00:00:02 John Daub: This here is a Tokyo Rugby World Cup fan zone and you can see where these people are standing right in front of it is the mascot for the Rugby World Cup. Right there. Check it out. Those are the two mascots and you get to take pictures with them. But more importantly, if you've come here for rugby, this is the right place. Wow. I had no idea that this is what a fan zone would be like. I didn't even know it existed until about 15 minutes ago when I walked by.

00:00:34 John Daub: And I found a bunch of people entering this building and they said this is where the fan zone is and they're watching a rugby game. I believe it's England? I don't know, but I'm not tall enough because there's so many tall Westerners here to get in the front and see who's actually playing. But guess what? They've got food here. They've got food and I'm hungry for a snack. So let's go get some rugby food.

00:01:07 John Daub: Hey, everybody. Welcome to the Rugby World Cup zone. Right here to my left is rugby fair. And I guess it's all sponsored by Heineken. Check this out. Wow. Fish and chips. Heineken beer. Chuhai. They've got an Argentine choripán. I've never seen that before. That looks pretty good. I might try that. And they have a kebab. So lots of good fare here at the fan zone. Very friendly people serving. Very hungry people. This is rugby food. But also over here, it's a lot of foreign visitors here. But they also have like they're selling merchandise and stuff. So I'm going to take you around this area a little bit. And then we're going to go get some food to end this. So stick around. Maybe fast forward if you're in playback if you want to go right to the food because I'm gonna try that Argentina sandwich thing. Oh, check it out. You can dress up as the mascots. How cool is that?

00:02:16 John Daub: What? That's very cool. So you can wear the wig and become one of the mascots with the wicked long hair. This is going on, I guess, until the end of the World Cup. The Rugby World Cup goes on for a couple more days. This is the semifinals right now. The semifinals is happening right now. And this is going to be a record of what it was like to be at the fan zone because the fan zone ends in Tokyo when the event ends. Here's the gift shop. So they got some pretty cool stuff here in the gift shop.

00:02:48 John Daub: I guess rugby players like to wear official Japan rugby shirts as well. Whoa. It's got all the teams on there. How cool is that? Yeah. All right. Yeah, the Japan team is still in it. Oh, look at that t-shirt. I like it. It's got all of the logos of the rugby teams on it. Check this out here. The Wallabies. Rugby Canada, Rugby England, Flying Fijians. That's pretty neat. And they've got all different sizes as well. There's the one with the rugby logo on it. How are the prices like on these? Oh, check out this hat. This is hardcore. This is every Springboks on the back. That's pretty sweet. This hat is running about $40. And the t-shirts are running about 25 bucks.

00:04:19 John Daub: Yeah, this is Rugby World Cup swag. And it's going pretty quick. Oh, that's an awesome t-shirt. Awesome towel. Look at that towel. Wow, there's Mount Fuji. Oh, cool. Look at that. These are really pretty towels. These look too pretty for tough guys, I think, though. What do you think? And then they have some of the badges, some swag here.

00:05:00 John Daub: It's supposed to be free swag but that's a really nice looking shirt. Kind of big. This is 2XL size. These are 7,900 yen or about $75. Let's see in this shop a little bit. Here's the official rugby mascots. I do like their hair. They look pretty tough. Cool. These plushies. It's a good way to remember the Rugby World Cup I think. And then of course there's some fans. Rugby World Cup fans in the fan zone. These are running about $25 for each of these fans and they do look pretty cool.

00:06:20 John Daub: I don't think Kanae Daub wants a rugby plushie but she probably would rather have the sandwich so let's go back into the arena, the watching arena. Yeah you got to be tall to see. Let's go get a sandwich.

00:07:00 John Daub: Everybody thank you. I got some rugby food. I got rugby food everybody and let's go to the corner. She got rugby food too. All right check this out. Feels light. Something's happening it's hard to see. I'm gonna go in the corner here it's hard to see. Let's check out this sandwich here rugby food. Oh it's like a sausage. That looks like a sausage! Pretty good it's an Argentina sausage with sauce and lettuce and it's presented pretty well. It's just my snack. What do you think what do you guys think it was about seven dollars and fifty cents or so. Let's give it a try. The game's going on back there i'm more interested in the food than the game but let's try. There's a lot of Springboks fans here you can tell from the shirts. South Africa representing.

00:09:19 John Daub: There's not a lot of tables to eat at. There's one over there but the games are happening live right now so you might be able to see them on your TV set but i don't want to get it too much because it's kind of a lot of people and all that stuff. I ate all the sausage.

00:10:33 John Daub: Let's see if we can get to the front. Yum yum. Let's see how close we can go.

00:11:10 John Daub: How you doing? Good, who's playing?

00:11:14 Passerby: England versus Australia.

00:11:15 John Daub: Oh, England versus Australia, wow. I was just walking by and came in. Either of them. It's England versus Australia. I'm not sure who I'm rooting for. I like Australia and I like England. My grandmother is English. She was English so maybe you can only see 20% of the screen. You guys see the action? Something happened on that screen in front of us.

00:12:03 John Daub: Goes on aides rights, needs a beer. I don't know if I can afford it. I actually did not expect to be coming here. So I didn't go to the bank yet. That was my last thousand. Let me see. I might be able to get a drink. What the heck? This is pretty cool. Although I can't see anything. Everyone's so tall. I don't know if they expected 200 centimeter people to be in the front. Should be a rule. I want what she has. Wow. I can't believe it. So that you can watch it.

00:12:59 John Daub: That main TV, where I was, there's one here on the side. In case you can't see the main one, there's one on the side there. You can see sort of there. I can't see. And then there's another TV over on the other side. Something happened. Everyone is so tall. Well that's cute.

00:13:40 John Daub: Tokyo has a little stand here to promote Tokyo. Cool, you're not allowed to bring food and drink into the little booth area, but they got a structure for that. Stands for a beautiful green city. That's what they want in Tokyo.

00:14:00 John Daub: Get my beer right there. So the servant only Heineken here and as you can see an overview of this place. There's three TVs inside of the fan zone. They're all three of them are showing the same thing and they show the main screen has some statistics on the left and the right which is pretty interesting. But if you get deeper into the fan zone, it's easier to watch the rugby matches. It's a little bit darker in there as well. It looks pretty cool. So there you go. That's what the fan zone here looks like. They do a really good job of recycling everything. Let me just show you the garbage here.

00:14:46 John Daub: So there's incombustibles, which means non-burnable, which is plastics and things and then combustibles. I don't think everybody understands how to separate the garbage and they probably do that later. They have plastic garbage here and then there's leftover foods. That's interesting leftover foods cans and glass bottles. I like the way that they recycle here in Japan make sure that everything goes in the right place. I think it was Australia.

00:15:37 John Daub: Very cool the score. Ronald you got a check on TV. Isn't it playing? So the fans here are very very worked up. They're very very excited. These are the people who couldn't get tickets to go to the event probably. But being here is pretty exciting. It's not the same as being inside the stadium, but it's a pretty good second.

00:16:08 John Daub: I'm sort of in the same country and in the same city sort of but I'm not there yet. Sort of a feeling I guess it's fan zone. But you can see definitely who the fans are by what they're wearing. I saw some all-black fans some Springboks some of South African fans. There's some Japan fans. That's the Japan, the Sakura team. Sakura flowers is their mascot. I guess. Not really. I don't know too much about the rugby.

00:16:45 John Daub: So there you go. I hope you enjoyed it. I'm gonna go outside and show you the outside of it. I might even come back. It's really exciting. I gotta go get Kanae. We gotta come back to the park. This is the fan zone. The exits this way. I was the fan in the fan zone. I found a fan zone. This is the World Cup rugby. These are big. It's a pretty big.