00:00:00 John Daub: Hello everybody, welcome to Omi Hachiman. That house right there is a renovated abandoned house with a history going back over a hundred years. It's a rainy day, and I thought I would take you inside that house. We're going to explore. How you doing everybody? That's a guest house. You can stay there. So we're going to investigate, take a look inside and see what this guest house looks like. The owner told me a little bit about the history. I'll run that down with you together in this live stream. It's going to be a lot of fun.

00:00:37 John Daub: In front of the guest house here in Shiga Prefecture is a canal. This is an old canal from the castle that's now ruined up there on the hill. It's a pretty neat place. I find myself in the countryside once again, and you can hear the sounds of Japan. I love that. It's summer. Let's go take a look inside. There's a bunch of shops and antiques stores just down into the town. It's laid out in a grid pattern. This is once again, Omi Hachiman, the area where you would find Omi beef, one of the top three Wagyu brands in Japan.

00:01:16 John Daub: Get ready. We're about to go inside of guest house Mio. By the way, manhole. Just wanted to show this to you really quickly. I'll be back. I love Japan. There's a key code to get in, and we are out of the rain. It's been raining all day. Welcome to Mio guest house. It is a beautifully renovated house. You can smell the history in here. There's a lot of wood, very natural smells. Slippers at the door. I don't mind if I do. Let's go in here. This is where I checked in. Yeah, that's my bags over here, and this whole house is mine for the next couple of days.

00:02:12 John Daub: Check it out. They've already set up the futon for me, which is really nice. They didn't have to do that. I don't know if my friend Kevin is going to be staying here tonight. Probably not. But they set up a futon for him too. Kanai can't come because she's quite busy at home. So maybe she's watching this live stream. So this is where you could have been, baby. Next time we'll be back. There's a nice little garden outside. Let me take you into the kitchen and then we're going to be going upstairs after I show you around the first floor.

00:02:45 John Daub: Let's go upstairs to the second floor. That room is pretty neat. They asked me if I wanted to sleep down here or upstairs. Actually, maybe I should stay upstairs. All right, let's take a look inside. Here's the kitchen, and there are some rules here. I like the fact that there's a little table. There's a stove. I think you can rent out the entire house kashikiri (private rental) or you can also stay here with other people. I guess it's like a dormitory. But I'll tell you this, and I'm going to have a cup right now. These coffees are all-you-can-drink. It's a little capsule coffee thing. Also, you can cook here, which is really nice.

00:03:25 John Daub: The owner told me that some of the people who stay here are sometimes bicycle riders, mostly from France. I guess they're in the guest books. But guess what? They're on Only in Japan Go now. Right here is the gas heater. So before you go in the shower, if you don't turn on the gas and turn it up—I usually like it around 42 to 44—these are the sweet spots. Make sure you turn that on or else you're not going to have any hot water in any house. Here's the shower and the bathroom. It's very clean. They told me to take a towel, put the wet ones in here and have a nice bath tonight. Yeah, very nice. There's the garden. We'll take another look at this in a second. And the hopper. Really nice. I like the fact that they have a sink on top, just like all the traditional Japanese toilets do. Clean.

00:04:26 John Daub: They told me that there weren't a lot of people staying here. The last people to stay here was in March, they said. So it's been four months without guests. It's nice to come here and give them a little bit of business and film in the area because of the pandemic. Look at the little garden here. So this once again, for those joining us, this is an abandoned house. The owner told me 18 years ago it was just sitting here rotting. He renovated it and turned it into a guest house. And it's been like this for quite a while. You can see that they put a lot of detail into the house. And I'll try to point out as many things as I can as I take you around in here. I hope there's no ghosts in here. Decision made wrong because if there are, I'm here all by myself. But I do like this little garden that they have. This looks like a little samurai house when you have a little garden in here. Really nice. Very traditional Japanese scene.

00:05:43 John Daub: There's always a place where you can put a shrine for your family or put a little presentation inside this little area here. I like that they have a little tapestry and a vase. Very nicely done. I love the earthy colors. Very Japanese. The shoji paper doors here have a nice pattern on the bottom of it. And the futons are already laid out. Sleeping on the floor. I like sleeping on the floor. There's a cushion here. Typically, I just get this. But when there's another cushion underneath here, it's super comfortable. But the tatami is already naturally soft. So it's not like you're sleeping on a hard floor. The tatami has some give to it. I like no hard floor, hard beds. And I remember when I first came to Japan, the first couple of weeks, my body hurt from sleeping on a harder material. But gradually, my body got used to the hardness of it. And I felt better, in better shape, not sleeping on such a soft bed. So that's the sleeping situation for tonight. It's just me. I'll be fine. There's no ghosts. Who keeps telling me that there's ghosts here? Got my eye on you.

00:07:01 John Daub: Neighboring places here are pretty interesting. This is a shop nearby, I think it's a five-minute walk. They make hanko (seals/chops). And I might go in there and get one made. Why not? I like supporting local businesses. And this is a local artist. He does a lot of things. And you can just go in and walk in there. But he will also, if you ask, make traditional things. You can make traditional Japanese stamps like that. That would be pretty cool to put on postcards that I send to you if it's made here in this area. There's the website. Very cool. So I'm going to walk. Maybe we'll go walk after this live stream. Check it out. And then the owner told me that there's a hamburger and craft beer restaurant, Mr. Das, nearby. Opened up by like a couple of Westerners and a Japanese guy, I believe. And this looks really good. I think it's called Rabbit Hutch. Rabbit Hutch at Omi Hachiman. Very cool. Not far from the station. Good selection of local craft beers. And this is the map. Omi Hachiman is very much set up in a grid pattern. So very easy to get around. It's hard to get lost.

00:08:20 John Daub: I'm here by the canal that I showed you, and you can navigate around here. Most people either come by bicycle or they come by rental car. It's a little bit tougher by train. There are advantages to having a rental car. All right. Let's go upstairs. These stairs are a little bit steep. I'm here. We got a miniature TV. I don't expect to be doing a lot of TV. I do expect to be doing a lot of editing. Somebody has left a Lonely Planet here as well. That's on the front cover. Yuck. Somebody's sandals. You know, Lonely Planet, it's weird. Okay. I live here. Do you really want to look at people's feet? The things you choose for your cover. Let's go up. Very steep. You can use your hands to get up this ladder. Look at the steps. Whoa. Oh, you can smell it. It smells so good. The tatami. I wish I had a wider lens on me so you could really take this in.

00:09:27 John Daub: Now, I think they asked me if I wanted to have the bed put up here into this room. But due to the potential of ghosts, I'm going to have to pass. Thanks to commenters like you. This place does have a really long history. I will not be sleeping upstairs. Thanks a lot, viewers. Looking forward to it. Oh, it's a nice view of the little garden here. Mark Zamp. Hi, John. I'm so glad to make it to two streams in the same day. That's right. It wasn't too long ago, Mark, that I was coming on by the Shinkansen. Jessie, thank you from Australia. And Bianca, June. Hi, John. Been watching since 2015. My first Super Chat. My first time to catch your live stream. Yay! I do wish Kanai had made it. She'd love this place.

00:10:20 John Daub: Got to watch your head. Now, this is all made of wood. It's one of the few times where the ceiling light is—I'm taller than the ceiling light. You don't often get this view. But it's kind of neat to be as tall as the ceiling. So watch your head in there. There are air conditioners here. Oh! Very nice. I love this tatami room. Fang is here. Nice housemate. Yeah. I could use a couple of mates here. Have a party. Shh, don't tell the owners. No, no, you can't do that here. There's a curfew and there's a lot of rules to staying in a guest house. This would be similar to an Airbnb, but I don't think it is. I'm not too sure about that. But these are the accommodations that were set up by these nice people who greeted me with a sign at the station about an hour and a half ago. Yeah, very, very nice.

00:11:37 John Daub: The stairs are so steep! Maybe I should just stay up here. I love this! I'm going to bring my computer and edit right up here. And I can just get a drink, edit, and then watch the canal and look up. Here's the view. Look up at the hill. That's awesome. We would call this a workcation, right? A waccation. A new Japanese word, waccation. Working vacation. This is a perfect working vacation. I could not have asked for a better place to stay. Let's go downstairs. This is absolutely perfect. Just, you don't want to, on a live stream, you don't want to fall down the steps. That could be bad. But you know what? That'd be good. That'd be better because then you guys could call an ambulance. Somebody will, right? Okay, we're fine. Nobody has to do anything like that.

00:12:39 John Daub: All right, there's my bags. I brought a lot of camera gear for the shoot. The restaurants are a little bit dark, so I'm kind of worried about the lighting in there. So that's, this is an abandoned house that is now a renovated guest house that anybody can stay in. So if you're coming to Japan, this is right next to Lake Biwa. Definitely, you're going to want to maybe stay here. Hold on a second. I better get the key code. Thunderbeards here. Japanese architecture is so nice. It is really nice. This book here has all the rules. And I want to make sure that I remember the passcode. So if I leave, I can get myself back in. That would really—what if I can't get back in and I'm locked out? Okay. I can't say it out loud. Okay. I got it memorized here. Hey, don't write the pass key. Don't even guess it. People are going to come and start entering strange numbers into it. It's not good. I do love this place. The architecture, the designs, everything in here is just perfect.

00:14:04 John Daub: All right. I'm taking you on a little walkabout the town here. I think I know my way around. All right. I got to make sure I know the key code. Let's see here. Is it working? No, it's not working. Ah, it worked. Okay. We're good. I'm not locked out. I know exactly how to get back in. Watch yourself around the corner. The cars do come in pretty quickly around. Wow. Now we're on a walkabout. Most of our American friends are asleep too because it's so late. Okay. Let me get my mask back on. All right. Safety first. There aren't a lot of people around here and I do want to wear my mask, not just for me, but I want other people. They're going to know right away that I'm not from around these parts. I want them to feel comfortable and feel secure with a stranger walking around with a gimbal and a phone attached to a stick. Okay. Here we go.

00:15:53 John Daub: So I wanted to also bring you this manhole right here. Look at the beautiful scene on that manhole cover. That's a beautiful one. Omi Hachiman. That's the canal that I showed you. That's the canal that we were just at. I love the manhole covers. It's right there. That's pretty darn cool. So where is this craft beer place? Mr. Das gave me a super chat to buy brew. He put that to good use. Look at the old houses around here. I love it. This is what you leave Tokyo for. Not to stick around. See the same old stuff. And I keep telling everybody. No one listens to me. Don't stick around Tokyo. Get out. Everyone sticks around Tokyo. I mean, it's not like you're not going to have a bad time. But I think it's just a little bit better out here. Don't you think? Look at this cafe. That's really nice. Look at that old building over there too. The air conditioning on it. That looks like it's been renovated. It's so beautiful. The cafe is closed.

00:17:55 John Daub: Maur dares me to find a vending machine. Challenge accepted. Robin Smith, the contribution to the chop that you can put under the table. I'm looking forward to it. I'll see if they can do a turnover. Sometimes it takes a few days. But if they can do a quick turnover, I'm definitely going to pick it up. Maybe they can send it to me. But I think it's great because there's not a lot of people coming here. Let's throw them some business. Been following you a while, John. Have you recommended so many places to visit in Japan? You're very welcome. I'm so happy that you don't have a month. I have a massive list of places to visit. We're walking about. Luckily, this town is in a grid pattern. Wait a second. There's no buses. I'm looking at that schedule. The next bus is... That's it. Two buses a day. There's two buses a day during the week. That's insane. On the weekend, there's two buses. And on holidays and Sundays, Saturday. And then there's one bus a day on Sunday and holidays at 6:50 a.m. What? Basically, you need a car. If you're coming here, you need a car.

00:19:50 John Daub: I'm looking for any animals like cats, dogs, wildlife to talk to. Sometimes they'll help you out. Directions to go or sometimes not to go. You know, Hachimanbori. That looks interesting. Omi's Merchant House. They said because this is sort of between Edo and Kyoto, there's a lot of merchants that were here selling goods. Not too far off of the Tokaido, which is the main highway, Route 1 that goes from Tokyo to Kyoto. During the Edo period, people would walk that. There was no Shinkansen in the Edo period. There weren't even cars. There were some horses, but most people walked. And you'd see the pictures of the ukiyo-e woodblock prints of people walking with luggage on sticks, carrying it on their shoulders. You can kind of feel the history in this town. Look at that wood. And it just rains, so you get a really nice color to it. Beautiful.

00:21:11 John Daub: Hey, Leo Nelson. Peaceful place to stay in and find events. I'm going to go to the vending machine to stay hydrated. We're on the lookout for a vending machine. Let's turn left here because that... Hey, Ranjit's here too. You got it, Ranjit. I'm looking for a place to get a drink or to eat right now just for a snack. There's a confection shop there. That's kind of funny. Oh, he's holding some of the confection. Maybe I'll come back and get something here on the way back. I can't even find a vending machine. But we can find lots of temples. It's a nice looking temple. Everything's nice looking here. That's somebody's house, man. It's awesome. So where are these rabbit beer place? I thought it was this way. Whoa. These streets look so ancient. Don't they? And I'm looking really hard for a vending machine. The windows aren't barred. They put that over as a way. They're not barred windows. They're to block some of the light. So the gates, this is just a traditional way. And it adds privacy. So it's harder to see inside with these across the doors. And it gives some privacy and protection. That's what it's for.

00:23:28 John Daub: They're not barred windows. But I can get why. Oh, look at this one is covered. I can get why you would think so. I don't think it would be too hard for somebody to break in. Just kick it. Beautiful. That's a colored version of the manhole cover. All right. I don't see anything this way. But we're going to walk this way for like a minute. Here's a version of the manhole cover without color. I like it better like this. It's really natural looking. You can see the canal and the mountain in the distance. Looks like they're waiting for that one bus. They're waiting for one bus that might not ever come. Oh, look at this. That's nice. And they put fresh flowers in there. Looks like a student giving teacher flowers. She's really working hard to get that A. I'd give you an A. Yeah, I can't read that. That's so hard to see even for Japanese. You have to feel that one. That's like Braille.

00:25:16 John Daub: The Gello Zone TGZ. Are you in a movie studio? That place looks beautiful and peaceful and perfect. This could be a very good location for filming. Slice of Japan. Hey, John here. I'm going to spend some money for that beer when you eventually find it. Answer, when I eventually find it, I don't know. I'm walking back to the canal just for a second. Maybe it was this way. One way or another, Kevin and I will go there to that beer place, okay? If I don't find it on this. How can I get lost too? But look, sometimes if you get lost and this is really important information here. A beer is closed today, somebody wrote. Somebody check the website. It's Wednesday. Yeah, a lot of things are closed. A lot of places are closed on Wednesday, including that cafe. They told me the cafe was closed. So for breakfast, I'll have to fend for myself. This is such a beautiful little place and we just stumbled upon it. Check it out. Such a guy for not asking directions. I'm not asking directions because people are kind of afraid of strangers that they've never seen before in the pandemic time. So I'm just going to take a zero on that. It's better to keep to ourselves and social distance. And anyways, discover places like this. Getting lost. You can hear some of the water draining into the canal here.

00:27:12 John Daub: The water is really cloudy because we've had a lot of rain over the last two weeks and just today, this afternoon. And there's been some thunder on the drive from Kyoto Station up here. We're not going to walk along the canal. Let's go up here. Actually, Biwako, the lake, Lake Biwa here in the center of Japan is very cloudy as well because so much water has been dumping into the lake. I think it's going to take a week or so before it gets clear again. Oh, they have some karaoke and beer, but it's closed. Closed at 3. Ancient, these rocks here. This is so beautiful. I could live here. This is that cafe. With the beer. It's open from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Let's walk to the end of this road. Hey, Sandra. Oh, Shiro. Thank you. Thanks so much for the great videos. Just a little something for your efforts. Much appreciated from our friend in Canada. Thank you. And Mayo writes in here. There's a legend that there's a vending machine in every corner of Japan. It seems like it's just a myth. I don't see any vending machines unless it's camouflaged like a rock.

00:30:12 John Daub: I'll tell you this. This town is exceeding my expectations. It is so pretty here. This is like one of these little towns that is on nobody's radar. And there are hundreds of them in Japan. Hundreds of little small towns that have so much. Look at that. Big wooden torii. Hundreds of little towns that have so much history to it. What a beautiful place. So we're going to leave this canal now. And that boat. Escape boat. Walk up here. I love it when they make the torii of wood like this. Let's just get a closer look of it before we start going back. You can see there's a nail in there. They made this looking like a barrel. And it's not. It's lots of wood wrapped around like this. And then just attached together with steel or iron. Interesting. There's some people curious about what's out here on the main street. That looks like a western looking building, doesn't it? I'm sure there's some history there too.

00:31:51 John Daub: Guess what we found? A mailbox. And a vending machine. Alright, what do we got? The usual suspects. But wait, there's more. I found another one. The rumors are true. There are vending machines in every town. Let's go to that one with the poster on the side. There's a little convenience store. It says it's got booze. It's hard to cross the street. No, they got a beer vending machine. Danger, danger. Will Robinson. This machine goes beyond cans though. This machine does bottles. What? Mr. Das, that would be a pretty amazing buy, wouldn't it? Alright, you know what? I think I can get a bottle for the house. I'm gonna take it back for tonight. I can drink it tonight. Put it in the refrigerator. Just do a quick look, see it's at the shop. Most of the time, the owners are in the back taking a nap. If you go in there, it'll go ding ding or something. Alright, you know what? I'm gonna get something for the room.

00:33:45 John Daub: Mecha umai. Means very delicious, this sake. Should I get this sake and then I can drink it with candy? Kevin, what do you think? Should I get the sake and then drink it with Kevin? Okay. Let's get the sake. Alright, I'll get the sake. Who's in on the sake? Alright, let's get the sake. Support local sake. Take it. 2,000 yen in there. Alright, which one should I get? What's the difference? I think they're the same. Alright, let's go for this one. It says, this one looks like, I don't know, it's all the same. No, they're sold out! Oh no, wait, remember the red one means I can buy it. I hope it's not sold out. Alright, ready? Three, I'm pushing it, I'm pushing it. It's beeping. Dudes! I just bought a bottle out of a vending machine. That's awesome. Look at this thing! Look like it was on a pirate ship. Look at it! Even the label looks like this has been sitting in there for ages. It's namazake, meaning it's raw. That means it's alive. This sake is alive. It's a living sake. Oh, this is awesome. Alright, we gotta get back home. Alright, let's take this back home and drink it. Come on. I bought a bottle of sake from a vending machine.

00:36:08 John Daub: Alright, I'm walking back home now. Kanpai. Very cool. Oh! Good call, everybody. I forgot my change. I forgot the change. This is why we, this is a community. All money must be accounted for or Kanai will get angry. Oh, they do have local beer. Biwako beer. Nagahama ale. Alright, let's stick with the sake. Yeah, he agrees. Okay. Actually, I said beer. I like that he put like some kind of tape on here. English! The Hakuenkan was built in 1877 as a Hachiman East School. The people and merchants of Hachiman donated 6,000 yen to build this school. That's it? 6,000 yen is like 60 bucks. A bale of rice cost 1.34 yen in those days. That's a lot of rice. There were 232 students, 115 boys and 117 girls. Girls outnumbering the boys. Nice. 1877. That is interesting. It cost them $60 to build this house. Hakuenkan. Yeah. I gotta get this home before it gets warm. It's alive.

00:38:35 John Daub: He's holding a fish. I really do like this place. It's got a really cool vibe to it. A lot of these old towns in Japan, they have a very, very elderly population. And the result is that a lot of businesses are... There's a lot of abandoned houses and just there's not a lot of businesses that young people would want to go to. Brendan Walker's here for celebrating the room. And Aiken. Here's to a good night's sleep. You got it. I'm gonna sleep pretty good tonight. I'll tell you that. I'll save some for Kevin when he comes on the 31st. I believe Kevin's gonna be staying with us. That'll be nice. I'm glad he's coming up here for the Wagyu shoot. Yeah. So... I'm making another Wagyu video. I know. But Omi-gyu, Omi beef is one of Japan's top three. That's what they say. They say that Kobe beef, Matsusaka beef, and Omi beef from this area, which is sort of named after this town, is the best in Japan. It's so good, the beef here, that they cannot compete in the Wagyu Olympics, which is a beef event held every five years. Last two years ago, Tottori won. And I'll be at the next Wagyu Olympics. Believe you me, I'll be there. I'm bringing my own knife and fork.

00:40:43 John Daub: I hope I can get back to the house. I forget my way. I'm super excited to eat some Wagyu. Not tonight. As I said in the last livestream, tonight I'm going to eat some funazushi. I'm meeting with Kanta Inoue, the guy who makes funazushi. It's so good. He's... I guess we can take a... Let's take a shortcut. Let's take a shortcut down this alley. It's beautiful. I'm meeting with Kanta, and Kanta made funazushi for me, which is a fermented fish in a bucket for a year. And then we ate it. And it was pretty good. And he took his mother's recipe, his grandmother's recipe, because he wanted to preserve it for the future. And now he makes funazushi. Look at this. Just stuff that you walk by and you find it on the street. Pay some respect. Let's throw some money in there. I'm so thankful that I found this. Let's throw some money in here. I'm giving some money for all of you, okay? All right. Here's for all of you. And here's for me. There you go. I'll bow. That place is closed. A lot of these businesses are closed today because it's Wednesday.

00:42:38 John Daub: There's a vending machine. I think that when there are tourists, these boats are guiding people around. That's really nice. Yeah, Nosh, what are you doing awake? Our moderators never sleep. What's really interesting, not one cat. Not one cat in this town. This is an outlier. Usually there's a dozen cats. Nothing. This would be cat playground. They can do their own fishing. Cafe is closed. Oh, it smells so good. It smells so good. Hey, Mr. Potter. Mr. Cotter is also encouraging the Noshster to go to sleep. He needs his beauty sleep. Look at that mailbox. I'm just mesmerized by all the little things added. What looks like it used to be a warehouse has been turned into a house. And there's some sort of just the natural rust coming through. The painted steel is beautiful. Look at that. I'm sure that they did they mean to do that? Is it like a wabi-sabi look to it? Is it supposed to be like this? Yeah. A L I. You'll never know if it was me making that sound because I'm wearing a mask. The little details. Very industrial. Look. I love it when they write English on the outside. The lighting that we propose is a tool to make it more attractive to feelings. I can get behind that. It's a little bit of a surprise. It looks like a lighting shop. I got to come back. It's just everything is closed today.

00:46:28 John Daub: Hide. Hide. Run away. They're on to us. Hide behind this pole. Do they see us? We're in the clear. This bottle is getting slippery. It looks like they're doing some woodwork here. And guess what? I knew it. I don't have a bad sense of direction at all. We're back to the abandoned house. Let's go inside and try this sake. Come with me, my friends. Yar! I've got a bottle of booze. Yo ho ho ho. I can't sing that song because it's copyrighted. You know the words. Just hum it in your head. Okay? You can name that tune in one note. Let's see if I got the code. Ah, spider! Countryside. What? I gotta focus. Just stay here. I might have forgotten the code. Does anybody remember? I can see my stuff. Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. I can see the book inside. Do you see the code? I can't read it through the window. It's in that book. I kept turning it left and right. Turn it left and keep turning it left. I had to turn it further. That worried me. Oh my gosh. All right.

00:51:15 John Daub: I'm going to leave it up to you, 1,000 plus people watching. If you want to see me drink this booze, we need to get to 700 likes. That means a lot of you have not liked this video. It's time for the community to sound off. Like it and you shall get a taste. Don't like it? No taste. I'm waiting. I'm going to wash my hands for 20 seconds because that's what the government says we should do. 20 seconds. Happy. 600 likes. Whoa. No, that's not close enough. All right. I'm going to come back in five seconds. Click like. Hurry up. Come on. Do it. Get that. Get some. No, we're not there yet. Oh, that's a better glass. No. All you got to do is click the like button. What's so hard? Don't click it twice. Look, I'm this close to opening it and now is the time you guys are thinking maybe you don't want to click the like button. This would be so easy. Just click it. I'm not touching it. Five seconds. Five. If someone needed a countdown, five, four, three, two, one. This is 0.5. Come on. Okay, good. Oh. Oh. Oh. Always right to the limit, right? That's how people operate. All right. Let's give this a try here.

00:53:25 John Daub: This is sake. It says it's namazake, meaning it should be alive. Oh, wow. It's got one of these old school tabs to open it. These old school what? Whoa. There's some... Whoa. It smells like a brewery. It's very fresh. I got this from a vending machine. Do you think it's going to be any good? From a vending machine. Show sake some respect. All right. Always drink like a man. Don't slouch over. Show it some respect. Oh, that's good. Oh, that's good. Kanpai. I should have said... That's good. That's really good. This is really, really good. I'm so happy I got this. That's a lot of money for sake actually, for half a bottle. That's a pretty penny for sake. And it's not a Junmai Daiginjo, I don't think. Junmai Ginjo. So it's not a Daiginjo, but it's a Ginjo. That's a good sake. And it's very, very fresh, meaning it's just come from the brewery. Yes. This is very well spent. That's the best 1720 I've ever spent. That's so good.

00:56:00 John Daub: For those who didn't see, Kanai's at home. She couldn't make it. But this is the guest house that was once an abandoned house that I'm staying in. They've done an amazing job of renovating this place. It's so comfortable. And they haven't had guests in months. So I'm the first person to stay here for a very long time. Inside there, they've done such a great job. Inside here is a tea set, I believe, right? Yeah. Oh, that's a nice looking tea set. There's no ghost. Ash, stop it. I don't look because I'm staying here by myself. Do you think I really want people saying, oh, there's ghosts here. Oh, did you hear about the guy who stayed here with an ax? I don't want to hear these kinds of stories, okay? Basically I want peace. Wait, what am I doing here without sake? Hold on. Don't try to scare me, okay? Just back off. Spiders and ghosts. Or ghost spider. Imagine there's a ghost spider. A 500 year old spider. And the spider kept getting bigger and bigger. The ghost grew from eating souls. Think about that. All right? And it's like one of these spiders from Jonny Quest, like a super-sized spider. Imagine that. And it's a ghost. So you can't even kill it because your hand goes through it. You try to smack it and it just gets angry. It consumes your soul. And then it doesn't even consume your soul. What it does is it takes your soul. And wraps it up in a cocoon. And it sucks the soul out of the cocoon. It's pretty hardcore. Kanpai part two.

00:58:07 John Daub: So that is a POV story. This is the end of the livestream, just about. So if you want to write in where you're watching from, everybody likes to see that. This is Japan. Everyone knows the ghosts come out of the TV. What? It's probably true. So kanpai to Nosh for being a moderator and staying up to like 3 a.m. for this. This is going to be a pretty interesting trip. Tomorrow, I'm going... I don't know if I'm going to be... Don't stop saying The Ring! Alright? Look, I'm already creeped out enough because there's a spider on my hand. Which has probably freaked me out so much I didn't remember the code and I struggled to get in here. You see, you internet people just want to add drama. There's no drama. It's over. Okay? It's over. Da da da! It's over. RK, you can keep saying The Ring. It doesn't do anything anymore. It's over. Ghostbuster 2. It's over. Um, is it over? I don't know. This is the end... I'm ending this stream. Which in PST time means maybe like another minute. Yeah, another minute or so. Um, yeah, thanks for writing. I saw from Mumbai, India, Adelaide, Australia. Look, Worcestershire. That's where the sauce comes from. That's pretty cool. Um, Mon... What? Where is that? Ontario? That's awesome. Um, Manoa. Whoa. Buenos Aires, Indonesia, Philadelphia, Brazil, Brazil, Brazil, Canada, Canada, Canada, Canada, Borneo, Pune. Oh, I always wanted to stop in Pune. Alaska, Manila, Hawaii. We got such a global audience. Bahrain. Wow. Finland, Chicago. Awesome. Cali, Arizona. We do have some Americans that are up. 1:42 AM in the West Coast. France. Yeah, if you're from France, you could tell me why is this place so popular with the French? Guesthouse Mio. I guess it's in the Michelin Guide or something. It must be in the Michelin Guide. Here's the business card if you want to check it out. Um, there's a QR code, so that might, maybe that'll help you get the website. If you're interested in coming, um, you can scan that QR code. Just take a screenshot and add it into Chrome or something. Um, but very, very nice owners. Super clean. And this is Shiga Prefecture. Yeah. Romania! Romania! If only this was some shochu. Oh, that stuff puts hair on my chest and then it falls out. It just grows and grows itself out. Shochu is bonugiuwa's material. I said bonugiuwa because that's the only Romanian I know. I know some other stuff. I love Romania. Uh, Antarctica. I don't, I don't believe you.

01:01:13 John Daub: Um, yeah. So tomorrow's going to be pretty interesting day. We've rented a boat to go on Lake Biwa. All right. And I want to show you Biwa, the Lake Biwa area. So I'm going to be taking some video with my main camera. I'm not sure if I'm going to make an episode out of it, but I'm definitely going to do something. So I might just bring you on a live stream. Um, let's, we can do a signal test. How far into Lake Biwa can the signal last? Probably, probably all the way, actually. Signals carry well through water. Um, there's a live stream and maybe I'll put a link here later on, like a day or two, where I was in Abashiri in the very north of Hokkaido. And we took an icebreaker ship out and I was about two kilometers away from the mainland and I still had a clean signal. There's a live stream I did about two years ago. Awesome experience. Very, very cool. Um, you can see that here on this channel, Only in Japan Go. Yeah. And tomorrow, so it's mostly fishing tomorrow. And the 31st is all like Wagyu. Yeah. Okay. So I'll be going to a Wagyu farm and seeing how they grow the best beef in Japan. One of the best. And then I will go to a butcher shop and ask the butcher some questions and get some cuts for Kanai cause she couldn't make it. And then I'm going to go to a restaurant with Kev and we're going to have some Omi beef. Uh, we're going to feast like gladiators or samurai gladiators. Okay. Um, but I want to make sure that I'm not fighting to the... It's not going to work. All right. Just abandon that frame of thought. To all of you. Thanks so much for the support. Um, I'm really excited for the next couple of days. Uh, and hit the subscribe button. If on Instagram, I will put stories in to queue up. So then, you know, in advance, um, a little bit when it's going to happen, but Patreon supporters get the first. Have a good day, everybody. I'll leave the last five seconds of this bottle because it's a pretty cool bottle and maybe i'll live stream tonight i'm not sure i'm just gonna live stream a lot okay so maybe i'll see you tonight it's that is an awesome label it's made out of like washi paper peace out peace out peeps.