00:00:00 John Daub: Hey everybody, welcome to Tokyo! Welcome to this area. Do you see that down there? This here says Italia Park from Minato-ku. This is the central area of Tokyo. And this is a pretty unique area. Italian Park, huh? Let's just see how Italian Little Italy is in Tokyo. We have the Shinkansen going by and it's pretty much in the Hamamatsu-cho Shiodome area.

00:00:34 John Daub: You see these tall buildings above this park? This is Shiodome. It was built in the year 2001. It was a new area, kind of where the old Shimbashi Station was, but they renovated it, made it into new lands, and then in 2001 they launched this new project called Shiodome Shiosite (汐留シオサイト, Shiodome Shiosite). Greetings everybody. Shiodome Shiosite had five blocks to it. Five general areas. This is one of them. This is Block Number Three.

00:00:59 John Daub: As you can tell, there's lots and lots of salarymen, businessmen working in this area and they come to this park to escape the rigors of the city. And I can see why the guys would come here. These Italian statues donated by Italian artisans to Japan in 2001 are beautiful. And really does look a little bit like an Italian park. I guess this is Japan. By the way, you see the wind here? We have a typhoon. So, brace yourself. It never ends.

00:01:30 John Daub: There's a highway on the right side. There's the Shinkansen tracks on the left side. Tokyo Bay is a little bit over my shoulder. But we're going to go around this park and then stay tuned. Do not go away because after this park, we're going to walk underneath the Shinkansen track and take you to Little Italy. There's a block. There's a street. And we're going to see just how Italian it is. But give me a little time to get there because I had to drop my bike off over there.

00:02:00 John Daub: I love the columns here. It does look kind of like ruins, I guess. You can't drive your car through here. You'd hit one of the columns. So, that's kind of neat. This is a really nice place. I think in the summertime when the sun is out, it's really beautiful like Italy. Tokyo can be really hot, humid. But this is the fountain. This is what I really wanted to show you guys.

00:02:39 John Daub: This fountain is pretty cool. Check this out. And I read the Google reviews on this place. And they made me laugh for like an hour after reading them. I'll tell you why in a minute. Just stay tuned. Alright, check this out. I'm not sure if I like this blue color here. White would have been better maybe. But this was donated by Italy to Japan in 2001, 18, 19 years ago.

00:03:16 John Daub: A beautiful naked lady whose clothes are falling off into the water as it pours down. No, it just won't get demonetized. That'll be fine. It's art. Yeah, it's nice. Disheveled. The park probably could use a little bit of love, I think. That means if people visit the park, maybe they'll maintain it better. The weeds are growing out of it a little bit. It could be groomed a little bit. It is the beginning of fall.

00:04:01 John Daub: You can see the cars driving past on the left. So it's quiet but not as quiet because of all the traffic. There goes the monorail to Haneda Airport. So you get to see the Shinkansen and the highway. This park is so narrow. I can hear the Shinkansen flying by again. Let me show you here on the map where we are. There's Hama-rikyu Gardens (浜離宮恩賜庭園, Hama-rikyu Onshi Teien), which is absolutely beautiful.

00:04:42 John Daub: My beloved space boat sometimes docks right here. And you can come out. There's the 300-year-old pine tree. And if you come around, you'll get to the little narrow Italian park between the Shinkansen and the highway, Hama-rikyu and the highway. And if you walk through here, the tracks, you will get to Little Italy, which is across the road. And that's where we're going to go next. Let's go right now. Needs a lot of pigeons to be authentic.

00:05:05 John Daub: They consider the Kagoshima Prefecture, Kagoshima area down in Kyushu as Italy of the Orient. I think that they're pretty close. The lighting is different down in Kagoshima. There's a warmth to it. It's like the Naples of the Orient, I think is what they call that area. Kagoshima does kind of remind me of the Naples of the Orient. The sunlight's different. You have the volcanoes. You have that heat. There's something magical about Kagoshima if you compare it to Naples, just without the pizza.

00:05:44 John Daub: All right. But this is Little Italy in Tokyo. Stay on target, John. Sometimes I get off of target. Here's the park again. And little Italian garden or the Italian park. It's not that big, but I think it's a pretty neat place to go. By the way, there's a supermarket right here, like 100 meters away. You can get some burgers on the other side. You can get a bento and eat it in the Italian park. I'm just saying.

00:06:07 John Daub: Now, we're going to go right now underneath the tunnel where we might lose signal or get a little bit weak. And then we're going to wrap around to this area, which is the Italian road or Italian town. So that's where we're going next. I might grab a cannoli. Forpono Asahi. As soon as I saw Mr. Das' name, I'm like, yeah, that's what he needs here. Steven Weber, hope you can find a tiramisu. Ah, if I can find one, I'm bringing one back for Kanae Daub.

00:06:41 John Daub: She wanted to come on this live stream, but she's got a cold. She lost her voice, and I'm afraid of losing my voice too. So I'm taking a little bit of a break outside of the house while she's there sick. So we'll see if we can find some presents for Kanae Daub. And we're now going to go underneath the highway. And it's pretty neat because you can already see some of the architecture is, it's not Japanese. It doesn't look Japanese on the other side of the tracks. Let's just see how far they go with this.

00:07:11 John Daub: So as the Shinkansen zips by above us, we're going to go underneath this little tunnel of signal death. Because I have a feeling this tunnel does not have a cell phone signal inside. So we're going to run really fast. And see if we can get through there with little harm. All right, let's just do this. So say goodbye. Say goodbye to Italia Park, Italian garden over there. It's a nice little place. You can see the architecture is unique. There's even scooters scooting by. And let's do this. Let's run this tunnel, okay?

00:08:12 John Daub: How did we do? Signal's okay? All right. We're going to go straight. And then we're going to take a right-hand turn. Now, I read the Google reviews on this place. The Google reviews on this place cracked me up. Avery, the Cuban-American, writes in, it's pizza time. Yes. I will totally be. I don't know what kind of food that they got there. I'm hoping for the best. Like, they got street food galore. But I have a feeling I might be let down.

00:08:44 John Daub: Anyways, the Google reviews said, like, why is Little Italy here? One of the reviewers said they lost a turf war. Chinatown lost the turf war. And the Italians won. So there's, like, some mafia references in there. Another one says that this isn't a place that you would go to on purpose. Like, you just kind of stumble and find Little Italy. There weren't a lot of really positive things to say about it. And that got me even more curious. Like, why not?

00:09:22 John Daub: This is a new apartment building, and it does look beautiful. Look at this building. It's pretty. It's got something. Some architecture to it. That's not Italian. The trees are, are these olive trees? Could be olive trees. All right, we're taking a right here. The Japan flag is ruining the Italian feeling a little bit, slightly.

00:10:01 John Daub: Now, once again, the Italian park is a product of a friendship between Italy and Japan in the year 2001. Whoa, we've made it. This is so Italian. Look at the roads. Look at the cobblestone roads. The Italians are going, that's not cobblestone, that's brick. But that's all right. Kind of. It doesn't feel like it's Japan right now because of the road. This is the Mitsui Garden Hotel, and I believe they call this like Italian Town branch. So the closest that you could stay is at this hotel right here.

00:10:52 John Daub: I don't know if this is such a huge attraction. You would want to stay here unless you're Italian and like, I got to stay in my country's town. You'd probably stay here because you're doing business over there. That's a pretty neat building. This sort of looks like New York in a way with the outside escape, fire escapes there. The architecture is unique. It's too clean to be Italy. What do you guys think?

00:11:53 John Daub: Let's make our way deeper. Oh, check out these arches. These arches are totally Italian influenced, like the aqueducts. Were these arches built by the Romans? It's hard to say. I can't say definitively no, but there could have been people from Rome in the construction crew. Not sure. Therefore, could be Roman influenced maybe, but everything above it. Yeah, so you can definitely see that there's something Italian here. Is it just the restaurants? Anyone from Italy watching can say this seems like it could be authentic.

00:12:50 John Daub: This has to be like a bistro. The Kobuta market, which is pork. They certainly got the wine down. I bet you they only have Italian wines, right? Oh, food truck. Dun dun. Is that a pizza? It's a truck. What? All right. We're going to try to get a slice of pizza here in Little Italy. This is so cool. I did not expect this at all. I totally should have brought Jennifer. Little Italy just got pretty cool.

00:13:35 John Daub: Check out this cafe right behind me. It's closed though, but it's called Mille Fiore. And I love the rust on the sign. Give it kind of a unique feel to it. A lot of these places are packed for lunch. This is the best I can bring you. The menu is all in Japanese, but it looks like a pretty good clean kitchen in there. All right, let's go get some pizza because it looks like they might be closing up. I don't know how much is the pizza. I can't eat a full one. I don't want to waste the food. And you don't get doggy bags in Japan.

00:14:30 John Daub: See here. Here's the flyer to the 24th to the 27th is a Shiodome like Italian festival. All right, let's see if we can get a Napolitana pizza. I did not expect this. I was like, this is going to be a boring live stream with no food and any live stream without food would be a total disappointment. Wow. This is pretty cool. Check this out. There's like street food stands. We're going to have to get something really quick. What should we get? Can we get a slice? Pizza Italiano. Is that a calzone? Neapolitan. Gittapone. There's a website there if you want to check it out.

00:15:53 John Daub: Look, it's like a calzone. That looks really good. And then they have, what should I get guys? And then this one has like a big piece of mozzarella on it. A calzone. It's like I'm in a Godfather episode. Pizza. Caprese. Sausage plate. There's some pretty serious, seriously interesting foods here. That has a hanjuku (半熟, half-boiled) egg on top of it. Do you see that? Let's see if we can get something to go then. I'm not going to stick around with this music here. I don't want to lose the stream.

00:16:41 John Daub: That looks pretty good. So I'm going to have to buy a full-sized pizza here. They have an arancini. What's an arancini? Does anybody know? I guess I'm going to go with that calzone looking thing. So let's get that and then we're going to eat it outside in the park or something. Hi. Can I get a calzone? No, I want the one you just fried. Oh, okay. I'll try it. Yes, one, please. Here you go. Thank you. Wow. That's amazing. You can eat it like this.

00:17:32 John Daub: Oh, okay. There's no more puffs. Oh, okay. Thank you. Wow. All right. Let's try this here. I'm going to kind of go outside because of the music problem. Oh, look, they're making this. Check this out. They're doing a brick oven pizza display here. Oh, it just came out of the oven. That's crazy. And there's an Italian guy over there commanding people to do it better. All right. Maybe we're going to keep eating. Let's try this over here because this music is really bad inside there.

00:18:25 John Daub: Okay. Here we go. Now, this looks like a calzone, but he said it's not. And I have a shibori and a fork just in case I want to eat it like that. But I have a feeling I'm just going to pick this thing up. Big thank you to everybody for the super chats. This is for you guys because like I think I might try that pizza over there. I might try that pizza. Now, totally unexpected. Oh, look at the architecture in this building. You see what I'm talking about? It's sort of like somewhat Italian, but not really. Just enough that makes it pretty.

00:19:12 John Daub: Gem defense or not boring John. Go get stuff. You got it. And then Brendan Walker writes in for food truck adventures. Brendan, I think I might get that pizza. That looks super authentic. I might just why not? I might have to exercise tonight, but it's totally worth it. I can't eat inside there because they have some sort of weird music actually going on in here, but it's better with the trees around here. Let's try this. It's the lucky master. I guess just like a really salty cheese inside there and it's been deep fried. So you know, it's going to be good.

00:20:19 John Daub: This is really good. Can I have some dear YouTube app people? They want to be able to try the food through the screen. What can we do with that? Just talking to my friends on the other side. They're watching. Get something to wash it down with. I know Mr. Josh gave me something for that. I'm going to, we're going to look inside for a second. Very good. All right. I'm saving it. The second half is yours. Just saying. Delicious gooey cheese.

00:21:24 John Daub: We're getting, I still want to look for a tiramisu or something. So we're in the market for tiramisu. I'm looking for a mailbox too, because I want to send, this is for Sean in Michigan. Sean, your postcard is going to be sent in Little Italy. We have one more daimyo spot available and six postcards available. I'm going to go check it out. I think it's available right now. So thank you guys for the support. It's kind of cool to be able to shout out to Sean, like through the video and say your postcard is going from here, buddy.

00:22:10 John Daub: We got more food. This looks so good. Check out this oven. Look at the exhaust on it. It's like the Ferrari brick oven. Look at that thing. Like a generator. How much is this thing? Whoa. Wow! I can go inside there. It's a steaming hot pizza. This is the most beautiful thing that I've ever seen. Look at that. Guys, what? Hey, that guy's getting one. He's in charge. This guy looks like he knows what he's doing. I gotta go get one. Alright. Let's do it.

00:23:51 John Daub: Where are you from? I'm from here, but American. Oh, yeah? Where are you from? Miss, where are you from? Okay. Which part of America? New York. Oh, big city. I guess Oklahoma. Yeah, this looks good. Did you try this already? Yeah? How do we order? Where do you order? Over there. We have to order here. In the corner. Yes. This pizza? Margarita and curry. Okay. Alright. Margarita. It's just a thousand yen. Tomorrow is the 17th. We're number 17, everybody.

00:25:14 John Daub: While we're waiting, can get a drink, maybe. What do you guys think? Mr. Dos, there's no Asahi. Urgh. Alright, let's see what we can do. What is it? What do we got here? These are like Italian brands. Oh, craft beer from Italia. Ah, oh, ale? Rock and roll. I like the name, rock and roll baby. Alright, let's do this. Rock and roll. Paid for by you, the super chats. Thank you. Whoa, Italian craft beer. That looks so good.

00:26:42 John Daub: How cool is that? Alright, let's drink this and then we'll get some shots of the amazing pizza. I want to see mine go in the oven. This is not just mine. This is ours. You're getting some too. All right, kanpai to everybody. Some Italian craft beer. Let's see how this goes. Definitely have a beer here. That is really flavorful. I like that when you even draft beer, you get a little bit of the metal and it tastes just fresher. You can taste the ingredients a little bit more. I can taste Italy. It tastes like pale ale.

00:28:00 John Daub: But this is really good and I like the color of it. You see that everybody? Come on iPhone 11 Pro Max focus. And in the background they are making a pizza. This is just amazing to me. I did not expect to be... Kanae Daub, where are you? Hurry up and get healthy. I'm totally gonna bring half of it back home for her. I don't know how it's gonna survive, but it'll be nice to share this with her. This is until the 27th of October.

00:28:36 John Daub: So if you're in Tokyo, you just want to try an Italian pizza, which is weird because you're in Tokyo you're like you want to get sushi and stuff okonomiyaki teppanyaki wagyu nah here maybe you want to come to Little Italy it looks like it's really... whenever they make it in a oven outside in a festive area that's got to be worth something right it's like a festival. This is a plaza typically. They tried to use this plaza which is triangle shaped you can see in the Google map that I put a link in the description which you can click and see what it looks like here.

00:29:43 John Daub: They use this space for events to attract people to come here but when they're not making pizza here this area is most famous for horse racing and it was JRA which is the Japan Racing Association that created the most Italian looking building of them all it's weird so we'll go and check that out so you might want to stick till the end despite our pizza eating. 500 likes I want out of this I'm holding you guys for kidnapping you and holding you for ransom I mean 500 likes on this for sure there's no way this is not free we must get some likes for pizza if you like pizza like if you want to see me eat this pizza like if you want to hear feedback on how good this is like do it right now it's up to you community.

00:30:38 John Daub: Wow if you have any questions just click like you're not sure what to do click like all right we're like a number 10 I'm number 17. Wow you can see here how hot that's gotta be check that out I want to just go inside that oven and hang out with the pizza and like a sauna like a pizza sauna I want to come out smelling like a big fat pizza and I won't even shower for like a week roll all in that sauce and cheese and get all oily and enjoy the hot fire inside there. Kagoshima is typically considered the Napoli of the Orient I don't say typically because I've never heard that before but a little bit of research you hear Kagoshima is the so and I can get that because they have volcanoes beautiful that beautiful lighting that'd be similar to southern Italy.

00:32:15 John Daub: It's gonna be so good for 200 likes away from 500 dude just click like come on do it you totally want a toothache you think we should be to you totally want to see me eat this right moderators are going to go on a like asking spree look at that they cut it with the scissors that's awesome that's so much easier than the roller do you guys ever like you get the pizza rollers to cut they're cutting it with. You're at number 11 and we're number 17 so we got plenty of time oh look at there's another one that's number 12 look at the burnt crust that's perfect i love the burnt parts oh man the smell and the music the music and the smell start dancing it's a pizza dance.

00:33:36 John Daub: For those that are joining us now this is Little Italy in Tokyo and right now they have a festival where they're making pizza in a park with a brick oven pizza and there's a chef over there he looks really hardcore because he's staring at me every now and then every now and then he looks over at me with a really tough look it's tough love. We're 17 and they just delivered like number 12 or 13 so we'll get there everybody oh that's mine check it out number 17 that's us i saw the chef's smile he smiled a little bit is that ours i think the next one's ours oh man i'm so excited for this I'm getting so excited. Dude, hit the like button right now. Just do it. I'm getting so hungry. It's not even just hunger. It's excitement.

00:35:04 John Daub: Wow, that lady's before us. That's got to be mine. Look at that roundness. This is number 17. Oh, it's my number 17. Look at that. I'm going to eat you. Mr. Toss, thank you. That's wonderful. I think I picked the right one. I picked the right one. This is so good. Thank you. How cool is that? Look at this thing here. It's really something beautiful. Guys, what do you guys think? It's time to eat this thing.

00:36:21 John Daub: I don't know if I'm going to have to cut the sound out on this because of the copyright thing. So on the playback, you might not hear it. Oh, it's so soft. So soft. I don't think I've ever had pizza like this before. Sorry, Domino's. This is totally different than Domino's. Itadakimasu. Part two, everybody. The sauce is... There's a nice salty sweetness to the sauce. It's a natural acidic sweetness to the sauce. I like that. The cheese is good. The bread is good. The sauce is so good.

00:38:19 John Daub: There's a springiness to the bread. Did you ever eat bread that comes right out of the oven? When you chew on it, it's so springy. It's a pleasant springiness in your mouth. Not like mochi. Mochi makes you work. It just springs back. It gives you the energy back with each bite. It's so pleasant. I'm going to get out of here because of the music. Let's go outside. The music doesn't fit the feeling. So I take my business outside. I want Italian music. Dear event coordinator people, bring us some Italian music. It could even be classical.

00:39:33 John Daub: Excuse me. Nobody there is under the age of 25. Get a classical band in there and give us some ambiance. I want to hear like I'm a tambourine. You know, East L.A. Although I've never been to East L.A. I just remember Cheech and Chong in East L.A. That's all I know about that. The music choice stinks, organizers. That's the wrong choice. Someone's got to tell them honestly. It doesn't look like the Little Italy with the trash. So let's go this way. I'm going to finish this pizza with you.

00:40:09 John Daub: I don't know how I'm going to bring this home. It's all sloppy and hot. I have not had pizza this good in a very, very, very long time. You can't compare this with just New York pizza. Every pizza is different. Inside of pizza are sub-categories of pizza. There's not just one pizza. There's lots of pizzas. This is another category of pizza. You can't compare this to New York pizza. It's Italian pizza. It's good. It doesn't mean that you have to make pizza with all the ingredients from Naples. I think you can have really good pizza if you put love into your work. I think they do that.

00:41:42 John Daub: A lot of business guys are coming. If you have any questions, ask while I'm eating. Because in about three minutes, we're out of here. This is one of the greatest days ever. Pineapple on pizza. There's a debate going on. You're going to see that at Domino's. You won't see that in Italian pizza. But pizza is always evolving. Japanese chefs make a really good pizza. There's a guy down in Nagoya who has won the international pizza competition down in Italy like three or four times. Down in Osu Kannon area of Nagoya. And I've eaten the pizza there. There's always a line that's like an hour long. And each pizza is 500 yen.

00:43:00 John Daub: Half the price of what he charges here. Because he believes that pizza should not be... Pizza is the food of the people. And he has studied and perfected everything like the way they do in Japan. And he sells them for 500 yen. If you go to Nagoya, it's worth it. If you're a pizza lover, try his pizza. He has so many awards that he's won for making the pizza. It is worth trying it. Just get off to Shinkansen. Have a pizza for lunch for a couple of hours. And get back on.

00:43:53 John Daub: I don't know how I'm going to take this to Kanae Daub. I will try. Kanae Daub, I'm bringing you this one, okay? This is going to go so wrong. I'm putting this in with the deep fried pizza. And then I'm going to kind of put this tissue here so it doesn't leak out too much. Sean, I'm going to make sure your card doesn't get pizza sauce on it. Alright, Kanae Daub, I shoved your pizza in here. You just got to do it. Think about other people. I could eat that last piece. I choose to share it with Kanae Daub. So big shout out to this organization. Great pizza, your music stinks. Just saying. Get some Italian music.

00:45:36 John Daub: Alright, as you can see, the cobblestone streets here is part of the charm. But this area, for those that are joining us, again, this is a live stream if you're watching in playback. We're still far from our 500 likes. But I will keep taking you around. Because I love you guys. Kanpai. This place was built in the year 2001 with love from Italy. Japan and Italy have a friendship. Italy donated a bunch of statues. Watch the playback and you'll be able to see Italian Park. This very narrow strip between the Shinkansen and the highway in Hama-rikyu Gardens.

00:46:34 John Daub: That's pretty neat. I think it's a good place to take a pizza and eat there. I should have eaten it there. Or you can buy a bento at a supermarket around the corner from that park and eat it in the park. Casually. Very cool. Do you see the mailbox over there? I'm going to go and put Sean's postcard in the mailbox real quick. Sean, it's on the way to Michigan. Let's go back to Italia Town. It's not very big. It's basically this corner here.

00:47:29 John Daub: Let's walk around. There's a Shinkansen so you know it's not too far away from the tracks. Yamanote Line as well. Loads and loads of businessmen. We're going to walk around here at the tip and then come back to that square. We'll end the livestream. This is in an area called Shiodome. Not too far from Shinbashi. You can walk here pretty easily from Ginza and Hamamatsucho which is where the monorail is to take you to Haneda Airport. Tokyo Bike Tours? That's pretty cool. A little shout out to a local business here. I wonder if they're using the Italian bikes.

00:48:30 John Daub: It is vaguely Italian in feeling. I wish I could use the super wide on my camera to show you. This is a European Gallery. What? That's interesting. That's an art place on the roof. And then on the bottom it looks like they have a ramen place. So you can get ramen. Do they have Italian ramen? Just regular old ramen. They should totally have an Italian ramen. So we're going to cut around here on the corner and then show you looking back at Little Italy. To give you an idea, a complete 360 view of this neighborhood.

00:49:46 John Daub: Which, you know, Google reviewers had said this isn't a place you come to on purpose. You just kind of stumble upon it. And I came here on purpose. Because I wanted to. I was hoping that they would have a pizza. This is where the thumbnail was taken. Do you see the columns? Even this little FamilyMart kind of has an Italian feel to it. Sort of.

00:50:32 John Daub: That beer is strong. There's an affinity with Europe and Japan I think. Yesterday, or the day before yesterday the Japanese Emperor was... there was an enthronement ceremony and the royalty from all over the world came. Prince Charles was there. He sat next to the King of Brunei, I think. There's a lot of royalty that came from all over the world. And maybe that's part of it. But there's a romanticism with old Europe and historical things. Like beer. I'm just saying that because it's in front of me.

00:51:26 John Daub: Hit the jackpot. This is the corner. And the reason why I came out here is I just wanted to show you the corner of Little Italy. It's basically Shiodome. This is the big all the office buildings. Dentsu has an office there. ANA's headquarters are there. The airline. So there's a lot of money and they come across the tracks to the other side for Italian food. And rightfully so. The ad was darn good.

00:52:06 John Daub: Alright, let's walk back over to the square now. That's a muscle car. Is that an Italian car? No. What is that? No, it's a Chevy. Is that a Camaro? That's a Camaro. Awesome. Look at the color on that. Kanae Daub and I rented a convertible Camaro when we went back to the United States for summer vacation. It was just a little bit more to rent a convertible Camaro. And I was just shocked at the power and the size of it. Because I've rented cars in Japan and they were like...

00:53:00 John Daub: I rented a car with the Food Ranger. A YouTuber who eats food and has more passion in his left pinky than most people have in his entire bodies. And the Food Ranger, Trevor, and I and his wife Ting and Cody from Tokyo and my Ramen Guide. We drove to Shikoku to eat noodles. And I rented a car from Tokyo. A Toyota rental car. It was called the Tank. Alright? It's a rental car. I think it was like 8,000 yen a day. And it had really great gas mileage. And it looked like a tank. It was a big box. It looked strong. I put the pedal to the floor and it didn't go anywhere. There was like no power on this thing.

00:53:37 John Daub: I did that with the Camaro when Kanae Daub and I rented the car in the United States in the summer. If I put the pedal to the metal... You go somewhere! You go somewhere fast! Like the Shinkansen! Like these trains here! You're moving! You're trucking! That's the Keihin-Tohoku Line and the Yamanote Line going by. But man! Was there no power in this as we went over the bridge.

00:54:13 John Daub: I do like the cobblestone streets here as well. The pattern of it. The bricks. The cobblestone. You work with what you got. It's a little touch that makes this really special. And in front of us, there's the monorail coming. Also on the other side. If you come from Haneda Airport, you'll be taking that. Well, one of the options. I prefer the Asakusa Line. Subway line. But the monorail is a pretty good way to get around as well.

00:54:46 John Daub: Welcome everybody watching live. This is the Japan Racing building. And this is the most Italian building of them all. So I was told. How Italian is it? That's for you to decide. But I think they put some pretty good work into it. What do you think? It's on the right side. The architecture is unique. The columns on it make it look special. It's kind of a fusion up there. Not bad. I'm not into gambling. Nor do I say anyone should gamble. Maybe you shouldn't. I don't know. It's up to you. Smoking as well. You shouldn't do that. But if you do it, it's personal choices.

00:55:38 John Daub: I'm not here to promote Japan Racing Association. I'm just saying that the building is pretty neat. And I'm glad that they did it this way. Ah, there's the Narita Express. You see that train coming? I'm a huge train geek. It's mostly empty. So this is Japan Racing Association. It looks like it's closed right now. But a lot of dudes will be coming in here to bet on horse racing. And right now, it's closed. The weekends is pretty crazy here. On the weekends. So there you go. They've got some stained glass in the windows.

00:56:36 John Daub: I don't know if this is how Italian you think this is. I think it's just one of these places. Again, I don't know if you make a special trip to it unless you're staying in Shiodome or one of the neighborhoods nearby. But has a feel to it. And if there is an event going on in the square like there is right now with the brick oven pizza and a very serious chef with a beard who doesn't smile and looks at you like how dare you. What do you think you're doing? You do not. This pizza is too good for you. I like that. I was like, it's too good for me. I'm gonna do the opposite. I'm gonna devour this.

00:57:20 John Daub: I'm not here to please you, chef. I'm paying my thousand yen and I'm gonna devour that pizza. I'm gonna eat it the way I like to eat it. You got that? I'm gonna pick it up with my hands and go, ugh. Hope he watches this playback. Because your pizza was awesome. Just saying. Take your pizza pretty seriously. I take my live streaming very seriously. PMX has a good point. I think more Italian music, Italian flags, little things for all of the senses. Not just the looks of it.

00:58:02 John Daub: I think for an Italian town to work, especially a small one like this, you have to have all of the senses. The streets should smell like tomatoes and garlic and bread. I want more music. I want more trees. The city's gotta do something about this grey sky. I want sunshine. 330 days out of the year. Just like Australia. I have demands. And you do too. Let's make this blue light. Japan, we call this in blue, not green, by the way. Because colorblind people see blue easier than green. But it's like a green blue. It's a blue green.

00:59:04 John Daub: We're back at the square, everybody. This is where we started. There is more Italian restaurants here. And I'm gonna be back. I think for that pizza, maybe on the weekend. Because it was pretty good. I'm very satisfied. We're gonna end over there. Japan doesn't do a very good job with Halloween. But there's a Halloween party that goes on. It goes on in Shibuya. I've never been. I kind of avoid that. Just try to stay out of trouble. Keep your nose clean. Coco Ichiban Curry, some of the best curry. Like fast food curry. Usually we gotta wait about five minutes before they deliver. Put it onto your table. But they got a shop right across the street. So it smells like curry. It's kind of killed Italian thing.

01:00:07 John Daub: But if they had like a tomato sauce curry, I'd be all in on that. Boom. Thank you Mr. Das. Pay it forward. And to the stomach. And that's it. I hope that you guys enjoyed it. This is where I got the pizza. And this festival. It's a thousand yen. Or about nine dollars for it. But it's pretty authentic. It's the 27th I heard. And you can order it on the other side. And it looks like there's people from Italy and diplomats. And there's the chef right there. There he is. He's kind of looking at me. Again. They totally have to fix that music. But other than that. Highly, highly give it a big thumbs up.

01:01:14 John Daub: It started today. And it's going on to the 27th. The Napoli Pizza Summit. Totally gotta come here. I seriously had no idea that this was going on. Perfect, perfect timing. How was the pizza? Shinji, it was awesome. 20 stars out of 10. And it's in my bag. One piece for Kanae Daub. And she's gonna love it. And she's gonna be freaked out. And I'm gonna be freaked out because it's gonna get all smashed in my bag. But love will make you do stupid things. Italian town. Is it worth it? Is this an attraction? Is this a place that you would come to?

01:02:01 John Daub: Is having brick oven pizza on the street changing the music. Does this have potential of being one of the greatest attractions in Japan? Would you travel to Japan for pizza? Or if you love pizza would that be a good combination with Japan? Because if you wanted to travel to Japan you don't wanna eat sushi every time. Like my friends Dan at What's Inside they always have pizza. They always like to eat western food because sometimes the Japanese food can be too much for them. A shock to the system. So we might cruise into McDonald's or somewhere. But I understand that. Because I myself, I don't wanna eat Japanese food every single meal.

01:03:21 John Daub: And Americans don't wanna eat cheeseburgers every single meal either. So it's nice to have a contrast. But would this be an attraction to you? It's interesting. It's a question I always ask myself because this is what I do. What interests people who wanna come to Japan? Would they come here for pizza? I don't know. It's good pizza though. It's Mafia Chef, yes, maybe. It's a pretty tough looking guy. Wouldn't wanna tango with him. Strong hands kneading the dough. Thank you so much guys for watching this episode and for the super chats to support my pizza habit. For the present for Kanae Daub.

01:03:33 John Daub: I didn't find any tiramisu. But I'm gonna circle around to the supermarket which is right here. This is where you can buy a bento on the other side. I found Waldo. Or a Japan rugby fan. They both kinda have the same thing. There's a supermarket right here if you wanna grab a bento. You can go into the park. The Italian park is just underneath the tracks right there. And eat your bento there. And you can feel a little bit of Italy and Japan.

01:04:10 John Daub: That's an Only Japan Go livestream. That's what you tune in to watch. So definitely I gotta say this because 85% of the people watching are not subscribed. Subscribe to the channel. Click always so you never miss one. Cause when we go live it is a party. It's a party with these people are invited. And you are too. So join us because I might do a livestreaming day tomorrow. It's supposed to rain all day. Interesting enough, if you wanna meet me I'm going tomorrow to the Saitama Bonsai Museum in Saitama. To film a little bit over there. If you go to Saitama and you're interested in bonsai and you wanna go to the museum I'm gonna be there a little bit after 9am. 9-10am. So I'll be there. Mañana.

01:05:18 John Daub: I'm gonna take you back to the park. Cause I gotta go this way anyway. It's a scary tunnel. Whoa! That's a Japan Rail truck car! Look at that. You'd think it'd be a little cooler. Like the Shinkansen. They should make their cars like Shinkansen. Japan Rail. Just like a cool nose on their cars. Like yeah! Now it's just like a Nissan station wagon. It's part of the job. They're just expressing the integrity of the bridges I guess. It's good to know that they're on the job and keeping it safe. Because Japan is earthquake prone.

01:06:09 John Daub: Where are you guys watching from? This is the time at the end where you become a part of the records. Tell me where you're watching from. From Panama. From Zaire. Rhodesia. Antarctica. Let us know. We are all interested now in the livestream chat. If you're not watching the live chat you're just watching a highway. And crossing. It's more fun if you're watching the live chat right now.

01:06:40 John Daub: Oh and if you guys, anyone in other countries that want to give to Sac Ninja. I heard from his grandmother. Sac Ninja is a little boy. S-A-C N-I-N-J-A. A little boy in California. He's seven years old and he had like open chest surgery. And I sent him a postcard two nights ago. Three nights ago in Roppongi. Maybe longer. A postcard because he's very interested in Japan and being a ninja. I told him like ninjas don't fight. But he had to make a wish where he was battling criminals as a ninja. Very cool.

01:07:22 John Daub: And his grandmother sent me a message to say thank you. And he's got a map and he's going to be marking off all the locations where he got postcards from in the world. And he's going to get one from Japan and Tokyo. So that's going to be cool. We're going to check Tokyo off on the map. And I don't know. I figure if we could bring a little bit of smile to a little boy's life in California. A little boy who is interested in Japan. He's probably interested in the entire world.

01:08:09 John Daub: Maybe a postcard from Italy. How cool would that be? Again, this park was built in 2001 to celebrate the friendship between Japan and Italy. And Italy donated all these naked statues. Which is a teenager's dream come true. And you don't even have to pay a museum fee to see it. And they saved money by chopping off all the arms. They didn't have to do that. Like if you're going to reproduce the art don't reproduce the art in the sense that it's in now. Reproduce the art in the original state that the artist intended to be like.

01:08:50 John Daub: I don't know if the artist intended to chop off the arms of the ladies. But I think it would be better if it looked like that one. Right? Am I wrong, PMX? Am I wrong, Glenn? Glenn's been here since the beginning. I see disheveled again. Glenn, that's like your second chat. Second thing you said, it's the same thing. Did you copy and paste that? I think they should look like that one. Why not? Why did they chop off the arms? Totally cheesy move. I don't know. I'm sure some Japanese teenagers they won't come here and destroy this art.

01:09:33 John Daub: But look at that. I mean we didn't chop off her arms because it would be really weird. I'm not sure why they did that. There's a reason why they call it a bust. The arms aren't usually depicted. But is that a bust? It's a bust up, no? I have a lot of questions and the journalist in me which I don't have a degree in as anyone is questions things. The question why is very important. Why chop off the arms? I don't think it was supposed to be like that because all the other ones have arms.

01:10:16 John Daub: Alright folks, much love from Japan. Thank you for watching all the way here. Click the like button. Subscribe. Like always because you want to be part of the family. I've got one Daimyo and six postcards left. And my bicycle is right here. Sweet ride. Bridgestone. Japanese company. Not stolen. Look at that. Would this still be here if this was Naples? Napoli? I don't know. But again, much love to everybody. Thanks for watching 70 minutes of this. Pizza, Kanae Daub, I'm coming home right now. Maybe tomorrow. See you at the Bonsai Museum tomorrow. If you're interested in that. Bye from Japan. And Little Italy.