00:00:05 John Daub: That is quite a sight. That's Tsutsumi-mon. It is named after a drum, a Japanese drum, and it looks like a Japanese drum in a way, but it's shaped like a torii gate (shrine gate). This is a symbol of Kanazawa Station, and now a symbol of Kanazawa the city itself.

00:00:22 John Daub: And it's a beautiful entrance or exit to the Kanazawa Hokuriku Shinkansen heading back to Tokyo, and that's where I'm headed right now. Hey, everybody, how you doing? Check it out. This is a clock that's made out of water. This is also in the front of Kanazawa Station. Check it out. So every minute it will change. If we just stay here for like 30 seconds, it's going to change to 7:30 again. Oh, it just changed. Oh, it just says Kanazawa. Kanazawa in kanji, I think. Well, I can't read it through all of your heads. But it's pretty cool anyways.

00:00:54 John Daub: Kanae is going to get some box gifts, and it's still 7:29. You might see it turn 7:30. Kanae is getting some gifts, and I'm going to go right now buy tickets to get onto the Shinkansen. Oh, it just turned to 30. Look at that. That's so cool. We're going to go underneath this Tsutsumi-mon gate, enter into the station, buy tickets, and then go to the Shinkansen.

00:01:24 John Daub: And if we can, we're going to get an ekiben (station bento), which is going to epic—a word that's way overused for YouTube. This is so cool. We're going through the gate, everybody. It's even better from below. And now from above. We're in. Welcome to Kanazawa Station. Let's get in there.

00:01:46 John Daub: I've got a credit card. I'm going to be buying my tickets hot, which means the Shinkansen is leaving at 7:40. And it's like 7:32. So we have about eight minutes. I might take you in and look at some of the gifts from Kanazawa so you get an idea of what's happening here inside this station. It's one of the newer stations. The Shinkansen, the Hokuriku Shinkansen, I think it opened up about four or five years ago.

00:02:09 John Daub: And when they did that, that's when this all came to be to rival Kyoto. And Kyoto is Kanazawa's rival in a way. Kanazawa, they like to say, is a cultural city. It is. But so is Kyoto. And it's not that far away. So which one do you go to? Kanazawa's a little bit more laid back. It's a little bit more relaxed. Kyoto's overrun with people right now. So I might have to say Kanazawa's pretty manageable for a day or two as a tourist.

00:02:45 John Daub: Hey Satoshi, thank you very much. I appreciate it. Here you go. Boom. Kanazawa Station. We're going inside now. And it's a really clean station. It's really nice. Yellow lines here for the blind. Straight ahead are the Shinkansen tickets we can buy. There she is.

00:03:12 Kanae Daub: What did you buy?

00:03:19 John Daub: Yeah, show us. Oh, you got the Hakusan. Hakusan, yeah. White Mountain. He's gonna love that. Alright, we gotta buy the tickets because we're heading right there. And there's the train right there. You see it?

00:03:39 John Daub: Oh, wait. Where is our train, Kanae?

00:03:47 Kanae Daub: That's the arrival.

00:03:58 John Daub: So we should take the 38? Uh-oh. We have only 5 minutes? So it's not 48, it's 38. Is that what you're saying? Because you just happened to be asking the master. What? So we should go now? Faster. So what time is our train? 58. Next one is 38. But it's shorter. So we should go 58 minutes. So we have 20 minutes? Yeah, I think so. It's better. What am I gonna do with all this time? My M.O. is to run. I always run for the trains.

00:04:40 John Daub: Alright, she's going to ask. This is how we multitask. This is how you make a marriage work. You work together. Well, she asks. I won't panic. I'm just gonna go over here and buy the Shinkansen tickets. I think I can get them right here.

00:05:02 John Daub: Alright, now. Put my bags down. Alright, I'm gonna go. I'm doing this. Should I do this in English for you? Or should I do it in Japanese for me? Because I do things in Japanese. Alright, you know what? Okay, I'm just gonna go English just to... I'll take your time. It's a very embarrassing English voice. Everyone's looking at me now. Kanae's still asking. She's pointing at me. Better hide.

00:05:34 John Daub: Alright, we're not getting... We're going non-reserved. You know why we're going non-reserved? We're going non-reserved because Kanazawa is the origin of the train. So we're almost guaranteed to get a seat. There's no reason to get a reserved seat. Shinkansen non-reserved from Kanazawa.

00:06:00 John Daub: What? Yeah, I know. So when's the next train? What? So it's right now? We have 30 minutes? Oh my... You're supposed to be our navigator, Kanae! I drove real fast on the highway to get here. Eat. Shop. Eat. So that means we can do a proper Kanazawa tour for the people watching? Is that what that means? Vaughn? Hello, Vaughn, who's watching in front of a heater. Oh, it's cold in Australia. Well, guess what, Vaughn? We're going to be able to take it slow.

00:06:46 John Daub: Alright, no worries. Going back to the machine. We're going back to the machine. So I chose Kanazawa. Let's go from the start here. Let's start. English for you. Non-reserved Shinkansen from Kanazawa to Tokyo today. Two adults. No children yet. Please select a section for the basic fare ticket. Uh, select purchased outbound ticket only. I'm not returning. Not for a while. Um, confirm. Whoa! That's 13,600 yen.

00:07:31 John Daub: Bye bye. I put the credit card in. Alright, purchased amount. Oh, my secret number. I'm not showing you that. I want the receipt. Definitely want a receipt. How embarrassing to speak in English. Everyone's looking at me. I showed you the pin accidentally. So there you go. We are going from Kanazawa to Tokyo Station. It costs 13,600 yen per person. Here we go, and it resets to English. Alright, done.

00:08:27 John Daub: Kanae, what are we going to do now? Did you get your receipt? Yeah. What are we going to do now? We got so much time. I thought we were leaving in like 10 mins. I was going to do another, hey let's run for the train. I never eat. Karl writes in eat. That's possible. Yeah, I did a very quick shopping, but now you did the shopping already. I got extra time. We get extra time, don't we?

00:08:53 John Daub: Alright, hey, you know what? Okay, that's fine. That's fine. So what we're gonna do is 8:17, right? That's 40 minutes away, Kanae. 40 minutes later. I thought there were more trains from Kanazawa. There's like one an hour. How did we get this wrong? How do we get this wrong? I don't know. Alright quick tour of Kanazawa. If you didn't see us from the start, we went to Tsutsumi-mon, which is a red torii, which is very stylish. We could go back out there, but we're not. You know why? Because we don't go backwards. We go forwards. So let's go forwards. Welcome to Kanazawa station. Now that we have tickets, we're gonna explore a little bit.

00:09:37 John Daub: Now that looks like the kind of place that they would kick us out of. There's a shopping mall. In most of the stations you will find something like a shopping mall. This one has gifts and things like this. You can buy food and various things inside of there. Yeah, I would recommend going in there. They have more gifts than the gift shop gifts. And we're gonna go into the gift shop in about five or ten minutes because we got time to kill. And we might look for a bite to eat because we have time to kill or we're gonna look for an ekiben because Kanae wants—she likes ekibens because she doesn't ride the Shinkansen as much as I do. So when she gets the chance to ride the Shinkansen, she wants an ekiben. So let's go look for some ekiben outside the station. Typically inside the station, but let me give you some notes here.

00:10:30 John Daub: I'm someone who travels too much on the Shinkansen if that's even possible. The thing with ekibens is that if you do not buy your ekiben early, a lot of the good ones are sold out. Gone. Because they have expiration dates and they prepare them in the morning and whatever is gone after about 4 p.m. When it's gone, it's gone. They're not replenishing their supplies. This place is an ekiben shop. They have bentos. I'll show you what I mean. See that white in the center of your screen? There's like nothing left. Kanai? There's like nothing left. Hold on. There's 21 bentos. And they're all gone. You see anything? Well, I don't know Kanae, check it out. Do you see anything you like? There's a couple. But me thinks, why would anyone pass those up and not eat them? Why are those the ones that are last? I got to ask that question. Why would no one eat those?

00:12:00 Kanae Daub: Eh, korekura, 13.

00:12:04 John Daub: Right, send for some more shopping or ekiben. We're gonna need that. We got a long time till the train. Oh man. No, which one? Is it bad? You don't want to eat? No. I shouldn't say does it taste bad. You don't want to eat? Yes. How is it? What's in it? They have sukiyaki. They had that last night too when we came here. It's not as popular. This shop here is uni giri. The shop next to it is uni giri. Many many kinds of uni giri shaped as triangles. I like that. And then on the left side in those triangles, they'll put three pieces of karaage chicken. Oh my, I love that. And they've got Kanazawa's famous gold leaf soft ice cream. Soft served ice cream.

00:12:56 John Daub: Alright, let's keep going. I don't know. For me, personally, not what I'm looking for. Alright, we got the ubiquitous 7-Eleven. Part in, it's a collaboration between two convenience stores. Shall we? Alright, let's do it very quickly. So there's a lot of gifts here we can get. Arigato gozaimasu. So, even 7-Eleven has a gift section. There's the sake Kit Kats and the umeshu Kit Kats. Let's see here. Oh, so these are the ones, these packages are the ones that I gave to the Daimyo Patreon supporters. Those who've been supporting for two years or more know exactly what this is. I got this last time. I'm thinking maybe I should get it for them this time.

00:13:52 John Daub: This one has gold on it. The yuki zori. Because it has gold sprinkles, it's 500 yen more. About $5 more. And there's kind of like a grape taste in there. This cake has gold on top of it, which is another famous thing from Kanazawa. Gold flake or gold leaf is very famous from this area of Japan. But people will often buy a gift before they get onto the train. Kanae has a gift for her dad. But what would I get? These look good too. I thought about these. These are the strawberries. Ichigo choco. And they're like, I guess they're like freeze-dried strawberries? Yes, it's freeze-dried. Freeze-dried strawberries. That one has matcha chocolate on it.

00:14:47 John Daub: These are good. Is that beni imo? No, this is another one. The ones down there, they're famous from Okinawa. See, every month I send a package to Daimyo supporters. And I'm always looking for something new. This one has gold on it. Espresso hojicha. Hojicha cake. Espresso hojicha. I don't know if they would all like this. I don't know, any Daimyo's watching that would like this? It does look good. It's got gold on it. Hojicha is a kind of tea. Oh, that's Nosh Raitsen. Will it last? What's the expiration date? One month from now. So it would be okay. I try to get anything with three weeks or more. I try to buy fresh stuff because, you know, I don't like those chemicals either.

00:15:52 John Daub: This is what I just showed you. Tsutsumi-mon. These are chocolate cookies with gold on them. And these last for three months. So the shelf life is good to send abroad. I don't think anyone would like this that much. Chocolate cookies? You can get this in the US. Just it doesn't have the gold flake on it, right? Gold makes it sparkle. I don't know, Kanae. What do you think? Difficult for me. These would be really good, but they don't have gold on it. Look at how it's... Look how nice the box is for it, though. This one lasts till July 8th, so definitely would be okay. The box is gorgeous. And this is what's inside. It's sweet potato in gold wrap. Oishii kana? This looks good. I think I sent something similar to this to them. I want to send them something different. This is another one. If you're a daimyo, do chime in and let me know.

00:16:56 John Daub: This one is custard cake with gold on top. And these look pretty good, too. The shelf life of this... Actually, this might be good, Kanae. Everyone... Because this is something everybody would like. July 10th. Yeah, this could work. All right, I'm going to think about this. We have 40 minutes now to worry about that. This 7-Eleven has everything else that the other 7-Eleven has. All right, let's get out of here. Umeshu. I don't know. That's weird. They have hojicha sticks. Is it... This is a souvenir from Kanazawa? Yes. Strange.

00:17:46 John Daub: Two years ago, when I was hitchhiking, I had breakfast in this cafe before I went to the interchange, and I hitchhiked to Toyama. So, Kanae, I sat here, and I had a croissant and coffee before I went... Right there in the corner before I went for a walkabout this way. Yeah, two years ago. I remember walking by here, and I did a take two. I said, what was that? I went over here, and above this, this is a Japanese post box. Above the post box is this mascot of Ishikawa Prefecture, right? Yeah, it's the postal taro, right? What is it? Taro? Yutaro. Right? Yubin-kyoku Taro. Yutaro. And it's just slightly creepy, and if you give... If I put the mail here, at night, he comes alive and animates, and he'll deliver the packages to the Post Office by sticking his hand in there. It's creepy.

00:19:05 John Daub: This is where we rented the car. I'm giving the full tour. Through there, you can see that R. That's a Toyota Rent-A-Car. That's where I got the car. Zagyu does say it's creepy. The internet dubs you creepy. I had nothing to do with that. Actually, I do. I have everything to do with that. You are creepy. You do not know where we live. Let's keep it that way. Wait, he does work for the post office, right? Yeah. Oh my. Not nice at all.

00:19:45 John Daub: So this is pretty much the lay of the land for Kanazawa. This is what you will see. Very famous for gold. And because of that, they started making gold leaf about 400 years ago in Kanazawa. But I asked the question why they eat gold leaf. And to tell you the truth, nobody has an answer. I even asked the guy at the gold leaf museum. He didn't know. So, yeah, nobody. But all we do know is that it is very famous in Kanazawa. And as a result, it's in everything. And recently they have coffee with gold leaf on top of it as one of the garnishes.

00:20:28 John Daub: The thing is, one sheet of gold leaf is like this big. That's what they put on the side of Kinkakuji and all of the buildings with gold leaf on it. It's all the same size gold leaf just put in there. And according to the museum curator, each gold leaf costs 200 to 300 yen for one square. So that gives you an indication on how much they can jack up the price of the ice cream at that ice cream shop. So normal ice cream is about $3, I think. And they jack it up to $10. The gold leaf costs them about 200 yen to make, which means they can raise the price. But they can double the price. Genius. So they do that. And it's the same gold leaf that you see on the walls. I think they had nine different varieties. But the museum curator showed us a hundred different. It's pretty amazing. I like that. There's a gold leaf museum next to Higashi Chaya, which is very interesting.

00:21:42 John Daub: I guess we can go in here. This is another place inside of Kanazawa Station. On the right side, see here? This is the information center. So if you come off the Shinkansen, you can make a pit stop in here. And the people are very friendly. Of course, that's their job. But they got a ton of brochures. Stuff that you need to get around. You'll never be lost. If you can make it here, you won't be lost for the rest of your trip.

00:22:12 John Daub: Oh, here's the... What is this? Hyakuman-gata. That's the yuru-chara for Ishikawa Prefecture. This prefecture. It's kind of creepy. We saw them in the flesh yesterday. If you would call this flesh... Hold on. Oh, you're not in touch. Sorry. Don't touch it. Well, it's made of gold flake. Gold leaf. So probably costs about, I don't know, $1,000. Don't touch it. Yes, it has to be. You wouldn't want to be cheap with that.

00:22:59 John Daub: All right, let's show the people some brochures because we have some time here. Thanks for joining us on this adventure. Ingrish. Very useful. Kanazawa's got a castle. There's Kenrokuen on the bottom there next to it. That's one of the top three parks in Japan. I wanted to live stream it, but we ran out of time. You can see Kanazawa Station is up here. That's where we are right now. Higashi Chaya District is right there in the center. So basically, for most of the attractions in Kanazawa, you can navigate around there in one day. It's a long day, but if you get here in the morning, you can walk, hit the castle in the park. And we didn't have time to go here, but it's very high on our list. The 21st Century Art Museum. It's down here, I believe. Yeah, we got to go back and do this one. And they have maps in lots of different languages if you're interested. Tons and tons of little teeny attractions. I shouldn't call them little teeny. Oh, there's even a bathhouse. Yeah, sento map (public bathhouse map). If you want to take a sento, dip in a sento. And most of these sentos are tattoo-friendly in Kanazawa. I don't know.

00:24:35 John Daub: Look at the people prancing around. Hi there. Got nothing to show you. It's pretty neat. Live to love to lose. Hey! Will you please buy something chocolate? Chocolate makes people around the world happy. I had to take tomorrow off work because I'm feeling ill and feeling so guilty not being there for my students. Aw. All right, we'll buy some chocolate. Let's try something. Something for the stream. Yeah, people usually... If you live in the area, you'll bring these things with you in a little bucket. And you walk to the local sento. But they don't... The sentos are going out of business because they don't have enough people supporting them. That's why I made a video two years ago. January 2018. Showing off the sento of Tokyo. Highly recommended. One of my favorite episodes. And that not a lot of people watched compared to the rest of the episodes on the channel.

00:25:43 John Daub: All right, let's look for something chocolatey for... Man of my word. Let's find something. If not for gift, to eat now. Just as a snack. I love the way that they package these. So these are typically something that you would give to somebody. And it's in... What do you call the handkerchiefs? Furoshiki (wrapping cloth). Furoshiki, yeah. These are like furoshiki. So you can kind of reuse these, but they're very thin and paper-like material. Although it looks like a furoshiki, it's not. It's actually just paper. Very nicely made paper. It's beautifully decorated. And inside, this is what you'll get. This is yomogi, not green tea. It's important to know the difference. Yomogi mochi with anko sweet red bean paste. This actually would be good to send to our daimyo. This is good. This could be good, actually. We don't have any daimyo chime in. Would anybody like these? I just like the presentation on its own is enough to make people happy. Noto. So it's made from here. All right, that's a possibility. Just we gotta buy 20 of them. Yomogi is called mugwort. It's kind of a weed. It's a natural grass. It's got a very unique skin and it's healthy.

00:27:26 John Daub: Oh, these chocolate crisps... These crisp crunches are so good. But as I said, if you put just a little bit of gold on it, you can jack the price up by 30%, minimum. This is just butter toast. Oh, there's the Baumkuchen. I gotta show everybody this one. This is going to blow you away. Check this out. This is... Trump would love this cake. President Trump. He's a man of gold, golden taste. And the thing is, this cake is so light. I don't know what's inside of it. That can't be, the gold is one one-thousandth of a millimeter, isn't it, right? One one-thousandth of a millimeter. So it's not like you're paying for a lot, but one of these, such a light cake, ikura, is $15, $16. It's crazy. Lovely kit. I can't drop it. It'll float away. It's so light. They do have some signature Kit Kats, but they're not as exciting as you think. They do have signature Pocky. Hey, Faye. Hey, Faye finally made it. I know Faye's, hey, Faye. I know you're always, the time never works out.

00:29:01 John Daub: Oh, yeah, here's some more. This is also one with, this one is green tea, right? That's not yomogi. That's green tea. Chocolate and green tea. That's chocolate and green tea golden cakes. And you can see the gold flake through the, I love that. Little windows in there so you can see what's in it. That's pretty nice, Faye. What's the expiration date, though? July 14th. It's not bad. These are omiyage (souvenirs), right? Clover Full 18's got it right. These are omiyage chocolate. Wow, that's like $17 for that. That's quite a lot. I love it. Signature Kit Kat for here. I don't think, I've seen one. I think they're like sweet potato.

00:30:00 John Daub: And we have to get the chocolate. Yeah. I'm trying to look for the signature Kit Kat. I don't see it. Other Kit Kat. That's, here's Kit Kat bites, but that's not what you're looking for. I'm so happy Faye's here. A golden Kit Kat would be awesome. I bet you now, now Nestle just heard that and they're like, oh, so John wants gold. A golden Kit Kat. We are going to put that together. Should the president of Nestle Japan sounds just like that. Oh, crab is very famous in the Sea of Japan side. And they've taken these. They've taken these sticks and they put it in like a crab dipping sauce. That's awesome. Actually, can I, these would be good for a daimyo. Yeah. I like Jagariko. I like this snack. That would be really good. What is this? This is kani dip sauce. I think they would love this. I don't know if everyone has a crab allergy. These are potato sticks with the dipping sauce. I've never seen anything like that. That's really. It's zuwai gani (snow crab). For dip sauce. There could be some allergies.

00:31:40 John Daub: I was thinking of getting the daimyo of this one, guys. Check it out. This is, um, I love the packaging, but it's mochi with gold on it. I think. I think that might be, that might bring some people some happiness, right? It says it's popular and mochi is sticky rice cake with golden sprinkles on top. Nothing inside. What does that mean? Nothing inside. You mean like the box? Yeah. Hato bai mochi. I wonder if they'd love it. Nosh has given us a warning. Thank you, Nosh. But the box is beautiful, isn't it? And the expiration dates. Okay. Inside is mochi, but there's nothing inside. Just mochi. It needs golden crab inside there. I don't know. Maybe I'll just get it back in Tokyo this month. I need something. Oh, yeah. The golden mask. That's the gold leaf mask. It's $60. Would you think beauty is worth it for one of these? Kind of creepy. Should put it on that post office baby outside.

00:33:00 John Daub: Let's get one to show everybody. Can I? And then it's getting close to where we should go in. Okay. All right. What should we get? Chocolate. That's chocolate. Or do you want to get this one? Baumkuchen with. Can we get this one? I like this one. Look, it has Baum with the gold on it. Hachimitsu. Is it now Hachimitsu? Okay, we got to go. Nosh has given us heads up here. All right, let's get something inside. Let's get out of here. I'm going to. It looks so good. Come to John. Look at that crispy chocolatey milk. It's a pie with chocolate and custard cream. And it's got Tsutsumi-mon on it. All right, let's just go. No, let's get out of here. I don't want to lose. Let's get something inside the station just to be safe. All right, that's time now to take you to the Hokuriku Shinkansen. For those who've been waiting for 30 minutes, we're now going to take you inside. Do you have a ticket? Good. I lose tickets all the time.

00:34:24 John Daub: We're going home. All right, let's get in here. And inside, we're going to find the Shinkansen and get a seat real fast. Boom. Validated. It's like the escalator made for lazy people or those with suitcases. I'm just lazy. Tired. I drove all day. We drove all around. We drove around the peninsula. Okay, which one is the Shinkansen gate? Do they have something on the noriba (platform)? Noriba? I don't know. 14. Do they have ekiben on the noriba? You think so? Or you know so? That's the board. Do you want to try here? Or should we go to the noriba? Noriba is not here. They usually have an ekiben shop on the platform. All right, let's go to the noriba. If they don't have it, that looks like 7-Eleven to me.

00:36:07 John Daub: All right, we're going to the noriba. Kanae's got to get something to eat. She's going to starve. We cannot have that happen. And I got to get some chocolate. We have a school teacher who missed school, and we got to satisfy the chocolate. I know exactly where you're coming from, too. Chocolate makes everyone happy. 7-Eleven bento man on the train. That's not a bad idea. FYI, all car rental companies avoid renting John Eddy cars. They go, Tyrant is so what? Camp Shrath, you saw the live stream where we drove on the beach, on Japan's only beach highway.

00:36:49 John Daub: We're on the platform now. What I'm going to do is put the bags here, and I'm going to go get Kanae an ekiben. Non-reserved cars numbers 1 to 4. So we got to go to 1 to 4. I always go to car number two. This way. So we're going the wrong way. Hashtag feed Kanae is back. Kanae, you're trending on Twitter. She could be. Feed Kanae. Oh, yeah. We got 10 minutes. Oh, it's coming. The train's coming.

00:37:52 John Daub: There's no bento on the platform, so I got to go down there and get her something. I can't not get her something. So she's going to wait here with the bags, and I'm going to. Oh, my word. Big mistake. There's a line for the non-reserved. I think we're going to be okay, though. Here it comes. I know the other way. Hokuriku Shinkansen. How do you do? This is the one with the double-decker. Please take the double-decker. All right, Kanae. I'm going to go. Let's get a seat, and then I'm going to get you the bento. I always go to car number two because lazy people take car number three and four. Car number two is not as crowded. I'm going to run. See, look, there's less people here. All right, Kanae, we did it. I'm way too fast. Sorry. I'm sorry. All right, I'll get you a bento. What do you want to eat?

00:39:24 Kanae Daub: Yeah. We have a bento. Anything is fine.

00:39:29 John Daub: It's so clean in here. Lucky 13. 12 is better. I'm going to go and do it, okay? I'm going to go do it. If you leave before I come back, I'll be staying here for the rest of the night. So wait in Tokyo with all the bags. Sorry. I'll be back. We can do this. I'm not staying here. I promise I'm not staying here. Oh, we got seven minutes. That's like an eternity. Seven minutes? Oh, man, we got lots of time. Follow that man in the professional outfit with the hat. See you soon.

00:40:50 John Daub: All right, we're going to do this. See, I told you we're right next to that fake 7-Eleven. All right, she said anything is okay. All right. This is Go-Go Curry. Go-Go Curry is from Kanazawa. It's interesting. She said, nan demo ii, anything. Oh, they got the mochi here. These aren't ekiben, but they look like... I think Kanae would like this. Kanai like shumai. I'm going to get this one for Kanae. What's this one? Cheese and tako. Let's get these two. Oh, I'm going to get this one from Shinkansen. It's normal. Do you guys normally heat it up? Oh, I'm going to heat it up then. Excuse me. It's a little messy. Oh, then I'll take it out. I'm going to take this out. Oh, it works. Chocolate. I'm going to get this one. Chocolate. There's sake and other things. Ah, I failed. I'm going to get this one. What? What's wrong? Oh, here. Oh, yes? Both sides. Both sides. Please take it.

00:43:52 John Daub: Please take the seat. Thank you very much. Done! Watch me trip and fall. Break my leg and then I'll crawl on. But I'm gonna get on that train. Alright, we're good. We're good. You know what? I think we can go to the front and then take a picture. When Kanae sees me walk by, she's gonna freak out. She's freaking out. We lost you. Look at that beautiful train. No, this way. We are taking the Hokuriku Shinkansen back to Tokyo. She's a beauty. Kanai's freaking out right now. Look at the lines on her. Oh, baby. Look at that. She waved. That's the snacks girl. Alright. We're good, everybody. I don't know what Kanae wants, but she has her choice. She can have either A or B. If I go this way, you won't see the people's faces on the train. It was fun. I told you I could do it. Who doubted me? Here we go. See, there you go. There's the train. It's the Hakutaka 587, bound for Tokyo. If you're in Tokyo, we'll see you in two and a half hours, about, I reckon.

00:46:00 John Daub: There you go. Alright, Kanazawa, I will be back because I didn't finish the episode that I wanted to do, but you're a great city, and I will see you sooner than later. Yes? No? Now let's see how she lights up. Alright. Use the force. The force! There you go. Doesn't always work. The train's mostly empty. And you doubted me. Never doubt. So there's two. You just take the one that you want. And I have water. I got more water. I forgot you had water. And I got chocolate for live life love to lose. Okay, we'll put this here. What's this doing in here? Who bought that? Oh my. I didn't do it. It wasn't me. She must have made a mistake, but there's not enough time to take it back. Oh, yeah. If I took it back, I'd miss the train. I can't take it back. I'll write her a note. It wasn't me.

00:47:43 John Daub: You don't want to travel with me. I'm horrible. I run. You'll never keep up. You think you could. Small, like, I could do it. You might think to yourself, you can't. You'll never keep up. There you go. You're tall. You're tall people. Yeah, you can do that. Oh, man. Oh, my God. That's my wear hat. It's a disaster up there. You made it? Yeah. And what time is it now? Um, all right. The internet was angry because I told Kanae to move her hand. It was a little bit aggressive. I had three hours of sleep last night. We did an ekiben unboxing, so I'm not going to do an ekiben unboxing this time. We're going to eat it in peace this time. I think this is more than enough for a live stream. What do you think? Click the like button if you want to see the ekiben unboxing. This is how I tease you just to click the like button because I'm not going to do it. It's going to take like a thousand likes. There's no way that I'll never get that.

00:48:57 John Daub: I might live stream as we leave Kanazawa Station. It's a shame, though. The view on the left side of the Sea of Japan is viewed like this. It's beautiful. And on the right side, after you make the turn from Itoigawa in Niigata and start coming along the Sea of Japan, it's so beautiful. The Hakuba Mountains, the mountains in the South Alps are still filled with snow, but you have a green, lush foreground. I could have looked out the window all day. And then on the other side is the Sea of Japan and very few people on the train because nobody takes—everyone flies to Kanazawa. Nobody takes the Shinkansen, right? Oh, you got a picture. Yeah. Let me turn the other lens. Oh, that's the other side. Oh, wow. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. It's snow. I know, snow. All right, zoom in. Oh, look at that clear water. You have the green foreground and the white snowcaps and then that blue water. It's so beautiful. But today, it's too late. You're going to see reflections of me holding a gimbal.

00:50:29 John Daub: Late? I never heard that before. It's delayed. Eight to nine minutes late. So he said please wait eight minutes. You've got to be kidding me. The train is eight to nine minutes late departing. Wait, so I think that there's just a totally different time keeping method in the Sea of Japan side than the Pacific side because things are a little bit slower here. Hajimete kita. But you don't ride the Shinkansen that much. When was the last time you rode the Shinkansen? Two years ago. Ni nen mae. Two years ago. For me it was like two weeks ago. Sorry. So we got to do more Shinkansen, do more trips.

00:51:24 John Daub: What we did today was we went to Noto Hanto, which is the Noto Peninsula, and we went to the city called Wajima. Wajima City. And we ate the most amazing tendon made from eel and shrimp and there's lots of seafood in there from the Sea of Japan. It was awesome. Do you have a picture? It's actually not on camera. Okay. It was amazing. And for the 500 people watching, 600 people watching, I'm starting a new channel. Okay. And I think this might be on that channel. But it's such an amazing episode and the chef let us go into the kitchen to film him making the tempura. So I think it's going to be fun. It's a food channel. So there's a lot of stuff I want to do for the main channel. But once you're done, I can't do another udon restaurant. But for the food channel, I can because it's more about the restaurant, one restaurant, not about the genre of food. So I think I can make a pretty good food episode, I think, out of these. So we'll see what we took today. I used the drone quite a bit. I brought the drone with me overhead and we drove a lot. My lips are a little sunburned, but we drove, I don't know, maybe 300 miles, about. It seemed like it. Yeah, everything was an hour away. It was an hour, one, two, three, I drove about five and a half hours today. And we did go to the onsen. Wakura Onsen. You can see if you look on Instagram, you'll be able to see where we went.

00:53:05 John Daub: I've never seen a train delay. I'm going to go outside and see what's going on. Alright, Kanae, we'll be back. Are we late because of them? An airplane is delayed. Look at them running onto the train. No. Would they delay the train for late people? That doesn't make any sense. You miss the train, you get the next one, right? This is not the last train, obviously. Kanae said there's one an hour later. There's people jumping on. That's not right. I ran to the convenience store. I could have walked. Is that what you're saying? It's not fair. Kanazawa. I got questions. Do you have answers? Callum says to grab another beer. If I drank that one, I would have gone and not come back. There's some really nice hotels in Kanazawa, I must say.

00:54:29 John Daub: So, the Hokuriku Shinkansen, you are right now on it. And in about three minutes, we're going to be darting at 300 km an hour along the Sea of Japan back to Tokyo. Then we take, we hang a right at Niigata's Itoigawa. And that Itoigawa, we go into the mountains and there's tunnels and tunnels and tunnels. And they're really long. Signals do not work well there. Because in the last livestream that we did eating a bento on the train, it was just in and out the whole time. A couple of interesting things about the train. I don't want to just sit there and talk to you. Once you get into the train, check it out. I love this. I love how the whole system is changing. It's braille with instructions on what's in this car. The train, reserved, non-reserved, I'm guessing. Pretty cool. These trains still have phones on them. You know why? One of the reasons why, I think, I believe, is because these will, if you're in the tunnel and you have to make a call, we're in the tunnel for so long, these will work inside the tunnel. I think. Oh, she's cleaning the train. The next train's coming.

00:56:07 John Daub: The Shinkansen cleaning crews are infamous in being able to do it in a certain amount of time. They're very, very regimented in the way they clean the trains. It's amazing the way the teams go in there. They turn the chairs around and they're out. And then people board the train. That's why when you get on the Shinkansen that traveled seven hours all the way from Fukuoka, the Tokaido Shinkansen, when you get in there, it's like those people were never there. There's never any trash on the Shinkansen. Even though that train will make the trip back and forth and back again, there'll be no trash. It's amazing. That other train over there, that other train is going to Toyama. It's a local train, so it's only going to go one stop. So this might be the last, is this the last train? No. I think there's one more train at 9. But that one's going to the next stop. Alright, we're off. Let's do this. I'm going to say goodbye to Kanazawa together. Here we go. It's telling me I have 10% battery life as well. Kanazawa, thank you for the memories. It's a fun 36 hours. I have a feeling I'll see you again. Oh, there it is. There's the city. You can kind of see some of the buildings. Garage, very big parking garage. Express train. They do have express trains that go towards Kyoto. The other side.

00:58:44 John Daub: We're going to say goodbye now. I'm going to take you over to Kanae and then we'll say goodbye. Oh, here comes the snack lady. Oh, I don't need it. I want to see it. Oh, there it is. Oh, it looks good. Is this the Toyama station? Kanazawa. Oh, so next time. Excuse me. Kanae, they had a station bento on that. They had Kanazawa station bento. I thought we'd be able to, I thought we panicked. So even though, even though I ran and panicked and I didn't panic, we could have just gotten it on the train next time. And they're Kanazawa station bentos. These are 7-Eleven station bentos. It's not a station bento. It's just a bento. It's a konbini bento (convenience store bento). That's better. This is good. Thank you. Okay, thanks, Nosh, for the note. I got a note from some people not acting well. So we still have the beer. So what we're going to do is I'm going to do a kanpai with you guys, and then that's it. I'm going to call it a night.

01:00:23 John Daub: To me, it's still amazing that we can livestream high speed in the countryside to you around the world. It's still very cool to be here. All right, I'm going to put the tripod on, and we're going to say kanpai because there's nobody sitting on the other side. So if you want to join us, you can sit here. But I don't know how you're going to do that. You're actually not here, but you're here. Let's do a kanpai. Are we in a tunnel? Tunnel.