00:00:01 John Daub: Greetings everybody! Welcome to the Tokyo Dome. Right here on your left you can see this beautiful structure where the Tokyo Giants baseball team play. There's the Japanese Baseball Hall of Fame and just next to it is Taco Bell. The American invasion. And today we're going to be trying one of Taco Bell Japan's original menu items that just was released. It's called the okonomiyaki (savory cabbage pancake) flavored burrito. I'm not really sure myself.

00:00:34 John Daub: Hey everybody, how you doing? I've already ordered. There was actually a really big line so it took a while to put the order in and now I'm waiting. It's a different system than the United States. It actually takes a little bit longer. I got tea. This is Uroncha (oolong tea), Chinese tea, not Coca-Cola. And we're going to be getting three items. He said it's going to take about three minutes and he let me film inside. I asked the manager if I could go in there and just take a look and he said sure. So I invite you all to inside Taco Bell Japan for a minute.

00:01:05 John Daub: Here you can get your favorite menu. Basically a lot of the things are the same as in America except they're a little bit more expensive. There's no dollar menu in Taco Bell Japan. It's kind of pricey. All right, shall we go inside? I can show you the okonomiyaki menu. All right, check it out here. This is what the okonomiyaki menu looks like here. They call it the Fiesta. This is the okonomiyaki burrito.

00:01:39 John Daub: Look at that. It's 680 yen for a set. 380 yen for hanbun (half portion). Hanbun means just this and a combo. This one is the okonomiyaki crunch wrap. The combo is 780 yen or about $7.50 and hanbun just one is 500 yen. I believe that's this one here. This looks really good. And then the okonomiyaki taco. For one it's 330 yen about $3.25 and for the combo it's $6 about.

00:02:08 John Daub: It's a little bit pricier than the United States but for this really original menu I think it's kind of worth it, don't you think? And this is my Thanksgiving dinner. Kanae is at home working. She couldn't make it today but we're going to enjoy some really delicious okonomiyaki tacos. It's pretty cool in here. They're now giving my order. Here's the receipt if you want to take a look at it. It's at the Taco Bell in Tokyo Dome. It's pretty cool to see that. It's $15 for all of this with 8% sales tax. It's 10% for everything but right now. Ah, watashi no. Arigato gozaimasu.

00:02:50 John Daub: All right, let's go outside. Look at that, came in a nice little bag here since 1962. I came to Tokyo Dome because it just seems to be a little bit more fun because there's roller coasters flying by right here and there's always some kind of an event going on in Tokyo Dome. All right, I staked out my own table. How about that? We are set up for a massive taco unboxing here in Tokyo. I'm putting the tripod on. I'm starving. Who here ate too much for Thanksgiving? It's now the end of the day on the east coast. I'm really excited about this.

00:03:34 John Daub: I don't typically order anything at Taco Bell. I'm kind of avoiding fast food more and more but I just think this was pretty unique. An idea that came from our moderator Nosh Abroad. Much appreciated for coming up with this idea of going to Taco Bell and trying some of the delicious tacos okonomiyaki style. This is totally Japan inspired, this flavor. So let's take a look here. If we can get to 600 likes I'll eat the third one. All right, I got three of them. It's up to you community. Let's give some love for some Japanese taco unboxing. Here we go. I'm gonna put this here. I'm getting really hungry. It's time to unbox this. Unwrap this. Unbag this. What's up first? I lost my straw. Oh, I can smell it already.

00:04:44 John Daub: Whoa. Check that out. It looks like an ordinary everyday taco but inside of it I can see underneath here it's not quite ordinary. It smells a little bit like takoyaki (octopus balls), that's sweet tangy savory sauce to it. We're gonna give this a try. Short cutsy. Happy Thanksgiving. Loved my first postcard. Yeah, thanks for joining the postcard club. Much appreciated. I sent that out. All the postcards. I still got about five postcards from this month by the way if anyone is interested in Japan's most expensive luxury train, night train. I lost my straw. I'm gonna need this to wash it down. This Chinese oolong tea is what I ordered with it. Not Coca-Cola. All right, cheers everybody. One note: they have beer at this Taco Bell. Beer. Just saying. Kind of neat to wash down your tacos with a cold one.

00:05:55 John Daub: All right, let's try this here. How does it taste? That's weird. Look at the okonomiyaki sauce dripping out of it. Hold on, check this out. Look at the okonomiyaki sauce. It's got some of those red... is that meat? Corned beef? I don't know what that is. Is that the red ginger that goes on top of the okonomiyaki? I don't know. It is the most unique flavor. You got the corn crunch. You have the cheese, the lettuce, and that sauce. The okonomiyaki sauce. Do you see that?

00:06:54 John Daub: Hey, Cobra Bebop, happy Thanksgiving. Danny's here. Bon appetit. Thank you, Danny. And Brendan Walker, thank you, Brendan. Happy Thanksgiving. All right, let's try it again until it's done. It tastes like Osaka. Like Mexico and Osaka. You can see the Taco Bell's starting to get a little crumbly. It's crowded. It's lunchtime. Oh, look at this. Now you can see the meat inside there. Do you see it? It looks like some chicken or pork. I'm not even sure. It just tastes good. Very pleasant crunch to it. Again, like this is maybe the fourth time I've eaten Taco Bell in Japan. And I'll run down a little bit of the history of it. Some of you might know. Mayonnaise. There's mayonnaise in the taco. There's mayonnaise in the taco. What? Oh, my word. That was just weird.

00:08:54 John Daub: I thought it was sour cream. It's not. I think it was mayonnaise. It had a mayonnaise taste to it. I didn't taste any sour cream. Imagine, they've taken the sour cream and replaced it with mayonnaise. Japanese mayonnaise, which is not the same. Sour cream is not like mayonnaise. Sour cream is sour cream. Mayonnaise is mayonnaise. There's a different... I think mayonnaise touches a different place on your tongue. Let's see if we can get the 250 likes for this next one here. Come on, guys. It's up to you. 250 likes for this next one here. Hey, Vintando's here. Vintando, I like that. Hey, John. Hope that you have a great Thanksgiving. I'm visiting Japan in two weeks. And I hope we get to bump into each other. Love your channel. If you do bump into me, I got these You Found Me cards. So, you'll be able to get one of those if you come and visit here. Guys, I really appreciate the Thanksgiving wishes. Ha ha. This is a strange Thanksgiving.

00:10:01 John Daub: Oh, we got the 250 likes. Okay, here we go. Next one's up. Oh. Oh. This has a lot of volume to it. Oh, this is the one that Jim wanted. Hello Highs asked me to get this one. It's got some volume to it. I think this is the crunch one. So, let's unbox this. Unwrap it. Maybe that's a better word. I'm still waking up, too. You can hear the roller coaster in the background, but it's kind of cool. A little bit up. There you go. All right, let's get some Taco Bell. We appreciate all you do for us, Taco Bell. Make us a little bigger. Oh, look at that. Is that that crunch wrap? Whoa. I like this. This fits in the hands really well. It's got a nice star pattern to it. Look at that. Look at frisbee. Like I could throw it and see it drip down the window over there. Would never do that.

00:11:11 John Daub: It's still warm. Let's eat it while it's warm. Itadakimasu. Oh, wow. You guys want to see what's inside? In the middle of it, there's, I guess that's pulled pork. I'm not quite sure. There's a crunch, a corn crunch in the middle, like a shell. There's some cabbage instead of lettuce. Cabbage is one of the main ingredients of okonomiyaki. So you'll find cabbage in here. Some cheddar cheese. And then there's this thing here. And I don't know exactly what this is here, but it's got some really good flavor to it. Kind of okonomiyaki flavor. And then that's mayonnaise. That's mayonnaise. Japanese mayonnaise in there.

00:12:26 John Daub: For the taco taco, I saw that. That was funny. Rachel Moore, thank you. It's not beets. It's kind of, let's see if I can maybe bring this up a little closer. Do you see that? Hold on. It's not beets. It's kind of like a chip. You see that? Kind of crunchy. It's not red. I don't know what that is. It's not spicy. It doesn't really have much of a flavor other than adding color to it. Maybe I don't know what that is. It's weird. It's not pickled. It just has no flavor. It's like a bland corn chip. All right, let's go in for the kill. Wow. The mayonnaise just explodes like takoyaki. You ever put like a bunch of mayonnaise on top of takoyaki. You let it cool down. Always let the takoyaki cool down. And then you when you put it in there and with the mayonnaise taste, it's incredible. Floating mayonnaise. That's what you should call that Taco Bell. You need an exploding mayonnaise dish. One bite and your mouth explodes with mayonnaise. I would totally buy that just to try it. This one's really good.

00:14:30 John Daub: Hey, Bob. I'll teach stuff. Enjoy your food. John and good morning. Have coffee. Oh, thank you. Yes. You just a couple of coffee places here. Tokyo. Don't. Because of that. After I eat this, I'm going to take you whirl around Tokyo Dome. Okay, we can do it. We're going to do it. And if we can get the 500 likes, I will eat the burrito. I'm not even hungry. I'm going to eat the burrito for you. If we can get the 500 likes, it's up to you the community. All right, come back this way. There's no real meaning around some of the things that I do on this. It's just what I do. 500 likes. I eat the burrito. It's interesting. Really is. Oh, hello. Yeah. Thank you. That was nice. You came out to say hello. You didn't get her find me card.

00:16:05 John Daub: It's a beautiful day in the neighborhood. A beautiful day in the neighborhood. I don't know if she's watching. She just can see me with the gimbal on the table talking to a camera. So everybody can see what I'm doing. You see me. But what everyone sees? It's some dude with a camera on a tripod on a table eating a burrito and talking to an imaginary friend. I know you guys are really there. Look at this. See, check it out. See the mayonnaise dripping out of it. It's totally gross and it's not really polite to show you the guts of your food after you've been into it like this. It's but for scientific purposes, scientific reasons. I want to show you the insides of this amazing meal. It's kind of nasty, but it gives you a better idea. What about what I'm eating right from this angle? Maybe you can see the roller coaster going by. That's one of the fastest roller coasters in the world. It's called Thunder Dolphin and I will not go on that. One ride's about $10 though. It lasts about 30 seconds. So but if you're a roller coaster aficionado like myself, I went to school in Ohio and went to Cedar Point many times and Kings Island to ride the Beast and the Magnum. This is one that you got to do if you're in Tokyo.

00:18:09 John Daub: Adam, that's right. Send us key. Wow. Check out the guts on this thing. Look at that. That's mayonnaise mixed in with okonomiyaki sauce and you get kind of like this orange sauce with a little bit of cheddar cheese in there. It's bizarre. I've never had anything like this before in my life. Yes, but there's joining us. This is the original Japanese okonomiyaki menu. This is a live stream and everyone's watching this on playback. You can read the live comments. It's pretty neat. I don't want to lose anything. Wow. Interesting taste. Do I like it? You know what at the end of this I'm going to give you my overall impression on all three of these and then you'll be able to know if it's something that you want to try if you're just going to pick one. Maybe I'm going to give a thumbs up or thumbs down but for you to for me to eat this burrito we need 70 more likes. We're down by 70 likes. So it's up to the community as I bat my eyes and eat my crunch wrap.

00:19:26 John Daub: Can I I don't need lunch. She's I know she's watching. Can I I don't need any lunch today. I'll bring you back a burrito. Yeah, that's screaming. There's a lot of amusement park rides here. You can spend a really nice day with a family down in Tokyo Dome. It might cost you an arm and a leg but there'll be some smiles and memories that last a lifetime. Oh, it's that ride. You see it. Sorry guys for the zoom in my wait. Where's the gimbal gone rogue? The gimbal's gone rogue. It's that one, you know, the pirate ride that goes up and down and swings the pirate ship. That's where the girls are screaming right on my ear. We're 16 likes away from eating a okonomiyaki burrito. So I'm going to wait and make you cringe. I'm going to make you cringe until we get to 500 likes. I like to hold my audience hostage. It's for drama. Boom, 500 done. Community participation has worked. You can see it in the window in the background. You see you can see it swinging. It's kind of funny next up.

00:21:18 John Daub: Oh, this is the burrito. Hey, the gimbal's gone. Hey wire. I can't have you doing that gimbal when I start this burrito. Where you going? Gimbal gimbal. Stop panning. Hey, all right. Hold on. We got to restart the gimbal. Sometimes the gimbal just has a mind of its own. This DJI Osmo has he's been a friend sometimes and he's been an enemy. All right. Hold on guys. Hold on. All right, we're good. Welcome back. Hey Cindy Underwood. What does Japanese mayonnaise taste like it's different nosh. Can you write what Japanese mayonnaise tastes like? It's sort of American mayonnaise has this kind of like a vinegar taste to it a little bit and it's something you have to refrigerate Japanese mayonnaise. You don't have to refrigerate. I think it's made more with the eggs and there's something in it that keeps it preserved for a very long time. Japanese mayonnaise is a little bit creamier. It doesn't have the same kind. It has a different. It has I think it has rice vinegar, but it has a vinegar. That's not a strong smelling as the American like Miracle Whip or Hellman's or something. It's different. I prefer Japanese mayonnaise. I never really could get over the smell of the American mayonnaise and I don't like to refrigerate the mayonnaise. But I read can I makes me refrigerate Japanese mayonnaise after I open it. So probably better for my health.

00:23:12 John Daub: This here is the Taco Bell Japan okonomiyaki burrito and thanks guys for staying tuned and I appreciate the likes encouraging me to do this. Taco Bell 1962. Oh, it's so nice and warm. It's beautiful. Looks like a whole wheat tortilla maybe but it's just a regular tortilla. It's been grilled on here. Nothing. Oh, it's starting to bust out. It's like a tree like nature. I can't stay in its wrapping. It's starting to bust out. I like that. All right, we're going to do this for impact here. Oh nice. Look at that piece of pork on there. Just steaming. This beats Kentucky Fried Chicken over and over and over. I don't know. You ever seen Demolition Man with Wesley Snipes and Sylvester Stallone. They win.

00:24:34 John Daub: All right. Once again, you can see the insides of it. There's that red crisp. I think it's just for coloring. I don't really taste anything that's different. This is not sponsored by Taco Bell. This is a suggestion. I saw that this is a suggestion by nosh. I think it was a good one. Just to try when American chain does something unique in Japan to give it an original flavor like McDonald's Japan. I think it's pretty neat to come and taste it because these things are also very limited. I bet you this is not going to be here in a month. It'll be gone. That's the way Japan works. Everything is a trend. It's to get people to come into the door and try something and when they do they'll try four or five other things. And if they start to like it, they'll be back. But if they don't innovate if a restaurant does not innovate then they will go out of business. McDonald's Japan is a perfect example. They're always coming up with some kind of unique dish or unique food that makes you want to go and visit just to try it. You just want to try curiosity is amazing in Japan. So are the hand gestures. Here we go. Let's try it right here.

00:25:53 John Daub: It's a burrito, but it's not a burrito. There's too much meat in it to be okonomiyaki. So I think you're going to have to call this okonomiyaki flavored not okonomiyaki, but okonomiyaki flavored. All right. Because okonomiyaki doesn't have this much meat. It has maybe a slice of pork on the bottom of it. But when this is pork because okonomiyaki uses pork, you can elect not to have the pork in Japanese okonomiyaki. But it's the fact that this is this pork is flavored. Maybe that it's not okonomiyaki flavored pork, but the flavoring inside of it is okonomiyaki. So I would say okonomiyaki flavored burrito, but it's still good because who doesn't like a burrito? It could be, you know, not a burrito and I would still eat it because it's a burrito. If you put anything and then burrito, it just becomes a little bit more appetizing. I could think of some stuff that might not be appetizing. Laundry burrito, diaper burrito. I was psyching myself out. Anyways, let's try this the rest of it and then I'm going to give you my feedback in about 30 seconds. And I want you to stick with us as we get to take a quick 15 minute walk around the Tokyo Dome area.

00:27:34 John Daub: Nice. Today's makeup is so good. I'm looking at the 1,000 people right now. 1,000 people, give me. Are you looking at the 1,000 people? Derechoppe underbar. Give me. Thank you. Are they going to get a burrito? Are they going to get the burrito? All right. Now, random stuff happens when you're live. You know what I mean? Yeah. It's probably going to be the thumbnail. I mean, wouldn't you make that the thumbnail? I need to hold up the burrito next time and have a big like sauce coming down my cheek. That's the thumbnail. Wow, nice. Uh-oh. You got me in mid-bite. How you doing? Hey, how are you?

00:28:50 John Daub: You going to try a burrito? Nope. Oh, okay. Well, I got something for you. I just came from Tokyo. This is from the way to my hotel in the bus. I'm sorry you were here. Oh, okay. Well, you hustled. You're like out of breath. No, no, no. I was just down the road. Oh, okay. Yeah, it was amazing. I'm on my final bite here. Here, show the camera. They're real. I got it. You found me. Yes. I found you. Wow, this is nice. How long are you in Japan for?

00:29:36 Caller (Olva): Five days.

00:29:37 John Daub: Okay. Yeah. So, this is my shortcut. Yeah. Just arrived. He takes my... Where you from?

00:29:45 Caller (Olva): Norway.

00:29:45 John Daub: Oh, yeah. It's eight hour difference. Yeah. So, yeah. I'm on... Actually, it's a good idea. Okay. I think you can actually first. Because you know... Oh, it probably take JR across, right? From... Suidobashi. Yeah. Over here. I know a lot of stuff. I'm just gonna have a taco. Okay. Yeah, the okonomiyaki crunch wrap was pretty good. This is good. Yeah, I was surprised. I don't eat Taco Bell often. But... This is weird. Because it's mayonnaise instead of sour cream. Yeah. I don't know. If you like that. But if you just want a regular taco, that's pretty good too.

00:30:23 John Daub: I was just... It's like meeting an old friend here. Yeah. We've known each other for a year. Yeah. So... Yeah. I'm gonna be here for like two more minutes. And then I'm gonna take everybody... A thousand people inside my phone. A thousand people. A thousand friends. We're gonna walk around... Tell you more. Yeah. We're gonna walk around a little bit. You know, last time I was here... That was last year. I was here for the ramen festival. Oh, okay. I ended up live on YouTube straight after coming from the airport. Oh! Well... That was Ramen Adventures. So... Oh, Ramen Adventure there. I'm live on YouTube. Well, you can watch this in the playback. You're now part of the show's history. Yeah, that's really cool. Yeah. Yeah. So that's how you work. Anything you want to shout out to the people?

00:31:03 Caller (Olva): No, it's nice to be back. It's... It's good.

00:31:06 John Daub: How many times have you been to Japan?

00:31:07 Caller (Olva): I think this is my ninth.

00:31:09 John Daub: Ninth time. Wow! Wow. It's... I love it here. Yeah. Great food. Really? Yeah. What's it like in Norway? Is it cold?

00:31:19 Caller (Olva): Actually... Yeah. Yeah. Yesterday it was snowing. So we nearly didn't make it. To do... To connect in flight. But... Now I think it's sunny and cold. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Wow.

00:31:30 John Daub: So this is like summer to you?

00:31:31 Caller (Olva): No, no, no. It's... It's not that much colder up here.

00:31:35 John Daub: Oh, I see. Okay. How much cheaper is Japan than Norway? Because I want to know. We were going to go to Norway for Christmas. Are you sure? Yeah. It's expensive. It's one of the most expensive countries in the world. Yeah. Yeah. But it's... But... Like... Half price? Is Japan half price, maybe? It varies so much. It varies. Yeah. It's like you can get around with nothing. You can go 200, it's like... Alright. I... I take it. How about a beer? It's 500 yen for a jockey. Like $5. A beer in Norway now would be like... Probably 1000 yen. It's double. It's like double. UK is expensive too, right? Beer is really expensive. Yeah. United Kingdom is expensive for drinking too. Yeah. Yeah. Very good. What's your name?

00:32:21 Caller (Olva): Olva.

00:32:22 John Daub: Olva. Nice to meet you. Nice to meet you. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So, yeah. I was... I have texted you some kind of... I have some comments and stuff. I hope to bump into you and I did. There you go. You absolutely did. I lived in my neighbourhood even. I was there. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I'll be at least at midnight, though. Where are you going to? I'm not sure yet. I'm not sure yet. Maybe Shinjuku, there's a possibility. Maybe here. This place will be dead and quiet like a zombie town. That's always a plus. Is that you actually like this place? It's interesting. I would say I would eat this once. I won't eat this again unless they make me... No one's making me because there's only... It sounds like she's under lights. Yeah, so, eat ten burritos and then ride the roller coaster. That might be a challenge. I'll see if I can get Peter on that. Oh, I bet. Thunder Dolphin is one of the fastest roller coasters in the world. I think it's top 10. It goes down top 10. Yeah.

00:33:43 John Daub: Yeah, I will be after I take a couple of bites from this. I think there's only a couple of bites left. For those who are joining us, this is the Okonomiyaki Burrito. You can see there's some pork in there. But instead of sour cream, they use mayonnaise. There's cheese, cheddar cheese. I don't know. It's, I would say, okonomiyaki flavored, but not an okonomiyaki burrito. So don't get the wrong impression. It's still a burrito. But it's a pulled pork kind of a thing. Kind of reminds me of a Chipotle burrito where they just put mayonnaise instead. Because the pork is actually pretty good here. I thought. I'm surprised. The quality has gone up. The minced meat is not as good. I always get a can. I make a little taste out of it. This tastes pleasant to me. But that crunch wrap. Wow. It's crunchy. I like that inside there. My new friends. Yeah. So there you go. Yeah. One bite. This is for all you guys. And I'm going to give you my rundown in a second. If you want, you can have a seat. And then I'll go walk around a little bit. Yeah. It takes a while to get your food, though. I was photobombed by three high school girls. They just came in and started introducing their Instagram pages. Really? Yeah. They got to write it down. Japanese or? Yeah. I'm pretty sure. Pretty sure. You just got in. All right.

00:35:32 John Daub: There's a parachute ride over here. There's some roller coasters. There's some small children's roller coasters down there. So last bite. Let's hop on our horses and go over to the other side. Don't talk with your mouth full. That's what they said. Okay. They get angry at me. So the Crunchwrap hands down was the best. It's bigger and it was spread out. That was 500 yen. It was like $4.50 maybe. And it depends on the exchange rate. But there's more volume to it. And you can taste the cabbage a little bit more. Instead of lettuce, they use cabbage with the mayonnaise and the sauce. I think it gives it an okonomiyaki flavor. Next up is the burrito because that was like a mini Crunchwrap. All right. The burrito was good. And then. Following that and a distant last because it just tasted like a weird taco was okonomiyaki taco. Sounds good on paper. Tastes is okay. It's not bad. It's taco. It didn't overwhelm me. It didn't make me feel like, oh, I'm in Osaka. But the Crunchwrap made me feel for three bites, I'm in Osaka. I felt that. Do I like it? Yeah. Would I eat it again? No. Lunch is enough. It would have to be. That would be the only restaurant in Tokyo. And they're all closed except for Taco Bell. I will have a burrito. And they don't even have bean burritos, by the way. No bean burritos.

00:37:31 John Daub: Now, my friend Randy Santel, he turns his hat around backwards right before he goes into a food challenge. It's pretty cool. He psychs himself up by turning his hat backwards. And that makes the audience go crazy. Yeah, he's ready. Randy's ready to eat. He's ready to eat some food. All right. Let's say thanks to the chef. This is burnable. Burnable. And for those joining us, that's the menu right there. The okonomiyaki menu. It's pretty good. The menu is not very big in Taco Bell Japan. But, oh, there's the Crunchwrap right there. That's what I was telling you about. Number one. Number two. Number three. This is a distant third. It was okay. But I'm not sure what those red things are, but they're not beets or pickles or anything like that. It's just basic. All right. Gochisosama deshita. They're busy. All right. Let's go for the walk. I'm burritoed up. And Daruhan, thanks for the consistent great content. Thank you. Happy Thanksgiving. There's a lot to be thankful for today, especially if you look up the blue skies, because we are in the middle of the world. We have had consistent cold rain for the last week. Literally, unstoppable rain. Just this drizzle that made you miserable. So seeing the blue sky, and this reminds me of the giant gyoza (dumpling) challenge, because I was filming just over there. Just over here, I filmed with my friend Kai. And in the background, you could see this. It's pretty amazing. These people are in for a ride. What do you think? Let's go. Let's go get a closer look as they scream on the way down.

00:40:00 John Daub: Oh, this is the part where you're like, no, no. Why did I do this? Big mistake. Whoa. And Thunder Dolphin will go through this hole, which is really cool when it does that. There it goes right now. Really, really fun. I've done it a few times. Kanae won't do it with me. She's like, I'm not doing it with you. You can go with my sister. I said, I don't want to go with your sister, because she screams too loud. You always talk to it. What? When you were talking about Kanae and the way she talks, you always make that voice. I always make the sounds like Kanae. I don't know how she, she doesn't really talk like that. But you just have to make a sound that's different. A cute, it's cute. Hi, I'm Kanae. Thank you. Hi, I'm Kanae. I can't do it as, she does it better than me because she's Kanae. Yeah, she's, she's the real thing. She's the real deal. All right. So this is LaQua. Um, I don't know if we're going to go in here. But what I'm going to show you is a little bit to the left and the right of it. Inside of there is an onsen (hot spring bath) where you can take a bath. It's a really nice like spa. Let's go this way just a little bit. I want to show you outside of the Tokyo Dome. On this side is Suidobashi and Hongo, I believe that's the name of the station just over there. So there's the Marunouchi line. There's a JR line. There's the Mita line. There's the Oedo line. There's lots of different ways to get to the Tokyo Dome.

00:41:41 John Daub: Okay. So this is the Tokyo Dome. And over there, the parachutes, that's kind of fun. But a lot of these rides won't start until they get enough people. So it might take five minutes of sitting there before they get enough people. So this pirate boat ride, which scares the heck out of me. This makes you the sickest if you sit on the ends. You might have to wait a little bit, but usually they'll be going. That there is a Tokyo Dome Hotel. Some really nice restaurants up on the top here. One of them is called Arts Beat Cafe. You get a seat for two at a window. It's a great place to go with beautiful views of the Tokyo skyline at night. It's a little pricey, maybe about $75 a person. But if you're looking for a view and an eating experience, that's pretty good for the city of Tokyo. Down here, you can go up to the Thunder Dolphin platform, which is right there. Do you see it? That's where you get on the roller coaster, this capsule-looking thing. So the stairs are just right here and you just walk up to it. Okay. You can buy the ticket in advance and I think that they have a ticket booth right in front of it nowadays. It used to be hard, but if you go on Yahoo Auction Japan, you have to speak Japanese, you can get five or 10 tickets for a third of the price. People are always selling the tickets that they have here. They should have some Christmas lights here as well. So it's pretty nice and really romantic if you come with friends or that person that you just love. Your wife, your husband, your kids. It's a nice place to go.

00:43:29 John Daub: Here, I thought the Taco Bell was down here, but it's not. There's a bunch of food courts down here and there's a supermarket at the end right there. And so you can get a couple of drinks, probably, I think about 100 yen. It's a lot cheaper than going into the convenience store. You can get that all at the end of the supermarket. And then here there's takoyaki, there's tsukemen (dipping noodles). The Tetsu. I ate there with Peter von Gomm. About two and a half years ago, we had a really good tsukemen and some ice cream. And there's a stage over there and they have events. Usually idols will be singing. It's pretty nice. Pretty nice. Pretty, pretty nice. We're not allowed to go up. We can only go down. What? Okay. Thanks for coming. Yeah. That's not us. That's a bad light. Let's take it. Oh, there we go. That's a good light. All right. Great to meet you. Great to meet you. Maybe I'll see you in another live stream. Just find me. Maybe if you do have a good night snack, I'll be chasing you for one. You got it. I'd love to take you back. Great. Sure. Maybe I'll see you around. I'll be around. Yeah. Have a good day. You too. Bye-bye. Bye-bye. That was nice. You're never alone when you're live streaming. Let's go take a quick look at Thunder Dolphin. You guys saw the roller coaster in action. Yeah. So let's go just take a look at the ticket thing. No, I'm not riding it. You know why? Because they'll make me turn off the phone. I can't live stream anymore. They're telling me you might lose a signal. We're in a kind of a restricted signal strength area.

00:45:32 John Daub: All right. Here's the entrance to Thunder Dolphin. It's a dolphin that thunders. We're going to see how much this thing is because I'm pretty curious. Wow. So it's $12. The price has gone up a little bit. 1200 yen. Oh, but you can get a one day passport, I think, for unlimited rides for 4200 yen. Everything's in English. Thunder Dolphin skip pass. So if the line is long, you can buy this and it gives you a fast pass for 1900 yen. I don't know if you'd buy this unless you just have to ride it and you have no time. One day pass. It's interesting. All right. So you can only buy. Oh, you can pick your language, too. Interesting. You can't buy the one day pass here. One day pass here. You can only buy the Thunder Dolphin tickets, I think. It says here one day passport, but you have to buy it here at this location. It tells you to go back down to purchase it there. It does not a lot of people right now riding Thunder Dolphin. In fact, those people that just bought the tickets are next up. But what I can tell you is you're about to see the Thunder Dolphin. You're going to see Thunder Dolphin in action. They're on their way up. All right, let's go. I totally want to ride it, but don't you don't make me shut off the phone. You're not allowed to hold anything. All right, guys, we're going to see Thunder Dolphin roll through here in about 30 seconds. You're going to see it live because we're live. Makes sense. Awful commentary. All right. Now, this is about where people are soiling themselves. The crest here. All right. It's going through the hole soon. Bring it on. Bring it on. I love this part. Do it. Do it. Wow. That was awesome. Wow. It's right on my ear. And I think that's about it. It's like about it's I know it's less than a minute. I think it's doing something on the other side and then comes down here that the track underneath it for the final. It's pretty fast. I believe Thunder Dolphin was one of the top ten in the world at a time. I don't know when that exactly that time is, but it was ranked high. People came here to ride the Thunder Dolphin because it was one of the top ones. I guess they got to crank the speed up. I wonder if they can do that. Just tweak it and make it another 10 miles per hour or something.

00:49:07 John Daub: Let's go down and take a look at some of these restaurants. I think that's a good place. Oh, OK. We're going to go down and I'll take you towards the Major League Baseball Cafe. MLB is big here because of the Shohei Ohtani and all the other. He's retired now. Oh, this brings back some memories. I haven't been here in a year. Baskin Robbins 31 flavors. Do they have any unique Japanese ones? Perhaps. Perhaps Santa Pikachu. Nice to meet you. I don't see anything. I don't see anything unique. Just looks like ice cream. Ben and Jerry's is pretty good. This is where Peter von Gomm and I ate Tetsu, which is a really good tsukemen. You can get that here at Tokyo Dome. Pick your tsukemen from the vending machine. Go in, give the ticket to the lady. They'll serve you in a couple of minutes. Don't linger. Get out. Move on. Oh, my guess what's here. There's the Gindaco. So you got takoyaki and you got sushi. Sushi go round right there. But if you look over my left shoulder this way, they have here now the Korean cheese dog thing. What? That's the same one that's in Okachimachi. You can smell it. I had this thing last year where I ate like a dozen of these over the course of a year and it took 10 years off my life. Everyone's been telling me how old I look now. It could be because I kept eating this cheese dog. See what I mean? What you eat matters. Okay. What you eat matters. It's just a matter of time. I don't know what turns you into this. No, I'm just kidding. I'm just kidding. You can eat it. You'll probably get younger. And there's a merry-go-round. There's a Starbucks up here, which is pretty nice. If you're into Starbucks's over-roasted coffee. Probably just sun damage. Probably is. All right, let's go back upstairs. I want to show you, just do a walk through past the stadium over towards the other amusement park rides. and then towards the Major League Baseball Cafe, which is pretty cool.

00:51:43 John Daub: When I was walking over to start this live stream, I saw Pete Rose on the screen going for his 4,200 and something hit. That was pretty cool because I remember as a kid, Charlie Hustle was one of the big heroes. And, you know, he did some stuff and blah, blah, blah. But he's still a hero on the field. He's a gladiator. The wood bat hustles, you know. Does not care about his personal well-being. He just ran into people. That's why I like hustles. A lot of people waiting because it's lunchtime. At this time of day, you'll find, especially in Shinjuku, all the businessmen, the salarymen are out and they are eating. Oh, here's a map. My dad always said, always take pictures of the maps and the signs for people. It puts you at the place. There you go. There's Tokyo Dome in the center of your screen. It's pretty big. It takes up most of the spot. There's the Thunder Dolphin and the Ferris wheel. So now let's walk over to this area here. Near Prism Hall down here is Crystal Avenue. And that's where the Major League Baseball Cafe is, which is pretty cool. The Baseball Hall of Fame. And if you're a baseball fan, taking a look at Japan's Baseball Hall of Fame is pretty neat. You might not know any of the players, but it's still history. And then there's a lot of rides here for families, I think. It would really look good. I like this area. Beautiful day today. Bright! Ando1135, three of my Super Chats were to go here. Finally! Yes, Ando! I remember you wanted to come here to Tokyo Dome. So we're getting a little tour post-burrito. John Michael Walker, thank you. Dazzling Dino Danuchi, thank you, from Canada. Thanks, guys. I will get something for Kanae before I go back. Because I know she's going to be hungry. I don't think she wants a burrito, though. I got a feeling she doesn't want one of the burritos. Let's walk past the Baseball Hall of Fame, just so you get an idea. I want to give you just a quick look at the entrance of the Baseball Hall of Fame. Because we're here.

00:54:20 John Daub: Baseball is big in Japan. I would say that baseball, not sumo, is the national sport. Although sumo is very Japanese. But before World War II. Japan embraced baseball. The game of strategy. And their approach to it is a little bit different than the U.S. They're more into the hits and strategy. And the U.S. seems to be into power. I mean, they both do strategy and that. But you can see Shohei Ohtani really represented here. The Angels are huge in Japan now, thanks to Ohtani. He's on so many advertisements as well. There's a... Whenever you see Ohtani, there's a lot of him. You can see the orange, you know it's the Tokyo Giants. Goods for the Tokyo Giants here, which is cool. These make good gifts. And if you want to confuse people, there's some towels with the Tokyo Giants there. You want to confuse people? Get a Tokyo Giants hat and wear it around the United States. And it's like, what team is that? Confuses people. Tokyo Giants. Champions of Japanese baseball. The Hanshin Tigers fans might not like to hear that, though. Here in front of me is the Baseball Hall of Fame. The Japanese Baseball Hall of Fame. I like the fact they put it inside of Tokyo Dome. It does give the Tokyo Giants kind of an unfair advantage. But inside of here, you can take a... I believe they have some of the history of when Babe Ruth came to visit Japan in 1934. I believe that was the year. And there's some amazing pictures of him arriving at Tokyo Station and having a parade. Babe Ruth had a massive parade when he arrived in Tokyo. To promote Major League Baseball around the world. The admission is $6. About $5-$6. Kids get a little bit of a discount. And senior citizens, I'm 20 years away. Just don't say that too loudly. There's a Taco Bell that I went and had my okonomiyaki burritos at. Now let's swing back over this way. Oh! Alright, let's catch those people giving up their lunch. I gotta run for this. This is awesome. Do it! Do it! Maybe we see some prick projectile. They're on the ends. That's the worst place to go. Don't they know that? Oh, I'm getting sick with holding the gimbal. Moving it back and forth. Gotta wait for them. There's this moment where it's suspended on the top there. There. And then... I had to get here faster maybe. No, I was not hoping that they would hurl just a little bit maybe. Cause then... Cause if you do it on this ride... you go up to the top. It's suspended there for a second and then comes crashing down. I've seen it at other amusement parks. It's not pleasant. It's better not to be on the ride when that happens. Don't eat lunch and ride this. Or do and just give me a call. I'll be there to film it.

00:58:09 John Daub: Alright, so on the left here is a retro car driving experience. They don't go fast but it gives kids a chance to drive which is cool. I remember at Disney World in Florida. The first time I went there. They had these like little cars that we could drive and as a kid I felt like an adult for a second like I was driving a real car. Of course there's so many... it didn't go very fast and it's kind of hard not to... It's hard not to hit the walls but it's nice to have kids a chance to... I guess you gotta wear the yellow hat. They have the bumper padding on the steering wheels so you don't smash your head on it. And there's a Sega World here where you can get purikura (photo stickers). A lot of purikura. Well done. There's a ton of purikura inside there so you can get stickers with your photo on it and alter it so you look like an alien. And then there's some really good UFO catcher game machines. They get really high tech with their games. I don't even know how you play that. I guess you shoot them. It's clean. Alright, some more rides here. This is the Kid Hacker meaning they hack kids. It's not a pleasant name. This is the Bun Bun Bee. Bun Bun means bumble... That's the sound of the bumblebee. In Japanese we say bun bun. Bun bun bun bun bun bun bun bun bun bun. Okay. You guys get the idea. It's the Bun Bun Bee. $5 a ride. Let's see if it's worth it. So far it's a lot of waiting. I'm just kind of freaked out by this name. Like the Kid Hacker. Hacking kids. What does it do? It's not popular. Let's see. The lady with the Christmas hat has... I guess the kids gotta put their harness down. Let's give them a minute and we'll just pan around a little bit. That's a nice little Japanese structure in the middle. Looks like a festival here. Temperature's cold. There's a chill to the air. Although the sun is out, it looks beautiful. White, blue skies. Not a cloud in the sky. Above us looking it over at all is... We're a lot of the opposing teams. We'll stay when they play at the Tokyo Dome Hotel. It's a really nice hotel. A little bit pricey, but you can't get more central than Tokyo Dome Hotel. You probably could. The emperor is pretty central. He's got his own park, though. I guess that'd be more central. An invited guest of the imperial family would be pretty central. This is about a 10 minute walk to the... Maybe 15 minute walk to the imperial palace.

01:01:37 John Daub: We're waiting right now. Departure's imminent of the Bun Bun Bee. Let's see how scary this ride is and what they actually do. Any ideas? Does it shake them? Does it launch? What does it do? Did they just sit there? What do you guys think? We're gonna find out in T minus 5, 4, 3, 2, 1.5, 1.2, 1.5. Come on! Launch this thing! 0.2, 0.1, launch! There you go. Whoa! Whoa! That is not... Oh my word! This is a kid shaker. Speed it up, they'll hurl. Come on, do it! I know it's going backwards. This is where things get a little bit ridiculous, when it goes backwards. That's fun. Yeah, there's no way in heck I'm doing that after eating three burritos. Yeah. Everyone's doing it. Everyone's working and I'm here with a stick live streaming this stuff for you. Thanks guys. I hope you enjoyed it. I'm gonna walk just a little bit more outside to the Tokyo Dome Hotel and then we'll end the live stream. There, we just saw the Thunder Dolphin. This is from a different angle. It is an impressive roller coaster. I highly recommend it. $12 to ride it once. It'll make its way through the hole. The Ferris wheel has karaoke inside of it. Karaoke we say in Japanese, I heard. You can do karaoke. So you might want to try that. It's the only Ferris wheel in the world that allows you to do karaoke that I know of. Oh, the Kid Hacker's in operation. Not enough hacking. It's pretty tame. I think she's scared though. I don't know. Alright, I want to take you to the Major League Baseball Cafe. We gotta go around this way. That was fun. It was fun. Thanks guys. Do subscribe. Ah, Top Shelf is here with an animated emoji. I saw that. That was awesome. Love Top Shelf. Yeah guys, do subscribe if you like this content. I do make it a little bit longer. We're now over an hour because I know that not everybody gets the notifications right away. The result is though that the longer I stream, the more that people get a chance to catch the live stream. I mean, what else are you gonna watch? NFL? Come on. You know you want to be here at Tokyo Dome. I know. You want to be here at Tokyo Dome? Over here. This way. Yeah, there you go. Super wide Tokyo Dome. We're gonna go down to the front of Tokyo Dome and I'm gonna take you to the Major League Baseball Cafe. There's a Taco Bell underneath there that I'm starting to feel that Taco Bell. You're gonna want to watch the playback. There's a Shake Shack which is just taking over the city. Yeah. Shake Shack. Can I get a little sick eating there last time? Maybe the burger wasn't cooked enough or something. So we've given up Shake Shack.

01:06:08 John Daub: Beautiful day today. A lot of people really enjoying the sunshine because it's been ages since we've seen it. All week last week, rain, cold, miserable outside. And I've been working with Joe Hatab who's a YouTuber visiting from Dubai. He's never really in Dubai. He's always on the road. But he's here for two weeks and we were filming a couple of episodes for his channel and it was really cold. We rode our bicycles over to the Toyosu Fish Market the other day. In the rain. There's the very famous front to the Tokyo Dome. Yeah. And it's always a good thing. I guess if somebody has a concert here because they got a lot of gifts and stuff out there. Just people who use more hairspray than they should maybe. See if we know we can figure out who that is. Kagumari. I don't know who they are. Does anybody know who these people are? I'm not sure. I'm not really into the fan, the idols. But I'm not into the Johnny's talents. Too much hairspray. All right. Let's go over to the Major League Baseball Cafe and then get a little bit of a taste of Major League Baseball in Japan. This is where they have the Major League, sorry, the World Baseball Classic, which is the US All-Stars play against the Japanese All-Stars. I love that contest. Usually it's in the summer, is it? I don't know. I can't remember when that takes place. Was it recent? And I know that Cuba is in it and Dominican Republic and a couple of other countries compete in a baseball, like an Olympic-type event. Often it comes down to Japan and the United States. And Japan is pretty darn strong. Maybe it's because it's held here in Tokyo. All right. Down here, there's a little pit. And down in the pit is the dugout. Let's call this a dugout, okay? Because it sounds more baseball-y. And then in the dugout is the Major League Baseball Cafe. Let's take a quick look. On the side, there's some historical Japanese art. Two guys wrestling. Sumo. That's the neighboring Ryogoku, the neighborhood there. If you want to see sumo, you want to head to Ryogoku. R-Y-O-G-O-K-U. Ryogoku. Or in Japanese, Ryogoku. That's how it would be written. D-O-G-O-K-U. You can't do it. You can't do R-Y-O-G-O-K-U because that's Roman letters.

01:09:21 John Daub: All right. There's Major League Baseball Cafe. What are they looking here? Oh, I guess you buy the fans and you can put a message on it here. That's kind of a neat idea. Show your love for the person you're supporting by writing their name on a fan and a custom-made fan. You can wave at people. It just sort of looks weird, doesn't it? Major League Baseball Cafe, Tokyo. Right? I don't know. It's just a little bit weird. Let's see what they got on the menu. Major League Baseball Cafe has the amuse, which is... What is that? I don't know what that is. Just burgers and stuff. Roasted sausage and vegetables. One pons. Is it one pound or one pons? What's a one pons? I guess it's a one pound sirloin steak. Yeah, one pound. They forgot the U. It's all right. It happens. I make a lot of mistakes too. Ah, there's Ted. Ted Williams. How you doing, Teddy? Some signed baseballs. Probably not originals. It does look good. Hey, Dieter. Dieter Hogradisch. Thank you. How you doing? Wow, they got pastrami. You never see pastrami in Japan. That's unique. That's unique. Chicken wings. This is pretty American. Cajun seafood. They do have a Bubba Gump shrimp here. Fish and chips. Very English. Herb garlic toast. Some pizza. Never get the pizza. It's never going to be good. It's a weird tower, burger tower. Never seen that before. I think they're promoting the bacon. Burgers. Looks pretty good. Dessert. Baseball girls. There you go. Wow, so the babe, the Sultan of Swat, was a cigarette smoker? Did not know that. I'm not sure. I didn't know they had Yankee wine. I didn't know they had Yankee beans. I didn't know they had Yankee wine. Interesting. Oh, here's the big TV that I saw Pete Rose on earlier. They had him swinging. It's that Honus Wagner. Who's that? I can't remember. Is that Duke Snider? There's Hank Aaron. Was that Hank Aaron? Was that Chrissy Matheson? Wow. There used to be a big baseball history lover. It's neat. It's neat to see. And there's some Major League Baseball memorabilia inside of here. There's a... You can buy Giants, Reds, Braves, Orioles, Dodgers, all the baseball teams from the United States here in Tokyo. Because baseball is, I would say, the national pastime. Yeah. So there you have it. Pretty interesting.

01:13:08 John Daub: What's on store for the rest of the month, you ask? I'm glad you did. No one asked. I would have to say we have a Midnight Street food. Tomorrow I'm going to be in Odaiba. We're going to be renting a family and going over this story, which is going to be pretty interesting. I'm not going to touch that in the live stream, but I might bring you something from Odaiba and share with you some lunch on the decks there. Give you an idea of what Odaiba is like. You have to say Odaiba is such a beautiful place. And if the weather is like today, I'm going to be really, really happy to enjoy myself there. I've been talking with the group that rents the family. So we got permission to film tomorrow. And I set it up for my friend Joe. He's going to rent a family for the day and I'm going to help him out with that. Maybe I'll be in the video too and give you some feedback on that experience because it's definitely only in Japan. Just saying. Just saying. It's definitely only in Japan. All right. You just missed the parachute going up. I guess it's not a really big line, so you're not going to see too many of the parachutes going up, but it is pretty tall. And I did it once. And you get an amazing view of the city from up there. But just momentary. If you want a better view of the city for more than a moment, just jump into this Tokyo Dome Hotel and you see right there, that's the elevator. Just go up to the top floor and then you get a view of the city from up there. It's free. You don't have to pay. It's free. Should I be telling people that? These are like the little secrets that you're not supposed to tell anyone, right? Because now. People are going to go there and they're going to say, I saw it on Only in Japan. Sorry in advance. They used to have beer gardens here. Hold on a second. There you go. They just have a beer garden here with tables and you could just get a beer and sit with your friends. These are heaters here. These mushroom looking things in the middle. Turn on the gas heaters and you can kind of stay warm. Just dress warm. You should be okay. This is now an Italian bar. Yeah. It's nice. You can get a bento (boxed meal). Go to that supermarket down there by the tsukemen. And takoyaki place. You can sit outside and have a picnic. Some vending machines over on the other side. Yeah. Pretty nice.

01:15:39 John Daub: Any questions? I'd say there's two more, a minimum of two more live streams for the rest of the month, everybody. Two more. And then we go into December and that's when I started thinking a little bit more about Christmas. Can I, are you going to be, can I and I are flying out of Tokyo on the 5th at 1am. We're going to Vienna on ANA. Yeah. And then we're going to be in Europe for one week. We'll be in Prague on the 5th and the 6th. We go to Nuremberg for the 7th, 8th. And then on the 9th, we go to Innsbruck via Munich and Garmisch. And then we're in Innsbruck for the 9th and the 10th. And we go to Vienna on the 11th and fly back on the 12th. So it's going to be, it's going to be fast, but we kind of want to get away from Tokyo for a week and enjoy some Christmas markets and, and get that feeling of the holidays. I think it's going to be a lot of fun. I've never been to Innsbruck, but I've been to the other places, so I'm really looking forward to it. My friend Tom, who was at our wedding, if you go back to the three minute unapproved video of, of me at my wedding announcing that I was getting married, you'll see my friend Tom was there filming. He's going to meet us in Innsbruck. He's one of my good friends from high school, from elementary school, going back to elementary school. And now he lives in Europe and he's going to take the train and meet us in Innsbruck, which is going to be pretty cool to hang out with him for a little bit. But I will do some meetups in Europe. So if you're in Prague, if you're in Nuremberg, anywhere near Nuremberg in Germany, if you're in Innsbruck or somewhere in Austria, Switzerland, maybe it's kind of a hike, but it'd be great to see you out there in this Christmas markets of Innsbruck in the area. He's going up for a view. Maybe just saw the live stream. That'd be really great. Yeah. If you have any questions, leave them in the comments below. Definitely subscribe. 80% of the people who watch this are not subscribed. This is the different channel as the main channel. And I will take you on an adventure tomorrow, maybe two times. Make sure you get the notifications. The bell is always on. If you're a Patreon supporter, you will get the notifications. I always copy paste it first there and then an Instagram stories and the discord server. Really appreciate it guys. Stay warm. Stay warm. Happy Turkey Day. Happy Thanksgiving to everybody. Have a nice day. Have a nice holiday in America and everywhere else in the world. I guess I'll try. Australia is pretty warm. Summer down there. It's getting there. Good night. Good day.