00:00:00 John Daub: Hey everybody! Where did Kanae go? We're at the Shinkansen. There you are. We are going to do a change of trains from the Shinkansen to the local train. And we've just arrived at Kyoto Station. So join us as we make our way from here to the local train line that's heading towards Fukui.

00:00:26 John Daub: Do you remember what train line it is? Kanae forgot. Are you serious? But it's no problem because we have 45 minutes. I know it's JR. But what line is it? Alright, we're getting off right now. So goodbye to Shinkansen. It's what? Blue color. This is going to be a fun adventure.

00:01:03 John Daub: Alright. Welcome to Kyoto. I'm going to go ahead and show you the front of the train. Kanae's going to search for the train line. We're going to Fukui to check out one of her friend's hotels out in the countryside which is really interesting. I haven't been to this area of Fukui before so I'm excited. But we've got to change to a local train. But before we do that, behind us is the mighty Shinkansen. That's right! The N700A.

00:01:37 Kanae Daub: [laughing]

00:01:37 John Daub: Trekaris knows very well. Wow, look at the nose on her. She has seen some action. Whoa! That's a lot of bugs. I always call the Shinkansen a she. So we're going to say goodbye to the N700A. We have about, as I said, 45 minutes. So we're going to explore Kyoto Station a little bit. And depending on our like count, there might even be an ekiben (station bento) involved.

00:02:12 John Daub: But we're going to a local train. So some things that you should understand about local trains is you can't eat an ekiben. It's very rare because of the way the seating is. And we're going to ask Kanae. Kanae, I can't see you. There she is. Kanae's going to explain why. And if she can't, I will.

00:02:30 Kanae Daub: Why can't you eat an ekiben on a normal train?

00:02:36 John Daub: Normally we don't eat on normal trains.

00:02:40 Kanae Daub: Yeah, why?

00:02:42 John Daub: Because of...

00:02:42 Kanae Daub: Why?

00:02:44 Kanae Daub: No table. And sometimes it's not good to monitor.

00:02:50 John Daub: No table and not good manners. It's just part of it. Wow, this train's really starting to truck. Look at it. Wow, we're not even... That's not even halfway. So we're going to say goodbye. Kanae's actually saying goodbye.

00:03:07 Kanae Daub: [saying goodbye]

00:03:10 John Daub: That was our ride. And it's gone. Wow. Wow. Alright, let's go inside and get some food. But more importantly, get our tickets. So we only have the Shinkansen ticket. We have to find out how do we do this.

00:03:30 John Daub: So hopefully you'll be able to learn from us as another Shinkansen makes its way in. They come every 10 minutes. If we can do it, you can do it too. So this is all about changing from the Shinkansen platform in Kyoto to the local train and going somewhere else. Look, there's some backpacker alert. Backpack alert. Western tourists backpacker alert. They got some pretty big bags.

00:04:01 John Daub: You want a backpack, Kanae? She said, I have a backpack. I know, but that's like a six-month trip backpack. Nosh writes in, those are some tight shorts. Someone's been eating a little bit too much on this trip. It happens in Japan. It's hard not to eat because the food is so delicious here. It's nice to be in Kyoto. I'm in Kyoto again on a beautiful sunny day.

00:04:31 John Daub: Danny writes in, hi, John and Kanae. Have a nice day and trip together. Thank you, Danny. And Moe writes in here, I promised you an Asahi and get something for your beautiful Kanae. We're going to get some food. I'm starving. I missed breakfast. I was up until 3:30 in the morning editing the last main channel episode on fireworks. So you might want to check that out. Transfer to the JR line down there.

00:05:11 John Daub: Yatsuhashi (Kyoto mochi confection with red bean paste). That's a Kyoto delicacy. Mochi, right? Yeah, I love yatsuhashi. All right, welcome to the belly of the beast. We are now inside of the Shinkansen terminal at Kyoto Station. I could get an ekiben here, but you said it's bad manners. I don't want to break the rules. We have 45 minutes. Let's just take a quick look here.

00:05:41 John Daub: So you have the sandwiches usually here in the refrigerated area. Yeah, that looks really good. Are you not hungry?

00:05:50 Kanae Daub: Yeah, I eat banana.

00:05:52 John Daub: Wow, I've never seen like, so you can send these fans. There's an envelope. You send these, write the address. You can send something from Kyoto like right away. That's pretty neat. I've never seen that before. And then autumn is here. You can see the bentos have an autumn color to it. Right in the front, they usually sell the best one. They're the leaves. And then this is the, is that the matsutake (aromatic pine mushroom)?

00:06:18 Kanae Daub: Matsutake.

00:06:19 John Daub: It's kind of a matsutake bento. The matsutake mushroom is expensive because it's a very special aroma, like an aromatic mushroom that Japanese just love. Most of them are like made in Canada, come from Canada though, because it's cheaper from Canada. All right, let's get out of here. We're not going to the waiting room. There's no time to wait. We're going to the JR lines.

00:07:10 John Daub: All right, it's 970 yen for the ticket. Should we ask him if we need to get a ticket? Or should we just do the pay at the end? There's no ticket machine inside here to change to the other line.

00:07:31 John Daub: So what do you do in this situation, Kanae?

00:07:33 Kanae Daub: So we can just go inside. And if we need to pay, we can pay at the end.

00:07:41 John Daub: Pay at the end. That's right. When you get off of the train, you're required to pay if, because you have to show the station master the ticket, and they'll pay the difference, which is 970 yen. You can see here there's no, there's a lot of tourists. You can tell because they look different. They walk different. They dress different. Shorts in fall? I'm wearing shorts too. It's not a big deal. It is pretty hot today.

00:08:14 John Daub: So it's about a 50-minute ride to get there from here. Our train's at 11:45, right? What time is it now? 11:15. Okay, show us the train. Yeah, there it is right there. We need to take this train. That's where we're going. So 11:45, so we have 30 minutes. We've got 30 minutes to kill.

00:08:46 John Daub: All right, she's going to confirm with the train guy. It doesn't matter if you're Japanese or not. Knowing the local train lines, sometimes you just don't know. Even here in Japan, Kyoto, Kanae has not been to Kyoto many times. You just put the ticket in, and you'll get it back, and you can use that ticket within the local Kyoto regions, but outside of Kyoto, you'll have to pay the difference.

00:09:24 Kanae Daub: So we can pay there? Yeah.

00:09:27 John Daub: Okay. Yeah, she said we can pay. So we have two options, I said. We can one, pay at the end, or two, leave, and then buy a new ticket for 970 yen, get a receipt, and then come back in, right? So you have those two options. If you have time to kill and you want to exit the Shinkansen station, you can buy the new tickets to come back in.

00:09:51 Kanae Daub: What do you want to do, Kanae? We can pay. Pay at the end? Yeah.

00:09:56 John Daub: All right, so then we'll get something to eat here. Now, this is up to you, the viewer. We do these community-based rewards. If, if you out there can get a ticket, and you get us to 300 likes, we will buy some food. It's up to you. Until then, we are browsing. Oh, yatsuhashi, did you find some?

00:10:20 John Daub: Oh, wow, that whole shop is called Yatsuhashi. You see that? Kanae's on the prowl. We're at 168 likes. This is like gasoline for livestreams. So these are yatsuhashi. I showed it to you when we got out. This is what you buy in Kyoto. You can see it right here. It looks like, this is a real one. Oh, they've got the autumn, autumn flavors. They've added in, what is that?

00:10:57 Kanae Daub: Kuri (chestnut).

00:11:00 John Daub: That's pretty interesting. So that for autumn, because the chestnuts are out, they've added chestnuts to the yatsuhashi. Maybe we should get one of these. We can do it on the way back, because we got to go through here, coming back from Fukui. This is Kanae's favorite. Most popular. So this one is, all right, show us the goods. Not soft one. It's like crunchy, crunchy type of yatsuhashi.

00:11:34 Kanae Daub: Yeah, but if you want, like crunchy, crunchy type yatsuhashi, this brownie is best.

00:11:46 John Daub: Deep fried mochi. Has anyone ever heard of this? And why has this not been done before? You take the mochi, and you batter it, and then you deep fry it. Yeah, it's yatsuhashi. They've just deep fried it and made like chips out of it. Cool. Shinkansen printed yatsuhashi. Fried yatsuhashi. That's interesting. It's extraordinary.

00:12:17 John Daub: All right, what else we got here? We've got the yatsu. So this company, Yatsuhashi, also has crunch stuff? I've never seen that before. Jimbo386 writes in, hope you can get something while waiting. I hope so too. I'm starving. They put chocolate on top. Kanae, is there something else you want to get? Oh, look at these mini yatsuhashi. It's like a baby yatsuhashi. These are just babies. Do you see this? How small it is? It fits in the palm of my hand.

00:12:48 John Daub: This is nice for daimyo (feudal lord). These are daimyo supporters. We know who he is. This one is fun too. Oh, this one is... You can dip it in. Oh, so inside of here, they have like a little green tea fondue. And you dip your mochi yatsuhashi into the green tea slime. I like this. The chocolate yatsuhashi also looks quite good. It's really mochi. This is the classical ones. This is green tea with very small red beans. But I guess it's done with the paste. With the paste there, that looks really good. Yeah, Kanae likes these though. The deep fried ones with chocolate on it. They're about $9.

00:13:41 John Daub: Oh, this is what I got our daimyo supporters like three months ago. Three, four months ago last time I was here. I sent this one with sakura cherry blossom flavored ones. This is very good. All right, we're on the prowl. We need to get some food here. But we're 75 likes short. Very disappointed. Come on, guys. Pick it up. We can do this.

00:14:10 John Daub: Oh, this is the... Peter von Gomm gave me one of these on a live stream once. These are the Black Thunder. Green tea flavor. But this Black Thunder isn't black. Kanae, the Black Thunder is green tea flavored. That's insane. I can't buy anything yet because we're waiting for the...

00:14:46 John Daub: Dead station here. We're now on the prowl for some real food. But we're finding at the gift shops here in the station... The local taxes. They're like grandfathered in from centuries ago when the taxes were low. And they can't be like double taxed or retaxed at a rate or something. I can't remember. But I talked with somebody about it. And that's one reason why Kyoto is a great place for farming because of that too.

00:15:23 John Daub: Yeah, is there something you want to try, Kanae?

00:15:26 Kanae Daub: Nani ka tabetai? (Want to eat something?)

00:15:31 John Daub: So there's some sake, little sake barrels. I guess you can buy that. It's interesting. Oh, there's an ekiben shop. Run, run. We're not running. You know why? Because we don't have to run. This is one of the few times where I'm early. We're too early. So we're going to kill some time looking at ekiben and food. That one looks really good. That has a little bit of everything. That's the Kinki region bento. It says right there in English. Kinki. They break everything down.

00:16:14 John Daub: That one looks pretty good, too. She's putting some new ones. Oh, they got sandwiches, too. Ah, yeah. I bought a sandwich here for the sandwich episode, I think, from this shop. Kanae, this is the one I bought from before. This is the, yeah, the beef menchi katsu (minced beef croquette). This is the sandwich. Oh, it's good. It is really good. I remember a kuroge wagyu (black-haired Japanese beef) sandwich from Kyoto Station. And I ate it on a local train. And then there were like five viewers who got upset and said, how dare you eat a sandwich on a local train? So I got in trouble by those five viewers. Most people didn't care.

00:17:05 John Daub: But it is neat to walk around the station and look at stuff. We're 25 away from getting that ekiben. Oh, here's a restaurant. So, Kanae, you could, we could actually just get something to eat. Look at this. There's a waitress in there serving. We could just get something to eat, like a bowl of ramen. This is a curry udon. Look at this. Curry udon for $10. It's reasonable. Big piece of saba (mackerel), that looks like.

00:17:46 Kanae Daub: It's curry udon. Nishin (herring). Ah, yeah, nishin. It's a kind of fish from Kyoto. Biwako (Lake Biwa). And oyakodon (chicken-egg rice bowl). I love oyakodon. Yeah. It's a good oyakodon and a tendon (tempura rice bowl). Right there. With miso soup. $15.

00:18:07 John Daub: All right, let's go in. Let's go over here. I think I know where the sandwiches are. What language is he speaking? It's interesting. You see people from all over the world speaking so many different kinds of languages. It's so funny because 20 years ago when I came to Japan, there were very few Western tourists. There were very few tourists 20 years ago. It's interesting how quickly things have changed.

00:18:37 John Daub: Oh, this is... Looks... What is that? It's so good. I don't know what that is. Manju (steamed bun)? Chocolate steamed cake dumplings. It's lipstick. Oh, it's lipstick? It's Indian lipstick. But why is it in a cake? It should be illegal. Loads and loads of matcha products because Uji matcha is near here. Some of the most famous matcha in Japan.

00:19:23 John Daub: Okay, time to buy something. We're very close. Marshall writes in, get something. We have to... Marshall, Alice, we got to get something now. Do you agree? Do you agree we should get something? What do you think?

00:19:39 Kanae Daub: It's a very slow yes. Because we haven't reached our 300 likes.

00:19:45 John Daub: It's a very slow yes. Yes. Wait, wait for it, wait for it. Yes. Alright, let's do it now, Kanae. We're going to pull the trigger. We're going to get there. Alright, I want to try that sandwich. Don't you? You want to try that sandwich?

00:20:04 Kanae Daub: Yeah.

00:20:04 John Daub: Alright, let's get one of those wagyu sandwiches. I'm telling you. I had this on the train episode. It was like 3 million view episode. I did last year. It was so good. This sandwich might be easier because we're riding a local train. Yeah, we're getting it now. Kanae, I think we should eat it now. Alright, let me get it here. Maybe the menchi, the beef menchi katsu.

00:20:32 Kanae Daub: No, the dōchi (mystery item?).

00:20:35 John Daub: Yeah. Here. Here's a fiver. Do you think it's good?

00:20:44 Kanae Daub: Yeah, that one looks good. What do you think? Dōchi demo is up to you.

00:20:50 John Daub: Okay, do it. Just try it. That one's 850 yen. Now watch the way they return the money. They're very, very good at doing it. They just give you the change, but in Japan, they'll be very good with it. See the way she fans it out so you can see it all? That wasn't the best sample, but you can tell the way they give back the money. It's extremely kind. And then they'll give you the handle with the bags and just make it so that it's not as easy for you to pick up. Just little teeny things that they do in Japan. It's very special.

00:21:36 John Daub: This place is under construction. Sounds like someone's scratching a record. Not our finest moment, but in a live stream, anything can happen. Let's check this place out, Kanae. And then there's a restaurant. This is all inside of the Shinkansen station here inside Kyoto. Just for the record, we're inside of Kyoto Station's Shinkansen. So before you leave, this is stuff that you could find and then we're going to transfer into the local trains.

00:22:12 John Daub: Oh, this is like a dessert. These are so good. This is fresh. What is this?

00:22:22 Kanae Daub: Zenzai (sweet red bean soup with mochi).

00:22:24 John Daub: Zenzai is like mochi with red beans. Whenever I eat this, you eat it in a quiet, relaxing setting that feels like you're in Japan. This might not be the best one with drills going on in the background. I like free samples. Kanae, free samples.

00:22:40 Kanae Daub: Free samples. Capitameter? Free samples.

00:22:57 John Daub: It has like a chestnut in it. A chestnut with some sugar around it. That was good. In Japan, the desserts are not overly sweet because they want to protect the natural sweetness, the natural taste of the ingredients. So since chestnuts are in season now, you want to make it sweet, but not so sweet that it overpowers the taste of the chestnut. I like that. Two points for that but they need ten points for me to buy it.

00:23:28 John Daub: Alright so we bought a sandwich which was $8. Let's see what else you want to get. Should we get some yatsuhashi? Which one should we get? This is a little teeny shop booth inside of there. This one has hold on a second. What are they serving here like matcha? Sorry that side was not as interesting. Oh these are like chocolates. Chocolate matcha green tea chocolates and they look like jewelry behind the window there. Wow one bag is 700 yen that's really...

00:24:12 John Daub: [eating] Thank you so much. Wow check this out it's beautiful it's beautiful. What a kid a Disneylandish man. Just the cookie is good. Oishii (delicious)?

00:24:31 Kanae Daub: Tastes so good. Oishii. Oishii.

00:24:56 John Daub: Should you buy it? Do you feel the pressure to buy it now? That's why I always run away when they give free samples. Mmm oishii ne (delicious, right?). Do you want to buy it or we slowly walk away? Slowly walk away walk away from the chocolate. Walk away from the chocolate. All right now run run. Can buy it that's time that's a good point I can buy it next time. Mata kuru (I'll come again). Mata kimasu (I'll come again). You can say that when you walk away and then never come again. It happens.

00:25:34 John Daub: Alright we're getting something dessert for the road right? We're getting a dessert for the road. Wait for it yes wait for the road. Yes. Yes. No? No? Nope? Yes. Yes. Are those real? Hold on a second. I'm just going to touch it. That's a model. Okay. Yeah, that's fine. Do you want to get your friend a present? Or are you like this? Travel pack. Alright, let's go. Yes. No. Yes. Yes. Can I wait in line? We have 10 minutes.

00:26:33 John Daub: Now we're going to be running. Because we always run for the train. That's interesting. Check this out. Do you see behind me? Do you see behind me? This is a Sagawa, which is a delivery company like Takkyubin (home delivery). So you can buy stuff here and then deliver it right there. That's pretty cool. I didn't know that existed. Jem Defensor writes in, dolls always affirming. Buy desserts. Yes. Yes. I just like the sales pitch. Yes. Should I buy it? Yes. It's not pushy. It's not pushy.

00:27:17 John Daub: Speaking of not pushy, Kanae, I'm not going to push you, but we have to hurry now. Alright, let's do this. Where's my ticket? Here's the ticket. This is a non-reserved ticket from Tokyo to Kyoto. The trip costs about $130. One way. A bus would cost about half that, but you'd be three times as tired. Oh, look at this. Ekiben. Wow. This is a lineup. Check this out. What? What? Oh, man. That lineup. Look at that chicken.

00:28:08 John Daub: Are we getting reports that the videos are blurry? You might want to refresh your browser every now and then. Oh, there's the sandwich. Alright, Kanae. Oh, right there. So we can get a little bit of a look at the food. Yeah, we made it all. Yeah, there was the... The sandwich I got was the Matsuzaka beef...

00:28:26 John Daub: Oh, Kanae, look. Oh, my gosh. This is the sukiyaki tamago sando (sukiyaki egg sandwich). Kanae, the sukiyaki tamago sando. Where? Which one? Right there. Sukiyaki tamago sando. Where? Down there. Alright, let's just go. We don't have time. I just saw the sandwich I'm getting. Oh, my gosh. Okay. Here we go. Alright, this is our proof that we got off at Kyoto Station. Thank you. We're now entering the local trains.

00:28:57 John Daub: Is it the Nara Line? Biwa Line? The Kosei Line? Kanae, there's two blue ones. No. There's two blue ones. Oh, Kanae's going. Alright, we got a book. Alright, welcome to the local train area. We've now left the Shinkansen area. Oh, there's more ekiben. Right over there. I thought it was... I thought it wouldn't be as good out here, but that's a... That's a pretty good line. Oh, we don't got time. We don't got time. Alright, keep going, Kanae.

00:29:48 John Daub: Today, I'm following her. She's the boss. Oh, I'm following her. Kanae's very proud of her North Face backpack. Look at the zippers. They're pink. She's very proud of that. And the North Face logo is pink. We're not into brand stuff, but when the logo's pink, she'll buy it. Just saying. Here's the main exit. One of the exits to Kyoto Station from... Which exit is this? This is the west exit.

00:30:24 Kanae Daub: Koko (here)? Are you sure? Which line is it? The Kosei or the Biwako?

00:30:31 John Daub: Biwako. Because they're both blue. The Kosei? Alright, guys. We're taking the Kosei line marked with A and B. Omi-Imazu. There it is right there. Omi-Imazu. Good. Oh, there's more bentos. Do we have time? Okay, we better go. We better go. Because we gotta eat this sandwich on the platform for the people. This could be a crowded train and not have a... It would be rude. It would be rude to eat this on a crowded train, but we gotta eat it. We must.

00:31:14 John Daub: Which train is it? This one? Two. The 11:45 is this one? Two. Okay. We're taking express. Alright, here's the board. It's in Japanese and then changes to English. The Kosei line, 11:45 to Tsuruga. Oh, I love Tsuruga. That's a beautiful town in Fukui. We better go to the front. I always go to car number one because people are lazy and they never walk out there. If you want a less crowded local train car, walk to the end. So, we're going to the front. There's a lot of seats and they're usually less crowded.

00:31:47 John Daub: On the local train platform right in front of you is an udon soba stand with a vending machine and people are waiting for like... They'll eat for like three, four minutes and then they're out of here. Right? This is a local train platform. So, if you want a bite to eat, get from the vending machine, hand him the ticket, he gives you your noodles. Boom. You're out of here. Tachigui (stand-and-eat) soba. You want some tachigui soba? Standing soba. Oh, those sets look good too. It's all about... It's all $5 or less except for one of them. And it's cheap and fast. Cheap and fast.

00:32:28 John Daub: Sounds like a plan. Oh, and if you've been to Kyoto Station, a lot of you are. Now you're starting to recognize there's the exterior of the station and the central exit is right there. But we're not going into there where this escalator mountain is. We're going over here. Is this the car number one? I go to the front. This is a Shinkaisoku (limited express train).

00:33:05 John Daub: All right, Kanae, let's get the sandwich out. I'm afraid... Yeah, see what I mean? There's very few people here. So that means we're going to have a little bit more space to eat our sandwich, our beef, deep fried beef sandwich. Oh, man. And we have the water, right? We have mizu (water). Should I get something from the vending machine?

00:33:34 Kanae Daub: Maybe. I'll worry about it. You want to get something? What do you want?

00:33:40 John Daub: All right, you stay here. I'll go get it. I've got an ICOCA. Just stay here. I got this. Stay there, Kanae. We have two minutes. Let's get a drink, everybody, which is from the Osaka area. Tokyo uses a Suica, but both cards can be used in both places. It's just a regional thing. See here. I love tansan sui (carbonated water), which is carbonated water, just plain carbonated water. They've got the Boss coffee, Calpis, little teeny Coca-Colas. But I'm going to go for green tea because I think that would go great.

00:34:44 John Daub: I got to use coins. Oh my gosh. The train's coming. Kanae, I got this. I got this. Nice. Okay. We're going to get a sandwich at Kyoto. We're heading towards Fukui. The change of trains was easy. All of the signs are in English. We have to know in advance if you have to know your train line in advance write it down and look for the color and you should be able to find it. Okay it took us we left the Shinkansen platform about five minutes to get here sandwich up to 300 likes.

00:36:14 John Daub: High-class guy nice hat this is evil I love it it's good is there a oh she wouldn't always clean your hands before eating you want to be a dirty barbarian of course this is the one the beautiful shot this is it this is a beauty shot. One you can't really eat on the trains but if the seats are like this then it's sort of okay usually the rule is that there's no if there's no tray eating is probably not good but if the seats are semi-private you can eat on the train like...

00:37:20 Kanae Daub: [Japanese] Daijōbu (it's okay).

00:37:26 John Daub: She said she said it's okay she's Japanese and that's enough for me.

00:37:27 Kanae Daub: Yeah.

00:37:34 John Daub: Tokyo probably energy enough enough talking let's eat. Better bail thank you dedicating the sandwich to you we didn't drink fun gotta stay fed on the moon you're absolutely right let's see if we drop the signal. I'm gonna show you was on the other side before we cut off it's a pretty fun adventure we had we're back you want to press the refresh button.

00:39:33 John Daub: This is Kyoto suburbs some beautiful houses down there. Sandwich all right can I save me the last one I'm gonna go to the front and show the I'm gonna show the driver okay. Let's check out the view. This is awesome. This is a local train, the Shinkaisoku, which is a limited express that's going there. Just 10 stations. This is one, so nine to go. This is Kyoto suburbs, and it's pretty neat. Wow, there's a train guy.

00:40:29 John Daub: Now typically you can't eat on these trains. Usually if there's no tray, that's an indication. But if you have some semi-privacy, like line seats and not bench seats the long way like a subway, it's usually tolerated if you're hungry. We're hungry. Survival, right? Stick our head out. There's really not that much here. There's really not that much out here. This is Higashiyama, the mountainside where Kiyomizudera (Kiyomizu Temple) is, but we're well past all of the central Kyoto areas.

00:41:12 John Daub: So this is where we take the train fare from Kyoto. The train fare from Tokyo to Kyoto is about $130. And if you change trains. You can do that by going directly to the local trains. And it just depends what the fare is. Our fare is 970 yen, or about $9.50. But we're going to pay that on arrival. We'll show them our Shinkansen tickets because we hold on to the ticket, okay? Do not let go of your ticket if you're going to pay on arrival. Hold on to your tickets, and we'll pay at the station 970 yen. Or you can leave the Shinkansen terminal. Give the ticket, and then buy a new ticket. But it just depends on your style. Both are okay.

00:42:03 John Daub: The third way is to use an IC card, like a Suica or an ICOCA card. And then you can just do it more freely. Here comes another local train going by. But the Kansai region, which is where we are right now, is really convenient with trains. They're pretty good. The Shinkaisoku, I think, is only in the Kansai region. The main one goes between Maibara and Himeji. And it's about half as fast as the Shinkansen. And a third of the price. So it's a good bargain, the Shinkaisoku.

00:42:37 John Daub: Alright, everybody. I hope this was really useful. Click the like button if you like this kind of content. And definitely share your experience. Leave us a comment below. And I hope this video is useful for everybody who's taking the Shinkansen into Kyoto and then changing trains. Because in about five seconds, we're going into a tunnel. And you won't hear from us anymore. Until we get to the other side. So, next live stream will be in Fukui. And I'll show you a little bit of the Japanese countryside. Bye, everybody.