00:00:00 John Daub: Greetings everybody! Hello everybody! That in the distance is Tokyo Tower. Let me give you a better view of it from here. We are about to take the monorail to Haneda Airport, Tokyo Tower in the distance. That means we are in Hamamatsucho. Hamamatsucho is right there. It's a JR station in the distance, you can see.

00:00:17 John Daub: And this would be the main port if you're thinking of going to Haneda Airport by monorail. Joining me on this report is a woman who needs no introduction at all. That's Kanae Daub.

00:00:38 John Daub: Now, to get from the Oedo Line, we take the Oedo Line, you can also take the JR Line here and get to the monorail. It's kind of a pain in the neck because there are stairs involved. It's not so easy. Is it your first time, Kanae?

00:00:51 Kanae Daub: I use the Asakusa Line.

00:00:52 John Daub: That's right. She uses the Asakusa Line. There's more than one way to get to Haneda Airport. Probably the most convenient way. The most convenient way would be bus, to be honest with you. No, no, no. I take that back. Taxi. Taxi.

00:01:08 John Daub: Alright, this is what we're talking about here. It's kind of confusing, isn't it? So, you come out of Hamamatsucho Station. There's the Yamanote Line going by. And you have to walk around through this underpass here and the signs are really poorly marked. Don't skate. I know. Is there another monorail entrance? I don't think so either.

00:01:33 John Daub: That blue sign in the center of your screen is the Tokyo Monorail. You know what? Alright, listen. When you get on at Haneda Airport to come to Hamamatsucho, it's so easy. But when you go from Tokyo to get to the monorail, it's kind of complicated. And you're going to see in this live stream what we're talking about. Go ahead, Kanae. I'm already winded.

00:01:55 Kanae Daub: Please go ahead.

00:01:56 John Daub: Yeah, I told her to go first. Ladies first. Yeah, this way. So, we're going to take you there from the entrance all the way to the platform and the train. Tokyo Monorail. Here's the map. Oh, it's closed now. So, you can only take this entrance. Alright, let's do it. Thanks for joining us, everybody.

00:02:31 John Daub: Oh, there's an elevator. You take the elevator. I'm taking the stairs. Okay? Alright, you take the elevator. No, no, no. You're going to take this? No, no. I got it. I'm going to carry this. I like it the hard way. There's the monorail upstairs. Let's see who wins.

00:02:57 John Daub: I don't like elevators. I honestly don't like elevators. There's Kanae. Alright, lockers. Mark. So, I'm taking you up there right now. Get all the exercise that you can before you board a four-hour flight. We're going to Beijing, China right now. So, we need to get to Haneda. We're about two hours and thirty minutes before the flight.

00:03:26 John Daub: Going through security in Japan is pretty easy. You don't need as much time as you do in the United States. You don't have to get there four hours in advance. Two hours is... I win! Ha ha ha! I win! Dun dun dun dun dun! Where is she? I guess she'd be coming from this elevator here.

00:03:53 John Daub: Alright, let me just show you right now. Here's the station. And you can see right on the floor, it's so easily marked, isn't it? We don't need tickets because we have Suica or Icoca or any IC card is enough for you to swipe in and get there.

00:04:23 John Daub: Alright, let's take a look at the fares. If you don't have one of these, this is what you have to pay. We're starting from Hamamatsucho Station. And it takes a little while to get there. Sorry about the flickering. The voltage frequency here is a little bit unusual. To Haneda Airport. It's about 500 yen, about $5. Half price for students. So it'll be about $2.50. A little bit less than $5.

00:04:51 John Daub: It's very easy because they have English. Ah! My depth perception was bad. Cancel. That took a long time! English. There you go. Everything changes into English. It's pretty easy. If you want to transfer to the Yamanote Line or one of the other lines. We're going the other way. But you can get a ticket to go there. Or even charge your IC card if you want to. Put your Suica in here. It's very convenient.

00:05:19 Kanae Daub: Yeah.

00:05:19 John Daub: Yeah, but I'm sweatier than you. I'm sweating a lot. Oh, is that our... Is that the train? Alright, no more dilly-dallying around. Let's get into the monorail.

00:05:33 John Daub: Alright, the train just came. Let's swipe through. Here you go. People are in a hurry. We've got to stay out of their way. There's one every 10 minutes about. So we've got a little bit of time. That guy's in a hurry. Did you see him? He's trucking. Alright, stand on the left side. And let people walk up on the right.

00:06:10 John Daub: Alright, when you go with an IC card, it automatically charges it for you. It's really easy to get in on the trains. Alright, this is cool. We're going to now see the monorail. The signal is going to be on the left side. The signal kind of died on the escalator. You can see the next train is the express. There's fewer stops. That is departing at 1152. So we have four minutes to bring you some monorail goodness.

00:06:35 John Daub: Now again, we're up above on the platform. Kanae is waiting there. Alright, you don't want to sit at the ends? That's okay. Alright, let's sit here. So we're going to see the monorail coming in. It's pretty exciting stuff. I like it.

00:06:55 John Daub: It's so hot in Tokyo right now. It's like 35, 36 degrees, which is almost... We're getting up to 90 today. And the humidity is like 75, 80%. Alright, there's something that I want to point out. With regards to the trains leaving from Tokyo, there's a first and a second train. So if you want to get on the train, which is a local, maybe you would check the board up here. See which one is the next train leaving. Alright, wow, it's even in Korean right there.

00:07:23 John Daub: And then you'll get into the line for the next train. After everybody boards the train, those in the second line will move over to the first line. So you don't lose the order of your line. And it keeps everything very neat and nobody gets angry. I love those eggs. Do you see those? The goma tamago (black sesame eggs). So good. Probably see that at the airport.

00:07:49 John Daub: Oh, here it comes. Monorail, monorail. M-O-N-O-R-A-I-L. That doesn't sound as good. Monorail, monorail. M-O-N-O-R-A-I-L. R-A-I-L. The Narita has the Narita Express. This is called the Haneda Express. Ah, it's so nice. Let us board.

00:08:20 John Daub: This is often also very, very crowded. It looks like we're not going to get a chance to sit down. We're not going to get a chance to sit down. We're going to be stuck standing. Welcome to Tokyo. You have to love it. Love your neighbors. I think everyone's going to Haneda Airport too. Oh, that guy with the fan looks like he's going to have a great time. Nani?

00:09:09 John Daub: There's a spot over there for luggage. Ah, we lost it. So what do we do? I'm just going to... Is that stable? I don't know what else to do. Alright, Kanae. Grab on hold of something. We're on the monorail. M-O-N-O-R-A-I-L. M-O-N-O-R-A-I-L. There, we got it.

00:10:02 John Daub: By the way, thank you to Samuel very much. I appreciate that. And trekkers, por favor, manghegase alejado de la puertas. I'm not sure what that even means. She looks happy. That's good for me. Ah, it's awesome. We're above ground. Check it out.

00:10:28 John Daub: So it's going to take about 20, 25 minutes to get from Hamamatsucho to Haneda Airport. So if you're in a rush and you think that a taxi might be the best answer, I want to point out that the taxis often will bump into traffic during the afternoon and it could take even longer. So monorail is the best way. But there's a caveat here. I'm going to say that I prefer the Asakusa Line, which also becomes the Keikyu Line. Keikyu Line, right? Asakusa Line, Keikyu Line.

00:10:59 John Daub: I prefer the Asakusa Line, which is the subway line that connects Narita to Haneda. It's a little bit faster, I think, and you don't have to climb all the stairs and go up and down like crazy. But that's just me. Hey, there's the Yamanote Line from above. Kanae, the Yamanote Line is going right through you. Pretty cool.

00:11:34 John Daub: Advertisement. What's that advertisement behind you? What's this sign? What's the sign? The geisha. Chicken? Oh, it's an ad for chicken. Because she's eating chicken. That's awesome. That's pretty awesome. I'm getting hungry.

00:11:59 John Daub: Actually, we wanted to bring this to share the experience of the monorail with you during the afternoon. Because not a lot of videos have been done on it like this, from A to B. I think it's kind of neat. And then when we get to Haneda Airport, we're going to check in. And if there's time, we're going to do a restaurant date, which is something we promised people about two weeks ago when we went to the United States. Now we're going to China. And if there's time, we're going to go to China. If there's no time, we're going to go get some ramen. Oh, another monorail is passing. Very cool. It's pretty neat.

00:12:30 John Daub: Let me see if I can come over and see from the window. Tokyo rolling by. You can get pretty neat views of Tokyo Tower, but at the beginning of it, once you get past there, you start into Tennozu Isle and some of the new lands of Tokyo, reclaimed land. But it is nice. We're passing Shinagawa area right now. There's a park that I showed about. I went to the park for the new station of Shinagawa last year, and the construction of the new Yamanote line is going pretty well. Looks like they're ahead of schedule with that too, just like a lot of the construction for the Tokyo Olympics.

00:13:21 John Daub: Hey, Jimbo, something to get drinks? Looking pretty hot there. Jimbo, you have no idea. I'm melting. I'm melting. Look at this. And my friends in China told me that it was even hotter, but I think they're just bragging. I don't know. Is that bragging? Like, it's hotter? Yeah. It's hotter than the hot water in China, but I'm looking forward to that.

00:13:49 John Daub: I'm going there too. Every year I emcee the Asia Spelling Cup, which is a spelling bee for kids in the Asia region. Nobody from Japan actually takes part in it. It's Malaysia, Indonesia, Singapore, China, and Thailand. And I think we have some people from Vietnam as well, but this time I'm just going to China for the semifinals. So I'm looking forward to this. Hey, JJersey girl. Do a video on Japan's Airbnb rules. That's actually a really good topic because Airbnb has changed a lot over the last couple of years. It's sort of different in Japan, isn't it? All right. I'll see what I can do when I get back to Japan with that one. Good suggestion.

00:14:34 John Daub: See what I mean? That's a taxi. We just totally passed a taxi. We are trucking. Look at this. Imagine somebody rushing to get to the airport and they see the monorail pass them. That would really stink.

00:14:50 John Daub: Hey, Francis. Francis here. Met you last year in Singapore during a trip to the competition at Sentosa. Yeah, I remember that. We had a hundred over. It seemed like over a hundred people turn up to the meetup in Singapore after I'd emceed the event for the Asia Spelling Cup. That was pretty cool. All right.

00:15:13 John Daub: On this side of the train, you can see the port. This is towards Tokyo Bay. And we're getting closer and closer to the airport. Hey, chef. Make a monorail. Chef writes in, make a monorail song. I tried. I'm just. I've my nouns and verbs are just not working well today.

00:15:38 John Daub: Can I spend studying Chinese? She wants to order ramen and gyoza in Beijing in the native language because she loves ramen and gyoza. So we're going to try Chinese ramen and gyoza and see if it's better than in Japan because ramen came from China. So it's going to be pretty interesting to compare the two.

00:15:56 John Daub: This is kind of boring. So I told Kanae to sit in the front, but she picked the middle. My no. I'm not sure if I should. This is how she knows. Next time. Next time we'll be able to. We'll ride the front. This side is the you can see the homes and the buildings and the people live on the side of Tokyo. It's kind of a nice place. Fresh air coming off of the sea. The monorail is pretty long. The doors are open. So there's a breeze that goes through the train.

00:16:37 John Daub: Hey, Alex. Thank you. That guy does not look happy. Google Day. Hi guy. Ginko. So he's complaining. At the airport about the banks. The international banks aren't available at the airport. LD, you made it. Azi Mandias is in the house. I see some some familiar faces. It's great to see y'all. Thanks for joining us on this trip to Haneda Airport by monorail.

00:17:27 John Daub: It's a little bit bumpier than the Asakusa line, but it is the one thing I like about the monorail is that it is above ground. It gives you a nice view of the city. So if you're coming from Haneda into Tokyo, this is probably the best route, I think. But going back to Haneda. I prefer the Asakusa line because it's straight. It's just faster and smoother.

00:17:47 John Daub: Now you can see in the reflection the train going by the station. This is an express train. It only has three stops. Kanae knows because... Hey, Nathan. Kanae knows. Let's see. Come over here. When we get to China, she's not going to be able to contact anybody because Facebook and Line and all of the social media is banned over there. That just kind of like... Blacked out. Blacklisted. So this is the last chance for her to say goodbye to her sister. Four days. There's no Line in China. What should we do? Are you okay?

00:18:33 John Daub: Oh, look at that. Monorail had a manga on the side of it. Did you see that? Like anime characters. One of them was a wrapping... Anime wrapping train. Hey, David. Thank you. We're going to use that for lunch. Hey, David gave us some lunch money. David gave us lunch money. She's embarrassed. She's embarrassed because you're not supposed to really be live streaming on a train, but I have... Oh, there's the highway. But I have very little... Oh, yeah. I have to keep it really low. Try not to be disruptive on the train.

00:19:14 John Daub: Yeah, Kanae can use a VPN and I have one, but there's not one on her phone and we didn't have time to install it. We thought about this on the train over... We're back. All right. So we're about halfway now. So we're about halfway. It's neat that the markers allow you to see where you are on the course. But we'll be stopping at the international terminal and I believe that's where we get to. International, right?

00:19:50 Kanae Daub: International.

00:19:50 John Daub: Yeah. So we're the next ones on there. Hey, ZATO71, nice to see you again. Thank you. So there you go. That's our top, the Haneda International Terminal. But the train's jostling a lot back and forth. Terminal in the distance, do you see the control tower? Get your hands off my chicken. Thank you. Next stop, Haneda Kuko.

00:20:45 John Daub: Asakura Whiskey. Nice. For passengers using the international train, please get off here. Thank you. All right. So this is the airport. You can see the Tokyo Skytree and it's so small. But we're really out here now. There's a Qantas airline on the left and the city of Tokyo. We will see the terminal. The doors on the left side will be... Yes, tunnels are our worst enemy. There's the buses there. You see the buses? They're very convenient.

00:21:31 John Daub: And I would say that if you've got a lot of luggage and a family, a bus might be the best way to go because you can keep everybody together. And yeah, I prefer the buses. But often I will take a taxi if I need to get somewhere really fast. I believe we're going Air China, the national carrier in China.

00:21:59 John Daub: All right, we're getting off now. There you go. That's the monorail experience. It was a lot of fun. Did you enjoy?

00:22:25 Kanae Daub: Yeah.

00:22:26 John Daub: Yeah? Five dollars gets you to the international terminal. And there we are. You know, we should take another screenshot, shouldn't we? Because we should take another screenshot because the one was actually of the Oedo subway line, not the monorail. All right, we did it. Let me... There goes the monorail in the background. And we're going to check out here and get into the international terminal. Haneda Airport International Terminal. I hope this is the one. Hey, Ramsey's silent because I wanted to see Kanae eating ramen. Just one stop. Right. From the international terminal to here, just one stop. Very convenient.

00:23:15 John Daub: Oh, there are those eggs again. I sent these out to our Patreon daimyo. Goma tamago. Yeah. All right. Let's get in here. This is... It's a lot easier to get into the international terminal. Now, once you get here, it's pretty easy ride, but from Tokyo, it's not that easy. There we go. Dozo. I follow your lead, your majesty. I've got to fulfill the promise to Ramsey's silent. Touch, exit. Boom. Welcome to the Haneda International Terminal.

00:24:03 John Daub: All departures are straight ahead. How convenient. Those coming the other way can get your tickets right here. This is what the entrance looks like. And as you saw, the process is the same except backwards. Got it? Good. It's nice and cool in here. My biggest problem with the monorail, though, and changing lines, is it's so crowded sometimes. And it's so popular to take the monorail.

00:24:43 John Daub: You know, the Asakusa line, which turns into the Keikyu line, might be like a dollar more expensive. I don't know. But I think it's a little bit smoother of a ride. What do you think?

00:24:52 Kanae Daub: You like Asakusa line?

00:24:54 John Daub: Yeah. Yeah, she does. She does. Monorail is nice, too. Monorail is nice, too. Where's Air China? Oh, there it is. Over here. Well, that's it, everybody. If we have some time, we're going to go over here. Check it out. Just up here. And there's some restaurants. We were here about... I don't know, 10 days ago? A little bit more than 10 days ago? Two weeks ago? And we're back again. And if we have some time, we're going to go get some ramen on a little lunch date. If not, we're going to do it on the way back. So, see you then, everybody. Bye from Haneda Airport. Hit that like if you want to see more. No, seriously. Hit the like if you want to see more. I'll check back later.