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2019-10-30 · Ep 557 · 1h 4m

Tokyo Midnight Halloween Japanese Snack Adventure

TokyoHalloween in JapanConvenience store food cultureMidnight snack runs (oyatsu)Salaryman culture
Summary

Tokyo Midnight Halloween Japanese Snack Adventure

Overview

On October 30th, 2019 — just before midnight on Halloween Eve — John Daub embarks on a live-streamed midnight snack adventure around Tokyo Station, joined by fellow travelers Spencer (a Disney expert from Los Angeles) and Miles (a 19-year-old visitor from California). The group hunts for Halloween-themed convenience store food across FamilyMart, 7-Eleven, and Lawson, sampling everything from Hokkaido pumpkin puddings to Rilakkuma sweet potato snacks. As the clock strikes midnight and Halloween officially begins, the trio reflects on their favorite moments in Japan — including Spencer's upcoming Disneyland shoot and the viewers' ongoing quest for Reese's Peanut Butter Cups. This episode captures the unique energy of Tokyo at night: the last trains, the salarymen stumbling home, the always-surprising world of Japanese convenience store cuisine, and the sense that the city truly comes alive after dark.

Highlights

  • 00:02 — John introduces the Halloween midnight snack run from the Yaesu side of Tokyo Station, with Spencer joining in his Disney shirt.

  • 04:28 — Spencer explains what a snack bar (スナックバー) is — a place where solo businessmen are served snacks and drinks by hostesses.

  • 05:34 — John shows a chuka soba (ramen) shop with vending machine ordering — explaining that chuka means "Chinese cuisine" in Japanese.

  • 08:48 — Spencer enters FamilyMart with 500 yen to buy Halloween snacks for the group.

  • 11:13 — The Halloween unboxing begins: Hokkaido Kabocha Mochi Pudding (flan-style), a pumpkin mochi danish, and a satsuma imo daifuku — all for 494 yen.

  • 16:54 — Spencer taste-tests the four-layer Hokkaido pumpkin pudding: "It's like the perfect combination of not too sweet. It's really savory."

  • 20:20 — Spencer shares insider Disney knowledge: the construction story behind Tokyo DisneySea and current ticket prices (7,400 yen for one day).

  • 29:55 — Mark arrives having visited Mishima Skywalk (Shizuoka Prefecture) and Kashiwabara Ryokan, sharing photos of the autumn foliage.

  • 31:26 — John points out the Japanese Halloween imagery: black cats, jack-o'-lanterns, witches, ghosts, and mummies — and the "ghost vomiting water."

  • 33:50 — Miles taste-tests the Halloween chocolate daifuku: "It tastes like dark chocolate ice cream. It's weird because you think it tastes like food."

  • 34:50 — John explains the bittersweet nature of Japanese convenience store food: seasonal items you love disappear and never return.

  • 44:55 — John showcases a high-tech automated bicycle parking tower near Tokyo Station — "the most high-tech parking" with Suica card payment.

  • 48:36 — The group debates "natural Lawson's" vs. regular Lawson's and crosses the street for the real thing.

  • 54:03 — Spencer taste-tests his first ever choux cream (シューク림) — "cream puffs in a supermarket?" — at 100 yen each.

  • 57:15 — John opens the ultimate Halloween item: a Rilakkuma (bear) sweet potato confection wearing a pumpkin hat, then dramatically eats half its head as the clock strikes midnight.

  • 59:44 — The group shares where they're from: New York, California, Ohio University — a truly international midnight snack crew.

  • 60:13 — Spencer's highlight: autumn foliage (koyo) in the Japanese mountains. Miles considers a last-minute trip to Okinawa.

Timeline / Chapters

TimeEvent
00:00Opening: Tokyo Station, Yaesu side introduction
00:30Spencer joins; discussion of Halloween and Disneyland
01:00Spencer introduced; meeting outside Daimaru department store
01:40Salaryman crowd leaving work; smell of alcohol
02:10Construction work in the middle of the night explained
02:44Live stream shoutouts (San Francisco, Tokyo)
03:12Miles meets John (Los Angeles, 18 days in Japan)
04:00Discussion of Sakura season beauty; cherry blossom reference
04:28Vending machine ramen shop; explanation of chuka soba
04:56Snack bar explanation (Spencer's accidental visit story)
06:29Group heads to convenience stores; Spencer goes into FamilyMart
07:28Lobster and shrimp display outside a restaurant
08:48Spencer inside FamilyMart with 500 yen budget
10:03Spencer emerges with 494 yen worth of Halloween snacks
11:13Unboxing: Hokkaido Kabocha Pudding, pumpkin danish, satsuma imo daifuku
16:54Spencer taste-tests the four-layer pumpkin pudding (positive review)
19:00Rock-paper-scissors to decide who shops at 7-Eleven
20:20Spencer shares Disney knowledge; Starbucks "short size" discussion
23:17Group observes salarymen finishing their drinking party (gottsu paa)
23:38Irish pub on the corner; kushikatsu restaurant (closing for midnight)
26:137-Eleven found; discussion of Japanese TV commercials
27:20Miles goes into 7-Eleven for his snack run
30:01Mark arrives (returned from Mishima Skywalk, Kashiwabara Ryokan)
31:26Halloween imagery on convenience store packaging explained
33:50Miles taste-tests Halloween chocolate daifuku
34:50Discussion of seasonal convenience store food
38:05Mount Fuji viewing tips (best: late November to February)
39:57Group decides to cross street to "natural" Lawson's
41:33High-tech bicycle parking tower demonstration
42:00Spencer explains DisneySea construction story
44:30Debate: regular Lawson's vs. natural Lawson's
48:36John enters Lawson's with camera; Spencer runs interference
50:00Inside Lawson's: mont blanc cream pancake, choux cream, shoe cream pastries
53:04Spencer taste-tests choux cream (first time, loves it)
55:51The Rilakkuma sweet potato Halloween bear is revealed
57:15Midnight strikes; John eats half the bear's head on camera
58:44Wrap-up; viewers asked where they're watching from
60:00Best trip moments: autumn foliage (Spencer), planning for Okinawa (Miles)
60:40Spencer returns to Disneyland tomorrow for final Halloween photos
61:30Reese's Peanut Butter Cups discussion; John's 20-year exile
63:00Final thoughts on midnight Tokyo; safety and quiet streets
64:15Oyasuminasai (good night); stream ends

Japan Travel Tips

  • Convenience store strategy: Budget around 500 yen per person for a satisfying snack haul. FamilyMart, 7-Eleven, and Lawson each have different seasonal items — hit multiple stores for variety.

  • Midnight exploring: Tokyo Station area is surprisingly lively around the last train (around midnight). The streets near Yaesu are busy with salarymen heading home from drinking parties.

  • Halloween timing: Japan celebrates Halloween primarily on October 31st, though decorations appear in convenience stores a week or two before. Seasonal Halloween food items are limited and sell out.

  • Last train awareness: Know when the last train runs for your line. After that, options include taxis, highway buses (JR buses are between Central and South exits), or walking. Highway buses to destinations like Chiba, Sendai, and Tohoku depart from this area.

  • Bicycle parking: Tokyo Station has automated bicycle parking towers (near the south-central exit area). Payment is by Suica card. Note: only about 5 spots available.

  • Underground passage: The Yaesu Underground Shopping Mall connects to Tokyo Station and has Western restaurants and shops, including a bakery with good pecan pie.

Japanese Language & Culture Notes

Key Terms:

  • Combini (コンビ二): Japanese convenience stores — FamilyMart, 7-Eleven, Lawson — are open 24 hours and offer far more than snacks. They're an essential part of Japanese daily life.

  • Snack bar (スナックバー): A bar where solo businessmen can enjoy drinks, snacks, and conversation with hostesses. Spencer accidentally wandered into one while looking for food — the food is typically mediocre, but the atmosphere is unique.

  • Chuka soba (中華そば): Literally "Chinese soba," this term is used for ramen. The kanji 中華 (chuka) means Chinese cuisine; the second two characters are そば (soba). Despite the name, chuka soba is not buckwheat noodles.

  • Gottsu paa (ゴックパ hire): The pouring motion toast — when salarymen at a drinking party tilt their glasses for a final sip before parting. John and the group observe this classic goodbye gesture.

  • Meiwaku (迷惑): Causing trouble or inconvenience to others. John jokes that the group eating convenience store food on the street is textbook meiwaku.

  • Koyo (紅葉): Autumn foliage. The best time to see colorful autumn leaves in Japan is late October through November, depending on region.

  • Oyasuminasai (おやすみなさい): Good night. Used as a farewell when someone is going to sleep or ending a late-night event.

Food & Drink Guide

ItemDescriptionStorePriceVerdict
Hokkaido Kabocha Mochi PuddingFlan-style pumpkin pudding from Hokkaido, with caramel sauceFamilyMart~160 yenFour layers including whipped cream and mitarashi sauce; Spencer: "perfect combination of not too sweet"
Halloween Mochi DanishMochi-textured danish with pumpkin fillingFamilyMart~160 yenChewy, savory; John notes mochi powder gives it springiness
Satsuma imo DaifukuSweet potato mochi ballFamilyMart~160 yenMarshmallow texture; Miles describes it as "like roasted sweet potato"
Halloween Chocolate DaifukuDark chocolate ice cream filling in mochi7-Eleven~120 yenMiles: "tastes like dark chocolate ice cream... weird because you think it tastes like food"
Choux Cream (シューク림)Cream puff pastry with custard fillingLawson's100 yenSpencer's first time: "It's a giant cream puff... really light and sweet"
Mont Blanc Cream PancakeChestnut (marron) flavored pancakeLawson's~160 yenJohn: "It should be banned. It should be legal."
Rilakkuma Sweet Potato ConfectionBear-shaped sweet potato cake with pumpkin hatLawson's~200 yenJohn calls it "too cute to eat" before eating half its head
Corn Soup (vending machine)Hot canned corn soup from vending machineStreet140 yenMiles: "actually really good"; John: "I would trust shrimp soup from a vending machine in Japan"

People

John Daub — Host and creator of Only in Japan Go. Living in Japan for 30+ years, John guides viewers through a Halloween midnight snack run with his characteristic warmth, humor, and deep knowledge of Japanese culture. He shares stories about his wife Kanae, discusses the unique safety of Tokyo at night, and dramatically devours a Rilakkuma confection at midnight.

Spencer — A guest from Los Angeles, visiting Japan for 18 days. Spencer is a Disney expert who works at Tokyo Disneyland and shares insider knowledge about the parks' construction and pricing. He also has experience as a former Starbucks barista and confesses to loving marshmallow. He visits Mishima Skywalk and Kashiwabara Ryokan during his trip and returns to Disneyland the next day to photograph the final Halloween decorations.

Miles — A 19-year-old visitor from California (turning 20 in March, when he can legally drink in Japan). Miles is working part-time doing Uber Eats deliveries in Tokyo. He has about seven more days in Japan and is debating whether to visit Okinawa. He contributes enthusiasm, candy apple stories, and the Halloween chocolate daifuku taste test.

Mark — Joined the stream after resting at a capsule hotel in Asakusa. Originally from Ohio University (not Ohio State), Mark has been traveling extensively, visiting Mishima Skywalk and Kashiwabara Ryokan in Shima Onsen. He shows photos of the autumn foliage and is heading back to New York soon. He's a moderator on the Only in Japan Discord.

Key Takeaways

  1. Convenience stores are a Halloween destination: Japanese combini stock limited-edition seasonal items with Halloween packaging. Items sell out quickly, and variety varies by store and location.

  2. Tokyo transforms at midnight: The streets around Tokyo Station become a different world after the last train — quieter, occupied by tired salarymen, but surprisingly safe and full of character.

  3. Seasonal food is fleeting: The bittersweet truth of Japanese convenience store culture: if you find something you love, enjoy it while it lasts. Seasonal items are truly seasonal and may never return.

  4. High-tech Japan exists everywhere: Even automated bicycle parking near Tokyo Station uses Suica card payment and robotic systems for just five spots.

  5. Live streaming creates community: The real-time interaction between John and viewers — likes, comments, challenges — turns a simple snack run into a shared experience.

Notable Quotes

00:21 "Technically not midnight, but it's midnight somewhere."

05:10 "Snack bar is where guys get served snacks by lovely ladies. And the food is never good, but the people serving it typically are."

20:24 "If you do have any Tokyo Disneyland questions, ask him, not me. Me and Miles combined have like 1% of his knowledge."

34:51 "Japan is a place of confusing tastes. It's fun, though. It's a double-edged sword because you'll walk into the convenience store one day and you'll find something that you love, and you'll like, I want to eat this all the time. And then it's gone like that. And you don't see it again."

37:55 "The most guaranteed time to see Mount Fuji is between the end of November till February in the winter when the skies are cool and all of the humidity settles."

38:20 "I have been living here for over 30 years and I didn't have any Reese's Peanut Butter Cups. And then Say You, which is Walmart — Walmart in Japan had them. So we stockpiled it like tomorrow is the last day in the world."

57:19 "It's too cute to eat. It actually... It is Halloween after all."

63:27 "Quiet, safe place that even at midnight walking around this station area, it's pretty lively in a way, but it's pretty safe in a good way. And that's my Tokyo."

Related Topics

  • Convenience store culture and late-night food in Japan
  • Salaryman lifestyle and after-work drinking culture
  • Halloween celebrations and adaptations in Japan
  • Tokyo Disneyland and DisneySea insights
  • Tokyo Station area exploration (Yaesu, underground passages)
  • Highway bus travel in Japan
  • Seasonal Japanese food and limited-edition snacks
  • Live streaming and community engagement on YouTube

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Full Transcript

Speakers:

  • SPEAKER_03: John Daub
  • SPEAKER_04: Spencer
  • SPEAKER_05: Miles
  • SPEAKER_06: Mark

Full Transcript

00:00:02 John Daub: That there in front of you is Tokyo Station. And we're not going to be going inside there, but we will be starting this midnight snack run from this point here. We're going to be going over there to Yaesu Dori. This is the Yaesu side of Tokyo Station. And we're going to be going on a midnight snack run. Technically not midnight, but it's midnight somewhere. And this is the time where a lot of people are going home from work, taking the last train. Halloween is a time where kids dress up and go trick-or-treating. So we're going to be doing our own kind of trick-or-treating.

00:00:35 I'm not alone, though. I'll be meeting Spencer, who is going to be talking about so many things that he loves about Japan, including, I'm almost positive, Disney. It's going to be a lot of fun. And, you know, it's Halloween and Disney. That's one of the big attractions for Disneyland Tokyo. So I'm curious to get his take. But also curious to eat some Halloween food. Japanese Halloween convenience store food. I think that's Spencer there, that dude hanging out in the corner. So let's go say hi.

00:01:10 Beautiful Bob's in the house moderating. And there he is. Spencer. All right. Fist bump. That's right. Oh, yeah. This shirt says the story here. Disney person. So this is the north entrance of Tokyo Station. I actually said to meet at the central, so we had some problems meeting up. This is outside of the Daimaru department store at 1105, 1106. And you can see a lot of people are starting to leave work. I was behind a hoard. We use that for zombies, but I use it for salary bank because they were in a hoard. And I was trapped behind them. And the smell of booze following them. I feel like I could be intoxicated from that. I tell you, it was strong.

00:02:04 You'll want to stay away from Shibuya and Shimbashi around this hour as well, especially the last one. That strong just gets everywhere. It's very. Check it out. It's a blue light. Let's run. I haven't done this much exercise in years.

00:02:16 Spencer: Really? I do this all the time.

00:02:20 John Daub: Well, I mean, I run for rides, but that's really about it. A lot of construction going on right now all around the area. I came on my bicycle and ton of stuff going on in the middle of the night. That's when they do all the work to not disrupt. Well, most of the cities do that not to disrupt traffic.

00:02:39 See all those businessmen over there. We're heading that direction. Step the Techno file. Hello from San Francisco. Thank you. Hello from Tokyo. Live streams are cool. If you want to watch them live, you got to subscribe and make sure you get the notifications we do it on Patreon on Discord on Instagram stories. So you can swipe up and watch to some places you might want to check it out. I do that to plug my stuff. I got to plug the Discord a little bit because I don't moderate it.

00:03:10 Spencer: Oh.

00:03:12 John Daub: Hey, hey, hey.

00:03:15 Spencer: Hey, nice to meet you.

00:03:16 John Daub: You're not Mark, are you?

00:03:17 Miles: No, Miles.

00:03:19 John Daub: Oh, OK. Miles. Nice to meet you. Where you from?

00:03:22 Miles: Los Angeles.

00:03:23 John Daub: Los Angeles. Cool. City, California. You went on this midnight snack run.

00:03:25 Miles: I am. I just came from I sent you the photo from Skywalk.

00:03:31 John Daub: All right. You've been all over the place.

00:03:34 Miles: I've been everywhere. I went to took the Sunrise Izumo.

00:03:38 John Daub: Yes. I want to hear about your stories. Do you have photos?

00:03:40 Miles: I do. Photos. You got photos. I took. I got to hear the story. I took, I took video body cam.

00:03:50 John Daub: Yeah. From across the Skywalk both ways. Oh, man. It's crazy. Do you have that, too?

00:03:54 Miles: No, I don't have that one. No, I took back my capsule hotel.

00:04:00 John Daub: OK, very cool. We're also going to see if Mark is going to make it. I think he fell asleep in his capsule hotel in Asakusa, I think.

00:04:10 John Daub: This here during the Sakura cherry blossoms is absolutely beautiful. I came here and did a live stream right now. Those cherry blossoms don't look as pink as they did. You can also get some cheap eats across the street from Tokyo Station at this convenience. This vending machine, I guess this is a Don't Booty shop. The Katsudon looks good, but that's not Halloween. One coin. We call these 500 yen, one 500 yen coin. So one coin lunch. Good lunch.

00:04:39 Spencer: Oh, yeah, I love Katsudon.

00:04:47 John Daub: All right. We could get in trouble here, too. A lot of salary men, they hang out at night sometimes in these places called snack bar. Have you guys ever been to a snack bar in Tokyo?

00:05:02 Spencer: How do you mean snack bar?

00:05:04 John Daub: Snack bar is it's yeah. It's where guys get served snacks by lovely ladies. And they're not really. Oh, you what? By accident.

00:05:17 Spencer: Yeah, because I was walking around for food and I saw that I saw the place that was open. So I walked in and then they gave me a pizza. They microwave. Then I was the food is never good, but the people serving it typically are.

00:05:34 John Daub: This one, this is this is ramen. Oh, it's like, I know it's it's a chookah soba. It's the original ramen chookah soba. Could be. It looks really spicy. How about that? It's really spicy.

00:05:55 Check this out. There's some more ramen. We down the street, we know this one. But this one is served by vending machine. So you buy it, get the ticket, and give it to the restaurant. The chain comes out right there. When you enter the shop, you give the guy your ticket. And then they'll have the food ready instantly. Not instantly, but pretty fast.

00:06:15 So Miles, we're on the prowl. Where'd Miles go?

00:06:18 Miles: Oh, he's ready. I saw a business guy behind me. I'm like, that's not Miles. Did he change? Ten minutes in the live stream, he became Japanese.

00:06:29 John Daub: So we're on the hunt for convenience store Halloween food. I saw some in Lawson's.

00:06:34 Spencer: Yeah, Lawson's had some.

00:06:38 Miles: There's a family mart.

00:06:40 Spencer: Yeah, the cupcakes are good.

00:06:41 John Daub: Let's try to hit two or three convenience stores. I know there's a family mart right there. I believe there's a 7-Eleven as well. On this street, you know?

00:06:51 Miles: Yeah, there's a 7 not far from here.

00:06:55 John Daub: There's one of each in this area within a fairly walkable distance. That's what I'm guessing. That's why I picked the street. And also because there's a lot of people who are maybe a little tipsy. And it'll add a little bit of dimension to this live stream. Some comedic fun in there.

00:07:12 So how long are you in Japan?

00:07:13 Spencer: I've been here since the 20th.

00:07:15 John Daub: Oh, cool. How long are you staying?

00:07:16 Spencer: I'm staying till the 7th.

00:07:18 John Daub: So 18 days. All right. With a day of travel. So it's not too bad. That's a good holiday.

00:07:28 Spencer: I haven't had one in like roughly a long time.

00:07:30 John Daub: Wow, are those real lobsters? Are those real?

00:07:34 Spencer: Those are real. That's not real. But that's a real shrimp. You got to be careful. That's a real shrimp.

00:07:45 John Daub: I guess you just pick them out and eat them like that, Spencer. Because otherwise it's going to get you. Watch your fingers.

00:08:02 This street has a family mart over there. We're going to hit that. Also, it looks like it's pretty buzzing over there. I'm sure we're going to find. Yeah, I'm sure we're going to find some convenience stores in that direction.

00:08:46 John Daub: So this is going to be interesting. What can Spencer pull out of his dry one pocket? The cupcake? They have, like, cupcakes or what I've found is pudding. The gentleman I met from Nagata, he said he gave his wife bought me a pudding for the train, and it was of that area, of the local area. It really tastes just like flan.

00:09:13 Spencer: Oh, yeah. If anyone's eaten the Japanese pudding before, it's like flan, baby. It is so good. A little bit of caramel sauce in the bottom of it, and then they'll do, like, a mambaran. Do you know mambaran?

00:09:23 John Daub: They have, like, the chestnuts crushed up with sugar, and they put, like, this all over the top of it with cream on top and a little...

00:09:30 Spencer: No, the one I had was the one with caramel. Oh, caramel. There was caramel on the side, and it was a glass bottle.

00:09:36 John Daub: Oh, yeah, that's pretty good. I got it when I was coming back from Skywalk. That's the real deal. That's not a convenience store version. So you had a good one. The convenience stores, you know, they're not that healthy, actually, and everyone does live streams there and encourages eating, bentos and stuff. I'm going to discourage you right now.

00:09:59 Because, like, there's Spencer inside getting some food. I'm curious to see what Spencer got. What's he got here? He might have just completely ignored the rules and just got a bento.

00:10:10 Faye's life is here. Faye, how are you? So it's Halloween there, which means it's my birthday already. Happy birthday.

00:10:16 No, actually, it's not Halloween yet, technically, but... But, yeah, it'll be Halloween in... No, in, like, less than an hour. It's Halloween in 45 minutes.

00:10:35 Halloween, 45 minutes. Do we celebrate? Do we jump up and down? What do we do? Do we come by? Oh, we got to get something to drink or something. By the way, my bicycle's over there. So I kind of set it up.

00:10:51 Here he comes. All right. It doesn't matter. It doesn't matter. I don't need the receipt.

00:11:00 John Daub: So I got... Oh, you spent exactly 494 yen. Interesting, Spencer. I got three treats, I think. It's three treats. Oh, you got the one that I wanted to get. Well, it's family month, so you'll be able to choose something.

00:11:14 Spencer: Are you sure, though? I don't know. This is the... Can you help with the Japanese? I'm not sure. It says Hokkaido Kabocha Mambran Pudding. So it's pumpkin pudding. From Hokkaido. Oh, and look at the... That's what you... That's the way it is. Look at the caramel sauce on the bottom of it. That's flan. Yep. That was good.

00:11:27 John Daub: This is not pudding. This is flan. And then I got this... Oh, man. It says pumpkin, not kabocha. $2.25 for this, I think. But that's the mambran type of pumpkin. And what do you got there? It says pumpkin, not kabocha. So it looks like a little pumpkin Danish kind of thing.

00:11:44 Spencer: Oh, that's good. Mochi Mochi Tosta Danish. So it's like mochi powder inside of the Danish. So it gives it some springiness.

00:11:51 John Daub: Yeah. And then the last one, I got... Two-spoon kind of mochi. The last one, I also don't know. I got... I think it's a daifuku kind of thing. Oh, and that was all 494 yen?

00:12:02 Spencer: Yeah.

00:12:04 John Daub: Oh, my goodness. How is this Halloween? I put the karupi on a separate bill. Oh, okay. I got it now. This I put on my card. The rest is the cash. I'm going to show you. Here's the 500-ish yen.

00:12:23 John Daub: Oh, yeah. You're up next, Miles. This is shareware money. Thank you so much for the super chats and giving us the fuel. Thank you. For midnight snacks. Let's eat this right here.

00:12:31 Spencer: Right here?

00:12:32 John Daub: Okay. This is the typical foreigners hanging out in front of a convenience store making trouble. This is the... It doesn't... We are the meiwaku. People... I honestly don't do this very often.

00:12:42 Spencer: Just all the time.

00:12:43 John Daub: All right. Why don't you open it up and we'll do an unboxing. I actually have a light. If you're eating, then I can hold it. Should we go that far? I can hold it.

00:13:02 Spencer: Sorry. I have a light that I can use. Sorry. It goes in here.

00:13:16 John Daub: All right. Are we going to unbox it? Here, you guys do that. Because you go there because I chose. So you guys eat and I'll hold it. You hold the camera.

00:13:15 Spencer: Yeah, I'll hold the gimbal.

00:13:17 John Daub: It's a lot of power. I know. I gave it to Peter once and he didn't give it back for like an hour.

00:13:24 Spencer: All right. I'm not Peter. It's okay. I can't even... I don't like it. Because I think it's special.

00:13:28 John Daub: Aw, thanks. It's a special guy. Which one do you want, Miles? Is the light on?

00:13:35 Miles: Yes, it is.

00:13:36 John Daub: I guess we can share it. Are you going to this one? Oh, UFO Bob is here. Hey, UFO Bob. How are you doing? This is a Satsuma Emo, a sweet potato, like daifuku.

00:13:49 Spencer: Interesting. This is new. Yeah, I haven't seen that one. Like, today is literally the first time I've seen it.

00:13:56 John Daub: I don't know if you can share this. Do you want me to go inside and grab like a fork? We can split it in half. Didn't you say you have spoons in here, right? There's two spoons, but there's... So, like, we can share them en blanc without, like, sharing spoons.

00:14:08 Spencer: I don't really need to share. I've had them all already. I mean, I was trying to be, like, you know, considerate of germs and everything. I'm at the butt end of a pole, that's why.

00:14:22 John Daub: All right, I'm going to give this to Miles.

00:14:25 Spencer: Now... Here, let me... I'm going to rotate around.

00:14:31 John Daub: Check this out here. They say they're having trouble hearing you a little bit because of the way the mic is.

00:14:37 Spencer: Yeah. I'm going to keep it a little closer. You see inside of here, there's a cream and there's even some gel, like a sweet consistency sauce. And it's very, very soft like mochi on this thing. Let's try this.

00:15:05 John Daub: That's not mochi, Spencer. I thought it was a daifuku. It's marshmallow.

00:15:09 Spencer: Oh. Do you like marshmallow, Spencer?

00:15:12 John Daub: Extremely, yes. I don't like marshmallow. That's okay. You gave me the power of the... of the... of the senin. So... I'm taking the stick back.

00:15:26 Miles: I like it roasted.

00:15:27 John Daub: Oh, that would be awesome if you could roast that on an open fire. But Tokyo has very strict anti-fire laws. So, Miles. It's not gonna happen. Unless you go and you can maybe warm it up in a microwave, but it doesn't have the same grilling effect.

00:15:45 Spencer: You think they'd let you do that? They would not let you do that. Don't they have a toaster? Do they have a... No, they do not have a toaster. Or do they have something like it? I want you to buy it and get out. Toasting means you gotta hang out there.

00:15:54 John Daub: Pudding, pudding, pudding. There's like 700 people on the other end going, pudding, pudding, Spencer. Down it. Down it. Are you old enough for beer?

00:16:08 Spencer: No, I'm 19. Sorry.

00:16:10 John Daub: I knew you're 19. Maybe after March. That's when I turn 20. Okay. I turn 20 on...actually I won't give out my birthday out here. Don't give out your birthday to the internet. That's a bad idea.

00:16:26 Spencer: I gave out my credit card once when it came out of an ATM.

00:16:28 John Daub: You were like, oh, I just showed it. Yeah, next day I canceled it. Don't worry. All right, wait, hold on. That looks really good. We need like some sort of music.

00:16:42 Spencer: What's that one from Ferris Bueller? Mmm, pow, pow. Chka, chka, chka.

00:16:45 John Daub: That wasn't, that wasn't, this is not the right music. That's not the right music. We need Peter for that deep voice. Peter wouldn't even have started that because what I did was not cool at all.

00:16:54 Spencer: I can see there's some whipped cream underneath the membrane layer. So this was $1.25 and it's so worth it. Go ahead.

00:17:04 John Daub: It was $2,310. $2,310. All right, Spencer, let's get your reaction. You gotta make one of those YouTuber eating faces. I gotta get like all four layers in here. All right, all four layers. Spencer's going in for all four layer bite.

00:17:19 Spencer: Is it worth it? Oh yeah, that's really good. It's like the perfect combination of like not too sweet. It's really savory, I think. Hold on a second. It's really, it's savory. I like it. It's like, it's a little sweet, like it tastes like a pumpkin. But it's not like a pumpkin spice kind of thing. It's just like a really savory kind of, I like it.

00:17:37 John Daub: It's worth it, I think. I would get this again. Get this again. Which is weird because I've had like mixed experiences with some of the the Cabochon flavors that they've been doing.

00:17:48 Spencer: Looks good. It's good.

00:17:49 John Daub: Do you guys want to try this? Where's the other spoon? It's in my pocket. That's all you.

00:18:03 We're going to save the Danish for when our Denmark fans come in and tell us it's not really Danish. It's a donut or something. I don't know. We're going to wait for Spencer to finish this and then Miles and I are going to decide who goes next. Rock, scissors, do you know how to play rock, scissors, paper? Rock, paper, scissors, go or rock, scissors, paper? Which one do you do? It's rock, paper, scissors. Rock, paper, scissors. Or junk and pawn, whatever you want to do. Rock, paper, scissors, shoot. That's what you do. That's the same as go, just a different word.

00:18:35 Spencer: Oh my gosh.

00:18:36 John Daub: All right. Let's just do it. Okay. If I say go, then I'll see your thing and I'll win.

00:18:40 Spencer: No, that's fine. Go.

00:18:42 John Daub: Rock, paper, scissors. Oh, wait. That's totally... All right. You saw it. I win. So I'm going to elect that you go.

00:18:55 Miles: Okay.

00:18:56 John Daub: I don't want to go next. So it wouldn't really matter. Spencer, I'm buying you time.

00:19:01 Spencer: Is that all the damage you could do? Dude, I would have completely slurped that in like one bite. This is really thick. I have to take my time with it.

00:19:10 John Daub: What I have been crazy about is that I went to Starbucks and I ordered a venti Quebec coffee and it came out to be about this thick. Oh, did you get a... Japan is one of the only places that has the short size too.

00:19:20 Spencer: Yeah, actually. There's some places where they don't... The short size lives in Japan.

00:19:24 John Daub: That's actually not true. I used to work for Starbucks. We had the short size in the US. You just have to ask for it. They want you to buy the talls and the grandes because it's more money.

00:19:35 Spencer: So it's off menu? That's awful. Yes, but when I wanted a coffee, it was going to be about this big and it came out as this big.

00:19:40 John Daub: Really? That's weird. I heard they hadn't changed the sizes here. But the short size is not even... Is the same short in the US or is the Japan short? This is important.

00:19:50 Spencer: I think it's the same. It's eight ounces in the US. So whenever people would want like a really small latte or something, you'd just be like, hey, I want a short latte and you'd make it. I mean, we still have the cups. It's just not on the menu.

00:20:04 John Daub: Ah. You know, the experience is of a former Starbucks barista. It's good. We got a barista and we've got a Disney and you know everything about Tokyo Disneyland. Not everything, but I think I know a decent amount. You know, more than me, which is, and more than Miles combined. Me and Miles combined have like 1% of his knowledge.

00:20:24 John Daub: If you do have any Tokyo Disneyland questions, ask him, not me. Do you have any trash?

00:20:29 Spencer: No. I keep my spoon. It's in my pocket.

00:20:33 John Daub: Here's another chuka soba. Did we say chuka soba? Chuka means Chinese cuisine. Do you see the kanji right there? There's a little kanji lesson. This says chuka which means Chinese cuisine. The first two. Then the next two and the black one is soba. And soba is a kind of noodle although it's ramen. Chinese soba is ramen. It's the simplest form of ramen. This place is a chain. It's very full chain. And it looks like you're doing pretty good. It doesn't make it any less delicious. And look at the gyoza on the side of the. I just had gyoza for dinner this evening. Why did we have to do it as a Halloween thing? I should have done as a gyoza thing. It's okay. You can always schedule another one where we go to like a ramen shop. Chuka soba is not buckwheat noodles. Chuka soba is just ramen. Soba is soba but chuka soba is ramen. It's very confusing. I was confused too until somebody told me.

00:21:33 Spencer: Whoa, there's some weird stuff. I searched for an entire day looking for sprite and didn't find it. And then we get it in the first place my 7-eleven has. Right, we've had it for months. What I gotta tell you though is that the fanta socada is so good. Yeah, I had that weird like fruity thing. Have you tried this dragon boost? I have not but it is way too late at night for me to do so. I'm not drinking that. The one thing I did try was uh I found soup at the at the station. Yeah, there's like a bunch of. Any trick or treats. It's getting cold now so all the vending machines are starting to. The sookie soups. And I try to get the the shrimp one but then I try the corn. What was good?

00:22:13 Miles: See if it were anywhere else except japan I don't think I would trust shrimp soup from a vending machine but this is japan so this shrimp student vending machine.

00:22:20 Spencer: That's what miles just said. Yeah, well um when i was coming from skywalk oh it's a interesting was it good uh i tried the corn one was actually really good okay it was worth the 140 yen.

00:22:35 John Daub: So like a small little camp it was good we were heading ladies and gentlemen and mark if you're following us um we've gone off of there and we're going to this street which is i don't i don't know what it's called it's very bright and um there's going to be some people most people are going to go home because they want to catch the last train and tomorrow is an early day i i have to wake up at 7 00 am to go to skytree for tokyo i shoot for nhk it's interesting i haven't done an actual yeah i haven't done a shoot for them in years so you're doing this on halloween day i know you're gonna climb tokyo skytree it's not like fun i love climbing the skytree that's my favorite building in all of it it's not fun when you get to do it it's like 7 00 am i mean i guess so but it's a beautiful building all right these dudes are finished with their drinking event and they're hanging out on a corner and this is how they're saying goodbye or they're deciding to go to a second party not sure which this gotcha pawn.

00:23:28 John Daub: This this is an irish pub on the corner here um yeah i've been in there a couple of times but it's funny inside they have gotcha pulling everywhere now there's one right outside of the karaoke so i don't see any convenience stores though do you i i see a 7-eleven a couple of blocks down a couple blocks down all right a couple blocks down to the right and i think there was a law since back there at the entrance just around the copyright here's a copy of you just on the um i think that's one of the ones that closes at night because it's in the night yeah oh yeah i think i saw the things they were pulling down the number they were pulling down the gate yeah the little blind things it's okay i know there's another lawson we'll find one there's another lawson this area is super busy there's gonna be tons of convenience stores it's funny a lot of the streets are really quiet this one is pretty loud this is the people going to the second and third drinking party with their buddies trying to get the uh last drink before the final train which is pretty much right now well you know last call's gotta come sometime last call of course every college kid will be like one day we're gonna open a bar and when we do there'll be no last call oh this is a massage place my friend my friend tom he drank a little bit a couple years ago he was at my wedding tom and he got he called me at like 1 am he goes john i'm in some chinese massage parlor and i can't get out he's like you have to help me and i didn't know i think wait how'd you get in there and eventually i tracked him down in rapungi near the hard rock cafe and gosh yeah apparently he he didn't want the massage was really good he didn't want to leave and they were trying to kick him out i don't know how it went but this is a really good kushikatsu do you guys do you guys know kushikatsu uh i think i've heard of it kushikatsu is an osaka deep fried skewers of rice and i've seen it in the sun but it's not too much okay so this place is closing because it's midnight oh man i ate in here with my friend tom too all you gotta say is osaka and i already know what's gonna be doing it's it is very good the lights are shut down so we got to find that combini oh okay i know there's one i don't know where this one up here to the right the central exit father those ladies they know they know they know because follow the natives follow them the natives.

00:26:02 John Daub: I know, that's true. It's not meant to be like a bad thing or anything.

00:26:10 John Daub: I think this is on the 11th. 7-11. There it is right there. Little 7 and I. That used to be their motto. I don't know, like 15 years ago, they said, I gotta say, living in an age where I don't have to watch broadcast TV kind of sucks because Japanese commercials are incredible. They are pretty good. Sometimes it's better to watch the commercials than the actual show that they're watching. It's like the Super Bowl is always on. It's better to actually watch just the commercials than the actual show.

00:26:51 John Daub: Down here is, you can get to Tokyo Station Underground. Is it still open? No, it's closed. You can get to Tokyo Station Underground through the Yaesu Shopping Mall. And there's some pretty cool shops down there. And there's some new websites. Western restaurants that I've never seen before. One of them has a really good pecan pie that Kanai likes. So it's worth checking out that shopping mall underneath there. Again, like the construction, just loads of it. All right, Miles, you're up, buddy. Let's see what you can find. Happy Halloween. Trick or treat.

00:27:33 Spencer: Looks like they're loading up a night bus over here.

00:27:36 Miles: Yeah.

00:27:40 Spencer: How you doing?

00:27:44 John Daub: It's our friends. Yay. Everyone's a friend when you're on YouTube.

00:27:51 Miles: Miles is trick-or-treating. He gotta get a basket. I didn't get a basket.

00:27:54 Spencer: You didn't get a basket? It's not trick-or-treating without a basket.

00:27:58 John Daub: I used to use pillowcases. Did you do the... When I was a little kid, yeah, but before they started like... Before they started making like little plastic Jack-o'-lantern baskets, you know what I'm talking about?

00:28:05 Spencer: Oh, yeah.

00:28:06 John Daub: Then you'd have like little pillowcases. The little kids had those, so we used to take our pillowcases, because that's what an adult would do, the irresponsible thing. And we would use our actual pillowcases that we were sleeping on, because we wanted to sleep on them. We wanted to sleep near our candy. And pillowcases fit more candy than those little Jack-o'-lantern things.

00:28:35 Miles: Yeah.

00:28:38 John Daub: It's okay. I remember the last time I trick-or-treated, I think I was 11 years old. I was a little old at the time, I think.

00:28:48 Spencer: Eleven? No, I was trick-or-treating until high school. It's free candy.

00:28:55 John Daub: My parents were very adamant about me not doing that after I was like 11 or 12. I think if you can't like... If you're one of those high school kids that can grow a mustache and stuff, I wasn't one of those.

00:29:05 Spencer: I can't grow facial hair.

00:29:06 John Daub: Yeah, I couldn't grow facial hair until like I was 27, and then even then. Is that Miles? That's not Miles.

00:29:18 Spencer: No, it's not Miles. I think that's what Miles looked like. That bus motor's not Miles. Oh, this is where you catch the buses that go towards Chiba.

00:29:28 John Daub: Yeah, that's what I told you.

00:29:30 Spencer: Oh, did you say that? I wasn't listening.

00:29:32 John Daub: Yeah, I was like, yeah, it looks like there's a night bus over there. This one's actually going up to Sendai. Oh, there's so many buses around Tokyo Station. There's not just the...

00:29:50 Hey, David Kimura, thank you. See, there's Tokyo Station. Do you remember those purple lights in the distance there? That's the central exit right there, so we're just coming straight from there. Mark, in case you want to find us. On this side of Tokyo Station near the south exit, south, right?

00:29:58 Spencer: Yeah.

00:29:59 John Daub: There's the JR... No, central exit, central exit. Central and then south. Between central and south is the JR highway buses. They're a little bit pricey. If you go away from Tokyo Station on this side and even on the modern Uchi side, we're Willer's Bus. I think so, yeah. Willer's Bus is another very cheap night bus station. They're on the other side, and then over there, more south of Tokyo Station, is where you're going to find the third-party non-JR buses. They're a little bit cheaper, but you have to make reservations online because they're so cheap, they're sold out.

00:30:34 Spencer: Oh, this is Tohoku. It's like the bulk buses in the U.S. where you pay $10 and you can go from D.C. to New York.

00:30:41 John Daub: There he is, Miles. Swing the camera around. Camera, swing. Very slim pickings. Oh, man. What did we get? Let's see what you get.

00:31:01 Miles: It's a receipt.

00:31:02 John Daub: Whoa, you still got change? You guys are economical.

00:31:08 Miles: I'm a college student. I have to be.

00:31:10 John Daub: Yeah. Daifuku?

00:31:14 Spencer: Okay.

00:31:15 John Daub: Oh, another Daifuku. Oh, that's a Halloween Daifuku. Oh, because there's a witch on it. That makes it Halloween. Is this the flan pudding that you're talking about? Yeah, it looks like it's just regular pudding. It's just regular pudding.

00:31:27 Miles: Oh, expired.

00:31:29 John Daub: Is that expired? Oh, no. We were still like... 7-Eleven, 7. Not Ted's 7. I was going to say. It's got Halloween figures on there. This is Japan's image of Halloween. Black cat. Jack-o'-lantern. Witch. Ghost puking water. And mummy.

00:32:00 Spencer: That looks like... Wow. Like slime, maybe. I don't know. Why is it blue, though?

00:32:13 John Daub: Ghost tongues are blue, I guess. I don't think it's a tongue. I think it's releasing something. I got to tell you, though. At my 7-Eleven, we got like this big... It's like a big little cake. Like this cookies and cream kind of thing with maraschino cherries on top. I saw it just this evening. It sounds really good. Let's move this way, away from the exhaust. Nothing... Not that there's anything wrong with it. Just... And the bus noise. Yeah, and the bus noise. It's actually worse here.

00:32:40 John Daub: Happy Halloween. Yeah, Halloween is... You can sit. I'm going to stand. Is it clean? Next to the rubbish? Let's see what's happening in the news today. You can just see it through the clear trash bags. This is probably burnable, so... Yeah, I think that must be today. Yeah, and in Japan, you have to buy stickers, and there's a tax for throwing out your garbage if you're a business. They're pretty affordable, but if it doesn't have a sticker, like this one is a 70-liter trash bag, they won't accept it. You have to pay for your trash to be taken out.

00:33:02 John Daub: All right, Miles, in this extremely clean place, let's try... Which one do you want to try? Not the pudding, because we had that. Let's try this daifuku.

00:33:16 Spencer: Yeah.

00:33:17 Miles: I've had that already. I won't spoil it.

00:33:20 John Daub: All right, that's all you. I'm hoping this is better than the marshmallow one that we had.

00:33:28 Spencer: That one sounded good. No knock on you.

00:33:30 John Daub: No knock on you, yeah. Okay, you stand by. You didn't eat it. That's true. I got a little spoon, so I'm covering it. Why don't you use it to cut it to show us the guts? Because it's Halloween. It should ooze out of this mochi.

00:33:45 Spencer: Oh, gosh.

00:33:46 John Daub: That's right. Yeah, yeah, I got the back. Someone play the organ music, because we're about to say goodbye to this daifuku.

00:34:02 Spencer: I don't have any organ music. I have Disney organ music, but you'll get copyright. No, it's copyright. No Disney, please.

00:34:08 John Daub: All right, do it. And what we have is sound effects of a jackhammer doing construction. That sort of fits. Oh, yeah. It's a good cut. They even acknowledge it in the comments with jackhammer. Everyone's setting the mood in the chat. I love it. We should do my friend Trevor the food rangers.

00:34:34 Spencer: Ooh. Oh. I like that. Oh, it's so good.

00:35:00 Miles: Kind of tastes like ice cream. Interesting. Like chocolate ice cream. It's weird.

00:35:12 John Daub: Mark is here. Mark, would you like half of a daifuku?

00:35:21 Mark: Yes.

00:35:22 John Daub: Yeah, dig in. Oh, wow. So let's see if Mark has the same reaction.

00:35:31 Spencer: I found a Lawson, by the way.

00:35:33 John Daub: All right, we're hitting Lawson's next. Look out. Pretty good?

00:35:43 Miles: Dark chocolate ice cream.

00:35:44 John Daub: Dark chocolate ice cream, yeah. It's weird because you think it tastes like food. But the mochi, does it fit, though, with the mochi?

00:35:50 Miles: You barely taste the mochi.

00:35:52 John Daub: You barely taste the mochi. You taste most of this. It's just a soft shell for the chocolate ice cream tasting custard, which is not... It's very confusing. Japan is a place of confusing tastes. It's fun, though. It's a double-edged sword. Because you'll walk into the convenience store one day and you'll find something that you love. And you'll like, I want to eat this all the time. So for me, there's this great, like, green apple cream roll cake at Lawson that I found a couple of weeks ago. I love it. Green apple cream roll cake. And it disappeared.

00:36:18 Spencer: Because you ate it?

00:36:19 John Daub: It's a seasonal thing. Like, they keep introducing new things, which is great if you don't like something. But if you do like something, it's gone like that. And you don't see it again.

00:36:30 Spencer: So you're saying we should stockpile it as though, like...

00:36:32 John Daub: As if the end times are coming.

00:36:33 Spencer: Yeah, the end of times. Stockpile.

00:36:35 John Daub: There is... I've had a few things like this. I've had a few things like that where I wanted to stockpile. Welcome. Did you have a good sleep? You were in your capsule hotel.

00:36:48 Mark: Yeah, I dozed off for a few days. And then I just totally missed my line. How was Kawaguchiko?

00:36:57 Spencer: You went there to Kawaguchiko?

00:36:58 Mark: No, I wasn't there in two days. I just came back from a ryokan in Gumi.

00:37:05 John Daub: Oh! Takaragawa? Shima Onsen.

00:37:10 Mark: Kashiwara Ryokan.

00:37:13 John Daub: Yeah, it was excellent. It was my third time back there.

00:37:22 Mark: Oh! Very cool.

00:37:23 John Daub: All right. Spencer's going to hit the trash. I want to see your photos. Photos. We've got to see some photos. You're at the Mishima Skywalk. It's crazy. Thanks for coming. Yeah, thanks for coming. Yeah.

00:37:42 Mark: I know you from Discord.

00:37:43 John Daub: Yeah. As well. Yeah. Discord! I'll put a link in the description. You've got to join us there. It's where all the fun is. All the cool people are on Discord. Are you on Discord? I'm one of the mods on Discord. He's a mod on Discord.

00:38:06 Miles: I'm on Discord.

00:38:07 John Daub: See this? I'm just going to go to the store. You've got to get on the Only in Japan Discord. It's a lot of fun. See, it's a lot of fun. All right, don't show us the dirty photo. I don't know. I'm not saying that there's any, but I'm just saying it's a clean show. It's a family friendly show.

00:38:48 John Daub: So that's the start of it. Oh, this is the Mishima Skywalk. I have not been here. It sounds like something from Star Wars. Skies with another noun or with another verb. Sky trees. Skywalker. Wow, look at the sky. So you walk all the way across?

00:38:57 Mark: Yeah. And then you go to the other side. And then you walk all the way back.

00:38:58 John Daub: And you did that with a GoPro?

00:39:00 Mark: No, this I did with my camera.

00:39:02 John Daub: Oh, wow. My phone. Okay. I walked across with my GoPro. I still have, I mean my camera. Were you scared?

00:39:12 Mark: No.

00:39:13 John Daub: Admit it. It's okay.

00:39:15 Mark: No, I wasn't scared. It was a lot of fun though.

00:39:23 John Daub: Oh, beautiful. We did have a really nice day today. Yeah, it was a gorgeous day today. But no views of Fuji, right?

00:39:34 Mark: Fuji was hidden amongst a mountain of clouds.

00:39:37 John Daub: It could be perfectly blue skies and not see Mount Fuji at all. Hopefully tomorrow. You said to get a window seat. Yeah. I got a window seat. I still can't see it. Sometimes you can see a shadow, but it's never guaranteed. I saw it here to the point where you can't see anything. The most guaranteed time to see Mount Fuji is between the end of November till February in the winter when the skies are cool and all of the humidity settles. And the pollution just kind of goes, just dies. I don't know why, but... All of my best pictures I have on my website I took in the winter.

00:40:01 John Daub: Winter. The weather is so clear. The skies are so blue. You just don't get that kind of color in the rest of the year. No. It's summer. You might not see Mount Fuji at all. Even when you climb it, it's all clouds. I think I saw Mount Fuji like two or three times this whole summer.

00:40:22 John Daub: So we'll have to go across the street and then pull it through. For the trifecta? What's it? Good things come in threes. There. There's the sound bite. Good things come in threes. We're going to be going. And there's three guys and me. This is four. Look what you've done, Mark. I'm just kidding. We're going to try to hit a Lawson's. Now the Lawson's is... I think there's... You have to cross the street. Oh, I don't want to cross the street. But let's do it. You've got to because of the construction. Because you've got Tokyo Station outside. No, I know that, but I know we're going to lose the signal over here.

00:40:51 Spencer: These buildings are... Lawson's... That was the one that's closed here. I mean, there's one... There's that one, but I don't know if it's still open. How far is it from walking? The Tekko Avenue is closed, too. There's a Yayasu Ichome.

00:41:06 John Daub: All right. You were in dark mode, didn't you?

00:41:08 Spencer: Yes, I do.

00:41:09 John Daub: Oh, this one says it's closed, too. Lawson's is closed? Yeah, I guess a lot of them close around here. I've got a Sotobori Dori one that's open 24 hours. Isn't there one this way towards Nihonbashi? Are you kidding me? There's a Nihonbashi one that is that way. Lawson's, man. But we have to cross the street. All right, let's do it. Green light, run! Pass it to me. Because it's fun for people to watch running gimbals because it's so smooth. Look how smooth it is. It's a DJI 3.

00:41:57 John Daub: This way. Oh, this way? All right. We just ran from there. You can see how bright it is. All the taxis taking drunk salarymen home. We respect you. The salarymen are the lifeblood of this country.

00:42:02 Spencer: Okay.

00:42:04 John Daub: Let's go, guys. Let's do this. Follow Spencer. H-O-M-A-N-S-O-B-I-N-G. Which 19 cannot drink is sober. Because, yeah. Because I have to be. You have to be. And it's also like a one-day trip. Do you have, do you have, you should do tours of Disney, I think. Take people, because he does so much. Tell us something that we don't know about Disney right now. About these parks?

00:42:34 Spencer: Um, the construction of DisneySea was behind for, because of the one of the construction companies. And so what they had to do was, um, there were four construction companies working on Disney. And one of them was falling behind. It was the biggest part of the park. So they had all three of these companies come together to help fix the rest of the park. And, and it opened on time.

00:42:55 John Daub: How long is the story? That was, that was the story. I just finished it. Oh, okay. You said that's something that people don't usually know. What's, I mean, like, how many square meters is Walt Disney, uh, Tokyo Disneyland?

00:43:08 Spencer: Uh, I don't know square meters. I think it's about 115 acres.

00:43:14 John Daub: What's the current admission price for non-pass holders?

00:43:16 Spencer: 7,400 yen.

00:43:18 John Daub: 7,400 yen. For one day. Which is cheaper. And how about the Starlight ticket? Uh, the Starlight, that's the weekend one, I think that's 5,400?

00:43:28 John Daub: That's like $50. Yeah. Is it still better than L.A.?

00:43:31 Spencer: It's better than L.A. How much is it in L.A.? Last time I checked, it was 150.

00:43:36 John Daub: $150? That sounds like... Dollars? That sounds like holiday days. No. What currency? U.S. dollars? No, I heard it was like 120 now. Or for like everyday. 120? Who pays that? People.

00:43:48 Spencer: People? Oh, no, and then, um... No, Japanese won't go that high. Actually, you'd be surprised. A lot of Japanese guys, they go to... A pass holder is like... Is it near here?

00:44:01 John Daub: It's down this way. Really? This is totally not a good... It's, see... My bicycle's that way. It's, see, it's this direction. See, it's that... We gotta get Mark back to... Mark, are you gonna make your last train?

00:44:26 Mark: Oh, maybe. I'm gonna have to walk it, but...

00:44:27 John Daub: You can walk it. I... Can you walk it, Miles?

00:44:35 Miles: Oh, yeah.

00:44:36 John Daub: Can you walk it? You're 19. Yeah. We'll be fine. He'll be fine. He can follow me. I live right over there.

00:44:52 John Daub: But, no, it's the... You gotta get up early. It's this one, Sancho Bay, right here. See? That's the one that we're going to, right there.

00:45:00 Spencer: All right. It's not that far. Is it... That's on the other side of the street, no?

00:45:08 John Daub: It's on this side. Well, yeah, but we had to get around the construction anyway. No, you can walk... You can walk by there. There wasn't a way.

00:45:18 Spencer: There is a way.

00:45:19 John Daub: Oh, there wasn't a way? I rode my bicycle past there before. Oh, I'm sorry. And we could have crossed right there, now... I'm sorry, John. I'm panicking. All right, so I see the Lawson's right there in the distance. Do you see that light? Below there is Lawson's. We're going over there. If you want to see me go trick-or-treating in a convenience store, click the like button right now. We are well short of the mark of 10,000... No, 1,000... No, 500 likes. One of those numbers. This is the moment where I hold our viewers hostage. I do this a lot. It's worth it. More live streamers should hold your viewers hostage. If the community does not get to this number, then we're going to probably go anyway. But, it's more fun. You have control. You, on the other side of this lens, are with us. You're hanging out in Tokyo. And this is something that you can do to join us, in a way.

00:46:08 John Daub: Because we see it, 345 likes. Every time somebody likes, we see that change. It's good. Wait, the likes went down. I did not ask for likes. I'm sorry. I apologize. Sometimes you ask, people reject their likes. I'm just kidding. I can't find the like button. It's a button with a big thumbs up, I think, isn't it? Yeah, one of those buttons. You never know how YouTube works. They're always changing something over at Google. They are changing. You want to run?

00:47:02 Spencer: No.

00:47:03 John Daub: Okay. You've run yourself down. Let's take it slow. Because we only have 373 likes. If we had 400 likes, I would start running for no reason. I'll do anything. Do anything for those extra likes. I just want to be liked. Yes, sir.

00:47:19 John Daub: All right. Tokyo Station is in front of us. I really like the illuminations that are going on in front of Tokyo Station when the lights go off. Everything in Tokyo is kind of illuminated these days. I like that.

00:47:33 John Daub: The good part. I like you. I'm actually headed there in May for that. That is the most high-tech parking. Have you guys seen one of these yet? No, I haven't actually. These are... You can... I believe for bicycle parking, there's only like five spots. Right? Yeah. And there's a machine. Yeah. There's a machine for it.

00:48:00 Spencer: That's crazy.

00:48:01 John Daub: Yeah, they had one in Kyoto. Just touch random. So, you can swipe... You can touch your Suica card and pay by electrical cash. But that's pretty high-tech for just five spots. Yeah. I would just park my bike right here though. So. I mean, sometimes they like tow bikes if you put it right there.

00:48:19 Spencer: They don't tow bikes.

00:48:20 John Daub: Look at the smart people put it over here. I don't know. I do Uber Eats deliveries on the side. And sometimes I'll leave my Dokomo bike in front of a restaurant for two minutes. I'll come back and they're like, you cannot park your bike here.

00:48:35 John Daub: Kazumin Shou has a beautiful animated gif. Check that out. It's very nice. Oh, that's a cool gif right there. It's pretty cool. But admiring your handiwork. Thank you. It's pretty cool. It's difficult sometimes. It just depends on when you go out.

00:48:50 John Daub: All right. We're 418 likes. Come on, guys. We're getting closer to our community submission for likes. Because we like to stream. And if you watch it in the playback, if you do like these midnight runs, I know so by your likes. Oh, look, look, Spencer. They got construction. Should we cross the street again? Should we cross the street? There's construction. I don't think I can say construction on live stream. I'm just teasing Spencer. No, I know. Oh, wait, Spencer. Why don't we cross the street? Because across the street on the other side is a natural Lawson's. Oh, we crossed the street. We didn't want to cross the street. All right.

00:49:32 John Daub: You know what? Maybe we... I don't know. Yeah, there's four of us. What do you guys think? We can have Marco into the natural Lawson. No, we're going to have to end it because I got to go home. We don't have... We're going to take a thousand likes to extend that one. All right. It's up to you guys on the other side right now. If you're commenting and you're watching, do you think we should go to the Lawson's, which is right here? Or should we cross the street and go to something that's becoming more common, the natural Lawson's behind that bus? Behind the KC bus. Yeah. That's a natural Lawson's. I don't know what the difference is. I'm not going to both unless we get way more likes. But I'll go to one. Sherry Blair writes in, natural Lawson's. Mobius, 5,000, regular Lawson's. Neo says, cross the street again, Neo. Really? So the difference is... Mosheen says, Costco. What? So the difference is a natural Lawson and a regular one is the natural Lawson has... Oh, look. Look, Spencer, we can't cross the street. You're right. We can cross the street over there. All right. You know what? Literally, like, go around, like, this little corner. No, I'm not going to. That's a lot of trouble. I don't know. You know what? UFO Bob said the path of least resistance. Least resistance. And that's right there. It's that one. I think Lawson's has good food, right?

00:51:26 Spencer: Yeah.

00:51:27 John Daub: All right. So let's go in. So you guys wait out here. I only got 100. You can get a change, can't you? I don't know. Would you go in a convenience store and buy something with 100? I remember watching a Seinfeld episode. Watching a Seinfeld episode, and George gave him 100, and he had to buy, like, a pack of gum. And he had to buy a change. He ended up buying, like, a bunch of magazines and newspapers and stuff.

00:52:06 John Daub: No, actually, I have my Suica. I have my Suica. Are you going in with the camera? I'm going to try to. I'm going to get kicked out, probably. Let's see what happens. Yeah, they're getting really strict these days about photography. I'm not... This is video. It's not photography. I'm not even recording. It's live. All right. Oh, yeah, but they usually... Like, that's different if you're, like, holding a camera. That's the thing. All right. I'm going to pay by electronic cards.

00:52:42 Spencer: Yeah, this is the Osaka version. They're holding it upside down.

00:52:52 John Daub: All right. You ready? You run interference. Let's go. You ready? All right. Let's go inside. Halloween.

00:53:05 John Daub: This way. These are a basket. We need a basket. All right. There's not a... Oh, check this out. Can you put one of that in the basket? That is so cute. Yeah, I'm not... Spencer can't have any of these.

00:53:39 John Daub: All right. What else? Do you see anything? Anything you want to try? Is that... How... Halloween-y? I don't know. It doesn't have to be. Just something different from what everyone's been eating. Oh, these shoe creams are incredible. These are, um... Like, crunchy. These have a crunchy sugar. Do you like sweet stuff at night?

00:54:04 Spencer: Yeah.

00:54:05 John Daub: Yeah, maybe we'll get one of these. Anything else Halloween? Sometimes they have it in the bakery department. Nothing? I don't see any Halloween. No. I don't see anything. I'm surprised. I thought Lawson's would have more. All right, let's get this. That looks good, too. Look at this. Mont Blanc no cream pancake. Chestnut pancake. Oh, my gosh. Look at that. It should be banned. It should be legal. All right, let's get out of here.

00:54:38 John Daub: All right, that's good. All right, take everybody outside. I'll pay for it. You need the power of the camera. Oh, did they say no camera? I don't think so. Ah, okay. This one's a camera.

00:55:02 Spencer: Say hi to the camera. Here, point it up a little bit more. There you are.

00:55:07 John Daub: Yeah, here, I'll take it. Say hi. Say hi to the world. There's Miles and there's Mark. They're here traveling in Japan. Having a lot of fun with it, I think, actually, right? What's been your favorite part about your trip to Japan so far?

00:55:26 Miles: It's got to be helping the mountains and the mountains. The onsen is awesome. I love mountain onsens. It's so much fun. I went to one a couple of weeks ago. It's a lot of fun.

00:55:44 John Daub: Hey, I got stuff. Hey, I was interviewing the other people, asking them what their favorite part about their trip to Japan was.

00:56:02 Spencer: The onsens, yeah.

00:56:03 John Daub: That's what he's saying for those who can't hear. All right, we're going to start with this one. It's a recommendation. Actually, that's not the right one. It's choux cream. I love choux cream. Oh, there we go. They had a lactic acid. They had a lack of Halloween stuff. That's so weird. I was just at Lost It a few days ago. They had a whole thing. All right, go ahead. Do you want... Maybe it's the one. Spencer, they can't hear if you're interviewing from this side. Oh. Because the microphone is on this side. That's why I swing the camera around. Oh, sorry. There's a reason why I do this a lot. It's because the mic is right here.

00:56:27 John Daub: I'm sorry. I'm not a live streamer. No, it's okay. I actually... I asked the people at... I asked some people to fix that with the mic. With YouTube, yes. I may have suggested that.

00:56:42 John Daub: All right. This is a normal choux cream. No, it's like cream for your shoes. It's actually called SHU cream. It's a French thing where they put in a pastry puff custard. But if you rip that open, because this is Halloween, it should be gory. Oh, yes. Yes, yes, yes. I approve. That was a beautiful rip. Oh, you can see the buttery, buttery, buttery, soft... Pastry filling. Look at that. Wow, wow, wow.

00:57:07 John Daub: All right. Looks good. Anyone else? Miles? Miles is in on this. It's a cream pie. I'm full right now. I think I'm out. It's pie. Well, it's a SHU cream, technically. It's a SHU cream.

00:57:24 John Daub: Hold on. Over here, because the store manager knew I was filming in there, and I don't want to get him in trouble. He can see us filming. He can see us filming. All right. Feedback. How is this SHU cream?

00:57:39 Spencer: This is excellent. Is that your first SHU cream? I think so. Yeah, SHU cream is fine.

00:57:50 John Daub: I remember eating these 20 years ago. I went to the supermarket, and I said, what is this? SHU cream? I never heard of this before, because we don't have these things. I never see them in the US in a supermarket.

00:58:02 Spencer: They're cream puffs.

00:58:03 John Daub: Cream puffs in supermarkets? They have them?

00:58:05 Spencer: It's not... Oh.

00:58:07 John Daub: I had it. I was like, this is awesome. And I ate these... Groceries too. ...a lot, because they're only 100 yen. They're good. They're really light and sweet. That was only 100 yen?

00:58:16 Spencer: Yeah.

00:58:17 John Daub: Yeah, it's like a giant cream puff. Yeah. It's a giant cream puff. It's mostly a grocery store. Mostly grocery stores. Yeah. This one... Oh, not Lawson's, but it's a family mart. It has a SAKU SAKU, like a crunchy cookie SHU cream. It is so good. It's crunchy cookie... Do you know what I'm talking about? You doubt me? I didn't see it. You doubt me?

00:58:38 Spencer: No, I don't doubt you.

00:58:39 John Daub: No, use that face. Do that face again. It's like this. Like a disapproving mother face. No, it wasn't a disapproving... You had that face. I'm thinking, have I ever seen that before? That's literally... Evil. Evil.

00:58:47 John Daub: All right, this last one here is for you. And we're going to end this at 55 minutes. It's crazy. I can't believe it. He can't make fun of Peter, so he has to do it to me. This is something I would give to Kanai, but if I gave it to her, she wouldn't eat it. She'd go, this is all filled with chemicals. How dare you give this to me? I like natural, organically made stuff. You think you... This does not replace a ring. But this beautiful looking... What is it? A bear? Or a dog? It's like a bear. A lion maybe? Yeah. Give me a bear.

00:59:22 Spencer: It's a bear.

00:59:23 John Daub: It's like the pontoon. It's a bear. Rilakkuma. Kuma is bear in Japanese. It's made in Japan. That's important. Why do you need to write that there? Bandai. It's Bandai. So it's a toy that you can eat, I guess.

00:59:32 John Daub: All right, so let's open her up like jewelry. We need like music box music. Can you make music box music? Ding ding ding ding. I can't do it. I can't do it. I can't do it. Oh, it looks alive. It's too cute to eat. It's too cute to eat. Hello. Can I pick him up by the head? You might break him. That's true. Hello little guy. Oh, you're so cute. Oh, look at this. It's made out of like a sweet potato and there's a button on there. This is crazy. This is food. Oh, this is so cute. A little pumpkin hat. It's got a tail on there. How you doing? You know, I got... I got a present for you, Mr. Bear. Here's your present. Do you count down? Internet, do you want to count down? Seven, eight, seven, six. Do I eat half his head? Three, two, one, okay.

01:00:18 John Daub: No.

01:00:22 John Daub: Oh, my gosh. No. Oh. No. It is Halloween after all. It actually... It is Halloween after all. It is officially Halloween. It's the 31st. It reminds me of that time in Hirosaki where I bit into a ball, a candy apple and it just ejected off of the stick, landed in a gutter. It was still good. I don't know if the three second rule applies, but the rest of his body does count. I'll describe the taste. It's made out of sweet potato and some coloring. It's sweeter than sweet potato, so there's definitely a non-Kanai-liking chemical inside of it, probably. However, it's so cute. And now it's dead. It's not Kanai-approved. It's not Kanai-approved, no.

01:00:50 John Daub: What's she going to say when she rewatches the livestream? She's watching it right now, maybe. She's going to say, I can't believe you littered in Tokyo. Pick up your litter, John.

01:01:07 John Daub: Okay. That's very nice. So there you go. Any questions? We didn't get to 500 likes. Very weak. Very weak. But I forgive you. Why don't you, in this part, write where you're from. Where are you watching from? It's always interesting to see where the viewers are writing from. Where are you from?

01:01:24 Spencer: New York.

01:01:25 John Daub: From New York, right?

01:01:26 Spencer: Yeah.

01:01:27 John Daub: And Miles is from?

01:01:28 Miles: California.

01:01:29 John Daub: California? I live here. And he lives here now. And I live here, too. So there you go. For Americans. There you go. Right. Very cool. Ohio University. That's not Ohio State, so I can't say go bucks. I don't even know what OU's... OU's famous for the Halloween party. I wonder, are they still doing that? That's the only day that everyone left Ohio State University. They went to Ohio University for the Halloween party, which is insane. Greece, St. Paul. Whoa. Is that Ohio? India.

01:02:14 John Daub: No, it's Ohio State University. That's not... We Ohioans are a little sensitive about our states. Excellent. Excellent. So leave a comment below. If you like these food runs, click the like and encourage us to do some more. What are you guys up to next? What are you doing? Do you have anything you want to plug?

01:02:25 Spencer: Nothing to plug. No. Just more vacation.

01:02:29 John Daub: More vacation. We're going to Taiwan in a couple weeks.

01:02:33 Spencer: Oh, cool.

01:02:34 John Daub: Cool. And then back to New York.

01:02:35 Spencer: Yep.

01:02:36 John Daub: All right. What was the best thing you've seen on this trip?

01:02:40 Spencer: The best thing so far was the autumn foliage in the mountains up there. It started.

01:02:44 John Daub: Yeah. Koyo is up there. Not quite peak, but it's getting there.

01:02:48 Spencer: It's getting there. Miles, how about you? What's up for you?

01:02:52 Miles: I don't know. I have about seven more days here. So it's either have a plan to Okinawa or... Okinawa. Or stay here and just use up the rest of my real fun.

01:03:10 John Daub: Okinawa. I don't know. It's hot down there. It's a penny.

01:03:13 Spencer: Yeah.

01:03:14 John Daub: See how it goes. See after the 31st. Yeah. Play by ear. It's cheap to catch a flight, Jetstar or something down there. Well, I took a flight from Haneda to Sapporo.

01:03:22 Spencer: Okay.

01:03:23 John Daub: And then I took the train back down. Interesting. I think one of my favorite parts was Morioka and Fukuoka. Yeah. I love that. Morioka and Iwate has got some pretty good flights. And they have some food too. It's like there's not a lot of tourists there, are there?

01:03:33 Spencer: Not a lot of tourists.

01:03:34 John Daub: No. Spencer, when are you going back to Disneyland?

01:03:37 Spencer: Tomorrow. I'm going... I have to take pictures of the Halloween stuff before it goes away.

01:03:43 John Daub: That's right. Tomorrow's Halloween. It's the very last day of Halloween. Tomorrow's Halloween. Actually, right now is Halloween.

01:03:50 Spencer: Oh, yeah.

01:03:51 John Daub: Happy Halloween, everybody. It's now technically midnight. Happy Halloween. I hope your Halloween, if you're in the United States, because Japan is one of the first people to celebrate Halloween now. New Zealand has us beat. Happy Halloween. Enjoy your trick or treating. Try to get as many Reese's Peanut Butter Cups. They were coveted back in the 1980s when I was trick or treating.

01:04:02 Spencer: Are they still coveted?

01:04:03 John Daub: They don't sell them in Japan. It makes sense. They don't sell... No, they sell Reese's in Japan.

01:04:08 Spencer: No, they do. Costco. They had it at Costco. Because when she came to visit, she had three Reese's Peanut Butter Cups.

01:04:12 John Daub: No Reese's Peanut Butter Cups here, kids. Think about that. Greatest gift. 20 years I've been living... Over 20 years and I didn't have any Reese's Peanut Butter Cups. And then Say You, which is Walmart. Walmart in Japan had them. So we stockpiled it like tomorrow is the last day in the world. And now that stockpile has all expired and they had to throw them out.

01:04:38 Spencer: My Say You doesn't have Reese's. Not anymore. They got rid of them. But Costco sometimes stocks things like that. Now, no. So kids, send your Reese's Peanut Butter Cups to me.

01:04:51 John Daub: That's right. John needs some Reese's Peanut Butter Cup sugar. He is completely sugarinated right now.

01:04:59 Spencer: Hey, do I have to bring you some of the Reese's my mom brought me on her last trip?

01:05:02 John Daub: What? She brought you Reese's? She brought me like a big bag of Reese's because that's what I requested from the U.S.

01:05:10 Spencer: I would request that too.

01:05:11 John Daub: I'll probably... I'll bring some... I'll tell you what. No, that's all right. I'm a 45-year-old kid. I have to remember I'm a 45-year-old kid. I... No, I don't need that extra sugar. It's all right. I'll let you have it. Share it with Cut Nuts.

01:05:25 Spencer: Can I... I don't think... I don't know. Can I... Can I... We used to like that, but don't send me your Reese's Spinner Cups. I shouldn't be eating that. I'll try to cut down. And you know what? Midnight Snacks really taking that healthy. So think about your health first. Don't try to... Don't always do what you see on the internet.

01:05:45 John Daub: Please don't try this at home. Yeah, you can try a midnight snack at home, but it's always fun. It's always fun when you do it with friends and you hang out and in the middle of the night, it's not really middle night, but at night it's really quiet and the streets change. And that's one of the things I like about Tokyo. Quiet, safe place that even at midnight walking around this station area, it's pretty lively in a way, but it's pretty safe in a good way. And that's my Tokyo. And if you come to Japan, I hope that you also have jet lag and escape, escape the city, escape the tourist areas and maybe just walk the street because you discover some amazing things when you do. See you everybody on Discord.

01:06:21 John Daub: Oyasuminasai. I'm trying to get... I'm trying not to block your face.

01:06:33 Spencer: It's all right. Oyasuminasai. Thanks guys for joining us on the live stream. Appreciate taking the time here. Bye from Tokyo.

01:06:47 John Daub: Push the button.

01:06:49 Spencer: Oh, you're right. Spencer, you can't cross the street here.

01:06:58 John Daub: What did...

01:06:59 Spencer: No. Oh, that's right. I took my bicycle and I went around this way. Now I remember. Sorry.

01:07:04 John Daub: Oh man. My bad.

01:07:05 Spencer: Man, you gave me all that nonsense.

01:07:07 John Daub: I know. I know. Bye guys.

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