00:00:14 John Daub: This is the view! This is it! This is where that famous scene is taken in so many TV shows, movies, and anything that's moving pictures—from this spot right here. If you look at Google Maps, I put a link in the description; there's a spot called the Mount Fuji View. You can hear the trains rumbling from Osaka to Tokyo just coming along this bridge. If you've ever ridden the Shinkansen, you know this scene because you've gone over this bridge a hundred times crossing the Fuji River. This is Fujikawa. And this is Only in Japan Go. Definitely subscribe. This is what you subscribe for! These crazy live streams in the middle of the countryside that only I would take you here, outside of Tokyo, and to a spot. Who takes you to just a spot?

00:01:08 John Daub: It's a beautiful day. It's going to be raining this afternoon, so I thought I would come out this morning. I left at 5, got on the Shinkansen at 6:30 to Mishima. That's how you get here: Shinkansen to Mishima, then change to the Tokaido line—the local train, orange color. You could actually ride it from Tokyo Station all the way to Fujikawa, which is one stop after Fuji. Some of you are thinking, why not just go to Shin-Fuji Station? That's where the Shinkansen is, but it takes 20 minutes to walk from Shin-Fuji to Fuji Station. It's better to get off at Mishima, catch the connection there, and take the local train straight to Fujikawa. It takes about an hour and 20 minutes, but it's so worth it—just for this. You can hear it rumbling.

00:02:41 John Daub: I'm actually here to film an episode on Mount Fuji viewing. So if you're a YouTuber watching this for ideas, don't come here—this is my idea. That's my mountain! Why did I go live then and expose an episode I'm making? Well, maybe I don't really care that much. I just think it's so beautiful, and it's time everybody should know about this spot. This may be my second or third time over the last 20-some years—it's really out of the way. Fujikawa, which means Fuji River, really doesn't have anything here. There's not much at all—a couple of things, I think I passed a recycling plant. It took about 15-20 minutes to walk here from Fujikawa Station, and I was the only one that got off the train. Nobody got off—it was just me. It's like, why wouldn't you get off? Look at that thing! Everybody who gets on the Shinkansen and crosses, passing Mount Fuji—you start to see it around Mishima, but once you get into the clearing after five minutes, it's gone again. It's so fast! When you take the Shinkansen from Tokyo going to Osaka, get on the right side, and it's gone in five minutes.

00:04:00 John Daub: That's why, if you want to see Mount Fuji, never mind going to observation decks in Tokyo—come out here in the morning. Wake up early like I did. You look like you just got hit by a truck—don't worry about it, we're here for that. That's just incredible. The best time to see Mount Fuji is right now. Everyone comes for the cherry blossoms—that's good and all, but if you come here to see Mount Fuji, winter is the best time. Winter is when the skies are clear and you have really long views because there's no humidity—nothing obstructing you and the mountain. This is the time when I have the strongest connection with Mount Fuji.

00:04:50 John Daub: I'm going to leave my camera here and take you five minutes this way—I don't think anyone's going to come here. What do you think? You think anyone's going to steal my camera and gear? You can also take drone shots here—DJI has a map of safe places to use a drone, and this is fine. If I take you closer to the Shinkansen track a little bit, you can really hear the roar of it. So if you're watching this in playback, you might want to skip ahead because it takes me about two or three minutes to get over there. I think I can leave my stuff there—I'm coming right back. I can run pretty fast if somebody can. Most people out here right now are probably in their 60s and 70s, and they have values—they typically won't steal. Oh, Shinkansen! Look at this way—and then it's gone. And then there's people on the train. Oh, that was so pretty.

00:06:20 John Daub: If you want to go over and hear the rumble of the Shinkansen and see it up close with me, click the like button. Let's see if we can get 350 likes by the time I get there—it's up to your community. Support your local creator—I'm local, I live here. Hey, look at those tires—find all sorts of stuff out here too. Who else is going to take you to a spot like this, you know, live? So this is the spot. If those of you who clicked on the description and saw the map, you're like, what? It's actually listed on Google Maps as Shinkansen Viewing Spot—so I didn't put it there, I wish I had been the one. But we're going to walk a little bit closer, and in a few minutes, I'm just going to make my way back. I'm actually going to film the opening and a couple more scenes with the camera, and I want to take a thumbnail picture if I can. And then I'm out of here—maybe I might just keep the stream going.

00:07:47 John Daub: So you don't have to get off the train—I just did it for you. I'll do it for you. We're 100 likes away—I know you guys can do it, I know you like this view. So I'm going to go back in about 30 minutes or less—it's not going to take me that much more time to get the shots I want. I'm coming out here just to scout it too with you. I want to see what it's like with the Shinkansen going by from this point, this angle. Maybe I can get another shot from a different point of view. I think actually from here, if I get the tripod and set it up, I can kind of look back with the front of the Shinkansen—the one going to Osaka—and get a nice shot. The sun behind me—it's been behind clouds, and that's actually a good thing for this kind of photography. It's nice, good audio—so I'll be able to take some of that and edit it in later. We'll go about another 100 meters closer and see what kind of view we get.

00:09:45 John Daub: I could just sit here all day—I swear I should have brought my gas burner and made some coffee and brought a chair. This would be the best day ever. And Kanae Daub's like shaking her head like, I'm not going out there with you—I think she would. She's still asleep—I bet she's not even watching. When I left at around 6:10 in the morning, she's like, I actually went to bed around 2 a.m. Now they're building something out here—if they built an apartment here, I would totally live here. Then I could watch the Shinkansen and Mount Fuji—imagine this view from your apartment. You know, it's crazy to think about that. I think from this angle, this is perfect—if I can set up the tripod here, we can get a pretty nice view. We're about 300 meters away from my camera from before. Yeah, this would be a nice spot for time lapse as well, but I think there's other spots around Mount Fuji that are better for scenery—this is specifically for the Shinkansen. You'd want to be in this spot.

00:11:25 John Daub: I'm just going to walk a little bit closer until the next train comes by—I want to see what the view looks like, and then I'll come back with the tripod. I'm bringing you with me because I'm alone, and it's better with you than being alone—you know what I mean? Mount Fuji is 3,776 meters high—you can start the climb from the fifth station, which is about halfway maybe. It could take you anywhere between six to eight hours to climb it, depending on how long your legs are. For me, I think I started at around 11 p.m. and made it at 4:30 on the Fuji-Nomiya side, and I got there at sunrise—but this was 20 years ago, and there wasn't the same kind of tourist boom. It was pretty easy to climb even in season—I went during Seishun Juhachi Kippu (youth 18 ticket), which is a really inexpensive local ticket. Yeah, that was July 22nd, 1999—I believe I went and climbed it for the first time, and it was beautiful, not so many people. The next time I did it was with NHK, and it was so crowded—now I hear it's like Walt Disney World, the line, no fast pass. The line just extends all the way, so crowded, and you have to go to the top from the moment you start—you have to pay a Fujisan tax now, I heard a thousand yen or something at the gate.

00:12:48 John Daub: Using the restrooms—go before you start if you can, or hold it because it's like $5 to use the toilet. Today is so warm—15 degrees Celsius, super warm. Oh, here it comes! You kind of get the front of it—I'll have to move a little bit closer, but this is going to be a pretty epic shot from here. If I move to where those people are and point the camera up, we're going to have some pretty cool shots. I'm going to frame it, do it in 60p—yeah, I'll do it in 60 frames. I can't—I was filming a bit and I could slow it down just a little bit, but if you film in 30p, you get some motion blur because it is moving pretty fast—it's trucking. It's a nice day—this is what I do for a living, this is my job. I'm out here in the elements—thank goodness today's nice, compared to Hokkaido shooting. That was rough—just four days ago I was in minus 30 degree weather.

00:14:31 John Daub: The story's somewhat embellished because it's just more fun—I don't know, I think after minus 30 degrees Celsius is also minus 40 degrees Fahrenheit, that's where they kind of meet. But apparently the coldest temperature in that area was minus 38 up in Rikubetsu, which is considered the coldest town in Japan. I might change the screenshot to the drone shot that I took. The reason why I came out here is very simple—I came out here to the middle of nowhere because today is the last day that I get Greg's drone. Greg has a channel called Life Where I'm From, and I snagged his Mavic Pro 2—he let me use it, and I used it up in Hokkaido. I figured if I have one more day, I got to get it back to him tomorrow—I'm going to come out here and just film it because I was a little bit skeptical. In order to find out what the weather is from Fuji, they have about 20 live cameras all around it from different locations. I want you to click—I want to get every single train that goes by.

00:16:08 John Daub: There's not much here on the river—this area will flood during the rainy season in May and June, it'll be covered in water, but it's not going to be a problem because it's a very good place to get your drone. So I'm going to go over to the floodplain, the bank here so the water can't get into the town—to come into this area you have to go over the bank, but there's staircases to get you there. Yeah, I gotta give Greg back his drone—they're pretty good shots though. Now you have to follow the rules when you use the drone—the law is 30-30-30-150: 30 meters from buildings, 30 meters from people, 30 meters from cars, flying a recreational drone without a permit. So you shouldn't go above 150, maybe 160, but I wouldn't—I'd keep it, you don't really need to go that high anyways. You know, what do you need to like a satellite picture? Then you might as well just go to Google Maps and Google Earth and get a satellite photo from there. But the legal limit's 150, and if you ever get caught—the reason why I say this—if you ever get caught, it's all good, you should just go to Google Maps. Your drone has a flight map on it, and it'll show you the path that your drone took as well as the height, and the police can check that—they'll confirm that you broke the law. And what happened to somebody I know is that they confiscated the drone and said to pick it up after four months—drone in Tokyo, by the way, just don't do it without a permit, and you have to apply maybe three weeks or more in advance to get the permit—it's just not worth it.

00:18:17 John Daub: Goody goody—I don't know who'd play soccer here, what do you think, anyone want to come down for some football? I don't think anyone's gonna find me—you know, I got these "you found me" cards for people that find me—they usually like Akihabara, Asakusa, you know, Shinjuku. People come and search me out—even Daikanyama on the livestream two days ago. I don't think anyone's gonna come here unless they're like from Japan. That's a beautiful shot—yeah, I've been to Shimizu S-Pulse many times, I got a point card for the Chibi Maruko-chan museum there—I'm two stamps away from getting a free present, hopefully they stay in business that long, they've been there for 20 years. S-Pulse—nice place, they have a Shimizu, the town next to Shizuoka City, which is not that far away from here actually, and you can sit outside, have a drink, buy it from one of the stores there, just watch the boats go by.

00:20:24 John Daub: Welcome to—this is Fujikawa, just one stop away from Fuji Station. The Shinkansen! This is one of the most famous places to take views of the Shinkansen with Mount Fuji in the background. That's good enough—I can live with that. I've been doing this job for kind of a long time—I started my first travel video in Japan in 2003. YouTube started in 2006, and I first did this job in 2003—it's pretty crazy, huh? I hitchhiked to Japan in about 30 days with $150, and that's why I'm still here today. And I made a video about it, but it was really not well shot—it was the first video that I ever took. And then in 2005, I made another video, my first travel video: riding my bicycle, a mamachari (one-speed bike), from Tokyo to Kyoto on the Tokaido. The Tokaido is the original road that they did in the Edo period, where people would walk it with porters bringing in goods and services to the shogun from the emperor. So I took my mamachari and I rode that in 2005—it took me five days, I was camping, and I made a documentary on this. That was shot in standard definition on a Sony PD170, which is a beautiful camera—MiniDV cassettes before YouTube. And then I walked around the Yamanote line and made a documentary about that. So I was doing a ton of travel videos in Japan before YouTube even started.

00:23:02 John Daub: Um, if we can get the 500 likes, I will take you to Fujikawa Station—it's a real hub of likes, you're gonna love that. Who's—what YouTuber's gonna take you to Fujikawa Station? And for all of you that always dreamed of going to Fujikawa, this is your shot—you too, sitting in your living room, can join me at Fujikawa Station. But first, we have a little bit of work to do—I gotta go just over here and get that shot. And that means we gotta wait—no, it's coming from that direction! That's a Hikari, a Hikari Express bound for Shin-Osaka. Welcome to a day in the life of a YouTuber.

00:24:07 John Daub: When I was in this city called Kitami in North Hokkaido last week, famous Yakiniku Festival—2,000 people grilling beef at minus 18, the smoke and steam rising was incredible, beautiful images. And this crazy show called Why Did You Come to Japan?—they stopped foreigners at the airport and stuff, they tracked me down, and they kept getting in my way. In the end, I told the producer, look, I know you're trying to make a show, but unless you're gonna pay me a ridiculous amount of money, I got an episode to film—so step off. And they kind of got the picture—I didn't say it like that, I just smiled and said excuse me. But I wish I'd said step off, George—that's from a Seinfeld episode. Unfortunately, I think I'm gonna be on that TV show: Why did a YouTuber come to Kitami to film a Yakiniku Festival? Because it's a Yakiniku Festival! Hello? Did I leave anything behind? It's a Yakiniku Festival—so of course I'm gonna go and film that. Who wouldn't? You have to find out about it though, and I knew about it because I filmed in Abashiri two years ago. The locals said there's a really good Yakiniku Festival—I saw the images, they're like what? Kitami's rockin'! I talked to the mayor, I talked to a Yakiniku specialist—and all he does is eat Yakiniku, he's a professional Yakiniku eater, Yakinikuist or something, there's a special term for it. So I interviewed him and you can just see the passion oozing from his pores—or that could be the Yakiniku. Super nice.

00:26:28 John Daub: It never gets old! I've been here for an hour—it never gets old. Alright, walk with me, will ya? It's about a 20-minute walk to the station, but once I put the tripod away, it'll be a little bit better. Not a hub of life here—average age of residence, 65 I believe, but it's a pretty place, it's quiet. OCD Stig, I would love to have a scooter, but even on a scooter it's like a 3-hour scoot from Tokyo—wish I could rent one. If you have a driver's license in Japan, you can rent a 50cc scooter without a motorcycle license, but anything more than 50cc you need a special license, and it's not that easy. Peter von Gomm got one—usually I'm on the back of his, but he won't drive me around anymore, he's pretty busy. He got a new scooter, by the way—in fact, I think he's about to release an episode about it. I think it should be around the time where Peter shows, and he did something really incredible about it that's gonna completely shock you—it's one of the most beautiful things he's ever done. And he's done a lot of really great work—this one is amazing. So I'm excited to see his episode on it, and go check it out in person—I've seen the pictures of it and my mouth dropped. That guy's pretty darn creative.

00:28:12 John Daub: What do you guys think? Like the spot? Hey, we got the 500 likes—that's awesome. Alright, I'm gonna hit a vending machine because I could use a drink. We're about 150 meters away—I kind of want to hustle because I got a feeling, a sixth sense, that... oh, here it comes—darn it, I'm not a Kodama, but that's alright. But the closer we get to Mt. Fuji, the closer the bridge comes, so I can get a zoom. Oh, they're crossing at the same time! Yes! Did you see that? Awesome—it's a whole line of bridges filled with Shinkansen. That only happens like once an hour or something—that's a rare, rare sight. You just saw the entire bridge filled with shink—Shinkansen. I just call it shink, I got lazy. I told Kanae Daub, hey, you ready to ride the shink? She goes, what is shink? And I said shinkansen! She goes oh—now she says it too: shink time.

00:29:30 John Daub: You could see a lot of the residents here—some have a plot of land on the riverbank and they farm, I think that's pretty neat. And it's typical of a lot of local areas in Japan where you can get a plot of land to farm. Fujikawa is a different city—I believe it's different from Fuji City, Fujikawa City—they have different manhole covers, which I'll try to look for. Yeah, John is in Shizuoka Prefecture—I came here this morning on the 633 Kodama to Mishima, and changed to the 727 local Tokaido line, and got here at 7:55. And I ran here because I didn't know what the weather was going to be like, and it turned out to be pretty darn nice. Oh, this is perfect—look at that, you can see Mount Fuji. Okay, wait—I can't go too far. Oh, that's beautiful—what a shot!

00:31:33 John Daub: Alright, so I got this tripod—it's a cheap 45-175 micro four-thirds zoom, it's good enough. I really use zoom lens, but I think this might be a good one. Wow, this is a good looking shot—look at it, it's lined up pretty good. Alright, this is going to be pretty cool. Oh, here comes the train—it's going the wrong way, it's alright, let's do a test. Awesome—that was pretty cool. I'm hoping to get one going the other way—actually, I think I got a better lens here, we don't have a lot of time, there's another one coming. I have a Leica lens—hey, Leica lens, here it is. It's a cheap penny Leica lens—we don't have a lot of time, these trains move fast. It's a better lens, so I'll get a better shot out of it—but sometimes you don't need to zoom in so far, you want to tell a story, right? That's why people, YouTubers, I'm talking to you—some YouTubers like to get that bokeh in the blur a little bit too much. The problem with that is you miss focus a lot—I see a lot of YouTubers missing focus, it's annoying. So the best thing to do is sometimes open up, close down the f-stop—and that's why they still use those big cameras. The TV uses those big cameras and everything is in focus because missing focus is the worst thing that you could possibly do. But it looks so good when you hit focus at the blur in the background because the aperture is so wide open—and I understand that. But telling a story—you don't need to do that too often, people try to do it with everything.

00:35:03 John Daub: Everybody tries to imitate everybody else on YouTube—guess what? I don't need to imitate anybody. Why? Because I don't. That's pretty sweet—here it comes. Yes, that's it—good, I think I got it. You have to wait two or three seconds after where you want to cut it, because when you cut it, sometimes having an extra two or three seconds is very helpful. Let's play it back and check it out. This is 50 frames per second—I always shoot in PAL 50. And here comes the other side—yeah, Kanae Daub is more popular than me, I saw that. Nice—that's it, that's the shot. Very clear, no blur. This is the best job ever, I think maybe. Let's try to get a shot now and move a little bit closer—let's move a little bit closer, and I want to see if I can capture the audio better. I think if we get closer, we might get a different angle—it'll make a different feeling.

00:36:52 John Daub: Next train is not for another couple of minutes—if they both pass left and right, it means we're in between, so we got a little bit of time. Just bear with me for 30 seconds—this is perfect. We're here—this is perfect, put the camera up. Look at what I see now—do you see it? It's through the tracks. So this is going to be pretty good—I want to get it. When you invest your time to come here, you want to make sure you get it from all sorts of directions. Maybe if I move a little bit more—yeah, I get a little bit more of the mountain if I move. Yeah, right there—that's good. So shooting in 4K—that should be good. Maybe I can use the wider—yeah, wider lens, I saw the zoom in a little bit. We have a minute or two. Now we just got to wait—does anyone want to sing a song or entertain us? Anybody have a—that's the time where you can write in where you're from. We can't do anything—you're going to do this is wait for the train. Comes a farmer—he's farming, it's pretty cool.

00:39:30 John Daub: So those of you joining us, we are on a mission to film the Shinkansen—and I'm now going to be filming from this angle, a beautiful shot of the bridge, and through the bridge is that mountain. Let's do it to 5.6—I don't want any blur. See if we can get—all right, that looks pretty good. Sometimes on a tripod you don't need to have the stabilizer on—stabilizer crops in about 10 percent, so you lose some quality. So I'm going to turn it off and the stabilization off there—I just opened it up a little bit and you can see it says off, and you gain a little bit better quality. Oh, that's going to be beautiful and have it 50 frames per second so I can slow it down a little bit—50p. Now we just got to wait. Here it comes—all right. That's the shot—cut, confirm, director, did we get it? We got it—that's beautiful. I guess I can go—I don't want to go, what do you guys want to do? I get enough shots for today.

00:42:46 John Daub: Carlos writes in here—want to cooperate, so say important message, want to cooperate for a drink on a vending machine. Carlos, you got it—I'm going to hit a vending machine, stick with me. Nine hundred and thirty-three people—we are on a trip to a vending machine in Fujikawa, probably the only thing that is available. Plants are your obstacles—what article writes in, plant some carrots. We say carrots in Japanese is ninjin (carrots)—and that's not a bad idea, plant some ninjin. You guys want to ride the train? Want to go on a train ride? Always make sure you put your lenses away correctly—sometimes in the heat of the moment of me escaping a scene, I don't do that, I forget to put the cap on, I leave stuff behind. Ask Kanae Daub how many times we had to go back—I forgot something. Oh, Shinkansen—that was loud. Plant some ninjas—what is that? Where are you guys coming from? Is it coming from a place of love?

00:45:04 John Daub: Hey, Patrick, from a train spotter to another—hey, thanks, Patrick, I appreciate that. I get so excited over this—just, you know, life. It's very easy to lose your passion for stuff, and once you start to lose your excitement for simple things, everything has to be cool. You have to find something that is uninteresting—there is an angle to look at it that makes it interesting again. There's a hundred different ways to see one thing—a thousand. And then after a couple of years, you can see it again from a hundred different angles too, because the idea of how to get it done has probably changed. The idea is to be original and show the same thing that's so popular in a completely new way that you never thought you'd ever see that before. And if you can do that, you'll always have a million-view video—well, not always, but it's a pretty good chance. Everybody's ridden the Shinkansen—what can you do with that topic that nobody else has done before? I don't know, I got a couple ideas though.

00:46:59 John Daub: So it looks like here on his farm, before we leave, he has negi (green onions) and daikon (radish) and some radishes—it's pretty nice, there's some corn, there's some potatoes. It's pretty nice. So if you're lucky, a Shinkansen is going to go right over us—we're on our way back now to Fujikawa Station. And I told you, if we hit 500 likes, I will take you under the Shinkansen—did I say that? I didn't say it exactly like that. Daniel Wright's in here—hi from Ottawa, Canada, Ottawa's cold, keep up the good work. Alright, if I was going to live in a 1980s Mazda-looking car, and I think someone is living there—there's bottles of water—I would live underneath the Shinkansen tracks because that would be the coolest place, and probably one of the loudest. Why would you pick that? Not quite sure.

00:48:24 John Daub: We're hiking up now—so I'm here on a location, if you look at the description of this video, those that are joining right now, I'm in a location called Shinkansen Viewing Spot. Because right over here is Mount Fuji, and from where I was, it is that classic shot that you can take with the Shinkansen going by. Look at this beautiful park—I should have flown the drone right here. Now you can't fly, you have to be 30 meters away from people and buildings—so you have to be careful. It's a beautiful day, good for filming the mountain—I got lucky because it looked pretty cloudy about an hour ago and it cleared up. But this is a live stream—not everybody likes live streams, but if you're here when it's live, it feels like you're here with me, and you kind of are. Why is the road closed? I don't know—why are you so curious about everything, huh? What's the deal? Why do you care? I'm just giving you a hard time—we're live, so there's a live chat going on here. If you're watching on Apple TV, sometimes it's cool to watch on your smartphone at the same time because you can see the live chat. And even though I'm not talking or answering questions on the camera, my opinion of a live stream is that it should never be specifically a question-and-answer—just that. Because I think you guys, a lot of you who watch all the time, get to know each other, and this live chat has a life of its own—which is why we need moderators because life on its own sometimes morphs into something not so cool.

00:51:04 John Daub: Now I'm going to show you a side of Fuji that you might have not seen before—I looked on the map, hey Nosh, can you look on the map? Is there anything of interest during this walk to the station? I don't see anything in the area—there's not even a convenience store. And in front of the station, I couldn't find anything of any value to anybody except a local. Coming in October, hope to meet you—right, it's Jeffrey 747. You know, I was really impressed with Peso—Peso from Indonesia is visiting Japan right now, and two days ago in the Daikanyama live stream when I walked from Shibuya to Daikanyama, really nice area about 15 minutes away—everyone takes a train there, tourists, you could actually walk there in 15 minutes. Whoa! I heard the crackle of the electric on the wires above—that is so cool, awesome. I'll give you five bucks if you try to touch it—now, there's a lot of barbed wire here, you don't want to mess around with that.

00:52:25 John Daub: I'm debating whether or not I'll take the Shinkansen back from Mishima—it's kind of expensive, so I'm not sure if that's a good idea, although I get back an hour and a half faster that way. What's an hour and a half worth to you? If you think about it, that's the economics behind it—it would cost an extra $20 for an hour and a half faster—is it worth it? Not sure. Some of the questions—you put the trash in here so the crows don't get to it, right? Or the cats—so locals have that, it's kind of neat to see how locals live as you walk by the laundry lines outside. That looks like a new house right there—so last time we walked through Daikanyama, this is a completely different kind of feel to it, a lot more local—beautiful, simple and very nice. Jutaku (housing). Doesn't look like there's anything around here—see what I mean? This is my walk—to get here, no one would ever come out here unless you came for that Shinkansen shot because you're making a new channel and want an opening that'll knock people's socks off. But the animated opening is almost done.

00:54:10 John Daub: Whoa! There's an akiya (abandoned house)! Check that out—that looks haunted! What?! Fire—looks like it had a fire just recently. There's the police right there—there's a Shinkansen going by, so they're investigating a burnt-out building—it's kind of scary there. There is nothing—not even a convenience store in the area. See what I mean? I did find some garbage trucks in a line—that's something. So we're gonna say goodbye to Mt. Fuji for about five minutes as we go behind a warehouse. There's a speedway—everything, you need a car. If you do ever live in this area, you need a car to get from place to place. I lived in Fujinomiya, which is a city about two stops away, and I'm very tempted to get on the train and go there—they're famous for yakisoba (fried noodles), and there's a main street that's really nice to walk along. They've fixed it up a lot, many new buildings, makes it look fresh—they're trying to attract new people to move into Fujinomiya, doing a very good job of it.

00:55:51 John Daub: But I think it might be better to get back—it's Valentine's Day after all, and this is the day that Kanae Daub gives me chocolate. Because the Japanese system—do you guys know how it works? Valentine's Day in Japan is completely backwards—guys don't have to do anything, women do all the work. Women give guys the chocolate, and the guys reciprocate on March 14th, called White Day—which is stupid, but I can play along. So this is the recycling plant here—you can see they've got recycled cardboards and trash. So Japan's doing a pretty good job with this—but in Japan we burn a lot of the garbage, they have industrial-sized filters that collect all of the toxins they say. And I'd like to get access in to film it—I've done it with NHK before, but I think I want to do it with this channel. There's recycled aluminum cans—it's awesome, I want to stand on top of there, plant a flag: Mount Fuji and aluminum cans!

00:57:29 John Daub: So I better get back—back to Kanae Daub, she might be waking up right now. It would be funny if I went to Mount Fuji and came back and she's still asleep—sometimes she wakes up a little late, sometimes. Recycling plant—I saw a cat here earlier, cat didn't choose me either, that cat booked, went the other way. There's trains three times an hour, so once every 20 minutes—if I miss the train, I get to wait 20 minutes, if you're lucky only five. So just about—I do it by fate, we're very close to the station now. Look at that cemetery—do you see that? It's massive—glad we're on the other side of it. Dude 77 writes in, your meow is very aggressive—I guess you could look at it that way. But I think cats respect other cats that aren't weak—cats hate weakness, I get a feeling that cats are like Putin, they respect strength and power. You want to be hanging around with a weak cat—those are the cats that get eaten, beat up and scratched. A little aggressive—yeah, you're right, playful maybe more, tone it down a little bit—no.

01:00:10 John Daub: So this is Fujikawa City—link is in the description that shows you the map to this place. And you too, if you have a few hours, can make your way here to get that classic photo of Mount Fuji with the Shinkansen in the background. Because right now, John is going on this train. This is called Fujikawa—it's very quiet here. Fujikawa is not a hub—vending machine must be inside here because I didn't pass any, none, not even a vending machine, which is very rare in Japan. This place could even be considered haunted—look at this, bet you can see stuff at night moving.

01:01:47 John Daub: I'd like to go to Tokyo but—let's switch trains at Mishima, get on the Shinkansen? That's right—if you're on the Shinkansen from Mishima to Tokyo, you have 4,400 yen. Here's your receipt—please use your 5,000 yen. I'll take the Shinkansen—here's the 600 yen ticket, and here's your receipt. If you want to take the Shinkansen from Mishima to Tokyo, that's your special ticket—thank you very much. Please put only the one you drew—this one, right? Thank you very much.

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01:08:00 John Daub: Done—it's too small, it's smaller than the other cans. Oh, it's coming! It's coming, it's coming. After I board the train, I might have to shut off for like five seconds because you see that curve right there? That's going to be an awesome view of Mount Fuji and I gotta film that—I can't do both. I'll put it on Instagram, how's that? Tokaido line—they need more music, it's not a... Fujikawa, we're on the run—thank you, Fujikawa, it's been real. I'll see you in another 20 years. Oh, it looks like we might get a chance to get a nice view from—this train's going to Numazu. Alright, let's board the train—give me 30 seconds, okay? Give me 30 seconds—I got the shot, now you get the shot.

01:10:00 John Daub: That's where we were, guys—we're crossing back over across that bridge, but this is a different one for the local train. He did the corn for me—what do you guys think? You like it? Let's click the like button and see if we can get to a thousand—let's do it, this is awesome. Alright, guys, we're getting to Mount Fuji Station so the view's going to change a little bit. I'm going to end as soon as we get to Fuji Station, which is in about a minute—but it's been a lot of fun. This is quite an adventure. I think you can see Mount Fuji from so many different directions, so many different views—from the train, it's pretty cool, but it goes by pretty fast. I think if you have a little bit of time, finding the perfect shot of Mount Fuji is kind of fun to do—it gives you a purpose for traveling. And the spot that I took you today is that spot. Thanks for the coffee, thanks for the support—I feel like his livestreams encourage me. I'll see you in another livestream again really soon—bye from Japan.