00:06 John Daub: Welcome to Chirihama Nagisa Driveway. This is Japan's only highway on a beach, and there's no road. It's crazy. Hey, you're going off the road. Literally, this really is a highway. You wouldn't believe it, but it is. I know because it's on the map. This is Kanazawa, and we are free, free from the train tracks because right there is the Toyota Mark X. It's a rental. We've rented a car for the day. We got a few hours that we can drive around Noto Hantō (Noto Peninsula), which is this beautiful peninsula in Ishikawa Prefecture, not too far from Kanazawa. Yeah, the first thing that I'm gonna be doing in today's livestream marathon is show you this Chirihama Nagisa Highway, driveway, whatever they call it. It's so cool.

01:01 John Daub: Cars are coming off the main highway. You can see some of them passing on the left side. They turn here and just start driving wild. I don't think there's a speed limit. You're supposed to stay in your lane. You're not supposed to go into the water, but I've seen some cars challenge themselves and make some spray on the left side and into it. I don't want to do that with a rented car. Yeah, see, he's going off-road. That dude's gonna go into the sea. They're going just a little bit into the water. Sometimes they get daredevil. I know, free car wash. This is an actual road. There's cops here. You're not supposed to do that, dude, but most people come here, tourists. I'm serious. It's so cool. I'm really excited about this. We, meaning you and I, are gonna be driving this in about a minute. Kanazawa is gonna be holding the camera, and we're gonna go down the Chirihama Nagisa Highway.

02:03 John Daub: If you want to know where this is, there's a link in the description so you can follow along on Google Maps. Seriously, there's a ton of cars here. I already got some drone shots. That's why the livestream may have started a little bit late. This is a livestream, everybody. See what he does. It's interesting to see what the drivers do. It's like, oh wait, I'm on a beach. I'm gonna go slow for a second. What should I do? What's the speed limit? Well, all right now. I guess everybody does that. Now he pushes the gas and there he goes at normal speed. He's got four-wheel drive. We don't. This could be a problem, although we are driving the Mark X, which is pretty cool. That car went off on the road. You're not supposed to. I guess you could step off the road if you have car trouble, but this is a real highway. This is crazy. You're not supposed to park on the highway, dude. Okay, good. He's following the rules. You're supposed to be parked up here, and some people will come up here and take a look at it. You're supposed to signal and pay attention to all traffic laws.

03:03 John Daub: This here, ladies and gentlemen, is the Mark X, the Toyota Mark X. It's a car that will be discontinued next year that I still rent because it is this beautiful sweet spot between luxury and a casual sedan. It's a nice car. Let's get inside of it and drive this highway. Enough talking. It's time to get on the road.

03:35 Kanae Daub: Is it doors open?

03:37 John Daub: All right. I'm excited about this. All right. Can I... You are our camera woman. Okay. I see. I've already started the engine. Seatbelt. Seatbelt. That's right. Although it's a beach, it's also a road. Okay. Hold the camera. Are you excited about this? We're going to go on a road trip.

04:03 Kanae Daub: All right. So we got 300.

04:04 John Daub: Click the like button right now because this is... I'm not going to do this again. If you like this crazy driving... I'm going to do this again. If you like this crazy driving, click it. I need to know. Drink water. I need gasoline too.

04:28 Kanae Daub: I think so.

04:32 John Daub: Let's do this. I'm going to be directing Kanae. Sometimes, Kanae, you can show me, but I want to show... Do you see this button right here? So you're going to want to push this one. Okay. There you go. So you can show the people this and then sometimes push that button. Okay. So you can see us. And then you can come back like this. Then you can see us. Okay. I got it. Yeah. All right. Let's do this. Drive. We're going to drive on the beach. No, keep this... Keep it that... This lens this way and this wide lens towards me. Okay. So you can turn it sometime. Okay. We are on the road. We're on the road right now. But guess what? We're going to be going to the beach. Now, keep the camera right there, Kanae. If you look straight ahead, there's a sign there with some traffic lights. Traffic laws. Traffic rules. Do you see that here? Yeah. Right there. So you want to be careful. It's an actual road, everybody. That's just proof. Let's do this.

05:41 John Daub: It is an actual road. This is so cool. I'm driving on the beach. What am I doing? What is this? It's a very nice view. Very nice view. Wow. All right. Wow. This is really interesting. We're almost there. We're almost there. So, although there are no actual lanes, you have to pay attention to the other drivers coming. Here comes a car coming the other way. I don't know why this is the way it is, but it's the only... It's about nine kilometers that you can drive along this road. There's actual road stops here where you can get refreshments. Here's another one right there. Check it out. Drive and do this kind of... oh no, yeah, you're the director now and you have to watch out for pedestrians and fishermen. Oh, here comes a motorcyclist. Do you see that?

07:21 John Daub: Should I try to go into the water? All right, let's try. We're gonna go into the water. Please be careful. We're going to... ah, get away, get away, get away, get away. This is kind of cool. Yeah. Open your window. Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's great. Open your window. Hold on a second. I'm parking. Hazards are on. Hold on. I have to turn the hazards on. Hold on a second. Kanae is not as good with the camera. That's all right, you're sweet. That's all right. All right, I'm in parked mode. Yeah, we're trying to open the window. It's really hot, Mark X. Listen, okay, it was in child mode and they do it so the kids can't jump out of the window. This is awesome. Hold on a second. Sailor Lumos, thank you very much. Mr. Das, where is your nemesis, the anchor fisherman? Oh, I don't want to. He's in Tokyo actually. All right, Kanae's gonna show people how close... wait, just thinking. Hold on. All right, Kanae's gonna show you how close we are to the water. Yep. Rental car company, do not look at this. Wow, we are very close. Show the tires. Can you show the wheels? Yeah, they're the wheels.

09:23 John Daub: I know this crazy. This is not the first. This guy's been doing this all day. Guy's crazy. He went back into the water. Did you see that? He's got a convertible. He went back in the water at high speed. Crazy. And he had crazy eyes! Do you ever see that? The one with the women, Orange is the New Black, the woman with the crazy eyes? He had the crazy eyes! Oh my God. He was driving like a madman. His car was wet. I know, his car was wet. This is crazy. I don't know, can you guys do this in California? How far do you go in? Can you get stuck? Can I get stuck? Yeah, okay, we are in water now. Oh, we are? Well, you take this. What am I holding it for? Okay. Okay. Look, look, look. Can you show the wheel? Show the wheel. Yeah. Show the wheel. Yeah, it's difficult to show the wheel. Okay. Alright, we are getting back on the highway tonight. This is scaring me. Okay. Yeah, this is scaring me. Okay. He's coming back, the convertible! Okay. Alright, hold on. Where? I don't know. Where is he? I don't know, but that dude is crazy. And he keeps going back and forth. He's from Tokyo. I think he had Tokyo plates. That guy is crazy.

11:03 John Daub: That looks like a police car. Here, hold it. Can I? Can I hold it? Follow the law. Alright, it's not a cop car. Alright, he's going to say, I thought it was a copper. I thought it was a copper. It was that guy. Look for the convertible guy. I'm serious. He's like Cannonball Run kind of stuff. Better be so careful with the guy. I think so too. Notificas, here you go just in case you get stuck and need a tow. Thanks for that. Alright, let's get this moving. Let's get moving here. I hope you're enjoying this. Kanae's going to hold it. I guess you can move. Just move the camera like this. Yeah, right there. We got the wide angle lens. Like this? I know. I'm not the shidae. But you push this sometimes. I do my best. Yeah, do your best. And I'm going to talk. But only this microphone I can hear from. Oh, okay. Alright, let's do this. There's no traffic. Signal. Yeah, we're going. Alright. We're back on the highway. The beach highway, baby. This feels good. Nice sounds. All the roadkill are like crabs. I saw some crab roadkill. Beach. The sand is packed down. I guess every day by a machine or something. I'm not sure how they do this, but there's signs saying that you have to follow the local traffic laws. But like, it doesn't seem like everybody does it. They just seem to stop right in the middle of the street. Because this is a street. Although there's no street. Oh, check it out. Some road stops. And let's stop in one of these road stops. Just kind of check it out. I'm going to signal. It's some seafood. Seafood. Hamaguri (clams).

13:50 Kanae Daub: Parking here. Alright, Kanae? Okay. What do you think of this? Wait, I don't know. What do you think of this?

13:57 Kanae Daub: It's cool.

14:01 John Daub: Yeah. So in front of us, these are some of these road stop places. What are they serving? What are they serving here? Crab, huh? This is Kadoya, which is yaki hamaguri (grilled clams). Interesting. So this is an actual highway. They serve beer? No, they can't be serving beer because you got to drive here. Well, I guess there's something called designated drivers. Hey, there's the yellow orange car. They've been driving back and forth too. They're back again. Coach to Crutchfield. Help open up the rest. Alright, welcome back, everybody. We're in the middle of the ocean. The seaside in the middle of nowhere. I apologize if there's any. I think we're back. We're back. There might be a lag. We are in the middle of the seaside. There's really not a lot of traffic today. I don't know what rush hour is like. But once again, when you do drive here on the beach, you want to follow all of the traffic laws. You don't want to speed. We're having fun. But I don't know. I have fun when I'm driving. Usually, I will sing campfire songs to myself, annoying my wife. She doesn't know any of the words. That's why. But yeah, this is the only beach highway in Japan. I do apologize if there's any lag. We are in the middle of nowhere. And to have any signal at all is pretty cool. Godzilla might actually reside out there. And this is where we're driving. We're very close to the sea. I see some daredevil cars. There's a convertible. He seems to be driving high speed going into the water. Probably not the best thing to do. That guy just stopped right in the middle of the highway. The problem is though, like he's stopping in the middle of the highway. But how would he know there's no lines? But this is an actual highway. It's mind blowing. There's no speed limit signs. I guess if they did write lines in the sand, it wouldn't be there a couple of hours later. And I think before you turn right to enter this highway, you have to make sure that the ocean is not too high. Very, very interesting.

16:50 Kanae Daub: Any questions? Yeah. Sitio shepara. Do you have any questions?

16:59 Kanae Daub: Can you drive on the beach at night?

17:03 John Daub: Yeah, I think so. That would be scary. You can drive on the beach at night, but you have to have your headlights on, I believe. How much gas do you have? We are now, our wheels are now in the water. Just be careful. I think we're okay because we got some super chats for insurance purposes and for a tow. We should be okay. Bikes are okay. I've actually seen. How long is the beach, you know? I think it's about nine or ten kilometers. So it's about ten. I think it's like between eight and ten miles or nine and twelve kilometers. You can ride motorbikes on the beach. The sand is pretty hard. I walked on it a little bit before. It's pretty hard. And I don't know if they have a roller that goes through it in the morning. But when the tide is out, which it seems to be right now, I don't know. This turns into a highway. Again, cars are driving at a pretty good speed. And they're following normal traffic laws, meaning cars on the other side are on the, you drive on the left side of the road here in Japan. Venice is 25 miles long. What happens if there is a storm surge? Yeah, what does happen? I wonder. It's not going to be pretty. But in general, though, it looks like from the car, Kanae is going to be swallowed by the sea. Looks like those waves are coming right at you. Yeah. Yeah. It is. You can't drive here at night. But people have told me when I researched this that just make sure that your headlights are on. And don't go into the water at night. There's very few people who drive at night here. So there's no one to help you. But during the daytime, there's people to help. And I do have my drone. I flew my drone before we started. So I'll put some, maybe I'll try to get a screenshot from it and put it on Instagram. But it's pretty cool. You can see the entire highway. There's not a lot of traffic. There's a highway, another highway, the beach kaidō (beach road). What's it called? Kaido. Kamakaido or something. That's over there. Tons and tons of cars coming from Kanazawa going up Noto Hantō. But this is just something special, I think. Drive, only drive beach if rental car terms allow this. All they, they just told me to rent. I don't know what the terms. The terms didn't say not to. What does that mean? Should I not have done this? You don't, you need a permit for drones. Why does everybody become a policeman? You do not need a permit for drones. It's the rule is 30, 30, 30, 150, 30 meters from cars, 30 meters from people, 30 meters from buildings, no higher than 150 meters and do not fly in a restricted zone. This is not restricted. Does that answer your question? Why is everyone a policeman all of a sudden? How many policemen are, if you're a policeman, then you have a right to chime in. And unless you're a Japanese policeman, you have no jurisdiction across these state lines. All right. Kanae, you become the director. It's time to finish this Nagisa Chirihama driving beach experience. Let's go.

20:26 John Daub: All right, wait, I can't turn this traffic. Ozzy, you're not a police officer. There's traffic. Do you see? It is nice weather. There's some traffic coming. I can't turn. You have to wait for the traffic to go by. This is crazy. All right. Drifting is not allowed. That's not an actual, you're not allowed to really drift on any highway, right? Are you drifting? Someone asked, are you allowed to drift here? I don't know. I don't think so. It is rush hour. There's a traffic situation, a car passing another car. That's a very wide pass too. This is so much fun. I didn't think this would be as much fun as it is, but it's just so weird. It's fun. This is, we're not in Tokyo, Mark V. This is Ishikawa. Yeah, Ishikawa. My friend's name is Ishihara. I was going to come. Okay. All right, let's dance, Kanae? Okay, I can show you. Let's get away from the water. Oh, sorry. The car went into the water. There's a crazy man. Again? Yeah, that one on the silver car. Do you see him? Oh, yeah, now I see. He's going back in the water. Yeah, he's very close. Hey, he signaled before he went into the water. He signaled. Oh my God. He signaled to turn left and left. Oh my God. Now he signaled right to get out of the water. The guy's following traffic laws, but he's going into the water to signal. That's crazy. What the most polite daredevil driver in the history of the Nagisa Beach. The Chirihama Nagisa Beach. Oh, there's a sign. What does the sign say? Open your... can you open the window, Kanae? Yep. This sign? Yeah, we don't have any traffic. Just look back at it. Oh, there's a sign. Kawa-ari (beware of river [?]). What? Turn your wrist. Yeah, it's a note, kawa arimasu (river exists). It's flying. They're going fast. They're going fast. There's a lot of traffic up ahead. I'm kind of worried. Yeah. It says lag ahead. All right, Kanae, so just a quick tutorial while we're doing this. We're going to do a livestream, Kanae. If you move your wrist up and down, the camera will move, okay? Oh, okay. All right, she didn't know that. Kanae's getting a tutorial. Camera directions. Yeah, I was shaking the camera. It's all right. You're fast. Yeah. Okay, we're back on the highway. I'm signaled to get back on. Don't show me. Talk, talk to the people. I have to focus on the road. I can't show the view. A lot of tourists, they're stopping to take pictures. That guy caught a fish with his hand. All I know is he had a huge smile on his face. He caught a handful of seaweed. Nice. Wow, that lady stopped right in the middle of the road. They should know this is a highway. It's wide. It's a wide road. Yeah. And we're going 50 kilometers an hour right now. The road looks pretty hard. It's not bumpy at all. It's just pretty smooth. Very smooth. And I guess these signs tell you to stay on this side. And there's a sign on the other side. And coming up soon, there's another stream. I'm not going 55 kilometers an hour. I'm afraid to go faster. So is it the Noto Hantō there? That's part of it. Noto Hantō is very big. It's very big.

26:08 Kanae Daub: It's my first visiting to Kanazawa.

26:11 John Daub: Yeah, my fourth visit. The guy who is going fast pulled to the left. Oh, he stopped. I'm signaling to stop. All right. He's gonna stop. We have stopped. I'm gonna get out of the car and just show you a little bit around before we stop the livestream. Make sure that there's no cars coming. We are on a highway. This is the coolest experience ever, or at least today. As an American, it's my job to exaggerate everything I say. It's Kanae's job as Japanese to do the opposite of exaggerate, but to be very humble and not say the opposite. This is average.

27:24 Kanae Daub: Yeah. It's very cool, huh?

27:35 Kanae Daub: Yeah.

27:35 John Daub: Oh, that's her. That's the guy who was, who passed us a little while ago. Tasty Chronicles. Yes. Yep. That's what we Americans do. Just a little bit. Just a little bit. We're optimistic. Americans are optimistic. Maybe exaggerations, we shouldn't say exaggerations. We're optimistic. Optimistic. So there you go everybody. I hope you enjoyed it. It's crazy. I'm not sure what I was doing. Kanae's first time holding a camera. I was holding a gimbal. But we were able to drive a second time. Yeah, it was. Okay. So we got to drive maybe about, yeah, about five kilometers, about half of the Chirihama Nagisa Highway. And there's our Mark X. She's doing good. I guess it, the car didn't get any damage. The car's okay. The car's okay. Yeah. Hey, Ramsey Silent. Thank you for all the hard work holding the camera, Kanae. Tim, Ramsey Silences, hello. Hello. Hey, there's UFO Bob. Hey guys, thanks so much for watching this. I'd like to take you on these Only in Japan Go streams to somewhere different, somewhere different than the streets of Tokyo every now and then. And Kanae and I, we made the trip out here to Ishikawa for 24 hours. We're going back tonight. That's, it's about like 36. We're going back tonight to Tokyo, but we're going to spend the rest of the day driving around Noto Hantō. And we're going to do some more livestreams, I think, if we can. So if we find something interesting driving around, we're going to bring it to you live from the Mark X. You got to do it from the Mark X. From the Mark X. There you go. Very nice. Very nice. It's a beauty. So enjoy the last 20 seconds of Chirihama Nagisa Highway from the other side. Mark writes in, very nice car. I love my Mark X. Well, I love Toyota Rent-a-Car's Mark X, I should say. Bye everybody. Hope you enjoyed it. Click the like if you like these crazy driving livestreams. Means I'll do it again.