was from this point that they had a very famous ryokan (inn) called Kaisuiso. It's no longer a ryokan. They're in business here. But from the end of the Meiji period to the Taisho period, many cultural figures stayed here. This is the marker of a famous inn. And I believe this monument was built in 1968. Yeah. Just to kind of remember. But now what you see here, there's the marker where the inn was. Because we're on the point and it's just a residential neighborhood. A lot has changed since then. But you can find these really historic markers all over the place. A parking lot. And then drunk people. And there's the Tokyo Sky Tree over there.

51:02 John Daub: Very cool. Very cool. I love the cherry blossoms. And it's pretty neat to be able to share this experience with you. At night, they just take on a completely different life than during the daytime. And if you are in Tokyo, don't forget to go out at night. Just go out to a local park or someplace near your hotel. And admire the trees. And enjoy the nature while everyone is asleep. And I think you're going to enjoy cherry blossoms a little bit more. When you have your own private time to talk to them. Like we did tonight. Hope you enjoyed it. Click that like button and subscribe. And I will see you in another livestream. Sooner than later. Have a good night everybody. As I walk back to my bicycle. There really isn't anybody here, is there?