00:00:04 John Daub: Greetings everybody and welcome to Tokyo! Right here on my right is Tsukiji Market, which is completely gone now except for the docks that are right there. That's kind of a skeleton of the old fish market. And then right in front of your screen right now is the Kachidoki Bridge, a very historic bridge in the city of Tokyo. And under construction as you can clearly see because of the 2020 Olympics. I'm sure they're trying to beautify it as they are with all the bridges.

00:00:35 John Daub: We're going to be heading this way checking out the Kachidoki neighborhood, which is a new island. Lots of history—not really, but I will bring you as much of it as I can. How you doing everybody? I'm John Daub. This is the Only in Japan Go channel. Do subscribe so you get the notifications and watch this live because it's a lot more fun when it's live. And we'll bring you some exciting stuff with the city of Tokyo. It's getting more exciting with the Olympics coming everybody.

00:01:05 John Daub: That is the Sumida River (隅田川，Sumidagawa) that you see in front of us. And the space boat just went by, so those who like the space boat or the Suijo Bus (水上バス，water bus) just missed it. It's on its way to Odaiba. It's a peaceful place. That's Tokyo Tower. You see it just up there on the top over the building. 333 meters I believe. And this here is the only drawbridge in Tokyo on the Sumida River. Hey Mike! How you doing? From Latvia. It's nice to see you. This is a live stream everybody. The iPhone 11 Pro.

00:01:38 John Daub: Now this drawbridge was built in the 1940s and it connected this island of Kachidoki with the mainland, which is Tsukiji and Ginza. You can check this way. In the center of it, which you can't see because of the construction, you have to go on a bicycle. And bicycles should go on the road hugging the shoulder and not on the sidewalk just so you know. There are laws but very few people follow it including the police sometimes. They don't hug the curb. In the middle of it is a drawbridge. There's a metal guard in the middle of it. It would take 70 seconds to open I was told but 20 minutes for the boats to cross through it. The last time that this bridge opened up was in the 1970s.

00:02:10 John Daub: The reason why is because a lot of the highway traffic into the island meant they didn't need to open the drawbridge anymore. So things could get around by car a lot easier because the infrastructure in Japan was so much better than it was in the 1940s after World War II. By 1970, this drawbridge was finished and now it's just kind of a bridge, but it's still a pretty bridge and a historic bridge. They built this in the 1940s to celebrate the victory of the Russo-Japanese War and it's still here today. I don't know if a lot of people know why they built it, but it was the only way to get on here. Before, the only way to get onto Kachidoki Island was by boat. You'd have to take a ferry across and Tsukuda Island, which is the original rock, is still over there and there's a lot of high-rise buildings.

00:03:14 John Daub: But before they built Tsukishima and Kachidoki—by the way, there's a map in the description if you want to find out what I'm talking about—this island was just settling land. Now Kachidoki, I'm going to point forward, they started building in the Meiji era, which started in 1868 and went on until 1912 and then the Taisho era from 1912 to 1926 and they finished it in the Taisho era. And there really wasn't a lot of stuff here, but before World War II, some factories and warehouses came into this area because it was still kind of soft land, but it was wide and open enough where you could do business factories. It's right off of the water, so lots of shipping, lots of warehouses were here. And then gradually, this place became this. High-rise mansion towers that are surrounding us all over the place.

00:04:17 John Daub: It's a really nice location to live in. If you do live in Kachidoki and this is your address, it's a really nice place because it's so close to Ginza. Just walk across this bridge for 15-20 minutes, you're in the center of Ginza, which is incredible. And if you keep on going straight from there you're in Yurakucho (有楽町) and the Imperial Palace—it's like a 10-minute bicycle ride, it's crazy close. So living here is great and over the last 10 years a lot of families have moved in here so you'll see a lot of strollers, a lot of mothers, a lot of young families here. Lots of schools have opened up. This neighborhood which was once just warehouses has turned into a really thriving neighborhood in Tokyo.

00:05:06 John Daub: You see a lot of trucks coming through here. Tsukiji market closed this direction across the bridge and this way you can get to Toyosu fish market which is the new Tsukiji market, you know in Toyosu. And you can get there through here so you see a lot of trucks and a lot of industry going through here. This way is a secret bakery—I'm not gonna take you there but if you walk for about 200 meters you're gonna get to one of my favorite bakeries that I'll ride my bicycle to get some bread some mornings. So you might find me there like 9 a.m. doing a bread run. Something's going on up there. Hey Benevale, food and drink fun, thank you. I hope you find something good around there. I'm gonna look for something—we'll definitely hit a convenience store or a vending machine. Here comes a fire engine going through—they're usually followed by more fire engines. Tokyo Fire Department crossing the Kachidoki Bridge. Excitement—hope everybody's okay wherever that's going.

00:06:17 John Daub: Yeah and John M is in the house, hey John, thank you so much. So join me for the next 30 minutes probably an hour as we walk from here to the new shopping mall and then possibly a little bit further. Kachidoki is where you're gonna find the subway station closest to the Olympic Village as well and I'll tell you more about that as we get closer to it. There's a police box right there so if you ever get lost and you need directions you can just stop in there. They have a map and the police officers—they might not speak that much English but they will help you get to where you want to go. Police officers' jobs and duties in Japan—one of them is to help tourists find a destination. In like most countries police officers you wouldn't go to for information if you get lost so much because they're usually busy, but in Japan maybe because crime is not as high or crooks get caught, they're happy to help out tourists.

00:07:16 John Daub: Alright this right here now we're on top of Kachidoki Station. Kachidoki Station is on the Oedo Line (大江戸線), which is Tokyo's purple line—not lavender. And there's two circle lines in the city of Tokyo: one of them is the Yamanote Line (山手線) which is run by Japan Rail; the second one is the Oedo Line and that's on the Toei subway line. There's two subway lines—the other one is Tokyo Metro and you can't use a Metro pass on Toei and a Toei pass on Metro unless you buy the dual pass which allows you both. Some information—we'll do another live stream on that later. There's also a lot of hospitals here so there's a lot of ambulances. I guess the people before they moved in some of them might not have known it can get a little loud. There's a lot of trucks, a lot of ambulances going to the hospitals but Kachidoki Station comes out right about here. You can see across the street Kachidoki Station.

00:08:27 John Daub: And there's some history on the naming of Kachidoki—it has hiragana in it which is unusual, right? Kachidoki (勝どき). That's because the kanji for Kachidoki, the second one doki, is not something that's used very often. It just maybe it's a new land, it just made sense to put it in hiragana. And I got that information from Wikipedia—thank you Wikipedia. There's Kachidoki written in Japanese above it in English. The Toei subway—this will help you remember should you come out here. I think this is a great place to get a slice of everyday life in Tokyo, to see what the new lands are. This is on top of a landfill from the Meiji era 100 years ago, over 100 years ago, so it's kind of neat. There's a park right here, there's more bakeries, a lot of history, little historical shops, some good yakitori down here. And that high-rise building that you see right there is not that far away from the Olympic Village. So yeah that's if you're an Olympian watching, that's where you're going to be staying over there. You're going to need a bus because there's no subway station beyond this. This one was built in the year 2000, two years after I got here—I've been here that long.

00:10:16 John Daub: This is an elevator that comes up—it's a convenient station. It's undergone a renovation over the last couple of years because of the increasing population. There's now I believe 27 or 28,000 people living here which is actually pretty significant considering this was like nothing, just barren wasteland about 15-20 years ago. None of these high-rise apartments existed at that time. Sadly the iPhone 11 Pro can't do super wide yet on the YouTube app but if you did you'd be able to get an amazing view of this area. And if you lived here this is very nostalgic for you I think because a lot of expats live in this neighborhood. It's a little bit pricey but companies usually have a little bit of a budget to pay for it. We're walking to a brand new shopping mall that's just off of Kachidoki and that could be another reason for you to come out here.

00:10:48 John Daub: This way besides this taxi—if you go straight this way towards the sea you will hit Toyosu and Toyosu fish market. So if you want to just stroll that way through this neighborhood it's kind of neat because the bridge here is also pretty cool. You could just walk from here straight through Kachidoki and get to Toyosu—it's a really nice one-hour walk through urban Tokyo and you get a feeling of what the new lands is like. So once again this was they started building it in the Meiji era and they completed it in the Taisho era—the years are kind of sketchy, hard to pinpoint when everything was completed but it wasn't very long ago that down this way these buildings did not exist. I think like two years ago it was just warehouses and if you keep going past those two really tall buildings you'll get to just warehouses and then you get to the point where you can look at Tokyo Bay. So I used to run this way—still run this way sometimes. I'll go down to the end of the point and it's a nice 10-15K run for me.

00:12:35 John Daub: William Marks writes and stay hydrated—absolutely. We can go this way to get to the shopping mall but I'm going to take you around another way, this way. Another exit for Kachidoki Station but there's a famous tsukemen (つけ麺，dipping noodles) shop that I'm gonna walk by with you. We're not gonna go in because we don't have permission to film and I'm not hungry at all. And if you do come to this neighborhood I highly recommend that you make a pit stop here if you're looking for some tsukemen which is ramen that you dip into the soup—they kind of separate it and the soup is thicker and has usually really good pieces of chashu (叉焼，roast pork) steak and the noodles are a little bit thicker like udon but they're made a little bit different. It's so good—the noodles are cold which means that when you dip it into the hot soup the flavors come out. I like that a lot.

00:13:47 John Daub: What is this—this looks like a little preschool unit or something with lockers outside, never seen anything like that. What do they got in this vending machine here? Oh look at that—they've set it up with mugicha (麦茶，barley tea) and an iced tea. Mugicha iced tea—it looks pretty cool. You get a little decorate. Whoa, Conan has its own drink—Conan white soda. That's called—now Conan is a famous, there's a town in Tottori Prefecture with Conan, which is the detective. Conan O'Brien went down there—comedian—he's like wow we got the same name. Oh I tried this before—Melon's cream soda, rancid. We'll pick something up on the way. This is it here—Sujita. That sign right there says tsukemen you see that and then this one says Sujita.

00:14:58 John Daub: Sujita is a very famous tsukemen shop and they have a vending machine that you can pick tickets out of and we're going to take a look at the menu but this is really cool. To keep the kids safe preschools will cart the kids and like there's seven or eight kids in these carts—it's really cute when you see a basket of kids being pushed by an adult. So I just want to show you really quickly—that's tsukemen, they separate the noodles with the soup. This is about 1,000 yen or about ten dollars and look at this chashu steak with hanjuku tamago (半熟卵，soft-boiled egg) and mushrooms—it's so good. You don't have to—you can get it with everything together as a ramen for a little bit less but it's so much better. And there are all the ingredients down there—negi (葱，green onions). You can get sudachi (酢橘，citrus fruit) which is famous down in Shikoku and Kyushu and it really brings out a little bit of taste to it. And there's an ajitama (味付け玉子，marinated egg) which is these beautiful hanjuku tamago—I love it, like the congealed egg inside of it. So you got to stop for this—you just get the ticket and then you can go inside and have a bowl of really delicious tsukemen.

00:16:22 John Daub: Yeah I'm really hungry thinking about it. Yes Kanae is making dinner and it's about 4:15. Eat something—she totally will kill me if I eat something. Tsukemen is awesome. Kelvin Fu writes in—nosh Google probably better answer that than John. Absolutely—if you do have questions you can try Google, probably answers quicker than if I check out all the comments. Actually um nosh made a suggestion, our moderator, that maybe we should have the power to be able to highlight some of the comments because they do move pretty fast and I will miss them on the screen looking left and right so I don't get hit by cars. So that would be a neat addition possibly. I think YouTube is always fixing up the app so when they do we're gonna have unlocked some pretty cool features I think in the near future. Live streaming has changed so much over the last two and a half years I've been doing this—the quality has increased from 480p to 720p. People still complain about that but I'm sure we're gonna get HD soon as 5G rolls out.

00:18:23 John Daub: Alright that's Kachidoki—this is the main walkway. Up here is where I'm going to take you—is the Triton Square (トリトンスクエア) shopping mall straight ahead and it's a really scenic place. We're going to be there in about 15 minutes so stay tuned. Here's a little park and I'm going to walk up here and then take a little look at some of the boats. It was very much like—I don't want to say Amsterdam but there's a lot of canals here and a lot of people forget about that history. Before um everything used to be carried by hand like kagos (籠，baskets) would carry it across Nihonbashi like 150 years ago. But for really heavy loads they would use the canals of Tokyo to get from one place to another and you still see some of that history. You'll see some of the old boats floating around. This is one of the small canals and it was built in the Meiji era but it's not really in use anymore except there's a parking lot for boats that carry people or tug boats and things like that.

00:19:34 John Daub: Yeah this playground—there's tons of these playgrounds too for kids, little places for communities to enjoy life. For those of our viewers in Saudi Arabia we have a couple of them lately too—we have camels which is pretty unusual but it's pretty cool considering this looks like a desert, no grass here. Oh this one oscillates just back and forth—there's no big spring like they have in some of the other ones. Why do you need a sandbox if it's all a big sandbox? Keep the sand in—I don't know. Oh can I swing? We got to come back here—we got to come back here. I like a good swing. Swings are not made just for kids—they should totally have more adult swings because it's like a couple of minutes where you totally forget about everything else and you're just swinging back and forth like an amusement park ride. I like that.

00:20:46 John Daub: Alright we're walking over towards Triton right now and then we're gonna cross this bridge. Somebody wrote in why do I talk so much and the answer is this is a live stream and if you're watching this in a playback it probably makes sense but you have to understand something like if I'm not talking and somebody joins a live stream where there's no voice they don't really understand what's going on. So I have to keep explaining stuff and it doesn't make a lot of sense to people in playback but I think it still has a lot of value. It's so quiet in here—it's so quiet. We're doing it live right—look how quiet the neighborhood is. I love this. I'm gonna walk up this bridge and then we're going around and I'm going to show you the other bridge because I love bridges. I love trains, I love infrastructure, I love the personality in the buildings and architecture. I'm a very detailed person on city walks—I like boats. OCD Stegos and I love boats—totally love boats. That's a given—I love the space boat.

00:22:16 John Daub: I should write—it's been a while. We do have a typhoon coming and I hope that we've been able to recover a little bit more in the countryside because last night if you check out my Instagram I showed you what the Rugby World Cup did. We paused for a moment in silence to remember those that lost their lives and the damage that happened during the Rugby World Cup. So go check out that moment of silence which really moved me—that stadium just stopped for a moment to remember. Because I mean we—I don't want to say I lived, I survived that storm—it was pretty tough but after seeing the videos you understand what happened to a lot of people out in the countryside, to see the flooding. All these natural disasters happen all over the world but when it happens close to home it's hard. It was nice in the Rugby World Cup last night and we went with Dan from What's Inside—me, Kanae and Dan. And he was—we went to the Rugby World Cup, we got tickets and that was an amazing experience. So check out on Instagram that moment of silence.

00:23:27 John Daub: And kind of was a really good thing that there is the Triton Plaza, Triton Square shopping mall which is brand new. I remember when I first came here I'm like what is this building doing here—shopping mall right on this little canal. It's so quiet between the buildings and on the other side is this space-looking tunnel that we're gonna walk through next. Yeah I'm taking you through this in like two minutes—well however long it takes to get there—and then we're gonna walk around to the Triton Square shopping mall and I'll show you from there a little bit of the area. It's pretty cool. You're watching this in playback you're probably like gonna skip along to get straight to the tunnel. It's the space tunnel—Japan's awesome like that right? It's like we've developed a city of the future in space. You could just dig up with this massive space shovel, take Tokyo, put a dome on it, just put it on the moon. We have a like a colony—call it the first colony of the moon would be Tokyo. We'd have to first you know have a vote on it—the Tokyoites would have to say yes to something like that but think about the view—Earth rising. I can't imagine anybody from the city of Tokyo would be against moving to the moon.

00:25:03 John Daub: See the lots of little alleyways with houses also in here—some of them are really old. Tsukishima which is another landfill area built off of Tsukuda—on the map which you can see in the description—has a ton of houses, wooden houses called nagaya (長屋，row houses) built during the Meiji era when they first built the islands. People lived here and a lot of them are still in existence here—they're massive fire hazards. So the city is not taking many of them down or refurbishing and making sure that they're not so much hazards anymore, which is hard to do. You can see some more nagaya—let's walk this a little bit just walk a little bit through here. Old mailbox—I thought that was a real cat. I thought that was a real cat. Benevale writes in how about getting a nice dessert to share for after dinner—maybe a citrus sorbet or lemon tart. I like that idea—I like what you're thinking. I'll see if I can find something at the shopping mall.

00:26:16 John Daub: But we're walking down through a little alley in Kachidoki—it's so quiet and then there are even smaller alleys. Look it's a place where bicycles are parked down there—it's a little bit spooky isn't it? Afraid to go down there but these buildings look like shacks right? But I love them because they have so much personality—the rust on the metal, the wires, the electrical wires above. Can't put it underground because of earthquakes so it gives it a lot of personality. But I love how residents will add nature into it—you'll see these trees jutting out into the path and it gives it kind of this forest, strange urban forest look to it. I like that. There's another one that goes over to the main road. Alright we're gonna take a left here and we're going towards the space tunnel. You know you add space to anything it just makes it 10 times cooler—tunnel? No no no—space tunnel. Yeah. There's another alley—these buildings could bite the dust. I just don't know—some of them might not be here in a couple of years but it's nice to capture them and put them in the record. They're not a part of the record of this channel series.

00:28:11 John Daub: It's a parking garage. Whoa check this out—this is a walkway. This here's a looks like it—this is a parking garage that anybody can use um it's now full. Let's walk through here—this is amazing. Look at this piece of broken wood. People live down here—this would be a nice place to live. Some more alleys—so quiet. I love the trees. I mean if someone said yeah you're gonna live down in an alley probably it doesn't seem such an attractive place but when you have all of these trees and all the nature down here look at that—it's not such a bad place to live. Too many trees? What is that—too many trees? How could you have too many trees? If you live in Shibuya there's like one tree in front of the station and that's it. And I filmed that—it's a cherry blossom tree. There are too many trees in Shibuya. OCD Stig that might be your neighborhood—that might be the place to go.

00:30:06 John Daub: We're gonna hang a left and go through space tunnel—I hope you're looking forward to this. Space tunnel has been one of my favorite tunnels. There's a lot of tunnels—usually the dark and creepy and there's cars going by and there's very limited shoulder to. Oh hey how you doing? Menu—I'm with tsukemen. Kachidoki is like tsukemen town. Don don dip noodles—tsukemen I guess is translated as dip noodles. It's a pretty good menu so this place is by space tunnel—that is not the official name just so if you're looking on the map don't Google space tunnel—I made that up just for you. You're Mike—Mike Chen loves to give man. All right here we are—it's the entrance to space tunnel. It says here Triton Bridge (トリトン橋). Torin Torin—Toriton Bridge is what it says up there so Google that—don't Google good luck writing it if you're not into Japanese.

00:31:23 John Daub: Alright let's look at this map real quick—cross this border here. Some rules to the Triton Bridge um this is where we are. Look just to go back real quickly—here's Kachidoki Bridge and we started from right here and Ginza is just right here right? That's Higashi-Ginza (東銀座)—it's just a straight walk across the bridge. Kachidoki Station and then we went past the tsukemen restaurant here and we walked through here through some of the wooded areas and now we walked back to the main street and now at Triton Bridge or Space Bridge which sounds so much cooler. We're gonna walk across here to the plaza here. It's a very cool looking bridge.

00:32:48 John Daub: Shall we enter Space Tunnel and go to another dimension? Space Tunnel also has a bad feature possibly—we might not have signal in Space Tunnel. So I'm gonna get a nice view of the Space Tunnel from here and then we're gonna walk and give this lady a little head start. Then we can totally track her down. Alright let's enter Space Tunnel. Space Tunnel's gonna walk-a-later. I'm not even walking. This is the Space Tunnel. This is the smoothest pan ever. Really I'm not walking—check it out. Does anyone not believe me? Look. Now we're looking back at Tsukishima that direction. Gravity is pulling John. Is it bouncy? Actually it is a little bouncy. There's a good bounce to it. It's soft and it kind of feels like a massage under my legs as we go over the rollers too. There's advantages sometimes to not walking. Hey Cecil—hi John. I can't wait—just under two weeks and they'll be in Japan. I know—this is like an appetizer for you Cecil. It's gonna be pretty amazing.

00:34:40 John Daub: And as we get closer to November, the middle of November, the leaves are gonna start to change and it's just gonna be like a fireworks show. It starts up in Hokkaido and Tohoku and it just comes down here—it's so pretty. Believe it or not this is sort of a high season for domestic travel although a lot of tourists come in the summer, in the spring for sure for cherry blossoms. Fall is one of the biggest times to travel in Japan too—it's the last chance to really be outside before the long winter. I say long—it's not even close to what Canada has but it's all pretty long. Winter that doesn't mean winter stinks—the onsen (温泉，hot springs) or hot springs are awesome. We have now crossed space tunnel. Welcome to another dimension. Dan dan dan dan dan. Okay heavy metal transition did not work. Trin—Trinton Square. Let's see what we got here.

00:35:42 John Daub: So you can see the man-made island. This is right here—Tsukuda. This area right here is the original rock. This island has existed for thousands of years okay? In the middle of the Sumida River which is right here. All this is man-made. This is man-made and this was a landfill um until the Meiji and Taisho era when they started to build this. Taisho era means this finished around 1925. And it was warehouses and now it's a lot of homes and shopping malls. There's Kachidoki Station—you can see it turns right there. A little orientation—we're gonna walk along the river here. I don't know if I'd call this a river—this is more like a canal. My bicycle on the other side there before we started. It's called Sakura no Sanpo Michi (桜の散歩道，cherry blossom strolling path). Sanpo means a walk or a stroll and then michi is a road. So like a strolling walking route—Sakura no Sanpo Michi. It's all kanji for you. I'll ask Kanae sometime—sanpo ikou? Let's go for a walk. And then we'll go for a walk around the neighborhood.

00:37:28 John Daub: This is the bridge that we could have gone over but we decided to walk through Space Bridge and I think we were better for it. Alright we can go inside the shopping mall. Should I do that? I'm kind of thinking—let's walk right inside a little bit and just take a look at some of the shops in here. This is Harumi Dori (晴海通り). Harumi Dori is the one that leads towards Toyosu. Harumi Dori—dori means street. Happy Halloween—I'm starting to feel it because they put a skeleton and a cat in the window. It's creepy—it's cute. Creepy. Alright welcome to Triton Square where everything flickers because of the frequency here. It's hard to turn it down. So we got some steak—that looks like American steak. Ah that's just too blinky—too blinky. So I don't know why—I don't want to film too much in here because you should have permission to film. But we're going to walk through here to get to second floor. It's the Hall Fashion ATM. So let's see if we can get to the second floor.

00:39:13 John Daub: Da da da da—we can't go upstairs. You think that little gate's going to stop us? It will? Alright so there's a beautiful little oasis here—we can't really get around. So why don't I see if I can sneak in through the shopping mall really quickly and take it to the other side real quickly. Let's do this. I like to say that I go like this like I'm using Jedi powers at automatic doors. You can go like this—these aren't the droids you're looking for and the door will open. This kind of shows you some of the powers I have. It's a pretty neat little shopping mall. There's lots of restaurants on the third floor and a food court on the first floor. I think we'll be able to see the food court. That was nice. Benches—I can see a date happening here. What do you think? Look at the little restaurant—outside restaurant around the trees there. Brick—there's some chairs, tables. Check this out—a beautiful red bridge over a purple tiled waterfall. Wow—isn't it romantic? We've got the canals over here, some more chairs. I can pick any table that I want—what? Nobody here. There's like a brick sofa—how cool is that? I've never seen anything like that. It's not as comfortable as a sofa yeah—it looks like a sofa. It's a Lexus shop and then what a view looking back at the streets that we came across.

00:41:47 John Daub: And this here ladies and gentlemen is kind of where the thumbnail of this video represents. This is the Kachidoki neighborhood right here in front of you and it's really pretty cool. I mean it's not going to be better than Shibuya and Shinjuku and these kinds of places but if you want a really diverse view of Tokyo you cannot dismiss this island, this area—Tsukishima, Tsukuda and Kachidoki. And that's all on that side and you can see the canals and the pretty bridges across it. How quiet it is here even despite me talking all the time because it's a live stream—it's pretty quiet here. And people live here and there's a reason why—it's a very peaceful place to bring your dog for a walk and stroll with your wife, have lunch and then stroll back.

00:42:58 John Daub: If you'd like to see the food court we need to get to 400 likes—this is so weak guys, 206 likes. Oh I got to remind you every time—I'm talking straight to you through this camera phone to you. It's a little bit of love—like like. I see the numbers—I see it. We're live—I see it. I'm walking down now towards the food court and then maybe I'll give you a glimpse inside before they probably have security cameras on me—the guy walking around with the camera. It does look really nice. This is just a pipe that goes across—they made a little bridge for that. They made it look like a little train bridge which is pretty cool. It'd be funny if dogs could cross it but humans couldn't—I'd love something like that, like a dog bridge. Thank you Donald Marshall writes in—me likes all your videos. Donald me likes your comment. Christine liked the like—it's a double like. That means you canceled your like Christine—just saying.

00:44:20 John Daub: Alright everybody this here is the first floor and they had a bakery here and it went out of business and maybe it's back. If it's back that'd be pretty cool because I'm always looking for new good bakeries to try in all of the neighborhoods around Chuo-ku (中央区). This is Chuo Ward—Tokyo has 23 wards and right in the center Chuo itself means central, center. It looks like the bakery's back—I guess it was under renovation before right there. But at this time of day there's not that many items left. We're 100 likes short of a food court tour. Oh my—what do you think of this purple? I don't know—it's kind of very the opposite of subtle. Mind-blowing. Oh there's a Yoshinoya in there and we can't go in because we don't have enough money—we don't have enough likes. Oh that's awful—flamboyant. Dingle got it—flamboyant is correct.

00:45:28 John Daub: Alright guys I got about 10 minutes left in this livestream. I'm gonna sit here and I'm gonna answer some of your questions about Japan. Kanae and I have some trips that are coming up—we are planning to do more content together. The last episode was Hello Kitty in Awaji Island and we'd love to take you all around different areas of Japan in the livestreams and on the main channel. The main channel is pretty special because we have a very good formula which means a lot of editing, a really good story. So the frequency is not as much but these livestreams kind of fill in the blank for those that are fans of the show. Yeah and there's a bunch of other ideas that I have. So we're gonna try to schedule these live streams more to give you behind the scenes looks at restaurants and locations and try to get permission to take you like I would with the main channel but to do it with the livestreams. I think it's gonna be pretty neat and that's gonna start to take place around the end of this month. And in November we might do several livestreams where I've kind of organized with like a museum or something to take you on a dedicated tour. And I think that's the power of the livestream—you get to be there with me and answer questions and see it. When you see it live without the cuts it's different—that's what I like about this format.

00:47:04 John Daub: Are e-scooters allowed in Japan? I don't know—I think I had this discussion with somebody. I think it was Simon and Martina just a couple of days ago. The e-scooters are getting all over the urban centers of the world but people just kind of drop them in awful places and litter the streets with them. I don't know if we're gonna get them because it just looks bad—totally. Tokyo already has a bicycle problem but it's not really a problem because people will park their bicycles very responsibly or they're not allowed to park them here—they'll park them in dedicated areas. You see a couple of bicycles over there—it's usually short-term parking like very short-term before the ticket man comes. But I'm sure that they're gonna come up with some solution with battery-powered. They already have battery-powered bikes that you can rent—the process to get those bikes is not so simple. But Docomo the mobile phone company is the one that's in charge of that right now and it's pretty cool. You can pick up a bike from a zone and then drop it off at another zone and you don't have to ride it back to the place of origin. So gives tourists a really good chance to see the city by bicycle.

00:48:17 John Daub: But bicycle can be a little bit dangerous because it's not a very well-set-up city for bicycling although just recently I showed you in the beginning of this live stream there were bike paths on the sides of the road. Bicycles legally are not allowed to ride on the sidewalk—this is an important point. Even though a lot of people do it legally you're not supposed to. That's why the city has marked on the sides of the highways sides of the roads a bike path but there's always cars—same problem in New York City. I love your channel and Japan—Mohamed thank you. Please dump a scooter in the US too—yeah people just do that. They leave it there and they don't park right—I don't know. I think they'll eventually get it but they'll have a better plan than everybody else—that's Tokyo right? The planet. Yeah the main channel is without Go. Awesome John—cool. Cherry blossom cycling is beautiful—to go through a cherry blossom tunnel with a bicycle is amazing.

00:49:25 John Daub: And this has very young cherry blossoms because it's new but if you go out to the countryside guys it's amazing—places where there are no tourists at all. You can find these kinds of areas with a little bit of Google research—stay away from the city. You can find these kinds of spots on your second trip and you have to have a second trip. My favorite color changes on my mood Steven. Alright sometimes it's blue but I don't like Michigan blue because we don't like Michigan from Ohio State. So I'm not a big blue lover but I will tell you this—I do like blue from time to time. I like this color of blue—it's nice. Green because it's like trees—I love trees. I like the blue of the ocean, the sea blue and blue of blue ramen is pretty neat. I like neon—neon is a pretty cool color. Sudachi—why are you asking me about this? This has nothing to do with Japan—come on guys stay on target. Stay on target Luke. Countryside—I absolutely agree.

00:50:22 John Daub: Do you know much about 3D animation? I do a little bit—there was a company that I interviewed. Was it called Live 3D or something? It was one of the first videos that I did back in 2013 when I launched the channel—not too much. These questions are like what's my favorite color, what's my favorite food, what's my favorite number? Daikanyama—that's a great spot. Excellent suggestion—Daikanyama would be an amazing live stream for a neighborhood walk. I've done too many of these recently—it's not a bad thing but I'm going to see if I can find some more diversity with the live streams other than just the walks. Kevin's doing great—thanks for asking about him. I'm going to try to meet him in the beginning of November. I'm going to make a trip down to Osaka I believe and get a chance to hang out with Kevin—it's been a long time. We talk on the phone once every couple of weeks just to catch up. Kevin's doing good—he has a new job, he's keeping busy. Kevin's Kevin—he's the king of Osaka. We got to go catch up with Kevin for sure—Kevin Riley. Kuma's Kitchen is in the kitchen—it's his channel if you haven't checked out. He cooks some of the best looking food on YouTube—it's the most underrated channel because he should have 15,000 or 100,000 subscribers. He's got 3,000 or 4,000 subscribers so totally under watched his show but he just keeps at it.

00:52:06 John Daub: The thing that I love about Kevin is he's always so positive and so helping—he's one of the best friends you could possibly have ever. He's just positive and he's always there for you—I want to try to be that, I want to be that same kind of friend for him. Love Kevin. John needs more food—I know. I'm just tired of doing food runs in Tokyo—I got to do them in different cities. We did it in Kobe—I tried to do it in Hiroshima but the city was dead by 10 PM because it was a Sunday night. I did one in—where else did I do it? I should do some in Osaka with Kevin, some midnight snack runs. We'll add some diversity in the next couple of months I think. Will John go on Kevin's channel? Absolutely—I'm down for that. Kuma's Kitchen. Do you know any good talent agency jobs? No I don't like talent agencies—I try to avoid them. The ones that I did belong to I asked them to take me off—I just like to go directly to people. I'm not into the talent agencies—talent agencies here is a different structure. I don't know—there's good ones and bad ones. I can't recommend one over another one but it just depends on what you want to do—I can't. I'm not in any talent agencies.

00:53:21 John Daub: Why not try something new for Thanksgiving? That's a good idea—I always wanted to go to the U.S. Embassy or hang out where there's a bunch of Americans for Thanksgiving or go to the base. If you are watching this and you're at Yokosuka or at the Air Force base hit me up because I'd love to do a live stream on base not indoors with you and celebrate Thanksgiving because that would be really good. Because Thanksgiving is a holiday, a time when you're supposed to be with family and I'll be here with Kanae who is my family but it's a little bit different than being back in the United States for Americans. My plan for the Olympics is to live stream a lot and try to bring you some stories on the main channel that are very specific to certain things surrounding the Olympics—not just the athletes but what's happening here and why. So I've got a pretty good solid plan for the Olympics already and over the next six months I will tweak that and try to get permission to get more behind the scenes stuff to bring you some of the stories before and leading up to the Olympics is going to be big.

00:54:23 John Daub: Alright and sponsors out there and brands contact me [email protected] and we will work—let's talk because we got some good stuff coming. We got some good stuff coming. I know I want to see Kanae dance—this is from Aldrich. Aldrich writes in will we see Kanae dance anytime soon? I would totally love to—I want her to dance for us. At the same point she did a year and a half ago—she's so talented and we want to feature some of her beautiful dance moves if we can because she needs some attention on her skills not just being a YouTuber because she's good at—she's getting better at that—but being a dancer because that's what she does. Hey Olympic committee you should hire Kanae to dance for you in the center of the Olympic stadium opening ceremony—she should totally kill it too because she's been on stage with thousands of people watching. I don't know about millions but I bet—I totally bet she could do it.

00:55:30 John Daub: My bicycle's over there—how am I gonna get over there? I love my bicycle on the other side. Alright let's go—we got 350 likes. Come on we got 350 likes—that's a good effort it's a good effort but the food court looked dead—there's like nobody in the food court. So we're gonna walk over and we're gonna walk over to this other bridge back to my bicycle. I did look at this place to get before I bought my bicycle but they have very expensive like Giant or Trek bikes and I don't think I wanted one of those because it just was too much. So we got Bridgestone but some of these bikes look pretty cool. These are called city bikes um the ones that are popular in Japan we call them mama chari (ママチャリ). They're really city bikes taken after the Dutch mold of urban bicycling so the bar is lower—that's just a little bit of research, it could be wrong. I'm telling you that's—I believe it to be true. This bicycle for instance you see has a low bar—that's neither meant for male or female but that's just an easy off of the basket in the front. I'm pretty sure it comes from the Dutch style of bicycling in the city—it's not always good to have a high bar.

00:57:05 John Daub: Right here is a point where you can get the rental bicycles right in front of us—it's pretty cool that we get a chance to look at this. Um guess you can put your Suica card here and touch it and enter in a code, a reservation code or something. You can reserve it online—there's even directions on the back of it but I might do in the future a live stream on how to do that. The bicycles are all kind of powered up—yeah you have to have some smartphone reservation for them and enter in a number that you've paid for it. It seemed a little complicated to me so I never really did a video on it because I don't know if they're ready for prime time. Sun is going down pretty fast and we're now looping around Kachidoki. I do love this shopping mall—it's small and it's not very crowded and they have a lot of brands and stuff. I'm not really too big into shopping but I do like walking around this neighborhood—lots of trees, it's quiet, it's different than the rest of Tokyo and that's what makes it pretty special. Every neighborhood has its own uniqueness I think in Tokyo—the ones along the Tokyo Bay are really nice.

00:58:29 John Daub: I think that's Kanae's high school right there straight ahead—yeah I think that's Kanae's high school. You can see space bridge in the distance. The lights are starting to go on—it means we've entered the evening. This is a unique time to live stream as well—usually it's in the morning um in the evening. The fact that Nosh Abroad is watching means that he's past his bedtime—thanks Nosh. iPhone 11 Pro zoom pretty good with the low light but I'm trying to pinch in to go super wide and it won't allow me. To get in the way of the sun and it's not gonna get me out of the way of the sun to do that but I can zoom in. Some people don't like that so I try not to do it as much but if it's a part of the story you see me pinch zoom sometimes. Show you part of the story—are you guys coming with me? Coming with me to my bicycle? Right—see if I can get a drink at a vending machine for you. Didn't buy anything on this—kegs of beer. All right look at this—didn't see the sign from the other side—Japan wine and Koryori wine bar. Very nice—it's a little wine bar here it's just starting to open. Apparently they drink a lot in there—what do you think? Yeah I'm gonna get on my bike and ride home and I'm gonna pick up something for Kanae.

01:01:01 John Daub: So thanks so much everybody—there's a bicycle path you can see you're supposed to stay off of the sidewalks. I'm gonna pick up something so I appreciate you, super chats very much and Kanae really appreciates the love that you guys give her to buy her stuff so really appreciate it. Um I don't have permission to film by going in there—this is just a walking tour to give you an idea but I encourage you to come to this neighborhood and do it yourself because that would be really the purpose of this live stream so you feel comfortable to do that. This is where the um shopping mall was—so quiet around here. Where did I leave my bicycle? Hold on a second where did I leave my bicycle? Alright some inside information—I don't know if I should be telling you this. All these vending machines actually are address markers—do you see this vending machine here? This is inside information—do not tell anybody. You all do not tell anybody this information—I don't want YouTubers to start like making videos on this.

01:02:13 John Daub: You can see the address right here and you can if you have an emergency go to a vending machine and you can tell them this phone number or sorry the—this is the address. This isn't the address but there's a place on these vending machines where the address is written and you're supposed to be able to go up to a vending machine and get the address. I don't see it—that stinks. Alright you can tell people the secret now because I might be wrong. I don't see where the address is—is that it right there? You can tell the people the number or something and the address is supposed to be on it of the location so then you know where you are. But this one says here Shinkiba and that's not it huh? It's above the phone number that it said Shinkiba and this is Chuo-ku—it's a different place. It's strange—it should say Tsukishima on it and it does not. Bizarre—it's the name of the company that leases them very bizarre. I do want to do an episode on these. Do you see that—that's pretty cool? These Japanese um parking—it's like how do you get your car down right? How'd you get your car up? It's pretty unique—could be a Skyline. I know—I'm looking for my bicycle. Oh okay okay I know where we are—my bicycle's over there.

01:04:07 John Daub: I was getting worried—I totally should have put it right there behind me. I thought I was going to come across that bridge and I forgot and I took that bridge instead. Oh well—we still didn't get to 400 likes. Ah it's all right—just having fun. I'm not walking home. Vaughn speaking of which we're going to try to get you some uh some of those Tim Tam imitators here from Japan. I want to see what you think of that—you can't find them in Australia but you can find them here. Hey baby how you doing? Good—very good. Good sweet ride. Alright so there she is and this is a perfect place to end the live stream. Thanks everybody—what a beautiful scene. This is not exactly what—oh Kanae dinner? No ducks—ducks. Hey guys a little bit of nature here—there you go. This is a scene of Kachidoki—this is what I think of when I think of Kachidoki.

01:05:31 John Daub: And next year you're going to be thinking about Kachidoki when you hear Olympic Village so keep that in mind. This is where the Olympians will be staying—you Olympians will be at the Triton space tower space tunnel walking there. I wonder if any athletes are watching this. So there you go—thanks everybody have a good day have a good night wherever you are in the world. I appreciate it—click that subscribe button if you like these live streams, make sure notifications are on always and support us on Discord which is where we get notifications as well as Instagram and definitely about the first place they go for notifications is Patreon because I love our supporters on Patreon. Have a good night and see you in the next live stream—maybe tomorrow. Bye guys—Kachidoki Tokyo. Tokyo—two syllables.