00:00:00 John Daub: Greetings everybody, welcome to Marunouchi. That is the Marunouchi Street Park. This is Tokyo Station's backyard. I'm going to take you up and down the street, maybe even go up to Tokyo Station, and this way would be Yurakucho. It's a pretty chill, and I don't mean that in terms of temperature, in terms of relaxed ending to the Obon holiday. There aren't a lot of people around here, which is a good thing. It is extremely hot. The humidity here is very high, so most people are staying inside in air conditioning.

00:00:35 John Daub: How you doing everybody? Welcome to another live stream. This is Only in Japan Go. This is the start of it. We're in the middle, and this is called Nakadori (Naka-dori, central avenue) Avenue that runs through Marunouchi. How you doing? Let's go take a look. We're going to wrap around the street here. We'll be back to this intersection. Let's go straight. Check out some of the food that they might have in here.

00:01:02 John Daub: Again, this is the pedestrian zone, and they're going to be holding this from July 26th to September 7th, and it starts at 11 a.m. and stops at 6 p.m. Unusual. I like what they've done here. There seem to be a ton of food trucks for us to explore, but you can see they've kind of made, what is this, like mulch and grass. So the street is literally turned into a park. This is awesome. Typically in the fall, this is a street where cars are going by, but they've put, and it feels like real grass down the center of the street. It doesn't just look great, it feels great. I could take off my shoes and walk barefoot, and it's kind of freaky. It's freaky, actually, how park-like this is.

00:02:09 John Daub: Everybody has been taking these alcohol pumps and making sure that you're staying safe with what you touch, but this is the Saturday before the end of the Japanese Obon holiday. Most people usually, well, typically people will go, Japanese will go back to their hometowns. This year is different. The government has encouraged us not to go back to our hometowns. For me, that would be America. I can't go back there. Because if I did, I wouldn't be able to come back. So they're like selling goods here. Seems like not a lot of street food. We're going to wrap around here, go take a look at the other side.

00:02:47 John Daub: I like what they've done here. Do you see there's a line that brings water and just distributes steam around here, which either adds to the humidity or cools us down. So let's go see which one it does. It's kind of cool. I don't know. I can't feel much of anything. Food truck. There we go. I guess you have to pay rent if you're part of that Marunouchi Street Park. So what they did was they just started from the side over here straight ahead. You can see the post office where I drop off my Patreon postcards to the postcard club. And that's Tokyo Station, the old design of it right there. So we're one street in behind the Maru Building and the Shin-Maru Building. Let's just go take a look. See what do they got here?

00:03:59 John Daub: It looks like some kakigori (shaved ice). Hey, Irvonne's in the house. Something cold. You got it. Jeff Ang. Hi, John. Enjoying the tour? Buy something refreshing? We'll do that. Let's see what they got. Try bus ride. Oh, I saw these buses going around. They're trying really hard to promote bus rides. This looks good, this curry. All right. Keep my finger on that one. Let's see what else we got here. This looks like it's from Tosako Beer, which is Kochi Prefecture. So this looks like this is the food from Kochi, which is down in Shikoku. I love Kochi down there. We'll have to do something with the Kochi. There's a Kochi store. There's a satellite store that I've been going to get some of the vegetables and rice and things like this.

00:04:53 John Daub: What is that? Brooklyn Lager? Looks like a taste of New York here. Very nice. So it looks like we have some kakigori here and some iced coffee. So I might go and get an iced coffee here. That looks really nice. Although the kakigori and the frozen drinks look pretty good, too. And then over here is another kakigori street truck. Shaved ice, 700 yen. But mostly booze. But mojitos, beer. I guess these are like sets, kakigori and drinks. It's pretty nice. All right, let's make our way down. I saw some food trucks down on the other side there. Let's get something cold. Put Irvan's super chat to work here.

00:05:52 John Daub: If you do look up, and a lot of people are, the street here are the trees. Now, all around us, we're surrounded by office buildings. People come out of their offices. And we'll come and eat here. But again, this is the holiday season. So there's no office workers around. No bicycles either to walk down the center lane. And there are some pretty posh cafes. If the street park is not here, when you do come to visit next year, there'll be a lot of restaurants on the sides. Little cafes, bistros, and things like this. All in the back streets of Marunouchi, which I consider Tokyo Station's backyard. Because Marunouchi pretty much is.

00:06:39 John Daub: Don't we see Yaesu? There's two sides of the Tokyo Station. One is Yaesu. The other one is... Look at this. Somebody has put some art in the center of the road here. It's easy to miss this. That's pretty cool. How you doing? It's easy to miss that. But I consider this to be Tokyo Station's backyard. Yaesu would be the front yard. And I guess because that's where the taxis always drop me off in Yaesu. How are you, Mr. John? I am doing good. Thanks for asking. I appreciate that, guys. I'm doing pretty good. We're staying cool. I'm at home editing a lot and it's nice to get out. I came to the International Post Office to send postcards for the Patreon supporters over there.

00:07:40 John Daub: So what we got here. Raymond writes in here, two trucks of kakigori and beer. Here's for both. Alright, we might come back to that. I kind of want to look, see, and what they all have here. This is the intersection where we started by. So we're going to cross over there. It seems the path with the most amount of social distancing is the grassy knoll. I don't even know what a knoll is. I guess it's a little hill, maybe.

00:08:26 John Daub: It's like an armored car. Oh, they're serving juices like lemonade and things like this. That looks pretty good. Alright. I'm in on lemonade. That's orange lemonade. Mango smoothie. Let's take a quicker look, closer look here. Mikan lemonade. Oh, I'm so in on that. Mikan lemonade, watermelon smoothie, iced coffee. Okay, I'm getting this mikan lemonade. That looks too good to pass up here.

00:09:09 John Daub: Excuse me, can I have a mikan lemonade, please? Yes, please. That looks really good. We're going to go in that direction next and see what's at the end of the street. I really needed something to drink. Thanks, guys. I need to cool down. Thank you very much. Thank you. It won't go through my straw. Hold on. Oh, tasty. Very tasty. I think they made it into a soda, though. I like my lemonade more like freshly squeezed, but there's some carbonation to it. I'm not complaining. I mean, like anything cold in this kind of weather.

00:10:31 John Daub: It's mikan lemonade. Lemonade being, you know, lemonade. Mikan is the... It's a typically winter fruit here. It's like a tangerine, but it's so much easier to peel and it's so delicious. Mikan are much, much sweeter than oranges. And it's one of these foods that we eat in the winter to kind of keep us healthy. I've actually brought in two boxes to send to two new Daimyo supporters, one in Texas and one in Australia. There's my bike right there. I'm just leaving the boxes there. I don't think anyone's going to snake them. If they do, I'll track them down. People are pretty honest.

00:11:13 John Daub: What is it people want with a box? You know what I mean? What are they going to take it home? This looks good, too. What do they got here? Apple and meat pie? What? Apple and meat pie. Okay, this is high on my list out of just pure curiosity. Let's go. Let's keep going. Apple meat pie. How do you do that? It's like the best of both worlds. Dessert and lunch in one. This area doesn't have grass on the road. Slight breeze coming through. Very refreshing. You can see on the left and right of us, very trendy shops here. We just went past the Brooks Brothers. I guess this is where dudes get like their suits for their stuffy office jobs.

00:11:53 John Daub: Or you can hijack this bubble. You can relax inside of this bubble. Check that out. I don't see any air conditioner. I guess it just heats up and stores the heat in there. It's a sauna bubble. Hey, Colin for food. Hello, John. Cool and refreshing park. Here's to a snack and thanks for the great content. All right, I'm going to go back and put this to use and see if I can get one of these apple meat pies. I've never seen that before. I've heard of meat pies. We got this like 12 and 4 pie from Australia at Costco. They're all right. Some Angus beef in there. But there's something pretty cool about this apple meat pie looking thing.

00:12:46 John Daub: Such a beautiful area. The back streets of Marunouchi, isn't it? If you do have a hotel in this area, it's worth just walking through here. Walk to Tokyo Station instead of taking the subway, the Marunouchi Line. Sorry, you could take the Marunouchi Line here too. Or the Yamanote Line. Just walk around Tokyo. A lot of the stations are within walking distance. And my friends at Tokyocheapo.com have a walking guide that tell you how fast it is to walk from one station to the other rather than taking the subway. And quite often, it doesn't make sense to change trains to get somewhere else. You can walk to the next station in five minutes or less, which is faster than waiting for the next train. People don't realize that.

00:13:31 John Daub: If you were to keep going, you would go to one of the Olympic venues, which is the Tokyo International Forum. That's where the weightlifting events are going to be taking place. And there is a, if you go straight, a Shake Shack, which is a New York burger chain, as well as a Brooklyn Lager bar inside of this really beautiful area. But I want to show you this building before we wrap around and go and get that meat pie. I think Jennifer Julien's been to this place, this Café de la Boutique de Joël Robuchon. Sounds French to me. I think Jennifer knows Mr. Joël Robuchon. I'm going to ask her. I haven't seen her in ages.

00:14:12 John Daub: This is an old building. I believe, I can't remember the large company that owned this building, but it goes back to the early 20th century. And from the outside, I'll take you around to the other side. It's a great place to take wedding pictures. I know Kanae Daub's sister, before she got married, they came here in suit and dress. And we took pictures right on the steps there. It doesn't look like Tokyo. It looks like a completely different area. Made of bricks here. Let's take a shortcut. Go through the main street and walk back around and I'll show you from the front. It's kind of in the style of Tokyo Station. That brick, early 20th century look that was popular here in Japan. Here it is. Mitsubishi Ichigokan (Mitsubishi No.1 Building).

00:15:15 John Daub: And walking down this street, it doesn't look like you're in Tokyo at all, right? Sorry, folks. We were in between some buildings. I know that the signal probably wasn't too good. Maybe click the refresh button on your browser. It should come back in because we're in between buildings. I've noticed here, you see behind me, a lot of these kiosks with maps that'll give you insight into the area that you're in. And there are Wi-Fi points as well. So if you ever get lost or you need to access Wi-Fi and you don't have a SIM card, you can access the internet right here and get in. And send some mails to friends and things like that. It's pretty convenient to have these booths around. And they put them in pretty much all the tourist areas around Tokyo now.

00:16:07 John Daub: There's the Yamanote Line that's taking you into Tokyo Station. And the International Forum where the weightlifting events will be held next year. Hopefully. As you can see, pretty much empty. Yurakucho Station is straight ahead. International Forum is amazing. You see that glass that's in the center of your screen right in there? It looks like you're inside of a whale. I don't know. It's just like a massive space. And it's a pretty unique experience. Let's get some social distancing here. Okay. Looking up, you can see that the building does not look like a Tokyo building. It's pretty cool. It's better from across the street. But this looks like it could be in New York or Amsterdam.

00:17:11 John Daub: The yellow line that you see is for people who are visually impaired. If you have trouble seeing, these lines will guide you to the intersections. So you don't go someplace unsafe. So when you're walking around the city, don't walk on these lines. It's reserved for people with... And you can see here with these marks here, tells you where there's an intersection. So tactile pavement allows people with visual problems or who are blind to get around. And you can see the signs that say, this is where you can get around the city. So you want to stay clear of people who are using them for things other than foot massages. Very nice, isn't it? Kind of soaked that up. This steam is everywhere. All right. I'm going back now to the street.

00:18:20 John Daub: Oh, you know what? Just down the street is the Apple Store. And I wanted to show you because they have such a strict policy in order to get in there. And then I want to get that meat and apple pie for us. There's a link in the description for a map. If you're thinking about coming to this area or if on your own time, you want to go check out the street view, you can walk down Nakadori Avenue by yourself digitally and take a look at this amazing... I think it's pretty amazing being downtown like this and following a lady with a brown bag. It's pretty cool. Despite the lack of tourists, the buses are running and they are trying to get people to take tours, especially during the Obon holiday. And we're not about foreign tourists. But tourists that are living here, international people living here in Japan, there's over a million of them. And a lot of them are looking for places to visit. So Japan's tourism industry has shifted to inside Japan tourism.

00:19:48 John Daub: They haven't finished all the construction in the Tokyo Station area either. You can see they wanted to have this done for the Olympics, all of this. But I think after the Olympics was canceled, there wasn't as much of a... Things settled down a little bit, probably because of the pandemic. There's the Apple Store, dead center. And this is a new one. And I only wanted to show you this, not to promote Apple, although I'm using an iPhone right now. But I want to just show you how they're kind of taking this pandemic quite seriously, with temperature checks. And this policy is pretty much the norm for places like Tokyo Disneyland and entering other buildings where masks are a requirement. But more than just the masks, temperature checks and alcohol hand wipes, and simply making sure that there aren't a lot of people that are in the shop.

00:20:45 John Daub: You can see as we get closer to it, the Apple Store still draws kind of a crowd, mainly to get their products fixed. I just ordered a new computer to help to edit the new content that I'm making. So there's a lady who's getting temperature checked there. There's umbrellas to keep you out of the sun in case the sun comes in this direction. And they're checking to see for people who have appointments and reservations and things like this. To go in there, you have to wipe your hands with alcohol. There's a lady making sure she's sanitized before she goes in and touches the products. And these are small things, I think, that we do here in Japan to try to keep the risk down. Everybody is wearing a mask. It's pretty relaxed here. And you can see the social distancing is in place. The Apple staff is bringing water out to people to keep cool as well. I think that's a pretty nice touch. They do little things like that.

00:22:28 John Daub: Miko Ono from the Philippines, how you doing? I want to shout out to Andrew Branch in Pennsylvania. Happy birthday. He's one of a long time supporter over there in Pennsylvania. Just had a birthday yesterday and his wife sent me a message to say hi. So shout out to Andrew. Thanks buddy. I hope you had a good birthday yesterday. There's some people getting off the bus here. Let's get my mask on. So you can see this is a tourist bus and it kind of goes around Tokyo. That's interesting. There's a Kyoto... What? This takes you to Kyoto? I guess they're advertising both of the buses together. If you're interested, there's the info on the J-bus. You can see more info if you're trying to plan your trip. A lot of people have been asking me things to do in Tokyo. This could be one of those things to do. This is for an expressway bus that'll take you to Kyoto. So there's a Tokyo Midnight Express bus to Kyoto. That's interesting. Right behind Tokyo's Marunouchi Station. Across from the Apple store. So there you go. That's kind of a good thing to know. I bookmarked that mentally. Let's go to get that apple meat pie. Support some food trucks.

00:24:11 John Daub: This is Marunouchi, not Ginza. Can I speak Japanese? I can't speak Japanese at all. I've been living in Tokyo for 23 years. Not Tokyo. I live in Japan. I don't really speak Japanese on live streams. Why would you speak Japanese if everybody's speaking English? Doesn't make sense. You can hear the cicadas, semi in Japanese. I was going to attack Kanae on the balcony the other day. Just flew up and she was screaming. She said it died on the balcony. Screeching. And we're getting close to the end of it. Alright, we've gotten to the end of the lemonade as well. That was pretty good. Alright, let's go get some meat pie.

00:25:34 John Daub: There's that truck right there. Getting to know this area. Once again, for those joining us. We are at the Marunouchi Street Park. And I thought I would take a break from editing. And share 30 minutes with you. And eat some food. Let's see what they got here. They have apple and meat pie. Spicy meat pie. GBA pie? What's that? And lamb meat pie. I think I'm going to go for the apple meat pie. That sounds really interesting. Konnichiwa. Apple meat pie, onegaishimasu. One more, please. 550 yen. Yes. Ah, thank you. 450 yen. Ah, thank you. Is there a restaurant? There's no restaurant. It's just a food truck. Oh. Yes. Yes. Thank you. Don't fall. Thank you. Thank you.

00:27:04 John Daub: Alright, we got ourselves an apple meat pie. I think there's a table right there. So, let's go snag a table or a bench. We can snag a table. There's one over there too. We want to make sure we keep a distance from everybody. Hope the signal's okay. Right there, there's a table. Done. Underneath the canopy. Oh, that's a stylish looking bench. It's pretty nice. They bring out some nice stuff here for here in the center of Tokyo. Let me get the tripod and then we can set this up here. And I can talk to you for a little while. Signal is smooth. Thank you for that update. I pride myself on having the best possible signal possible. Because that's all I can do. I can only hope for the best. It's very hard to make sure the signal is strong. Because when you're walking around with 4G LTE, you're kind of at the mercy of technology here in a way. I mean, between the buildings here, there's pretty good shade. It's not guaranteed that the signal's gonna be strong. But seems like we have a decent signal between the buildings.

00:28:41 John Daub: Alright, let's take a look at this meat pie. Meat and apple. I've never had anything like this. We should have 1080p streams in the next... With 5G coming up soon. Oh, it's so soft! You can tell it's a really high quality meat pie. Lots of butter in there. Oh, man. Okay, I might have to break this open and show you the guts. Oh, this is good. Whoa! Check this out! Look at the piece of apple in there with the pulled beef or pork? I don't know what that is. We're gonna figure it out. This is awesome. Wow. Wow. This is amazing. It's juicy. The apples just add a slight sweetness to it. It's not... You know, I thought it would be weird, like, having apple pie. But they don't put cinnamon in it. There's apples in it. But the apples complement the meat in a way. Kind of... There's some saltiness to it. But there's a subtle sweetness that I think is a... And that texture of the steamed apple in there. There's a piece right there. It's a really good combination. That's why it must be the number one. It's different than what I expected it to taste. Very nice. Mmm.

00:30:46 John Daub: I have to go get Kanae some onigiri. There's a shop underneath Tokyo Station that sells really good onigiri. You can make them at home, but I think they used special rice or something. There's steam coming out of my ear. That was so worth it. Kanae, if you're watching, send me a line if you want one of these meat pies. Unigiri for Kanae. Irvan. Alright, it's from John and Irvan now. You guys are always taking care of me. It's really nice. I have some alcohol wipes as well. You know, one of the things I also... After you eat, make sure you clean up the area around you for the next person. In Japan, we're always thinking about the next person. That's why... That's why when you go into restrooms in Japan, public toilets... Alright, I'll be honest with you. In America, I never used... Like, even at school, if I had to go, I would hold it in and wait until I... Number two, I'm talking about. I wouldn't go and... Like, you don't want to spend time in any men's restroom in America. In Japan, you don't mind so much. You might even crack open a magazine, although I've never done that. Leave it cleaner than you found it.

00:32:52 John Daub: There's steam coming out of my ear. That's pretty cool. Alright, let's go. Oh, those people took the bubble. They're inside the bubble. Lock them in there. So good. Got a Patreon Q&A tonight, which is morning in the US. And I'm thinking about doing a midnight snack run either tonight or tomorrow night. I figure most people are going to be home. And there's where the meat pie, the apple meat pie was from. And that was so good. Gochisousama deshita. He doesn't have a shop. It's called Gugina Idea. Over there, by the way, is the Imperial Palace. And there's our new Texan and Australian supporters box. I can't send them today. The post office is closed. It's a very rare occurrence. Oh, look at this little cafe. That's really nice. Sit outside. Get a couple of cold ones with Peter or something. I saw Peter yesterday, by the way.

00:34:51 John Daub: Excuse me. Do you have a trash can at home? Yes. Thank you. It was delicious. All right. Again, what they've done with this park is incredible. They've put real grass here in the middle of the street for three months. That's just simply awesome. I'm not going to catch a cicada. They attack you. It's going to jump on you. It's going to jump on me and start burrowing into my skin. Ben Dejo writes in here. John, thanks so much for the travel notes. We rely on them for future plans. You're very welcome. I started putting in a memo or note sheet about locations around Japan for the insiders here. Last month, we put in a note about Koyasan. And this month, I have another note about Shiga Prefecture. Some areas there. That's going to be going up in a couple of days. So, big shout out to our Only in Japan insiders on this channel. Thank you so much. And that note's also shared with our postcard club and Daimyo members on Patreon. But I'll keep bringing you pretty interesting locations for you to take notes and add to your list of places to go.

00:36:26 John Daub: The great thing about the Only in Japan Go channel is that it's kind of flexible. I don't need to have a set theme but can elaborate a little bit in this live format on places as you just sit back and watch and decide if this is a good place to go. So, if you're interested in going to Tokyo Station, you can go to the station. That's not the Tokyo Station either. What is that? Nijubashimae Station, I forgot the name of that station but I think it's on the Chiyoda Line. But Tokyo Station is just right there. So, you don't have to go exactly to Tokyo Station to get to Tokyo Station. Otemachi is within a two-minute walk from Tokyo Station. Yurakucho is like an eight-minute walk to Tokyo Station. So, you don't have to go exactly to Tokyo Station to get there. Sometimes it's quicker to walk. Irvan writes in here, we take care of you so you can get more livestream content. Irvan. Love you, man. We're gonna walk right through the steam. Ah, it's nice. The steam water is like slightly chlorinated. Slightly.

00:38:31 John Daub: A lot of you might now recognize where I am. This connects with the livestream I did not too long ago with my secret spot to hang out which is right there. Do you see that? Who remembers this livestream? That little guard's chamber in the center of your screen. That's where I like to hang out. If you're stuck in the rain, that's a place I'll run and go to. And there's Tokyo Station with Japan's flag flying high in the distance there. The Tokyo Station Hotel is very nice and very expensive. And if you want an overpriced tea to hang out in a historical place, that would be it. I do like this up here. The Maru Building and the Shin Maru Building. The two are right next to each other. I'm gonna take you now inside of the Maru Building. And then we're gonna call it a day. But look for a midnight snack run really, really, really, really soon. And if you're watching this, hit the subscribe button because I do livestreams like 20 times a month. Just bring you with me on location shoots or take a break here in Tokyo and show you a new neighborhood where you can make your itineraries and decide where you wanna stay maybe, you know? Sometimes you're not sure where you wanna go. You're not sure where you wanna stay with your hotel.

00:40:09 John Daub: John Francisco writes in here, from one John to another, hello! My wife Lauren and I finally got a chance to watch your livestream from Texas. We love all the updates and info that you give. Hope to visit Japan. I hope so too, John. We need more Johns in Japan. Hopefully 2021 brings us a better situation. And it's just so quiet without people coming to visit this beautiful country. It was kinda neat for a couple of months. But now in the summer, it's so quiet. It's sad without more tourists walking around these areas. Alright, let's just take a quick look-see inside. Sometimes they have a stage and stuff going on. Nothing going on today inside the Maru building. Pretty nice. Oh, that's the rugby bench. It's still hanging out here. This is here during the Rugby World Cup a couple of, about eight months ago. I think they're still doing more, a little bit more rugby promotion.

00:41:50 John Daub: Japan rugby team's been pretty good. My friend Dan from What's Inside?, he got us tickets to go to this semifinal game. I don't know how he does it. He's so well connected. He's like, hey guys, I got three tickets. Do you want to go? I'm like, yeah! So Kanae and I and Dan from What's Inside?, we went and enjoyed a really fun time at the Rugby World Cup semifinals. But Japan lost pretty badly. Super nice. He's one of the nicest people that I know and good friend. It's a shame we were going to go and visit him. We were going to go visit him last, this spring because he just built a new house. But because of this pandemic, we could not. I'm going to walk around to the bicycle. We've already seen this park here, which is so nice. In the summertime, it does turn into like a street food paradise kind of thing. So keep your fingers crossed that they do this next year.

00:43:00 John Daub: Let me take you down here. And I want to show you the road that goes past the Imperial Palace. And I'm going to wrap around on my bicycle and let's have our fingers crossed that the packages are still there for our new daimyo in Australia. I got to come back to the post office on Monday to send it now. The good thing is that we can take a look and see what this station is. Keep forgetting. There's a couple of cafes between the buildings here too. So many things to explore. Getting lost around Tokyo. You're going to discover stuff that is in no guidebook and be really happy about it because you don't want to go where everybody else is. Everybody's looking for the same Instagram spots. But I'm telling you, walk around, get lost, you're going to find your own. Nijubashimae Station, which connects with Marunouchi Station. You can see Tokyo Station is just right next to it and the Imperial Palace.

00:44:09 John Daub: Japanese don't wear shorts because it's not polite. Same as Indonesia. That's not exactly true. Everybody is harping about all the manners and the laws and modesty. I got a comment the other day that John should be more modest and not so loud. And I got to tell you something. I think I better stay who I am and not try to become Japanese. I better just stay John Daub and do what I do. Because that's what I want to do. That's my value and what I can give to Japan. Being like everybody else, it might seem like a really great thing on the surface. But you're basically one of everybody else and you're not special anymore. So before, I'm not Japanese. I don't want to become Japanese. I'm happy being who I am and have a great deal of respect for Japanese culture. But it doesn't mean that you have to stop being who you are. I'm pretty respectful of everything. But on this point, I'm not going to change.

00:45:24 John Daub: If you ever want to be successful on YouTube and you start imitating other people or being what other people want you to be, you'll never be successful because you'll be a very plain, boring individual with no characteristics. And it's basically public TV. And that's fine. There's something for everybody. But that's not what I do here. I am me. You are you. That's cool. That was my response to this person. He watches the show but he says that I'm very crude and loud and not modest. And Japan is a country of modesty and I should be more modest. Didn't really follow. I just said I'll be who I am. You be who you are. Later, bro.

00:46:14 John Daub: Marunouchi. It's kind of an unexpected little paradise, really, here in the center of Tokyo. And you don't get any more central than Marunouchi because the Imperial Palace is right behind us. You see that there? That's the moat that goes around the Imperial Palace. The emperor is living in there. Hopefully, he's staying cool because it's a hot one out here. But you can't stay in the air conditioning. And I want to tell all of you too. Don't stay in the air conditioning too long because I think it's not too good for you. Go outside in that heat and soak up a little bit of sun. Get that vitamin D for you. Listen to Abe Lincoln, okay? Honest Abe knows what he's talking about. I do need to shave too. I would love to go and see inside but... Oh, the boxes are still there. Boom. I couldn't send it today. That's a shame. Tomorrow, tomorrow.

00:47:16 John Daub: All right, folks. I'm glad that Chelsea did a pretty good job today. I'm really glad that we got a chance to hang out a little bit for a little bit under an hour. I'll try to do another food run. And then next week, I think I'm going to try to go somewhere and film an episode. But I do have an episode on Kodo. Which, by the way, if you haven't, go over to the Earth Celebration YouTube page and subscribe. You know why? Next week, the Earth Celebration, which is one of the biggest music festivals in all of Japan. The biggest celebrations and music festivals in Japan on Sado Island. This very, very beautiful location out in the Sea of Japan shaped like a butterfly. They're doing free live streaming. And tickets to them... They had to cancel their European tour, but it's usually like $50 to $100 a ticket to see this. But they're live streaming it for free. I want to encourage everybody to go check it out because I love Kodo. There's a very talented group with... They're so regimented in their practice living together. For me, when I now watch their music, I can understand where they're from. And I hope when I drop this documentary on how this festival is and how they live together, you get an idea of the dedication that they have to just playing the drums. It's more than just playing the drums to them. But on the surface, it looks like they're just playing the drums. But it's so much more than that. That'll be dropping on the Only in Japan Go channel. If I can finish the edit Monday morning, which is Sunday night, I'm going to try my best with this. See you, everybody. Have a good day. Have a good night. Stay chilled.