00:00:04 John Daub: Hello everybody, greetings to Yume no Shima Park (Dream Island Park). There's a sign right there, the sign does not lie. Yume no Shima means Dream Island. It's a bold statement. This is Dream Island made from landfill trash. Yeah, and we're going to find out why. There's a lot here to see and do though.

00:00:27 John Daub: Just over there you can see behind me there's a train going by that's going towards Chiba. This is Shinkiba Station. It makes a stop there on the way to going to Tokyo Disneyland. So that's not that far away. Neither is Kasairinkai Koen (Kasai Rinkai Park) with the big Ferris wheel. It used to be the biggest Ferris wheel in the world. Now not so much, but it's still a beautiful place. Beautiful park to take a stroll.

00:00:48 John Daub: I'm really excited about this because I was studying this map and I learned a lot. You can see this is a green area in an industrial area of the city that's usually warehouses. There's not a lot of parks here, but this is going to be the venue for the 2020 Olympics Archery Field right here and the 2020 Paralympics. So it's a significant park built on trash. Here's where we are right here and you can see the station is not that far away. I walked underneath the highway, the Metropolitan Expressway Bayshore route.

00:01:23 John Daub: We're here and I'm going to go up and cross over and I'm going to take a look at the archery fields, a little bit of the park. But I'm very curious about this: the Daigo Fukuryu Maru Exhibition Hall. In 1954 at the Bikini Atoll, the hydrogen bomb was tested. The ship Daigo Fukuryu Maru was in the zone and the crew was infected with radiation. They brought the ship back. It was abandoned because it was radiated and in 1976 it was deemed safe. It's housed in this area, so we're going to go take a look. I don't know if we're going to go in. I might save that for another live stream. It's a very important story, but to talk about the crew and how they were affected in the 1954 hydrogen bomb test at the Bikini Atoll.

00:02:16 John Daub: But that ship is here. So it's a little bit of history from the 1950s in the radiation era that we can see, as well as the Yume no Shima Tropical Greenhouse Dome, which is not too big, but it's really an oasis in this oasis of a park, Yume no Shima. And there's a marina here, a very big one, where rich people house their boats. I loved it. If you have a boat here, give me a contact. I would love to go out on a cruise with you. And then over here is the Shinkoto incineration plant. You can tell by the icons. There's even an icon for the incineration plant, which you can see in that tower. Japan burns garbage. And the filters on the top of it are very, very good. So nothing, but the filters really filter out the air.

00:03:06 John Daub: This is where I'm most curious, the Daigo Fukuryu Maru Exhibition Hall. So stay tuned and watch until the end, and then I will take you back to the station, to Shinkiba, and then you will know how to get here. So watching to the end has its benefits. Let's get started on a live stream. We're live. Go ahead and click the like button. And if you want to make sure you catch this from the beginning, you might want to subscribe. Push that always button, the notification bell, and join us on Instagram, because I put it in stories where you can link up to the video, usually five to 30 minutes in advance.

00:03:52 John Daub: Stairs. These yellow tactile are for the blind. So they know when they touch it to stop and don't go down the stairs. Now you can see the station and the highway a little bit better. It's a landfill island. Yume no Shima Park is a landfill. It's not the first one in Tokyo though. The first one is out near Odaiba, and it's been growing since the early 20th century. This one, I believe they started to make it in the mid 1930s. And it's got some pretty cool history. That's the botanical garden and we're going to be heading there as well.

00:04:47 John Daub: This is interesting. You do walk around a park and you'll find some pretty neat stuff like this. Totem pole. Pretty cool. But this park, I've never been inside of it. Kanae has never been here. She's at home right now, probably watching. We're going to Fukuoka tomorrow. So there's going to be some live streams at the airport, Haneda, as well as in Fukuoka for the next two days. It's going to be an exciting few days of live streaming. There's nobody here though. There's not really a lot of people here. Let's go past the archery field and just touch into the park a little bit.

00:05:31 John Daub: This is the Yume no Shima Park athletics field right in front of us, getting ready for the Olympics. Manhole. I see Japan has the best manholes in the world. The initiative Japan took several decades ago to promote the sewage systems when Japan was installing them—they made beautiful manhole covers and it kind of worked. So the athletic field looks like it could use a little bit of work; it'll be a great parking lot for the archery events.

00:06:25 John Daub: We're off to a wonderful start to the live stream. I can't go any further. I got to look around. That was a waste. Slightly embarrassing. Oh, there's the sign. So from this point, you can say the station is 400 meters that way. And the exhibition hall is 300 meters. So we're kind of between the two. The barbecue field is now closed. I can already see the archery. There's a target up ahead. Somebody had a bow and arrow.

00:07:13 John Daub: So a little bit about the history of this place. In 1950, Yume no Shima was a beach. You can see the beach. Just imagine those really high bathing suit bikinis, probably not in Japan where families came out here with their fifties cars parked out there in the parking lot and they came to the beach. What, here in Tokyo Bay? I don't know. So it was a beach for a few years and then they closed it and then they started piling on more trash. Does it smell like trash? No, not anymore. But it is part of Tokyo's history. Trash Island. Garbage Island. Rubbish Island. Depends on which part of the world that you're in.

00:08:00 John Daub: Can I go off road? This looks like a place where there's tarantulas and stuff in the jungle. We're turning this way. Very excited about this live stream. We're going off road where anything can happen. Look down for spiders and tarantulas and stuff. City's boy. Japan's not known for its tarantula culture. But I've been meeting a lot of Australians recently and it's been on my mind. I have to admit it. It looks like there's a wall around it. How do we get up there? I want to take a look into the archery event and then we're going to go to the ship that was in the Bikini Atoll.

00:09:01 John Daub: I guess there's a platform over there. Let's go around. Parkour. You could totally do parkour here. Listen, young people of Japan, where are your parkour? Parkourians show yourselves because that would make like a 20 million view video. I could follow you. I'm on a gimbal. I could totally gimbal this parkour. Just climb over this wall with your jumping parkour. Oh, I see the targets in there. They're called ninjas. This is so cool. There's people. We can just come up. I'm in here freely. Oh, look, just kids are like doing something. Check it out. They're going to shoot arrows at targets.

00:10:03 John Daub: The media is here. The international media. They're covering this event, but we're seeing it live right now. I look and they've got cameras set up, lots and lots of cameras. Or they like laser guns to show the speed of the arrow. This is quite a coincidence. All right, guys, let's see if we can get to the corner. We don't want to disturb anybody. I literally did not know. You can see the botanical gardens in the distance. We're going to be working our way over there in this live stream. But it looks like the competitors are checking their hits or something. I want to see them shoot some arrows. I don't know what this event is. I'm just in the park and I walked in the gate where these people are coming in. Boom. There's an archery event going on.

00:11:02 John Daub: Archery is not a fast sport. It's not like basketball. They're doing something. Maybe we should just come back. All right, we can come back. It looks like they're going to take a while. I don't think you're supposed to be there. I think it's a media only event. Excuse me. Only in Japan is media. I've gotten many media badges before. I just did not register. I guess if you don't have a media badge, you're considered paparazzi. So I better leave. Kanae and I were watching some documentaries on Netflix and she's very angry at the paparazzi. I don't want to be anything like them. Let's go towards the museum, the Daigo Fukuryu Maru Exhibition Hall.

00:12:02 John Daub: This is already a very interesting trip. Oh, they got acorns. Totoro. This is very... It's going to grow into a big tree. Acorns. Wow, this is 100% nature. This one's probably a squirrel stepped on. Look. It's all crushed. The tree's already coming out. Look. Give it some help. Help nature. I just grew a tree. MrBeast, tab one onto the total for team trees.

00:12:45 John Daub: Professors in the house. Hey John, are you still doing fan meetups? Are you currently planning to do one? Potentially the 25th of November 26th when I'm in Tokyo. For you, professor, I could do that. I haven't planned on it. What I wanted to do in September and just the plans fell through. In Shinkiba on the other side of the station, there is a launching pad for the ships that cruise up and down the river. And it would be pretty cool to talk to them. I'll get on the phone and see if we can get a boat or get some people together to ride in a boat and do a meetup on the boat. It's a competitor to the space boat. It's not the space boat, but to ride and have a barbecue on the river. It would be pretty cool or meet up, I think. Maybe we'll... Why am I saying November 25th? I'm glad this is out there. So that's ten days to go. We'll see what the shipry people say. They do okonomiyaki on the boat I think.

00:13:53 John Daub: All right, so over there is the botanical garden. We're behind the archery thing. So if a straight arrow comes over the wall that guy would probably have disqualified. Daigo, here it is. I'm very curious about this because I love history. This isn't the kind of history... Good history, but it's history nonetheless. The Daigo Fukuryu Maru was the ship in the Bikini Atoll hydrogen test. So we're going to go this way. Oh, wait. It says walking is this way. Okay. Walking is this way. Watch out for flying arrows. Don't you think I know that? That's why I'm watching this way. My head is going here.

00:14:42 John Daub: Well, you want me to put the camera on me so it's live? It's cruel people watching. I'm really nervous. At least there's a couple of trees here. We were just watching Braveheart the other day. And the arrows, the English king, Longshanks, he just shot the arrows into his own people. You know? So I don't want to be considered the people affected by Longshanks. This feels like freedom out here. Nosh, this is a jungle. Look at this. I think I want to come back here and do its own dedicated livestream, do some more research on it. I literally found out about this place about five minutes before I started the livestream. I started to do some research, very little Wikipedia research. But this is the museum and it's beautiful. A lot of respect paid to this ship that came back. The first victim of a hydrogen bomb is from the ship. And I don't know if we want to go inside. I guess I can maybe just walk in for a second and then escape. But it looks like a ship, right? Upside down. And that makes it really pretty.

00:16:19 John Daub: Oh, now you can see a little bit of it. You can see a little bit of it from the outside. There's the name of the ship right there. Yeah. This ship was also the inspiration for the 1954 Godzilla movie. I read that from Wikipedia. I said Godzilla movies were inspired by this. But the crew all pulled through except for one person who died. And he was the first victim of a hydrogen bomb, they say. I believe that there's no pictures taken. So let me just show you that sign. It says no pictures. Oh, cameras are okay. Hey, check this out. Do you see this? You see that? Cameras are okay. All right, let's just take a quick look in here. Admission is free. I don't want to, I feel like I should ask permission.

00:17:31 John Daub: Wow. I hope the signal holds through. This is the ship that was out in the H-bomb, the hydrogen bomb. I'm going to come back here and do it. I have the history of it to give it the respect. But so it became safe. And now you can come and see it. It's, oh, and they have images of the Genbaku Dome (A-Bomb Dome), the H-bomb dome in Hiroshima to show some of the power of nuclear weapons and the damage that it causes. I'm getting out of here now. All right, guys. Might be too much metal. I'm not sure, but I'm back outside. It's just a taste. I think that this would be a live, like a main channel episode or something. Very, very intriguing. I love this kind of historical stuff. I mean, I studied the Bikini Atoll and the testing way back when. And you can see it here. That's pretty crazy.

00:19:08 John Daub: I'm actually walking this way for a reason. I want to get a full view of this museum. It did look really cool. I am sorry about the signal problems there. Look at it, how did they get the ship inside? I think they built the museum around the ship. I'm just guessing. Or they built half of it and then built the rest of it around it. But I don't think it's going to be floating again anytime soon. Very, very cool park. Marina. People can take a break and dream. I think that's the engine of the ship underneath. The cover there. So you can take a look at it. I was impressed. I really wish we had a better signal inside there.

00:20:11 John Daub: We're walking on garbage. Oh, yeah. These trees are growing out of a garbage patch. They seem so happy, really green, but it's autumn. Some of the leaves are falling off. And look at them. It's autumn right now. So they're going pretty good. They grow up pretty good out of the garbage. It looks like a jungle. The internet has reacted to my awful song and I hear the hakushu (clapping) or the applause. Hakushu. I can hear it. The sound of one hand clapping. Very cool. I like that museum. I will be back and I'm going to ask if a local guide can take us around and give us some of the history behind it. Because I think it's these kinds of things nobody has covered before.

00:21:35 John Daub: You know, I did one on the atomic bombing for August that really was pretty deep and got some public domain footage from the military and added that in. And kind of connected it to today. That was pretty cool. All right. So the left side here is the marina. And if you look at the satellite pictures and the thumbnail, huge. The marina is very, very big. And you can see all types of ships, boats here. There's some money in Tokyo. And if any of you people who have a ship here, a boat, sailboat, give me a call. I would love to join you. Kanae is a licensed scuba diver. She's open water. I'm a dive master. So if you have any problems, we're happy to dive underneath there and show you your problems. I'm a trained cameraman. So I could take pictures of your boat from underwater. We'll pay our way. Services and entertainment. I always wanted to learn the violin or something because then you always have a skill that people want to listen to on a boat and get free passage and stuff. Always have a skill. Here's the park. You hear that kids stick with your piano.

00:23:03 John Daub: Here's what the park looks like from above. There's a stadium. It's built on trash. Well, all the buildings on it. Marina is quite large. And I'm going to zoom out so you get a better idea where in the city we are. The original trash island is right there. That blurry patch in the middle. There's Odaiba right there. And there's the Imperial Palace in the middle. So you get an idea how far we are out here. That's Kasairinkai Koen. And there's Disney. So it's not that far. Shinkiba Station is right there. So you can come here. Take a look here. You guys got that? And there's a map in the description. So you can follow this course.

00:24:02 John Daub: I'm now getting excited to walk back to the station because I want to go see the archery people. I want to see some girl like sling an arrow right into the target from and they were far away. Did you see how far they were? That's like a football field. Love to see that. Bring back memories of Walking Dead where they're shooting crossbows and stuff. Do they have crossbow competitions? Why is it? Isn't that considered archery? Or is that just a biathlon that they use crossbows in the biathlon, which is a bizarre way to do it. It's a really cool winter event on cross-country skis and arrows. Or no, that's a rifle, I think. Yeah, biathlon is one of my favorite events because it doesn't make any sense. Crossbows mechanical. Some people here know their stuff. Biathlon uses real guns.

00:25:11 John Daub: The medieval biathlon. What is that? Oh, that's, they use arrows. Or swords. After they cross-country ski they have to run 100 meters and attack a straw man with precision cuts. You can see that. Not exactly the most exciting view here. Hey come back come back where you going that's the most exciting view we have here: the botanical gardens and it's 250 yen to go in there and even less for kids and for families so on the weekend just see a lot of families coming out here. I like this. I'm on the wrong path here you can walk along the pier if you like boats and just come here on a date. I could see us coming here and just relaxing and watching the sun rise or set. I don't know which direction we're looking at.

00:26:16 John Daub: I can see that. See that alright we're going up here beautiful. Oh guess what I see right there. There it is. Tokyo Skytree. So you can see this from the Tokyo Skytree. If you are in the Tokyo Skytree right now, look down at me and wave. I don't know why you'd be watching Only in Japan Go and on the top of the Skytree. But I can see you. Pretty cool. People are looking at me. We've come a pretty good way. I like the fact that they have maps in English and Japanese. We're now on this end of the park. So we've gone across the whole thing. Now we're at the marina center. So this would go off of the park. So what we're going to do is walk back along the archery field. Take a peek in. And then cut around towards the station. And I'll show you what Shinkiba Station looks like. So you might want to hang out a little bit. And see something really cool. A train station. Nothing says Only in Japan Go like a tour of a train station.

00:27:32 John Daub: To the left, we have these bicycles that you can rent. This is one of the drop-off points, which is pretty cool. That means that you can pick them up right into the city and leave them in the city. You don't have to ride them and then drop them back. So I think some people came here in the morning and they left the bike and they went back by train. You can do that. Very nice. So the marina center here. Oh, Kanae, look. They have tables. Kanae, they got tables. Look. So you could bring a whole dinner with candles and stuff. Bring some cushions. I can see that happening. Just relax, John. Relax a little bit. You can make friends with the ducks. It takes time, though. I don't have that kind of time. If you build a relationship with ducks over a period of about a week with a little bit of food, they will remember you and befriend you. That's always a good feeling. I was feeding them when I visited my brother. I was feeding them from my hand. Just took a little bit of patience on the duck side, really.

00:29:16 John Daub: So there's stuff inside the marina. That's pretty neat. You can go up to the second floor and get some elevated views. We're not going to do that because we're off of the park. So let's go back inside. Let's go into the biosphere or the botanical garden. Biosphere sounds cooler, but it's not. I guess it's a biosphere. What would you call that? Biosphere. That's a nice looking. So this is the marina bar. Bar lounge. Look up there. I guess you can get a drink at sunset. Totally would like that. The marina bar lounge. There you go. Heard it here first. Breaking news.

00:30:08 John Daub: What's this? This looks like the cooler from The Great Escape. Steve, are you in there? Steve McQueen. No, he's not in the cooler. I don't think the toilet either. You don't number toilets number 4043. Do you? You're not outhouses. I don't know what they are. I think they're cells. If you misbehave in the marina, you go to the cooler for two weeks. No windows either in the cooler. Check it out. Look at the backside of this aluminum house. At least the roof isn't held down by rocks. You know, they built it pretty good. So the typhoons probably don't have somebody tried to escape. Somebody really tried to escape. Oh, my. This is a sign of a scene of a crime. Look at this. Could be just storage. So that cooler if it was not just storage. Something deeper. The meaning has history. It's a shack. That's not even a love shack. You can't even fit a bed in there.

00:32:07 John Daub: Now we're on the very cold. Live stream or main channel yeah the stairs winded me I'm out of shape so all the top YouTubers in Japan will be at this fan fest Japanese YouTubers and I don't think they've invited too many Western YouTubers living in Japan so I'm one of the first people to go to collect my award for the 1 million subscribers at the event should be a lot of fun. Kanae's coming for support I got a dress up I guess a little bit nervous because this is not my scene but it's pretty awesome they don't have fan fest in the United States they just do it in Asia I believe fan fests so it'll be at Makuhari they're giving me my gold 1 million subscriber thing from Hikakin one of the big YouTubers in Japan he's handing them out so I get it from him I don't get starstruck but seems like a nice enough guy got starstruck once it's in an elevator with Arnold Schwarzenegger in Columbus Ohio at University it's pretty big he didn't seem that much taller I thought he'd be towering but he's pretty big.

00:34:14 John Daub: All right I don't know if we're gonna go in I'm really curious about the archery it's up to you now this is very very weak we got 560 people watching and I only see 214 likes disapproved you know what if we can get to 500 likes your best effort I will get a ticket and just go inside because I am curious all right it's up to you now. I'm telling you right now the Botanical Garden is beautiful. Beautiful look at that don't you want to go in there you want to go in there it's not a trap hold on it's not a trap. It's not a trap or if it's it's a really well trap well presented trap. But what more reason for you to click the like button wouldn't you want to see me walk into a trap? Deck that that could fall on your shoulders if you click the like button. This is that it is that does that convince you? It's a big cage. Oh, what do you mean like a cockroach hotel if I go in I'm not coming out.

00:35:28 John Daub: That makes me a cockroach. What hey John glad to catch a live stream. Hey Oliver I'm on my way back from work get a cold beer. You got it. The day is young. But that does not that should not stop anyone. Right here. It's just proof that the Olympic venue for the archery events are gonna be held here for even the Paralympics. I'm gonna come and visit you at that time. I love the Paralympics. I'm more curious about the Paralympics because of the technology and the skill look at that. That is incredible. Actually look at that. That takes skill mad skill. Absolutely. That's not easy. Just normally standing so that's incredible. That's why I am so stoked for the Paralympics. After the main Olympics everyone's gonna leave it'll be quiet a little bit more and then the real game start because the technology and the passion for the Paralympics is on another level.

00:36:49 John Daub: I went to wheelchair rugby the other day wheelchair rugby had the World Cup here. Oh, they're doing it. No, no, no, no, they're doing it. Is it like rapid fire? It's through these windows. This is not the ideal situation. I wanted to be out there to see this. I'd like to just leave the tripod in the middle and say everyone shoot at the camera and see who gets the closest. Olympics oh this end is closed. This end is closed. Sorry guys. And they've already gone they've left already. How many likes do we have 300? That's the best can do don't you guys have any fake accounts that you could log into and like and then come back to this one and do not do that because that's wrong. People do the opposite of what you say, so don't do that do that wait. Never mind, just drop it.

00:38:36 John Daub: Oh they're doing it. Oh the dis spell you hear that. That means it's clear and they can walk to go and see their targets hit. Yeah, they can walk and go see the target. So we kind of missed it. It's alright. This is he caught her and said this is my fake account. No, don't say that. I don't want to get banned. I'm so excited. Oh, no. No what happened? Look at the poor guy that they threw inside the pot and they lit him on fire look. Four colorful people bullied on the one guy inside of the cup and they set it on fire. That's not funny. I don't know if he's on the outside of the inside looks like a shadow. It's bizarre. My first thought was poor look at that poor guy inside the cup when they lit him on fire. Oh, man the way I see things. It's not painted by a kid. They say kids are honest. Picture says a thousand words. That was my first thought like oh the poor guy. One of the Olympic colors is it was thrown in and put on fire.

00:40:05 John Daub: Alright 300 and can we get 350 at least I know I don't know that's if you want me to walk into a trap you better put like. I'm only gonna be in there for like five minutes. You know and this is on the professor to. Professor, thank you. We're going in on professors dime. Thank you professor. I am curious. I'm glad we got to see the ship from the Bikini Atoll and I'm kind of excited about this. Look at that trap. They've caged the trees. I'm gonna