00:07:00 John Daub: Greetings everybody! Welcome to Tokyo! And you see that in the distance on the left side of your screen. Tokyo Tower. The city is pronounced Tōkyō, two syllables, not "Tokyo." I say "Tokyo" quite often, but Japanese people sometimes correct me and say Tōkyō is how you pronounce the city. So that's Tokyo Tower. It's really nice from this point of view. This is an intersection I like to come to. It's a secret place where you see Tokyo Tower the best, especially at night. In about three hours when the sun sets and the lights come on, it really is stunning because you see the city lights reflecting left and right, and then Tokyo Tower in the center of your screen. Really is a centerpiece of the city.

00:55:00 John Daub: That's right. This is Tamachi. Also not too far away is Mita Station. It's a pretty place. Keio University is not too far away as well. How you doing everybody? Welcome to Tokyo on a freaking hot day. It's already June 15th, and it feels like the middle of the summer. The sun is hot. The humidity is high. We're in the rainy season but that doesn't mean it rains every single day.

01:25:00 John Daub: I wanted to bring you to this area because there's a lot of construction going on nearby. This shows you that Tokyo is still expanding. They're tearing down a lot of buildings that were a little bit older and they're putting up new buildings. I guess that's a good thing. Right above me, from this side of the pedestrian bridge, the pedestrian crossing, they're putting up a new skyscraper right here. I think it was like an old 1950s, 60s building that was there. And right behind it near Tamachi Station is another high-rise apartment complex. But that complex is going to have maybe the best view of the city. Not only is Tokyo Tower that way, not too far away just over here is Roppongi and Shinjuku. The entire city of Tokyo is laid out in front of you.

02:12:00 John Daub: We're going to be walking this way, and I wanted to show you just a new angle of Tokyo Tower. There you see the foot of it, right there. If you were standing here in the 1950s you would have seen Godzilla destroy it, and then a lot of really small ant-looking people rebuild it quickly for the next movie. It's a true story, sort of. Alright, let's get this episode moving. That's a pretty cool view though, right? If you like this view, click the thumbs up and I will bring you some more original views from Tokyo. But just one more time because this is the last time we're going to be moving. We're going to be here moving on. That's the view, right? That also could be a postcard club view for our Patreon supporters. That would be pretty cool. You know what, I'm going to come back at night when the lights come on. It's more stunning.

03:03:00 John Daub: We did have a lot of rain yesterday, and it's just going sunny, rainy, cloudy, sunny, rainy, cloudy. The temperature is changing quite a bit. I'll be putting my mask on when I get down there. There's really not a lot of people here. But before I did this I was making the announcement video for something coming up pretty soon. I can't tell you yet.

03:44:00 John Daub: Alright, here's my bicycle. I'll be back. Stay right here. It's probably not the best place to park yet. So this intersection, let's call it [Fudonotsuji?]. You can actually see it on Google Maps, and it's probably the best intersection. That's where I was up there on the corner here. If you go straight that way it takes you to Shimbashi. We're going to cross the street right now. Good morning!

04:49:00 John Daub: Do you want to know why this livestream started late? The phone overheated. It's that hot now. So I'm hoping that the time it took to cool down will help out and we won't have any overheating problems for a while. It's best if I stay in the shadows here. So we're going to walk for about five minutes and you're going to see Tokyo Tower get a little bit closer, bigger. And then at the end of this street, it's so massive. It's such a beautiful sight. It's such a beautiful tower. I love the colors of it. Everything about Tokyo Tower because it symbolizes where Japan was at that time in the 1950s after World War II.

05:29:00 John Daub: This country in the Showa era had to really rebuild pretty quickly. And a lot of people didn't have much hope after the fire bombings of 1945. Everything was destroyed after World War II for a very long time. The rubble was here all the way into the 60s. I've seen pictures of the city. It just took a long time. But this was built in the mid-50s and it gave people a lot of hope. When you saw this amazing structure that resembles the Eiffel Tower made from human ingenuity back in the 19th century. I guess they kind of made it to look like this. The last time I checked, it might be shorter now, but it was 333 meters high.

06:27:00 John Daub: And in our Discord server, I posted a video. This is where I first met Jennifer for an NHK Tokyo Eye episode we did. I think it was in 2009. It was a different world back then. But the link is in the Discord server. Somebody had posted that video on YouTube. Hey, Irvan's here. Get some Pocari Sweat to hydrate. Thank you. I'll get one at a vending machine up here. Let's see what we can find en route here. We'll look for a drink. It's really important to stay hydrated in Japanese summer.

07:21:00 John Daub: Oh, look. Unadon. That looks really good. The best of both worlds. Unagi on the left, gyūdon on the right. That's brilliant. Thank you, lovely lady. That's the unagi lady. Oh man, what a hot day. Look at that ramen shop with the sign that looks like Mount Fuji. Tonkotsu ramen. Red Mount Fuji ready to explode in flavor.

07:57:00 John Daub: Hey everybody, we're walking towards Tokyo Tower, and I wanted to show you my favorite thing. I'm going to show you the view of the city. There's a lot of students in this area. I believe Keio University is not too far away from here. But a lot of people do stay in the Tamachi-Mita area. And this is a little walk you can do. Also, there's little alleys that you can go to that have tons and tons of ramen shops. Do you see that? Loads of ramen shops. In fact, let's just go off-road a little bit. I'm going to take you down this road a bit, and then we're going to reconnect with the main street.

08:51:00 John Daub: Whoa. I love these little alleys. I'll be back here. Look at this old-looking building here. It's not actually that old, but they've put wood paneling around it to make it look like it's from the Showa era. Back then, all the buildings were made out of wood. And then after World War II, they started making them into cement. You can tell by looking at the buildings the period, based on the materials that they've used. At night, this place is pretty hopping, I think. People drinking and eating some food here. You can get some businessmen probably stuck there to get some socks for ¥1000. Pretty cool. Yakitori up there. Ikinari Steak is everywhere.

09:44:00 John Daub: I met a... Oh, when I was doing NHK last year, there was a... the driver! Yeah, the driver was a gold card member of Ikinari Steak. He goes there so often. I think he'd eaten like 500 steaks from there, and he had proof. That's a pretty big deal. Brad Fletcher's in the house. Grab a cold drink for me, John. Stay hydrated. You got it. Raymond said, tennis here. Something cool for your phone. I know the humidity there is punishing. It is. And imagine takuhaibin (delivery), Kuroneko guys. They're wearing pants and hot shirts. A lot of respect to the delivery people because they still got to keep going. They still got to move.

10:32:00 John Daub: All right. At the end of the street here, we're going to hang a left and go back up there and take a look. This is my favorite angle of Tokyo Tower. There's not a lot of people on this side alley. I wouldn't mind living around this area. I did put a new emoji. Can you guys find it? If you are a traveler, you have access to different emoji. I put a new one up the other day.

11:15:00 John Daub: Denise writes in, what's your favorite dish to eat in summer? I like sōmen and kaki, kaki gori, kakiage. Yeah, kakiage is good too. Summer foods. You know, I really don't have anything. I like cold soba and sūmen, which I eat all the time. I don't have anything that's just summer. Maybe watermelon. I love Japanese watermelon. The fruits are really good in the summer. Peaches are amazing. Peach season is just starting. They're going to see the Okayama white peaches really soon.

11:58:00 John Daub: So I believe that's Keio University's entrance, right there. It's a pretty cool looking campus. It's pretty cool, huh? Fungus, welcome to the traveler group. I love that. Awesome. On Wednesday, I'm going to Yokohama to a mom and pop shop that has found a way to innovate in this economy and is staying afloat by changing their strategy. And it's going to be a pretty good story for the new channel that's coming up probably sometime next week. I'll upload it. It's going to be quick turnaround. I'm so stoked to finally have videos coming again in an edited format.

13:10:00 John Daub: Welcome, CTA noob world. You are now a member and have access to 20 very crazy emoji in there. Whoa. Hey, hey guys, I found something. This is something fresh mango. I'm in on this. This is fresh mango, and then mango smoothie. I just want to get mango tea. It's mango tea.

14:06:00 John Daub: All right, let's do this. I just want mango juice. Let's go and get it. Hey, cha. Mango juice. This is a tea. This is latte. This is a smoothie. Smoothie. I want a smoothie. Then I want tea. Tea. What size? L size. L size. And this one is L size? How about tapioca and pink, too? What? Can I have tapioca? You don't need tapioca? No? No, I don't. Well, I'll change it. ¥520, please. Here. Thank you. All right. I'll write ¥671. All right. Thank you. All right.

15:15:00 John Daub: So I'm just gonna have to wait for my mango tea. I don't want tapioca in there because tapioca is like that's so 2019. Okay, only Dipango isn't doing his part to support the tapioca industry. I'm supporting the mango farmers. Tapioca farmers are doing just fine. Tapioca, so 2019. That's popular 2005.

15:48:00 John Daub: All right guys, so we're walking over towards that statue which is a tower. It's called Tokyo Tower, and we're about halfway there maybe. Thanks so much for the Super Chats and for the members joining in. Really appreciate it. Jim Jones, thank you so much, welcome aboard. We've got some new emoji coming. I actually have a new Toby (crow) one coming. I think we need five more members and we get another spot, and I got a Toby the crow emoji coming, a new one. I think it's gonna be okay, nosh nosh.

16:29:00 John Daub: Hello, hi. Know what it is. Uh, let's see here. What is the best thing to do outside of Tokyo during summer? Go swim in the ocean, I don't know. Pools are pretty cool but not right now. In the summer I like to go to the mountains. Karuizawa is really nice. Uh, in Nagano the mountains are a lot cooler than in Tokyo. Tokyo is so hot with the asphalt and the streets just sucking in the heat and releasing it. It's so hot in the city. I think today it's going to get around 33 degrees Celsius or creeping up to 90. I need my tank top to keep cooler.

17:26:00 John Daub: And we're almost there. We got just like another few hundred meters, and then we'll turn around. But Tokyo Tower, this is my favorite angle to see it. It's so beautiful from here. That's how you know you're in Tokyo. If you're walking down the street, you see Tokyo Tower, you know where you are. Sometimes it's hard to know that, but with a symbol like this it's easy to feel that you're in Tokyo, and you guys are with me. This is what makes this channel so cool. Oh, they're making it. You put the tea in now. She's putting in the mango juice. Awesome. I just wanted mango juice but I'll take the tea. I do, Irvan. I do have another camera. It's in my backpack. I'm sweating like crazy. I'm actually here to film an announcement video, so I was able to do that today and then I said why not go live and bring you an angle of Tokyo that is sort of unique?

18:52:00 John Daub: It is really hot. How you guys doing? Where are you watching from? Anybody from Antarctica? Share some of your cold with us. Some of that chill with us. Temperature is about 33 degrees Celsius. I'm not even sure what that is in Fahrenheit. Like 88 or something? It's pretty hot. Let's just say that spring is gone, officially. Thank you.

19:41:00 John Daub: There's mango on the bottom. Don't shake. Oh, it's a tapioca straw. Oh. It's a tapioca straw. They asked me, do I want tapioca? And I said no. They kind of looked like, what? Really? Why wouldn't you want tapioca? And I said no. Oh, that's good. Thanks, guys. This is the best. This might be a little bit better than Pocari Sweat. But this is a really good drink. Thanks, guys. That's nice.

20:30:00 John Daub: All right. Onwards we march. Towards Tokyo Tower we go. We have another five minutes. Maybe I will get some ice cream. We'll see what we find on the way. But in Japan, you shouldn't walk and drink. I'm aware of that. There are exceptions to the rule, like right now when you're dehydrated and you feel like you're in a desert and you need to drink something. Look at that road sign. That's awesome. Look at this. This is what I'm talking about when I say Tokyo is the hardest city in the world to navigate. It's pretty hard. Look at the roads. You don't know where to go. Left, right, center. There's two different lefts and two different rights. Each one will take you to an entirely different area. Pretty cool. I drove through here with a car a few days ago, just on the other side of Tokyo Tower.

21:55:00 John Daub: After we get past this tree, we should see a really nice view. Wow. That is nice. This is... We're getting closer to... We're leaving the Mita and Tamachi area. We're walking from there over to Tokyo Tower, Shiba Park now. It's not too far away. Oh, there you guys go. There's three really good-looking vending machines right here. One's Coca-Cola, the other one is Suntory, Asahi on the left, I believe. Yeah. I saw this one was interesting. For the summer, they have sparkling Aquarius, which is a new take on Aquarius, which is Gatorade in Japan. Japan doesn't have Gatorade. They have Aquarius, which is my birth sign. Everybody knows Aquarius. Those are pretty cool people. Try my best to live up to those standards. It's very hard. But I'm staying away from that bitter coffee, Marcus. Me and that bitter coffee have both tangoed. Both have left feet. It's really bad. I think there are coffee grinds in there.

23:54:00 John Daub: I approve. Thanks always for allowing us to walk vicariously in Tokyo through you. Not at all. Thank you so much for coming. I see that Toby just attacked PVG in an emoji battle. Which season do you like the best? That's a tough one. You know, part of me likes summer. I love summer. I'm sweating it out. I lose weight in the summer. The days are longer. It's humid and hot, but you can dress down, wear shorts. There's a lot to like about summer. But it does suck the life out of you because it is so humid. I think September, when the humidity breaks but it's still warm, is so nice. And May, which we just went through, is really nice too. So May and September, the ends of the summer. Not a lot of people here.

25:13:00 John Daub: We're just going to be going up another 150 meters. And then after we go under the underpass, we're going to be surprised with an amazing view. And then I got to walk all the way back there to get my bike. But it's worth it. It's nice to get a little bit of exercise. I got so much editing to do. The moment I get back, I'm right at it again. I shared with some people on the Discord server and on Twitch two days ago the music for the new channel. It's going to be so amazing. The music is really catchy. It's got some shamisen rockin' going on. Some fue flute. You see that right there? Wear your mask. It's a good reminder in the Mita area. Always have a mask, even if you're not wearing it outside when it's sunny, because there's not really a risk of giving it to people outside when you're social distancing more. But when you go inside, you want to have a mask. And you want to be polite. And if I walk into a shop or something, put your mask on if you're around people. Put your mask on. But I want to stress this very much: it is so hot and so humid. When you wear the mask it's very easy to overheat. Just take care of yourself first, okay? I know we have to wear a mask. Also make sure that you don't overheat. Just have your mask with you and take breaks. Take it off, be able to breathe. Mask sweat, I know it's not pretty.

26:56:00 John Daub: Let's take a look at the map. Map's a good place to get your bearings here. We started from over here, and then we went past. I guess this is where... oh, well, Embassy of Italy, how cool is that? There's Keio University back here. So a lot of this is Mita. High school, we walk past that. Now we're near Akabanebashi. We go underneath the bridge and then Tokyo Tower is right here. Do you see Tokyo Tower? So we get an awesome view from this intersection. So let's go over to this intersection, go underneath this bridge and we're gonna get an eyeful. Tokyo Fire Department, you guys are rocking that red. Anyone have a color picker? I wonder what the HTML color code is for fire engines. It's pretty cool.

28:04:00 John Daub: An Eiffel. Yeah, did you guys get it? Did you get the pun? I full Eiffel Tower. An eyeful of Eiffel. Did anybody get that? No, some people got it. I don't know, you have to spend a lot of time with me to get my humor. It's a nice Mercedes. All right, on the other side of this bridge is an eyeful, by the way. There is a Tokyo Tower emoji if you have an iPhone or any of them. You can get it from the Tokyo Tower. If you have an iPhone or any of them, Japan makes most of the emojis and there is a Tokyo Tower emoji in there. A lot of people don't know that. That's Tokyo Tower. Ah, this is awesome. Okay, here we go. We go underneath this bridge and it's... you're in Akabanebashi. Tokyo Tower is massive. Whoa, what we were looking for. It's really, really pretty.

29:31:00 John Daub: If you walk straight this way you'll get to Azabu Jūban, and you'll see the Tokyo Tower. And the Tokyo Tower is actually Roppongi in this direction. You could walk this way and then go to Roppongi. The other way, if you go this way you'll eventually towards Shimbashi and Tokyo Station. But in front of us needs no explanation is the... Volkswagen shop. No, no. If you pan up you'll see a beautiful Tokyo Tower, that international orange-looking color.

30:13:00 John Daub: Brad Fletcher, my niece is very interested in Japanese culture, especially the food. What would be the best website to order snacks and drinks from? Amazon, you could do Amazon. Or you could just do Only in Japan dime your package on Patreon. Or I don't know, there's a lot of these snack box people. Have been contacting me and said could you do a video on highlighter snack boxes, but that's not really what I do. I don't know. But I think that there are dozens of these snack boxes that have those checkboxes. You can buy those in the mail or just get them for free. That Japan snack box, they have this kind of race over there where they send you packages from Japan. I will tell you this right now, the mail is not very good. The only way to send anything to the United States is by sea mail, and I've been sending sea-mail packages between one to three months to arrive. So just keep that in mind when you decide to order something from Japan.

31:21:00 John Daub: Waiting. All right, so that was a pretty cool adventure. You see Tokyo Tower is now in our rear view mirror. And uh, the postcard from Andreas. Hold a second, your postcard took about three days to Germany. That's crazy, right? It took two months to get to the United States and it took three days to get to Germany. That's not right at all. All right, if you like these walks with secret angles and secret views and courses that you probably should take when you come to visit Japan and Tokyo, give me a thumbs up, click the like button so I know that you like this content. We only got 336 likes to this point, which shows me that you guys hate this content. This is a thousand people watching. Usually it's... strong word, but it's a very peaceful time, very quiet in Tokyo. Do you hear the bird chirping? Cobra Bebop, thank you always. Haircuts coming this week, guys. I have entire need. I can't control the beast anymore. Kanai's got the clippers. She's been charging it. Maybe tonight.

32:56:00 John Daub: Let it grow, that'd be pretty cool. To let it grow, I don't think I can. I don't think I can do it. I can't pull off the long hair. I wish I could. I'm not... I already have a mullet look. That's a mullet. It's like down past my neck area. There's a line on your neck that if it goes past that line you can't pull it off. It's like a mullet. I'm in mullet territory. I don't know if it's a full mullet but it's a mullet. All right, I can do a ponytail but it's not a big ponytail. But it's enough to have a ponytail, therefore it's a mullet. What's the big deal? Mullets aren't that bad. Okay, I would just encourage you, if you decide that you want a mullet or you have a mullet, more respect to you. Don't worry about what other people think. You enjoy your mullet, and I'm going to enjoy mine for the next 12 to 24 hours because this mullet's got to go, man.

34:02:00 John Daub: Chicago African's here. How you doing? All right guys, this is a pretty cool adventure. I highly recommend coming and taking some pictures around in the winter maybe around 4:30, 5 o'clock. In the summer around seven o'clock and get a really nice sunset view of Tokyo Tower as it lights up. And um, with the sun setting you'll never get a better view of the city of Tokyo than the city of Tokyo. It's an ambulance. Races somebody in. Yeah, it is a pretty good shot. Maybe I'll make this. I'm going by the way to Kanazawa next week. I was invited by Kanazawa City to go check that out, and I have some ideas of videos that I want to make there. So I'm gonna see if I can get some permission to go behind the scenes in Kanazawa, go to some of the restaurants and areas there and bring your story here too. Um, so a big shout out to Kanazawa. Thanks so much for inviting me over there to get some content, and I'm taking you guys with me of course. You're gonna get some live streams from Kanazawa. I haven't traveled that much since then, but hey, if the prefectures and if the cities are inviting you, that's a pass to go over there, right? So it's nice. It's nice that we can now travel around a little bit more freely if you're living inside of Japan.

35:22:00 John Daub: But we don't know when you're going to be able to travel internationally to Japan. Australia, New Zealand, Thailand, Vietnam first countries that will be allowed access, not in that order. I'm not sure yet, but it looks like in July we might be opening up if the people from those countries dare come here. It might even be limited to 250 people per day, which is really low. What is that like? If an airplane carries 20 people, there's like 12 flights or something. But it's a step in the right direction. It's a step in a direction to get the economy, to get travel, to get life back to normal just with a lot bigger precautions and tougher standards. Whether you think that it's too early or not, if countries have been able to keep the infections at bay or have zero, then connecting up with countries that are almost at zero too seems to make a lot of sense. Just to get the economies going because a lot of people are gonna be able to get out of this industry. They need it to come back a little bit. And we saw that when I went to Fujinomiya the other day and there's people, they kept giving us discounts and like we'll pay full price because we want to support you guys. They're really happy to see tourists.

36:49:00 John Daub: So we're back. Why is the guy staring at the back? People do that when you're talking. If you're walking down the street and you're talking to a camera in your hand, people look at you and they think you're funny. But this guy's walking with his smartphone so he's doing the same thing except he's not holding a gimbal. You know what I mean? Jaden Westhead's here, Jaden. How you doing? Hi John, how are you? I'm really looking forward to your trip to Kanazawa. I would have been there last month. Ah, I will take you with me until you can make it there yourself. Cobra Bebop, will there be another dime you'll slot available soon? Actually I have one dime you'll package that I wasn't able to send. Send me a message later if you're interested. I might be able to send that one to you depending on where you are in the world. I want to be honest, if it's going to the US it's going to take a while to get there, but in Europe it might be a lot faster. Spain, Italy, some countries don't allow mail yet but many of them do. Switzerland just opened up their international mail so they get airmail as well now, I think on June 1st.

38:01:00 John Daub: All right guys, what an adventure. Nice day. Thanks so much for joining me on this walk, a new angle of Tokyo Tower from Mita-Tamachi area towards Akabanebashi. Um, this street is pretty cool. There's some nice restaurants in the alleys. There's a ramen alley not too far away from Tamachi. And yeah, if you're here probably want to spend some time here and maybe rent a bike. You can ride around, it's pretty comfortable. Scott, don't worry about the raccoon pelt mullet, bro. Looking good. You can even get a ponytail. Scott, that's actually... you know what, I'm close to getting the ponytail. There's this uncomfortable mid-range between a short mullet and a long mullet. I'm like in there. And Jim Jones, how's the economy in Japan at the moment? In the UK we had a 20% drop in GDP in the month of April. Uh, Jim, just so you know, Japan is in a recession. It's three straight quarters of bad growth. So Japan was the first developed country to go into recession. So we're hurting right now. A lot of people are hurting really badly here.

39:25:00 John Daub: It's gonna be my mission this year to try to cover stories of small businesses and people who are doing their best to survive in this economy. And I think that those stories will show you the soul of Japan by seeing how people are innovating and evolving as the economy changes for the next decade. It's pretty interesting to see but it's also heartbreaking to see, especially the older generation that have a harder time changing. But on Wednesday I'm renting a car, going to Yokohama to go and see an older family business that has been able to do that. And it's going to be really exciting to see and tell you that story. And that's going to set the tone for the rest of the year. And I hope that you guys have a great day and I'll see you next time.

40:10:00 John Daub: This year where I want positive and inspirational stories from Japan and how people are doing really well here, are working hard. Um, but I hope it inspires you something beyond just tourism, something that shows you the spirit of Japan um through our small business owners here. Look at that. Oh this is really cool. Look at the rope, looks like it's made from tatami. You can walk through there and go up to this temple. It's really nice.

40:53:00 John Daub: Boyka, can you please go to Shinjuku Ni-chōme for Pride Month and livestream? When is that? Send me a message later. Uh, I'll go check it out. I missed it last year. Whoa, now we're underneath the belly of the university. Let's go, just take a quick look at the Keio University Mita Campus map. Pretty nice. It does look like an institution of finer learning. Not even Japan, looks very European, maybe New England looking. Keio University Mita Campus. Map is a great place to go to see the city of Keio. And the city of Keio is one of the big five universities in Japan. Don't ask me what the other ones are. Let's see here: Meiji, Tōdai (Tokyo University), maybe Kyoto University, I don't know, Osaka University, maybe Waseda University.

42:04:00 John Daub: But we all know that universities nowadays are corporations. And you know what, I don't think that where you went to school nowadays really makes a big difference. And for me, Keio College was just two jobs. You know, there was no west exit. You could go to community college or Harvard University. It all just depends on what kind of student you were, how hard you work and what you did learn. I gotta tell you, Ohio State is where I became a man. Literally. It really was. I've stopped laughing, it's a true story.

42:47:00 John Daub: I have been to Rebun a long time ago in 2003, but I wanted to go there when I was hitchhiking before but the ferries had stopped. So I know I was before the ferries last time in 2017. So I'll try to go up there again. Right now Hokkaido is one of the hotspots for the pandemic right now. So it's kind of been discouraged to go and travel up there, but I think I'll be getting a chance to do that sometime during the summer. And either I'll fly up there and rent a car or I'll just drive up there, which is a very long drive. But thanks to my license that I got a couple of years ago, it opens me up to be able to now just drive. And by driving, there's so many different stories that are off of the JR tracks that have something that you've never seen before. Driving is a completely different way to see this country. I encourage you maybe to first learn the rules of driving in Japan and after that, to get the courage to take a train out to the countryside, then rent the car outside of the city. So it decreases your chance of crashing because city driving in Tokyo is really hard. But if you take a train a little bit out of the way, pick up the car, it makes it a lot easier to return it. And usually they'll give you a lift to the train station if you ask, or it's a short taxi ride. Renting a car is a way to see Japan from another angle because Japan, although they have amazing trains, let me tell you, they are a car culture here.

44:31:00 John Daub: There's no more quarantine. We're out of the state of emergency. We're in stage two, which will turn into stage three, which is the end where everything opens. But we had 47 people infected yesterday. And that means, I don't know if there's an alert, but they found a couple of clusters where more than 15 people were infected. And I guess it gives us a little bit of a pause that it's still out there. As you see the students crossing the street, it's still out there and we have to still maintain our social distance. We're wearing masks in crowded areas, washing our hands, taking a shower when we get home, which you should do anyways. Take off your shoes when you enter into your apartment, things like this that we do normally in Japan. You should be doing that too.

45:25:00 John Daub: I'm so hot. All right, I'm on my way home, guys. Thanks so much for joining me on this walk around town. I don't know if I'm gonna cut my hair tonight or tomorrow. It's gonna be really soon, but I'll try to give you a couple of hours heads up. If you are a member, I'll put it on here, a notification as well as on Patreon, always Twitter, Facebook, Discord, all those places. We have notification squads because we know that the YouTube notifications aren't the best in the world. Actually, they kind of stink, but never mind that. There's other places where you can reach out. Make sure you never miss a live stream because when we're live, anything can happen. Like a crow could swoop down and leave a big turd on the ground right in front of me or even on my hat. It's happened before. That guy used to be human, but the crows got him and then they put him in this window. Look at that. It could end up like him. Thanks everybody. Have a good day. Have a good night. I'll see you in the next live stream.