00:00:03 John Daub: Greetings and welcome to Shiodome in Tokyo. That up there is our destination. We're making our way up the escalators to the second floor of the Nippon TV, or the NTV building. And there's the escalator right there. How you doing everybody? Welcome to a beautiful day in Tokyo. This clock that we're going to is very special and it strikes three times a day. Today it's going to happen and start in about three minutes from now. So I started a little bit earlier.

00:00:48 John Daub: Because it's pretty cool and it's something that you won't find in the Ghibli Museum. This clock is one of the biggest in the world. Wow, there's the leg of it. You see it's made out of this plated copper. It's awesome. Check it out. I heard it's 28 tons, 18 meters by 12 meters. Here's the sign for it right here. It is designed by Hayao Miyazaki who is the creator, the Walt Disney of Ghibli.

00:01:21 John Daub: And on the weekends it'll start at 10. But on the weekdays like today it's going to start at 12. It does start three minutes early. Something that you have to know. And there's already a small crowd of six people. And here we got 250. Here it is. This might actually be one of the better spots. But I'm going to take you out to the front to get a better look. There's Tokyo Tower over there. This is exciting. All right, there we go. We're right in the front of it now. Really directly in front of the clock.

00:01:57 John Daub: So when this thing strikes and starts to move, we're going to have an amazing view. I might take you over there to get a closer look. The entire show lasts for about three minutes. And this is the first time I've ever actually been here in front of it to watch. Yeah, it's a beautiful day in Tokyo. It's a free attraction. I mean, why not come and visit this? Now it was designed and it was completed in the year 2006. So it's not a 20th century type of thing. It's new and it was built, I think, out of the design of Howl's Moving Castle.

00:02:46 John Daub: I don't know if you're a Ghibli fan, but Howl's Moving Castle is a pretty good movie, but you can see that's what the legs are for. It moves. This clock moves. I see our friend Tyler's in the house. Welcome. All right. It is made of, I believe, 28 tons, but you can see just the amount of work that they did on this. Just tons and tons of layers and steel, of copper and metal, mostly copper. And that's why it weighs so much, but it is considered one of the biggest clocks in the world. I don't know in the rankings where it sits, but it's gotta be in the top 10. No one makes clocks this big and this heavy anymore. We live in a digital world and this is an analog thing.

00:03:29 John Daub: So it's going to be starting. This is very hard to find by the way. So if you're rushing to get here and you don't know where you're going, you're going to get lost because it's in the maze that we call Shiodome. All right. And after this clock finishes, I'm going to take you on a little bit of a tour around Shiodome. So maybe you can find yourself, find your way around, and maybe you might discover something else besides the clock. We were on the second floor. This might give you a little bit of orientation. And most people start from down there because that's where the Shiodome station comes. And you can walk here from Shimbashi station. It's about a five minute walk, but most people will be coming here from the Oedo line.

00:04:21 John Daub: All right. We're just a minute away from it starting. This is really exciting. People are looking at me and wondering what I'm doing here waiting. Ah, there it goes. The Ghibli clock is now in motion. What's moving? What's moving? Now with all of the moving parts, I figure it's going to take a little bit of time. Build up some momentum. There we go. The organs are warming up. He's calling everybody. Wake up. Oh, wow. You can't keep your eyes in one place. They've got the fires going and Howl's moving castle. Stuff happening all over the place.

00:05:55 John Daub: All right, everybody. Just enjoy the show. The hands are moving. The cannons are out. There they go. Oh, check it out. Do you see? Inside the balls, they've opened up. And that's it. We're done. There you go. The clock. Hey, guys. So before we go and walk around the area, let's take a closer look at this clock from the feet all the way up to its hat.

00:08:46 John Daub: There you go. So it is one of the biggest clocks in the world, as I said. And you can see just the amount of work that they did when Ghibli makes something. They make it really well. This thing looks absolutely beautiful. And wow, look at the riveting on this. It is made of copper, so you see some of the oxidation, some of that green color off of the rivets on the clock. You can feel the texture on it. You can actually touch it if you want to. The pigeons can do it. Why can't I? But the layers of it, it's just an amazing clock. I was going to say building or person, like a robot, I guess. Like an 18th century robot, like what they would build things in another era because they didn't have all of the carbon alloy and things like that. But they do have copper.

00:09:46 John Daub: All right, okay, now I can see the speakers are underneath it. So it does have speakers. Do you see that? That's interesting. I'm sure somewhere there's a documentary on how they made this. And all of the little details, they even have these plastic, I believe it's plastic. I wonder if somebody goes up and waters that. But it's the little details of this clock, I think, that make it special. The amount of work that it must have taken. I think it took like years, of course. It took years. But how many people worked on this? There are some of the moving cogs underneath it. And if you look up, sorry, the sun is directly above us too. You can see that the clock is textured a little bit. And I love the natural cracks in it. Very Ghibli, very natural.

00:10:49 John Daub: And there are the two workers. No, there's a lot of people. That's interesting. Look at their faces. The faces, I believe I found one of the only dead zones in this area. But from here, you can take a look and see that their heads, the designs of them is pretty cool. Up close, it doesn't look like that. But from here, you can see the mustache. It does look like people. But they did it in a way that was really, well, Ghibli. There's no other way to say it. You can see that. Up on the top, there's another dude who's cranking the wheel, getting the fire going. And up there, some water steaming. You see that? I guess that's boiling some water up there maybe. And then there are the cannons sticking out of it. It's really an impressive Ghibli Easter egg.

00:11:55 John Daub: And I like to call these Easter eggs, right? The city of Tokyo has got a ton of these little teeny Easter eggs like Godzilla in Shinjuku. You'll be walking around and you go, what? That's Godzilla. It's kind of this little amazing thing about Tokyo that you'll find if you just walk around. This is another Godzilla, not just in Shinjuku, but in Yurakucho. There's the Ghibli Museum, which is not an Easter egg. But like, I want people who come here and are disappointed because they can't get tickets. You have other options. If you want to see Ghibli stuff, you can go to the Ghibli Museum. You can try to get the tickets. And if you can't, you can come here.

00:12:32 John Daub: And for three times a day, four times on weekends. You can see the clock moving and play a song and get that kind of Ghibli feeling come to life in the city of Tokyo. That's pretty cool. There's also the Ghibli stores and there's three or four of them that are quite big. There's many of them actually, but there's three or four that are quite big. One of them is in Ikebukuro. Probably the biggest one is in Ikebukuro in the Sunshine City. Very, very cool. Definitely one of these places that you should check out if you can't get in to the museum. The museum, you can only get the tickets at Lawson's. And if you don't get it at Lawson's. They offer 10 times the price on the internet because they know they can take advantage of the tourists.

00:13:17 John Daub: I know this is a bit of a dark subject matter, but do you think you'll ever do a video documentary on Japan's hikikomori problems? It's very sad. Probably not. I don't pick any sad topics. I'll try to look at the bright side. Somebody else will do the sad stuff. For those of you who are joining us right now, here's the schedule. It says it only does it on sunny days. So if it's raining, it won't operate. So in the rainy season, we're kind of lucky to have caught this. And then the times on the weekends, it starts at 10 and then 12, 3, 6 and 8 p.m. I didn't know about the 8 p.m. one, but the night one might be more special because the clock actually... It's illuminated a little bit, which makes it, well, more Ghibli, I think. It just gives you this magical feeling when it's lit up at night.

00:14:18 John Daub: The official name of this clock is not Ghibli clock. This is the NTV or Nippon TV station, one of the buildings that they have here. And the official name is Miyazaki Hayao... I can't read that. I know it's the... It's the ōdeoki (grand clock). So it's the Nippon TV ōdeoki. So that's the official name. But it's designed by Hayao Miyazaki. Yes. Every single detail. And you know, because he did not hold back on this thing. It is massive in scale and the design and the details are incredible. You would expect no less from Ghibli. So just one more panning of this amazing clock. And then we're going to go down and I'll show you some of the area.

00:15:21 John Daub: The sun is directly overhead right now. It's 12:05. Beautiful, isn't it? And again, it's not easy to find. It's made of copper, real copper. You can see the oxidation. I guess that's what you would call it that you get with copper. So someone's got to start polishing this thing, don't you think? Oh, there's the leg. Do you see that? Ladies having lunch by the leg. At any moment, she could get crushed as this clock comes to life in three hours. I hope she finishes her lunch in three hours or less because it will come alive again. I did like how these balls opened up and you could see inside of them. Just kind of these small little touches.

00:16:02 John Daub: But that's the thing with the city. I think if everything was so obvious, a tourist attraction, we'd have lines here. But the reason why there are only six people watching is because I don't think a lot of people could find this. It's not the easiest attraction to find. If you do make it here, you never forget because you probably got lost two or three times and found some interesting things on the way. So let's go check out the area and see what we can see. Now most of these people that are walking by here, they're walking past me. They get to see this clock every day. Look, they don't care. They probably sit a hundred times. That was my first time. I've actually been walking. Do you see down here out of the Oedo line and I've heard the clock moving, but I've never gotten a chance to walk around and come up here and then see it.

00:16:50 John Daub: YouTube gave me a free Super Chat, so it's yours. Really? Thank you. Thank you, Sean. I didn't know that YouTube's giving free Super Chats. Hey now. I think they're cool with that because they do take a nice chunk out of it, I believe. It's all right. All right, let's go down underground. I can't speak for the signal strength down there. But we are going down. We're going to do our best to discover something underground. Follow this lady. This is also where one of the first Taco Bells was. So all of the foreign residents know about where all of the Taco Bells were.

00:17:36 John Daub: Nobody goes there anymore because it's three times more expensive than the Taco Bell in the United States and the menu's way too small. But when it first came back to Japan, a lot of the foreign residents were just blown away. They were like, oh, this is so cool. And I went to the Taco Bell was like, where'd my Taco Bells go? They had Taco Bells in 1998 when I first came here, a test store in Nagoya. But it went out of business because people thought that taco in Japan, we say takosu. We don't say taco for taco. We say takosu. So they went to Taco Bell looking for takoyaki. And so it went out of business because when they saw found Mexican food, that's not what they were stopping there for. So it took 20 years before Japan is ready for a Taco Bell just because Taco Bell didn't want to change the name.

00:18:20 John Daub: This is interesting this is one of the big and there's a few of these little easter eggs here for the rugby world cup there are no events for the rugby world cup it starts um at least on NTV which is Nippon Television on September 20th I thought this goes on more in October but this is the uh a massive rugby ball and the Rugby World Cup is being held in Japan for the first time a year before the Olympics I think they did that on purpose to try to steal some of the Olympic thunder but it could work against them because the Olympic thunder is strong it's stronger than the Rugby World Cup maybe and a lot of people don't even know that the Rugby World Cup is going on including a lot of the locals. Rugby is doing a good job though to try to bring some attention to it.

00:19:10 John Daub: All right we're going to go down here now and take a look but up here on the second floor there's a Rose and Crown pub there's some restaurants up here and a lot of people are now leaving the offices and going to lunch so they're going to be there for a while and we're going to run run run past a lot of office workers in white button down shirts. If you haven't already joined our Discord server jump on there it's a lot of fun it's Only in Japan 24 hours a day and you'll see in the chat right now one of our moderators are probably copy and paste yeah there you go UFO Bob's on it it's free and it's really cool after this live stream i might jump on a Discord chat so that's the Yurikamome um manless driverless monorail that goes by here and it's one of the stops on the Yurikamome so if you're going to Odaiba you can make a stop here Shiodome.

00:20:27 John Daub: All right let's go a little you can see on the billboard across misosaka is a big deal here buildings around these skyscrapers i believe den I've been there a couple of times and then once you go underneath here you lose it and you can see the Nippon TV the Jeff Nippon TV shop right right in the center of your screen is the where we just left so that should give you an idea there are some nice restaurants you can see the Taco Bell now coming into view but i highly recommend that you skip that and maybe go around the corner to the other place i think it's udon what is i've never been yeah it's udon i came here with Kanae once this is not not bad oh this is a curry udon that looks really good i think i might have just found my lunch looks healthy that's four dollars for that.

00:21:32 John Daub: These statues are kind of famous too i'm not sure who the designer was but it definitely was not um Hayao Miyazaki who wants to ride one of these things you can sit on them they're bent they're benches these are benches and um if you do internet search these they are in some various positions i don't know why but they're benches they're to sit on i guess somebody was trying to get creative like this taco tacos a lot of moving parts to this station as well so i'm going to go over here and across the building to the Sony Plaza so we're now underground Peter and i came here to see the Christmas lights about two years ago and we met two nice people from Australia came and found us found us on the uh live stream and said hi that was nice yeah across the way.

00:22:50 John Daub: Now this is where things get really complicated underneath here it's so easy to get disoriented they have signs here in English as well but a lot of people don't know what they mean how many q is the garden it's a beautiful garden to Shimbashi station there's the Panasonic the Shiodome City Center and its headquarters is in the Shiodome City Center that's a the airline and there's a Tower Records and mini Tower goods so if you find the mini Tower Records and that's where you'll find the Taco Bell and when you find the Taco Bell you'll see the clock around the corner ups ups two flights of escalators like we just came so i hope that's useful for you uh Chris 30 writes in here i'm going to Tokyo as an exchange student next year so thanks for showcasing these cool places for me to go you're very welcome i'm going to try to do more of the attractions of Tokyo Tokyo's got.

00:24:09 John Daub: So talk weeks when I'm here because in the summer a lot of people come here and they don't want to see it so we're gonna take you to them through this by suspicious when YouTube updates the app and they just put in the basic we updated the app as the description for what they did to it we changed the time continuance say well give us some information because maybe I don't want to update the app this looks really good this could be a dime your present for the dino look at this. Oh wow. This is like mochi nama what a be mochi bad I like mochi well, I love how they just sell it in the middle of the station here. Oh wow. Look at this it's like mochi sandwich man anything with baked in cream inside of it is amazing so we're walking towards Shimbashi station this is the maze that's going on and we'll make our way outside.

00:25:50 John Daub: So this is a good way for you to understand to find the way from Shimbashi station it's not that far Shimbashi is on the Yamanote line and I think everybody if you can make your way to the Yamanote line on at Shibuya or Shinjuku you'll be able to find your way to Shimbashi which means new bridge in English. Yeah, the roof is very low some of the buildings that were constructed the 1970s and this is one of them the 60s and 70s they're very very low and it was made like that because people weren't that tall anyways, and they just wanted to they built it really fast especially during all of the construction that happened after World War two, but before the 1964 Olympics was done super fast but it was done. Well, I mean it stands the test of time, but it does look retro and this is a tough station to renovate Shimbashi station is it's had some renovations but it's still it's a hard one to renovate because it's a busy one and you'd have to really shut things down.

00:27:13 John Daub: And it's been amazingly annoying for anybody that's going through Shibuya station very very annoying because of the construction. All right, we're going up and I'm gonna take you to take you to the place. I went yesterday. I called on their Discord server to some people that were that were awake in front of the biggest meeting spot in this area of Tokyo and you have to go underneath Shimbashi station and then we're just going a little bit of a tour for those joining us. We've already seen the Hayao Miyazaki's big clock at the NTV building this area of the station has been renovated a little bit. So it's wider it used to be such a small narrow walkway now it's it's opened up if you come here at midnight, you'll see people making out goodnight kisses very unusual for Japan office workers having fling saying goodbye at the ticket turnstiles I've seen it.

00:28:25 John Daub: It just doesn't I don't know for about 15 years ago when I came I remember just walking through this station very often at night after going out with for business dinners and stuff and you come back and you see people having affairs and the long kiss goodnight not a normal sight in Japan. Boom, then we're on the other side of old Shimbashi tons and tons of bars loads of izakaya places to eat drink underneath the Yamanote line you can see there's a ton of character. Do you see the underneath here rust and steel meeting cement? And this could be a Ghibli design as well, but it's above the train tracks you can see where we came from and that's Shiodome. That's the new area that's the site of maybe could be called new Shimbashi or new new Shimbashi.

00:29:31 John Daub: I'm walking you around as the Yamanote line above me makes its way into Shimbashi station. We're gonna walk just a little bit around Shimbashi and take a look at the other side Shiodome has a ton of hotels it's got a ton of hotels that are really nice to stay in and Shiodome is pretty central that's an interesting vending machine check this out grand opening always attracted by the sound of a rolling train that's the Keihin-Tohoku line. I think that's what we got here latte rich jungle, what is that? Jungle man this drink is called Jungle Man. What? It's got a tank on it. Do you see this? There's a tank on this what I've never seen Jungle Man before should we get this? What do you think should we get a Jungle Man?

00:30:43 John Daub: All right, let's get a Jungle Man. I know I'm gonna hate it. All right, if you don't want Jungle Man, all right, if you're not in a Jungle Man, you can try Miracle Body that's another drink you think Miracle Body might help me out I could use a diet I could use a miracle and then this one that looks like a bottle of soy sauce a soy sauce none chat they're all arranged cheerio Japan what weird? I don't know. What do you think so we get jungle juice miracle body? Soy sauce looking drink it even says in here this is not soy sauce. What? This is really bizarre. There's amazake with stuff floating in it what else do we got here, oh this is caramel flavored pudding drink what? That's a pudding drink? Alright, everyone's saying go for Jungle Man. Alright, I guess we're going to go Jungle Man. Sorry, soy sauce looking drink. You're going to have to take a back seat to Jungle Man.

00:31:56 John Daub: They look insulted. But how can you pass up Jungle Man for 100 yen? Alright, Jungle Man. You're coming with us. There's the 100 yen coin. That's all it costs. One coin. Jungle Man, welcome. Out of the jungle and into the urban area. Jungle Man is here. Jungle Man. Calorie off. Thank goodness for that. Oh, this is a plane design. I wanted a tank. I'm guessing it'll taste the same. This live stream's getting a little weird. Jungle Man. How do you sound, Jungle Man? Am I unleashing the jungle? Oh, man. That is sweet. It's Mountain Dew ripoff. Yeah. Oh, it tastes like that drink. Match. Have you seen that before? I've talked about Match before a couple of times. Match is it tastes like melted Pez into soda water. Like they've melted 100,000 Pez into it. Oh, man. We're going to keep Jungle Man in the bottle. And I'm going to let my wife try it. See if she's thirsty later.

00:33:48 John Daub: Alright, so this is Shimbashi. It's a little bit of a pit stop. That was fun. So this is Shimbashi. Hold on a second. Hey, David Kimura. Hi, John. Finally making a live stream. Thanks, David. I appreciate that, David. Alright, over here. You can cut through and there's a big. You see this clearing? Just right away from Shimbashi Station. In the summer, they usually have festivals and events going on in there. And they do have a bon odori, a dance that happens in August. So you might want to keep your eye on that if you're in the area. It's one of the more lively intersections areas of Tokyo. But I would say Shimbashi is like Salaryman Town, you know. This is the old Salaryman Town. Where time sort of stands still in the Showa era. Which is before the Heisei era. Because now we're in the Reiwa era. The Showa era still kind of has some power here.

00:35:00 John Daub: Because the people that are in their 60s. You'll find them here. You'll find a lot of them here. In fact, you'll find a lot of them everywhere. It's true. We're rounding the new Shimbashi building. Which is the old Showa era. Which essentially means new new Shimbashi building. Right there. The new Shimbashi building. And this building is famous for being super retro. It is really like. And just the design of it you can see. Is made out of cement. It's one of the first unique buildings that I saw when I came into Tokyo for the first time in 1998. I remember looking outside the Shinkansen and you go right past it. Look at these little windows. Somebody popped it open right there. Looks like a safe has opened up. Somebody opened up one of the windows. You almost never see a window open in the new Shimbashi building. That's cool.

00:35:50 John Daub: But inside there. I've heard on the fifth floor. Is that the vending machine that a lot of perverted people are looking for. You know what I mean. They seem to have a clientele for that in the old salary man town. You know what I'm talking about. Let's keep it family friendly. This is Katsuya. And it is crowded. People are lining up and waiting because it's lunch time here. Hey there's a mini jungle. This one has a Jungle Man in here too. Oh look they're promoting. There's a Jungle Man promotion. They have five different ones. There's a tank, a battleship, a plane, a jeep, and another kind of a plane. How cool is that? Alright thank you Jungle Man. Thank you for making me want to brush my teeth again.

00:36:51 John Daub: And here ladies and gentlemen. In the front of your screen. Oh there goes the Shinkansen if you caught that. On the right side. In front of you is one of the biggest meeting spots in the entire city of Tokyo. Everybody who's been here, who lives here knows about this spot. Does it rival Shibuya's Hachiko crossing? No. And you can get lost there. So if you're going to meet your friends. You meet them in front of the old train. The old Shimbashi train. Shimbashi station is one of the original first stations of Tokyo. This train is kind of a symbol of it. But I believe this train stopped around 1912. And then it moved here. When it was decommissioned. And now a lot of people will meet in this plaza here. And they've made it a little bit better. There's a smoking area there. So if you're lucky or unlucky. Depends if you're a smoker. All of that free smoke will waft your way. It's still Japan.

00:37:58 John Daub: And there's the Yamanote line up there. I do like it. So people getting off the train can see you waiting here. So it's a nice little spot. It's kind of an ideal spot. It's right outside of the Hibiya exit. Of Shimbashi station right there. Yeah. So do you have any questions? I will now take questions on our live stream. On the clock. Or the area. Or whatever you are interested in. The next couple of minutes is up to you. Hit that like button. If you enjoy these kinds of Tokyo attraction videos. If we can get a thousand likes on this. And if you want to see more of this. I know that this is a big deal to people. And they want to see more.

00:38:38 John Daub: What motivated you to be a YouTuber? Jacob, I have a 360 video on the main channel about this. But I was... I've been... Wow. Takes me back a while. So I came here in 1998. But I started working at NHK in 2008. As a reporter for a show called Tokyo Eye. And I did that show for about 50 times. Over the last... Over six or seven years. And after the great Tohoku earthquake. 2011. I don't know. I didn't think NHK was doing enough. To show the beauty of Japan. In a fun way. I thought it was too boring. And I wanted to help out Japan. Because people weren't coming here. Now everyone is coming to Japan. But at the time people weren't coming here. So that was the catalyst to start Only in Japan. In 2012. I started to plan out Only in Japan channel. And I did what I wanted to do with it. And in 2013 February I launched it. With the help of a company called Wow Corporation.

00:39:42 John Daub: And I was able to travel all around the country. And make some videos. I still do it. I'm still a one man band. But I'm finding help a little bit more. From people. Patreon has helped me. That's another platform. People are supporting the channel. But Patreon has helped me get a cameraman. So we've got... Dan who's going to be helping me. And I've got an assistant this summer for the first time. Hannah. Who's helping me book places. We've got some amazing episodes coming up. And it's mostly through her efforts. Because I can edit the videos. While she's planning and talking with locations to get permission. I wouldn't say I saved Japan. I definitely didn't. But at the time. In 2011. A lot of Westerners were leaving Japan. We called them foreigners flyjin. There's the gaijin. Foreigners. But we called them flyjin. Because they flew out of here with the first trouble hit. Oh my gosh. There could be radiation all over the place. Well yeah. Probably people were going to leave. But if you're part of Japan. You didn't leave. And I didn't leave. I didn't want to be a flyjin. But my motivation was different though. There's no reason. Where would I go? I didn't want to go back to the US.

00:41:04 John Daub: What are those guys with red shirts handing out? Tissues. So in Japan tissues is something you'll get all over the place for free. Usually there's an advertisement for a pachinko shop or something. Let's see what else we got here. Is that Steam Loco Square? Yes. Is the train there related to one of the science museums in Ueno? It's related to one of the last trains of its kind. That ran on the train. There was no Tokyo station for a long time. At the turn of the century. So the trains came just. When they came to Tokyo they came as far as Shimbashi. I believe this was the end of the line. Like over 100 years ago. And they extended it. But this train I believe was just decommissioned in the early teens of the 20th century. And they just put it here. And it's been here for a while. But it's a meeting place for everybody that everybody knows about.

00:42:03 John Daub: I do do meet ups. I do meet ups Jennifer. But not recently. Because wow that train is loud. Nice honk before it comes into the station. I do do meet ups but I haven't done that for a while. I don't know. It's hard to do it. What is your favorite train station jingle? Matt writes in here. I don't know. That's a hard one. They're all pretty good. Akihabara is memorable because I'm there a lot. I don't know. I do like the ones up there. The ones up north that people don't ride. And you're giving me kind of an idea for next weekend. If I have time to do a live stream. The jingles are interesting. The ones from between Ueno and Ikebukuro stations that not a lot of people go to. Have some pretty neat jingles. But you have to ride the Yamanote line and take them all in.

00:43:04 John Daub: When are you going next to karaoke spot? No plans Chris. How long did it take to learn Japanese language? I'm still learning Bowen. I learned by studying from books and talking to people. I learned from my grannies in Mr. Donut. I never went to class. It shows I'm not a conversational speaker. But I'm not a fluent native speaker by any means. But it's enough to make this show and get around comfortably. And I'm very happy. My wife and I talk in Japanese mostly. She's angry because I don't teach her English enough. But this is Japan. When in Japan you speak Japanese. Rage relief. Thank you. I will take it. I'm not sure Brickman. What's for lunch? I'm going to maybe go back home and get back to work. There's a new video that I want to try to release tonight. On Kochi Sunday Market. And if you're vegan or vegetarian you're going to like this market. Because it's a lot of vegetables.

00:44:08 John Daub: There's some historical photos of the area. This is Karasumori Inari Shrine. Karasumori Jinja Shrine. And it's a very old shrine. And the location was here I believe. And they had to move it for the station. Interesting. Chicken katsu-san is pretty good. Dragon. Dragon Dark Fire. It's pretty good. Do you plan on attending the Summer Olympics? That's a good question. I do plan to be here. But I didn't get any tickets. We failed the lottery. Kanae and I both got rejection letters. But that just means we save about $3,000. Because we're going to be here for a while. Because those tickets aren't free. You win the lottery and then they send you a bill. And if you won tickets to the opening ceremony. Then most likely you got a bill of about $4,000 or more.

00:45:10 John Daub: Alright. So the good thing about not... Alright. I'll tell you what. I didn't get into the opening ceremony to get a ticket. So that means I'll probably buy a 65 inch OLED TV. And watch it in 8K. Or something. Right? You may be able to see the torch. I'm going to watch the torch runners. That's true. I'm going to take a look at the course. And maybe go out in the middle of nowhere. And do a video all across Japan. In places where there's nobody cheering them on. And then we can cheer them on. I think that would be pretty cool. The Olympic torch relay is something that I will try to cover. Will you live stream the Olympics? I will if I can get in. I'll live stream. You know the TV is going to be showing some of the events. But I think it's going to be pretty interesting. Just to live stream the stuff that's happening around the Olympics. The events that are happening outside the venues. The stuff that the TV networks never show you. I think that's what I can stream on the Only in Japan Go channel. And show you that. Because it's pretty interesting.

00:46:26 John Daub: A lot of people that told me that they left the Sydney. During the Sydney 2000 Olympics. A lot of people that left the city because they thought it was going to be too crowded. Felt a lot of remorse in doing that. Because they missed a lot of fun events. Because the city is only like that once. Right? The city is only like this once. Tokyo will only be like this twice. Because we had this in 1964. But I think 2020 is just going to be incredible. It's one of those years where the decade changes. You know. You can feel the future happening. Everyone is holding back for 2020. All the technology companies. Sony, Panasonic. They're all holding back their tech to really make it happen. I think they're going to release in 2020. You just feel like this big explosion that's going to happen. I think covering the stuff that's happening around the Olympics is going to be huge. We're going to have 5G all over Tokyo. But 5G signal is not good. It's something that you can't be far away from the transmitter. In order to have a clear 5G signal. So maybe I'll be broadcasting in 4K. Because 5G would allow me to do that. It would allow me a massive amount of bandwidth.

00:47:21 John Daub: Some good questions you got here. I was just wondering. Alright I'll take one more. One more question. If we can get the 400 likes. I might take you to an extended live stream around Shimbashi. But we're never going to get the 400 likes in 5 minutes. Because we're really slow to get the 300. One more question. Or 400 likes. It's up to you now. Community involvement. Do you think it is a bad month for the Olympics? A bad month. Yes. The Olympics should have been held. Who knows this. Definitely summer is insane. It's insanely hot. It's like a sauna. People in the Middle East and Singapore. Well we're hotter. Delhi gets to 45 degrees. No. It doesn't have this humidity of Tokyo. It drains you. It's hot. It's painful. You go outside and you start sweating. It's awful.

00:48:13 John Daub: I think the reason why the 1964 Olympics was held in October. I repeat. The 1964 Olympics was held in October. And not in July and August. It was because of the heat. So there's a reason why they don't have the Summer Olympics in Singapore. It's hot. There's a reason why you don't have the Summer Olympics in Tokyo. We're going to find out how much technology can play a role. In cooling down people. So they don't get sick. They've actually. The mayor of Tokyo. Mayor Koike. Has asked people to buy umbrella hats. And if you go take a look. If you go take a look online. You're going to find the umbrella hat. At a press conference. And they're going to start selling these. Where you put these umbrellas on your head. And that's supposed to cool you down.

00:49:01 John Daub: See I told you we weren't going to get the 400 likes. You guys are weak out there. 700 people watching and only 300 likes. Community involvement. And that's why we're going to do a livestream. Alright so. Once I said that it jumped 20 likes. Real fast. Alright keep liking guys. And then maybe this will go on a little bit longer. I'm going to take you around the block. And show you something else that's pretty interesting. About Shimbashi now. So we can extend the livestream a little bit. This cafe above Pronto. This kissaten is very famous. You can see the Pronto has the first floor. And then the next second, third and fourth floor. Is a very old cafe. It's called kissaten. Which is a cafe. And a lot of them are going out of business. But this coffee shop. Of course it has smoking inside. It's a trademark of Japanese kissaten. But it is also a historical place in Shimbashi. And you can see here. They make a really good. They make a really good siphon coffee. And the iced coffee is one of the best that I've had in the city. I had it here yesterday. In a meeting. You gotta go up the stairs to get in there.

00:50:33 John Daub: You don't have to worry about it unless you're a local. But this coffee shop is quite famous in the area. Alright. Let's say goodbye to this area. The train and the new Shimbashi building. Make our way around this way. For an extended livestream. Because you guys clicked the like button. Shimbashi is famous. What's famous about Shimbashi is. What you see here. The alleyways. You gotta go around the alleyways. And if you do that. You're gonna discover loads and loads of. Secret places. Little restaurants. And I always tell people. When you come to Tokyo. Get lost. Like literally just start walking the streets. Go to an area away from Shinjuku, Shibuya. Go into Shimbashi. Or a place that you wouldn't normally go to. And get lost. And walk around the streets. And you're gonna discover some amazing things. That you never would have discovered if you didn't. You know.

00:51:26 John Daub: Like this vending machine. There's the original. Mountain Dew. There's the original Mountain Dew. Next to some tomato juice. You won't find that. Anywhere else. Oh there's an unagi restaurant. Oh they're selling fugu as well in there. Wow. There's a standing bar. And people are already drinking in there. That's a good looking katsudon. What? Oh. Okay. Moving on. Yeah. Like you'll walk through these alleys. Do you see this? And on the left and the right. Some of these shops have been here for decades. If not like from the end of the World War II. When they put these buildings up. A lot of them are family run. The owners are still here. They're clinging just for the next couple of years. I bet you. And a lot of these places are gonna go out of business. Cause the sons and daughters of the original owners. Don't want to really continue the legacy. Cause it's hard work. To run a restaurant in this area. And the chains are coming in. I guess that's inevitable.

00:52:56 John Daub: But the chains are moving in. And the result of that is that. You're losing a lot of the identity. Of what was. The Showa era of Japan. The Showa era of Tokyo. Just a really special time. Where. Everything was just out open like this. It's just. I wish. I was born in the Showa era. But I kind of wish that I had seen Japan at this time. And you can still see it a little bit. By walking around the alleys. Of the cities. Especially here in Shimbashi. But I don't know for how much longer. Look at the sign on this thing. It looks like they haven't washed it since the Showa era. So a lot of family run businesses. Still in existence. But after about 6:30. 7pm. You'll see a lot of people.

00:54:00 John Daub: I'm following you. I'm on Instagram. Where are you from? I'm from Philippines. But I've lived here for more than 10 years. Wow. We're doing it in Shimbashi. We just had some lunch. So I'm actually live right now. I'm following you. So you're his follower. Yeah. I'm the follower. Okay. Bye. Thanks for saying hi. That was cool. I was shocked. Yeah. I think if you really want to see Tokyo. And you do visit before the Olympics. Jump into some of the side streets. While you can. Because the next time you visit. It might not be here anymore. They're clearing away a lot of the older buildings. Just because of earthquake regulations. Making it stronger. Tokyo has always been a city that was susceptible to fires. They've had a lot of great fires. One of them caused by fireworks. In the 19th century. Which led to anti-fire laws. Meaning you can't have open flames on the streets. No barbecues in parks for example. Because of the great fire. I think it was [?Kaguya?]. Or is it. I don't know. One of the big companies.

00:55:32 John Daub: Alright. Let's cross the street here. We cross the street. You can see. There's the Yamanote line. Going over the bridge. I did a video about. A year and a half ago. That introduces a place on. In Yurakucho station. Excuse me. Inside of Yurakucho station. On the platform. You can find a spot at the end of it. And if you get the timing right. Two trains will go high speed past you. From different directions. No no no. The same direction. And it's the most surreal feeling. Like if you ever wanted to stand. Between the track. And have two trains cross. This is the perfect place. Because of course you're going to be safe. Because you're on the platform. But you're on like a corner of it. And I was surprised that video didn't do better than it did. But if you ever get a chance and you're in Tokyo. You're in Yurakucho. Check out that video and stand on the end of the platform there. Because it's one of the most surreal free feelings. All you need to do is be riding the train. And walk to the edge there.

00:57:06 John Daub: It's a video from about a year and a half ago. On the Only in Japan Go channel. I think it only took me about 10 minutes to time it right. So there you go. There's Shimbashi station. On the Ginza line. That's where we came. We walked from. You can see the train on the left side. Between the buildings. And there's Shimbashi station up there. Alright. If you do come here after hours. I wouldn't say after hours. This shop. The shops underneath the tracks here. Open up. This is one of the best motunabe shops in the city. And they've been around for a long time. I remember I came here with Chris Peppler. Who's the host of the Tokyo Eye. When we came on an outing to Shimbashi. I think it's this one here. And they'll open it up. Some really great yakitori and motunabe in there. But you walk by there. You wouldn't know. This shop is pretty good too. In fact I think it might be this shop. You can see they've got some daikon. They're getting ready to make a soup. Or some grated daikon. For condiment. That might be it right there. Very good yakitori. And in the pot there. Motunabe. Really really good. You sit around the bar. It's really vibrant. Really fun. People talk to you. They'll try to talk to you. You won't understand anything. But that's what makes it kind of fun.

00:59:07 John Daub: And then from this point on. We didn't get the 500 likes. So we can't continue. But from this point you can see Shiodome. Very clearly. The old part on the right side is Shimbashi. The new buildings above us are Shiodome. And then to the left. Is Ginza. And then underneath that bridge starts Ginza Hachome. The 8th neighborhood of Ginza. Which you can walk towards there. I probably will to catch my train back. Oh look now we get the 500. You just had to do that didn't you? You likers. Alright we'll take this a little bit longer. Into Ginza now. We're moving really far away from that clock. People are chiming in right now. Where's the clock? You going back to the clock? I'm not going back to the clock. You have to watch the playback. Because we keep liking. If we even get the 600. I don't know what I'm going to do.

01:00:14 John Daub: This is the Tottori Okayama store. And inside here you can get gifts. And beer and crafts. And things that from Tottori Prefecture. And Okayama Prefecture. It's a collaboration store. Right now they've got watermelons from Tottori on sale. They're happy to be on sale. Soft cream from Daisen. I go in here sometimes. They have um. Oh and here's jeans from Okayama. That you can buy from a famous shop. Japan has the best jeans in the world. Or some experts say. So yeah. That all comes from Okayama. Here goes a Shinkansen rolling by. Boy it's long. Look at this. Come on now. Alright there's the end of it. Smooth ride. That Shinkansen is a smooth ride. Uh oh. The bus is saying. It's signaling. Sorry bus. I do have a green light.

01:01:42 John Daub: Alright. At this intersection here. We're going to hang a left. But because I don't think we're going to get the 600 likes. We're going to. I'm going to end the live stream. This shop just opened up. That's what the flowers are for. It's a golf shop. Brand new golf shop in Shimbashi. How about that. At this intersection I'm going to hang a left. And I'm going to show you one last thing. Which is part of Shimbashi. I would say. Yeah you'd have to get to like a thousand to extend it. I got stuff to do today. But it is always fun to keep it going. The live streams. And show you more of the city of Tokyo. We're back towards the Shiodome area. This is like a buffer zone. This intersection. You don't really go to Shimbashi station. But you do see the skyscrapers of Shiodome. And that building right there. Is pretty much where the clock is. It's underneath there. In the maze that is Shiodome. That's where you find the. Miyazaki's big. Ghibli clock.

01:02:58 John Daub: Did you have a chance to read my email? Yeah. Alright. So the last thing I'm going to show you. Unless we get to like 1000 likes. I don't know if that's going to happen. Let's cross the street. Hey Dave Spector 1065. Hello John. Great video. Thank you Dave. Anjin San 2020. Interesting old and new architecture. Shimbashi. Keep up the great work. Thank you very much. And Dave Kimura. Thanks for telling me about the 300. Always entertained by your streams. I'm reading some of the super chats. That I might have missed here. Sean on KETO. YouTube gave me a free super chat. Oh Faye was here. Faye Williams. I'm going to read some of the chat. Jim Jones. I know this is a bit of a dark. I think I read these. Today is my birthday. Hey Avery. Today is Avery's birthday. Happy birthday. Tyler if you're still watching. The tickets to the Ghibli are. The tickets to Ghibli. I'm not sure. But you can get them inside of Lawson's. I don't think they're that expensive. But I know that they're resold on the internet.

01:04:30 John Daub: So this is the last stop. I'm taking you on this wonderful trip. Across Shiodome, Shimbashi to Ginza. We are now in Ginza Hachome. You can see the sign. Stating that we are in Ginza Hachome. And what's famous about this end. Of Ginza. This is where Shimbashi ends. And where Ginza starts. This Don Quixote is a tourist hub. Every Chinese tour bus. Will stop here. It stops here. And you can see there's a bus there. And there's buses here. They stop underneath the bridge. People will be here. It gets really loud here. Right now. It's okay. They line up to go in on this entrance. And buy omiyage. Or stuff to take back to China. It's very very famous. You rarely hear. There's some people from. In a group. Wow. How you doing? This here is the world famous. Toy store of Ginza. It's called Hakuhinkan. Inside there you have some amazing collectibles. All sorts of toys. And in the front there. They have some Tokyo 2020 Olympic goods. Let's go take a quick look.

01:06:04 John Daub: Cross cross cross. The cars come fast. And they come often. So you don't want to miss the lights. This is the main street that goes through. You can go straight all the way to Akihabara. It's a nice street. On the weekends the street shuts down. It is nice. They put chairs and tables out here. You can relax and enjoy Ginza. The proper way. In the front of the shop right there. Sorry about the wind. You have a zoo. How you doing? There's some Tokyo Olympic goods here. See here what are the prices on these things. Very interesting. Pins and neckties. Things like that you can buy here. That's a nice looking necktie. It's a little pricey. I think it's about $50. The t-shirts are going for about $25. For some of these down here. Those are towels. Sorry. They don't have any t-shirts. The t-shirts are going between $30 and $40. A little bit pricey there. But then again. They have to pay for the Olympics one way. They're going to pay for the Olympics. They're going to pay for it with merchandising. Here are some of the pins that you can get at the 2020 Olympics. And then they have other licensed products. They're getting very creative with the products. With these two. Mascots of the Tokyo 2020 Games. Do you know their names? Because I don't. I keep forgetting.

01:07:47 John Daub: Oh, Peter and I came here and we got to see a life-size Rika-chan. And if you're a fan. If you're a fan of Rika-chan the doll. If you go down here. You'll be able to see the Rika-chan's shop. And I would love to come down here sometime and take you. I'm just going to do a quick up and down. But you can see inside here. There's a Rika-chan shop. And it is so cute. If you're a fan of Rika-chan. You're going to love going in here. Because this is Rika-chan paradise. Alright. Last but not least. The never-ending stream. I took Peter to lunch. Sorry, Peter to dinner once at that Hooters. He's very happy. And finally. The streets of Ginza. And I showed you all this before in other live streams. So this connects with other live streams. Always get off of the main road. In Ginza. And go to the alleys. The side streets. You'll find things like this. This is a unique Pokemon vending machine. That's not like anywhere else. It's really unique. They don't even have any Pokemon drinks. No Pikachu drinks. But it's a very unique thing. The vending machine itself is unique. You won't find many like that.

01:09:45 John Daub: That looks like a non-sponsored. I'm sure it is. But it's different than the other ones I found. Oh, these are real dogs. I thought that was a fake dog. It's real. That's a real dog. Or it's a really good robot. I don't know if that's a real dog. Not far away from here is where I'm going to get my lunch. Delicious katsudon restaurant. I'm going to sneak into. Oh, there's the old sento. Look at what it's called. Kin... I've never been in there. Kinyu. Ginza being a high class town, you wouldn't think you'd find an old sento. But you do here. Right here. It's a sento. This is a public bath in the streets of Ginza. So you just walk through here. The brave people. And you can buy a towel, I believe, inside there. I think it's not open yet. But it's one of the old bath houses. It's on the Google Maps. You'll be able to find it easy. Which means you can probably track me right now. Wow, that's pretty cool.

01:11:35 John Daub: Tons of sushi shops on this side. Some of the top sushi chefs back in the day. In the 1950s and 60s. They opened up their shops here. Not so much near Tsukiji Market. But here in Ginza. Because it was close to Tsukiji Market. But it also had this luxury appeal. So all of the high end sushi shops. They basically started here. And you'll find them in the alleys of Ginza. Kyubey is just down here, I believe. Or is it the street over? I think it's the street over. Kyubey is one of the first high end sushi places that I visited when I came to Japan. Wow, it was like 12 years ago. And a client of mine took me. A client that is famous for making manga, actually. And they took me out on the company dime. And paid. And the director of the company. Can I tell you this story? Can I tell you this? I guess I can tell you this. It's 12 years removed, right? I can tell you this.

01:12:34 John Daub: The director of the company who took me out for dinner. He also brought two hostess girls with him. And the girls got free Kyubey sushi. They came in these beautiful kimono. And it was me, him, and these two hostess girls. And we weren't in the hostess club. This was outside dining. So I bet you he was paying an arm and a leg. For their time as well as the dinner. And at the end of the dinner, he slapped down 100,000 yen. Just 10,000 yen notes. Like in cash. And got a receipt for his company. And I was just, my mouth dropped. Because it cost, first of all, $1,000 for the four people to eat dinner. But that's a pretty shot. But that, you know. This is what. Okay, and then he told me. I don't know if I should tell you this story. But then he told me, look. One of the advantages to becoming the director of a company. It's not the salary. But it's the expense account that comes with it. You can now take the money and use it for entertainment purposes. Entertain clients. And that was part of his right. Because when he was younger, he worked really hard. And when he got to that level, he could use his funds. He could use the discretionary funds for entertainment too. And at the end of the month, if he didn't use it, he would lose it. And he would call me up. And we would go out and use it. And we did this for a couple of years.

01:14:04 John Daub: And I got a chance to discover a different side of the city of Tokyo that I don't think anyone else has ever discovered before. Well, I mean. I say that in a way. I don't know any of my friends that have. You have to know somebody who has company money. Big, old company money. In order to do that. I think Kyubey is right next to Barney's. Yeah, and this is the first high-end sushi chef that he took me with the company money. Right here in the corner. And I should call Kyubey to see if they'll give me permission to go in and film. I would love to film Kyubey. Because it's an old, old shop where the I believe the son is now running it from his father. It's a very old shop. Yeah, there it is. So let's see if I can take you to the front of Kyubey. This is where we met the hostess girls right in front. Right in front of this pharmacy. I got a ton of stories. You have no idea. All the different stories. All the stuff that I've experienced in the 20 years here.

01:15:14 John Daub: I know we met. Is that Kyubey there? I thought there were some stairs to walk up. I haven't been here in ages. Is that it there? I think it might be the street behind. It's a nice looking shop though. It's a nice looking shop. I haven't been to Kyubey in a long time. I think it's the street behind. But I do remember we met the hostess girls there. Because Barney's New York has a shop right there. And on the corner here is the pharmacy. And so we got out of a taxi. Because his headquarters is on the other side of the city. So I would go to his headquarters. We'd jump into a taxi, talk. And then we'd get out here. And we met them right on the corner. And then we walked into the restaurant. I think it could be... I don't know. It's been such a long time. I think it could be right there. On the other side. But the owner of Kyubey's had this shop for a very long time. And I think it was one of the first... I don't know the history too much of it. But just know that it's one of the most highly recommended. Probably one of the first that might have gotten Michelin stars. And they have a reasonable lunch menu. It's around here somewhere. Gosh, I can't remember. Those days are long gone. Those days are long gone.

01:17:04 John Daub: Well, thanks everybody for joining me on this stream that went way, way too long. We're still 14 away from extension. So I'm just going to call it because I'm starting to lose my voice. And I have some narration to do for the next Only in Japan video. I hope you did like the last video. That was the Kochi-Shimanto River video. It wasn't very popular. And I say that but it's still got 100,000 views on it. But it's not like wildly popular like the other ones. But it's one of the more beautiful videos, I think. You get a chance to see it. I'm going to do something outside of the city of Tokyo. So definitely go take a look and leave a comment if you liked it. Because then I'll keep making stuff like that. It does not pay for YouTubers to make cultural stuff because not a lot of people watch it. But it does make a pretty good episode, I think. Alright, everybody. Thanks a lot for watching. I'm going to go have some lunch. Definitely hit that like button and leave me a comment below. If you have anything you want to say about the Miyazaki clock or the Only in Japan Go channel. Join us on the Discord server. The link will be somewhere either in the description or in the chat. Thanks, everybody. Have a good day wherever you are. Enjoy the beautiful summer. Because I believe on the 21st we hit summer. And that's what we're doing right now. Summertime. Bye from Ginza. Very far away from that clock we started 79 minutes ago.