00:00:01 John Daub: Welcome everybody. That word in the middle says Shinkansen. What does that mean? We're about to go on a Shinkansen adventure with Kanae. We have our tickets. Now this is the holiday season. Here's our ticket from Tokyo to Shin-Kobe. It costs 14,160 yen which is about $140. Kind of expensive huh? But we're on a mission. This is for work.

00:00:32 John Daub: Thank you Patreon. Let us go in now and we're going to be buying an ekiben (station bento) for this. That's the purpose of our episode this time. There's a ton of ekiben. We can't go in the Shinkansen entrance. We'll go in this way. If the signal gets a little weak, stick with us because it is a very crowded time to be in Tokyo Station.

00:00:54 John Daub: Alright, we're going to the very famous ekiben shop and then we have about 15 minutes to wait for the Shinkansen. Kanae might go early. We're going to be waiting for the Shinkansen to line up for us while I pay for the bentos. Or I'll give her money and I'll line up and she'll bring it because she doesn't want to run. I don't blame her.

00:01:23 John Daub: Do you know where the ekiben shop is Kanae? It's right there. It's right there in the center and this Tokyo Station is so crowded. This is a holiday? What is a holiday actually?

00:01:53 Kanae Daub: It's a day for the newspaper.

00:01:57 John Daub: A day for the newspaper? What? I don't think Japanese sometimes know. They've changed the holidays a lot so it happens on Monday to make 3-day holidays to improve the economy. Next week is holiday too. For all the people, it's Silver Week.

00:02:16 John Daub: Here we go everybody. We are now... Look at that. Look at all the bentos. All over Japan. Respect for the Aged Day? Is this Respect for the Aged Day? There's a Daruma bento and there's a... That's my favorite, the Tokyo Station bento. Which one looks good Kanae for you?

00:02:39 Kanae Daub: You're getting... You're going to get... That's the most expensive one.

00:02:42 John Daub: And then these down here are the Shinkansen ekibens. That's the Tokaido Shinkansen right in the middle there. It comes in a little plastic capsule. It's pretty cool. Those are a little pricey though. I like... I think I might go unagi (eel) bento. Is there an unagi bento? Only one way to find out. Again, the signal might be a little bit weak. Just stick with us and click the refresh button every now and then.

00:03:17 John Daub: This is a beef domburi. Yonezawa beef. Ah, Yonezawa. This is very famous beef. Yeah, from Yamagata. Up there in Tohoku. There's a chicken bento because you can see a piece of chicken on the top. They move really fast in the line here. Ah, there's the Tokyo bento Kanae. Isn't that this? No? Shinjuku bento. That's a Shinjuku bento. They tricked me.

00:03:51 John Daub: Let's see what the Shinjuku bento looks like. Shinjuku bento. Where's the napa? Ah, here it is. Right here. Shinjuku bento. Piece of fish on there. That looks pretty good. 1200 yen. That's about 10 dollars. Ah, unagi bento. Anago (conger eel). Ah, anago. Toka. Karaage (fried chicken) bento. Jem writes in, buy one for me too. Thank you Jem.

00:04:32 John Daub: Kanae, isn't this here? Ah, she wants to look. This is an eki-ben episode after all. I think I'm getting this anago bento. Check this out. Ah, man. This is about 11 dollars for this. Just three pieces of, um, oh you found the unagi bento? Toka. Ah, unagi bento. That's like 20 dollars. That's a self-heating unagi bento. Should we get that? Self-heating 20 dollar unagi bento. Who's in on this?

00:05:22 John Daub: Alright. Okay, let's get this. We don't have a lot of time. Kanae wa. The gyutan (beef tongue). This is beef tongue right here. That looks pretty good. Melissa writes, don't get it. I don't know. Melissa wrote that. She's not in on that.

00:05:45 John Daub: It's really a madhouse in here. It's best to try to leave your bags behind. Oh, here's the sandwich area. This is where I filmed for the Only in Japan Sandwich episode. I found some, this is a B-roll shot here. Wow, look at that crazy maki-zushi (rolled sushi). That's, uh, 8 dollars for that. US prices.

00:06:07 John Daub: I don't need the unagi. Ah, that one's also unagi. Oh, this one's not self-heating. Oh, Kanae, that looks so good. Oh my god. That's 24 dollars. 24 dollars. Should I get it? It's 24 dollars.

00:06:22 Kanae Daub: You try this one and this one.

00:06:23 John Daub: Oh, guys, check this out. This is the gyoza (dumpling) bento and it's only 8 dollars. This one looks really good. That's a Matsusaka gyu (beef). That's cheaper than the unagi bento. They have egg, too.

00:06:37 John Daub: Which one you want?

00:06:38 Kanae Daub: This one.

00:06:39 John Daub: You're getting it? You're not getting the Tokyo one?

00:06:42 Kanae Daub: Yeah, this time. Last time I ate Tokyo one.

00:06:45 John Daub: Okay. Matsusaka gyu bento. You don't want the... I know you love gyoza. You don't want the gyoza bento. It looks like a book. This is how software used to look in the 1990s. Or 1980s and 90s software. Like DVDs came in this size of a... If I get this bento, I'm gonna get nice smell. Oh, yeah, you're gonna smell like gyoza. Yeah, good luck getting that goodnight kiss. Don't go there. Which one are you getting?

00:07:14 John Daub: I'm gonna put this self-heating bento away and I'll get the expensive unagi bento. This one says it's different. It's a different one. It's unagi. Oh, that one is the unagi one? This is the unagi hayashi bento. Which version are those gyoza? We're getting in... What kind of gyoza is this? Matsunoya. That's from a famous Utsunomiya gyoza place. Actually, that doesn't look bad. I'm gonna go high price today. I never... Yeah, well, I know, but... I know, but... I'm gonna do this with an unboxing on the train if we get on there. Alright, Kanae, let's put this away. D-dousuru, you wanna go to the train or should I go to the densha? Okay, Kanae's gonna go to the densha, the train, and wait. It's at 2:10 PM. Go to car number 2. Ah, he's got new bentos. Alright, ciao, Kanae. New bentos. What is this? Awesome. This place is a madhouse.

00:08:11 John Daub: Oh, I like this one, too. This is also a... A beef tongue. Shout out from Melissa and Misha from Minneapolis. Hey, guys.

00:08:23 Kanae Daub: Is this okay?

00:08:34 John Daub: Yes. Please give me a receipt. That's our ticket. Yes, please. This is fine, right? This is a receipt, right? It's a receipt. Oh, it's probably okay. Isn't the taxi the same? Yes, it is. Thank you. I have to get official receipts. Kanae is very strict because we are on official duty right now. This place is a madhouse. Honestly, every time I come here, you have to fight to get through. That kid's got a nice hat. Look at that hat. Where'd you get that hat? Oh, man.

00:09:44 John Daub: Alright, now it's time for us to get to the Shinkansen. Kanae has gone first to try to get us a spot early. I'm holding the drone. I'm really... I'm really locked down. Our eventual destination is... Today is Shin-Kobe. There's the Shinkansen right in front of us. But we're going to Awaji Island tomorrow. Wow, Cobra Bebop's got an animated sticker. That's pretty cool. We're going to... Oh, and Fang O.V. Fang O.V. Thank you very much. We're going to Awaji-jima (Awaji Island), which is between Shikoku and Honshu Island. So I'm pretty excited about that. I've been there before, but I haven't been there...

00:10:32 John Daub: Am I going the right way? It tells you for Kyoto, Shin-Osaka, Saitama. So we're going on the right way. It's so nice that Kanae can go with me because she can save a spot in the line. It's all about getting there. All right, to the left of us, the green... The green color is for the Tohoku Shinkansen, okay? And that's this way, the entrance. Look always for the blue if you're at Tokyo Station and you're going on the Tokaido Shinkansen. That's the one that goes towards Kyoto and Osaka. It's always a blue color. The colors really help. North for green, south for blue. Actually, it's west, southwest. Let's just say down. Hope the signal's okay, everybody. I know no one likes Minecraft, but we are in a very crowd of people.

00:11:25 John Daub: There are the vending machines to get your tickets. You can do it in English. If you come here on a local train, you can buy your tickets inside of the station, which is very useful. Boom, everything turns to English. So easy to do this. All right. We're in. It's been validated. Let's do this. Let's do this. There's a Hikari. We're not taking the Hikari. We're taking the Nozomi. The Hikari is for JR Pass holders. It stops more than the Nozomi. You can buy ekiben in here, too, but it's much better to get it at that shop we were at.

00:12:16 John Daub: David Kimura's in the house. Thank you. Actually, David, I bought one of the most expensive bentos in that shop. So... It's that bento is sponsored by you. All right. Shin-Osaka. Where's... Oh, there it is. Right there. Now I know where Kanae is. Plus, Kanae and I can communicate through telepathy. Getting to the point where if I say nothing, she's sort of 10 to 1. The first five are non-reserved. So this way. Little teeny tips if you can learn. Make your walk to the Shinkansen so much better.

00:12:57 John Daub: Now, I'm loaded up for the location shoot. But I'm trying to shoot lighter than usual on this one because I've been filming with four cameras and it's just too insane. Ah, the Shinkansen. We're here. All right. We're taking the 1410, 2PM, to Hakata. As you see, everything's in English. Non-reserved is 1 to 3. Oh, 1 to 3. This car is sold out, by the way. It's proof. Stamped. Right there. I'm not going to run this time. I promise. Ah, the green car. Whenever I say green car, I think of PBG's narration of our Fukushima spy story episode from about a year and a half ago. The green car. Called for because of a green band around the first class tickets 50 years ago. Today, it represents luxury and space. Which is luxury. Because space is a premium in Tokyo and most of the urban centers of Japan.

00:14:24 John Daub: This is what you will be walking like through... Oh, we're between the passengers and the door. You will be walking like this during crowded times on the Shinkansen platform. Excuse me. I told Kanae to go to car number two. I sw... I promised I wouldn't run. But I get so excited on the platform. People... I'm holding a stick on a crowded platform. Everybody knows I'm a YouTuber. They're like, yeah, he's a YouTuber. Proud. Born and bred. I don't think my mom wanted me to be... I don't know. She's happy that I am, but... You can't be saying you're a bred YouTuber. YouTube did not exist when I was bred. I'm not talking about B-R-E-A-D. It'd be kind of funny if I was.

00:15:26 John Daub: Whoa, the non-reserved is pretty packed. Look at the lines. It's going to be hard to get a seat. The reason why I told Kanae to go to the front is because people are inherently lazy-ish. And, uh... Walking to the front is, uh... Requires effort. There she is. Whoa. Koko? Ichi tsuita no ima?

00:15:51 Kanae Daub: What?

00:15:52 John Daub: Okay, hold this. Did you get water? Okay. You want water? Okay. Let's... Let's go get her water. She looks happy. But first, we're going to go see the front of the Shinkansen. Because it's so cool.

00:16:12 John Daub: I'm super stoked to try this anago bento. It was $20. About $24 for it. It's complete insanity. I've never... Just a normal bento. I've never paid this much before. But I wanted something special today. That's so beautiful. Look at the lines on her. Built like this because it gets rid of the tunnel boom. When these Shinkansen go through tunnels, uh... The designs used to be... Give it a boom when it went through there. But the designs here are meant to dissipate and move the air in different directions. There's a reason behind that. It's designed the way that the nose is shaped. And it's longer because it cuts the air better for a longer time. Thus preventing the boom that happens on the windshield of the port. Ah! Shinkansen! I'm... I love the technology here. Thumbnail! Thought I would try. All right. Let's go... Let's go get Kanae. She's probably worried. And I do want to get... Get her some water. I can do that with my Suica card. And she... She has to run like an old lady because that's how we do things. And I can't... If you want to get a seat, you have to be aggressive in Japan. Trust me. The old ladies are aggressive here. I'm not joking.

00:17:48 John Daub: Um, just a little note. They stopped... They stopped selling bentos on the Shinkansen. Just a little note. It's because it... It wasn't really paying off to... So if you take the Shinkansen looking to get a bento or a drink, you'll no longer... I think it was just hot coffee maybe? You'll no longer get the hot coffee on the train. Boom! I did it. Fujisan (Mt. Fuji).

00:18:21 John Daub: She's smart. She puts it all in one bag. I can do it. Here. I have my... My man pouch here. All right. Are we going to get a seat? Can I? Are you okay? Oh, there's some pilots. Sure. These guys look like... They look like they're hardcore. That's like a dream job. What's your job? I drive the Shinkansen. Isn't that great? Yeah. Do you think they use that to get like girlfriends and stuff? What kind of jobs do you have? I am the Shinkansen captain. I would totally do a catch me if you can kind of a situation. I would totally Pan Am that.

00:19:35 John Daub: The prize seats are the one on the right side. Because there's two of them. And you get to see Mount Fuji. And there's electrical outlets on the floor next to the window. So you want to snag those seats. But today is a cloudy day with rain. You're not going to see Mount Fuji. So it doesn't pay to do that. However, we might do that. If we can get it. Because then it's just the two of us. Kanae, run like an old lady. Come on. They're already gone. Kanae, they're gone. Run like an old lady. They're gone. Kanae, I got it. I told you. You have to run like an old lady. I did it. I got one. You want to see the side? Yeah. Okay. There's always a chance. Did you see how fast I was going? Okay.

00:20:53 John Daub: I'm telling you right now. You're happy? Yeah. It's really. I'm sweating. I'm not joking. I lived in the countryside in Japan for the first seven years of my life here. And everyone says how polite and friendly people are. And they are. But when it comes to getting a seat or going on to a department store when things are on sale, old ladies, oba-chan (grannies), are. They're always violently aggressive. I've seen almost fights. One time I was waiting… No. One time I was waiting for a train and I was first in line. And then when the doors opened, these old ladies ran in front of me and I was spinning like this right at the opening. And everybody got a seat except for me. It was a game of musical chairs I lost. Because I was not aggressive enough in the face of the old ladies. Now, it would be bad of me to let, to not let the old ladies win. But I'm not. But they won by cheating. I was first in line.

00:21:58 John Daub: Have you ever done battle with oba-chan at a department store? Oba-chan are very aggressive, aren't they?

00:22:05 Kanae Daub: Sometimes.

00:22:08 John Daub: Sometimes. That's been my experience. And the older they get, they have less time. Therefore, they work harder. They work harder at it. Kazmin Sovyu, thank you. That's pretty cool. I like these animated stickers. These are really cool. Let's see if anybody else had chimed in while we were running for the train. Chris Dickerson. How are you doing, Chris Dickerson? Water and a beer. Ah, Chris. I totally should have snaked a beer before we got on. Do we have to buy beer? They don't have it. I don't know. So my friend Ruthie, Hana's mother, told me that they don't have the card service anymore. Or they're not doing the beer. Sorry, they're not doing the hot coffee. We'll find out. We'll find out. Hello from Costa Rica, OscarCR114. Love all of your videos. Thank you, Oscar. And David Kim here. Hi. Hey, David.

00:23:07 John Daub: I do unagi. Okay, unagi bento. Unagi bento unboxing right now. This is my beef.

00:23:14 Kanae Daub: You got a beef one? That's bigger than mine.

00:23:19 John Daub: Why is yours bigger than mine? Because here. That's nice. The first thing comes to mind. What Kanae says is we can share. If it was like me and Jennifer, I would start laughing and then she would start laughing too. And neither of us would share. It's very nice. Hers is bigger and cheaper and mine is smaller and more.

00:23:46 Kanae Daub: Okay, you do yours. Don't, don't, don't. Oh, you got a raw egg? Yeah. What? I got an egg. Wait a second. So this bento, you crack the egg and put it in here and then you dip the... It's like a sukiyaki bento, right? Yeah. Okay. Oh, yeah. Okay, do it. Do it please, Kanae. You are first.

00:24:11 John Daub: Because while you're doing that, my other hand is getting the tripod. I can open yours. Yeah. And because we just got on, we can be a little bit louder. But as soon as we start moving, I'll have to simmer down because I'm an obnoxious fool on the trains and I know that. And I have to do my best to not disturb the other passengers. But it's good that Kanae and I are sitting together so then at least I'm not disturbing her. At least she won't tell me until after I stop this livestream. First, oshibori (wet towel). That's good. The bento comes with a wash towel. Oshibori, we call them.

00:24:49 John Daub: No way! Oh man, I want to switch. Sorry, the signals are going in and out. Kanae is now... Oh, wait, you cracked the egg inside of the wrapper. You cracked it too much. Wow. But I messed up. You messed up a little bit? It's already... Oh, you got it on me? A little bit. Sorry. That's what the towel's for. Wow. You remember what we talked about when YouTubers eat the food, they make weird facial reactions and they say it's mouth-watering good and other... Look, look. Oh, look at the egg she's eating. It's a... It's a sword curry egg. It's right in NOAA. It's a hanjuku tamago (soft-boiled egg) or an onsen egg, we would call that.

00:26:05 John Daub: Alright. This shinkansen is so full. You wanna eat yours too? It's okay. Kanae, you can go first. Okay. After we get the Shinagawa, then I'm gonna do mine. So should I eat? Yeah, go ahead. Okay. Then you can eat in peace while I do mine. Cause I don't wanna... We don't wanna bother you anymore. First show us your happy face. Your happy... Okay, good. Alright. The happy face. Oh, beautiful Matsusaka beef. Wagyu. Oh, you're gonna cut the egg first? Oh man. That's... That should be illegal. And then you're gonna dip it in the... No, what are you doing? Oh, stop it. I'm just excited.

00:27:04 John Daub: Alright. Do your YouTube thing now. How is it? Alright. She just basically states facts. This is her descriptions. Alright. It's beef and egg. Yeah. I really like it. Alright. You should try it. How many stars do you give it out of... out of ten?

00:27:27 Kanae Daub: Ten? Um, eight.

00:27:29 John Daub: Eight. Wait. If it's five out of five, how does it eight out of ten? You wanna trade? Shinkansen's going by right there. We're just past Tokyo Tower. So you can see Tokyo Tower outside of the window too when you leave Tokyo. But we don't reach high speed until after we leave. I'm impressed with that. How is your shiitake? Um, shiitake. Oh. So there's a shiitake mushroom there. Kanae's just being polite. Yeah. This is takenoko (bamboo shoots) as well as gobo (burdock root), which is a root on the right side there. That's really good. And then you have some pickles here. And she has... What's this again? A kombu. Yeah. Seaweed. Just a little bit of seasoned seaweed. This is really good.

00:28:32 John Daub: Alright. It's my turn. Oh, it's good. I'm just... I can't wait anymore. It's my turn. Yeah. I'm gonna recommend this one. You're gonna recommend it? I'm recommending this. It's called, It Costs Me an Arm and a Leg, sponsored by David Kimura. Thank you, David. Anago bento. Comes with the chopsticks. Very nice. I like the paper on this. The paper's probably worth a dollar. Okanai. I win. I win. I win. Oh my god. I can't wait to eat this. This is way too good. This is Incrediball. Wow. We're back. Alright, we're back. Sorry. Uh, there's some signal problems. We're gonna try this right now. Kanae's having way too much fun. And now it's time for this unagi bento. Here we go.

00:29:39 John Daub: We've just arrived in Shinagawa, and the people looking at the train are going, is that unagi? Did you pay $23 for that? And I'm like, yes I did.

00:29:47 Kanae Daub: Yes you did.

00:29:48 John Daub: Yes I did. It's time. Alright, the first thing I'm gonna do is to straighten this out. Oh, you can put this sauce. Yeah. I could. Is that all? Yes. I used to always get the unagi bentos when I was riding the train, but back then, they didn't cost this much. They weren't like $20 for it. You just put it on like this, right? Yep. Alright. And then this is a little bit of a pepper. What do you call this?

00:30:28 Kanae Daub: Sansho (Japanese pepper).

00:30:29 John Daub: Sansho. Yeah, sansho's got this little kick to it. Got a little kick to it. Chopstick. Every company is different. The napkin is on my lap. This is high class. For those joining us, this is our ticket. It's going from Tokyo to Shin-Kobe. It's about $140. And we'll be there in two and a half hours. But first, it's time for lunch. It's kind of a late lunch. Actually, my napkin's inside of here with the chopsticks. I'm a barbarian, so I'm not gonna use my oshibori yet. But I'm gonna try this. Oh my gosh, Kanae, this is illegal. This is so good. If you like unagi, click the thumbs up right now. If you like unagi, or even if you don't, you just like food unboxings, click the like button. Oh, look at how soft that is. I'm whispering. I'm whispering because I'm drooling. It's hard to use. I can't hold your camera. Go ahead, Kanai.

00:32:05 Kanae Daub: Show you what, unagi. It's really soft. Happy face. Happy.

00:32:39 John Daub: There's just something so delicious about unagi. There's a natural oil to it with the meat of it. It's grilled. The sauce of the unagi has that like sweet... It's not soy sauce, but kind of like a sweet... Sweet, salty sauce. More salty than sweet, but grilled like that on top of rice. They put a little bit of egg. Shredded egg on there. And then there's some shiitake mushrooms on the side. What is that? What is that there? I don't know. That looks like the daikon, the pickled daikon that they have. Yeah. Yeah, tsukemono (pickles), which are like pickled snacks on there. Oh, man. This is a real delight for $25. If you're only going to be in Japan maybe once or twice in your life... I say twice because most people come back. It's true. Most people come back. You might as well go for broke and try to spend another $10 and upgrade your bento. This is an upgrade. This totally is an upgrade.

00:33:53 John Daub: Today, if you look out the window... If you look out the window today, it's a cloudy day and we're not going to have a very good view of Mt. Fuji. So it doesn't matter that we sit on the right side. But if you do leave from Tokyo and you're going towards Kyoto or Osaka, you want to sit on the right side. Because you'll have a nice view. This is the signal. Yeah, as I was saying, the signal is going in and out because we're now leaving the city of Tokyo. There's a Shinkansen in our way. Get out of the way. But if you want to see Mt. Fuji, you want to sit on the right side. And it lasts for about... I think it was between 8 and 9 minutes. We did it a couple of times. But you start to see it around Numazu not long after Atami. And it just zips by because the Shinkansen doesn't stop there. So you have to catch it. It gets pretty big. If you don't have a window seat, you can go in between the cars and stand between here and the other side. And you'll be able to see out of the window there. Nobody's really standing and taking pictures of Mt. Fuji except for me and you. But locals here don't do that.

00:35:03 John Daub: Do you always take a picture of Mt. Fuji?

00:35:04 Kanae Daub: Can I? On the train. Oh, you do? You do? How many times have you ridden the Shinkansen in your life?

00:35:12 John Daub: This year has been more than any time in your entire life. Just games? Fifteen times? I don't know. I didn't count. Well, I can count. I've been on it like a hundred, hundreds of times. It's a must. Because my job before I did YouTube was teaching kids English like way back. And I would take the Shinkansen like every couple of weeks to get from Okayama or Hiroshima to up north all the time. It's always a very special, very special experience when you ride the Shinkansen. The announcements are now in English recently. So we're going to show you. And now we're crossing over into Kanagawa towards Shin-Yokohama. Yeah. So we're going to show you a little bit of Japan from the window just until we get to Shin-Yokohama. And then we're going to start going through tunnels and that'll be the end of it. And I want to focus on this unagi bento. The great thing with these bentos is I'll stay with you until Shin-Yokohama.

00:36:40 John Daub: Arigato (thank you). And you can see out of the window. It's a cloudy day. If it was sunny, you wouldn't get this kind of a view. The sun would just make it too bright, too dark in here. It's kind of perfect for this kind of a thing. I used to do this with, um, I used to eat the unagi bento. Royal milk tea that would get out of the Coca-Cola vending machines. It was so good. But I don't drink the royal milk tea anymore. Cobra Bebop. Thank you, Cobra Bebop. That tsukemono has Japanese sake in it. It has some sake in it. That's really like a sophisticated thing. It's a very sophisticated taste. It's salty and bitter. But there's a sweetness in the back. It's very, very good. If you have any questions, leave them in the comments below if you're watching this in playback. I really appreciate it. There's another Shinkansen buzzing by. Hit the like button if you like these Shinkansen runs. Your feedback. Because we always get like a thousand likes on these Shinkansen runs means that we're just going to keep doing it. And if we get a thousand likes on this, even in the playback, we're going to do a Kobe beef because we're leaving Mokou.

00:38:21 John Daub: We went through a tunnel. We went through a tunnel. And we're just arriving at Shin-Yokohama Station. But I want to say thank you to everybody. These bentos cost a grand total of about 3,800 yen or $35. It's very expensive. But was worth it. That was a short tunnel. We're getting into Yokohama, Shin-Yokohama Station now. So it's time to say goodbye. You can see outside the window here. We're not going very fast. We're slowing down. But we have a two and a half hour ride ahead of us. It's about 15 minutes past Shin-Osaka to get to Shin-Kobe. And if you're interested in Shin-Kobe Station, I did a live stream introducing Shin-Kobe Station. And surprisingly did really good. Not a lot of people go to Shin-Kobe. They will just get off at Shin-Osaka. But we did it. It was a good experience. And I love doing this.

00:39:20 John Daub: So if we can get to a thousand likes, Kanae and I, and Shin-Kan is passing us, Kanae and I will buy some Kobe beef bentos or something at Shin-Kobe Station. And we're going to go to town and really do something that you've never seen before. It's up to you. It's up to you. It's my first time in Kobe.

00:39:34 Kanae Daub: It's your first time in Kobe?

00:39:36 John Daub: Whoa. I've been there like a bazillion times. Everything's your first time going to travel. So you didn't really leave Tokyo. Yeah. I know we're in Kyoto, Osaka, but not Kobe. Wow. They do have a $300 Kobe beef bento in Shin-Osaka Station. $300. And they cook it to order. Meaning you have to wait there for five minutes while they cook it. Then they put it in the bento and you can take it out of the train. $300. We're not going to get that super jazzed. But maybe. We'll see what we can find at Kobe Station. Because I found a good one. We're coming back in two days. We're going to Awaji Island to film. Awaji Island. And after we zoom into Awaji Island either. So we were going to film a hotel there and a couple of amusement themed restaurants. But the point of it is that these themed things, the companies are going into the countryside now and making attractions. And are these efforts really bringing in tourists to the countryside, like spreading out the tourists, not just in Kyoto, Osaka, Tokyo. Yeah. Or in Hiroshima. But out into the countryside. Because that's what I really want to do. I want to bring people out to different areas of Japan. So we're going to Awaji Island to see how their effort is doing. It's going to be a pretty interesting episode. So have a good day. Have a good night. Everybody, wherever you are in the world. As the people from Yokohama get settled in and look for seats. We already have ours. Ha ha. Hit the like button. See you in a couple of hours. A couple of days. No. Tomorrow. Maybe tonight. I'm not sure. Just look for the notifications. Join us on the Discord server. Patreon. See you then. Have a nice day.

00:41:26 Kanae Daub: You going to eat some of my bento?

00:41:28 John Daub: Yes. Ha ha. Bye.