00:01 John Daub: Wow. This is absolutely beautiful. This is a bowl of ramen Unari, which I had in a main channel episode. Look at the broth. See that? It's so good. And the noodles.

00:27 John Daub: This is in Fukuoka Airport. Check this out. Oh my. And the chashu. Remember? They get a flamethrower and give it some extra flavor on that. And this is right at the airport. Thick tonkotsu (pork bone) ramen.

00:55 John Daub: What are you eating? Hey, you have my egg. It's mine. You have it. Oh, I have it. It's in there. Okay.

01:06 John Daub: Alright, let's try this here. You guys just see what it looks like. We're gonna try it. Here's the broth. They add some dashi in this one, yeah? It has some dashi in the tonkotsu broth, so it gives it a good flavor.

01:16 Kanae Daub: What are you laughing at? Because your friend is here.

01:24 John Daub: No. That's Kanae's friend. So she's embarrassed a little bit. I'm not.

01:31 John Daub: So we're gonna eat this quickly. And in this live stream, I'm gonna get some food. I'm gonna give you a tour of Fukuoka's domestic terminal. I'm gonna tell you how to get to the international airport. We did a live stream on the shuttle bus to the international airport a few days ago. Yeah, you see the steam, right? After we finish this ramen, we're gonna go up to the observation deck and look at the airplanes and work our way down. And go all the way down to the arrivals, where you can see the planes. You can see what the gifts look like, some of the things... Wi-Fi routers and things like this. The second floor is departures. We'll work our way up to the third floor and then back up. Where Kanae and I gotta go back to Tokyo today.

02:22 John Daub: Alright, you gotta check out this egg here. You want the extra garlic? Ah, yeah. Load it up, Kanae. Little bit extra garlic right here. Oh, that's nice. Arigato.

02:52 John Daub: Look at this. Oh my. This egg is delicious, right? This egg is so good. Look at it. It's just slightly congealed inside of it. I know that they cook it. I've seen them in the main channel episode on the Fukuoka ramen on the Only in Japan channel. You can check out the same place. They got a branch inside the airport. Oh man. This is delicious. It's so good.

04:11 John Daub: Do you want a bit of sugar? Ah, a little bit of sugar, yeah. Arigato. It's good. Thank you so much. Arigato gozaimasu. Ah, it's so good. Little meat with noodles.

05:31 John Daub: I've never drank the broth. I've never drank it. I can't do it. I'm wiping up my slurping. It might not. It's healthy. When you slurp, sometimes you get a little bit around the table. I like to be kind, but they do a good job cleaning up. You're supposed to slurp it. It also cools down the noodles, so you want to eat them when they're really hot. You don't want the noodles to sit or else they'll get soggy.

06:09 John Daub: What I like about this ramen the best, this is one of my favorite in Fukuoka, was that they mix the noodles. They mix in dashi with the tonkotsu thick pork broth, and it gives it a lighter feeling. It's not as heavy in your stomach, and that means you can eat more of it, which is a good thing. It's a very good thing.

06:32 John Daub: Are you ready for the airport experience? This is the name of the place right here on the wall. You can buy gift boxes of ramen Unari. Yeah, you can buy it. Thank you very much. See you later. See you later. It's time for a walkabout. We got it from a vending machine there. Alright. I feel so happy. I feel really good.

07:12 John Daub: Check out this ramen area of Hakata Fukuoka Airport. Oh man. Look at the ramen. I was thinking about getting this one, but I saw Unari ramen and had to stop there. Look at that. This is a red dragon, they call it. Red dragon for $9. Look at the egg on there. No, that's not tomato based. That's spice based, baby. It's spicy miso. This one has some vegetables in there. This one is a Sapporo soup curry ramen. That might be even possible as a vegetarian. I don't know. I can't say for sure, but that's about $9.50 for that. Look at the steak in there. The chashu. This one is about $8. But you got that egg in there. Do you see that egg? Hanzuku tamago. Onsen tamago (hot spring egg).

08:13 John Daub: This place is really crowded. People are waiting in line. They're getting one last bowl of Hakata ramen before they make their way to their domestic flights. This is inside the domestic terminal. Hey Hikaru, thank you. Katayama's in the house. I'm also very surprised with the 4G signal in here. Extremely strong inside this part of the airport. It looks like a cave. Hakata ikkōsha (ramen shop).

08:53 John Daub: He said, look at the menu. Look at the gyoza on there. Oh man, five pieces for $3.25. Ten for $6. This is pretty good. Even a beer is $5. Oishi (delicious). Now the ramen here, what's different than the same ramen in Tokyo? It's that it has a different smell to it. It's a little bit stronger. Again, you can see people are buying it from the vending machine here. You get the ticket. You pay before you enter. After you enter, it's very quick. You eat, you slurp, you get out. You don't hang around. Don't ever use a ramen shop as like a cafe and sit there for an hour. You won't make any friends. Except for the one that you're sitting next to who's probably, if she's Japanese, gonna be really angry, like Kanae. There's the entrance to it. It's pretty good. I was happy to get one last bowl of Hakata ramen, Unari ramen, before we go back. One thing you might want to have is some chewing gum because you're gonna offend the people sitting next to you on the airplane. Unless you douse that fire.

10:06 John Daub: So this is the ramen alley. Let's go upstairs now to the observation deck. Airports have pretty cool observation decks. You can see all the airplanes. This is the domestic terminal. And we have about 25 minutes before we have to enter in there. Kanae's meeting with a good friend of hers. And I want to give her some time to talk and not worry about us. As we explore Fukuoka's domestic terminal. Which is pretty cool. You can get a burger right there if you don't want ramen. And of course, you can get Starbucks straight ahead. They are everywhere. Oh, check this out. Yoshimi pancake. Look at that pancake. I had to do a double take on that. Fluffy pancakes here. Not bad at all.

11:04 John Daub: Let's make our way to the fourth floor observation deck. That's gonna be us in like 30 seconds. Let's go. I hope the signal is okay. I don't know if this stairwell is gonna have a good signal. If you're going Minecraft, stick with us. Alright, we're here. Fourth floor. This is kind of an adventure in itself, walking around. Oh, that's a kid's room. Follow that mother. Whoa. Fukuoka, baby. Saying goodbye.

12:34 John Daub: One last look. This is such a convenient airport to get into the city. From the domestic terminal. Not the international. You gotta take the shuttle bus to get here. But from the domestic terminal, you can catch the subway for two stops and you're in the city. Two stops. It's like a dollar fifty or something. Peach Airlines just arrived. It's an Osaka-based LCC. Low-cost carrier. It's funny. They're called Peach and their colors are purple. That's a JAL airline that's got the mascots on it. How cool is that? Do you see that?

13:45 John Daub: That plane just says Star Alliance. What does that mean? It's the generic. What airline is it? Never seen that before. It says FDA. Isn't that the Federal Drug Administration? Sorry, let me get the focus here. What airline is FDA? A Fuji Dream Airlines. Pink. And there's an ANA prop plane which is probably making its way to Oita or somewhere really close so we're going to see a plane take off. Let's move on over here. And then we're going to go downstairs to the departure terminal. You can take a look at some of the gifts that they have.

15:00 John Daub: Oh, here comes a plane. Check this out. The flight's going somewhere. It's hard to tell where. I bet you it's somewhere in Japan. Could be international though. No, it's not international. This is all domestic flights. So the international terminal just wraps around the runway to the other side. So it's about a 15 minute bus ride on the shuttle bus. 10-15 minutes. This is the domestic one. So this one's going to somewhere around Japan. John M. is using Flightradar24 probably figuring out where all the flights are going. Could be. I don't even know if that's a flight simulator or a flight checker. I love how they bow. The flight crew will bow to the plane.

16:43 John Daub: There goes one taking off now. FDA's on its way out. We lost her. FDA. On its way back to Washington. But the flight crew when the plane starts to take off will bow deeply to the customers inside and wish them well. I love that little gesture. Maybe we'll get to see that. See this small man there? Let's see if he bows to the flight. I'm zoomed as far as I can go here. Oh, the engine's started. Oh, it's starting. Oh, but... Oh, the engine's still running. But it's still running. If we can just get this going, we'll be able to get there. And it's powering up. Oh, that's the TV. Got it. See the engine starting to spin in the middle? Turn it. Oh, the TV.

18:05 John Daub: Sorry guys, Kanae's with her friend. I'm gonna let her have some time with one of her friends she hasn't seen in a while. She's gonna stay and eat the ramen. We'll catch up with her in a couple of minutes. Right now, I wanna see the guy come out and he's gonna bow to the plane, I believe. He's detaching the craft. Sorry, I'm zoomed in all the way. Sorry if the quality's bad. But you get a chance to see a little bit better. And now, I believe he's gonna bow to the plane. This little guy with the big aircraft. Alright, he's gonna turn and bow, I think.

18:56 John Daub: It's one of the great things that we see in Japanese culture is the plane starts to leave. We're moments away from airline flight crew team showing respect to a departing flight. Only in Japan. There it is. I love that. Showing very deep respect to the passengers who make the company what it is. Without passengers, you don't have an airline. Sorry. The cables make it hard to get focused. I wanted to show you that because it shows you the deep respect that Japan has for the passengers and the customer. Let's go back down now to the second floor.

20:10 John Daub: We're going back down to the second floor now, which is the departures. I hope you enjoyed that.

20:24 Caller: SHRTCTC. I don't know how to say that, but thank you John and Kanae for the great entertainment.

20:29 John Daub: Snacks for the way home. Thank you. Actually, we'll take you up on that. We're gonna get some drinks for the plane because they don't serve any food. Although Kanae had ramen. She's still gonna be hungry.

20:47 John Daub: Alright, we're back. Shortcut. It says shortcut. Kanae says she's at Starbucks. Kanae! There she is. She doesn't see us. Kanai! I'm gonna go down quickly to the second floor, okay? Maybe 10-15 minutes is good. Do you want to drink here? Oh, okay. I'll take you down. I'll come back one more time.

21:35 John Daub: I said. So there you go. More K less J. I heard you. I saw that. It's alright. I take it as it comes. What are you gonna do? This is the Starbucks mug here. That's pretty cool. It's about $18 for that. A little pricey. Oh, they have a Nagasaki one. That's pretty cool. There's Oita. Some people collect these. I don't. Where do you put them? You get a few of them and where do you put them after a while?

22:32 John Daub: Let's go downstairs now to the second, um, to the departure. That's where we came up here for the restaurants. So the third floor has restaurants. Right there you can see on the escalator. Let's go down. Hey, it's me. Kanae is so pretty. Don't I know it. Better, more prettier than me. She says that I'm handsome. So love her even more for it. You're so handsome. You're so pretty. Then we go to bed. That's not our routine.

23:12 John Daub: Here's the security check. South. Very nice. Very lovely. There's a south and a north terminal. So you want to pick which one. Make sure you know if you're south or north. It's about a 4-5 minute walk to get from A to B. From south to north. You can walk in 4-5 minutes. It's not a big deal. But that looks so good. You can get mango juice from Miyazaki Mango Juice. We are in Kyushu. Kyushu is represented in the gifts that people buy to take back home to Tokyo and Osaka. You'll want to get something that's local. Let's see if we can find something. Oh, there's the Nagasaki castella (sponge cake).

24:00 John Daub: Castella is like this cake that looks like this. It's a safe cake. And even if you have allergies, I guess you can eat it. A lot of people buy this because some people don't like chocolate. Everyone loves a castella. Woah! Bonbons. Sweet potatoes. Woah! What is that? Holy mackerel. What is that? It looks like cheesecake. Are these plastic models? Oh, cheesecake. Woah! Vanilla cheese custard. Let's try it. Oh, is that okay? Woah! I got a free sample. Oh, thank you. Oh, okay. Thank you. It looks delicious. Thank you. That's so good. We're going to get this for Kanae. Thank you.

25:28 John Daub: What is this? This is it. Is this okay? Oh, really? Oh, okay. I'll take one of these. Oh, 5 hours? Oh, okay. I'll start right away. Okay. Oh, about 2 and a half hours. 2 and a half hours. What is this? Pudding. Woah! Cheese. Real cheesecake. Woah! Camembert sauce. Caramel. Caramel. Oh, so this is the normal one. Okay. Ah, okay. I got it. Kanae's going to be happy with this selection. This is so good. You have no idea. It's so light and creamy, Japanese cheesecake. It's just... And it had vanilla beans in it. Oh! I'm already developing a third chin. I guess you gotta go for the fourth. I got tiramisu.

26:59 John Daub: Okay. I might get 2. 2 yen. 1... That's not yen. Oh, then... I'll take 10,000 yen. I'm sorry. That was a yen coin. 8,000 yen. Here you go. This is 218 yen. Please pay more. It's cool. They showed the price on an iPhone. So they show the change as well. It's very cool. They take everything. I could have paid by PASMO. Thank you very much. Thank you. Check that out. It's packaged so there's no hot air can get in there. It retains the cold air. Boom! If you like cheesecake, click the like button. I don't know. You gotta do what you can to promote your live streams with love.

28:45 John Daub: Here's the lounge. We don't have time to go in there. But if we did, here's the lounge. If I enter, alarms go off. Hold on. Run away. Run away. These ladies were looking at me. Here's another lounge. This is the ANA lounge. This looks swank. Look at the oak, the wood. Old wood. Looks too high class for me. I'll touch it from the outside. Smooth. Nice.

29:31 John Daub: Food is at the core of Kyushu. These are some more snacks. Some mochi with, I believe it's like a... What is that sauce? Black honey? Kuromitsu (black sugar syrup) maybe? This airport is huge! This is the second floor. You can buy more gifts. This is mentaiko (spicy pollock roe), which is like a seasoned fish roe. It's fish eggs. And it's spicy. And it's very famous here in Hakata. The Fukuoka area. Fukuoka has the best mentaiko, they say.

30:25 John Daub: Here's the shop. It's doing a pretty good business. On the other side is some other gifts. Boxes people pick up to take back home. Called omiyage (souvenir gifts). Omiyage, which means gifts. And it's almost a duty of us to buy them for if you're working in an office, you gotta buy omiyage for your office. So sometimes you'll pick up a box that has maybe 30 or 40 different little teeny cakes or cookies inside of it. Or if you try to buy little teeny gifts for everybody, it can become very very costly. So yeah, makers have come up with ways where you can buy one box that satisfies the requirement of buying an omiyage for your entire office. I work for myself, so I just buy omiyage for Kanae and maybe a couple of friends.

31:17 John Daub: This looks like a pretty cool food court. I didn't know about this. They don't have ra- oh they do have some ramen in the center there. There's a guy and ramen. And then uh, yeah, there's some curry, Hakata curry. So let's take a pretty quick look in here. We got some barbecue. Red Brooklyn, what? Back home in New York, huh? Wow, just a walk through. Smells pretty good. Grilling meat, steak, here's a katsudon (pork cutlet rice bowl). Oh, I love katsudon. How much is a katsudon? It's about $11. It's a big looking katsudon. There's a ramen shop. Everybody buses their own tables. You return your ramen bowl right there and the guy will wash it. There you go. It's good. It keeps it clean for the next person, so everybody has always a clean place to sit down. There's usually a wet towel that you can use to wash the tables. And there's almost free water. Hey! And there's always free water where you can pick up at food courts just like this. Grab a cup and drink it and then, I don't mind if I do. There you go. Oh, there's a trash can right here to throw it away. They recycle the paper. All paper cups recycled. There's Red Brooklyn right there, so if you want a burger, you know where to go right now. Taste of New York at the domestic terminal.

33:39 John Daub: Whoa, this is the security. I think Kanae and I are gonna have to check in sooner than later. Typically for domestic flights, you should check in an hour before. There's not this two, three hour type of thing and security goes extremely fast. You don't have to take off your shoes. You don't have to... You can actually bring bottles of water onto the flights. They have a machine that will check to make sure that it is not something that is bad for a flight. Yeah. So, I've never waited for more than 15 minutes at Japanese security. Even with these lines long, there's so many of them that they move very, very quickly. There's the board, the flight board up there. And then the boarding gates. So you can see our flight is at 1230. It sits on this board. So we gotta be leaving soon. 1230 to Tokyo. We're still in check-in. Gate 7. Yeah.

34:56 John Daub: Shortcut, it's never too late to join the postcard club. I've got about 20 postcards left from the train that we rode for the Discovery Channel. Called Seven Stars. With the Imperial Enthronement stamp. So if you do order a postcard, you will get a postcard. Of course! Send them out right away. The day I arrive, your notification, if I'm back in Tokyo, it goes right in the mail. This is what the daimyo on Patreon will be getting. I've sent this to you. It should be there this week. It's a Hakata Torimon. It is the most delicious omiyage I've ever eaten. Seriously. You see that? That is like cheese and potato mixed up in there into a cake. It is insanely good. And I sent a box of five of them.

35:50 John Daub: This is what I'm talking about. They just do a roaring business. All these boxes will probably be gone by the end of the day. This one is number one in the world, they say. Seikai number one. And it's really popular. You gotta get one of these Hakata Torimon when you're here. Just try it. You'll thank me. There's more on this show. They stick out even more on this side. It's crazy. And this corner is omiyage only. You'll buy stuff from Kyushu. There's Kumamon (Kyushu mascot), which is the Kyushu mascot you see over there waving to you. That's Kumamon. He's from neighboring Kumamoto. Let's see if we can see one or two more things here. The Torimon also has different flavors. Look at this one. They have one with a matcha flavor to it. Which I wanted to try as well. But maybe when we check in they'll have some more inside of the gate. I'm not gonna be taking you inside of the gate. I'm just gonna be showing you the area. The airport area. This is the departures. If you wanna see the arrivals, I live streamed that about two days ago. The shuttle bus going from the domestic to the international terminal. It's actually a very useful video. If you do come to Fukuoka, you should see what the ride is like. What you need to do and how much space is in there. Sometimes you're gonna have to wait until the next shuttle bus which takes about oh I don't know, five minutes per bus. It moves pretty quickly.

37:31 John Daub: There's some vending machine here. On the first floor, which we can go to really quickly. Oh here's this hot coffee vending machine. Interesting. Cappuccino, American coffee, everything's about a dollar twenty. It comes out in 45 seconds. Or less. I'm gonna take you down to the first floor just to give you an idea of the arrival lounge for a second. So we're leaving the crowded departure and I'm gonna go straight back up to see Kanae and Starbucks. I just saw the sign up for the postcard club. Ah! So the second I get back home, I'm putting the postcard in the mail for you. I appreciate that. I just saw the notification pop up on my screen. How cool is that? Here's the arrivals terminal. Oh sorry, sorry. This is the check-in center. This is where you would check in for the flight. There's Skymark. This is a low cost carrier. And it's pretty big. There's a Tsutaya Bookstore. There's a very few amount of foreign books there. Not that many. But you can get some. And there's a drugstore on this floor. And if we go down one more, you'll find the arrivals. Yeah. This is also where the bus, the shuttle bus is on this floor. I think you would just literally go outside and the bus will be there. If you do come by taxi, you'll be dropped off here for domestic.

39:26 John Daub: So we've come a long way, haven't we? We've come a very long way. From the fourth third from ramen to the fourth floor and then all the way back down to the first floor, which is where we are right now. Fukuoka. Or as my friend Trevor from the Food Ranger channel, Fukuwaka. He says, John, I'm going to Fukuwaka next. And I go, sure you are, buddy. Sure you are. Nothing like Fukuwaka International Domestic Airport Terminal. It's very, very interesting. And the airport's open from 5:30 to 10:30 PM, as you can see here. After 10:30, you've got to make your way to the city. You typically cannot sleep here unless you're checked in inside of the gate. So I hope that this is very useful for you. I hope that this video can help you navigate around Fukuoka Airport. Not Fukuwaka. Fukuoka. I love Trevor. Great, great guy.

40:33 John Daub: I'm going to go say hi to Kanae and show her that I bought cheesecake and we can hear her go, ah, cheesecake! Or she's going to go, yabai! Which means, that's so dangerous. Yabai! Should I take you? Alright, let's take you back to the Starbucks to go say goodbye to Kanae. You guys can say goodbye too. Oh! Check it out! They put the lids on the side of the vending machine. I didn't notice that. That's the coffee vending machine. How cool is that? Safe Saturday. Great stuff, John. Cheers. Thank you. There's where you go through security. And then we're going back up here to get Kanae. Yeah. Place your bets. It's going to be sugoi (amazing) or yabai. Or, let's just say something in English. Because she's trying hard to speak English. I'm trying hard to speak more Japanese to her. We've always spoke Japanese. And now she's trying to speak more English because she wants to do better in the live streams and I can respect that. But, we're in Japan. In Japan, we should be speaking Japanese, right? Whoa! This is called Hakata Royal, which is like the royal host, I guess. They have the plastic models of food out there. I love the plastic models. This looks so real. Look at that. Doesn't it? Shouldn't touch it. That's Kagoshima kurobuta (black pig), which is Kagoshima's black Berkshire pork, which is amazing. Kagoshima has the best pork in Japan. Smells like garlic here. Steak. And there it is, everybody. Ramen. The ramen alley where we started the live stream. A complete and perfect circle. That's what I call a live stream. We've done the entire place. And now it's time for us to get through security because if you saw that line, we're going to be waiting for a little bit.

43:12 John Daub: It's not quite as good as Haneda Airport, but according to Kanae's friend, this place is new. This is a new wing. So, I'm going to have to say thumbs up to Fukuoka Domestic Terminal. I like the fact that you can catch the subway in two stops. The most convenient domestic airport, way more convenient than Haneda, is Fukuoka. And you can see the flights from the city. They come really close to the city. This is an airport that's pretty much in the urban area, which makes it so convenient. And a popular place for conventions is Fukuoka because it's such a painless experience to get from the airport to your hotel. Whereas Narita is it takes a while. I like Narita Airport, but it takes a while to get to your airport. Haneda is just a little bit better. Maybe 35% better.

44:17 Kanae Daub: She's still there.

44:27 John Daub: Look what I bought you. A present. What is it? Do you say, which one? Sugoi or Yabai?

44:43 Kanae Daub: Sugoi.

44:45 John Daub: Nosh, did you have Sugoi? Which one did you have? Yabai or Sugoi? Sugoi. The internet was wondering if you were going to say Yabai or Sugoi. That's like the vanilla creamy cheesecake. Yeah, that's our dinner. No more ramen. No more ramen. Are you ready? Because there's a lot of people lined up. I said it's really crowded. What time is it now? Is it 12? The plane is 12:30. There's security. Oh my god. It's too, it's too, it's 12? The flight leaves at 12:30. Can I have the flight boarding now? Oh no no no, it's okay, but how do we get to security? Kitagawa?

46:02 John Daub: Alright, we're going to have to say goodbye because one of us, two of us are going to be running to the airplane. So have a good day, have a good night. I hope that this 40 minute live stream was worth it. Oh, this way? Oh yeah. I did that before. I was like, why am I not going down. Have a good day, have a good night wherever you are in the world. Hit the subscribe button if you like this and definitely give us a thumbs up if you like airport tours because they can be pretty eventful like when you miss your flight. Bye guys.