00:00 John Daub: Then, in 500 meters, turn left.

00:31 John Daub: We're going to be getting onto the highway in about one or two minutes.

00:35 Kanae Daub: Yeah.

00:36 John Daub: And then... watch out for the coppers here. And then we're going to be taking you to a destination I think is going to be very interesting. I love Japanese highway rest stops called service areas. Service areas are on the main highway call, and they're run by a company called Nexco. Nexco has done an amazing job with these service areas. They're so clean, they're so clean, modern. They're amazing places that you really got to stop.

00:65 John Daub: We have a red light here. And we're going to be taking you onto the highway. We have an ETC card, which is kind of like a fast pass onto the highway that pays for everything. We also have on wireless mics, so the audio is going to be better this time, which is pretty important. Kanae is going to be helping.

00:84 John Daub: Oh, we can see it. Hakozaki. Do you see that? If you just look straight ahead to the end of the road there, you'll see that's where we're getting onto the... They're not honking at me, are they? That's where we're going to be getting onto the highway. So we're about 500 meters from the interchange.

00:99 John Daub: Let's go. And Kanae is going to be driving today later. Maybe. Maybe. I don't know. So join us. We'll be at the highway rest stop in about 40 minutes, depending on traffic. I don't think there's going to be any traffic because it's a weekday afternoon and most people are staying at home.

00:120 John Daub: We're renting a car because of the current global situation. It's just safer to not take public transportation. We're also going to be going and meeting a friend of mine named Jaya, who's doing the Tokyo Lama Channel. And take a look at the progress on his abandoned house that he's been renovating over the last year, I believe. So that's going to be exciting to see him. First, we've got to go to Costco and stock up. Here we go.

00:153 John Daub: We're going right into... Turn right. Highway. The highway. From Hakozaki.

00:159 Kanae Daub: Yes.

00:161 John Daub: I love the highway.

00:162 Kanae Daub: You love the highway.

00:166 John Daub: ETC, baby. Instant access highway. We're driving in a Toyota Prius, which is a hybrid car. It's a pretty sweet ride. It's a step up from the car that we took last time.

00:189 John Daub: Straight. She really likes to talk, this navigation lady. All right.

00:198 John Daub: We're now in Hakozaki, which is one of the most impressive views of Tokyo in terms of the highway. It's just roads going left, right, all over the place. It's pretty cool. We're going to get an amazing view of the Tokyo Skytree pretty soon.

00:214 John Daub: Then, an expressway. Hamato. Itari desho?

00:218 Kanae Daub: Mm.

00:219 John Daub: Okay. All right. So we'll get a... In 1.0 kilometers... She keeps cutting me off. This is... I guess Peter feels like this when I'm cutting him off all the time.

00:233 John Daub: What a beautiful day. Blue skies. Really warm.

00:237 John Daub: Traffic! Perfect! No! No! No! No! What is this? How dare you people... Careful.

00:247 John Daub: There's a Skytree! Oh, that's awesome! Dead on Skytree. Look at that. It feels like a video game.

00:261 John Daub: We don't have to turn left or right for the next 30 minutes. So, that's good news.

00:269 John Daub: Is that shortcut? Gas and tools. Thank you for great content. Hello, Kanae.

00:281 Kanae Daub: Hello.

00:283 John Daub: Hello. Oh, look at this. That's an animated emoji.

00:290 Kanae Daub: Yeah. Where is it from?

00:292 John Daub: Hot moon.

00:293 Kanae Daub: Thank you.

00:294 John Daub: Hot moon. Welcome aboard. We're en route to Moriya Service Area in Ibaraki Prefecture. It's about a 35-minute drive, but at this pace, it's hard to tell. There's been a little bit of traffic, a little congestion.

00:311 John Daub: I love this drive. We're going to be going straight at the Tokyo Skytree in about 10 seconds. There it is. It's peeking over. Oh, I love this view. It's a middle river.

00:331 John Daub: The congestion on the other side going into Tokyo is awful. It's really bad. Now, this time, we're using wireless mics. I hope that the mic audio level is okay. Kanae is checking the screen for chats to make sure if you have any questions, we'll try to answer you. We're going down.

00:361 John Daub: Moriya Service Area. There's a link in the description. We're going down. Ibaraki.

00:365 John Daub: Yeah, there's a link in the description. We're taking you there because we love service areas. What's that?

00:371 Kanae Daub: Traffic congestion.

00:373 John Daub: Oh. Oh. Skytree.

00:380 John Daub: We're going at a cruising speed of 75 kilometers per hour. Did we go past? Oh, we're going to go past Asakusa right now. And you can see the Sumida River. Is that the Sumida Gawa?

00:394 Kanae Daub: Yeah, the Sumida Gawa's many bridges.

00:399 John Daub: It's really beautiful. I guess Yakata-bunit. Kumagata-bashi. Typically, I'd be listening to Nirvana or Pearl Jam or something.

00:413 Kanae Daub: Yeah.

00:414 John Daub: Be careful, Kanae.

00:420 John Daub: Oh, sorry. I touched... Don't touch the wrong button. Sorry. It's my fault.

00:425 John Daub: Get something good to eat, Kanae and Joe.

00:432 John Daub: Who's it from? Delu... Chain. All right, thank you.

00:440 John Daub: Question... Ah. Question. Uh, there first... Land? In Japan. First what?

00:449 Kanae Daub: Past lane.

00:451 John Daub: Past lane. Uh, yeah. That's the right lane. And last time, the viewers got really let me have it, especially ones, you know, driving a little bit better than me, that you don't want to be in the right lane. You'll get ticketed. The cops will patrol that. Whenever possible, you want to only pass in the right lane and get into the left lane.

00:469 John Daub: Um, but I kind of just was sitting in the right lane because there is... Just comfortable. Now, you can't see it, but Skytree is... You can't see it, but Skytree is right over my shoulder, this side here. And it's just kind of surreal when you drive through Tokyo. It really does feel like a video game. If you've ever played video games where you're driving, you know, like the race car games. Oh, man. Through the city of Tokyo, it's kind of like that in a way. Oh, there's that bridge. I go running to about here. It's a nice 20K run. Sakurabashi.

00:503 Kanae Daub: Yeah, Sakurabashi.

00:504 John Daub: Right. And once we leave Tokyo... You can tell. It is so obvious. When we leave Tokyo, everything is just... All the buildings are gone. And you're going to see that in about 10 minutes, I believe. It just becomes so obvious. Everything ends. And we're actually kind of hungry. So we're going to try to take you into the service area. You might want to hang out and wait until about 35 minutes.

00:539 John Daub: Thank you for sharing so much with you.

00:542 Kanae Daub: Who's it from?

00:544 John Daub: I'm from Tokyo. Oh, thank you very much.

00:548 John Daub: I'm going to put the smartphone on the gimbal and take you into the service area. So that'll probably be in about 35 minutes from now, according to the navigation system. I'm not going to take you all the way to Costco. That'd be crazy. And you've already been there. I've done like two live streams. And I'm a wanted man in there, marked man. They see me. Like, manager comes and says, uh, uh, uh. You know that when Newman in the Jurassic Park movie put the virus inside the computer? He was kind of like that. But I'm going to put the smartphone on the gimbal and take you into the service area. They say when I go into Costco. Just look at me.

00:579 Kanae Daub: Yeah.

00:586 John Daub: I like going on the Joban Expressway up north. It's a really comfortable trip for me. This is the way you would go up to Fukushima, go up to Sendai. You take this highway up there from Tokyo.

00:601 John Daub: Oh, that's to you. I'm from England. I was able to stop my first trip to Japan in April because of the immigration restrictions. I'm from Japan. I'm from Japan. I'm from Japan. I'm from Japan. I'm from Japan. I'm from Japan. I'm from Japan.

00:615 John Daub: Kyoko. Kyoko Beauty 7. She's maybe Japanese. She live in England. But she have to go back to Japan.

00:626 John Daub: Oh, really? Because of the situation. Oh really? Just a 120K magnet. Straight. That's terrible. But we're doing OK in Japan. We're doing OK. It's pretty tough everywhere though. You have to take precautions no matter where you are.

00:645 John Daub: Now we're crossing the river, the Subita River. Oh, I have story.

00:645 Kanae Daub: Talk to me.

00:645 John Daub: Yeah, there's some cherry blossoms you can't see because the phone's on the stand, but after we go, we take a right away from the river, and now you're going to see we're starting to get into the suburbs, and then the suburbs kind of melt away pretty fast.

00:668 John Daub: I watch one of your videos. I feel like I'm in Japan with you.

00:673 John Daub: You are here with us. Blood Shows Studio. Thank you.

00:684 John Daub: Yeah, you guys are here with us. Oh, man, look at the traffic. Look at the highway. Look at that. Look at that, Kanai.

00:698 John Daub: Yeah, and we're behind like a natural gas truck. It looks like we're going to be a little bit longer than 30 minutes, maybe, possibly.

00:717 John Daub: This is the Arakawa River, right?

00:720 Kanae Daub: Yeah.

00:724 John Daub: So the Joban Expressway is... Yeah. In 1.0 kilometers. Keep straight. Keep straight. I think it says keep straight. I want to... I can't get in anywhere. How do I get in somewhere? Get in somewhere. Is anyone going to let me in? No one's going to let me in. Kanai, I can't get in anywhere.

00:751 Kanae Daub: Go to the right side?

00:755 John Daub: Yeah, it says to keep straight, but this goes to Umiya. Can you come on the other side? How do I... I can't sneak in front of this truck here. I think you get dumb truck.

00:776 John Daub: But we should go... Oh yeah, this side? I don't want to get into... Oh man, this is hard. Keep straight. Oh my god. Take the Urban Expressway. Can I get in here?

00:785 John Daub: Thank you. Thank you, Mr. Truck. Should I give him an arigato? I'm going to give him an arigato. But it's kind of... He doesn't look as happy as we do.

00:794 Kanae Daub: Yeah.

00:795 John Daub: Sorry. Sorry, dude. I can't drive here.

00:803 Kanae Daub: You couldn't do this?

00:804 John Daub: I can't drive here. It scared me. Yeah, there's a little bit of... congestion. I'm focusing super hard. And, uh... Yeah, I don't know. The Joban Expressway... So this is the great divide on leaving Tokyo here. The left side, which is going really fast, they're going towards Tohoku and Umiya. Which is, I guess, towards Utsunomiya. This direction. We're going along the coast, along the Joban Expressway to Ibaraki. And this would eventually get to Iwaki and Fukushima and Sendai this way. But, uh...

00:842 Kanae Daub: He wants to go right.

00:843 John Daub: Really? Alright, dude. You let... We... Yeah. Okay, get in.

00:847 John Daub: Get in! It's all good.

00:854 John Daub: This is a Prius, and it's so smooth and so quiet. It's eerie. Scary. Eerie.

00:862 Kanae Daub: Close.

00:864 John Daub: There's the sign for the Joban Expressway. And many trucks. I'm hoping that people are getting off at Misato, which is the next rest stop, and then, uh... we'll be fine. This is ruining my plan of bringing you to, uh... the service area in 30 minutes or less, like a Domino's Pizza. Moriya is the closest service area. I'm pretty sure these people are not... The congestion isn't like this all the way. It can't be. Can't be.

00:896 John Daub: If this is your first time joining us on a live stream, welcome aboard. You are stuck in traffic with us. And we're the kind people letting everybody in. Because somebody let us in and paid forward.

00:909 Kanae Daub: Yeah.

00:914 John Daub: I used to live not too far away from here. From, um... Misato. What was it? It was a good... I could run over there along the Edogawa River. Shin Misato. They have a good shopping mall there. They have Costco, too.

00:929 John Daub: Yeah. Whenever we rent a car, we want to get it... go to hit the Costco's because it's hard to do it with public transportation. So this is why... Yeah, this is why we wanted to, um...

00:945 Kanae Daub: No, you can show the sign. This is why we wanted to, um...

00:949 John Daub: get in this lane. Because the Joban Expressway is this way. If you miss this, it's game over. You're going the wrong way. And I've done that before. Yeah, that's right. It's not my happy place. Come on, traffic.

00:967 John Daub: Now we're going up to the sunlight, which is good. It always gives me the creeps being underneath three layers of highway. So typically, on the highway, I know that, um...

00:986 John Daub: A lot of countries started to do this as well, where they put, like, these boundaries on the left and the right. It's to keep people safe. It's to keep the noise of the highway away from residential areas. And it kind of stinks because it ruins my view. But actually, I shouldn't be looking at the view anyway. You should be focusing on the road at all times. Right? That's why you need a... When you do a live stream in a car, you need a co-pilot.

01:012 John Daub: Because... That's a big dump truck. Yeah. From, uh, Kawaguchi. He's also a beginner.

01:017 Kanae Daub: Is he a beg...

01:018 John Daub: No, he is not. That is scary! He has it. That is scary! You shouldn't be a beginner driver in that dump truck on the right. He's got a beginner seal on the right side. What? He's got a beginner seal on there. That's insane.

01:037 John Daub: It's not really pretty sight right now. We're kind of just getting through the city center. Hope the signal and the audio is good, everybody. Um... Our goal is Moria Service Area. And the link is in the description. It's just across the river on the other side, on the border into Ibaraki. I think at this pace we should get there not too bad. We're a little bit... Slightly delayed. There was congestion. Probably because of that, the Tohoku separation when the roads were going in the other direction. Probably people were just... We arrive at 1124.

01:072 John Daub: That's to Costco. Navi-san.

01:074 Kanae Daub: Yeah, that's Costco.

01:075 John Daub: We're not going. We're going to Moria Service Area. So we arrive earlier. That's right. Um... Yeah, Ibaraki Service Area is also where we had this monster meat rice bowl challenge on the other channel last year. Tsukuba. That was north of Tsukuba. This one is... There's two service areas. Big ones in Ibaraki. This is the first one.

01:106 John Daub: This is a fight for food.

01:109 Kanae Daub: Fight for food?

01:110 John Daub: Okay. Or drink. Alright. Marmelade. I can't say it. Sorry. Melade.

01:123 Kanae Daub: Oh, arigatou.

01:126 John Daub: Arigatou. Sorry. Alright.

01:132 John Daub: We're cruising at 55 kilometers an hour right now. And just staying straight. The smartphone is attached to suction cups on the windshield. And looking back at us, I'm still trying to find a way to make it not so shaky. But I'm surprised that the internal stabilization of the iPhone isn't kicking in a little bit better. Now we're underneath another highway.

01:169 John Daub: I think that's the road going the other direction, actually. Hi.

01:174 Kanae Daub: I'm in Kanae. Thank you for your trip.

01:180 John Daub: Is that Tony? Tony. Is that Tony?

01:184 John Daub: Tony. Thanks for joining us, Tony. And you're all with us, too. We like to do these live streams when we go driving that kind of... Well, the car only fits four, actually.

01:195 John Daub: So the car fits four, but we have more than that. How many people watching now?

01:206 Kanae Daub: One thousand.

01:208 John Daub: Oh, one thousand. Welcome aboard. We can only fit two other people in here, literally.

01:213 Kanae Daub: Yeah.

01:213 John Daub: You're driving with here. Yeah. But nice to have all... If you've never driven in Japan, one of my hopes is that by seeing us driving in Japan, and I'm driving on the other side of the road, for Americans, for Europeans, you'll probably feel really comfortable with this, but watching and observing other people doing things is one way for you also to prepare, get used to it. Because of the situation, I'm kind of saying maybe public transportation is not the way to go. Rent a car. It's so comfortable now. I'm used to it after doing this for a couple of years. And it's so convenient. It's just so convenient.

01:259 John Daub: We're getting closer to getting these shield on the left side are getting away. Once we get to the river, we cross the river and we're there at Moriya service area, which is a bigger one. Look at the congestion on the other side. There's a lot of traffic. Wow. And Japanese cars are smaller, so they can fit more cars in there. No. No one that I know of owns an SUV, for example. Sports, sports utility vehicle, right? SUV. Nobody in Japan owns one. They're just gas guzzlers and they don't make sense in Japan. Although we'd like one.

01:293 John Daub: Is that the Italian bombshell?

01:296 John Daub: You are doing a great job leading this trip. Have an Ito-en tea on me. Hi. Thank you. Yeah. Ito-en tea. That's your number one fan. Thank you.

01:310 John Daub: Florida. Florida.

01:318 John Daub: Goodness. Sorry for the shaking on the front camera. It's really not that exciting between here, Saitama, and Ibaraki. There's not a lot to see. There's a love hotel. I'll check that out.

01:337 John Daub: There's a love hotel on the left side. Hotel Hibiscus. Timeless resort. You always see love hotels on the sides of the highway, I guess because it's the most undesirable property. Yeah. And it gives people easy access in and out without exposing the truth. My favorite love hotel name is like Hotel California. They get really crazy. That in itself would be an episode, just names of love hotels in Japan. They're so dodgy.

01:376 John Daub: We are all taking a road trip.

01:379 Kanae Daub: Yes.

01:380 John Daub: Guile Swamp. Hey. Yeah. If you're watching and you're afraid to chat, you're welcome. This is an easy one for you. Where are you watching from? Let us know where you're taking this road trip from because we're taking it from Tokyo. Maybe you're starting from somewhere else like Riga, Latvia or something.

01:406 John Daub: Sweden. New York. Sweden. Whoa. Oh, it's far. Canada. Oh, it's Virginia. New York. Boy, all of them. Everyone in New York must be quarantined. Germany. Poland. Where is Virginia? Guam. New Jersey. Toronto. New York. Dallas. Texas. Guam. Detroit. Washington. Yeah, you know, a lot of people are trapped at home because of the quarantine. The situation makes it really hard to get out. That's why we're renting a car to be safe. But we have to get out.

01:946 John Daub: Ibaraki Prefecture actually only has one person with it. It just turned red.

01:948 Kanae Daub: Oh, really?

01:949 John Daub: Yeah. There's still six prefectures in Japan with nobody with it yet. And... Um, up here in the countryside. I mean, Japan's countryside is... I don't want to say find... Take precautions everywhere, but there's only one person here. So, I think they're in scuba.

01:466 John Daub: Hi, friend. I'm watching this from Salote, Virginia.

01:473 Kanae Daub: Salote?

01:477 John Daub: Oh, Jaya just wrote in. Are we coming today? Thank you. Jaya, if you're watching, we're on our way. The answer would be yes. We're gonna... We're gonna stop at Costco, I think, before we go over to your place.

01:495 Kanae Daub: Yeah, we can call him at the Moria.

01:497 John Daub: Yeah, we'll call him at Moria. Service area. Yeah, we're getting there. That's what we did last time. Jamaica? Jamaica, New York or Jamaica, the country?

01:504 Kanae Daub: It's cool.

01:509 John Daub: It's cool? Yeah, you know what? The weather today is like 68 degrees. It's so warm. I got shorts on again. Was that an animated emoji? I love those.

01:522 Kanae Daub: Was that coffee?

01:524 John Daub: Peter, it's coffee. Oh, I need that coffee. Here, what's the key?

01:532 John Daub: Sing along, can I? Mari. Yeah, yeah, yeah. We're on the place. On this farm, he had a chicken. Actually... We're on the place, go along. Maybe we could teach... Old McDonald's, but teach everybody the name of the animals in Japanese.

01:557 John Daub: Take it. Old McDonald's had a farm. Do they say iya iya? Is it same in Japanese?

01:562 Kanae Daub: Yeah, we say iya iya yo.

01:565 John Daub: Iya iya yo? Iya iya yo. And on his farm, he had an uma.

01:575 John Daub: Do you know what an uma is? Do you, do you? Do you know what an uma is? Uma is a horse, right?

01:581 Kanae Daub: Yeah, iya iya yo.

01:583 John Daub: Okay. I only know this word. Yeah. Old McDonald's had a...

01:589 Kanae Daub: Ushi.

01:591 John Daub: Had an ushi. Hippie.

01:593 John Daub: K-Pop GreatNew dun video. That, that make me crazy. You making me crazy, right? Thank you.

01:602 John Daub: coffee. Yeah, so I guess there's lots of animals. But... Alright, I'll do this. Let's do the opposite, Kaimei. I'll say it in English, and you tell me if you know it in Japanese.

01:621 Kanae Daub: Mm, okay.

01:622 John Daub: Goat. Goat? Goat.

01:627 Kanae Daub: Old McDonald's had a goat. A yagi?

01:629 John Daub: A yagi. Good. Goat in Japanese is yagi. Goat milk cheese. Next animal, kabu. Drive along the road for more than five kilometers.

01:644 John Daub: Kaba. Kaba. Kaba. Hippo. Hippo. Hippopotamus.

01:650 Kanae Daub: Kaba. Kabu is stock.

01:652 John Daub: Kabu is a vegetable. Yeah, it's also a vegetable. Kaba is a vegetable. Small radish. Alright, here's an easy one for everybody. Kirin.

01:661 Kanae Daub: Kirin.

01:662 John Daub: Yeah, how can I say kirin?

01:667 John Daub: Old MacDonald had a kirin. I don't know how can I say it.

01:673 John Daub: His kirin was in Tanzania, by the way. I'm sorry, his farm was in Tanzania. Oh. A country in Africa near Kilimanjaro. It's a kirin is jer. Huh?

01:686 Kanae Daub: Jer.

01:688 John Daub: Jer. Jer. I don't know.

01:691 Kanae Daub: Giraffe.

01:692 John Daub: Giraffe. Giraffe. Oh. Yeah. How do you say?

01:696 John Daub: How about okapi? What's okapi in Japanese?

01:701 Kanae Daub: Okapi is okapi.

01:703 John Daub: That's our favorite animal, the okapi. Okapi. Yeah. It's half horse, half giraffe, or half zebra. It's awesome. It's like, what happened? An okapi happened. It's awesome. The best of all the animals. Like I said, I like hippopotamuses too. Can you spell hippopotamus?

01:725 Kanae Daub: No.

01:726 John Daub: H. I don't think so. I.

01:728 Kanae Daub: No. H.

01:734 John Daub: How do you say? I'm trying to think of animals that you have no idea. What's saru?

01:741 Kanae Daub: Monkey.

01:742 John Daub: That's too easy. Saru is monkey. Yeah. Neko.

01:747 Kanae Daub: Cat. Inu.

01:749 John Daub: Dog. Hamusta.

01:751 Kanae Daub: Hamster.

01:752 John Daub: Yeah, good. Pronunciation, nice. Hamusta is hamster. Nice. Chicken.

01:761 John Daub: How would you say chicken?

01:763 Kanae Daub: Tori.

01:764 John Daub: Tori. Toriniku. But, that's chicken the meat, but a tori is any bird, isn't it?

01:769 Kanae Daub: Yeah, but tori, niwatori, kana?

01:772 John Daub: Niwatori. Niwatori is a technical chicken, but tori, yakitori would refer, because they don't eat other birds really, refer to, but tori just means bird, T-R-I. Tori is a gate that has another I on it.

01:786 Kanae Daub: Yeah, tori.

01:787 John Daub: Tori. That's a difference. Tori and torii. Confusing, Japanese is, even after 23 years, I don't know what I'm talking about.

01:802 John Daub: Which one should I go to? I don't know. We can go ETC, right?

01:807 Kanae Daub: Right here.

01:808 John Daub: Yeah. Old McDonald had ETC. E-I-O. He got to the farm really fast.

01:817 John Daub: Okay. Let us through. Let us through. Let us through. We are through. All right, it's not long now. We're getting there. Hey, the lady didn't tell me how much I owe. How much was it?

01:831 John Daub: I tried to track up how much I'm getting. Japanese highways are a rip off, man. They're so expensive. It cost me to go to Fargo. Fujiyoshida, like $60 in tolls. It's crazy.

01:845 John Daub: So, the rent-a-car cost in the end came out to be about the same as if we'd just ridden a train, but it was pretty convenient.

01:859 John Daub: Nagareyama. As kids, we had a game on road trip that we had to hold our blades when we went through tunnel. And if we made it to the other side, we got the wish. Kind of like an eyelash. I understand now.

01:883 Kanae Daub: Oh, interesting game. Who is it from?

01:891 John Daub: From Granny Smith. Oh, hey. Hey. Yeah, I like the driving games. You can count the people with headlights on, or you can touch the roof and things like this. You can sing 99 bottles of beer. You can sing 99 bottles of sake on the wall. Except it gets really old fast and people want to punch you if you sing it too loudly. Tatiana sings in Brazilian Portuguese.

01:917 John Daub: Seu, Roboto, Tiana, Am, Siti, Lala, Lala, Oh, Haha. Okay. Is it a Brazilian song?

01:928 Kanae Daub: I don't know, but you got to sing it, can I?

01:930 John Daub: You sing it. How can you sing Portuguese?

01:934 Kanae Daub: It's just a joke.

01:935 John Daub: It's just a joke. Can you speak some?

01:938 Kanae Daub: Ah, obrigado?

01:942 John Daub: It sounds like arigato. Oh. The, um, you can see right now we're pretty much in the countryside. I think our parents wanted to ask to be quiet.

01:953 Kanae Daub: Yeah, haha.

01:954 John Daub: Hey, you kids back there. Give it down. Try to focus. Turn the radio on. Golden oldies. And my dad listened to talk radio and drive me crazy.

01:970 John Daub: I guess it depends what you're talking about. listening to.

01:985 John Daub: She's watching. Hello Grace!

01:988 Kanae Daub: Hello Grace! Hello!

01:990 John Daub: It's a tunnel. Hold your breath.

02:002 John Daub: I tried a little bit. It's hard. The air is not very good in there. It's okay in the car. Yeah, this is like I don't know, like a sci-fi scene here. This tunnel area. I don't know exactly what these walls are. They're just really... feels like a like Tron or some sort of space age movie from the 1980s.

02:029 John Daub: Kashiwa is 2k away. We're getting close to Moriya. I can smell the food. What are you going to eat there? What do you want at Moriya?

02:037 Kanae Daub: Natto?

02:038 John Daub: Natto? They got natto at Moriya. Yeah. We need a breakfast. Yeah. I'm going to get some coffee because the service area...

02:055 John Daub: is, but sometimes you'll find regional things there. And let me get out of the tunnel and talk about this. I'm supposed to be holding my breath. I hope it's safe for the driver to be doing that though. Wait, does the driver play this game too?

02:074 John Daub: I don't know if we're still in the tunnel just because it's like half covered. So I hold my breath halfway just very shallow deep breaths.

02:091 John Daub: We're going at a cruising speed of 75k km per hour which is like 55 maybe. I typically don't speed. I don't... I'm not in a rush. But when you do run, when you do speed it feels pretty cool. Don't do that. Disregard what I said about it being cool. It's not awful.

02:116 John Daub: Moriya interchange. 5 km everybody. 5 km! Turn the camera around! 5 km!

02:125 John Daub: I would scream but then I would not blow off everyone who's listening in headphones. I would completely obliterate your ear drums. Not going to scream. Silent scream. But they have a traffic jam a little bit.

02:139 Kanae Daub: Oh do they?

02:141 John Daub: Yeah they load at Kashima. Oh well I think it's that's here. I don't see it. Sometimes the situation is... oh wait maybe I saw a brake light. I saw some brake lights.

02:152 Kanae Daub: Really? I think we're going to make it. I think we'll make it.

02:157 John Daub: Yeah the service areas... It's cool. It's alright. The service areas are so awesome. I'm kind of excited about this now. And I kind of have to use the restroom too. Good. Now I love service areas. Let me go back into my rant. The bathrooms in Japan are usable. So if you gotta go, you can go in style. They all have washlets and bidets and dryers and stuff. It's so high tech in there. It's so clean. I'm proud of our Japan service areas. In the US and New Jersey on the turnpike these are like pick up places for strange people. Alright. People go in the bushes and stuff I've heard. I don't know. I've never done... I've never seen it personally. But I've heard rumors. Might be just rumors. Rest stops in America are... there's some good ones but like Roy Rogers. I like Roy Rogers. They have a fixin bar so you can fix up your burgers. This is an east coast thing I think. But in general rest stops you just... you don't really rest. You get in, you get out. Or you stay in the car. In Japan people go actually as a destination rest stops. That is their destination. That's pretty cool.

02:235 John Daub: Oh check that out. It turned red. Hold on. Let's turn the camera on. Oh. Nice.

02:244 John Daub: Shane Lee. Oh is that Shane? Hey. Hey. So taking a space with you. Can I and Joan. I miss Japan and you like... your streams are very helpful and super for me.

02:260 John Daub: Alright. From Canada.

02:262 Kanae Daub: From Canada. Yeah that's Shane.

02:263 John Daub: We know Shane.

02:267 John Daub: Alright. You can see like on the left there's like nothing there. There is. There's some buildings but you're just a little bit below the wall. Alright it's gonna open up a little bit. This is a Onigawa River. Which I believe is the Arakawa. And the rest area we're gonna be taking a left into the service area in like one minute. This is so exciting. That's the Meiji Milk. They make the Meiji Milk here?

02:291 John Daub: Touch the ceiling. Hold your breath. Do all the games at once. E-I-E-I-O. E-I-E-I-O. They don't say E-I-E-I-O. They go E-I-I-O. E-I-E-I-O. E-I-E-I-O. E-I-E-I-O. Really? I'm going so slow the trucks are all passing me.

02:319 Kanae Daub: Yeah. Not in a hurry.

02:322 John Daub: But the guy behind me might disagree. Welcome to Onigawa. Oh I just saw cameras that were taking pictures of license plates. Alright welcome to the service area everybody. This is our destination for this livestream anyways.

02:344 John Daub: Awesome. P for parking. A for awesome. C for brilliant. C for crazy. D for divine. That's a game. It's like a game. E for excellent. F for failure. Oh. Where do I park can I?

02:373 John Daub: Full. A little bit full. Oh in Japan they always back in. Should I back in? I hate backing in. Oh wait I don't have to. Okay. Alright sir. That's a Benz man. What is that? That's a S4 something. S4 something. 450. Sweet ride. We're parking where the Benz was. We're putting a Prius in a Benz spot. Thank you sir.

02:414 John Daub: Don't worry I got this. I got this. I got it. Look. Boom. A successful conclusion. Alright be careful of your microphone. Can I? Put it here. Put it here. Put it on your bag. I'm in stereo. Is that how it works? And I'm gonna put the camera on the gimbal. And you come in with us. Never leave never leave a warrior behind.

02:462 John Daub: Oh parking brake. Where's the key?

02:467 Kanae Daub: Yeah hold this key.

02:470 John Daub: Never leave anyone on the battlefield. I'm not gonna leave you on the windshield. It's just rude. Alright. Put it out. Careful. Careful. Drop it. You guys was that okay? A little traumatic. I know this is gonna be traumatic too. 1,000 people here. I know we got 1,000 people in our pocket. Careful.

02:499 John Daub: Okay we're good.

02:506 John Daub: Let me get the tripod here. And then we can go inside. Hold this. Come nine. Service area everybody. We're gonna go in there until they tell me I can't film anymore. Which could happen. You never know. You have the key?

02:525 Kanae Daub: Yeah I have the key.

02:527 John Daub: Alright. Oh you gonna lock the car? Huh? Here give me the key. Oh. I'll lock the car. I think Watch out for the microphone. Oh I forgot. Never forget about the microphone. Don't hit the car behind.

02:545 John Daub: Pretty good parking job.

02:551 John Daub: Good. Alright. It's very bright. Welcome to Moria service area. Yes this is the Star Bucks here. Yes there's a convenience store and yes there are people. The restrooms which allow you to really get social distancing. It's very big. They're over there. You gotta go?

02:578 Kanae Daub: I'm fine. You're fine?

02:579 John Daub: Alright let's go inside.

02:593 John Daub: So here's the food court. It says food court. And there's several restaurants around there. They all look pretty darn good. Hey there's a ramen. Is that what you wanted?

02:604 Kanae Daub: Wow. Ah.

02:606 John Daub: Oishisou. Yeah it doesn't feel good. They have Oyakodon too. Oh that looks like an awesome Oyakodon. They have Yakiniku too. Yakiniku. Yakitori. Tonkatsu. Takoyaki. Steamed buns. Of course. Soba. And they always have soba. And Chinese food. There's always a Chinese restaurant as well. Alright let's go take a look and see.

02:629 John Daub: Oh they have a cheese katsudon. Look how beautiful it is. They have free water here. So there's a water dispenser here that's free. And here's the highway. These maps show you exactly what the traffic's like. There's some red areas. They're all around Tokyo. And then going up here along the coast it's all green. It's happy driving up here.

02:669 John Daub: Wow. It's huge. Is there something that you see that looks good?

02:675 Kanae Daub: Yeah. Ramen.

02:679 John Daub: Ramen? Oh it looks so good.

02:686 John Daub: There's the Oyakudon.

02:693 John Daub: Are you getting ramen? Or do you want to... Maybe.

02:697 John Daub: Wow. This is tantanmen?

02:702 Kanae Daub: It's not tantanmen but... Toraji.

02:706 John Daub: What is that? Like yakiniku don, right?

02:709 Kanae Daub: Yes. Harami don.

02:711 John Daub: Yeah. Halloween. Here's the ramen. Do you want this ramen?

02:715 Kanae Daub: Yeah.

02:724 John Daub: On the other side there's some karaage korokke.

02:731 John Daub: What do you think? That's a mountain of karaage. Looks really good. And this is deep fried. This is curry rice and tonkatsu. Oh that Ross Katsudon looks so good.

02:755 John Daub: My son. My son is a famous famous tonkatsu shop.

02:762 Kanae Daub: Oh it is? Yeah. Okay.

02:763 John Daub: Maybe I'll get that then. What do you want to get?

02:767 Kanae Daub: Maybe I'm going to have ramen.

02:772 John Daub: Oh I gave this to our daimyo. Ah. And there's the curry flavored ones. They have one with curry variety. That was one of my favorite snacks. It's dried natto. Dried natto?

02:787 Kanae Daub: That's nasty.

02:790 John Daub: Can we put that in the oatmeal? We could put this in cereal. Hey! No. This could be cereal. Dried natto. You shouldn't do that. Would you eat that?

02:799 Kanae Daub: Looks like dried up boogers.

02:808 John Daub: This would be a nice place to get some packages for the daimyo support. Oh look at this. This is so cute. Oh kintsuba. That's um, yeah, sweet potato right? This would be great gift. We say kintsuba. This would be great gift. What's the expiration date on this?

02:827 Kanae Daub: 4-13.

02:829 John Daub: Yeah that's possible. Dried um, sweet potato. It's cute package. It's so good. Very naturally sweet. And they have lots of gift boxes. In Japan you always kind of bring a gift. We should get something for Jaya here right?

02:841 Kanae Daub: Yeah.

02:843 John Daub: We gotta get something for Jaya. What do you want to eat? We should put the order in first. Ramen. You want ramen?

02:849 Kanae Daub: Yeah. Okay go order the ramen.

02:851 John Daub: What do you want? Me? I'm gonna get the tonkatsu. Tonkatsu? Okay we can order. Maybe katsudon. Wow they have okonomiyaki too.

02:866 Kanae Daub: Oh really? And takoyaki too.

02:873 John Daub: Okay.

02:875 John Daub: Okay. So you just order it okay? Um. I'm gonna get mine here.

02:880 Kanae Daub: Okay.

02:889 John Daub: Ah. This one please.

02:890 Kanae Daub: Yes. Yes.

02:896 John Daub: Yes. Yes. Yes. Gotta wait for them to call my number. Kanai is going to order her her ramen. Let's go take a look at her ordering her ramen. There she is.

02:948 John Daub: You got one too huh?

02:950 Kanae Daub: Yeah.

02:951 John Daub: Alright. Let's claim a table. Right here. They have a hitachi-ku.

02:973 John Daub: Oh they do?

02:975 Kanae Daub: Gosh I didn't see on this side. They got like meat here.

02:982 John Daub: That looks so good. That's wagyu over there. There you go.

03:005 John Daub: Alcohol. Get in here. The best would be to go and wash your hands with soap and water. But I didn't really touch anything yet. Um. This little buzzer thing is something that might worry you. This little buzzer thing is something that might worry you. Japanese service areas are really really cool. I have my own soap too.

03:031 Kanae Daub: Yes she travels with soap and alcohol. And tissues. Everything is in that bag.

03:040 John Daub: What's a mask?

03:041 Kanae Daub: And masks as well. If you're in a really crowded place we tend to use the mask.

03:046 John Daub: If you're using social distancing it's okay. You don't need to do it unless you have symptoms. We're feeling pretty good. Although the hay fever is really bad in Japan. She had a fever the other day. It was because of the hay fever. It was really really bad.

03:068 Kanae Daub: Many people coughing.

03:070 John Daub: Yeah. When you get out of the city, everything kind of opens up a lot more. So it's harder to get, it's harder to come in contact with people. So if we go even once a week, and we open one more service area up, there's almost nobody there. Especially this time of the morning. They just opened not too long ago.

03:094 John Daub: Don't worry. You're with us on this trip. I'm going to show you what the food looks like. If you're hungry and you want us to show you the food, let's see if we can get to 650 likes. That's our goal. It's one of these things we do. The community, you guys all have a say. As people watching, you can click the thumbs up button and like this, and we will show you our food.

03:118 John Daub: What time is it now?

03:121 Kanae Daub: 11.5. It's 11 o'clock.

03:126 John Daub: 11 a.m. We skipped breakfast, and we'll probably get a coffee for the car when we drive over to Costco. Costco is about a 35 minute drive from here. I think we're going to meet up with Jaya around 2 o'clock. I believe he said.

03:145 John Daub: 11 a.m. Thanks, Joseph.

03:150 John Daub: I ordered a katsu don. One of my favorite dishes. Which katsu don did you order?

03:156 Kanae Daub: The hire. I think so.

03:160 John Daub: I don't remember what I ordered. John, by any chance, you're going back to the Bob's Big Boy that you found a little while back. Maybe. Is that you?

03:171 Kanae Daub: It's mine.

03:172 John Daub: It's shaking. I'm going to order my order first. That means you're just taking more time with my premium katsu don, maybe. I am planning to go to a Bob's Big Boy, I am planning to go to a Bob's Big Boy, but I don't know if I'm going back to that specific one. But we do intend to rent a car and go back to Fujiyoshida. It was just too nice, and we returned too quickly. So we're going to wait up maybe an hour earlier.

03:217 John Daub: It's okay. Ramen! Ramen! For breakfast. Who are you? That's insane! Look at that egg! It's blanched! Aji tamago! Can you show them?

03:232 John Daub: Oh, come on. We can get the 650 likes on this ramen alone. If you like ramen, click the like button. How about that? I love ramen. She's addicted to it. Look at the egg there. Aji tamago, onsen tamago, hanjuku tamago, these are the aji tamago, right? Yeah, aji tamago. There's the chashu steak, Japanese-Welsh onions, leeks. What do you call that thing? The fish cake in the middle.

03:261 Kanae Daub: Naruto.

03:262 John Daub: The whirlpool. And this is a miso or shoyu?

03:267 Kanae Daub: It's shoyu.

03:268 John Daub: This is a shoyu ramen. Don't let it go to waste. You gotta eat it while it's hot. You gotta slip those noodles. Thank you.

03:285 John Daub: See, I knew it. Once we said ramen, people started liking it. I should put out this. Tony's back here. Smash the like button. But don't break your screen. It's made out of glass. Just lightly tap it in a smashing kind of way. Thanks, Tony.

03:314 John Daub: You want to try soup?

03:316 Kanae Daub: No, you go first. You do it first.

03:318 John Daub: Because I don't want to share. Mmm.

03:322 Kanae Daub: It's good?

03:325 John Daub: Alright, go ahead. It's good.

03:331 John Daub: Mine is taking forever. I'm making your cup. She's putting the set together. Good. How much was it?

03:360 Kanae Daub: 1000 yen.

03:363 John Daub: 1000 yen? How could mine be cheaper? Mine was cheaper. But maybe that's why. Mine takes longer. They order it at a store and they bring it by delivery truck or something. Itadakimasu.

03:380 Kanae Daub: Itadakimasu.

03:388 John Daub: Look at this aji jatama. It's good.

03:395 Kanae Daub: It's good.

03:407 John Daub: You eat it. Take it.

03:414 John Daub: Carlos, she has two eggs. I'll give her a bite of mine. No, Carlos said I can't eat your egg. Carlos said it. I've got to follow. Listen to Carlos. Carlos has. It's good. Carlos has the power. It's good. Shane's on a rocket right now. Shane, careful. Those rockets tend to explode in the air. The trip down is real hard.

03:445 Kanae Daub: Thanks, Shane.

03:447 John Daub: Shane's making this a lot of fun. Yeah, the tamago. Andrew wrote tamago in Japanese. What's that there? That's menma, right?

03:453 Kanae Daub: Yeah, menma.

03:454 John Daub: Menma is a bamboo shoot. Everybody's is going up except for mine. Wow, it takes so long.

03:463 Kanae Daub: Mine is made with love. It's there. Maybe.

03:467 John Daub: I'm going to go investigate. Stay here. Don't eat all the ramen. Not yet.

03:495 John Daub: It's the other people's.

03:499 Kanae Daub: Oh, okay.

03:506 John Daub: I thought it was mine, but everybody else came. I thought it was mine, but everybody else came. How's everybody doing? We're at Moriya. If you want to watch the playback, we started in Tokyo and we took you from the city to the service area in an hour. Less than an hour. We did have some traffic, but it was okay. It was a pretty smooth ride. We're going to Costco after this to go shopping, and then we're going to go visit a friend of ours. Then we're going to go and maybe drive out to the countryside to Mount Scuba. That area, and then come back home tonight. And Kanae said she wants pizza for dinner. So we're going to take her to this pizza restaurant. Pizza that she likes.

03:553 John Daub: Ramen, pizza, you're eating. This is not healthy. Ramen is actually kind of like a snack. It's not really...

03:561 Kanae Daub: No?

03:562 John Daub: I always think of it as a snack.

03:567 John Daub: Jim Mendenhall is here. Thanks for taking us to this cool place. Thanks for taking us to this cool place. Let's get the 1,000 likes. Jim, getting the 1,000 likes is one of the hardest things. It's only happened maybe once or twice. It happened on a livestream that went super viral. I think there were like 300,000 views in that street food episode that we did. But getting 1,000 likes in a livestream is rare.

03:591 John Daub: I will not eat your egg. Carlos said don't eat it. So I can't eat Carlos's. It's a nice egg. I can't eat the egg, Carlos. Carlos, can you just write and say I can eat the egg? Please? I want to eat the egg. Yeah, the ramen is... Do you think this is kind of small for 100 yen? Is it a bit small?

03:615 Kanae Daub: Yeah, I think so.

03:616 John Daub: No, there's half an egg. It's a little bit small, we believe. But really, I think that's enough to fill you up. Right? I can't see Carlos. Carlos didn't write and eat the egg. Carlos is still against me eating the egg.

03:636 John Daub: How is this that you're going to be done by the time this... You might pull that. I don't think so. It's not up there. That's it, that's it, that's it. That's gotta be mine. Yes! I'm going to put it in my mouth.

03:666 John Daub: Finally, his phone got changed. He looks so happy.

03:687 John Daub: He looks so happy. Ta-da!

03:692 John Daub: Oh, wow! Jealousy? Jealousy is hit. Look at the little peas that they put on there for coloring. I put a little bit of spice on there. This is a deep-fried breaded pork cutlet. Beautiful. Cooked in dashi with some egg in the pan. And then they put the pan with all that dashi on it. And then they put the dashi and sauce on top of a bit of rice. That, ladies and gentlemen, is a katsudon. Can you... I touched the... I touched something, so I have to use alcohol again. It's a rule. Okay, that's good. This is the sound of one hand washing.

03:730 John Daub: Okay. And inside here... Miso soup.

03:737 Kanae Daub: Yeah.

03:739 John Daub: I can't give her an egg. She can have a bite. The egg's all mixed up. I saw that. And here's some pickles here. This is what we call a teishoku, which is a set all on a tray. Teishokus are nice. And what I like about teishokus are that typically you don't have to share it.

03:759 Kanae Daub: Oh.

03:770 John Daub: Look at that breaded pork cutlet. It just soaks up the salty dashi.

03:777 John Daub: Salty fish soup stock. And you can get... See here. Juicy slice of meat in there. This is a hide katsu. That's what I... Where... This could be a raw cut. I'm not sure. Where's the sauce? The sauce is soaked inside, and it's on the rice underneath there a little bit. So they cook it in a pan, and then... When it's finished, they just kind of toss it on top of the rice like that. It's really good. And it came with a little cabbage salad. Let's give it a try.

03:821 John Daub: Itadakimasu.

03:825 John Daub: Mmm. You want it?

03:838 Kanae Daub: It's good?

03:840 John Daub: Really good. Go ahead.

03:852 John Daub: That was more than the egg. That's not really fair. Who's here?

03:858 Kanae Daub: I know.

03:859 John Daub: There's only four pieces of it in there. She ate one. No, no, no, no, no, no.

03:864 Kanae Daub: I got plenty.

03:877 John Daub: I'm like Joey on Friends. I don't share food. Joey doesn't share food.

03:884 Kanae Daub: I share.

03:886 John Daub: Joey doesn't share. You don't like Ross.

03:889 Kanae Daub: I don't like Ross, yeah.

03:893 John Daub: Hey! I like Phoebe.

03:896 Kanae Daub: Yeah, you like Phoebe.

03:901 John Daub: Yeah, the gellers. It's hard to like the gellers.

03:922 John Daub: Really good meal. When you come to a Japanese service area, stop and just relax a little bit. Because the food here is usually pretty good. The famous shops in the areas will have a satellite shop here. Meaning that they kind of want to... they know that a lot of people go through here. This is the perfect place to advertise your business. Or to give people a sampling of what it's like to eat there. And it's pretty easy in, easy out. You know.

03:971 John Daub: Before I go, any questions? Does anyone have any questions? Final questions. Does the train not go to the rest stop?

03:983 John Daub: No. The train does not come here. You need to rent a car. We're going to Costco after this in Tsukuba. I'm enjoying the live stream. Thank you, Joy. I just watched Peter's stream. I don't really watch his channel actually.

03:998 John Daub: Does food not usually come with a drink? No. Actually, it's sold on it. Since you're finished, Kanae, can you get some tea?

04:010 Kanae Daub: Okay.

04:012 John Daub: Should I go to your Starbucks?

04:014 Kanae Daub: No, no. They have it free.

04:016 John Daub: Oh, wow. Yeah. Tea, water?

04:017 Kanae Daub: Tea, if they have it. Water, if not.

04:020 John Daub: Hot?

04:021 Kanae Daub: Hot today.

04:023 John Daub: Fern Glennie Smith, I want Okoyakodon. It did look good over there, right? That was my backup, the Okoyakodon. Soba is good as well.

04:034 John Daub: The car rental, Susan, thanks for asking about that. It depends on the car. You can get a compact for about 5,500 yen, which is about $50. And the car that we got, those were sold out. So our choices were the Tank, which is a boxy car that I don't like. That was about $70 a day. And then the Prius, which is an EV car, and that was $90 a day. So I got to pay $90, a little bit less than $90, because it's a 12-hour rental. You can rent the car for as little as 3 hours. So 3, 6, 12, and 24 hours. And if you rent it after 24 hours, usually the rate is the same or a little bit discounted for second and third days.

04:090 John Daub: That includes the insurance and the price. If you don't have an ETC card to get through the toll gates, that's an extra 300 yen, which is reasonable compared to Enterprise and all the other rental car companies. Hertz in the US are very expensive for this service. Japan's very reasonable. Even for the gasoline, if you don't fill the tank in your car, it's pretty reasonable to fill it up. It's just a little bit more than what you would pay for a gas station. So I like that. It makes me want to rent cars more when people aren't trying to rip you off left and right.

04:133 John Daub: But why it works is because the people renting the cars are the car companies that make the cars. Like Toyota rent a car. Honda rent a car. Nissan. I think Nissan has a rent a car. Oh, you got the T. Yeah, it's complimentary. So when you're doing the rent a car business, you're also hoping that the people renting the car will also buy the car. If I rent a lot of Toyotas, I'm very used to Toyota now, I probably would buy a Toyota. So it makes sense to have good service and not overcharge for this kind of stuff and you get a chance to try it out for a week or a day or however long that you want to. Having a car is really convenient. Gasoline is kind of expensive. It's about double or triple what you would pay in the US, maybe. They charge by liter instead of by gallon. Maybe it's close to the same. Maybe double, a little bit less maybe. Depending on the rates. I don't know what it is in the States. The highway tolls are expensive. It can get up to like $40, $50, $60 to get off depending on which highway you're taking. So that could be as expensive as the car. Gasoline and gasoline and tolls could be as expensive as the car doubling the price. So just keep that in mind. So it makes sense to rent a car for more than one day and get the discounted price but driving around in regional areas is not that expensive. It's a lot of fun. Just make sure you study the Japanese driving laws. There's things that are different like stopping for three seconds when you cross a train track, even if a train's not coming. You have to stop for three seconds. The police stake that out. There's a lot of traps.

04:246 John Daub: Any other questions? That's a good question. You do need an international driver's license. Not all the countries can rent them here. It depends on which convention your country signed. Indonesia, for example, has problems renting cars in Japan because of the convention they signed. You need a Japanese driver's license. We don't know what the gas prices are in Antarctica either. Have you ever been pulled over by police, John? Never. Only once in the United States and never in Japan. I try to go slow and not make any problems.

04:291 John Daub: But being pulled over, they do random things. They do checks as well. On weekends and stuff to check your breath to make sure you're not drink driving. Definitely you don't want to do that here in Japan. You don't want to do that in any country but definitely in Japan. They throw you in jail. The other thing was the service area is the link is in the description. You can find out where I am right now by going to the description of this video. We have an electric car. It's a Prius. It's pretty smooth drive. I don't know if it's worth the extra $35-$40 versus other compact cars.

04:337 John Daub: No.

04:341 John Daub: So good. Toyota Rent-A-Car has sports cars. Next time I might try to get a sports car. They have the 86 I think it's called. It's a collaboration between Nissan and Toyota. You can rent it. It's red. It's a sports car. Maybe I'll rent that next time. I really appreciate the super chats guys. I love the car and the gas. You're taking care of that for us. That's why we love to bring you. Because you share the gas money. The GT86 Elite. I'd love to rent that. That's available. If it's manual I would really be happy. I have a manual transmission license. I like to shift. I prefer that over an automatic. It's very hard to find those in today's world in Japan.

04:412 John Daub: I want to get a convertible. It's hard to find it and rent a car in Japan. The Subaru. Thank you Astro Boy. I did not notice any gas stations while I was in Japan.

04:424 Kanae Daub: They're there.

04:426 John Daub: They're just smaller and they look different. You'll find them on corners. But they're smaller and they're not the same looking as the US all the time. Or Europe for that matter. They kind of get it away. Shane you did not have to do that. But thank you. Shane just paid for all the tolls. Oh no. Oh no. Oh no.

04:450 Kanae Daub: You put a smile on Kanai.

04:453 John Daub: Thanks Shane for looking out for us. Looking after us. So we're probably going to do another live stream. Kanae wants to eat drive thru ramen. You realize that right? Maybe we're going to do the drive thru ramen. I just ate ramen. That's why I'm like why are you ordering ramen? I want to take you on another adventure. You might be asleep when we do it. But we might do another live stream today. And then maybe when we return the car. Because we want to take you with us. And experience some more of the countryside. And we might go up to Mount Tsukuba or go to some countryside location. A river or something. But if we find something we'll go live again in a few hours. I'll try to give you some heads up notice. Because we're not sure. But if you're a Patreon supporter. I put the notifications there usually at a minimum 15 minutes. I shouldn't say minimum. But I try to do at least 15 minutes in advance. So that notification will pop up. Instagram stories in case you just drive by and catch it. And I'm doing one more Twitter. So the tweets go into the system. And the Discord server as well. Our moderators will put the link in the Discord server.

04:507 John Daub: I've got to get back to this Katsudon. Look at Kanae's ramen. You never drink the broth?

04:513 Kanae Daub: Yeah.

04:515 John Daub: You don't drink the soup?

04:517 Kanae Daub: Yeah, I didn't.

04:519 John Daub: Was it good? How many stars?

04:525 Kanae Daub: 7?

04:526 John Daub: 7 out of what? 7 out of 7?

04:530 Kanae Daub: 10.

04:533 John Daub: So so so. It was good but not excellent good. Not life changing. But it's good.

04:542 John Daub: Marty, you got us at the end. A Costco shopping list. Big bag of petal chips. That's good. Chocolate for Kanae. That's a given. What you can share. And how much is the petrol? How much is it?

04:560 Kanae Daub: 1 litre is 140 yen.

04:562 John Daub: What's that? Gasoline. I want to say 1 litre is $1.40. Like $1.30? $1.40? Yeah. It could be a little bit less depending on the region. I think it's 1 litre for $1.30. Is it cheaper in the US?

04:581 Kanae Daub: $1.24.

04:582 John Daub: It's pretty close. It just depends where you're buying it from. It's like $1.30 per litre. Per gallon. It's like $4 or something. It's a little pricey.

04:593 John Daub: Thank you guys so much. We got to cruise. Get back to the car. I got to finish slipping this down. We'll see you in the next. Thank you so much for buying us coffee and paying for our trip. Thank you so much. We're going to leave again today and bring you with us on another adventure. It's nice to get out of the city and share this adventure with you. If you're in quarantine, good luck. We're sort of not really... This is rare for us to go out at all. So see you in the next live stream. See you soon.