00:00:04 John Daub: Greetings from Haneda Airport. We are in Tokyo. Yes, true story because that's exactly where we are. We're about to say goodbye from the second floor of the international terminal, departing on an ANA flight to Vienna. And this is midnight, the witching hour. They just turned off these beautiful Christmas lights about two minutes ago.

00:00:32 John Daub: They just turned them off. It was so beautiful, sparkling blue. They do a really good job with the display here, but maybe not now. Just use your imagination. What a shame.

00:00:49 John Daub: But we're here on a mission. It's midnight and we're hungry. We didn't eat that much, although YouTube fed us really well at the YouTube Fan Fest. By the way, take a look at the last video because it was an extraordinary experience. We're going to go over there. We can see some restaurants in the distance. If you come to Tokyo and arrive in the middle of the night, what are your options? Really? What can you find here? I think we've always been thinking about this. In the last live stream here at Haneda Airport, this subject came up. What do you do in the middle of the night? We're going to have some answers for you. Here's some people who are probably here for the long haul. They have their suitcases and they're just going to maybe sleep here.

00:01:36 John Daub: The airport is beautiful, this international terminal. We've been through here several times, but at midnight it becomes like a ghost town. It's so quiet. There's like nobody here. These are restaurants. Is anything open? We're at 24 hours, right? That ramen shop is 24 hours. Look. All right, over on the other side. This is perfect for photos if you want to come in here and take shots of it empty like this. It looks like a ghost town except for the guy right there. The shop is closed. That's the ramen shop we ate at last time, Haneda Airport ramen shop. So I'll take you there just because some of you might not have seen it. I recommend you watch that.

00:02:38 Kanae Daub: You can watch. This kind of feels uncomfortable as I try to film in a very tight space in the ramen shop, right? You're like, don't film now, but it's okay.

00:02:48 John Daub: She said that. True story, I took it home. Jacob asks, where's the YouTube subscriber award? I took it home. We changed, showered, packed and left real fast. Oh, are they open? Look at the Wagyu beef here. I heard something move inside. Could be a ghost. It's closed. How do we know? The doors are closed. Back out, back out. Look at the gold sesame oil around it.

00:03:29 John Daub: As you can see, can I? Yes, it is open until midnight. 24 hours. Do you need a bowl of ramen to say goodbye to Japan before we leave to Vienna? Heavy, oh yeah, it's kind of heavy for midnight, I know. But look at this one, it's spilling out of the bowl. Sometimes the plastic models don't stay in there. It's time for a little glue job. That one looks incredible. We had this already, so we're gonna pass this up and keep on walking. We're not sure if we're gonna find something we want. Ramen is a little bit too heavy for Kanae, and I trust the woman. So yeah, we're gonna eat a bunch of stuff on the airplane. Oh, it's such an incredible view at midnight. Look at that, it's just empty. I love this. I might change from midnight snack run to midnight zombie town or something. In order for that to happen, we need to see a zombie. Fingers crossed.

00:04:40 John Daub: What's that? A weird name, Japanese Italian Red Fuji. Is it for the sauce? Is that the marinara sauce? That's why it's red. Because it does look good. Wait a second, so one pizza here is 1400 yen, about $14 for Margherita. A little pricey, but hey, you're at the airport. If you're hungry and you want that, you just have to get a credit card and jimmy the door. Don't do that. Some people would do that if you say that. Don't do that. All right, we're gonna walk to the other side and see if there's anything open. So right now we know that way is a ramen shop that's open. See what's on this side. That's right. Some of you guys are writing in, I was on Tokyo NHK Tokyo. It's on demand now, and I think they're playing it one more time every four hours on TV. That was a really good episode. We had a lot of fun with that. Japan's Tokyo's number one, the world record holder for Tokyo spots like Skytree, a barber with an outrageous haircut, and Shinjuku, the busiest station in the world.

00:06:01 John Daub: Are they shutting it down or opening it up? It smells like... is this a new restaurant, Kanae? I think they're opening it up. It smells brand new. It was closed the whole day, so I guess they're renovating. You can smell the new paint in there. So when you come here, it's going to smell like a new restaurant. It's going to be really brand new. I love the little details of this area. Not just look down and look straight, but look up because if you don't look up, you might miss some things. It is pretty cool. The tour shall continue.

00:06:57 John Daub: Some points of reference: there is a capsule hotel in the area. I've heard capsule hotels usually have vacancy all the time, but you might want to call ahead to make sure because these days with all the foreign tourists coming, capsule hotels are sometimes booked. It's crazy but it's true. There's also a convenience store in the basement. Hey Nathan Simpson, jimmy the lock, get some grub. Oh you are evil, I like it. All right, hold on a second. Jacob says no, Nathan, what are you doing? On this side you can see that there is a cafe open, it looks like, but I think it just closed. So these people are the last of a dying breed, cafe goers at midnight. It's rare.

00:07:55 John Daub: Do you have the proper license to drive? They showed an American flag, so not all Americans can drive here apparently. I'm gonna have to check into that. Flights are on time, so don't panic. We have an eye on the clock because we're always running. Oh my god, somebody's asleep. All right, zunda shake. I want to do an episode on this so bad. Kanae, introduce this. Last time we were at Haneda Airport, you remember? Zunda is making a KitKat out of this flavor, this edamame shake. It's sweet vanilla flavored and it's so good. I fell in love with this. This is famous in Sendai, but they have one at Haneda Airport. And now I told you there's a KitKat flavor of this. That means something to some people.

00:09:32 John Daub: So this is what it's like at midnight. Those of you joining us right now, there's a dashi bar. These are all closed, they close around 10 or 11 p.m. They don't put the times on when they open either. All right, there's nothing left here. But I don't think we've ever come underneath the bridge. This is a replica of Nihonbashi (Japan Bridge). We've been at Haneda Airport so many times, but this one I like. Anytime they put a replica of something on this scale, it's amazing. This is the old Edo-era Nihonbashi Bridge. And then underneath the bridge you always get travelers, I guess. People hobos, I don't know the term. The rain won't get you under the bridge. That's one good point.

00:10:43 John Daub: Actually, I'm going to rename this: Haneda Airport places to sleep at midnight. Could be camping under the bridge. Would you camp under the bridge? You would? Yeah, I would do it. I would totally do it, I'd do it again because that's how I roll. What airline is that? That is a long line. They don't have online check-in. Oh, it's from China. You can tell the people who don't have online check-in, the lines are... we went right through. It's hard to complain about ANA. I tried, I failed. We ended up sitting together, by the way. Oh, this is why we come. This is why you subscribe and this is why it's so important. At the end of the bridge is an oasis.

00:11:37 John Daub: Okay, I gotta go backwards and bring this to you live. Alright, we're gonna start from here. Play the music from 2001: A Space Odyssey right now. Dun dun dun dun, breaks breaks breaks dun. Okay, look at the end of the bridge. There's Mos Burger Cafe. This is Mos Cafe. Yoshinoya. And a famous shop called Cafeteria, which is in every high school, junior high school and elementary school. 24 Dining. That is a big deal, Kanae. Actually, we might be able to get like a sandwich or something. It's 24-hour dining. I think the midnight snack run is back on. Hey Jimbo386, greetings from Peru, John and Kanae. Maybe the only stores open at the airport right now are the konbini (convenience stores) on the lower floors. Not anymore. We found something.

00:12:38 John Daub: And Christian, we thank you for the great work. John, I wish you and your wife a good Christmas time. Thank you, Christian. We're gonna bring you some very non-Japan-related streams for the next week. We're gonna leave the country. But even when Only in Japan and his wife leave Japan, she's Japanese, I live in Japan. It's still Only in Japan in our hearts. And because the channel is named that, it doesn't really matter. This is an option. I'm interested to see what kind of foods they have here. If it really is open 24 hours, we're going to take a look.

00:13:10 John Daub: There's the gyu sukiyaki. Is that sukiyaki? Oh what? That looks so cheap and so good. Why do you have to do this to us? Yoshinoya sukiyaki is awesome. It's not really sukiyaki, it's kind of like a sukiyaki. Yeah, that's a marble. Yeah, it's a spicy version, mara. We have a happy chef. You know, he's got to be good. And then there's unagi (grilled eel), but it's probably not kokou, right? It's not from Japan, the unagi. There's nothing wrong with that. It's just I had an allergic reaction to unagi from another country. So I kind of pass it up unless it's from Japan and from the sea. But the farm-raised ones, they put a lot of antibiotics in it. So you want to be careful. Yoshinoya is looking pretty good too. If you're here at midnight, you can pop in there. And then here's the Mos Cafe. Look at the menu there. You want to get a Mosburger, Kanae? It's midnight. Oh my god, it's midnight. I love the Mosburger actually.

00:14:23 Kanae Daub: Yeah, we have Christian and Jimbo contributed to our funds for chowing down. So yeah, we could probably share something.

00:14:33 John Daub: What do you want? The normal Mosburger? Yeah. Potato. You don't like the spicy Mosburger? No. Okay, you want to get one? All right, let's get one. I'll give you the other plain. Jingable rocks. I can get out of here because it's like a copyright. Yeah, I will eat half with you. Take a fiver. This is 500 yen coin. Take the fiver.

00:15:01 Kanae Daub: I don't know. I'm okay actually. I have some water here. So yeah, I got it from a vending machine.

00:15:20 John Daub: I'd eaten the other day at the Taco Bell. I was thinking of which, we ate the night before. So I said, but it's tanpin (single item). That means you can get it as a set or just the individual. There you go. Bye. I know what I'm talking about most of the time. Kanae is going to get the chow. Look at the cards here. So there's a lot of people just kind of chilling out here. And what we're going to do, maybe we'll take the Mosburger and go eat it on Nihonbashi. Check that out. This reminds me of The Terminal. Do you ever see that movie with Tom Hanks where he's trapped in an airport? If I was going to be trapped in an airport, Haneda is on the top of my list, especially now that they have 24-hour food. And if Tom Hanks were here, he probably would be sleeping over there, which looks like a new wing that's set to open. But Tom would find a way to shimmy down and set up a bed in the rafters. Very cool. That was a great movie, The Terminal. Reminds me of that.

00:16:44 Kanae Daub: She's getting the original.

00:16:49 John Daub: Okay. So the terminal. I'm going to show you at this cafe here and just take a quick look. See, there are convenience stores just to point out down in the basement. So those are open 24 hours a day. So you will always have something, but they're outside of the gate. So after you've checked in, jettison down to the basement and you can get some gifts and convenience store food and things like that. Convenience store food is not healthy. I would say that Yoshinoya is a step above that. Convenience store foods typically have a lot of chemicals. Kanae has done research on this. She wants me to live to a hundred, and she found that it's not good for you. But I think you all know that. So when YouTubers introduce a lot of convenience store bentos and food, probably don't make that your main meal. Maybe eat that once or if you're on the run, but don't make that one of your daily meals every day. Try to eat home-cooked or cooked food because as good as it tastes and as good as the quality looks, it's not really as healthy as you should be eating. Eat your veggies. You know what I mean? I'm just going to point that out because I do convenience store runs as well.

00:18:03 John Daub: This is take out. You can take out. Let's look at the signs here. So you know what they get. Please eat only inside the restaurant. This is a self-service restaurant. Please proceed to the register for your orders. And that's it. And there's no staff here, but it's open. Well, if Mr. Doss was here, we'd have to get one of these. Thank goodness he's not here today. Oh look, they do have a chef. Check it out. Actually, you can sit inside and it looks pretty. I'm just kind of scared to go inside. Look, there's a chef on call. He's doing something. And then back there is a restaurant area. But I feel like I'm embarrassed to go back there without ordering stuff. I'm going to go there. Kanae?

00:19:06 Kanae Daub: Okay.

00:19:10 John Daub: You want to go eat where Tom Hanks is sleeping tonight? They're going to bring you a Mosburger out here. Mossburger is not fast food, everybody. It's like between fast food and slow food. It's Mossburger. It's weird. And if you Google on YouTube, you'll find the commercial I did for Mossburger. I introduced what is a Mossburger. Mossburger was a client of mine. And that was a pretty cool episode. We're going to Vienna tonight. And then as soon as we get there, we're going to Prague, Praha. And I think we have about two hours to get some breakfast at the station. We're going to Prague tonight to spend two nights there at a hotel we stayed at four years ago. And then we'll probably do a meetup maybe tomorrow. Not maybe, on the sixth. I don't know if you've already sent me an email or something on Instagram or on Discord server. I'll try my best to make an event page, but we've been so busy. I haven't done a good job planning the meetup, but we do want to make a meetup in Prague. Definitely not at the main square, probably somewhere local. Maybe in front of the hotel. In front of the astronomical clock? Yeah, I don't think so. There's going to be so crowded with tourists. You'll never find us. Prague Castle? I think Prague 1 is a bad idea. Anybody who's a local of Prague will say, just don't go in Prague 1, go outside the center a little bit and then it won't be so crowded.

00:21:07 John Daub: Maybe we'll decide here. We're definitely doing a meetup in Nuremberg in Germany, and a lot of our German viewers have said they're going to try to make it there. That's really cool. I'm looking forward to that. That's going to be on the seventh, I believe. Yeah. I'm pretty sure that the night we arrive, we're going to do a Nuremberg visit.

00:21:30 Kanae Daub: I don't think they're going to find you.

00:21:32 John Daub: Yeah. Should you go and check? Midnight snack, midnight snack. No? Wait at the seat. So they're going to find us. All right, that's the test. Oh, the dude is bringing it. Look. Did he find you? He's searching. Okay. Yay. Wow. Mosburger. Get your last Mosburger. There's no Mosburger where we're going, baby.

00:22:14 Kanae Daub: Oh. With the shibori (wet towel).

00:22:17 John Daub: I know Nuremberg might be a little bit too far for some people. So I understand. Oh, you did not get the French fries? No. Calories. Why? No, don't. How dare he say anything else? That's like saying supersize me to Kanae. I'd like a burger. Anything else? She just starts listing off foods that she wishes she could eat. That's totally, they don't even say supersize me, just anything else. You can say no, that's it. She thought it was a good idea. You know, you're going to go to sleep on the plane in an hour, but it's okay. I'm not mad. I can sleep because it's wrong. I'm not mad. It was wrong today. Yeah. Come on. Yes. All right. We got some water. We're going to eat this Mosburger like in three seconds and then we're going to take you to another area. Three seconds? Wow. You're going to eat the fries? Yeah, cause I don't have such a hankering for it.

00:23:34 John Daub: Now this is a Mosburger. What's a Mosburger? This is a Mosburger. Two buns, two rolls, grilled burger, onions, cheese, sauce, and then a tomato. I actually made one on the Mosburger commercial that I made for them. You have to see that video. Just Google on YouTube, what is a Mosburger? And it should come up. They disabled the comments, but yeah. Do you have it on your phone? I can show the people. You want to see it now? Yeah. It's on YouTube. Itadakimasu (let's eat).

00:24:44 Kanae Daub: Good. Itadakimasu. Mosburger makes a good burger.

00:24:48 John Daub: What is the title of the burger? What is a Mosburger? Oh, I found there's two versions of it. One version is a short version and the other one is the long version. Here's a short one. This is where I challenged a professional Mosburger maker to a Mosburger making contest. Miserably. It was not even close. I kept making mistakes. The manager was watching and he said he would never hire me in a million years. She finished. I kept doing mistakes after mistakes. I burned my hands. It's piping hot. You're not supposed to eat the sauce. You have to, you had to be there. You have to watch it. I think if you Google what is a Mosburger, you should find it. But there's a long version where I did a commercial for Mosburger. It was a pretty cool experience. That was before YouTube, right? I think it was before I did YouTube. Mosburger was my client. Thank you Mosburger.

00:26:16 Kanae Daub: And you want the rest? Go ahead.

00:26:21 John Daub: You know. I'm going to board the airplane. We're going to take off. I'm ordering a beer. Kids don't drink beer until you're 20 in Japan. And even then, probably don't. But I have to. I like it. One. Just one. One a week. What am I saying? This is going to be, maybe I shouldn't because you're having the warm spiced wine everywhere in Europe. Sponsor the Mosburger. Yeah, I guess so. Yeah. Itadakimasu. What is your favorite burger shop in Japan? My favorite burger shop. Hey, Short Cutsy is here. You always still win in our book. Thanks. I have another midnight snack on me. The encouragement is overwhelming.

00:27:24 Kanae Daub: Can I have the midnight snack on the plane? Thank you, Short Cutsy. We love you. Much appreciated. Hello from Albuquerque, New Mexico.

00:27:35 John Daub: Oh, we're thinking seriously of going to visit our friends Dan and Lincoln in Arizona. We've never been to the southwest in the United States. Albuquerque and New Mexico and this whole area fascinates me. It's not Japan-based, but I'm interested to see what Kanae thinks of my country. What does she think of America? But not the east coast, but like another area. So I'd love to go to the northwest or southwest and I want to get a Santa Fe pizza, but I don't know if pizza in Santa Fe is the same as in Tokyo because they put a lot of stuff on it. I'm eating the fries. I promised not to do that. There's options at midnight: Yoshinoya, Mos Cafe and Cafeteria 24, which looks really good. The chef was wearing a professional hat. That's a sign that the food is maybe better than the other ones and slightly expensive. One note, nothing to do with this. This is more turning into a fun livestream.

00:28:47 John Daub: This has nothing to do with food, but Kanae's backpack, she bought it for one reason. She bought it because the zippers are pink. No, you totally did. You bought it because the zippers are pink. She goes, I've never seen zippers like this. I want to order. I'm going to get this bag. So we had to buy this for the pink zippers. The rose gold pink. What else? Have you ever seen as many pockets? Yeah. You could have gotten the same bag on sale, but it didn't have the pink zippers. Guess which one she got? The one with the pink zippers not on sale. I'm just saying. Yeah, you bought it in Vermont. It's cheaper than Japan.

00:30:04 John Daub: We're going to go into the gate, but before we do that, we're taking a long cut. We're going to go across Nihonbashi Bridge and take you with us. If you do come to Haneda Airport, you fly in, you can see the Nihonbashi Bridge on the right side. It's a very cool place. And that Nihonbashi is right there behind us. It's a replica of the Edo-era Nihonbashi. And you are going to get a chance to see it. Do you like the wide lens on the front? This is an Olo clip made for the iPhone 11 Pro, a front-facing wide lens. So you're not going to see a lot of YouTubers doing this. First, you're not going to see a lot of mobile live streamers. A lot of the people at YouTube were pretty impressed that I could turn a live stream into something that people would watch afterwards. And I think if you can add information and value to people, you can do that with the live stream.

00:31:10 John Daub: Brody Kent, there are parts of New Mexico that are nice. You just have to look for the positive. Right. It's not just Breaking Bad. There's some Breaking Good. New Mexico looks like a beautiful place. All right. You ready to come with us to do the Nihonbashi thing? Yeah. My friend Tom is a certified genius. He's very smart. And he told us tricks to try to save money by booking the trains, apps and things like this. He's saved us like 100 euro booking tickets. But we had to print them out and stuff like that. Wow. Everything I just said, I totally forgot. The beauty of Edo period Nihonbashi. Whoa. Do not carve your name in the wood. There are some young kids here that have bad ideas. All right. When you come here, don't lean off the handrails. The bridge is slanted. Just keep that in mind. The visual's not enough. Please step carefully. If you're a child, especially passengers with children, walking impaired or using wheelchairs or strollers, you could end up like that guy.

00:32:51 John Daub: And when you come here to the start of the bridge, see this one right here? Come and touch this bulb. Because I touched it too. Kanae, can you touch this right now? Touch it. Touch right here. Why? Just touch it. So when people come to touch it, they know you touched it too. All right. Touch it. Why? We touched it. So now it's famous because Kanae touched it. So come and touch this famous... There's a guy in Prague that I was watching called The Honest Guide. Very good YouTuber. He touched something on Charles Bridge in Prague. And he said just people... it's famous because people say it's famous, but nobody knows why it's famous. People take pictures of it. So he went on his YouTube channel and touched something on Charles Bridge. And then all these travelers went and took selfies and sent him pictures that they went and touched that part of the bridge because he made it famous. I'm making this part of Nihonbashi famous right here, the side that's looking towards the terminal. So there you go. You can touch it too. Kanae touched it. Honest Guide, I'm so impressed with what he does and his love for the city of Prague is inspiring. So very good YouTuber to check out. He's not Japan-based, but I highly recommend it.

00:34:15 John Daub: Whoa. That's the city of Edo. That's the bridge on the top there, Kanae. That's what I'm talking about. Yes. That's it. I love looking at these pictures. Just look at this for hours. I should make this one of the Patreon postcard club selections because all these little drawings, you could look at this for hours. See all the little things happening in the street. Like when you're a kid, you get the picture books and all the little details of it. Fascinating. Look down there. Some samurai. What's it called? Edo Sochi. Ryogoku. Yeah. You can see like this. There's loads of them there. The history of Tokyo at the Tokyo... They have Nihonbashi too. Oh, they have one there? Okay. Let's go check it out. So there's more than one replica. Look at those dudes fishing off the pier there. Even back then, Edo was pretty clean, wasn't it? Didn't smell bad at all.

00:35:32 Kanae Daub: Impressed. Very impressed with Haneda. Impressed with the sleeping places. You can sleep in a sleeping bag. It's the zombie down there. And there's some nice places. I like the third floor. If you don't want to sleep under the bridge, you can sleep under the umbrella here on the third floor. It's midnight.

00:35:56 John Daub: I'll have to change this livestream to Midnight Snack Run to Midnight Zombie Town. I'm not joking. Oh, is that the observation deck? Kanae? Shall we? All right, let's do it quickly. Then we have to go inside. What time is it now? 12:40. Okay. So we have about three, four minutes left. So let's take you outside this corridor. Planes. We're going to get outside and show you the observation deck. Is it closed? It's got to be closed. No, it's open. What? At 1 a.m. Spooky. Do not, under any circumstances, try to fly a drone here. People tried. I don't know how somebody can be that ridiculously dull brain-wise. I'm also having trouble thinking in the middle of the night. What a Mosburger. That was a great Mosburger. Here it is. That's probably our flight, Kanae. Yeah. That's it. Is that your suitcase? You see it? No. Oh, it's boarding. That can't be our flight. No. It's like people are boarding. That's not possible. It smells like jet fuel. It's nice, huh? It's a little cold. Okay, let's go back in.

00:37:50 John Daub: So I'm just going to come over here and you can get a... Check out the sign of Haneda Airport and we're going to say goodbye to you from the deck. This is an amazing day. We started with a live stream at the YouTube Fan Fest. Definitely check that out. I'm going to do it. I interviewed the Casey Neistat of Japan. No, the PewDiePie of Japan. He has eight million, Hajime Shacho. I didn't know who it was really. Oh my god, I don't watch YouTube Japan. He's famous. Well, you're famous too. No. I don't know. He's just a person. He's a nice guy, Mr. Hajime. It's the international airport. It's so big, there's no Haneda. It's not visible.

00:38:41 Kanae Daub: It's not visible.

00:38:43 John Daub: We're making our way to our gate. Thank you, John. Thank you all of you. You made this an incredible experience for us. Without you, without people watching this, not just the live stream but the main channel and all the other contents in the Only in Japan series, we're so grateful for that. It's been an amazing ride. Now we're on vacation. But we're taking you with us in our pocket inside of this smartphone. I do have it. It's my German SIM card from Vodafone that I used last Christmas. It's going back in this phone when we arrive, charged up, ready to go: live streams, Christmas markets, nothing to do with Japan. Please do not get angry at us because we want to give you some holiday spirit. No matter where you are in the world, there's a lot to love about the holiday season. And then we'll be back in Japan a week later because we fly back a week later. Yeah. Sometimes the words escape me. And live stream, you don't get a second take either. Either you get it right or you get it so wrong. And we can go in through here. Is it different?

00:39:48 Kanae Daub: Is it different?

00:39:50 John Daub: All right. We just cut it here. All right guys. Thanks everybody. Have a good day. Have a good night wherever you are in the world. Much appreciated. See you on the other side in a different continent. Hopefully warmer than here, which is impossible because it's quite warm. Good little airplane.

00:40:09 Kanae Daub: Kanai, you want to ride the airplane? It's locked off.

00:40:12 John Daub: It's locked off. Can I try? Try simulators. Oh, these are simulators. Yeah. You can fly simulators here. 200 yen. You can go watch the planes and then fly the planes. Yeah, they have some course. I'm supposed to say goodbye, Kanae. You can go to JFK. I can fly to JFK? And Honolulu. Oh my gosh. This is so cool. How can I stop the live stream? Can I port? It's hard. I'm coming back. To be continued. Haneda Airport live stream to be continued. Thanks everybody. Let's fly an airplane. See you. Let's fly an airplane next time. The dream come true.