00:00:00 John Daub: Welcome to Ikebukuro Station, one of the biggest stations in the city of Tokyo.

00:00:09 John Daub: Hey everybody, I'm here with... with... with... with... Jennifer was here. There she is, hiding behind the wall. Hey Jennifer!

00:00:21 Jennifer Giuliani: Bonjour! Long time no see!

00:00:25 John Daub: How are you?

00:00:26 Jennifer Giuliani: I'm good, how are you?

00:00:27 John Daub: Good, good. Wow, everyone's been asking for you. Tell me everything. What have you been up to? Start.

00:00:35 Jennifer Giuliani: Eating, drinking, mainly.

00:00:38 John Daub: I actually believe that. That sounds very believable.

00:00:42 Jennifer Giuliani: Of course, you know me.

00:00:43 John Daub: Yes, I do know you very well, and so does everybody else who's watching, most of you. Jennifer also has her own YouTube channel. Check out the link in the description. You can see more of her because you're going to fall in love with Jennifer.

00:00:55 John Daub: We're here though, in front of Ikebukuro Station. What can you tell us about Ikebukuro Station?

00:01:04 Jennifer Giuliani: Ikebukuro Station has lots of nice and delicious places where to eat. It's a pretty cheap area, I think.

00:01:09 John Daub: Cheaper, yeah.

00:01:10 Jennifer Giuliani: And also for young people, you know, maybe... if you want to go to that area close to the Sunshine, there are lots of young people... lots of activities for young people there apparently.

00:01:22 John Daub: Yeah, Sunshine is a key place. That is in this direction. This is where we're going to be going, towards the Sunshine Building, and take you on a tour. So if you do come to Ikebukuro, you're going to be pretty oriented, know where to go from the station. Which exit is this?

00:01:36 Jennifer Giuliani: East exit.

00:01:37 John Daub: Take the East exit. Because, I'm saying this because Ikebukuro Station has a bazillion exits. It's a maze, it's a labyrinth, so you want, if you have to meet someone, please pick one exit and stay there. Don't go to another exit because you won't find each other. It's bad. I never say meet you at this exit. I'll say a shop's name or send a link away from the station. Never get in the middle of the station. You don't want to get in the middle of the station. You always get lost.

00:02:05 John Daub: Ikebukuro is one of the biggest areas. It's on the Yamanote Line. It's one of the biggest city areas like Shinjuku, Shibuya, Ginza, Ikebukuro. It's in the top five. And it's also a very young area. There's a bunch of universities around here.

00:02:22 John Daub: That's one of the reasons why I think things are a little bit cheaper here. Because university students just don't have the same kind of money. They just don't have the same... But you come here a lot more often than I do, right?

00:02:34 Jennifer Giuliani: Yes, I do. Because I cross Ikebukuro very often. And I have customers here too. So I come very often. And I think that depends on the exit. If you go to West exit, it's a little bit different. You have this next exit.

00:02:50 John Daub: That's the Metropolitan, the artsy side. They have a lot of classical music and opera going on on that side.

00:02:57 Jennifer Giuliani: Yes. So I think anyone who would come here would find something interesting to do. There are lots of good places to eat.

00:03:07 John Daub: I'm going to switch sides on you. I'm actually carrying this bag because we were just at a location shoot at a sushi restaurant.

00:03:15 Jennifer Giuliani: Jennifer's first time at a conveyor belt sushi restaurant.

00:03:19 John Daub: Well, I mean, no. It seemed like the first time.

00:03:20 Jennifer Giuliani: First time in 10 years, let's say.

00:03:22 John Daub: All right. You can already see here there's loads of alleys in Ikebukuro. This is another one that you'll find some shops down there. But we're going to go the main route, which is this way. This would be the main way that people walk around along the main street here.

00:03:41 John Daub: Again, there's a link in the description to show you where Ikebukuro station is or it should be. If not, there will be one really soon. But right away we see Takase building. There's a famous kissaten or an old coffee shop that's up there. It serves the classical curry rice and pasta. Typical coffee shop food for Japan from the 1950s and 60s. It's kind of an older place. I've been there a couple of times.

00:04:10 John Daub: Bakery and loads and loads of people. It's always busy here. Where do you usually go when you come here?

00:04:15 Jennifer Giuliani: One or two favorite coffee shops. I think that we're going to cross in front of one of the places where I buy omiyage souvenirs very often. I think it's right there. Let's check it out.

00:04:31 John Daub: Some of my Patreons got stuff from their Christmas presents. I think it's here. Let's check out this map. I always like to show people maps because some troll was on the video and said, "Why don't you ever show maps?" That's exactly how he sounded in my mind anyways.

00:04:53 John Daub: This here is a map of Ikebukuro. You can see that it says 350 meters to Sunshine City. That's our goal. You can also get there by subway. JR is right here. Do you see the station? Green Odoi. This is Green Odoi. That's Sunshine Street. Straight. Go straight. Go over the big bridge and go over here. Sunshine Street is here. Sunshine.

00:05:22 Jennifer Giuliani: There. Are you okay?

00:05:24 John Daub: There. Somebody's lost.

00:05:27 John Daub: So we started here in front of the station. And we're going to be walking this way along the main road. I showed you the alley there. Walking along the main road. And then when we get to this intersection, we're going to be there in like 30 seconds. I know we could have totally taken them there. But that was actually really nice. What you just experienced was that guy. He was showing another... A Japanese guy showing a Westerner how to get somewhere. He spoke no Japanese at all. And then we're standing right there. I'm like, I could help them, but I'm not going to. Because this is interesting just to be there behind the scenes.

00:05:58 John Daub: So we're going to get here to the intersection. And then we're going to walk down the Sunshine 60 Dori. The Sunshine 60 Street. And this will take you all the way towards... There's a lot of shops here and hubs of other shops. So you're going to see Ikebukuro at its best. Or its worst. We are super lucky because it's not raining.

00:06:21 Jennifer Giuliani: That's true.

00:06:22 John Daub: That's true. That's the store.

00:06:24 Jennifer Giuliani: Oh, this is the store?

00:06:25 John Daub: Yeah. I recommend this place.

00:06:27 Jennifer Giuliani: Okay.

00:06:28 John Daub: Jennifer's recommendation is now in. Hold on a second. Oh, we got SpeakHot84. Good to see Jennifer. And here's something for you. Very nice. Oh wait, Jennifer's over there. I forgot I didn't turn the camera around. Lots of paper things.

00:06:46 John Daub: All right. Take a step, Jennifer. But they also... It's hard to walk cross current. I keep getting body checked by people.

00:07:00 John Daub: Frames, Japanese style frames. I'm a fan. I'm a fan. It's really... They can have a peek at it.

00:07:08 John Daub: Do you see the traffic behind us? We just walked across there. And it's thick. I was getting body checked. I know. It's getting really busy. People are going back home.

00:07:19 John Daub: All right. Take a look at the fans here. This is where Jennifer buys a lot of her gifts, her omiyage. And are those the fans right in front of us that you were talking about? Those look pretty.

00:07:29 Jennifer Giuliani: Yeah. They have also... Like Thomas, I don't know if she's on your channel too, but she wanted me to do exchange... Exchange stuff. And she wanted to sign for men. And I found it here. They have the black ones over there.

00:07:42 John Daub: Oh, good. That's a nice yukata. And they have the black ones. And they have one for men in the window. He's staring at us with no head. Kind of creepy.

00:07:50 John Daub: A little bit creepy. All right. Follow Jennifer. You're the local here.

00:07:54 Jennifer Giuliani: Yeah, but you know, also I often go to... Oh, they can't hear. Hold on. They can't hear you. It's the mics in the front. I can. I like to go to the Tobu department store.

00:08:02 John Daub: Ah, that's on the other side.

00:08:04 Jennifer Giuliani: And there is the Seibu.

00:08:05 John Daub: Oh, that's on the other side, right? The Seibu, the food court on the eighth floor. It's so good.

00:08:11 John Daub: Okay. Hold on a second. All right, guys. So all these places she's recommending are back there. They're not where we're going. So I'm not sure why she's recommending.

00:08:19 John Daub: Why are you recommending those places?

00:08:20 Jennifer Giuliani: I'm telling the people they're back there. I don't go that much there.

00:08:24 John Daub: You don't go this way much. We are going to the young people area. But we can show them this street and there is the... We can go up to the Tobu department store.

00:08:36 John Daub: Oh, okay. We're going to be crossing that intersection if you remember from the map. This is that intersection. Everybody come here. Do you want something to drink, Jennifer?

00:08:44 Jennifer Giuliani: I'm dying. I'm parched. I'm dying.

00:08:47 John Daub: Do you want something to drink? You're good?

00:08:49 Jennifer Giuliani: Wow, they got a lot of stuff here. I could if you ask nicely.

00:08:54 John Daub: Yeah, I'm absolutely ready to buy you some nectar. What is it? Like some Coca-Cola with... Would you like some nectar or Mets? Coca-Cola coffee?

00:09:04 Jennifer Giuliani: No.

00:09:05 John Daub: Oh, that's a livestream from like two years ago. All right. I don't see anything I like. Oh my God. That's so old. I don't see anything I like. We can keep going.

00:09:12 John Daub: All right. Let's get back in the traffic and go down this Sunshine 60 street. Okay. We're going to make our way down here. I haven't been in this direction in a long time. Isn't it here where there is ice cream? Much ice cream. Much ice cream.

00:09:26 John Daub: That's melon ice cream.

00:09:33 Jennifer Giuliani: I don't know. I don't know. It's hard to say.

00:09:37 John Daub: All I know is that that's melon. Boom. And Mont Blanc, that's your mountain in France, Jennifer.

00:09:46 Jennifer Giuliani: That one looks good.

00:09:47 John Daub: The Mont Blanc? Chocolate banana. You into that?

00:09:51 Jennifer Giuliani: That looks good.

00:09:52 John Daub: That's good. You need to be fed. That looks nice. Everything looks nice to her. She's one of these people who anything you put in front of her, you will eat.

00:10:03 Jennifer Giuliani: I know. I do too. You're a liar. Including my finger in the thumbnail.

00:10:06 John Daub: Excuse me, but the last thing that I had you taste at the sushi store? Yes. At the sushi shop? Why are you on my shoulder? That's not good. You can get on the side here.

00:10:16 John Daub: I can tell you. All right. Let's go straight down the Sunshine 60 street. It smells fantastic. Now if you take, it does smell a little funky. If you take a look to the left side, this is also part of Ikebukuro, but you want to stay on the main road that we're on. You follow the people. Follow the people. No one else is going that way.

00:10:41 John Daub: There is our friend Hello Kitty on the right.

00:10:42 Jennifer Giuliani: That's true.

00:10:43 John Daub: We're about to release a main channel episode on Hello Kitty. We went to the Sanrio Puroland. Why you into the Hello Kitty stuff? And that's a good face. Hello Kitty?

00:10:59 Jennifer Giuliani: No, no, no, no, no, no. The Puroland is a good place.

00:11:02 John Daub: Oh. I love that place. Thanks to you, I will never have gone there on my own, and you took me there. Oh my God. Big fan.

00:11:09 John Daub: People are shouting, hello Jennifer. Long time no see Jennifer.

00:11:13 Jennifer Giuliani: Hi guys.

00:11:14 John Daub: When have you been telling Jennifer? Bonjour.

00:11:19 John Daub: I already highlighted this in another livestream, but I've always been impressed with the way that Tokyo has taken... Do you guys see this? Hold on a second.

00:11:28 John Daub: They've taken the phone booths from the 1990s and 2000s that I used to use all the time, and since everyone has cell phones, they've turned these into Wi-Fi hotspots. And I bet you this is where the first 5G signals are going to come from. Probably like telephone lines, traffic stops, traffic lights, and telephone booths. So you can get free Wi-Fi right here.

00:11:51 John Daub: Do you need Wi-Fi?

00:11:52 Jennifer Giuliani: No.

00:11:52 John Daub: Because we have data plans that we pay a lot of money for. Thank you very much. Thank you very much for the support. David Kimura, how you doing David? And then we have here Ms. Clark. Thank you. How you doing?

00:12:08 John Daub: So what's going on with Jennifer's Feed Jennifer channel? Any hot news?

00:12:13 Jennifer Giuliani: Jennifer, she's... yeah, hot news. I'm going to keep on eating, of course. How can I eat without eating and drinking? That's not new news. But I'm thinking of starting some lessons, language lessons. Like French, English, Japanese. That's interesting.

00:12:32 John Daub: Like, you know, simple things, but you know, just to start, for example, with, okay, Ichigo, strawberry, fraise, in the three languages. Because I know that some people, they like to see me when I speak the three languages, so we can do that, you know?

00:12:49 John Daub: Yeah. I have a very short attention span. Right there behind us is Denny's.

00:12:54 Jennifer Giuliani: I can see that.

00:12:56 John Daub: This street reminds me... This street has always reminded me. It reminds me, after the intersection of Disney World, in a way. It's just such a bright...

00:13:02 Jennifer Giuliani: I've never been there.

00:13:02 John Daub: You've never been to Disney World?

00:13:03 Jennifer Giuliani: You've been to Tokyo Disneyland?

00:13:05 John Daub: No.

00:13:06 Jennifer Giuliani: What?

00:13:06 John Daub: But I've been to Pure Holland.

00:13:08 Jennifer Giuliani: You strike me as someone who would go there often, like with an annual pass.

00:13:12 Jennifer Giuliani: Of course not.

00:13:13 John Daub: No?

00:13:14 Jennifer Giuliani: You have to take me there. Have you been to Euro Disney, at least?

00:13:15 John Daub: No.

00:13:16 Jennifer Giuliani: You've not been to your own Euro Disney?

00:13:18 John Daub: This is why. It was a surprise for me that I fell in love with that Pure Holland place. Because it's so good. Hello Kitty, she's a big star now in my heart.

00:13:27 John Daub: And Mickey has no place in your heart of...

00:13:29 Jennifer Giuliani: Not yet.

00:13:30 John Daub: Your black heart of death for Mickey? You hate all rodents?

00:13:34 Jennifer Giuliani: Not yet. I was going to just... I'm bringing the camera around because Spider-Man's right there.

00:13:41 John Daub: That's kind of funny. The dude's leaning up against him. All right, let's go. So you're anti-Mickey. I just want to put this clear. Dear Disney, this is the face of anti-you.

00:13:54 John Daub: I prefer to go to good restaurants than going and queuing to do the... Have you ever been to Disney World?

00:14:02 Jennifer Giuliani: Disney's got that caramel popcorn and gyoza dogs.

00:14:05 John Daub: I can buy that at Caldi's. You can probably find that somewhere else. But it's not Disney.

00:14:10 Jennifer Giuliani: No, you know that my hobby is eating. My life is all about eating. So I prefer to spend my time looking for good restaurants than queuing to do the attractions at...

00:14:21 John Daub: This is Round One. It's a game center. You can spend an entire day there doing anything but shopping. Like I don't... Round...

00:14:29 John Daub: It's funny that they put a Round One here. But maybe you spend more money at Round One than shopping.

00:14:35 Jennifer Giuliani: You probably would spend a lot more money at Round One.

00:14:37 John Daub: That's true. It is a very bright street. There's a Uniqlo here. Lots of shops. There's a Matsumoto Kiyoshi. A lot of people will buy their pharmaceuticals and little things to take back. Japanese pharmaceuticals are a lot easier on the body. So it's very popular, especially with other Asian countries.

00:14:54 John Daub: Is it?

00:14:55 Jennifer Giuliani: Like eye drops.

00:14:55 John Daub: Yeah, eye drops and things like this. It's just easier on the body. I don't know why, but I saw on the train yesterday some tourists from Korea and in their bag on the train, they just had tons and tons of eye drops and pharmaceutical stuff from Japan. First of all, I'm like, you're going to get stopped at the airport or something because there's so many of them. But what do I know? I don't travel to Korea too often.

00:15:22 John Daub: But it is very bright. Lots of lights. It's sort of a different... I don't know. If you compare this to Harajuku and Shibuya, how does this compare, Jennifer? Can you compare?

00:15:33 Jennifer Giuliani: Yeah, it's just different. This area in Ikebukuro is compared to the Kabukicho in Shinjuku.

00:15:41 John Daub: That's a better comparison.

00:15:43 Jennifer Giuliani: It's like Kabukicho, but it seems to be... Kabukicho's got a lot of alleys and back roads. It's just so big. Lots of clubs, right?

00:15:50 John Daub: This is condensed all in one Sunshine 60 Street, I think. You could find just about anything on this Sunshine 60 Street, at least if it's brand-oriented. It's everywhere.

00:16:03 John Daub: It's nice. At night, it's pretty cool with all the, as you said, these lightings. At night, it's even better. Pachinko.

00:16:10 Jennifer Giuliani: Yeah. At night, this place comes alive. It totally changes around this time. We're about at twilight. It's getting closer to night, so the lights are on, but we still have some sunshine.

00:16:20 John Daub: There's a Tokyu Hands. I saw that in Omiya the other day. That's also a fun shop to go into. They got just about everything. But I think we're not that far away from the Sunshine 60 building. Sunshine is one of those two buildings.

00:16:32 John Daub: Oh, it's right up there. You just have to look up. I don't remember if it's the white one or that one. No, no, no. That's got it. Well, maybe it's not. This used to be the tallest building in Tokyo, right?

00:16:43 John Daub: Was it?

00:16:43 Jennifer Giuliani: I'm pretty sure.

00:16:44 John Daub: It had one of the best views and one of the tallest buildings in Tokyo, the Sunshine 60 building, because Japan is an earthquake-prone country. Right.

00:16:56 Jennifer Giuliani: Right?

00:16:56 John Daub: Yes, it is. So there weren't traditionally many tall buildings because they would just collapse.

00:17:02 Jennifer Giuliani: Yeah.

00:17:02 John Daub: But with the invention of new technology like the rubberized plates with coils in them that can move with the earthquakes, the buildings can now get higher.

00:17:16 John Daub: And although you could build... That's a brand new one right there, the Q Plaza. You guys could check it out. It's on Google Maps, but it hasn't opened yet.

00:17:22 Jennifer Giuliani: Yeah, I haven't seen it. I can't check it out.

00:17:23 John Daub: Yeah, shall we hang a left here? Maybe.

00:17:27 John Daub: Yeah, let's go. Yeah, because anyways, it's the end of the street here. Yeah, this is the end of the street. Let's hang a left and just take a look at this new building. Then you have some parks, etc. Over there.

00:17:39 Jennifer Giuliani: Oh, I love Taiyaki.

00:17:40 John Daub: I love Taiyaki. I love Taiyaki. Oh, Taiyaki, come to me.

00:17:44 John Daub: You guys rock. Thanks for streaming. Fantasy, Ecstasy, thank you. Mr. Potter's in the house as well. Ready to enjoy the stream. Jennifer Giuliani, your full name. You always make me hungry. Mr. Potter misses you. I have got bad.

00:18:00 John Daub: So, see, you have to feed me more often.

00:18:02 Jennifer Giuliani: Well, we have to feed you. We have to feed you. We have to find the time to get together. Do you want a Taiyaki? Could you eat dessert? We had, hold on, let me turn this camera around. We just ate a massive amount of sushi.

00:18:19 John Daub: We ate more sushi.

00:18:23 Jennifer Giuliani: So much sushi.

00:18:26 John Daub: Yeah, but you have to go back anyways.

00:18:27 Jennifer Giuliani: Yeah. So, yeah. That's true. What's up there?

00:18:34 John Daub: I think I'm going to have to go on a drink hunt on my own after this livestream, guys. In this main... They know me, so.

00:18:41 John Daub: In this main channel episode, Jennifer went and she got a beer.

00:18:42 Jennifer Giuliani: I knew you were going to go for the beer. I have the... no, I feel like having champagne right now because I had the beer already.

00:18:53 John Daub: I have a behind the scenes video to show you guys.

00:18:54 Jennifer Giuliani: A behind the scenes?

00:18:55 John Daub: Oh. Yeah. So, this is it. You can see it's not open. There's a construction samurai worker right in the front of the building. With a lightsaber.

00:19:03 John Daub: Do you know when it's going to open? I don't know, but he's got the lightsaber. Do you see that? That's the one they had in the 1980s that kids used to have. And when you waved it, it made a whoo whoo sound. So just like a real lightsaber. But unlike those, these actually will burn you. I think. Oh, some sore. I'm making that up, kids.

00:19:35 John Daub: But this is a brand new building and it looks like it's going to be an amazing amount of fun. Because when they don't have windows like that, that means it's like virtual reality crap in there. I'm just guessing. So it could be a lot of fun.

00:19:37 John Daub: How you doing?

00:19:38 John Daub: Oh, yeah. That would be me. We're actually livestreaming.

00:19:42 Nico: Oh, really? Hey.

00:19:43 John Daub: Hey. Hey. Where are you from?

00:19:45 Nico: I'm actually from Itabashi.

00:19:48 John Daub: Okay.

00:19:49 Nico: But I was born and raised in the Philippines. I've been here in Japan for like 15 years and I don't really go around. I just go to Shizuoka sometimes for the onsen.

00:19:59 John Daub: Oh, so it's unique to be here?

00:19:59 Nico: I mean, you actually watch your videos in the ICU. I think you know more of Japan than me. I've been here for 15 years now.

00:20:08 John Daub: Okay. And I didn't really expect you were going to be here just kind of like really local. We get around. I know a lot less than you guys think. I appreciate that.

00:20:20 John Daub: So you live in Itabashi?

00:20:21 Nico: Itabashi.

00:20:22 John Daub: Itabashi. Yeah. I just bought a ticket because I'm not...

00:20:26 Nico: Oh, very cool. I'm thinking around this place. I mean, I've been coming here in the group with high school.

00:20:33 John Daub: I'm from Tokyo.

00:20:34 Nico: Yeah, so. So where would be the place people should go if they come to Ikebukuro? Is it on the other side?

00:20:40 John Daub: It's definitely here, right?

00:20:41 Nico: It depends on what you want.

00:20:42 John Daub: Ah, what do you want?

00:20:42 Nico: I mean, it's not a more of an otaku place.

00:20:45 John Daub: And it's getting a lot of otakus that are coming here because in Akihabara, there's a lot of people like from all over the globe coming to Akihabara. So a lot of otakus right now are coming here.

00:21:00 Nico: I noticed that. There's a Super Potato. A Super Potato which is the games, the shop with all the retro games, has a shop here.

00:21:07 John Daub: What? Super Potato?

00:21:09 Jennifer Giuliani: She heard food. There's no potato there.

00:21:13 John Daub: What? Super Potato? What is that?

00:21:15 Nico: There's no potato there.

00:21:16 John Daub: But there's also a lot of maid cafes are popping up here. And like the anime company called Animate.

00:21:27 Jennifer Giuliani: Yes, yes. That's here as well.

00:21:28 Nico: Yeah, it's over there. So this is the otaku, after Nakano Broadway, this would be like number 3 maybe.

00:21:35 John Daub: Yeah, I think so. Yeah. So it could be good to like the otaku, like you know, the otaku scene here is kind of like getting bigger I think.

00:21:41 Nico: Yeah. But I don't really have otaku friends but you know, seeing like coming here for like a lot of years now, I mean, I kind of sense like there's a lot of otakus. And I can even see like a lot of like foreigners, like you know, that like anime.

00:21:57 John Daub: I can see that. Yeah, I think it's changed a lot since every time I come here it changes a lot. It's more modern. I can see they've torn down a lot of old buildings and now I guess they're modernizing for the 2020 Olympics maybe.

00:22:06 Nico: I think so too. Yeah. It's a young place, you know, a lot of college students here.

00:22:11 John Daub: What's your name?

00:22:12 Nico: My name is Nico.

00:22:13 John Daub: Nico, nice to meet you. Nice to meet you. Yeah, it's good to bump into you.

00:22:21 Nico: Yeah, yeah, yeah. I still, I'm, you know, I'm gonna watch your videos.

00:22:21 John Daub: Thank you. Thank you very much.

00:22:24 Nico: Yeah, I'm just gonna buy some stuff.

00:22:26 John Daub: Okay. All right. Take care. Later.

00:22:28 Nico: Bye.

00:22:29 John Daub: Very cool. Thanks. So this building is not quite open yet, but it looks like there's already a bunch of games because the first shop that you see up there is Capcom. That's a game center. So I'm surprised. I'm surprised. You never heard of Super Potato?

00:22:42 Jennifer Giuliani: No. What is that? It's a game? If it's not food, how could I have heard about it?

00:22:48 John Daub: What you're saying is like the entire gaming community is like looking at their screens right now ready to kick the face in of the woman who says, I thought that Super Potato had potatoes. Is it fried potatoes? Is it the ones that come in a meal set? You get an L size, you get L size potatoes as well. Large. I want the large ones.

00:23:08 Jennifer Giuliani: No, it's not Super Potato.

00:23:08 John Daub: Even mashed potatoes I love.

00:23:10 Jennifer Giuliani: I know. I know. You like mashed potatoes. She'll take any potato.

00:23:13 John Daub: Okay, Super Potato. I'll check it out. It's a game center. They put the gachapon already on the second floor. All brand new. Gachapon.

00:23:21 John Daub: Yeah. All right. There's nothing here.

00:23:21 Jennifer Giuliani: Say it properly.

00:23:22 John Daub: Gachapon.

00:23:25 Jennifer Giuliani: Gachapon. That's a game center. There's nothing proper about that.

00:23:30 John Daub: Gachapon. I think I need to drink. I'm starting. I don't know. Come this way. I don't know what she has been drinking. All she had one beer. I didn't drink anything. I had green tea. You had the beer.

00:23:42 Jennifer Giuliani: That was two hours ago.

00:23:42 John Daub: That was two hours ago? That must have been some strong beer. It's like slow activating brew.

00:23:50 Jennifer Giuliani: You're in a different world.

00:23:51 John Daub: Do you know how many? The alcohol degree in beer is five or six.

00:23:57 Jennifer Giuliani: That's nothing.

00:23:57 John Daub: Yeah, five or six, but it was like...

00:23:59 Jennifer Giuliani: That was two hours ago.

00:24:00 John Daub: It activates two hours after you have your first sip, I think. When you're addicted, you need to refill. If not, I get super hype.

00:24:09 Jennifer Giuliani: Have you been detox... There's a maid's cafe right there, I think.

00:24:13 John Daub: Oh, no, no. It's a shop. All I know is that a lot of these shops have come in, these really cute...

00:24:19 Jennifer Giuliani: Moush.

00:24:20 John Daub: Moush. What do you call them?

00:24:21 Jennifer Giuliani: Moush.

00:24:22 John Daub: Moush. Well, I know that's a culture. It's called moush, but look at that ramen. You know moush? Oh, look at that half-boiled egg. Man, I just want to take that congealed egg and rub it all over my face.

00:24:41 John Daub: I always said... I said that to see if you're paying attention. I just want to know if you're paying attention.

00:24:49 Jennifer Giuliani: I was thinking about this. I want to drink the oats first. I'm feeling... I'm starting to be hangover.

00:24:50 John Daub: You don't want a taiyaki?

00:24:51 Jennifer Giuliani: It's okay. No.

00:24:52 John Daub: Are you sure? Do you want something to drink from the vending machine?

00:24:55 Jennifer Giuliani: No, it's okay. That's okay. Coca-Cola energy? You want a Coca-Cola energy? Do you need extra energy?

00:24:59 Jennifer Giuliani: No, I don't think so.

00:25:00 John Daub: My treat. It doesn't have a...

00:25:01 Jennifer Giuliani: I have energy to sell.

00:25:05 John Daub: You have energy to sell? In fact, we say, I have energy to sell. It's just who's buying? Who wants... You have a special energy, right? This isn't your typical energy.

00:25:19 Jennifer Giuliani: When it comes to eating good food and drinking champagne, I will always have a special energy for it.

00:25:26 John Daub: Yeah. Let's take a look here. Now, this is where you would enter the Sunshine 60 building, right?

00:25:31 Jennifer Giuliani: Yes.

00:25:31 John Daub: You can enter into the Sunshine... We finally... Okay, 20 minutes into the livestream, we finally get there. You can enter in through here. And it'll take you up to the Sunshine 60 building. And we call this Sunshine City, which is a shopping mall, basically, at the base of it.

00:25:45 John Daub: And I think I've only been up there once for an NHK Tokyo Eye shoot. Kevin Cooney and I... Tokyo Cooney, one of the godfathers of YouTube and I, did an episode for Tokyo Eye back in 2009. And we went up to the top of the Sunshine 60 building to show Ikebukuro's view.

00:26:06 John Daub: Check out this post box for the Japan Post. It's pink. That's pretty cute.

00:26:09 John Daub: That's the cutest post office box I've ever seen. Buy Jane and Orien beer. Yeah. I think you need another beer, don't you?

00:26:17 Jennifer Giuliani: She's French.

00:26:17 John Daub: She's French?

00:26:20 Jennifer Giuliani: Béret.

00:26:21 John Daub: Where's your...

00:26:22 Jennifer Giuliani: Béret.

00:26:22 John Daub: You guys are wearing the same color.

00:26:27 Jennifer Giuliani: We are. Yes, we are. She has...

00:26:28 John Daub: And this is the sushi cutter today. If you had her hat and her skirt, you totally would be just... All blue.

00:26:39 John Daub: I'm not buying what you're selling, babe. You know, because we were talking about Duroland. I have a big fan of Kichijo.

00:26:53 John Daub: All right. Now, we walked all of this for the last 20, 25 minutes above ground. You can do all of this underground. You see, between us, there's an entrance that's... You could go completely underground to Ikebukuro Station, which is very useful. Because if it's raining, if it's raining, you want to sneak in that way.

00:27:08 Jennifer Giuliani: I think that's why I sneak in. If it exists.

00:27:09 John Daub: Even in the rain, you can... I did a livestream about that earlier.

00:27:11 Jennifer Giuliani: Oh, you did?

00:27:11 John Daub: Yeah. I did a livestream about that underground life in Tokyo. I did that at around 1 p.m. So you will see all the underground area of Ikebukuro Station. Check it out. Check it out.

00:27:24 John Daub: All right. We're about half a kilometer away from Ikebukuro Station. Now, I want to show you a little shortcut. Hey, Mr. Potter! I remember when Jennifer bought a bottle of wine to the stream. I remember in my bag.

00:27:38 Jennifer Giuliani: I remember that. Yeah.

00:27:37 John Daub: What's so heavy in there?

00:27:38 Jennifer Giuliani: I've got wine.

00:27:41 John Daub: Alright. Looking at this map, you can see we've walked half a kilometer here.

00:27:45 John Daub: Secret is, if you want to avoid the crowds, Higashi Ikebukuro Station is right here. Alright. It's like in between here. So, the shopping area is this way. I often will take Higashi the Yurakucho Line at Higashi Ikebukuro and just walk. And it takes me half the time because there's no people who get off at Higashi Ikebukuro. And what do you think about that?

00:28:10 Jennifer Giuliani: I think that it gets across that line.

00:28:12 John Daub: There's nothing there.

00:28:12 Jennifer Giuliani: Oh, on the other side of this highway?

00:28:15 John Daub: Is that where the brothels start and all the dirty things happen on the other side?

00:28:19 Jennifer Giuliani: No, there's nothing. It's just mansions, hotels, and parks.

00:28:23 John Daub: Okay, parks where dubious things happen after midnight?

00:28:26 Jennifer Giuliani: After midnight, I'm a good girl.

00:28:30 John Daub: You're a good girl? You never cross to the other side of the tracks?

00:28:37 Jennifer Giuliani: I don't go on the other side of the tracks because I don't live in this area.

00:28:39 John Daub: Huh?

00:28:39 Jennifer Giuliani: I don't live in this area.

00:28:43 John Daub: Jennifer getting interviewed in Japanese show another month ago. So, people are watching your Japanese shows.

00:28:49 Jennifer Giuliani: Yeah, you're on TV a lot here.

00:28:52 John Daub: I'll be on the TV program on Saturday.

00:28:54 Jennifer Giuliani: It's short to me, I think.

00:28:55 John Daub: Oh. You know, I've done a few of those. We did one together as well.

00:28:59 Jennifer Giuliani: I don't like them, though.

00:29:01 John Daub: No, that one wasn't good. That one was not good.

00:29:03 Jennifer Giuliani: No, this one I'm doing is good because they actually make me comfortable. They ask me to come because they know I have... Because of my expertise on food and drink.

00:29:22 John Daub: Oh, they just showed Toy Story. Sorry, we just missed that. They showed Toy Story in Japanese. It was hilarious. Sorry.

00:29:28 John Daub: What I don't like about those shows is that they put a flag of your country on your chest. And then I always think of it as like people are looking at me like I'm in the zoo. I represent all American people for Japanese. So, anything I say will be based on the country on my... On my chest. I never really liked those shows. I want them to see me not as being American but as being... This is my point of view.

00:29:48 Jennifer Giuliani: Yeah, but the thing is... I don't know. I was thinking like you before but when you think of it, they do this even with the Japanese people. They put their age or whatever. They put their age on everything.

00:30:00 John Daub: They need to put information about the people who are speaking.

00:30:05 Jennifer Giuliani: Ah, yeah. This is... And I mean, we are foreigners. So, of course, they put... You know, we're foreigners.

00:30:09 John Daub: I do mostly... I do mostly news programs, not variety shows. So, in those kinds of situations, I don't have... I'm just looking and saying, well, she's not wearing any clothes. I don't... Over there. I don't know. Sorry. My attention sometimes wanders. It's like, what the heck is that? There you go. That made me stop.

00:30:45 John Daub: But you're a pro with them.

00:30:45 Jennifer Giuliani: I enjoy doing it. It's really fun. And also, all the talk I get behind the scenes, it's really interesting. So, this is why I'm doing it.

00:30:57 John Daub: So, when you speak in Japanese, do you have a French accent?

00:31:00 Jennifer Giuliani: Ah, I don't know. What do you think?

00:31:01 John Daub: You do. Just like I have an American accent. And I'll tell you what, everybody. Don't ever change who you are. When you come to Japan, don't try to become Japanese again. I think that's the most important thing. Then you lose your value to Japan. It's more interesting if you stay who you are, take your accent and your pronunciation with you. Just look at Arnold Schwarzenegger, right? Arnold. He's so awesome because he doesn't speak perfect fluent. Who's that?

00:31:26 Jennifer Giuliani: Arnold Schwarzenegger.

00:31:27 John Daub: Ah, okay. Because he doesn't speak perfect English. He's English is perfect to me. Because I'm French, so.

00:31:36 John Daub: All right. Arnold is very, very happy to hear that. You don't even notice that he speaks with an Austrian accent. Like a German. No?

00:31:42 Jennifer Giuliani: No, not really.

00:31:45 John Daub: Wow. What do you think of my American accent? Is it easy to understand?

00:31:49 Jennifer Giuliani: Yeah, it's easy. It's not, that's, you know, it's not the super devil.

00:31:53 John Daub: Super devil, what?

00:31:55 Jennifer Giuliani: Louder.

00:31:56 John Daub: Oh, God. The music is so loud here. Copyright, copyright, copyright, copyright. Okay. Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. I don't know. They slapped me on a copyright problem a couple of weeks ago at a Shinjuku.

00:32:16 John Daub: Yeah. I got a Yorobashi Camera Stream. I got copyright hit for 30 seconds. Because of their music. Yeah.

00:32:20 John Daub: All right, guys, take a look up there. Yeah, background music. Do you see right there? We have maid cafes in Ikebukuro, and this is like a new phenomenon. It's not like something that you would see outside of Akihabara about five years ago, but it's things that you would see here. And over there, there are some love hotels.

00:32:46 John Daub: Ikebukuro has some of the most, it's the second biggest love hotel area, maybe the third after Shinjuku's Kabukicho and Shibuya, right? Ikebukuro's got a ton of love hotels.

00:32:58 Jennifer Giuliani: You've been, you haven't...

00:32:58 John Daub: Really?

00:32:59 Jennifer Giuliani: Say nothing.

00:32:59 John Daub: Say nothing.

00:33:00 Jennifer Giuliani: Oh, okay.

00:33:01 John Daub: I've never been to...

00:33:02 Jennifer Giuliani: You're kidding me.

00:33:06 John Daub: No, there's a lot of love hotels here. I've been many times.

00:33:08 Jennifer Giuliani: Oh, you have?

00:33:11 John Daub: Okay. The best one was in Shinjuku. What do you think about that? Have you been, did you go together?

00:33:13 Jennifer Giuliani: No comment?

00:33:15 John Daub: No comment. She's got nothing to say. Why do you make this face? I mean, love hotels are really good because they are clean, they're super tight, they're all... You can get a big room at a cheaper price than a hotel, a normal hotel.

00:33:36 John Daub: Okay. It's not all about weird things. All right, let me ask you this. Who pays?

00:33:41 Jennifer Giuliani: What are you talking?

00:33:43 John Daub: We are talking about... Love hotels. I even did, I did with Tokyo Eye, we did a report about love hotels. Yeah, me and normal people. And then, I remember, I did, it took us nine days to make that Tokyo Eye report on love hotels for NHK. The best... We went to seven different love hotels. It was pretty crazy. The best love hotel I went to was in Nara, and it was, oh my God, the room, it was like a suite, and it was so cheap, like something like 8,000 yen. And love hotels are really good places because you don't need to book in advance, and if you're lucky enough to go to an area that is not so popular, you will get room.

00:34:23 John Daub: I'm almost convinced. I should sell my apartment, and Kanae and I should move into a love hotel.

00:34:27 Jennifer Giuliani: But some of them are gross.

00:34:29 John Daub: Do not take a fluorescent black light and start scanning the sheets at love hotels. I prefer the... Just, you've been warned, Jennifer. I prefer love hotels with a window. So that you can change the air. So you can keep the curtains open and flaunt your stuff to the crowd that walks by some of the most populated areas of the city of Tokyo. No.

00:34:53 John Daub: I don't know how this discussion... Okay. Anyways, if you are coming with a partner, then you can definitely hit up a love hotel for a night. Usually, you can check in at 10 p.m. without a reservation. It gets cheaper. You pick... Tell everybody.

00:35:00 Jennifer Giuliani: At the late hour, it gets cheaper, the love hotel.

00:35:08 John Daub: Like, you will get a room for less than, sometimes for 4,000, 6,000 yen, you can get a room with a double bed. And a bathroom, etc., etc. So, you know, just pick one that looks decent enough. As long as you don't talk about the etc., etc. I don't know if our family-faring audience is into... Tom, Tom Gomez writes in... Oh, my, Jennifer. Do you know that nowadays...

00:35:30 John Daub: Tom, you and I both, brother, we're thinking the same thing. Like, she had only one beer. My channel is a homemade channel. I can't talk about those topics.

00:35:39 Jennifer Giuliani: Okay, I will. I will make a list. I made a comment 10 minutes ago. I made a comment 10 minutes ago about rubbing egg on my face. Is that... Would that work with your gourmet channel?

00:35:55 John Daub: Hey, there's your French competitor. Isn't that her?

00:36:00 Jennifer Giuliani: She's not my competitor. Oh. She's... Three years ago, she wasn't really known on Japanese TV. Now, she's everywhere.

00:36:07 John Daub: What's her name?

00:36:07 Jennifer Giuliani: Claire? Clara.

00:36:10 John Daub: Clara.

00:36:11 Jennifer Giuliani: Yeah, she's really nice. I got a chance to meet her once a long time ago. She's working hard to break in into Japan, and now she's on so many TV shows. It's crazy. She's been living here since she was a child.

00:36:23 John Daub: Ah, she speaks very good Japanese. She's a correspondent for TBS. She did a couple of shows with... That's awesome.

00:36:34 John Daub: This is the Seibu entrance, right? To Ikebukuro Station, this way?

00:36:39 Jennifer Giuliani: Yeah, I got to go home.

00:36:47 John Daub: You don't know what you want to do?

00:36:48 Jennifer Giuliani: I don't know if I will get a drink or just go by parking lot.

00:36:50 John Daub: She's going to a love hotel by herself.

00:36:54 Jennifer Giuliani: Jennifer, you can't do that by yourself.

00:36:59 John Daub: I didn't know that. Okay. You can hear me, right? She can hear me. I will train myself from going to a love hotel on my own then.

00:37:05 Jennifer Giuliani: Well, I don't know what I'm doing. I think I'm just going to leave you and I'm going to go someplace else by myself and livestream, but by myself. No, but I don't know if I want to have a coffee. I don't know. I'm making fun of her. I want to do a drink hunt or whatever. And in a sense, it's going to get her trained, right?

00:37:29 John Daub: Yeah, I got to get back and put up an episode tonight on the street food market in Kochi. Have you been to Kochi?

00:37:37 Jennifer Giuliani: A long time ago, like 20 years ago.

00:37:41 John Daub: On Sunday, there's a street food market that happens every Sunday in Kochi. It's one of the best street food markets. It's famous for having vegan and vegetarian food.

00:37:50 Jennifer Giuliani: Oh, that's good.

00:37:51 John Daub: Well, yeah, if you don't like meat, but I like meat and I'm actually starting to like the vegan food. It's actually pretty good. Yes, it is.

00:38:00 Jennifer Giuliani: And I found out you don't have to be vegan to eat the vegan food.

00:38:04 John Daub: I know. It's just the vegan foods. The vegan people can't eat the meat foods. But the meat people can go across. They can serve every food, every food level, right? If you can eat meat, then you can serve the vegetable world.

00:38:13 Jennifer Giuliani: I can serve every world, the cuisine world. There's no holds barred. You know, I've made Bolognese. I made Bolognese before replacing the meat with tofu, a tofu base. Seriously, my friends were like, you changed the recipe. It's super good. They didn't notice there was no meat in there.

00:38:32 John Daub: Did you do an episode on this on the Jennifer Julian Eat Feed Jennifer channel?

00:38:40 Jennifer Giuliani: No, I should.

00:38:41 John Daub: I know. You should. I know. I have, there are so many things I'd love to do, but I lack time. Because I have, I work. So you know.

00:38:49 Jennifer Giuliani: She works. She's a working woman. I'm a YouTuber.

00:38:53 John Daub: She's a, you're still mostly not a YouTuber. You're a food, food critic.

00:38:58 Jennifer Giuliani: I'm in the food and wine business.

00:39:01 John Daub: Food and wine business. Oh, I have a present for you.

00:39:07 Jennifer Giuliani: Oh, really? About that. Yeah.

00:39:12 John Daub: Check out that. Oh, thank you. That tractor trailer. They got the attention of these ladies. Like, I don't know what that's supposed to be.

00:39:28 John Daub: You got a present? Yeah. Because I'm a food producer, as you know. And I have... The internet's breaking down and yelling wine. Shorty goes wine.

00:39:34 John Daub: What do you think it is?

00:39:36 Jennifer Giuliani: I have my brand. Shorty, I totally, I'm not, I can't drink it. You know that I have my own brand in Caldi's stores.

00:40:01 John Daub: Oh yeah. Do you guys, do you guys know Caldi? Caldi is these chains of stores all around the country. All around Tokyo. Yeah. They have 450 stores. This is the canary or matcha, matcha canary.

00:40:26 Jennifer Giuliani: Oh, it's so moist. So you can have this with the canary. It's, they sell this, uh, what? It's frozen.

00:40:37 John Daub: It's so cold. It's frozen, so eat it.

00:40:39 Jennifer Giuliani: Yeah. Okay. I, I, you did cook me. And no, it's for you.

00:40:47 John Daub: Oh, all of them?

00:40:48 Jennifer Giuliani: Yeah, of course.

00:40:48 John Daub: You, I, should I give them to Kanae?

00:40:49 Jennifer Giuliani: Yeah, of course.

00:40:50 John Daub: Can I just eat them myself on the train?

00:40:51 Jennifer Giuliani: Of course not.

00:40:52 John Daub: Of course not. You have your force. You have your force. You have your force. This is so, yes.

00:41:02 Jennifer Giuliani: Did you put a chip, an icy chip in here so you know if I've eaten them? So.

00:41:08 John Daub: Oh, can I definitely watching this? To make sure you will buy me some champagne next time.

00:41:18 Jennifer Giuliani: Yeah.

00:41:18 John Daub: Absolutely. Absolutely. Well, Jennifer, it was great to see you. Thank you so much. Merci beaucoup. Bisous. It's the French thing. See you guys. À bientôt.

00:41:32 Jennifer Giuliani: À bientôt. Bisous.

00:41:32 John Daub: Bisous. Oh my God. Bye. Bisous. Take care. Bisous. It was nice. Bye bye.

00:41:50 Jennifer Giuliani: Bye bye.

00:41:51 John Daub: Bye.

00:41:52 Jennifer Giuliani: Oh, my goodness.

00:41:53 John Daub: She's on my shoulder. We're stalking her.

00:42:02 John Daub: Well, that was a lot of fun. I'm glad that we could share a little bit of time with Jennifer. We just spent like three hours filming a main channel episode on sushi go around at the shop, we got permission to go in there, film and I'm making a story about it. So that should be a lot of fun. Probably take a couple of... couple of weeks to edit that this is one of the first ones where I have an external person editing helping me to edit it so we're going to have a lot more video content on the main channel so I'm making my way into... keep a good station I'm going to be getting on to the Yurakucho Line so let's just take a little bit more time and walk in towards the... we're not sure line and we can see how this all works because we've taken you to the Sunshine City and then check out the smoking area it is so crowded filled the smokers but they have these walls here to keep the smoke in very smart idea alright so let's get inside of a cable... code station try to find how to get on to the Metro and this will give you a little bit more orientation into the Ikebukuro station so when you do come here you'll be able to navigate a little bit further than just to the Sunshine 60 Street all right if you do meet a friend here and you say hey I'm going to the Sunshine City and I'm going to the Sunshine City you can say I want to meet you in front of the Ikebukuro station make sure you tell them this information do you see in front of me there is a statue so you tell them you're meeting in front of the hand the hand of hand of this strange hand it's very famous it's a weird statue but you can say I'll meet you in front of the hand all right I don't know if that helps you it doesn't help me yeah or the Becker's coffee say I'll meet you in front of the this is the last place that I saw Kevin Cooney actually right there Becker's Cafe little interesting side notes before we went back to the United States all right let's go down and deep we're going in towards the modern uchi line so this is a little bit extra definitely hit that like button if you're having fun and you like taking a look at these Japanese stations your like is like gasoline to these livestreams and we're we're running out of gas here so we should be like 400 likes come on all right so let's go wow they got some um they got some takoyaki going on here behind these very um greasy windows looks good gintaki one of the chains that was that was creep that was so creepy I'm like what is that scratching on my shoulder dude you took a short cut it's a long cut oh my word she's a stalker you banned I didn't say that van josh did you thought I was at the love hotel well it's a little bit creepy when you go to go by yourself to a love hotel yeah it's that was yeah I guess that was a good one I realized thanks Billy I didn't want to go to have anything I just want to go back home and I said hey if I take this one I will probably meet you yeah you took the shortcut you went underground right yeah we crossed the street the old-fashioned way look at this one plus one is two really yes she proved it all right so this is where JR's north gate is and if you look up here underground usually you don't get you can you don't get lost if you know at least metropolitan and west exit and then the north gate is right here for JR but we're going towards the subways and they're all kind of in the same area yurakucho line marunouchi line and and fukutoshin line which which line are you taking I'm going to yurakucho the tobu first a tobu yeah because I want to buy some organic vegetables and fruits so I'm going to the metropolitan oh yeah this is the um the oh see you later bye bye number two bye bye number two ciao she wasn't stalking she was really gonna leave us okay so anyway I'm going to stop here because you know these these are these sandwiches that I introduced in the Japan Sandwich show they've got like a thousand varieties of sandwich packs white bread and in between the white bread is some filling and then they kind of like clamp them together and it's kind of fun my mom likes the egg salad sandwiches snack pack right nosh snack packs that was funny I was like what's what's that's on my shoulder I turn around and it's Jennifer what I knew she wasn't going to go to a love hotel herself she was just teasing us um that looks like karaage that looks really good i love the fact when you go to the japanese station inside of the stations in japan you'll find a bunch of of food that you can just buy and take home with you and at the end of the day like right now that could be a lot of people's dinner so people will buy a sack of food at the station for dinner it's a good it's a good idea oh there's an anderson bakery in here you can smell it you know stations smell great even in the summer when everyone's got bo it still smells pretty good it's a good mix of bo and bread ramen that's a tobu line so this is where tobu toji tojo line is but um all right i want to go this way ikebukuro this is from simon ikebukuro is is my favorite area in tokyo i lived around ikebukuro west exit when i visited tokyo last year yeah ikebukuro is i worked on the other side of the station for about four three years working for an english school as a part-time job before my company started to take off a little bit and uh yeah ikebukuro is it's got a lot of it's got a nice vibe to it and what i like about it is if you compare ikebukuro to shinjuku ikebukuro has seems to have like everything but it's more compact so i like that aspect of it david kimura thank you for chipping in i'm gonna get something for kanai when i get home she shouldn't have to cook tonight mr minute is that's in the united states too right where you make keys and stuff i think mr minute is everywhere they fix shoes and and make keys eddie writes it the next person that taps you on the shoulder is going to get throat punched i don't think i don't think i'll take it that far they'll definitely get a mean look wow mr minutes in new zealand as well i think it's like one of these global chains that just sneaks up sneaks up on you like jennifer they're everywhere but you don't realize it all right we're heading towards the um yurakucho line go straight once again oh look at that pizza definitely a young area the students rule here pizza cake sweets nice that's why people like ikebukuro it's also probably besides jiogaoka it's like the sweets paradise of tokyo all right we're almost there our goal is yurakucho line ah we're going across traffic that was rough do you see do you see where i walked by everyone was exiting and going into the other line so sometimes it can be a little bit challenging because you have to fight traffic and whenever you have to cross a stream of people you just have to put your head down and just push through it it's the only way to get through definitely hit that like button i can't believe we're short come on we're short of 300 that's so weak totally should be like 400 or something well you don't like ikebukuro forget don't push the like button for me push the like button for ikebukuro give it their respect it deserves it they are low low ceilings they've been working on this for a while um the station has there's always been like little construction bits and pieces but i think i think after the olympics they'll probably start renovating ikebukuro station it's so crap it's so crowded in traffic that it's hard to do any renovations here without disrupting too much all right here we are this is where this is also um the east exit right here it's pretty busy i'll let this soak in for a minute they have some kind of fair going on where they're selling things summer is here once again yukatas are everyone's buying their summer yukata now if you get in early you can you can have them tailor-made but it's about at the end it won't be ready in time for all the fireworks displays you have to start doing it in june i tried one year to get a yukata cotton kimono tailor-made and they wouldn't do it they wouldn't be finished until september and i'd asked two weeks before okay there we go irakucho line is right here boom for those of you who are curious about where ikebukuro is it's up here it's up on one of the corners this is the yamanote line which goes around the entire city of tokyo so you can see with the um imperial palace in the center ikebukuro is up here it's on the uh northwest side and tokyo station's right here so it's a little bit further shinjuku's right here shibuya's right here ginza's right here right and askus is right here and those make up like the big five zones that go around the yamanote line it's pretty interesting so there you go ikebukuro station in a nutshell from the station to the sunshine's 60 building back to the station back to jennifer's solo love hotel and now to the yurakucho line thanks everybody for watching if you have any questions as always leave your questions in the comments below i really appreciate it click that like button for watching oh i'm getting body checked because i got a massive camera bag um yeah so i'll see you the next livestream there's a main channel episode being released tonight on the only japan channel it's uh kochi street food market it's gonna be a lot of fun i'll see you next time last 20 seconds watching people go into the yurakucho live because i don't have anything to say about it better to show you have a good day good night everybody

00:53:30 John Daub: [End of stream]