00:00:00 John Daub: Everybody, that is the live view of Shibuya from the backside. You can see it in the center of your screen just above the Yamanote line which pulled in. Hachiko Scramble! And everyone is now crossing the street, about 10,000 people so they say.

00:00:23 John Daub: Hey, how you doing everybody? So right now I'm in the Shibuya Hikari-e building. Hikari-e is across the street from Shibuya Station which has been newly renovated. We're going to go upstairs and take a look at the amazing view that they have from the 11th floor sky lounge. I think it's something that if you do come here, that Starbucks across the street might not have the best view anymore. It might actually be here. So let's go take a look.

00:01:01 John Daub: I love this time of day as well when the sun has set. Now we've got an overcast sky and actually the rain has started to come down a little bit but you still get a pretty nice view. We're one floor higher so the view is a little bit different. What's most impressive is not the crossing but take a look inside the station. Do you see how many people are now exiting Shibuya Station? It's crazy. This is the Shibuya Hikari-e building. Every train that comes in and drops off passengers, thousands and thousands come here to change trains. Shibuya is one of the most popular changes for commuters.

00:01:38 John Daub: Alright, so we're going to go up one more floor, which is pretty neat. Yeah, I've been here in this building, Shibuya Hikari-e, many times and this building's actually been around for a few years now, more like six or seven years. It was being constructed when I first started Only in Japan and now it's done. Oh we got one more big escalator to get to. This is the 11th floor of Hikari-e and this will be the sky lounge and it's free for everybody to use. There's Shibuya there as we go up and I like this place. It's kind of a secret place that I should introduce to nobody and I bet you there's some locals like why are you introducing this, how dare you introduce this secret location. How could I not? You got to know some of these places. It's a good place to escape. Shibuya is such a crowded place, it's not one of my favorites as I told Paulo who lives here in Shibuya. I don't really dig Shibuya but I do dig this spot. The 11th floor was pretty nice. It gives you a place here where you can set up a laptop and maybe get some work done. It's quiet. There's a model of the area which I'm going to show you really quickly right now.

00:03:26 John Daub: And I'm going to take you back and show you the night view. Check it out, so this is the new Shibuya Station, what it looks like. Pretty impressive, this is a big change from what Shibuya used to look like. Where are we? We're in here right here on this side. You can see the Hikari-e building right there and these buildings that are lit up you're gonna be able to see this from this floor, the brand new buildings that are around Shibuya Station. If you haven't been to Tokyo in a few years you're gonna be surprised when you come to Shibuya Station, it looks completely different. Thank you Fang off very much appreciated. Here's on the other side a model of the construction that's been going on. I guess they did it in Legos, that's the way I would have done it too. Very cool, this should be a fun project. Now that's a Shibuya I can get behind.

00:04:35 John Daub: They have on the 11th floor here some places where you can sit. Very very few places have a free sitting area. They were waving, I'd wave to if somebody had a livestream camera going on. I've seen a lot of models take pictures, the cameraman will come here and the girl will sit in the corner there and get some pictures of the skyline. Alright before we go and look where the guy is because you know the guy's there, we're gonna look over this way and what you see here in the distance is Shinjuku. It looks a little bit better when you have a purple sky or any sky but right now it's a cloudy sky so that is Shinjuku. You can walk there in about 40 minutes from Shibuya, it's pretty neat view from this point and the best thing is that's free. I didn't pay anything come up here. I feel like I should buy something, I feel a little bit guilty. Nah, I'm just gonna enjoy the view.

00:05:57 John Daub: I come here if I want to meet with somebody because it's a place that you can kind of stand. Hana was helping me in a live shoot and we did data transfer, I gave her some of the files to back up from the shoot and I did it right here because I can't do it on the street but I can do it right here. Somebody else took our spot, we got to sit here for a minute. The best time to visit Shibuya might be at 6:30 p.m. in the summer because that's when the sun is setting and the lights start to come on. The daytime is kind of crowded and hot, there's something about sunset here, there's something magical about when the sun sets.

00:06:47 John Daub: You know, you're going to delete most of those photos, right? Like, you take one and move. Stick and move. Yeah, this is a good time. You see the sky is sort of still illuminated, and the city lights are on. I'd say maybe 15 minutes earlier would have been a good time, which means about 6:30, 6:45 is a really good time in the summer to be here and see the sunset. The best is when you get all of the trains coming by, and then you get the people crossing the street at the same time. It's really, really stunning. And then every time a train comes, there's a wave of people. Do you see them all? And now if I look over to the left side, how many pictures can they take?

00:07:57 John Daub: This is the new building. This building was not here two years ago. This building wasn't here a year ago. But now it's one of the tallest buildings in this part of the city. The reason why? They couldn't build any skyscrapers here. Oh, we got it, we got it. They gave it to us. We have the corner. Boom. I proclaim this corner in the name of Only in Japan. Let there be a lesson to all of you young people. One day you will leave, and I will reclaim my land once again. All right, enough of that. There you have the train going by. This is what I'm talking about. Our corner. That's right. Sudaru. You have that right. In about 20 seconds. No, five seconds. We're going to have the train crossing with a bazillion people. There we go. The time has started. They have 45 seconds to cross that street because the signal pattern is 45 seconds cross and 90 seconds traffic for cars. So let's see if we get any runners. There's always some person who wants to take a picture. And the light has turned red and cars start rushing towards them. That always happens at every crossing. Who's it going to be this time?

00:09:21 John Daub: It really is a beautiful view. Look at how dirty this window is. I apologize, it's awful. Hikari-e here has one of the best views of Shibuya. I would say of all the places. Everybody goes to that Starbucks above there. I got to tell you this is better. There's that one person. Look, somebody's riding a bicycle. Or is that a motorcycle? That'd be okay for the motorcycle. I've seen people get hit in the intersection and there's a police station nearby so they act pretty quickly when somebody gets hit or there's some close calls. I've seen pedestrians crossing get stopped by police for being too late as well. So they're very, very proactive now after somebody, a YouTuber had gotten in trouble making a video in the center disturbing traffic. So you don't want to do that anymore. Just be quite careful.

00:10:14 John Daub: So on the left side as I showed you earlier, this is the new building. And if you even go a little bit further, there's two of them. This one and then that one right there. And this was not here a year and a half ago. So for everybody who is coming to Japan, to Tokyo for a long hiatus, has not been here for a while, is going to be a little bit surprised at Shibuya. And it's almost finished. This is the crossway that crosses from the station to Hikari-e. So Fu wasn't in Tokyo since two years, you are going to be surprised, my friend Fu, because it's a completely different experience.

00:10:53 John Daub: I'm now going to go down to the first floor and we're going to take a really quick look at Hachiko Scramble at night and show you what it looks like from ground level. But I just wanted to get one last view, one last look of Shibuya from here. Again, this is my favorite spot. If you have a zoom lens you can zoom past it and you get the trains going by with the people crossing right.

00:11:29 John Daub: We're now heading back down. Next week is going to be one year until the Olympics and these Johnny's singers are going to be singing at the stadium on the 24th for NHK. So that's kind of a neat little announcement. All right, let's get out of Hikari-e and go down to the first floor. Stick with me everybody. Hit that like button while we're in transit right now. We're on our way down, street level. Let's see if we can get 200 likes by street level. You know you want to. 300. Oh, Sudaru. Sudaru is going to challenge to 300 likes. I like the way you think.

00:12:21 John Daub: This would be an amazing place to eat. You have that entire window with your dinner. I've taken the elevator now so it's up to you guys. If we do not get the 300 likes I will not take you onto the street. How dare I ask such a huge task. But no seriously, audience participation. Sometimes live streaming can be a real hassle. Never know what's going to happen. You have to deal with it as it comes. You must learn how to deal with the problems immediately because we have a nice audience here. I'm right now going down to street level here so bear with me. I'm waiting for the elevator. If you keep pushing the button I heard it comes faster. Somebody said if you push it a hundred times it speeds up and the people inside will get freaked out. See, look it, it worked. So we might lose signal for a second. Just bear with me.

00:15:21 John Daub: Let's get out of here. Welcome, thank you for bearing with me. Now this is the walkway that I showed you about five minutes ago that has been completely done and it's really nice now. Before it looked like a construction zone. Now it looks like what it should, a really nice walkway from Hikari-e building to Shibuya Station and that's where we're headed right now. I'm going to be taking you to Hachiko Scramble where we can enjoy a really nice night view that we were looking at about five minutes ago from the top of Hikari-e. This is nice, it's really starting to come together and I can feel the progress, the culmination of it all as next week we celebrate one year until the Olympics here in Tokyo. I'm getting the entire world looking at our wonderful city. I think Peter von Gomm should be the voice of the Olympics. That'd be pretty cool. PBG was in the stadium.

00:17:01 John Daub: I don't need any more energy. I got more energy than this whole city. Am I going the right way? Actually I'm not. Alright, let's go back down. My trash talk is not very good. I gotta do a better job trash talking. I got more energy than the entire Shibuya Station. I can take you on Shibuya, you and your little energy. You got energy too. Can you stay up all night and edit a video? We're on the way down now, bear with me. I'm actually holding a big bag so we're going to do it. I have no patience so I usually take the express lane. You guys with me? So we've gone underground actually. That's not where I wanted to go. Big mistake right there. Either way, you're getting a chance to see the entire Shibuya. We're trying to make our way to any exit now because as many times as I've been here, I also know that you can get lost inside the underground. Landmarks have changed. Just get me out of here. Exit 10, 12, whatever. 9. I'll take it. Whatever's closest. Exit 9. I'll walk up the stairs.

00:19:33 John Daub: This reminds me of the Hiroshima Station livestream where I was taking like 20 kilograms of presents back to Tokyo. The great thing is you can see the lights as we walk up the stairs. You're starting to get the entire... Oh my. We're back up. Shibuya summer. The summer in Japan has hit us now and it's just like a sauna right now. They're about 78 to 80 degrees Fahrenheit, like room temperature. Now it's a sauna. Just you walk outside and you start sweating. This is great because I showed you from the Hikari-e building about 12 minutes ago the view of Hachiko Scramble and now we're going to be doing it from ground level.

00:20:42 John Daub: Thanks for those people that are sticking with it despite the fact that our signal cuts in and out. We're not going underneath the Yamanote line, usually can get quite loud. Right now it's not too bad because the trains aren't there yet. And here we are. Right now there's a bazillion people crossing. Boom. We didn't get the 300 likes. I should have thought that was quite a challenge, I think. But we have made it. It's nice huh, the energy here. It's like going into an electronic store, going into Best Buy or something in the TV section and they turn every TV on high. That's Shibuya's Hachiko Scramble and there's more TVs now than there were three years ago. They just find a way to make every billboard a TV now.

00:21:55 John Daub: Alright check it out, I'm gonna do a little pan job here, panorama of everything going on these days on Hachiko Scramble. I do apologize if your signal is not good, you want to push the refresh button. Yeah it's always gonna be really hard. The downside to live streaming on Hunch go is that you will never get a really good signal. This is too many people with cell phones here, it's 5G would really solve this problem. So we might have that this month, some people said that there's gonna be a 5G tower here. Everybody stops to get a photo. Lesson learned: do not try to live stream in Shibuya, it just does not work. It's a shame though, I thought that we would be able to pull this off. I've been in crowded places and we've been able to pull it off.

00:23:33 John Daub: Anyways that's ground level now. From above we were there, for those watching in Minecraft this does three pics from the center of your screen above that sign is where we were. We were up there and now we're down here and it's pretty neat though to come now full circle. Boom we're seeing ground level and that's where we were up there and that cut a building, there's the big window. Hope you had fun thank you. It's starting to rain here so I'm gonna make my way inside. We're back again, the signal strength isn't very good, I apologize for that. Tomorrow I plan on doing another live stream around 2 p.m. Japan time. We're gonna have a special guest, another YouTuber who I've been trying to meet for a couple of times. You will be able to get a reminder on it but tomorrow at 2 p.m. Japan time I'll see you then everybody. There will be a better connection to the video. It's just that we have a bazillion people as I told you, crowded places are never gonna be good. You see all those pixels walking around, those are actually people. Okay those are actually people in the Minecraft world so there you go. I don't apologize, I take my sorry back, it's not my fault. But I still want to thank you so much for watching this live stream. I'll be back tomorrow 2 p.m. Have a good day, enjoy your morning America. Pixels over and out.