00:00:04 John Daub: Hello everyone and welcome to Asakusa in Tokyo on the day of the Sanja Matsuri, the craziest festival in Tokyo. How do you do? It's so crazy. There's no signal in there. We are live. And if you look down there on the other side of the street, that's where Sensoji Temple is and Nakamise-dori, the main shopping street leading to it. We had less than one megabyte per second of signal.

00:00:32 John Daub: That gets you not even 240p. I don't even know what you see right now. But on the streets across from there in the small neighborhoods, you'll see little things like this. I wanted to bring some of the music to you, some of the drums playing. But whenever you get into a pack where they're holding an omikoshi (portable shrine), the signal just deteriorates fast because it's basically a swarm of people. It just sucks the signal. And then we get nothing. Here's an ohayashi (festival music ensemble). Yeah, there's bound to be a lag.

00:01:02 John Daub: You all know who she is. She's my guide. I might be your guide, but she's my guide. We are live. We are now scouring the streets for music and festival. It's not too crowded in the sense that we can't handle the crowds. The signal can't handle the crowds and you can't have a live stream without signal. So we're now scouring the back streets of Asakusa. Oh, you can see it over there. That's far away. We'll never get there in time. You have to get there in time to see it go by.

00:02:06 John Daub: But the thing is with these festivals, you don't have to be hanging around the Sensoji Temple or Asakusa Shrine. You can be out on the streets around the neighborhood and you'll just see a bunch of them pass by. Now, Saturday is a big day, but Sunday is the biggest day. And according to Kanae, it's crazy, right? It's going to be crazy. You cannot move. We were there last year. And was this Sunday? Yeah. This is a postcard I sent out to supporters on Patreon this month, and it shows how crazy it is. You cannot see anything. It's just a flow of people. And if you're in the middle of that, there's no way that you can get a signal to broadcast. Oh, and if you want one, Patreon—I put a link in the description. I'm still sending these out until the 30th of the month. I do a postcard club every month.

00:03:09 John Daub: All right. So we're crossing another street going towards Kuramae now. This signal might be getting better or might be getting worse. We're not really sure. All I know is that not everybody is wearing pants. Nothing wrong with that. Because I myself am a veteran of the Hadaka Matsuri (Naked Man Festival). And wearing very little is something I'm quite used to. Oh, there's Kanae's favorite gyoza place. This is my favorite ramen shop here. They are making noodles there right now. You can see it in the window. He's making gyoza and they've been making it for years, maybe decades. They take the dough. Look at that. He's really going to town with that. They make really good gyoza. She's hungry for gyoza.

00:03:46 Kanae Daub: Favorite ramen shop here.

00:04:19 John Daub: Look, I see an omikoshi way down there. So we were actually walking away from Sensoji Temple to find a better signal. That's like 100 meters away. Can we get there in time? I know that they're in this direction. Okay, we got a green light. Now this street... Oh, there's one over there. This one has a lot of police presence. Oh, there's three of them. Okay, that's good. We found them. They're walking between Asakusa and Kuramae right now. And there's a procession of omikoshi being carried down the street, surrounded by police. Not that anyone's going to try to steal these gold-plated, very expensive portable shrines. They're here mostly for crowd control.

00:05:30 John Daub: Last year's festival, we had really great weather. Super clear skies. Today, overcast. But if I could just hear a little bit of the festival, that's better than what I thought I would be able to do. Because literally, I couldn't even email or text anything because there's no signal going through because of the crowd of people. The 4G LTE is very good in Japan, not when there's a density of people. That's what makes live streaming very hard. This is very orderly. Oh, this is the bike lane. If you see through the bus, you can see what's going on. All right, there you go. I'm gonna stop here on the corner and appreciate. Ramsey, thanks for the update—we have a super clear photo because we're now away from the crowds. We also have a nice shot of an omikoshi.

00:06:38 John Daub: You know, every neighborhood in this area has an omikoshi, has a temple or shrine and an omikoshi that participates in the Shinto festival. It is a Shinto festival, so it's not really from Sensoji. It's from Asakusa Jinja. Yeah, it's not really Sensoji although you can see it in front of Sensoji. Sensoji is a Buddhist temple but they're also celebrating the founding of Sensoji. The duality of Japan. You're born Shinto and you die Buddhist here. Well, many people are. It's a ton of gold.

00:07:32 John Daub: Can we go to the other side? Let's go to the other side. See what's going on here. Wow, it's a very heavy police presence and I know that could be also because of the participants. We have a mix of society life here, meaning the Y-word. Somebody can write it. We're now following the omikoshi and you know everyone follows that but if you look on the left and the right you see a slice of life in Japan. You see how people are because they're coming outside of their houses to celebrate and when that happens you see more of how the community functions. How everybody knows everybody and that's a special sight. Wow, they're working hard. They're really heavy. I have not had the privilege to carry one yet but I hope to someday.

00:08:56 John Daub: What are you saying? Yasa? Kanae doesn't know what they're saying. Yes, sounds like yasai. Washoi? It's a locally pronounced washoi. That's our best guess. A lot of people don't even know what they're saying because it's just usually a sound that gives appreciation to kami-sama, that you're working hard. But I typically, when I was in the naked man festival, we would say washoi, washoi, right? What did I say? Yeah, I said something. We said it over and over and over again. See, every festival is different. That's the Tokushima Awa Odori. Yeah, okay, now we're getting to a vibrant corner. This signal might go bad just because of the density of people but I'll try my best to bring you this in vivid 720p iPhone XS. It's almost like you're here with us.

00:10:45 John Daub: This is much better than being at Asakusa Shrine. Be out here on the street, man. Take it to the street. I'm just gonna be quiet and let you absorb the sounds of the Asakusa area. We're in the corner of Kokusai-dori. A couple of viewers have already found us. We're walking down the street. Kokusai-dori and Asakusa-dori. As you can see, traffic has stopped to allow the omikoshi to go through. What's more important than traffic? Omikoshi is. There's more to come by the way. This isn't the only one. So the traffic is stopping for quite a while. This isn't a one-minute traffic light. Okay, all right, the cops have told us we can move. Thank you, sir.

00:13:02 John Daub: Okay, they're hanging a right. We went the wrong way. This is how it rolls. They're going this way. Kanae, should we go this way? Why was that police officer looking directly at me? I wasn't doing anything. He was looking at me. I'm not a rule breaker. I like the purple people. Purple Bandit will like this. Purple people. Now there's a lot of people here with the purple people. They'll swap in and out. As some people get tired of carrying it, others will come in and take the load for a little bit. It really is a team effort to move these omikoshi around. Oh look, they've divided. Divide and conquer. Look, yeah, there's another omikoshi over here. They love their whistles. It's like this procession is roped in pretty good and then after the procession has gone through the police start cleaning up and now the street is open again for traffic.

00:15:20 John Daub: It really is a logistical nightmare for the police department to manage all of this. But they did such a good job here in Japan. I have a feeling the Olympics are going to be the best ever just because they're used to these kinds of crowd control. But this also, at this particular festival, there's a cop helping out some people who are lost. He's conducting traffic while helping the people. I have a lot of respect for the police here. That yellow car—it's like construction yellow. Why would you choose that car color? I don't know. Hey Remy, thank you. Let me pee in the house. All right folks, we're gonna look for one more omikoshi. Which way should we go, Kanae? This way. I'm following the local across here. Okay, I like this open scooter. It's like half closed, half open—pure freedom. You can jump out anytime if you lost control. There's no doors, it's got three wheels on it. It's pretty sweet.

00:16:43 John Daub: I did do a live stream last year—you could check it out. But the quality of the signal was really bad in the center. We did our best. This year I tried to make it better and I tried to check the signal strength. That's one of the new retro buses that Tokyo has unleashed. On the top of it is, I believe, they're more battery powered. They started releasing hybrid buses or some are pure battery powered. Just pretty amazing. That guy's cruising. Do you see how fast he was going? He's going the same speed as the normal traffic. Did you see that? He's gone. That rickshaw driver was insanely fast. All right, I don't know what else to do. This light took forever. Let's go. Okay, hey, they're hanging a right. All right, so when you're on the move like this, what you have to do is you move with them. What happened to him? He's disappearing behind that wall. We gotta catch up to it. Strong guy. Yeah, he could carry that all by himself.

00:18:52 John Daub: All right, so this here is a metro station. We're gonna hang a left here and see if we can find the omikoshi again. Tawaramachi. So we're out of the Asakusa area, we're in Tawaramachi. You can see there's a lot of—wow, these are funeral stuff. All right, and they've hung a loose here and you can see it. I love it when they go down the small streets because the sound is even more intensified. It bounces off the buildings left and right, gives you more of a local feeling. It's a bit better than the main street that we were just on. Now in some of the Japanese festivals these omikoshi are even higher and they'll have somebody standing on them with a pole to get the telephone wires and the power wires out of the way. Some places have put the power wires underground. They have them above ground because of the earthquakes but it's fun just to follow. We're just following. You can absorb some of the energy.

00:20:17 John Daub: One thing that I like about the Sanja Matsuri is it sort of is a way to start off festival season. I know it's still spring. We're still a month away from the start of summer but the weather's nice. It's warm and feels like the start of the festival season to me anyways. They have their own kind of unique way to do it, to shout. And there's a lot of pride in the neighborhoods here. Each neighborhood has a lot of pride and they put a lot of effort into carrying their local omikoshi through the streets. Alright, now we're moving on. Oh, now they're going to hang a right here. We can kind of go in here. Let's let them pass by.

00:22:50 John Daub: So Inuyasha writes in, where are they taking it? These days, the procession starts at Asakusa Shrine near Sensoji. It's right on the side of Sensoji. And they'll take these through the neighborhoods. There's actually a circuit that's predetermined. Every year it's a little bit different, I believe. They go in a different route every other year. Maybe they rotate it every two years. I'm not really sure. But I can tell you is that you don't have to stay at Sensoji and the Asakusa Nakamise-dori area. You can go on the side streets and they'll pass you. It's even better because you hear them coming, then they're here and there's a crescendo and then they're gone. Like right now. And then the streets get quiet again. It's kind of a nice feeling. And if you wait another 10 minutes, another one will come by. And now the police is here to make sure that the traffic is regulated. They follow. Very well organized event.

00:24:02 John Daub: Eh, maitoshi ikanai. You don't go every year, do you? Not every year. I'll let you in on a secret. I'm not coming next year. I came this year. And if you're here in Japan, in Tokyo right now, tomorrow is the big day. Tomorrow is going to be twice as insane. Twice as crazy. We can go this way, Kanae. Tomorrow will be twice as crazy. Bye bye, Sanja Matsuri. It's nice though. This is kind of the beginning of it. Yeah, the Y-word. Ken said it right now. They are already out. Tomorrow they'll be out. Usually if you want to get pictures, you can go in the morning and behind Sensoji, there's an area that's very famous where they will all get together. Yeah. And they'll take their shirts off and they love to be photographed at that time. Don't try to take pictures like any other time. It's like, hey man, I saw you on the internet. Can you rip off your shirt and show me your tats? No, it's not going to happen. You're probably going to get in trouble.

00:25:01 John Daub: But if you're here on this particular day, well then you will have a chance to take lots and lots of pictures of amazing tattoos. The artistry is incredible. Hey Tokyo Jews in the house, how you doing? So if you are in Tokyo, I highly recommend going in the morning. Yeah, the rain is starting to come down. It's a little bit of rain. I highly recommend that you come in the morning and go behind Sensoji into this little area where they usually are located. You can get fantastic pictures and they're actually very friendly people. Don't be too intimidated. I know Japanese are very intimidated for good reason, but they actually like tourists and they're very curious. And there's no intimidation factor so much there. Not like the locals. And they're very friendly. I've had a lot of really good interactions with the Y-people. I don't want to say it on the streets. But they're very friendly and I've never had any bad experiences. Even they have a passion for festivals. That's a good thing. These are events that bring the community together. I'm talking about all communities, including the police. It's funny because the police will be patrolling the streets and then that group is out there parading and they're protecting them. That's Japan. The duality. You're born Shinto and die Buddhist.

00:26:40 John Daub: Oh, there's Pelican. This is a famous bakery. Do you have a reservation? You have to make a reservation to get the bread. It's very bizarre. Difficult to get the bread? There's no line because they made a reservation to get the bread. I don't know what's special about it. My bread maker makes very good bread. It's a little expensive too. It's always sold out and always has a line. Very nice bread. You've had it before? Yes. We're going to bring our cafe to have a coffee. There's a Pelican cafe? Yes. Oh look! Bonus! Dun dun dun dun. I'm just making dun dun dun dun. There you go. Check it out. I think they're taking a break. Oh they got drums! What? I love the groups that have drums. I'm so psyched.

00:27:43 John Daub: I'm undecided if I'm going to go back up to Aomori to do the Nebuta festival. But my Nebuta haneto dance yukata is up there. I left it with one of the government workers up there. So I have to go get it. But Kanae has never done it. You want to do the Nebuta festival? Yes. It's a good idea. Yeah? In Aomori? Yeah. That's one of my favorites just because of the taiko drums and the energy. Oh! They're putting it back in the neighborhood storage unit which is just inside of this house. Check it out. So we can kind of... Let's go walk by there and take a look. They're putting the omikoshi back in its neighborhood holding unit, for lack of a better word. And that includes the taiko drums. Look at that. I love this. It's on wheels. And so it's in here. And then tomorrow it'll come out again tomorrow, right? Yeah. It'll be out again tomorrow for more celebrations.

00:28:59 John Daub: That's pretty much in a nutshell the local experience of this Sanja Matsuri. Like once again, the procession goes quite wide into the city streets. You don't have to be around Nakamise-dori. You don't have to be around Sensoji. You can go out in the streets. Just walk around. Lots of local stuff going on. In fact, there's lots of little restaurants that you'll discover around Asakusa, Kuramae, this area. Local businesses. And it's real nice to jump in and have a bowl of ramen or something to eat at a local shop. And you only find it by walking around and getting lost. Here's another typical street. Dead quiet right now. But perhaps in another 20 minutes, completely filled with omikoshi and spirit. Excellent. TDSTR, thanks for your hard work showing us all different sides of Japan. You're very welcome. Thank you.

00:30:08 John Daub: Yesterday, PVG and I did a livestream at the food trucks at the Marunouchi side, the Otemachi Station side. You might want to check it out. That was a lot of fun. But we got some suggestions to go to hit some of the craft beer places with PVG. So we might do that next week. So thanks a lot yesterday for the support on that. We're going to do more in that area because of it. Queen of Tacos is here. Are there any festivals in Tokyo around March and April? I should be visiting this time next year. March and April is the hanami season. Sakura. So yeah, you better believe there's lots of festivals. Here you can check out another local. Another local area—they finished up for the day. And they just kind of relax on the street. And the people are pretty friendly. You can come up there and say hi. Take a look. Get a closer look at the omikoshi. In fact, we can walk this way, right? You get a closer look at the omikoshi.

00:31:12 John Daub: But I would say that time of year, it's harder to find festivals like this. They usually take place in the spring and summer. But this is like a hydration station for people to get some food and stuff and stay hydrated. Especially in July and August when they have festivals carrying omikoshi. It's very easy to get dehydrated. So they have loads and loads of places where you can stop in and get a drink. But to answer Queen of Tacos, in Tokyo, I would say most of the festivals are the sakura. And then I don't think that there's really anything. But you can check out my friends, Tokyocheapo.com. They have a really good event schedule on that website of all the local things happening. And I've been... I know the founders very, very well. We're all long-term residents. I know the founders of Tokyocheapo.com very well. Gonna get a beer with Greg on Tuesday and talk about stuff that we could do together. But he comes at Tokyo from a point of view that I really like. A really authentic point of view. He's not afraid to say, look, Tokyo can be an expensive place. But wouldn't it be better if it was cheaper? Right? That's why I kind of get a good synergy with the Tokyocheapo people.

00:32:31 John Daub: Wow, look how... We can get really close to this. Whoa. Oh, it's beautiful. It's cool. You just walk the street so you can get close to it. This is a mini one, but it looks really beautiful. Look at the gold work on it. The kids are trying to carry it. Obviously, they failed. Whoa. And they have a little center here where people can meet up and then they start from here. Then they go to Asakusa Shrine to be blessed. I believe that's how it works. And then they start after the blessing and they take that blessing around the streets. Here are the taiko drums from this community. Really cool. It's nice. You know, you can get really close to these things and take a harder look at it after they're done. Hey, Mr. Das is in the house. Beer contains water. You guys need one. I will not disagree with that. Mr. Das, I will not disagree. Okay, we're on a search for that. I got my old man laugh going on when I see that. We'll see what we can find. We're just wandering the streets now, right? Just looking and finding stuff. I could use a vending machine now for sure.

00:34:10 John Daub: The first vending machine we hit, we'll buy something from. Just continue a little bit longer. The things that can pop up at any moment too. This guy had a bike. Boom. Just came out of nowhere. Live. You're on live TV. It's crazy. Technology is crazy. Like a little doggy. You're on TV. I need food too. The problem is that all the food is near Sensoji and there's no signal. So we can eat the food. Yeah, we couldn't. We could eat it, but you'll never see it. That's the thing. We could eat the food. We're happy to eat the food. I like to eat the food for you, but there's no signal for you to see it and enjoy the food. So we're going to eat the food. Therefore, we are not eating the food. Although we will eat the food because we're starving. Oh, there's a jidohanbaiki (vending machine). Okay. How about, can we drink the food? I don't know. We'll find out. I made a promise to Mr. Das. Something wet. Although he asked for beer. We've got to find something. I respect Mr. Das.

00:35:29 John Daub: All right. We got here. This is a Pocas-Sapporo beverage. They don't usually have the best options. You have to be a real hardcore fan of Pocari. There's some neat stuff in here. There's the—everybody loves Pocari Sweat. And matcha. You know, matcha tastes like they melted a bunch of Pez into soda water. And it's pure sugar. Love it. Wow. So Pepsi. Yeah. Pepsi has changed a little bit. They changed Pepsi to... It's like a Japanese cola. It's Japanese original taste. What? Well, we should try that then. Japanese original taste. Okay. Should we, you want to try it? I guess it's original taste. Mr. Das, will this do? It's a original taste Pepsi. I don't know. How could that be different? Okay. Like, can I buy it? It's Japan original taste Pepsi. The Pepsi is nasty. Don't. Oh, Purple Bandit already knows. Oh no. Can I buy one? Buy one. Oh, we should have gone Seven Up. I'm already having... They gave you all 10 yen coins. It'd be nasty. Wow. All right. This is what it looks like. This is the taste of a new generation. Obviously that generation skipped the generation because nobody's drinking it except for Purple Bandit apparently. Who said it was gross? Can you hold this? Sure. Just hold right there. Wait, wait for it. Oh, alright, let's try this.

00:37:31 John Daub: How do you feel? It's not about how does it taste. How do you feel? I think I'm changing. It's not great. It's not bad. I don't know. Hold on. Ew. I'd go ladies first, but I wanted to make sure she'd survive it. You raised your eyebrows. Is it surprising? It's coke. Yeah. Unless you drink a lot of cola, you won't tell the difference. To Kanae, it's coke because we don't drink a lot of cola. We usually drink green tea or water or oolong tea. We don't go for the colas. I like this one. Oh, this one? I prefer Itoen. She likes this one. Itoen's been around for a long time. What's more dangerous? This or fugu? I think this. Fugu won't kill you. This will kill you. You have to eat more fugu to kill you than drink this. This is more dangerous, I think.

00:38:53 John Daub: So Kanae's name is Kanae. Not Kanai. The letter K-N-A-E. And in Japanese, the E has an E sound. So it's Kanae. Which makes it really funny. It's really hard to pronounce for Westerners, including me. It sounds like Can-I. Yeah, Can-I. Yes, you can. You're not supposed to laugh at that. That's a bad joke. Everyone does it. Hey, David, say hi. Hi, Kanai. Hi. Yay. Kanai. Kanai. Yeah. So we'll walk down the street. We're going back to Kuramae Station. It's so quiet now. The streets have really quieted down. Mr. Potter, thanks for all of the chaos and fun. You're very welcome.

00:39:45 John Daub: Hey, when is the Tori... Tori... What was the name of the shrine? We went last year. Kanae and I ate... We ate a lot of street food at a festival. Was that a year ago? Where? Torigoe? Torigoe Shrine. It's coming in two weeks. That festival? That festival has the most street food, I think, in any festival in Japan. It's insane, right? Yes. Yeah. We made a video on it like one year ago, and it broke out viral. It was like a live stream with 300,000 views. It was crazy for a live stream. That one, she ate like a kilogram of food. No. Why are you laughing? You really did. We ate a ton of food. All right, this machine, she wants us to show. Conan Drink. Conan Drink. You want to try it? No, I'm fine. Why? Why didn't we go to this one? This has mikan jelly inside of it. Oh man, we got this wicked Pepsi that everyone told us not to drink, and then we found this one. Is this a Mont Blanc Drink? What? Oh my gosh. Wait, what is this? Oh my gosh. This is Mont Blanc Drink. I gotta get that.

00:41:13 Kanae Daub: I got it.

00:41:23 John Daub: All right, this stream has gone from festival to... It's only 100 yen. Done. I am looking, and I'm blown away. What? It's creamy. Crazy. It says it has kuri sauce. This is insane. This could be good, or this could be awful. I have no idea. I'm completely... This is Mont Blanc. Do you see this? This is chestnuts that have been smashed up with sugar into a paste, and they make confections out of it. Chestnuts, we say kuri or marron. You can say marron, and some Japanese use marron. It's just a French way to say chestnuts. I use marron. You use marron? I say kuri. You should shake a little bit. It says you should shake it? Yeah. Is it like a milkshake? I'm really excited about this. You want to go first? No, you go first. No, you go first. I did the Pepsi. Here, you can... I did the Pepsi. I'm not good at comment. Oh yeah. Your face tells the comment, really. All right, do it. Wow, look at this. Looks like coffee. Wait, don't move it. Don't move it. It's like latte. You know, when you're misty. Don't move it. Yeah, it is pretty. It is pretty latte-ish. All right, do it now. Okay. Do it. Oh, we got an O. Can we get a P? How about a Q? We got an M instead of... I pick Mont Blanc. Oh really? I pick Mont Blanc. Do you feel the spirit of Mont Blanc? I pick Mont Blanc. Wow. With the vending machine in the background, I give you the Mont Blanc drink. That's really good. It's Mont Blanc. That's really good. It's like pure sugar. Yeah. It's like... All right, imagine you can have that. The Pepsi's pretty nasty. You can have... Imagine a white coffee, like a cafe latte, and then just dump the entire sugar in it and put some sort of chestnut essence inside of it, and you get this. It's really good. There's no caffeine either. Is that... Could this be... No, it's not vegan because it has milk in it. I've been studying what's vegetarian and what's vegan. I still don't really know. It's kind of like eggnog. Yeah, you know what? My Green Bus is sort of like eggnog, but not as thick and definitely twice as sweet.

00:44:34 John Daub: Oh wait. I hear an omikoshi. I told you, if you just stand in one spot, it'll come to you. Look, if you just stay in one place, they come to you. I love that. It's a children's omikoshi. Oh, it's a children's. Okay, let's go. We're on the prowl now for another omikoshi just for you guys. We're bringing you this incredible omikoshi. It's a glorious 720p because we decided not to go to the shrine. Oh, it's just kids. The kids are... Oh, the kids are shouting. It's a small one. Oh, this is so cute. All right. This is a children's. Let's cross the street. There's a cop. There's a police officer conducting them with his maestro stick. Oh, and there's... That's one of the Shinto priests. Look, he's blessing the road. Did you see him bless the road? Recently, I was... I was in a church. A car hit a couple of children at an intersection, so I'm getting flashbacks of the news reports on that. Really sad experience, a sad accident we had here, so I don't know if that's why he's blessing the street.

00:46:01 John Daub: All right, front row seat to the children's one. Look at the families. Loads and loads of families. Look at that. There's a cart of them. Here comes the kids' omikoshi. It is so small. I guess they're having trouble because it's too heavy. It's too heavy. Oh yes, the angry fisherman. Oh, you remember the live streams very well. That was at the Tsukiji, the Toyosu new fish market one, that angry fisherman, man. He had my blood boiling. All right, let's... Can we cross the street? Not yet because the officer is looking at me. See, he's looking back at us. He's just waiting, waiting for me to break the law. All right, we're good. Yeah, the angry fisherman. Oh man, that was awful. I was shaking. I had to stick up for myself. He was wrong too. Look at this. This is so cute. Check it out. They're getting instructions on what to do. This is like a taiken (hands-on experience). Taiken? First time kind of a trial? No. Trial? I did when I was a child. Oh, you did this too? Yeah. You wore one of these hats too? Yeah. I did. Where is it now? I don't know. Let's go across the street and wait then. We're waiting for them to carry it. All right, I guess they're just going to carry it around the block. So just let's give them a minute. Let's give them a minute and then we'll go. And we'll see them carry it around the block. I'm excited for the children's one. They're still getting instructions. Here we go. Here we go. They're doing it. I'm crossing the street. It's the big one. It's like a school trip or something. They're trying it out for the first time. Oh, it's kind of tipping. I saw it tip a little bit to the left. Somebody's getting tired. Washoi. All right. The only thing was go around the corner and they're taking a break. Oh no. That was awesome. And look at those officers directing the traffic here. Keep everybody safe. Thank you, sir.

00:50:20 John Daub: Oh, Mr. Potter, if you only knew. If you only knew. I don't want to show her that. There they go. Down the street. That's ending our experience. This is a pretty good live stream. I have to admit it. It didn't start off good. I had my doubts. But in the end, we saw something that I'd never seen before. The children's omikoshi where they are trying their best, which is not that good. But they're trying their best to carry it around the streets of Asakusa. Thanks, everybody, for watching. We'll bring you some more live streams next week. Peter and I have... We're going to go back to the Monzen-Nakacho area and we have a story that we want to tell you. It should be interesting. I think you're going to like it. So. Any last comments?

00:51:14 Kanae Daub: If you are in Tokyo or somewhere, please come to matsuri. Yeah. There are many matsuri in this season.

00:51:28 John Daub: That's right. We have now started the matsuri season festivals. This is what brings a lot of passion to the city of Tokyo. You'll see them all over the streets, especially on the weekends. Have fun. Check out Tokyocheapo.com. They have a lot of the festival schedules on there. You can write it. Leave a comment. Leave a comment and ask me and I'll probably go on to Tokyocheapo.com to check because their list is so good. There's no reason for me to make a list. So have a good day. Have a good night wherever you are. I'm glad that we got 720p and a nice signal because we stayed away from the shrine. See everybody. Have a good time and we'll catch you again in the next live stream. Oh, and if you want a postcard, check it out on Patreon. I still have about 30 of them. Where'd it go? You have it. We have 30 of them left on Patreon. Check it out. Ha ha. Have a great day. See you tomorrow.