00:00:03 John Daub: Welcome to Kochi Station on the island of Shikoku as a train departs. One of few. It doesn't depart too often here, but they do go. This is JR Station. How you doing everybody? Welcome. I'm on the island of Shikoku once again. I was here just about 10 days ago and I came back here to do a reshoot on the Sunday market tomorrow morning. Japan's oldest market by the way. And I want to introduce you to Kochi Station.

00:00:34 John Daub: Now every single train station in Japan is sort of special. There's a Japan Post truck right there. This is the front of it. One of the unique things about this is that Kochi still has streetcars. You can see one way down there. Trolleys. And there's another one making its way in. And I'm going to talk to you a little bit about Kochi Prefecture while this trolley comes in and then we're going to go inside the JR Station. Those of you who have lived in Kochi probably are, or you lived in the past, probably it's a trip down memory lane. It's always nostalgic to go back and revisit an old city. Kochi is one of those cities. It's just one of these places you just don't forget. It looks a little bit, slightly like Tokushima. I don't know why to me. Tokushima is another city in Shikoku.

00:01:21 John Daub: Oh, it kind of just stopped right there. So that's the streetcar. They're kind of old. They don't have a subway here. And these streetcars go pretty far out. This one has Destination Kochi that's flashing on the top of it right there. What's he doing? All right, here he comes in. Welcome home. How cool is that? He's coming right at us. Just adding some drama. Wow. Very cool. Good morning. Good morning.

00:02:07 John Daub: Everyone's from around the world. I hope you're ready because we're going to explore Kochi's ekimae (station-front area), for the next 10 minutes or so. As we welcome passengers coming from all over the city right now. Hey, Dr. Zark. How you doing? Thank you. Thank you. I'm not actually going anywhere, though. But I will. There you go. So the streetcars do make their way, a lot of them, to Kochi Station. This is the terminus. And it's kind of really far away from Tokyo. If you look at it on the map, I put a link in the description. It's pretty far away. I came here by plane, and I walked here from the hotel.

00:02:53 John Daub: But you always have to make a pilgrimage to see what it's like inside of the station. This one is really nice. It's open. There's no doors on either side of them, so you can walk straight in. Here's the ticket booth where you can buy the tickets. They use the Iko-ka, which is the Osaka version of Suica. And right away, you can see the influence of Anpanman here, because he's one of the famous anime characters for kids here in Japan. Those are the steps leading up to the second floor where the trains depart. And you get these three big smiles at you. It's pretty nice. I love it when train stations take on kind of that Japanese feel like in another way. But you can go up here. Let's take a look at the train tickets and the times a little bit.

00:03:51 John Daub: All right. So each station is pretty different. This one, you can see Kochi in the middle. And that's not Shinjuku, Shibuya or Shinagawa on there. These are totally different. I've never seen most of these places before. But the JR system is not too big. That's it for like Kochi Prefecture. And it goes all the way to Tokushima. It's pretty neat to see the prices on here. They go up to about 2000 yen or about $20. And the ticket machines aren't too different from that in Tokyo. It's pretty uniform. They have English as well.

00:04:46 John Daub: They're laughing at me. I don't think they see a lot of YouTubers here. Here's Kochi on the map. The island of Shikoku kind of looks like a mini Australia. What do you think? Kochi would be like where... All right. What's going on now? This is a touch map. Give me back the weather. Hey, I want to see the weather. How are you doing? All right. We'll just pass. But oh, wow. They have like these cool train cameras. Oh, this is a video of one of the trains. A lot of the trains outside of Tokyo have some sort of attraction to it. This one has these ladies. That's pretty funny. But train culture in Japan is on another level. And it's pretty cool. That guy just climbed Anpanman's face, by the way.

00:05:46 John Daub: Yeah, Shikoku is most famous for the pilgrimage. It's famous for a lot of things. It's famous for the chicken. Oh, we had a lot of... I just had an amazing chicken lunch. Thanks to Tyler. And we had a... It's famous for the pilgrimage, which is 88 shrines and temples around the island of Shikoku that usually take about typically three months to hike around. But people will go to all 88 of them. And it's a special pilgrimage. I one day shall do it too. Not on this day. We're just doing JR. All right. I've come in from the central exit. Let's go to the backside. Now, both sides of these are called the ekimae.

00:06:26 John Daub: Ekimae. E-K-I-M-A-E. Ever since the day I arrived in Japan have been the hub of entertainment, restaurants, banks, ATMs, you name it. Ekimae has everything. There's a bakery there. There's no Starbucks. There is a cafe. Not all cafes have to be Starbucks. I do like the design of this side of the station. You couldn't see it on the other side, but it looks very Kengo Kuma-ish. And Kochi is the Kengo Kuma prefecture. The things are made of wood. The designs are amazing. Look at that. I love it. This is the roof. If this was Germany, they usually have like glass roofs with steel on it when you go into like Munich station or even Waterloo or Victoria station. Large ceilings. This one is made of wood. I like it. Very few people compared to Tokyo as well. As I said, you can go straight in.

00:07:29 John Daub: Hey, Samantha's here. Silly request, my boys are watching the livestream. Could you say hello to Joshua and Alexander? Big thanks, shout out to Joshua and Alexander. How you doing? Welcome to Kochi. How's that, Samantha? All right, no bicycles. Oh wow, this is very nostalgic. It's now all coming back to me. I came to Kochi 10, 13 years ago to ride my bicycle around the island and I camped in front of the station. Now it's all like coming back to me. This was not here 13 years ago. We camped right here but there's something in the way you see. What this building was, this building might have still been here but I camped with my friend Robin. This was just like a parking lot and we camped right here on the side and in the morning we took the first train out. That's so weird. Now it just like hit me right there because we came by bicycle. Oh man, I feel like I'm gonna die. Forgot I have been here. We came by bicycle and we went back. We came from Tokushima to Kochi on one trip and then I came back the next year. I did Kochi all the way around and in the morning we took our bicycles on the train to Okayama but I remember that sign. It said no bicycles can cross through there. Whoa, just it just hit me as a flat memory flash right there and that was a hard bike ride. A lot of mountains on the Kochi side. Whoa yeah, my history is all over this country. Probably find like my DNA in that lot over there. I don't know, hair, something. Well we camped there at night. That's a good looking bakery. Smells good. I'm whenever I smell freshly baked bread I just start floating towards it, gravitating towards it. Oh man, looks so good.

00:09:36 John Daub: All right, stop it. Let's go on the other side of the station now. It's neat to get a look at different stations, main stations around Japan. I'm putting an episode on the Main Channel. It's gonna be on the Shimanto River coming maybe in the next two weeks. I'm excited about that. I filmed here about 10 days ago and it was absolutely beautiful. Nathan, thanks man. If you like these stations, give it a thumbs up. Hey that's the guy who was eating lunch with me. Came aika, he didn't say konnichiwa back. He's a pilgrim going all around but he was sitting in front of me and when I was eating this Shimanto karaage chicken at a restaurant near the hotel. He forgot, I forgive him. Dr. Zark, buy a pastry and enjoy it for us. All right, I'll go. I'll go back. Actually I could use because Kochi has something else that's really famous in this area that nowhere else has. It's called boshi pan.

00:10:51 John Daub: And if you're an Instagram follower you would have seen the boshi pan because it looks like a hat. It's a piece of bread in the shape of a hat. It tastes better than a hat. Alas it is the boshi pan which is the hat bread. Listen to the music. I love the jingles. I love the jingles. Kochi has such an amazing vibe to it, doesn't it? No people, wide open spaces. I love this. This is not Tokyo or Osaka. Oh man and I'm looking forward to the Sunday market. This will be my second time going to film there. They have a lot of vegan things there which is one of the reasons why this market's kind of special. Kochi's vegetables are really good and it's famous for that so the market takes advantage of it. Up here are three great warriors. One of them has got to be Ryoma. I think that right there is Ryoma. That's Taro maybe. Ryoma is not here. Oh he's in the center, Sakamoto Ryoma. Boom. These are awesome. These statues. In the center is Sakamoto Ryoma who is, he's just dare I say it, a badass. The guy is on everything. I'll show you when we get to the 7-Eleven inside the station but Sakamoto Ryoma is a legend here in Kochi and he's represented in this very large statue. Reminds me of the Saddam Hussein statue in Baghdad that was torn down after the war. Ah why did the memory come to me? It's very Stalinist but I love a good statue. The three musketeers, very samurai-ish. Two swords in the obi (sash). Check it out. He's packing heat because he wields it a lot and it's hot when you make it. Can't compare it to a gun. Nice.

00:13:17 John Daub: All right, over here onto the side now. Wait a second, maybe did I camp here? It's very blurry. I could have camped on this side. It's very hard to remember. I don't remember the streetcars so I'm thinking it was the other side. This looks like a restaurant now. They have some amazing food here. I ate the karaage, the Shimanto chicken. I also had tataki. Oh there goes the streetcar. Straight car. That's not a space boat but it's close enough. So tataki is seared bonito. Hey come back here, I'm on this side. Yeah tataki is a bonito fish that's been seared. It's still raw inside, just seared on the outside so it's got that smoky charcoal taste to it. It's very famous here. I had that tataki shio tataki teishoku which is shio (salt) tataki. That seared fish and teishoku (platter set) is like a platter with rice, miso soup and maybe a salad. It all comes in one platter. I love teishoku. Should do an episode on it but I had the shio tataki teishoku. I put a picture on Instagram. Was amazing. And then I had the Shimanto karaage which is the chicken on the side. Oh man and that was a 4 p.m. lunch. I got to go back for dinner.

00:14:47 John Daub: Here's the sign for Kochi Station so you can see it's a very modern station. Did not look like this in 2006. I can guarantee you because I was here. It's a very new, very beautiful looking station and this is the main street that the trolleys, the street cars go on. It doesn't take you to the airport but you can take a bus that leaves from here I believe. Over yeah like that's a good question. Where does this airport bus leave? Probably from here. Oh there's a bus noriba (platform) on the other side. Noriba is the platform. Say with me noriba. If you can remember noriba you can remember platform. So this is bus noriba. Say bus noriba means bus platform I guess is like that but I guess it's a bus platform that's on the other side. I should figure that out. I'm going straight tomorrow from the market to the airport after I finished shooting it. I came here to reshoot the nice sign. I came here to reshoot an episode or get more shots of the market. All right let's go to the other side. Get some bread for Dr. Zark. Our friend wants some baked goods. Oh check it out I found one.

00:16:22 John Daub: Sakamoto Ryoma is everywhere. He's everywhere including on cappuccino. Check this out. They do him in cappuccino. That's pretty cool. So if I get it's usually about five dollars for one of these. If I had to take a picture this probably looks better than the picture I would take. So but it's they put him in like cinnamon or chocolate or cocoa on top of the coffee. It's really cool. I'm gonna go get some bread. I'm looking for a boshi pan. If I cannot find it doctor I'm gonna have to just buy it at the 7-Eleven but I'm getting only a boshi pan because that's what I want. I know I get when I show my friend Robin this sign he's gonna remember because we got in trouble because we tried to ride through here. Do not ride your bike through here. Don't be a hero. There's people to tackle other people who come through here. I don't see them though. They hide. Well ninja I'm looking for just the boshi pan okay. If I see it I'm gonna pounce on it. If not we're skipping. We're going to find another boshi pan somewhere. I'm almost positive they have a boshi pan here. Boshi pan. Boshi pan. They got it. Dude I'm getting this. Do you see it? Boshi pan.

00:17:53 John Daub: Hey Tyler I'm getting this boshi pan okay. All right I'm gonna do it. All right you guys coming in with me. I don't know if I'm allowed to film. It doesn't say not to film. I'm just gonna keep filming. Get the boshi pan. Hat bread baby. Almost looks like my hat or a UFO. Hat bread. Boshi pan. Come to Johnny. Do they have different kinds of boshi pan? Wow check it out. Inside that croissant is egg. Tyler did you just do that again Tyler? Oh man Tyler's the best. Look at this. This is cheese and bacon Danish. What? And these here this is beans bread. It's a mame pan. Kanae likes mame pan. This one has a sesame fried dumplings. Whoa oh man. Oh no okay I'm just going to the boshi pan. Tyler hold on. Tyler why'd you do that? That's that is the flight home. How you doing? How'd you do that? Oh man I might have to keep on. Keep on. There's a place where you can go out and drink and celebrate. That might be enough to go out and celebrate. There's a place called Hirome Ichiba and they're like benches like you're going to the Oktoberfest. I might go there tonight just for a drink. That would take care of it Tyler. Geez I wasn't expecting that. Oh wow check it out. So out of respect to Kurupanman who's a character that Kurupan has Kurupanman's face on it. It's crazy. I've never seen anything like that. That's pretty cool. Oh there's shokupan (milk bread). Shokupan's a real shokupan. What? This is awesome. Did you see that? It's Shokupanman shokupan. I've never seen that before. Kanae's gonna love this. Cute. All right let's get the boshi pan. I'm gonna wear it outside. I think it's fresh.

00:21:13 John Daub: She had a boshi pan too. There's a boshi pan in the middle. Hello. Welcome back. I would like to buy 155 yen of boshi pan. Thank you. Thank you. I got boshi pan in Kochi. Whoa! This is pretty cool. All right with it in the background. Let's eat this thing. The tribute to Dr. Zark as well. Thank you. Can you even wear this? There's a lot of students and they're all staring at me like I've done something illegal. I paid for this. Look at it. It looks like a hat, doesn't it? Isn't this a hat? Oh man. I could throw it and people would take pictures of it. And then you'd see it on the internet as a UFO has attacked Kochi. And I asked him, you should wear... Okay, I did wash my hair this morning. Kanae's not going to like that. She's not going to like it if I wear my food. All right, take a screenshot, everybody. Here's the bakery in the background. This is not going to last long. All right, take a screenshot. I'm balancing the boshi pan area. This is crazy. Oh no. It's not... Oh my gosh. I should wear it around. I should wear it around town. Do you think the kids would love that? You wear the boshi pan around town. I could like gorge a hole into it and put it on the back and wear it like right on the back of my head like a yarmulke would be pretty cool, huh? That's awesome.

00:23:45 John Daub: All right, shout out. Shout out to this cafe. Willy Winky is what it's called. That's another name. We're having too much fun. These streets are not supposed to be this much fun. All right, let's try this boshi pan. Again, these are only in Kochi. You can't find these in Tokyo. I checked. They don't make them. I know. That would be the better thumbnail, right? This would be a better thumbnail. Okay, I might get another one later. Let's try this boshi pan. Oh wow. Tastes like a cookie. Like cookie batter. Mmm. You know, you ever try to make Toll House cookies as a kid, but you always get a cookie. You put too much flour in it or something, but it tasted... It tastes like that. Like cookies, but with too much flour. I failed more times than I succeeded as a kid making Toll House cookies. And this tastes like one of my failures, so it's very nostalgic. I quite like it. The lady said there's nothing inside. Typically yeah, it is sort of like a melon pan. We're losing one of Saturn's rings here. Wow. Very good. Very good. Now the crust of it is... I think it's a different... Different ingredients in it. It's very interesting. Now yeah, it just looks great with ice cream. Am I getting ideas? It's 7-Eleven. It is quite dry. I could use a drink. Very good. I'm glad I went back for this boshi pan. What's that? Jeez. He's angry I ate half his hat. Oh my God. Sorry, dude.

00:26:31 John Daub: Oh, there's the coffee machines at 7-Eleven. They make good coffee. Again, Anpanman is the star of the station. But seriously, Hirome Ichiba is down the street. My hotel is about 600 meters or half a mile down this road and then to the right. If I walk towards Kochi Castle, which is this way, right near Kochi Castle is this Hirome Ichiba. And you can Google it. And if you put in the Google Maps, you'll see it. It's a really amazing small building with 60 shops in there. And you can eat your food, get your food and eat at a bench like you're at Oktoberfest, the one in Munich. Oh man. What a day. Any questions? Free Rider writes, where is Kochi? It's in India. No, it's in Shikoku. There's another Kochi in India. People in India always start laughing when they say I'm in Kochi. Yeah. Hirome Ichiba. That's it. Way on 6 wrote it in there. Not Hiromi, Hirome, I believe. I might have made a mistake. I've only been there once in my life just before here. Is it like a shotengai (covered shopping arcade)? Not really. They do have a really nice shotengai that I walked through. But the Hirome Ichiba is more like, I don't know. It's just like a kind of a small building, but it's a lot bigger than it looks inside. And it's got tons of stuff. It's got tons of picnic tables and long benches that you can sit at. And around it are tons and tons of little shops that sell everything. There aren't too many things like this in Japan because the picnic table seat yourself kind of place is not too popular. But in Kochi it is.

00:28:56 John Daub: Oh man, that was great. Thank you for that, doctor. I'm going to sleep well tonight. Yeah. This is where my friend and I slept 13 years ago when we, was it 13 years ago? Yeah, 13 years ago. Right there. But now they have a roof over everything here. All right, guys, I'm going to walk now through the city and take you to the shotengai. So if you want to stick with me, please do. If not, that's cool. But the rest of this live stream has been brought to you by our friend Tyler. This is going to make me keep rolling out of respect. I'm sorry. There's Ryoma. The guy's everywhere, Sakamoto Ryoma. I think every 200 meters that you walk, you're going to see Sakamoto Ryoma somewhere in some form. And we're going to walk down here and just kind of investigate a little bit of Kochi City. So if you've never been here before, the rest of this episode is for you because after this you're going to want to come. Kochi is like the adventure capital of Japan in a way. Get Nagano and Shikoku and Nagano and Shizuoka. Wow, but that was really cool. These three statues. I have to get an insert shot of Kochi Station for the main channel. So I've got my GH5 here open. Just give me a second. Three, two. Okay, good. I got what I came for. When I do the Sunday Market episode, I want to insert that shot in there. You guys, when I release it, will have seen it. All right, let's cross the street. It's a green light. I'm not playing around. These guys are running too. We did it. Turn the camera around. It's now time for you to experience one of Japan's prefectural cities called Kochi. It will change your life forever because the first thing I'm going to show you besides that woman's head. Hold on.

00:32:12 John Daub: You see that? Two whales in a yin yang. Peter would love this. This is Kochi's manhole cover. It's pretty nice. There's a couple of them. This one is the most notable. Two dancing whales. Whales are famous in Kochi because you can go whale watching right off of the coast. A lot of whales make their way this way. Pretty neat. This is another one of the manhole covers. It's pretty. This one's in front of the station and they've painted it a little bit. I haven't seen any whale meat. I don't think that they have too much respect for it. None of the young people eat whale meat, but it's something that was in the school lunches about 30 years ago, post World War II. But it's not something you see very often these days. It's a nostalgic food for old people. Whale meat is not popular. Yeah, I've had whale before. I ate it in one of the episodes. The Japanese school lunch episode. It's looking back at the Kochi station. Yeah. Nice. I'm going to go back to Kochi.

00:33:28 John Daub: And now we'll make our way down Harimaya Street towards destination this way because I don't know what else to say. Well, we're going to get scenes of the castle, Kochi Castle in about three minutes maybe. I believe. I've only been here a couple of times and the last time was 13 years ago. So it's not like I remember any of this stuff. But if you've lived in Kochi and you're watching this and you haven't been back in a while, this is going to be definitely nostalgic. Just the sound of the trains going by. Very cool. Ah, you can see Dokin-chan. Very cool. Here's Anpanman who was on the stairs of the station just about five minutes ago. When we walked by there, you could see the influence of Anpanman character, Baikinman. You hear that beep bing beep bing beep bong? You don't hear that in Tokyo too often. But it's the sound of the crosswalk for the deaf people, people that can't hear, can hear when their side of the street is ready to cross. No, it's for blind people. Oh sorry, deaf people. I was looking at the yellow things. Do you see these lines here? These are for blind people and they use it and they'll follow. And then when they get to these ones with the circles, they know it's time to turn left or right. So that's for blind people. And then the deaf people have the pinging, sonar pings. Thanks guys. That's what the chat's good for when I misspeak. I have you guys to correct me. Thanks for that.

00:36:15 John Daub: Already you can see the tropical trees on the left and the right. It is typically year-round warm here. I mean, it doesn't get too cold. There is snow, but it's kind of more of a tropical feel to this town. Definitely. Kochi-bashi. Definitely feels hot today. Late May. Beautiful little canal. Love these prefectural cities. So many memories. Just relaxed town. I could see why people would want to leave Tokyo and move out to Kochi or to Miyazaki. A lot of younger people are now leaving the cities and going back home. I can see why. It's just so much more relaxing. There's a lot of entrepreneurial chances with all the tourists coming. You can make a business successful out in the countryside. Because there's not a lot of competition. Where Tokyo is just full of competition right now.

00:37:34 John Daub: It's a gas station. Usually the service is amazing. They'll go out and they... The first time that I went to a Japanese gas station, when I walked by one, I was shocked. I stopped and watched. The staff go out and they stop traffic so you can go out. It's crazy, the service. And then they bow real low until you're out of sight. Which is a problem because if you stop at a traffic light, sometimes they just stand there. They're waiting for you to go out of sight. Give you a long traffic light, they'll just stand there. Waiting. It's uncomfortable. Then you look to see if they're still there. They're still there. You turn around for 15 seconds. You look to see if they're still there. They're still there. And then after you leave out of sight, they'll bow one time and then go back to their job. Pay respect to the customer. Because it's not just the customers watching. Everyone is watching this guy. As a hundred cars pass, they're watching him watch the customer leave and show respect. And a lot of the people that go by have respect for that business. Kochi Castle. One kilometer that way. Should we go there? Now if you go straight here, you'll get to the bridge. And if you're one of the Daimyo on Patreon, I sent you a box of little cakes from Kochi. And inside of there is... It looks like a popsicle, but it's actually a hairpin. And that hairpin corresponds to a story that's told based on this little bridge about 300 meters up the road. It's a nice little story.

00:39:30 John Daub: A lot of students here. Bike gang. Dangerous. I don't see too many motorcycles, but I'll tell you what I see a lot of. Bicycles. Kids in gangs. They're all wearing the same clothes, so you know it's gonna be a gang. White shirt, dark pants. Come after me with a pencil and an eraser. This school let out not too long ago. I wasn't serious. They're not gangs. The gangs of Kochi. Could be a movie. Worked for New York. Alright, Kochi Castle is this way, one kilometer. Now this is the dilemma. Do I walk that way or do I take you to the bridge? It's a tough one. Alright you know what? I'm gonna take you to the bridge and keep walking this way because I've already shown you the castle in another livestream. Ah those girls are laughing at me. Don't laugh at the YouTuber. Alright, I'm walking around with a stick in my hand. That's fine. It's normal for Tokyo. Normaler. Whoa! They're searing something in there. That's gotta be good. Ah, yakitori. Nice. Some more gangs. Ah, there's Kurupan. There's a lot of weird statues. Kids usually point them out. I'm not sure. You know, the Anpanman anime series is in the Guinness Book of World Records for having the most characters in a series. Literally, there's so many of them, but the kids can remember them. I used to teach kids when I first came to Japan, and they could remember them. Look at that. See, I told you. He's even on buses. Ryoma. What? Did you see that? The dude's on buses, statues. He's on cake, coffee. Ah, I can smell more yakitori.

00:42:36 John Daub: Alright, this is a shotengai, everybody. It's a covered shopping arcade. I guess they were famous back in the 1950s and 60s. They didn't have Aeon malls or shopping malls. But this one is called Obiyamachi. And Obiyamachi is quite a long one. It's one of the attractions. If you go to TripAdvisor, TripAdvisor advises you to go. So you gotta go and see this. It's like in the top 10. There's a whale up there. You know what? I'm gonna walk down here after I take you to the bridge. Can you guys hold on for about five minutes? I'm gonna take you to the bridge and show you something pretty neat. The whale is even on the street here. Alright, let's go do this. I'm taking you on a tour of Kochi that's never been done before. Nobody dares livestream the streets of Kochi. It's a dangerous place. It's full of whales on manhole covers. It's a slice of life in Kochi. World's first Kochi stream right in Obiyamachi. Could very well be. Guess what? Kochi's rocking a good 4G LTE signal. I'll tell you that.

00:44:21 John Daub: Alright, we're here at the bridge. First of all, you know you're at a tourist attraction when Kitty-chan is rocking the bridge for you. Look at that. She's in yukata rocking a little teeny bridge. And that's where we're gonna go right now. There's a story to this too. Look at that Coca-Cola streetcar. I think Kochi's pretty clean. Alright, here it is. Now this is not it. On its own, this bridge is not impressive, okay? It's basically just a bridge. Behind a bridge. Here's a bridge that people use and cars use. And then there's this bridge which is just here. It's a red bridge. But it's a symbolic bridge. And it's connected to a love story. One of which you're going to have to Google because I'm not going to pretend to understand. The local certificates. But it's about two lovers. Not the guy on the phone but these two right here. And something with these two lovers and a hairpin. And I guess that's a hairpin right there. Maybe. But the hairpin, if you're a Daimyo supporter on Patreon, you would have gotten this snack which is advertising here. And there's actually, he's putting a hairpin in her hair. So it's representative of the story. And yeah. That's it. But it's important to Kochi. This is important to the city. It's a pretty little, the water does run through it. It is an important bridge. I think it's the Harimaya Bridge. I think it's called. Harimaya Bridge. There's some more Ryoma action going on there. From Kochi. That's the Kochi man. Lot of respect for Sakamoto Ryoma. And when you read a story, you will too.

00:46:39 John Daub: Alright, now it's time to go down. Kitty-chan. It's time to go down. What's that? Six o'clock. It's a nice little shopping arcade there. Oh, the clock is opening. Check it out. What's going on there? Do you see that? Do you see this? Some like Ghibli thing going on there. The clock just popped out of the wall. Something's happening. Alright, let's go. We gotta check this out. Stay with me guys. Oh, something's coming out of it. Check it out. It's coming out of the top of it. Do you see it? Kochi Castle just popped out of the top of the clock. What? Very cool. No, bus, don't block the shot. The clock popped out of the wall about 30 centimeters and Kochi Castle popped out of the top of it. What? And it's playing music. Let's keep watching the clock. Oh wait, something's coming out of the bottom of it. What? What? What is that? Do you see it? This is a Kochi exclusive. You've seen it here first. A clock where a castle pops out of it with something underneath it. Oh, it's bells. It's things and bells. Dancing people. Look. I can't get closer. We're separated between, I don't know what it is. I think they're like little geisha. And there's waves. Do you see the left and the right of it? Waves because we're on the Pacific Ocean. So that represents the ocean behind us. I've never seen anything like this. Check it out. Like bonsai tree popped out the left side. Do you see that? That wasn't there before. I was focusing on the dancers. We missed that. No, bus. Stop it. This is called Diamond Crossing apparently. And they're playing very Japanese music. I guess it goes on for five minutes. That's, that was cool. I didn't expect that. You just walk around and you discover things, you know. Stuff just sort of happens. Look, there's other people now starting to take pictures. They're copying us. Oh, did you see the bridge popped out? Look. What? What's this? Don't jump. Don't do it. A little gold lady popped out of a bridge off of the side of this clock and is just looking at us now. What else can this clock do? What? There's something else popping out of it. Oh, that's that bridge I was just telling you about. You remember the bridge with the love story and the hairpin? That's that bridge right there. And this song is representative of the folklore. Now it's all putting all the pieces together. The bridge is called Yosakoi Bridge. It's a bridge. He's putting the pin in her hair. And Ryoma is on the left side. Thank you, Joy. Ah, now it's going away. You've seen it here first, folks. Scoop of the century. Tyler approved. Yosakoi. Yeah. Tristan, we're well on our way to 100 million views on this clock. The clock is like Batman's utility belt. It's a utility clock. But what's most impressive is, after all this time, I'm still not sure what time the clock is. But after all these things go back in, and it's probably mechanical, like little wheels turning to pull it all in. I'd love to get inside and take a look at this. Just stay here for another minute. I'm sorry for those who are bored of the clock. I'm fascinated by it. Big Ben R.I.P. Oh geez, the Internet's gone wild for this clock. Poor Big Ben. You've been replaced by this clock which protrudes. All right, I'm going to get to the side so you can see it.

00:52:51 John Daub: All right, from this side, you can see it start to go back into the wall. It's true, Big Ben is overrated. Things don't pop out of Big Ben. This could be true. Could be overrated. Where can I buy this clock? I don't know. I bet you they sell it. I bet you they sell it right there. Let's go check that tourist shop. See if they got that clock on sale. Look, the castle's going in. I didn't... This just happened. Did this just happen? I got to rename this from Kochi Station to... Also, clock pops out of building. And makes bridge with Ryoma. It's a long title. And now it's going back into the wall. Do you see it? It's pushing back into the wall. Awesome. That is the coolest clock I've ever seen. Thank you, clock. Thank you. Ten out of ten. Rock the clock. Man. Thank you, clock. Now I got to figure out what it was. It's Gretchen approved. Rock the clock. Alright, now let's see if we can buy the clock.

00:54:38 John Daub: Alright, let's see it. Oh, here are the hairpins that you can buy. Very interesting. See some of the snacks and cups. I don't see the clock though. One second. They don't have the clock here. There's another shop. Hold on. We got to find the clock. I'm now on a mission to find the clock. Excuse me, what do you call that clock? That is the Karakurizaka clock. The Karakurizaka toke. According to the lady who sells things. Karakurizaka. Very nice. Thank you, Karakurizaka clock. Alright, let's check this store out for the Karakurizaka clock. They do have the mats for that bridge, but I don't see the Karakurizaka clock. I'm just going to ask. Karakurizaka clock. I'm looking for the clock. Excuse me, is there a Karakurizaka clock here? A small one. Are they selling it? Yes. Thank you. Oh, this one? Is it this one? Karakurizaka and... Yes. What is it called? It's called Orgel. Oh, that's what it means. That's a different one. It's this one. Isn't it this clock? This little one. Oh okay. That's it. You're right. Yes. This is it. What's this? It's Orgel. Oh! It's pretty. It's lime. Oh I see. Very pretty. I don't think so. It's okay. It plays music. She went next door to ask. They're cooperating, these stores. She went into the neighboring store. I thought they were enemies. I don't think so. Thank you. I don't think so. Wow, those stores are friends. I thought they were mortal enemies. These stores are friendly because they're the same owner. Harimaya. Oh, Harimaya. They wrote it in English. I can read the kanji, see? The clock is closed now. Sorry, guys. They don't have that clock on sale. That was the highlight.

00:57:51 John Daub: I'm John. Oh, hello. You're on live. I'm walking around. Hi, where are you from? Oh, welcome. So crazy to see you here. We just saw the Yosakoi last week, I thought. Yeah, I came here to reshoot the Sunday Market tomorrow. Nice. Are you going to Sunday Market? We didn't know about it. Really? Maybe we will now, though. What time does it start? Five in the morning. That's when I start filming. But it goes on until about noon. It's the oldest outdoor market in Japan. Really? Yes. That might be worth getting up for. I don't know about five in the morning. Not five in the morning, but I don't know, like nine, ten. It's a pretty hopping market. Palm trees, looking things. Maybe about 100 meters that way. Take a left, right there. Trust me, you'll know. Everyone's there on Sunday morning. Awesome. It's crazy. Keep doing what you're doing, man. Thank you very much. How long are you here for in Kochi? We're only in Kochi for two nights. We just landed earlier today, so we're leaving on Monday. On Monday. So we're going to do a lot of eating. Yes. Eat a lot. Did you go to that market by the castle? We literally landed, went to our hotel, went to a sake brewery, and now we're here. Okay. We've had a really packed day. Now we're getting to stretch our legs and enjoy Kochi. Yeah. That's what I'm looking forward to. There's a market near the castle. It's just a big building, and they have benches, and everyone goes there to eat. 60 or 70 shops in there. That's exactly what we're looking for. That's what we're looking for. Oh really? Yeah. If you go down that street with all the trees, the trees are in the middle of the street. It's at the end when you go towards the castle, and you'll see it. Just listen for people screaming and having fun. Alright, that sounds like a good town. That's great. Maybe I'll see you there tonight. Maybe. Thanks a lot, man.

01:00:01 John Daub: Alright. So now I promised I would take you down towards the shotengai, which is actually near my hotel, and I can go back. I also could use a break. Very exciting. I'm going to go down the road. If you aren't Kochi, I will be there to have a drink, to celebrate. Because we just walked quite a ways. We've done about 2.5 kilometers, I think. Walking around. It's got a good vibe, the city. I like it. It's fun. People are friendly. I just had to check out the manhole covers. People are learning. Manhole covers are becoming a thing. When you have something that you are passionate about, you go for it, you champion it. And manhole covers are my thing. I collect the cards, too. I do. I have like 30 manhole cover cards. Does it make me strange? It does. That's good. Strange is good. Alright, folks. We're going to just walk down here. Obiyamachi. I just want to show you a little bit of this. And I think then you've pretty much seen a lot of Kochi in this one-hour live stream. This is the shotengai. This is where a lot of the kids will come. They'll hang out here. They ride their bicycles. They'll park. You can see on the left and the right, lots of bicycles. And the kids will hang out. If you ride a bicycle, a lot of people will come into these izakaya (pubs), or drinking places where you can eat a lot of food. They'll get drunk and get on their bike. You shouldn't do that. I'm just telling you right now. But people do it. I'm not one of those people that I would admit. Ever.

01:01:47 John Daub: This is where I had the lunch. So for everyone who bought me lunch, this is what I bought. I did a preemptive strike and I ate before. I got this here. This is what I was telling you about. This is shio tataki teishoku. That's tataki, which is bonito. Do you ever see katsuobushi, which are the bonito fish flakes on takoyaki and okonomiyaki? That's what that is. Before it becomes the petrified wood. And I ate this. This teishoku, which is about $14. It's really good. But that wasn't enough. No. I had to go for the karaage. It looks like this. These deep fried chicken from this area. Which is so good. Locally grown, free range chicken. And there's the menu. They usually put the menu out in the front here. You can see. They have some local Kochi beef, wagyu. Oh, this is the chicken that I ate. It was really good. Not this particular one. That's just a logo. It's good. You know what I'm talking about. Let's show this guy a little bit. Hope you're having fun. There's a Daimaru. And that Daimaru is inside the Tokyo station. But this is a branch of Daimaru in Kochi. It's not quite as big. Or crowded. There's barely anybody in there. Oh, ice cream. I love the naturalness of this city. Lots of wood. Lots of trees inside. It's a city surrounded by nature. And one of the things that you'll notice when you fly into Kochi, if you do fly in, is that the mountains start very close to the sea. And there's not a lot of land for them to use to grow things on. And even though the farms seem to be right along the sea, where there's salt water, they still do a pretty good job of cultivating vegetables in Kochi. And I was surprised that from the airplane, to see all the farm fields and rice paddies right against the sea. Because you think sea water is going to get in there, right? It has some salty rice. But it's not. How do you cultivate rice in sea water? But they seem to do it really close to the shores. Whoa, water wheel! Oh man, that looks good too. I love katsudon. And oyakudon. Tsuchibashi. Oh, this is a water wheel that's along the Shimanto River. And the Shimanto River is very famous in Japan. It's the cleanest river in Japan. But it's also famous here in Kochi. Because it's Kochi Prefecture. Kochi is the capital. And they have amazing soba. Everything I just said makes no sense. There's no connection. It's just food. Getting hungry again. Very nice. That reminds me of the manhole covers in Takamatsu. Yeah, that's the north part of Shikoku where the guy's shooting an arrow at a boat to win. And the one arrow won the war. I think that's the same from the manhole cover. Mr. Donuts. Anyone? They do not have boshi pan in there. Oh, I should have worn my boshi pan. Fish in a boat. Very nice feel to the city of Kochi. It's manageable, you know? It's not overwhelming. I think it's a great place to start a vacation. If you're learning Japanese, this would be a better place than Tokyo. Because people are more relaxed. Probably willing to talk to you than if you go to Tokyo. People are friendly. They like to drink here in Kochi, I was told. So they're a little bit more relaxed. What? Do you see that? The Ryoma burger. Ryoma has been put on a burger. It's being sold inside that burger. Crazy! They really love Ryoma here. If you like Ryoma too, click that like button. I haven't done any like promotion. If you too like Ryoma and the Kochi prefecture, click the like button now.

01:07:17 John Daub: 13 years ago, when I came here with my friend on a bicycle, we also came down through this shotengai. We were looking for a place to eat local food. And we never did. But I'm glad I went back there and I had the tataki. Shio tataki teishoku. The seared bonito. Because that's the big food from Kochi prefecture. I think if there's a famous food from Kochi prefecture, it would be tataki. Seared bonito. So you guys like this shotengai? Is it worthy of your thumbs up? I don't like pepper. Alright, that's all I have to say about that. I prefer this headless man to pepper. I prefer this to that robot that looks like a child that creepily follows you with his eyes as you walk around the shop saying stuff to you when you least expect it in the middle of the night. Look at this shop. It's a little teeny... This might be the oldest shop on the shotengai. This looks like it's a family run senso. They sell fans. Very neat. They seem to sell fans. It looks like a family run shop. I love looking at you find shops walking around. Oh, these are the chips that I sent to some Patreon supporters last month. You'll find little teeny family run shops in little alleys and places that you wouldn't expect it. There you go. There's the shotengai. There's not too much up here, so I'm going to take a right and show you that street I was telling those people. And then that's where we're going to say goodbye because that's where my hotel is. I got a hotel literally right in front of the market because tomorrow morning I got to wake up at 5 a.m. to start filming this market. Look at this place. Sweets and Pizza Bar. Three things that I never thought would ever be put together. Well, pizza and bar maybe, but sweets and pizza? First time ever. Interesting. Very interesting. Boshi pan. It's real. Alright, at the end of this you start to see the trees and this is where the hotel is. I love these alleys. I bet you there's a couple of good izakayas down these alleys, huh? Look at that. Hey, Jacob writes in from Denmark, I believe, taking my first trip to Japan this summer. Awesome! You're going to love it. Although you're going to be really hot because summer is so hot in Japan, but it's going to be great because you get long days. The sun is setting really late these days now, so it allows you more time to be outside. I can smell like grilled fish all over the streets. Fish is grilling. It smells amazing.

01:10:43 John Daub: Alright, this is the street. Tomorrow I'm going to be here at 5am filming the Japan's oldest market. Look at this booze shop. That's a lot of beer. You gotta stop and pay your respect. Alright, this is where I told the friendly couple from New York who watches Only in Japan. Awesome. I said this is on this street, on the left and right, there'll be no more cars here. It's just going to be a market. Lots and lots of stands with a canopy over it. The entire street will just have a canopy over it. Goes out down to this side too. All just canopied. All just people selling fresh vegetables, freshly made food. Ohagi. I eat a lot of stuff. Inakazushi, which is sushi but there's no fish. It's vegetable sushi. It's weird. It's great. It's awesome. They have that here. So tomorrow I'm going to be searching for these things. The tomatoes. I think I put something on Instagram. There's tomatoes. Oh man. Absolutely amazing. How many cans of peas? I finally go to look at the chat and that's the question that I get. Peace. Otesuji. Sentagai. Wow, look at that. Friendly people. Already got some drinking friends tonight. It's going to be a long night. Yeah, I'm going to do takoyaki is bomb. I'm doing a main episode channel on the market that's going on here. It's Japan's oldest market. I think there's some history to it. I came here with a vegan. She introduced me. I can't even say. I keep forgetting her name because it's an Italian name. Tiara. She's vegan. I came here with a real life vegan who introduced me to non-meat foods here last time. And I didn't get enough shots because we got here too late. So I'm coming. Had to come back and fly today to take this market. I'm going to get them at 5 a.m. when they set up and start selling and see who comes here at 5 in the morning. And then I'm going to start taking it around 7 and 8 o'clock in the morning. I'm going to go up here, get some shots from the top shooting down towards the market so I can get... I didn't get that shot last time. I'll tell you what, if you go to Instagram, I'll put a walkthrough of what the market looks like in about 5 minutes. Go to Instagram. The lights are starting to come on. Check it out. I'll put it on Instagram, onlyinjapantv and you can take a look at there. But in 12 hours, this is going to be completely filled with people and the market will be on. Japan's oldest market. One kilometer long. It's crazy. And last but not least, the one thing I wanted to share with you is right there. This is the perfect thing to say goodbye to. You guys, are you guys watching? You watching? Do you see in the center of your screen? Do you see that? Boom! Kochi Castle. We have completed the tour and this connects perfectly with the Kochi Castle tour from 10 days ago. So Kochi Castle, it looms down on this market. Literally, the market starts right there at the beginning where Kochi Castle entrance is. So, what do you think? Good tour? I thought it was a pretty good tour today. We had a good day. We flew from Tokyo. You get to see all of Kochi and eat a boshi pan. Not many people are going to give you a boshi pan. Live to love to lose. Is the burger, is the Beyond Burger a choice in Japan? I ordered it at Carl's Jr. and like it. But that's a good question. Can you take, put a bookmark right there and I'm going to look and see if it is something that you can order. Because I'm going to Akihabara next week. That's the only place I've ever seen Carl's Jr. But I'll see if it's a thing here. Interesting. That Ryoma burger looked good. I got to think about dinner. Boshi pan was just an appetizer. So, folks, back before I got that question. Looking back at the castle, it's a great place to stay. And Carl's Jr. is in Yokosuka, by the way. Tabitha Long, thank you. That's Kochi Castle at sunset. So thanks everybody for watching. I appreciate it. It's incredible. I love Kochi. I love this livestream and I love the clock. The clock will live on forever. It's one of those things now. Good night, everybody. See you tomorrow in another livestream. Probably from the market. I'm going to do something tomorrow at the market. And if things are roaring, you might see me at that market at Hirome Ichiba tonight. I might go do another livestream. Just depends how things go. You never know. I'm making friends left and right here. It's impossible not to. Because Kochi. It's Kochi-y. See you guys.