00:03 John Daub: Greetings everybody. That in front of us is the Nakagin Capsule Tower. It is one of the most unique buildings in the city of Tokyo, if not the world. The Nakagin Capsule Tower was built in 1972 in 30 days. This tower was by Kisho Kurokawa. It is an example of that era in the 1970s and 80s where the future looked like capsules. But the concept of the Nakagin Capsule Tower is incredible. Look at it. And we're gonna walk right by it.

00:35 John Daub: It does look like it's in disarray. It's seen better days. The highway goes past it. Kenny in an Instagram live stream said that this looks like a bunch of washing machines. And if I lived in one, I would be spinning inside of one to freak out the highway people, the cars going by on the highway above there. In 2012, they said that 30 of the 140 capsules are still being lived in and you can still rent them. Apparently there's a waiting list. They turned the hot water off in 2010. Most of the people go to the onsen in Ginza that you can walk to about five minutes to get your hot bath. Go back to your capsule and live your future dreams from the 1970s. 2001: A Space Odyssey right here, everybody.

01:36 John Daub: But we're not here just for the Nakagin Capsule Tower or my Movember failure. Five days of growth. It's not gonna happen. We're gonna have to shave it down. Kenai's like, are you gonna shave? I guess so. I could take a hint. But we're gonna walk over here. There's a purpose why I'm here and you're gonna learn that in about 10 minutes. What I'm going to be doing in this live stream is answer some of your questions about fall travel in Japan. And if you have anything that you want to ask, every single season is different in Japan. This is the Shiodome area. I'm gonna move around. Maybe the signal was bad in that area.

02:18 John Daub: Halal food is available in Tokyo and you have to work really hard to find it. It's true. It's getting more and more available. This is the Shiodome area you can see on the map here. I'm thinking about going this month to a halal ramen restaurant just to check it out. So I don't know too much about it. I need a co-reporter. So if you are Muslim and you want to check out a halal ramen place with me, Instagram me if you're in Tokyo. That'd be pretty cool to go together and explain what it is we're eating and why it's different. I'm not qualified.

02:55 John Daub: What are the seasonal foods? Excellent question. Sweet potato, yakiimo (roasted sweet potato) is definitely high on the list. Matsutake mushrooms are very, very popular right now. Mushroom season in Nagano, for example, up in the mountains in the Alps, out in the countryside. A lot of mushroom cuisine, a lot of chestnuts. Kuri, we call them in Japanese. Marron in French. Sometimes they use the French to explain kuri and chestnuts in cuisine. You'll see that more than chestnuts. Marron is the katakana version of chestnuts here. Stolen from France. The cuisine is good. You'll see the chestnuts in rice a lot. You'll see presentation and kaiseki ryori (multi-course Japanese meal) has the autumn colors in it. And you can get that at ryokans (traditional inns) and if you stay in an onsen (hot spring). It's pretty unique.

03:49 John Daub: You'll get some that look like little beans and you eat them and they taste like either potatoes or chestnuts. There's some unique fish that are starting to come in the winter. When we move towards that, there's more soups. Nabe (hot pot) starts in this season where people are boiling soups with lots of vegetables. The soup stock can be fish, soy based, kimchi based, miso based. There's a lot of different soup stocks for nabe. And we'll be doing a nabe episode in the middle of November for sure.

04:23 John Daub: Good question. That was a very good question. We started off on a good foot here. What is the yellow line? This line here is for the blind. And it's textured, right? So you can feel the bumps as you walk on it. And if you get closer and closer to an intersection, they will let you know. At the intersection, when it turns left, you'll see that the texture is different on the bumps. And that's to let somebody know that this is the place to turn left. And then you'll find the texture and then you'll get to the elevator. So it's pretty neat. A lot of countries have these now. I saw them in Bali in Indonesia. They were starting to put it in. But the pavement was so uneven. I don't think a blind person is going to walk around in Bali on an uneven pavement, highway with a lot of traffic. But the effort was there. So much love to our friends in Indonesia for trying really hard.

05:34 John Daub: Oh, hey, Antonio. We got a Nitro booster for our Discord server. Very cool. I'm sure we'll get somebody posting the link to the Discord server as well. Everybody's invited. I'd love to see more food on your channel, maybe more home cooking. That sounds really good. Visiting houses for dinner. That would be really good. That's a great idea. Home party. The last one that I did, I think, was with Jennifer. And we cooked a Wagyu steak. And home cooking Wagyu steak is pretty fun. Maybe a Wagyu party again.

06:06 John Daub: I can't speak any Hindi. My mom never taught me. I think she wanted to. Just it never happened. Anything you recommend is a must. Are you sponsored by North Face? No, they just make good stuff. And it keeps me warm. And it's light. That's it. I like Montbell, which is the Japanese version of it. Activewear.

06:39 John Daub: What is there to do on New Year's Eve? New Year's Eve is a time where you spend with your families in Japan. Not a lot of people go to countdown parties. And this took me a little bit off guard when I came to Japan the first time. It's like a foreign thing where you go 10, 9, 8. And you kiss and they play all that. We don't do that in Japan. People stay home with their families. They watch TV. And it's like the Christmas of Japan. So it's not really a big holiday out partying.

07:12 John Daub: This Don Quixote is where I get a lot of the Kit Kats for our Patreon supporters in there. This is a pretty good one. They get a lot in that. Shinbashi Don Quixote. Great question so far. We're gonna be walking underneath the Nakagin Capsule Tower. We got a little bit more stairs to go. It's actually a maze to get around the Shiodome area. It's very easy to get lost. Take your time. Do not think you're gonna get to your destination right away without a little bit of planning.

07:56 John Daub: Have you ever stayed in the Capsule Tower? I have not. I would love to. I actually contacted one of them. So there's a TV producer who runs one of them as an Airbnb. He was charging almost nothing. And the price went up to like five times that price because of demand. So it's probably not gonna happen. There's been a lot of people who have made videos on the Nakagin Capsule Tower already. So unless I can get something interesting that I can add to the story, I'm not sure I'm gonna be doing that. But pretty interesting. Oh, that's funny. A police car getting gassed up.

08:36 John Daub: What is there to do on Christmas arriving on the 25th? Christmas is a time where usually with your boyfriend or your girlfriend or your wife or your husband and you do something romantic. It's a time to go out on a date. They call it Christmas Eve when people hook up and go to the hotel and stuff. I don't know how I know that. Just saying. A lot of people will book restaurants in advance and a lot of couples go out to dinner. Christmas cake is a weird tradition. You'll see them all over the supermarkets. You have to make a reservation to get your Christmas cake on Christmas and you go to pick it up. The reason why is everybody wants to have a Christmas cake. So the demand is so high you have to reserve it like a couple of weeks in advance. For the good cakes a month in advance.

09:40 John Daub: What are the kids' toy stores like in Japan? Well, I'll tell you one thing. Toys R Us is still in business here. This is the Nakagin Capsule Tower building. You can see the entrance here. You're not allowed to go inside. So you have to stay outside and pay attention to the rules because they're extremely strict. Lots of vending machines that you can get drinks in on the corner here. I'm right below the Nakagin Capsule Tower. I love this building. I hope that they never tear it down. It's pretty cool. They put the nets up there because parts of the building are kind of falling off. There's wires going through there. I guess that's to get water maybe. But I think it's seen better days. What do you guys think? It still looks pretty cool.

10:49 John Daub: Fagard writes in here, going to Tokyo tomorrow for a month. Would love to meet if you got time to talk Japan, video making, etc. Where is the most easy to message you? You can try on Patreon because I always check that. You can try Instagram tagging me. I got about 300 messages yesterday because another YouTuber tagged me at the end of one of her videos. I just can't get to all the messages. Sometimes it's just luck as well. I think the best way would be to tag me in an Instagram post or a story and try something creative. It's the best way to get in touch with me. I'm here actually because of Patreon too. See that is the post office symbol. All of the emojis, even if you're not Japanese, have this symbol in your emoji collection. Because Apple's emojis are made in Japan. This is the Ginza Central Post Office. And yes, I'm here to deliver some postcards too. I wanted to do this live because it's pretty neat to send the postcards to people and you get to see where it's being sent from.

12:05 John Daub: This is this month's The Seven Stars train in Kyushu. Kanae and I rode that. And we're sharing that experience with Patreon. There's two post boxes. One for postcards and letters. But that's domestic. This one is for standardized mail, international mail. International mail takes precedence. So, everybody, the 200 people, are getting postcards sent from here. Kanae and I spent a couple of hours setting this up for you. They're going to have a Ginza postmark, which is pretty cool. I wanted to do that in Ginza. All done. So your mail will be stamped in here. And then you will have a Ginza post stamp. Pretty cool, huh? We actually got fancy stamps too. They're the Emperor's Enthronement stamps. And I still have nine left. So get that, Patreon.

13:22 John Daub: Raf writes in here, what is the most scenic train ride you've been in during the fall? Oh, geez. That's a good question. Wow. Up in, the best place to be in autumn, I believe, is Tohoku. There's just something about it because of the mountains, the countryside, the trains. And there's a lot of onsen up in Tohoku. So there's a lot of opportunities to go to ryokan at a much more affordable price. And to soak in a bath outside. And you look up and you see the trees and the nature all around you. And even though it's maybe 40 to 45 to 55 degrees outside, the warm water keeps you nice and comfortable while you're admiring nature naked. Naked nature. I love that.

14:14 John Daub: So the most impressive train ride was probably between, not Morioka, but there's a station just north of Morioka, not Hachinohe, but somewhere between there. And it was a JR train that went across to Odate. And it went through some amazing valleys and through places where the mountains and the trees were absolutely stunning. You went through some tunnels and then you would be opened up to this amazing nature with very few buildings. Almost no buildings, just trees like a fireworks show. And that was crossing Iwate to Akita Prefecture in the north. I did it on a, I don't know if it was a Seishun 18 Kippu, but I don't think it was available then. But I took, I remember taking it on a local train. It was just beautiful. I think it was a locomotive, like a steam engine. It was pretty unique. And there was nobody else on the whole train. It was like one of these small trains that run very infrequently with only a few cars because there's almost no population out there, but they still got to run the trains. It was awesome.

15:24 John Daub: Another amazing train is down in Kyushu. I would say going through Oita Prefecture's countryside into Kumamoto. Or you can actually take a train through the center around Mount Aso. And then you can also loop around coming back from Kagoshima around towards Kumamoto. There's local train lines. You do not want to be on the Shinkansen. You do not want to be on express trains. You want to get on local trains and really admire it. And if you want to get a better view, stand up and look out the bigger windows where the doors are because these trains only stop maybe once every 10 minutes because they're chugging through the countryside. Or stand in the first car and look out the window as the driver goes through there. It's stunning. That's what I like to do. The trains are amazing.

16:14 John Daub: What is the fastest train that you ride? I would say the Shinkansen. There's some trains that are going as fast as over 300 kilometers an hour. Some of them are going now. And they're building another Shinkansen called the Chuo Shinkansen. And that's going to be going, I think, did they say 500 kilometers an hour? Does that sound right? But it gets you to Nagoya in like under an hour, which is crazy. And then to Osaka in like under 90 minutes. Something ridiculous.

16:45 John Daub: What is the best time to purchase travel for fall travel, to purchase tickets for fall travel? You mean like airline tickets? For hotels, you probably, this is something that you have to understand. And we're going to walk across the street to Hama-rikyu Gardens. There's a 300 year old tree here, which is notable. I love trees. Hashtag cheap trees. For autumn is the high season for domestic travel. You would think that maybe it would be during the holidays. Now, during the weekends, especially Friday, Saturday, Sunday, and sometimes Monday, because they try to put the holidays on Mondays to make longer weekends, which is good for the economy. So the middle of November is super high season. Kyoto is booked out. I remember trying to get rooms three years ago and I had trouble two weeks in advance. Hotels are booked like three months in advance. Many of them will open up reservations six months in advance. Most of them that are popular will open it up three months in advance because the longer there's a chance people will cancel more of a chance if they booked so far in advance, things change in life. So three months for holiday season. Season six and for normal seasons, three months sounds good to me.

18:12 John Daub: You can still book the Nobi Nobi Zaseki tickets, the sleeper train, and get those tickets up to about a week in advance. It's still quite popular, but it's not that popular where it sells out. However, you should try to make them as far in advance as possible. That's also a really beautiful train ride. After you get to Okayama on the Sunrise Izumo, you cut across the road. You cross from Okayama through the mountains to the Sea of Japan. That is just a really stunning place. This is a real stunning park. This is the entrance to Hama-rikyu Gardens in Hamamatsucho. This is not too far away from the Italian village down the road there.

19:00 John Daub: I've been really busy taking care of administrative stuff at the end of the year because Kanae and I are going to Europe for a week to do Christmas markets one last time because we don't know how long we're going to be traveling. No, she's not pregnant. So whatever the Internet's saying, it's false. You heard it here first. But she could be in the future. So we try to do as much traveling based on the advice we've gotten from you. When will you have kids? How do we get off of that? Off of fall travel. Christmas market live stream for sure, Vaughn. And we're going to be doing meetups in Prague, in Nuremberg, in Innsbruck, in Vienna, and maybe in Munich. We'll be just going through Munich. So it'll be at like the station maybe. But we had some great people in Munich and it'd be nice to see them again. But Nuremberg will be a big one, the market there. It's great. I'm looking forward to that.

20:08 John Daub: How much Japanese should you know if you want to go further out from the cities? Okillik, that's a great question. This is how much Japanese should you know. You know, I think you can get by. You are not a pioneer in Japan anymore. People have traveled all over the country with no English skills whatsoever. I hitchhiked this country in 2003 with very limited Japanese skills. So you can do that. What it requires is you to be patient and to use a dictionary and to smile a lot and not expect everybody to speak English. The fact that people don't speak English to me is awesome. It means you're on an adventure. It means things are different. It's different than when you're at home. If everyone speaks English, you might as well just take a bus tour. I like that. Not being able to communicate directly but through either body language or language. Or slow talking or smiling or writing things down.

21:14 John Daub: Japanese study English in school. Everybody studies English in school. It's like the Spanish and the French classes you study in high school. But they study English more than any other language. It's not a verbal language to them. It's a written language. They study how to write things. So sometimes writing it down. This is some advice. Writing things down on a piece of paper will be helpful if you're explaining things. Write it down and then say it very slowly and smile. Sometimes you can't see yourself. But if you're explaining something in your language and you're getting a little frustrated, you look scary to people. I'm saying that from experience because sometimes in the live stream, I will look scary and you think I'm angry. Maybe I'm just trying to move things along. Things don't always appear as they seem. I should know that because I can see myself on the screen. I know when I look like a complete idiot. But you have to know that too. So writing things down often helps with communication in Japan. You can get by just fine.

22:15 John Daub: If you're going to a hotel, most of the places that you stay at were probably places in guidebooks that are used to foreign tourists. And if not, once again, if you learn maybe 10 or 15 survival words, you're probably okay. Everybody in Japan knows one, two, sleep, point at stuff, how much, you can get a calculator. I mean, you can use your smartphone. If you don't have Wi-Fi, you can get a pocket Wi-Fi router and you'll have Google Translate, which is not perfect, but it's good enough. And I think you don't need to rent an extraordinarily expensive machine to be a translator for you. Although people are making good businesses out of it.

23:01 John Daub: Will you ever do a show about Babymetal? Actually, my friend Danny in Canada loves Babymetal, and I've been trying to get in touch with them to kind of hone in on their genre in a generalistic way. I got a lot of questions, and I would love to feature them, and I'm working towards that, believe it or not. So that'd be pretty cool because of our community, we have an opportunity to use our numbers and our advantage to get chances to do stuff like that. Babymetal is extraordinary, and I would love to talk with them and get a take on their inspiration and their music. They've already done interviews like this, but I have my own unique take. I really do. It's true. And I promised Danny I would do this, and I'm going to do this. We're still working towards it.

23:52 John Daub: I prefer metal bands over Babymetal. Yeah, you know, everybody's got their own unique take, but they are unique. They are very, very nice. They're very, very good at what they do, and they're very unique. And whether you like that genre or not doesn't really matter. They're talented at their genre. Like, a lot of people don't like this show because it's a live stream, but they might like the other show, and I'm cool with that. Everybody has what they like and don't like.

24:19 John Daub: Leo Doyle, in-depth video on Japan's most northern point. That's what the DVD Blu-ray is. I just ordered. It should be here within three weeks, the Hitchhiking Blu-ray from like two years ago. And that's what that is. I spent a lot of time in Japan's north. So I don't know. Buy the DVD. But I might be back to Wakkanai sometime in the future. That would be pretty cool. Japan's northern territories. And I do have two videos in Abashiri, which is very, very north. But Wakkanai and that little branch and the two islands there are extraordinary. Have a lot of history. I'd love to do something on the history of the island of Hokkaido and how it started after the Meiji era. It's a pretty cool historical story about Hokkaido and the samurai that left there to start. Hokkaido was the first democracy in Japan, American style. Alright, just wrap your head around that. Japan had like a really stiff system. Hokkaido was so free. They had a democracy-style government close to the United States. More so than anything. And maybe that system should have won out. But the Meiji government went up there and took control of it. And they actually, the president of Hokkaido ended up being one of the ambassadors to Russia. And his experience was very vital to the Meiji government actually. So, in the end, it turned out pretty good for them. Hokkaido is beautiful in the fall as well.

26:05 John Daub: 10,000 yen is 100 dollars more or less. Right now the exchange rate is fluctuating. I think it's going to get up to 110 yen to 1 dollar. Because of economic situations in the US is getting better. And Japan is getting tepid. It's always kind of a safe haven for foreign exchange. So, I think next month and towards Christmas, the US economy always booms because of shopping during the holidays. Stocks always go up. People are very optimistic. So, it's probably going to get up to 110 and 112 yen by the end of the year. And then around February, the dollar will shrink. And it'll get down to 107 again. That's my feeling. But it's going to be over one. So, if you're coming from the US, it's going to get a little bit cheaper for you. Which is good. Any more autumn questions? I'm going to keep this at 30 minutes.

26:57 John Daub: What are the most visited places artists besides the Ghibli Museum and Disney? I think you shouldn't give up on local galleries as well. And local events. You can see that through Time Out. You can see that through sites like Tokyo Cheapo. My friend Greg has been running that for 10 years and it's getting a lot better. It's actually pretty darn good. They have an events list. And if you see local art in that way, it's different than going to exhibitions like Ghibli. Which I think is very mainstream. I'm a fan of Ghibli but I don't like the museum because I can't get tickets very often. You have to go to Lawson's and it's sold out. And they're really strict on pictures and stuff like that. Ueno has some great art museums as well. Remember, they're closed on Monday. That's the day where everything is off.

27:57 John Daub: Hama-rikyu Gardens is about a 5 minute walk to the Nakagin Capsule Tower. And this is a beautiful park. Beautiful park with some nice history. There's a 300 year old pine tree right there. It's not tall. It's wide. And it's from the 6th Shogun, Ienobu. And these are the stories that I want to do more trees. Not just for the Team Trees thing. Because of the campaign the YouTubers did. I just love trees. I love trees. And I connected the bonsai video with trees. I just wanted to do something with trees. I didn't actually... I should have just toured this out. Sorry. I just want to admire trees.

28:49 John Daub: What do you guys think? Marty Ditmar writes in here. Keep growing the Mo and raise money for Movember. Share your fundraising page. I should do that. It's not going to come out well. I get the hashtag pedophile sometimes. People start writing here. It never ends up good for me. It looks bad. Some people are good. Tom Selleck. Not me. No. It looks very bad. But I will take that under consideration. And David Kimura. I know what to do. Actually, there's a nice place for a plant that I'm looking for. How you doing? There's some people there. So I'm going to use that David to get something that grows. I just pulled another tree out of the grass. It's weed. Weeding is not bad. Questions on autumn. Please keep it on target.

29:49 John Daub: Where's the best coffee in Japan? That's a great question. This is from Kcheed123. The best coffee... There's only one place in Japan that I know of that grows their own coffee. It's in Ogasawara. And I got a chance to go there. So the best coffee was in Ogasawara because they actually grow the beans in there. And you can get a really good brew of coffee that's from beans made on the island. The rest of Japan, I know that they roast it here, but they don't grow them in many places, which is a shame. Here's the entrance to Hama-rikyu Park. The best coffee it's hard to say but I'll tell you this, my wife's high school friend owns a chain of coffee cafes and I'm going to be doing a live stream. She's a female business owner who has taken her idea of making this coffee shop and grown it and now she's not just in Tokyo but she started a shop in Fukui and she's starting to branch it out and I'm really interested to talk about her and she's a mother and her baby is I think she's two years old now so she's not just working the coffee shop but she's also growing it and it's really good coffee so I'm gonna have to say there because it's my wife's friend.

31:37 John Daub: What is your favorite place to run in Japan in autumn? Miyajima yeah I love Miyajima you can run from the camp spot that I showed you in a live stream in the hitchhiking video all the way up to Mount Misen it's beautiful on that island it's not very big but it's pretty good for running you could do two runs one in the morning and one at the night it's not very long ones but it's really good run and in Tokyo around the Imperial Palace there's a five kilometer trail I probably I'd say in two weeks it's gonna be very beautiful the leaves are usually sakura leaves they're gonna change colors and you're gonna have a chance to see the autumn color in Tokyo there are too many parks here I'm one of the reasons why I wanted to end here and Vaughn I'm ending it here hey why did you get the did you get the cookies yet if not they'll be here like on Tuesday on Wednesday I think there's some color right now but not a lot not a lot of color.

32:59 John Daub: Eric boosted the server Eric we got like 40 boosts somebody boosted like turbo boosted and Nosh and I were trying to figure it out because somebody gave more than one boost like 10 boosts it's pretty crazy we have our own vanity it's discord.gg/onlyinjapan community for free share pictures learn Japanese everything is pretty cool because we got like 40 boosters awesome are you gonna join that the hashtag trashtag I knew about this a few weeks ago I'm not gonna do it because Rachel and June did it they weren't the first ones either I see that right I got about a hundred messages last night about this I didn't know too much about what was going on I just knew that they were doing something I didn't know when they were gonna do it so it kind of hit me as a shock so I sent Rachel a message like what's going on but I think it's a good cause but I'm not gonna go down to Kyushu and clean up their trash I have my own community up here and I think I might start something with my friend Dean right here in Tokyo or Kanagawa or Chiba and clean up the beaches here because we have our own mess I don't have to go down to Kyushu and clean up their mess.

34:24 John Daub: Yeah that was I think that was a pretty cool thing and it's a pretty cool tag I think that people are using especially YouTube creators this platform is what YouTube is as a great tool to do some good things to bring people together and that's what YouTube um that's where the power of YouTube really lies it's in you and bringing a community together all of us that's pretty cool have you been to the Shibuya scramble yeah like a billion times Jack what are you talking about um it opened on November 1st and Shibuya Sky is what it's called it offers amazing views it's the tallest building in that area of Tokyo if not in Tokyo maybe it's quite big it just opened and right now there's a line that goes um it's a pretty long line just to get in to try the food and the shops this morning the news report had it that people were lining up at five in the morning to get in at nine or ten a.m. people wait five hours just to get in the building so that they could eat and it's like a one-in-one out type of thing they don't want it to be too crowded because it's new um buildings when they opened up in Japan in Tokyo they're crazy busy because everyone wants to go and visit them if you're a tourist you probably want to hold out a little bit but if there's an observation deck which is ridiculously expensive it's a 1800 yen or about 16 to go to the observation deck Tokyo Tower 700 yen by the way and from the observation deck you can look down on the scramble and is it worth it I don't know I'm gonna have to go and find out and pay that 1800 yen for you and investigate that's what I do.

36:05 John Daub: What's the tallest building in Japan the tallest structure is the Tokyo Skytree at 634 meters uh I did that for an NHK show last week but the tallest building I believe it's down in um Osaka there's a new one down in Osaka it used to be the Landmark Tower in Yokohama but now Osaka's the name John I have a question for you why are you such a cool person in YouTuber I'm not cool I had no friends in high school like six friends and only two of them still keep in touch it's very unpopular maybe that's why you know I gravitate to YouTube no friends in high school and like one friend good friend Tom who you'll probably meet when I go to Europe he was at my wedding oh on the day I was getting married my friend Tom was there he's my high school buddy yeah he was voted most shy in the whole school and we had like 2500 kids I was a photographer for the yearbook so um I had to take his picture and I was pretty shy too he's super shy though yeah I don't know maybe because I'm like I'm like you guys I don't like you I'm not I'm not I'm not yeah I don't have a popular upbringing this is a lot this has actually been a lot for me this YouTube Journey it's a lot for me to take in because I did not expect it there's the Nakagin Capsule Towers in the distance.

37:43 John Daub: You don't seem shy I was going to do a video on this later on and I want to talk to Kanae a lot of people sometimes misunderstand our relationship when we're live on the videos and um it's very hard for Kanae to do the live streams because she is shy and I think it's hard for Japanese to take risks and talk in public especially in a foreign language and I try to overcompensate to help her out and I think about one percent of the viewers sometimes take that the wrong way also there's only one microphone here the microphone on the other side does not work so anyone who talks there is muffled and sounds like I'm talking over people and interrupting but I'm trying to make sure that you the message through the microphone um but you know from I'm always finding ways to improve the live stream and by doing that I uh you get the wrong idea that I don't know but the point is though that I think I was going to do a live stream with Kanae and talk about that shyness and um how my own journey it's a long journey.

39:10 John Daub: But you know I taught children you guys know this stuff I think I did a live stream with 20 years anniversary live stream I taught kids here's the map you guys can look at this while I'm just rambling here so we're here now post office is right here um I taught kids and when you teach kids they're not shy with the teacher and I wasn't shy with them I was like a rock star so I got used to it I got used to it because I taught kids and that's it there you go I agree with kids I'm an anti-socialite with adults spent seven years teaching kids they're smarter than adults by the way they get they're pretty clever kids are we don't give them credit they can be smarter than adults and have pretty good advice yeah all right any more last questions I'm not crossing the street to go to my bicycle which is parked off by the post office last questions for Autumn travel to Japan we had some pretty good ones do you think Kanae will do an episode about teaching dance possibly she doesn't want to be a YouTuber all right she tells me all the time she's not a YouTuber and I respect that very much and I don't want to force her to do anything that's why it's her ideas now and when she does something it's because she wants to do it all right oh there's Chuck Flagg check I said your postcard was in the one I sent I always know I always see Chuck Flagg put this put the seal on there.

40:56 John Daub: I'm not sure if they invite me I might go has to be something unique but I think Kanae has passions and she wants to be a dance instructor to teach ballet to kids and I want to encourage her to do that and I want to see her grow her business because now she's as a school and she's a YouTuber's wife and she accepts that and uh I think she's doing an amazing job of balancing that she does everything she does so much to help me behind the scenes as well as Hana when she was here but Kanae has picked up from where Hana left off a little bit and we're just kind of sorting things out and it's been a lot for us the last few months but we've kind of have a system now and the great thing about it is that you know when we travel for this YouTube show Kanae can do it together now and that's sort of the way I wanted to make this the transition to it was not easy because it requires her getting used to something that she's very shy about and me getting used to somebody who is not used to being in front of the camera and then coming together and kind of finding a balance it takes a lot of work you have to always continuously work at it but it gives us a chance to travel together more I think that's great.

42:23 John Daub: Try and encourage my clients to travel to out of the way places beyond Tokyo Kyoto Chuck definitely um the great thing about Hiroshima is you can cross towards the Sea of Japan to places like Hamada places like Matsue Izumo so it's I love that area of Japan to Yamaguchi Prefecture you can also um in Osaka go down to places like Wakayama which is not really highly tourist traveled and see a lot of nature that's Kevin Riley's backyard right he's always in Wakayama hiking or something like hey John I'm up on top of like the beard and he's got an axe looks like Paul Bunyan up there tons of places outside of the countryside and I'm going to be bringing you more of that in the next six months before the Olympics I don't want to focus too much on.

43:13 John Daub: Yes hello hello hi hold on a second hi I'm actually live with everybody I know I've been following you since too much oh you've been following me good I thought you were dead and yeah you just caught me I'm circling back to end it where from I'm Malaysia Malaysia oh cool yeah and I go back today today's the last day today's my last day oh my yeah uh if I want to give one tip bring good shoes very good shoes those are some good shoes this is some good use it's good enough but your shoes are better all right they're right the Keens they do the job what have you seen on this trip that left a really strong impression on you cultural events I was you were talking about cultural events yeah caught an Okinawan cultural event in Nakano okay yeah they were having um dancers food uh even the Ainu was there wow yeah I knew was there and uh went to whatever and she dream your circle okay yeah six hours of yosubai dancing but it was it was six hours of dancing for six hours right you need a Red Bull and a coffee on that thing.

44:35 Sharel: It's pretty fun. It is. And this is not my first time here. And it's not going to be my last. No way. It's nice to finally get to know you. Yeah, it's good to see you.

44:53 John Daub: I'm going to walk this way. Do you want to tell everybody your name?

44:57 Sharel: I'm Sharel.

44:58 John Daub: Sharel. I've been talking to Nosh on the stream as well. Alright. See, Nosh is as famous as anybody. Everybody knows Nosh, right? Everybody knows Nosh. You showed his face. Nosh has been in a live stream. Nosh has been here. Yep. Oh yeah. I'm always waiting for him to come back. We're always waiting for you to show us around. Yeah. Did you see this Nakagin capsule? Now I'm seeing it. Now you're seeing it. It's pretty cool. It is. You never know when they're going to tear that down. No, no. I know. I know. I was at the Ginza Sony building. Oh, right. The Sony building. Yeah. That's pretty cool. It's going to be just a short while, right? Yeah. I think they're going to start building it sometime soon. Very soon. Very soon. And the Ghibli clock, have you seen the Ghibli clock? Yes, I have. It's right over there. It's going to strike at 6 PM, everybody. 3 and 6. 9, 12, 3 and 6. There's a lot of cool things in this area. Yeah. There's a lot of them in Malaysia, right? No, we have hot, we have rain, and we have haze. Rain and haze. Yeah. That's why we come here. Ah. Because this weather is about 18 now. Right. That's our office weather. Okay. Because all the air conditioning has turned to 18 in Malaysia, which is why I think if we are in Malaysia, you will see everybody will have at least one winter jacket, even though our... For travel. No, for the office. Oh, for the... Oh, yeah. Because I remember when I ride the buses in Malaysia, coming from Singapore to KL and then up. It's cold. It is winter. It gets snow in that bus. No. It's close enough. You see your breath. You see the breath. It's close enough. Yeah. Very cool. Very cold. Very cold. It's like Hokkaido. So you kind of acclimatize. And, and... And then you step out from the bus, it's 30. I'm just sort of... KL is not that... KL, I thought was pretty clean. I know, I know. 30. Oh, 30. Oh, 30. Yeah, yeah. From 18 to 30, it's like everything goes away. Yeah. All of a sudden, you want to get back on that bus. Get back in the office. Which is why there's a lot of shopping malls. Oh, oh. Oh, that's why. Because it's so hot. Because of that, Malaysia and Singapore, they go... Instead of going to the parks, they go to the shopping mall because it's cool there. Yeah. Interesting. I was in KL a few years ago. We did a meet up there and... Yep, yep. I missed that one. Oh, you missed that one? Yeah. It was kind of like last moment. Because I was an Ossetian as well. It was kind of a last minute type of thing. It was for the spelling competition. Asian Spelling Cup, which I'm doing in two weeks. I'm going down to Fukuoka to do that again. This year it's in Japan. Oh, this year it's in Japan. Okay, that's cool. It's in Japan. Next year in Vietnam. It's pretty cool. Would you go there, I mean? Yeah, yeah. I mean, a lot in Vietnam. But, yeah, I mean, I'm going to go there. Next year, next Asia Spelling Cup.

48:06 John Daub: Where's the best place that you've found in the autumn? You've been here in the fall before? Yeah, yeah. Where would you recommend? Anywhere you can find gold. I think the gold leaves. Oh, yeah, the colors. You can go up to the south. Go up north. Yeah. Which is my next plan as well. Taking a train. Yeah. Taking a train. Going up to Tohoku and Hokkaido. Hokkaido and see gold. Because you don't see, you don't see true gold in Malaysia. I mean, the leaves change colors, but you don't see like the wash of gold. Yeah. That's only like places like north. It is so beautiful. It's like, it's like, you know, like New England, Vermont, up in Oregon, in the United States. It's just beautiful. Imagine driving through Vermont when everything's gold. It's the same like going to Japan. Yeah. Yeah. For Asia, for this part of Asia. I think you have to come up to Japan for that. Japan, maybe Korea. And Korea. Along the same latitude line. Right. Yeah. So we got four seasons in Japan. That's another thing. I remember we used to have direct, there's direct flights from Bangkok to Aomori. They still do. They still have it. I remember going to Aomori airport and filming an episode there on the cleaning of the runway, the snow off of it. Oh, yeah. And the big jumbo jet is Thai Airlines. Yeah. I said, why does, why is Thai Airlines here? It says because people in Thailand have never seen snow. They come up the airplane to this and people are freaked out about seeing it for the first time. And also Aomori and the Northern people would like to go to Bangkok because it's hot. Oh, right. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So the direct flight works both ways. So that's really cool. I think I'm going to be going up to Aomori sometime soon as well. Oh, yeah. That's a dream for me. It'll work up there. I love Aomori.

49:56 John Daub: Is two weeks enough for a train trip? Two weeks is pretty good. But I think it's hard to do the whole country. If you're just doing cities, I don't think you really see Japan. You need a month. True. True. Or split it up in like three trips, right? Three or four trips. Yeah. Well, time to start and you piggyback that. Yeah. Yeah. You got to save a little bit. Do each island, I think. I think two weeks on Shikoku would be amazing. Oh, yes. I just want to pass by the Shikoku Islands just to see the center. Yeah. It's beautiful. I've seen it in shows, anime, movies, but I've never seen it with my eyes. So I want to do that. Taking the ferry across from Hiroshima. Not the train, the ferry across. Yes. That's correct. I want to do the Shikoku pilgrimage as well. Yeah. You know that takes like three months, right? Yeah. It's 88 temples and you have to walk it. I'll take a car. You'll take a car. A scooter or something. I'd love to ride my bicycle around. I actually rode my bike around Shikoku in 2006. It's pretty crazy. They have the best bike. They do. Yeah. The best bike street around the world too. Yeah. They have some pretty ones in Shikoku, although the tunnels are not fun. No. Just saying that because I've had to ride through many long ones. Long ones. Very long. Yeah. Very cool. It was great to meet you. Great to catch up with you. Do you have anything you want to say to the people?

51:29 Sharel: Get this. This is a... This is a one-day pass. Oh, cool. Check this out. I haven't seen this one. This is the... I think quite new. Unlimited travel in a designated area. This is JR only, no? JR only, but it's a cosmopolitan JR. Oh, okay. So I've been... The whole day I've been like going in and out in and out all JR stations and I only pay like 760 yen. Right. This is good for JR. If you're going to be using JR and you kind of know your lines, get this one. The... But even you do not know the lines, as long as it's in JR, you can just go out. Yeah. If you want to do Toei, they have a 700 yen pass. If you want to do Metro, they have a 600 yen 24-hour pass. Yes. But if you want to do all of them, it's 1,500 yen, about $15 for the pass. But that could be worth it if you're traveling a lot. If you know the trains, if you know the lines, yeah. Right. Really worth it. Right. So it's kind of... I've never seen the JR one because I'm always riding the subway because I live here. But... Yeah. Yeah. That's pretty cool. So get a one-day pass, I think, especially at JR if you want to use their Yamanote line. It's something like how you treat... You know the Hop-on Hop-off bus in London or other cities? You can use the same thing. Right. And you don't need to keep lining up for tickets or even recharging your Suica card? You have it for the whole day. It's a good thing to have a Suica card. Yeah. But this is really, really useful. I've been going from Tokyo to Ueno to Shibuya to Shinjuku, Guam, to Tokyo. I keep one ticket. If not, I'll be spending what? Nearly 2,000 yen. I always lose a ticket though. I don't know what I do with it. I sometimes enter with the ticket and I exit with the Suica and it goes ding-ding. And then the guy comes and says, come over here. He goes, where's your ticket? I go, I don't know where my ticket is. I can't find it because I got 600 pockets. And then I have to pay double and then I lose my ticket. I don't know. It depends on how responsible you are as well and if Kanae is holding your ticket or not. Yeah. So, it depends on who you are. Where is your ticket? What was your name again? Shareel. Shareel? Yes. Yeah.

53:34 John Daub: So, we had some people asking there. So, Sharel, thank you so much for sharing about your holiday travel. Oh, no. No worries. Yeah. It's been a blast this time around because I've been seeing a lot of culture rather than the pop culture stuff. I think cultural stuff is bad. You went outside of Tokyo? No, everything seems okay. Everything was in Tokyo this time. Yeah. Interesting. Do we have a question here? Von says, I got your cookie. I like how they're individually wrapped. I like how they're individually wrapped. Individually wrapped. Because each one is special. It has nothing to do with wasting the plastic. It has everything to do with presentation. Which is Japanese culture. You can recycle your wrappers if you'd like to. Or just burn it. That's what we do. It's burnable garbage.

54:27 John Daub: Alright guys. Thanks everybody. I really appreciate the comments. If you have any questions, I hope this is useful in the playback to you. If you have any comments, leave them down below and I will take a look at them. Because I want this to be really useful for you for autumn travel. I'll probably do another one of these. I'm going tomorrow to meet Kevin Riley. You know Kevin Riley? Kevin Riley? Kevin, we're on our way! I'm leaving tomorrow morning. I probably won't catch you at lunch. But expect one or two live streams with the King of Osaka tomorrow. On the 7th. And I'm going down there to film an Only in Japan episode on medical things. That's the theme. It's going to be interesting. If you want a postcard, the link in the description is towards Patreon where you can get one. And I will send you the same postcard and stamp this month. See you guys. See you everybody. Have a good day, good night, wherever you are. The last 20 seconds looking at this beautiful street. Birds are flying and it's nothing really special about it. This could be Almelo in Holland. The trees are so straight here. It's pretty. Bye guys.