00:00:02 John Daub: Hello and welcome everybody. Greetings from Hibiya Park. This is Tokyo on a lovely September evening and I'm here at a night food festival, a night market. There's the fountain from the famous Hibiya Park.

00:00:17 John Daub: I wanted to share with you a little bit of this experience because I promised this in our last episode, our Kit Kat episode. Mr. Das, here is your Asahi, my friend. I've already bought it. I'm going to show you a little bit around and I had to stake out a table over there. How you doing everybody?

00:00:33 John Daub: So this one place called Schmatz is a place that Peter von Gomm and I went to last year and they make their own sausages here in Japan. Two German guys, entrepreneurs, grew this from an idea where they sold the sausages behind a market in Aoyama to a chain of about 40 stores already. So we're going to go check this out in a little bit, but you can see this is more German themed. I guess it's because October is coming around the corner. Oktoberfest. It's a nice vibe. Next week there's going to be a festival here in Hibiya Park for Japanese Wagyu. But right now it's just kind of a random beer thing. A lot of people drinking outside in the park. You can hear the summer cicadas in the background and there's some music here. It's a nice positive fun vibe.

00:01:17 John Daub: I couldn't find a co-pilot yesterday, so we canceled. I couldn't find a co-pilot tonight. So if you're watching, you are my co-pilot. This place looks really good too. This is American, for the first time they brought in here. There's a beer too. German beer. There's also Hawaii beer. Wow. We'll buy from there and next time we'll go here. Alright, it's very aggressive. But this place here is called Urban Barbecue from America. So you can see I kind of feel a little bit of home just seeing the words America. They got barbecue beef and pork, so we're going to go take a look at this stand here.

00:02:15 John Daub: But first, I'm going to go and celebrate a little bit with you and talk about the night markets. I've already got some food. So let's go to the table that I've staked out. See if anybody else has taken it. I love it though. You hear the water of the fountain behind us. There's a British pub on the other side. There's a bunch of other restaurants here. This is the product of many super chats, everybody. This right here. So let's have a seat and eat a little bit. Welcome.

00:02:55 John Daub: Welcome, everybody. So I wanted to share this experience with all of you out there that can't make it to Japan for this festival. But again, next week, I think I'm going to be coming to the Japanese Wagyu Festival. I went there last year, I think. They have all sorts of Wagyu beef from around Japan in one place here at Hibiya Park. There's also other night markets in Tokyo. There's one behind the UNU, which is the United Nations University in Aoyama. You can go there. And apparently, I don't know if it's every day, but there's a pretty vibrant night market as well as the 246 Commune, which is a place where you can drink outside near Omotesando Station. It's another place I think that a lot of people like to go to, especially guys, expats.

00:03:48 John Daub: Right here, I have a plate of sausages. All of these apparently coming from Germany. Really good. Brats. That's pretty authentic sausage too. It's not the kind I get in the supermarkets here. But this beer is the one in the thumbnail. This is, I believe it's a German brand, Pilsner. And the booth is right here. Check it out. I'm going to break this down for you right there. It almost looks like the Oktoberfest in Germany. They have a lot of the same places that have tents in Munich at the Wiesn, the Oktoberfest.

00:04:54 John Daub: Now this beer right here. Cheers. Mr. Das, that is way better than an Asahi. It's just different. I don't know if it's better. It's just different. If I close my eyes, I can picture myself in Munich right now at the Oktoberfest. But wait, I hear no German. That's all right. This plate of sausages, this plate was 1,000 yen or about $9 for four sausages. And I think that's not a bad deal. And then this beer right here was $15 for one 500 milliliters beer and a 1,000 yen deposit for the glass. So expect to pay a premium when you come to these kinds of events around the city. Because especially if it has imported things, people come here for a mini escape. And I think that's not a bad thing. I think it allows people to travel somewhere just for a night. And you can feel another country in Japan. And that's what it's all about.

00:06:13 John Daub: I think there's also an Oktoberfest. There's a beer, a Belgian beer weekend, I believe that's usually in September at Roppongi Hills. That's really good. Morgan writes in, love this channel so much. I would ever make a video on the American football team. I've been to some universities in Japan that have American football teams. So we might make this a reality. I talked to them a couple of years ago. And last year, I revisited it and see if we can get the schedules to work out. That would be a really interesting episode because American football is not as popular as in America, of course. But I think the NFL and college football is growing worldwide, especially because a lot of people are going to American colleges and bringing back that experience that they had. And from it, clubs have come up about American football. So there's some universities in Tokyo that have a really robust team. Rugby is also one that's really growing in popularity because we have the Rugby World Cup coming this month.

00:07:55 John Daub: We're going to walk around a little bit. I have to finish all these sausages. I'm going to be at this event for the next, I don't know, like 45 minutes. So if you are in Tokyo right now and you're around Hibiya, get here within like 15, 20 minutes and I'll be able to say hi. It's not stalking if I invited you. So, but I'm only going to be here for 45 minutes because I got to skedaddle.

00:09:13 John Daub: Oh, Warren Moore writes in, good evening. I want to move to Japan, but I'm nearly 30. Possible? Absolutely possible, Warren. I didn't get here until I was 24, but a lot of people are coming here. It doesn't really matter the age, but if you want to live in Japan and just, Warren, you have to have a job or an income if you want to live here. You need to get a working visa and some countries under the age of 30, you can get working holiday visas. If you're over the age of 30, you can still get it, but you need to arrange your job in advance. If you can do that, then you'll be able to, you'll be set up by the company. So even if you don't speak Japanese, the company will pretty much take care of you, your apartment, get you settled in, but you're going to have to give a lot of work to that company, right?

00:10:17 John Daub: You can see a lot of people are here looking for tables and if you come here, if I came here right now, all the tables are gone. So I staked this place out like 20 minutes in advance. Sauerkraut. Nice. Welcome. I see some people have joined live streams for the first time. Welcome aboard. I see Nostra Broad is here in the middle of the night. This is the worst possible time to be doing a live stream for everyone in the United States. So yeah. So this is for our people in Deutschland. Prost. Because this is a weird piece of Germany here in Tokyo right now. But it's like, as I said, people come here to escape. It's a little holiday, I guess, when you come in here. But apparently there's a stage over there and there's going to be a performance by beer girls. You can see what that's all about. I guess it's going to be happening soon.

00:11:36 John Daub: You know, I like this white noise. This one is a really very smooth sausage. Like the meat has been really like packed in there, I guess.

00:11:54 Guest: I'm a YouTuber. Mind if we join you?

00:12:00 John Daub: Oh yeah, sure. Um, I'll be here for another 10 minutes or so. I think I'll be here a little longer. I'm actually live streaming to people who can't make it. Cheers.

00:12:50 John Daub: So, uh, after I finished eating the sausage, I'll take you around the festival and show you a little bit more, especially Schmatz because I like the story of Schmatz where a couple of guys had started a sausage business by selling it at a stand behind Aoyama market. And from that they created this mega business where they have 30 or 40 stores all around Japan.

00:13:42 John Daub: Any questions? Jack, Chris is in the house. Find someone there wearing your hose. We'll try. We're going to walk around a couple of times and see what we can find again on the 11th of September starts the Japanese Wagyu Festival here in Hibiya Park. Last year we had like Wagyu sushi. It's pretty weird. It's like raw Wagyu on rice. It was of questionable quality but still good. It's still pretty good. I got three bites left. You guys gotta bear with me. I got three bites. Enjoy the view. I'm gonna eat this real quick.

00:15:12 John Daub: Where is your audience? All around the world. Oh really? Wow. They're just getting a notification so to come on. There's a lot on there now. There's 450 in here right now. My wife is still working so she can't make it but yeah that's enough. This is my job, YouTuber. Yeah. I have another channel. It's 1.2 million subscribers. This one has 150,000. So I'm trying to... What is the theme of your channel? It's called Only in Japan. Oh, really? Okay. So just things like this, cultural things... I go around the country finding stories. And making it... Providing it in English. I work for NHK World. But I don't... I don't really like the content. I think it's kind of boring. I thought I could do it better. Sort of. It's produced by Japanese using foreign reporters. I thought I could do it better. I think I'm doing a pretty good job. I don't mind if I say so myself. How long have you been doing YouTube? Six years. Six years? After the Tohoku earthquake, I came up with the idea. And then it took me about a year to build up the courage to start it all. Great. Great. Now the Olympics are coming. It's growing even more. Yeah. It's going to be really exciting. If you don't mind me asking, how does that produce income? Is it advertising or something else?

00:17:11 John Daub: So Joe A. Pace writes in, very nice, John. I wish there was a lot of advertising. I was there again, mate. Missing Japan already. He's super chatted in Australia 20. We also put some ad revenues in there. Yeah. I've seen a channel that this guy in Vancouver has called Electroboom. There's just occasional installments where he talks about electricity and electronics and stuff. He's funny. He's linked up with this thing called Patreon. Oh, we got Patreon, right? We got a Patreon page. So you pay to subscribe and you get maybe more benefits. He has giveaways of electronic cards. Oh, cool. Yeah. We have a postcard club. I send out packages of omiyage from all over Japan. So give people a taste of Japan. Yeah. It's going pretty well. People have fun doing interesting things. Yeah. I pay to do it. Pretty much. I think it's still growing, but you can find ways to make a living out of it. Here's the postcard from this month. Hakodate, if you're interested. This is our day view and night view. If you're a Patreon supporter, you also get a Hello Kitty stamp in there. Yeah. It's one of the best night views in Japan, they say, up on Mt. Hakodate, looking down on the city. Cool.

00:18:51 John Daub: Alright. So they said we could just take this glass and drink at all of the places. Everything is 500 ml. I think the soul of the beer is dependent on the glass, though, in a way. Well, nice to meet you. Nice chatting with you. Yeah. Not at all. Not at all. You're gonna have two new guests in a second. Yeah, I bet. Bye-bye. Oh, that was really nice. Yeah, so I... They sat down and... I hate putting the camera on the people, just like, hey, I'm live streaming. They didn't really know. But they're pretty cool about it. It was funny, though. Like, the questions you get, like, how do you make a living out of YouTubing and things like that.

00:19:41 John Daub: Oh, look. Okay, so they have a recycle. So what they're doing right now... It's a good thing. Recycle. So they have the burnable, non-burnable, and food, and waste, and then these two nice guys are making sure that everything is separated properly. That's really good to see. So at a lot of Japanese festivals, you'll see that they make sure that the plastic and the burnable and non-burnable... People make mistakes, right? But it's nice to see that they're doing a really good job of making sure that the mistakes are corrected! And the recyclables are recycled properly. Because the most important thing with recycling is to make sure that it's... you're recycling the proper thing. So sometimes you just need a little bit of help.

00:20:41 John Daub: Alright, I'm gonna take you... I'm gonna skip these... the high-pressure dudes from about 10 minutes ago. And, uh, I don't know. This place looks kinda pricey. I'm more interested in the Schmatz over there. But let's just take a look at what America has to offer. I think America's doing pretty good. We've never had... We've always had, like, German and European companies here. But this is the first one from the United States. So let's just go take a quick look at this menu. Oh, wow. It just feels good having my country represented in some way. So I kinda wanna support them. Although, if I was here, I would get this beef. She's actually cooking dinner tonight, so I can't ruin my appetite too much. Chuck Flap American Beef Barbecue Grill Mix. And that looks really good. But you can see a lot of the prices are kinda high. What'd you get? This one is the American Meat Urban Barbecue Mix. I'm gonna zoom in on that. And you can see a large size is 5,000 yen, or $50 for that. Alright? That's kind of expensive. It's kind of expensive, but like, as I said, this is an escape for people. You can get the American Pork Barbecue Grill Mix for $15. And boy, he's really going to town. Look at that! That's some big pork chops! Whoa! Oh, it smells so good here in front of the grills.

00:22:55 John Daub: The great thing about these events in Hibiya Park is that you have this amazing landscape of the urban city center around you. You see this? There's the moon up there on the top of your screen. And Kanae Daub and I have come here a couple of times for events. Peter von Gomm was at the Wagyu Festival last year. Where he was live streaming as well. And he didn't tell me. And we got into a fight. And then we beat each other up by being really nice to one another. That's the best way to do it.

00:23:31 John Daub: Wow, that's a big beer. That guy's got a big one. Big beer. Ah, they're cutting it up there. Alright, you know what? This word, pulled pork sandwich, is on my radar. That's really hard to find in Japan, a pulled pork sandwich. That's not something that's really common. Whoa! Check that out. How big is that? How many grams is that? 500 grams? How many hundred? Wow! One kilogram! That's like a kilogram steak. I don't think I've ever seen anything like that. Alright, why don't we get this pulled pork sandwich because I don't want to ruin my appetite. We're gonna come back and eat that. But I want to go over to the Schmatz right now. So we're gonna come back here. That was a one kilogram steak. Like, what? I've never seen... In Japan, the biggest steaks that we get in Japan are like 200... 250 gram maybe. And I just saw one kilogram chunk of meat. That's like... that's pretty amazing. And the chef that's cooking it, he didn't even know. He had to confirm. How big are these? Manager, how big are these? Because he didn't want to say. And then he asked, he's like, one kilogram. Whoa! One kilogram is about 2.3 pounds, I believe.

00:25:18 John Daub: Now I'm a big... I like these other companies come here. These are German companies. Really good beer. But... Is Kanae joining you? That's a good question here. Hold on a second. Um... If not, buy her something to bring home. Absolutely, Mario Roca. The reason she's not here is because she still has to work. And... On Friday night, we like to do dinner together. Either...and she doesn't want to go out on a date tonight, so she can't make it out here. But I promised our viewers I would come out here. And that's why I'm out here. You have to fulfill your promises. Um... And this festival's here just until Sunday. It's Friday night. There's a couple more days. But I wanted to come here at least once to try to enjoy a little bit of the night. Because it's not raining. We have a beautiful, clear night tonight. There's a lot of people. The festival's just getting started. Alright? I came here at 5:30, so there weren't a lot of people 26 minutes ago. But right now, you can see people are getting off of work. And on a Friday night, yeah, they're gonna start their nights here. And you can already see on the right side, a lot of people have already staked out their positions. And they're gonna be here buying a lot of food. Um... And stay there for a couple of hours. It's very rare to find a place to sit. Oh, there's a place to sit. Whoa! That's very rare to find this. I should just go sit there because I can. Whoa! I bet you in five seconds, someone's gonna sit there. Five, four, three, two... I'm gonna lose this bet. One. Totally lost this bet.

00:27:01 John Daub: Anyways, I wanna show you what Schmatz has to offer. And then we're gonna go get that pulled pork sandwich because, although I like Schmatz, I wanna support America. If Urban Barbecue came all the way from the USA and I never heard of Urban Barbecue before, we're gonna give them a little bit of support for the effort. A for effort. USA. USA. USA. We're like twenty-five German shops and then there's one American. So we gotta... I gotta support American. Although I did support the German one once, so... So let's look at the menu here for Schmatz. This is a Japanese-German company. Uh... Schmatz... Sounds like nachos. They got a pretty robust menu. Fried chicken. All of it is a thousand yen. Because they're domestic here in Japan, I think they can keep the costs a little bit lower because they're cheaper than the German companies. Um... Radler. Chassis beer, one thousand yen. And then their beers are a little bit cheaper, but the sizes are smaller. Three hundred and thirty-three milliliters for a thousand yen. That's about ten dollars. I paid fifteen dollars for five hundred milliliters from the German company. That's this glass here. Um... But one liter is about the same price as the other ones. And then you can see the big Schmatz glasses here. Wow. Again, Schmatz is a company here in Japan and they make their own German beer. They often have seasonal stuff.

00:28:41 John Daub: Alright, let's go back to America. Alright, this one here, Mr. Das. Pay it forward, buddy. I'm not supposed to walk and drink, so I haven't taken a sip, but... I'm still holding the glass. So I'm gonna go to this... Oh no, there's a line! Alright. We're gonna mosh pit this. Good. Alright, we're gonna order this pulled pork sandwich. We are back. Alright, I really appreciate the super chat, guys. Let's put it to good use now. Alright, let's put it to good use. Let's get a sandwich. Just gonna open it again. Um... Pulled pork sandwich. Yes. There it is, right there. Alright. 14. Hey, David Chavez. Hey, David, I just sent out your postcard. I always send them special, brother. It's nice to see you here. I always put... I always know David's postcards because they're a little bit special and David knows what I'm talking about. And because you're not that far away, probably will come tomorrow, maybe. I don't know. He's gotta go a little bit further than... a little bit further than Tokyo, though. I appreciate it. We're having a good time. We're having a good time. Supporting... supporting the U.S. right now with some really delicious, um... delicious American pork. This is not permanent, Colette. This is gonna be here just until Sunday. Just until Sunday. And then the next festival after this is the Japanese Wagyu Festival, where they have about a dozen... I gotta listen for 14. When they give you a number, you have to listen for it in Japanese. 14 is 14. Shall we do the numbers? 14? Yes. Thank you.

00:32:01 John Daub: Follow me. Follow the pork sandwich. Now how do I eat this? I lost my table. It's a good question. How do I eat this? How do I hold this? How do I do this? I got three... I got a beer, a sandwich, and a gimbal. Alright, I know how to do this. There's ways. Yeah, so this is how I do it. I just sit here on the fountain because there's a fountain here, but it's really hard. You can see here. Sometimes you have to kind of improvise. Let's take a look at this really delicious sandwich here. Look at this. Oh man. That's what I'm talking about. I have not had a pulled pork sandwich since Dallas Airport. Me and Kanae, we went through Dallas to get to New York. And inside of Dallas International Airport, there's a delicious pulled pork restaurant. Oh, so the bread is toasted. This looks great. Really nice. There's some vegetables in there. That's always a plus. Let's try this. I do have a little bit of beer left. And once again, like, I promised Kanae I would not ruin my appetite. So don't tell her. This is between us, okay? Between us. Alright. Itadakimasu. Really good.

00:34:37 John Daub: I'm gonna turn the camera up. Just soak in this beautiful atmosphere, okay? Check that out. It's really nice. If you guys want to see some more, I need some audience participation. It's time to click that like button. See if we can get to 350 likes. I'm waiting for you now. It's all up to you. It's up to you guys.

00:36:14 John Daub: Thanks guys. I will get something for Kanae. I saw that come in here. I'm gonna bring her something as an appetizer. She's making dinner. I know. She's insane. But she wanted to cook something healthy, and she doesn't know that we're here. So don't tell her. But I will bring her a present from here. Maybe some sausages or something as an appetizer. So just it's our secret, okay? I have to keep my promise to Mr. Das who's probably asleep. But this pulled pork sandwich is so good. I love the vegetables that they put in here. Really, really good.

00:37:31 John Daub: We're well below our 350 likes requirement. Come on. I can't show you me talking with my mouth full. Night high scene. I'm watching 650 people on here. It's up to you guys. 350 likes will continue. Audience participation. I like it when I can turn the stakes onto you. Oh! We went live. Hey! You found me. Hello. How you doing? Doing good. My name's Carlos, by the way. Fist bump. Yeah. Fun fact. Like four days ago when you were live, I gave you a super chat that I was... Yeah, Carlos! Onsen, yeah. Yes! How are you? I'm doing great. Awesome. We went to San Suiso Tsuchiyu Onsen or something like that. Yeah. And it was... That's up there in Fukushima. Fukushima. Yeah. So this is... I think some of you might remember. This is Carlos who gave us super chat. Which episode was that? You were walking from... Oh! Was it Shimbashi? At night? No. It was a daytime one. Oh, the Skytree? Asakusa to Skytree. Yes. And then we went to the Skytree after we were in Texas. Oh, okay! Yeah. Welcome to Japan. Yes. Yeah, welcome to Japan. Thank you very much.

00:39:29 Carlos: You wanna... You wanna see it? Um... You hungry? Sure, yeah.

00:39:34 John Daub: I'm trying... I'm trying to finish this sandwich real fast. Yeah. So where are you visiting from? Austin, Texas. Okay. Yeah. Very cool. So we've been here for almost two weeks now. We leave... We're gonna leave tomorrow night. Okay. Yeah. So... How did you find me? I'm like behind... Like I'm behind this. It was funny cause we were at the mall shopping in Ginza. And I was like, oh I wonder if John's live. And I just checked the YouTube app and sure enough there you were. You were one subway stop away. So you're like, man we gotta go check it out. You gotta make it. Yeah. I promised everybody that would come here. I cancelled yesterday because they didn't have a co-pilot. Like I didn't have a drinking buddy. It's pretty... It's not cool to drink alone. I guess. But tonight I'm like, Kanae's cooking dinner. When am I gonna get another chance? I'm going to Niigata tomorrow. So yeah. I better go now. Just do it. Don't tell my wife. Just do it. But you know, there's 650 people watching and they know. But Kanae doesn't know. So don't tell her. Alright. I know there's some people follow her on social media too. Do not tell her. Cool. What have you done? Tell me a little bit about your trip here. Oh man. What haven't we done? We did the Mario Kart thing today. Oh! That was pretty good. Oh so that's still going on. They didn't get sued by Nintendo. Yeah. So we were in the Akihabara area. We must have eaten ramen like four or five times. Ramen's really good. We went to Tokyo Skytree. We went to Fukushima. We went to near Mount Fuji. To Kawaguchiko. Oh! Kawaguchiko! Oh I love that place. That was great. We had some of the best noodles we've ever had. Ah! I had another viewer who recommended a restaurant up there for...was it soba udon? But Hakone makes really good noodles up there. It was really good. You can tell it was homemade. Homemade. Not a chain. Yeah. Um... And just a lot of walking. My feet are tired. It's very humid. This is a hot day. It's a hot day today. It's been kind of cool. Kind of cloudy. But today I think was the first real like sun day. It was a beautiful day though. We had the moon up there you see right above my head. Oh yeah. A beautiful moon. It's just a day where I could not stay at home. I had to go out. I had to go out. Um... Yeah. So who are you here with? I'm here with my wife but she's a little shy. Ah okay. Okay. But my wife is here and my poor wife I keep dragging her everywhere. She's around here? She's somewhere. Um... But yeah she's kind of camera shy. That's okay. Probably in about 10 minutes we're gonna end the live stream anyway. For sure. So we can go and say hi after the camera. I bet you somebody else will probably find us here.

00:42:30 John Daub: I heard that my friend Peter von Gomm has left YouTubing. So for those of you who are watching, PVG has left the building. For the time present, just a shout out. Much much love to PVG. Much appreciated. He put in a lot of effort into his live streams into his content that he started making. But it's really hard for him to invest the time that is required to make really quality videos. And I think he couldn't do both. His day job and YouTube. So he had to... One of them had to go. I think it was... Yeah. YouTube. But if you do want to go check out his channel show him some love. Leave a comment on some of his videos. They just didn't break out like he was hoping I think for the amount of time he put in. And I understand that. Um... So just some information on that. But yeah, we'll do... I'm gonna do one more loop around before we end this. I did some real serious damage to the sandwich here. It's just like bread and vegetables. But I got all the meat. Just shout out... Actually this is... I think they're from... Do you know this Urban Barbecue? I do not. They don't say they're from any particular state. They just say America. Is that where that's from? Yeah. Well, cause it's the only American thing here. I wanted to give some love to the U.S. because they're all German except for that. Oh, everything's German here. Everything's German. There's one in Japan but they're called Schmatz which is German. And they're started by two German guys. And then there's this one American place. So... And there's a... There's a English pub over here. And Martini which is not French. Italian. Italian. Yeah. Wow. So Fukushima was no problem, right? No problem. So everyone's asking me like... People have been asking me, oh don't go there. You're gonna melt or something. And I used to live there. I love going there. No problem at all. It's really nice. Everybody was super nice. Funny story. We were at Fukushima Station. Okay. And I guess I must have looked lost or confused. And I was on my phone trying to figure out, you know, what bus to go to for the onsen. And random guy walks up to us and he said first in Japanese, are you lost? And then he says in English, are you lost? I'm like, oh no. I'm just trying to find the bus. And he's like, oh. And then we started getting into a conversation. Where are you going? Like, where are you guys from? I don't know. And it ended up with him showing us like some really cool local like foods and like peaches and stuff like that. He was really nice. Just super, super nice people. Awesome. That's the kind of experience... I have a friend named Joe. He's the biggest YouTuber in the Middle East. In the Arab world, he says. People say. The news says. What am I talking about? He's got, I think, three million subscribers now. He went to Fukushima because he was just curious. What he found was people were so friendly and the thing that he took away from it was not the Fukushima epicenter which is where he wanted to go. I don't know why. But the people that he met that were so friendly and so hospitable. Oh yeah. He wants... It's a place I think that a lot of people want to go back to. And just if you are worried about it, Fukushima is one of the biggest prefectures in Japan. So if you drew a line from where the meltdown happened all the way to the end of the prefecture, you might as well put Tokyo in there too. Because it's that big. Aizuwakamatsu, which is one of my favorite places to go, is like a four hour drive and it's still Fukushima. So just some love to the people there. Because I always think about the people first that are there. And that onsen is so good. Oh yeah. It's better when there's snow though. It wasn't snowing was it? No it wasn't. I think the episode you did it was snowing or it was cold. It was cold. But that day started to snow and if it hadn't it wouldn't have been as beautiful. The music that I picked for it was based on the snow. The really light music. This is an episode from January 2017 on the main channel. The most beautiful drone shots came from that town. Not to mention the food at that hotel at the ryokan. It's top notch. And even if, did you go into the town at all? No. If you go into the town, the people, there's the place that they make like these...

00:47:08 John Daub: something's happening over there. This is that beer girl thing. It's the beer girl thing. Alright we'll go take a look at this. So Carlos I'm going to throw this away. I'm going to go around and if you want I'll find you and say hi to your wife. Alright. Thank you very much. Thanks Carlos. Bum for now. I gotta wash me hands. Got some pulled pork. Nice to meet you. Nice to meet you Carlos. Very cool. So I'm glad that Carlos could find me. I do remember him giving that super chat. I knew it was like last week so that's pretty cool. Alright so they got here some music going on and I'm pretty sure this is not like copyright free stuff so it might stay away from the speakers but yet if you look straight ahead there is some kind of beer girl action going on and they have a beer girl performance. So if you do want to come the beer girls are here all weekend. So just going to say Mr. Das this last part of this 45 minute old beer is for you. Shout out to Mr. Das who's always giving really nice super chats to support the channel. And Elijah is watching for the first time. There's your shout out brother. Astro Bo's boys watching for the 1000th time. Alright. So we're going to throw this away. I'm going to get my money back from my glass. We're going to take one more loop around. One more loop around. And then say goodbye.

00:48:57 John Daub: I know I'm going to break this glass. I know I'm going to break this glass. I got my hooks on it now. Alright first things first. Let's get rid of our trash and recycle it. Burnable. Alright very good. After I saw the guys were re-separating the trash manually it made me make sure that I separated it myself. Because you don't want to add extra work to people that are already working pretty hard. Alright. The fact that they got some two guys smiling separating the trash was really impressive to me. Alright I'm going to return the glass here. It says here and if you want to you can keep this. It costs 1000 yen. You can just take it home if you want. I would prefer to have the 1000 yen. Although it is a good memory. I could bring this for Kanae. But she doesn't drink. Thank you very much. So I got my deposit back. Alright I'm free. This is an amazing feeling. For the first time in 30 minutes I'm not holding anything. Alright. So I'm going to take you around one time just to loop around and just give you an idea of what it's like at this festival. And then I'm going to log off because this weekend I'm going to Niigata. And I'm going there for a reason and I can't tell you. Actually some of my Patreon supporters might know. I might have spilled the beans. I try to be careful because some YouTubers will snatch up ideas if you give them too much information. So you gotta be careful. YouTubing is a sport. So I'm going to take you around here and then this weekend I'm going to be taking you outside of Tokyo once again. And we're going to go to the prefecture of Niigata. And then next week we're going to Hyogo prefecture which is where Kobe is. But we're getting out of the city and we're going to Awaji Island. A-W-A-J-I Shima Island.

00:51:20 John Daub: So there's what you got here. This is happening live everybody. I guess they're just beer girls. There's a calendar of events and it says that beer girls are on. That's a lot of beer. Some happy people at this event. Whoa! There's a TV interview going on. Nobody ever interviews me. I'm always doing the interviewing. But wait a second. Okay. So just a shout out. Tokyo Weekender which is a magazine, a free paper here in Tokyo interviewed me two weeks ago for one of their magazines. So that's kind of cool. I got interviewed and they told me their story. And Tokyo Cheapo did a podcast and interviewed me about my story on Tokyo Cheapo's podcast. I was happy to help out my friends. Little Creatures Red Hook IPA. That is American. And that is some really good IPA too. Because we don't get many American beers in Japan.

00:53:20 John Daub: Everyone in the UK is represented. Well, in Britain anyways. For this British house. Seikai No. 1 IPA. Really? Is BrewDog the No. 1 IPA? I had no idea. BrewDog is No. 1? I know that they have a BrewDog pub in Tokyo. But I had no idea they were No. 1 in the world. Whoa. That's a tall claim. But what's funny is that if this is a British house, why do they have German food? There's a ton of sausage and sauerkraut. A little bit suspect. Cheese sausage. No bangers and mash. What? This is not British food. I don't see any... It looks like German. Right? I don't know. Slightly suspicious. Here's the menu right here. There's not even fish and chips. How could that be? How could this be? Oh, here's chicken and chips. Ah, fish and chips. 1000 yen for fish and chips. So it is on the menu. And this is cheese risotto. That's very British. Roast beef might be. And that is an Insta buy. This is worthy of being Instagrammed. This beef right here. They're like, yes. You can promote this on Instagram. It's beautiful. They do have some beers from the UK. Check this out. O'Haras. London Pride. What? Oh, wait, wait, wait. I love a good London Pride if it is real cask ale. If it's cask ale, it might be worth it. Hold on a second. You can't find good cask ale. And cask ale... Americans will say that UK beer, everything in London, like, oh yes, why am I using a fake British beer? All of the drinks in the UK are so warm. I can't believe they drink warm beer. That's what they said. But if you've never had a cask ale before, it's so good. It's supposed to be room temperature because there's a lack of bubbles, so you don't have to drink it cold. It tastes so good. But I'm looking right now at the taps back here to see if anybody is pulling it. Because a cask ale, you want to pull that. And I don't see it. So it doesn't look like it is the London Pride. It might not be real cask ale. And in that case, I probably don't want any of it. Yeah. It's hard. In order for me to pay that price, over $10 for 300ml, it'd have to be a real thing.

00:56:27 John Daub: Hold on a second. I know we got a couple of other messages coming in here. You just came back from Niigata, right? I did, but I'm going back to Niigata because I can't tell you why exactly. But there's a couple... It has nothing... This isn't a sponsored job or anything, but it just was a coincidence that what I wanted to film is there in Niigata. It's kind of a big story. And I'm going to try to edit this one super fast and get this up. I got a queue of videos that's like a mile long, though. But this one I want to get out faster. Thank you for making me happy in the time of depression. You're very welcome. Huchichata. I hope that you feel a little bit better. Smile. I'm going to take you around one more time just to get a little bit of some fun feeling and make you happy for that. I appreciate so much. And I'm so... I hope that we can make everybody who's watching just a little bit happier because you're here with me right now and it feels pretty good. Like, once again, nobody wanted to come here tonight with me. I called about a dozen people and everybody said they couldn't make it tonight. But, lo and behold, all I got to do is do a livestream and we have 700 people watching. So you're never really alone here, are you?

00:57:41 John Daub: Here's a flyer. So it's all the news of the day. Some happy Westerners. How come they're not Japanese? I guess they're German. These are Germans. No problem with that. When Kanae and I went to Munich it looked like this except everyone had winter coats on. Those are some fun livestreams, by the way. If you look at the ones from Germany, we had a meetup in Munich at the Christmas market. Insane. It was complete insanity and we bumped into a woman who said she knew Jennifer. And Jennifer is like, I don't know her. And Jennifer's like, I do not know her. Like, what? Who is this girl? She came up to us. She opened up a bottle of champagne on the street and was saying that she was your best friend and we thought so too because she talked like she was a Japanese German version of you. And she said she didn't know who she was. That livestream is one of the funniest livestreams to go back and watch from the Christmas market night meetup in Munich, Germany. And it's not Japan, but it was so, so freaking funny. I was like, who is this girl? At the end of the livestream, we're all kind of tipsy. We were all kind of tipsy in Munich. We had like 10, 15, 20 people show up for the livestream. And at the end of it is when it happened. I'm turning it off but Kanae is cold and like, we gotta go back. And then all of a sudden she comes out of nowhere and goes, you must be John. And I go, yeah. I am John. I just broke down. We were all laughing so hard drinking champagne on the street in Munich. I so want to go back to Germany for the Christmas markets. I really want to go back.

00:59:40 John Daub: Alright, check this out here. This one place, the menu is all sausages and meat. And I, oh wow, it just makes me want to go to the Oktoberfest in Germany next month. Oktoberfest starts in September by the way. Just so everybody knows. And it builds up into October. But when I was there, this is the kind of food, you would see stuff like this on the menu. Just like meat and beer and fried potatoes. And it's so good. It's not good for the waistline. But makes you happy. The prices don't make you happy though. Prices are a little bit much. But there was something called Schweinshaxe I think. Schweinshaxe? It was like a big huge like piece of meat on a bone. And we would get that, I always got that at the Oktoberfest. It was pretty expensive. But I would get like this massive one liter beer. I've been to the Oktoberfest in Munich twice. In 1997 and 2001. And I've been wanting to go back for 18 years. I have not been back. I don't know. I think after the Olympics, if I want to take a break, maybe can I and I escape to Germany? Just to take it easy for a month. Germany, the places that I like in Europe, I love the whole continent. It's just really nice to travel. In fact, I don't think there's too many places in the world that I don't like. But at Christmas time, Germany, Austria, Switzerland, the east side of France, there's some places, Belgium, that are really Christmassy. You just get a little bit of a feeling that's different from other places. You have the Glühwein. And we don't have that kind of feeling in the United States anymore. I guess it's a time Christmas in the United States is more about your family. It's about time celebrating with your family and shopping. And in Germany, it's like markets outside and drinking in the markets and everyone is very happy. There's music and people are not afraid to celebrate openly. I guess. I don't know. It's just a different feel. But the Oktoberfest in Germany is so much fun. Mostly Americans though. There are a lot of Americans that went into Germany. So maybe not the one in Munich. Wiesn. But in Japan, there's a connection between Germany and Japan. Maybe it goes back to World War II. Which isn't the best time in history. But we're now generations past that. So just look at the positives. Which means we have sausage and beers.

01:02:47 John Daub: So I'm kind of looking for Carlos. And then I can end the live stream. But yeah, it would be nice to say hi to his wife. I know it's not always easy for people to be on a live stream. But I do appreciate it. Carlos coming here to say hi. Some weird music. You always get a really eclectic mix. But it is a very happy Friday. I'm really happy to be able to show you a little bit of this market. And the next one will be the Wagyu one I believe. I'll probably come back for the Wagyu. I don't know. A Tokyo Wagyu Festival? Yeah. I think we're going to do that. I think we're going to do that. Alright. The last thing I'm going to show you right here. The things on offer. This is the UK pub. A little creatures pub. A lot of sausages. So most of the food here is sausages. It's like the sausage party. I guess you could say. Black fried noodles. That looks pretty interesting. Isn't that yakisoba? That's kuro yakisoba. Black yakisoba. That looks pretty good. Let me show you from the side here. So the staff is really hard at work. Yeah. So there you go. I hope you enjoyed that. A little taste of what Friday night night markets in Tokyo are like. Once again there's tons of night markets in the city. This in Hibiya. They don't have them every weekend. But they have it quite often. And oh I found you. Hold on. I'm signing off right now. There's Carlos over there. Say hi. There's a lot of night markets in Tokyo. One at the United Nations University. They have on the campus or behind it right there. It's right in Aoyama. And across the street from there is a 246 Commons which is another place where there's trailers you can drink outside. And there's a nice vibe which extends from the spring through the summer to the fall. Even in the winter I believe it's open. And that's something I think if you're Tokyo you want to kind of enjoy outside. It's definitely a place that you could go. But these Hibiya festivals which you can see on the other side there is free. Interesting little vacation. Here's a couple of guys joining to take a break from their office life. And right now as they pass that magical tree they've just entered into Smurf Village for Germany. Where everyone's life size because they've been drinking. Smurfs would be bigger if they drank more. It's a Blue Ramen episode. I don't know. Just something from the Blue Ramen episode. Have a great day. Have a great night. Thanks for the support. I will get something for Kanae on the way back home. Probably dessert. I didn't get her any sausages. She really appreciates it. The apple pie place is right downstairs so I might pick up a few of those. So thanks everybody. See you in Niigata if not tomorrow. I might do a live stream to bring you a little bit closer to Japan for those. Hit the like button and make sure you leave a comment below. Tell me what you thought. And if you have any ideas for live streams I'm always welcome to take it. We're going to be putting emojis on here so you can support the channel with just a couple of dollars and you'll be able to write in customized emoji. The more supporters we got, the more emoji we have. Which is going to be a fun community thing that we can do. Have a good day. Have a good night everybody. See you from Tokyo, Japan. From the amazing Hibiya Park Festival.