00:00:06 John Daub: Hello everybody and welcome to Haneda Airport in Tokyo, Japan. This is one of the main domestic terminals in the country and an international one where a lot of travelers will fly to Haneda from everywhere. You can see today's travel, there's actually people here. I came to the airport way back in June to take a friend who was flying back to Canada at Narita Airport and there wasn't a soul. It's interesting to see now today, there are. People are being very careful. You can see there's a lot of space between those that are traveling. I'm here on the third floor. How you doing everybody?

00:00:52 John Daub: It's now procedure where you have to have a mask. I'm going to be changing my mask and also taking you around. These masks are not that good for protecting myself and I'm going to want to do that as well as wear some glasses. Do whatever I can do to try to stay safe, which keeps my family safe. Today I'm going to take you around the airport and there's some vending machines downstairs. In about five minutes, I've got to go into the gate. So I'm going to turn the camera off and then return the camera back on after maybe five minutes of going through security. It's pretty quick here. Then I'll show you a little bit around the gate, which is going to be really interesting. So let's walk around Haneda Airport.

00:01:40 John Daub: Everything here is pretty much automatic too. Traveling, checking in, you have a barcode, a QR code. You get your ticket here. Then you go over to the baggage, which is this like Star Wars space travel like thing. You put your baggage in there with a ticket. You have to do it yourself. The identification tag that you put around the handle. And then automatically it scans and closes the door and your bag gets dumped onto a belt. It is pretty cool. Anybody who's traveled to Haneda Airport knows this. It's very famous for ANA. Kind of like a Walt Disney World, Star Wars type of transportation for the future kind of a setup.

00:02:23 John Daub: Let's go downstairs now to the second floor. I want to show you some of the vending machines that they do have here. They're pretty unique. But they're only available in the second floor. They're only in this area of Haneda Airport, where you're about to take off. And they're, I think, exclusively in the domestic. This is the domestic terminal number two, which is what ANA's, we call it ANA here, which is A-N-A.

00:02:55 John Daub: There's a pop-up store for Mask Express, but it doesn't open until 9. Mask.com, interesting. Behind the escalators on this side, you'll see a row of vending machines that I want to come back here and do and introduce you to one time. Hey, did everybody see the video that just dropped on the other channel? I just uploaded a video on the new channel.

00:03:36 John Daub: Japan is very famous for its vending machines. And this one represents, all these machines represent a prefecture. This one is from Fukuoka. So there'll be items from Fukuoka prefecture that are really famous, like mentaiko (spicy fish eggs). That's pretty interesting. And you can pick up omiyage (gifts) to take home if you're flying from Tokyo and going back to like Kochi prefecture or going up to Hokkaido. You can take some Kumamoto prefecture goods with you, which includes Kumamoto right there in the vending machine.

00:04:29 John Daub: This one is Soja City in Okayama. That's interesting. So actually, a town has its own vending machine. And they're selling curry from all different kinds of places. This one is Toyama. The mascot gives it away. Toyama's famous for its rice and sake and all sorts of things. And you can see there's bags of rice in there. Fukushima has a machine. Fukushima's represented pretty well. And Fukushima has these masks. I remember I covered this. A mask maker. I have a live stream of a guy who makes these masks that are sold in here.

00:05:14 John Daub: There's Yamagata, which is famous for its produce. Wow, Akita prefecture with the Akita dog. Akita Inu. And they got Akita Inu stuffed animals. Alright, I'm gonna have to get that for Kanae Daub when I come back. And then this is an instant ramen vending machine. Instant ramen. And these are instant ramens from all over Japan. Very interesting. I like this zombie ramen here. It's got like an eyeball in there. It's pretty creepy. I'm gonna have to get some of this stuff when I get back home. I'm not gonna take it with me. And then next to it is a hot vending machine, which all of you who watch YouTube probably know about these.

00:06:35 John Daub: So now I'm just walking for a minute and then gotta go through the gate. My flight's at 7:55 and it's now 7:15 so I got some time. It's interesting. You can find some gifts here at the airport. But again, like last time I was at an airport was quite a while ago and there was not a lot of life. It was pretty kind of depressing. Not a soul. And I actually did a live stream walking through Narita Airport at the worst time where there was not one person at the international terminal. Now this is domestic. I don't know what international is like.

00:07:14 John Daub: And one floor down is the arrivals. But you can see the situation here in Japan. Everybody has a mask. I think it's required when you walk in. There's a lot of gift stores and you can see all the gift stores have vinyl coverings to keep people safe. Perfectly positioned in the middle. Almost robotic. Very cool. Only in Japan. The services here are incredible. Face shields. Tokyo Bananas has been evolving. This is the Tokyo Banana for Haneda Airport. Interesting. Always looking for something new for our daimyo (patrons). Tokyo Tulip. They sell these at Tokyo Station as well. They're really good.

00:08:17 John Daub: I'm probably going to eat when I get there. I promised myself I'd probably not eat until I get there. But we'll see what's inside of the gate. Oh, these are pretty cool. These are crispy sandwiches. Oh, here's the gate. Gate B I'm going to be going in. It's moving pretty quickly. You can see the line is moving. Alright, I'm going to get my white mask on now. Adds extra security.

00:09:43 John Daub: The reason why I'm changing the mask is because this one offers better protection. And it is water resistant on the front. So it also adds better protection for the people around me. Just slightly. But in these times it's better not to take any chances here. Here's the gate. And I'm going to be going in from gate B and then I'll take you inside here. But I can't live stream during the security check. So I'm going to be offline for about five minutes or so. I hope you guys don't mind. But gotta be offline for five minutes. You can see that there's some checking here. I need the app and my phone back in order to check in. I'm traveling to Kochi Prefecture.

00:10:41 John Daub: Always fly into Haneda if you can because it's an easier ride into the city. But if you can't, Narita is not too bad either. I like both airports. I don't mind them too much. But Narita is definitely to the center of the city a hike. It's maybe 30 minutes further depending on where you're going in the city. You can't get to Kochi in a car because it's going to take forever. That's true. I can't go by Shinkansen either because that takes forever too. I took out all my lithium batteries so my backpack is pretty much all lithium batteries. Alright everybody. I'll be back in about 5 to 10 minutes. Go get yourself a snack or eat some breakfast.

00:11:36 John Daub: Alright everybody. I'm on the other side of the security protocol. That was pretty smooth and pretty quick. A lot of cool things and technologies that they use here in Japan that they don't anywhere. Like these bins. After they get to the end, they automatically get sucked into the system. They have this really unique system where the trays somehow make it back really automatically. Almost like a sushi belt. That's the way it should be.

00:12:14 John Daub: Here's some more gifts in the gift shop. Boy it really is harder to breathe in these masks compared to the Pitta masks that I usually use. I thought about sending these to my daimyo supporters but s'mores is like an American thing. I wonder how the Japanese make it. They make them in the little teeny pies. Here's the new Prime Minister of Japan. Suga-chan has his own gift box. Look at this. Suga is the Prime Minister of Japan and he has his pancakes. That's hilarious. I guess the age of Abe, Prime Minister Abe is over and Suga's famous for having the sign that says Reiwa on it. He's from Akita Prefecture.

00:13:50 John Daub: You can get bentos for the airplane. In fact, we have something called ekiben (train station bentos). They have also here kukoben (airplane bentos). Let's see if I can find some of those. Here's the katsu sando. I got this from a vending machine in Akihabara before. Mixed sandwich boxes. Here's the kukoben for the airplanes. Here's some sushi down there. Shumai. And then of course there's gonna be some ANA airline goods. This time I'm not gonna be running for the airport. I gotta go to gate 60, and it's only 40 meters away. So let's take a look a little bit around the airport before I start running towards the gate. I got a little bit of time. If Kanae Daub were awake, she'd be yelling at me. What are you doing? Just get to the gate, John! I hear her now.

00:15:22 John Daub: Look at that onigiri right there. Onigiri set for those that aren't too hungry. That's like $5 for two onigiri and some miso soup. It's a good deal. There's people waiting in line. Oh! If you eat here, they give you miles for ANA. So it's like an ANA restaurant. So you can accumulate miles by eating here. Look at that hanjuku tamago (soft-boiled egg)! This is a nikutama udon or soba.

00:16:10 John Daub: Alright, I'm at my gate. That was quick. That was too quick. This is why for domestic flights, you only have to arrive to the airport 45 minutes before a domestic flight. This is like the 1960s, you know? If you go to the US, you gotta arrive like 4 hours before your flight. Here in Japan, it's still like 30 minutes. I once arrived 45 minutes and I got on the flight and I had like 10 minutes to spare. Oh, here's our flight. Here's the airplane. Thank goodness it's a nice day. No rain today. One of the great things about Haneda airport is in the distance across the bay, you can see I think Chiba across the bay. And then from the other direction, you can see Tokyo, the Skytree and the city.

00:17:41 John Daub: Some people have been asking me where I'm heading. I'm heading to Kochi to film a video for the main channel. Going there by train takes forever, so the best way to go is to go by plane. Unfortunately, yours truly is sitting in the middle. I'm in the middle between the dude who's gonna be has the window, and the dude who's in the aisle. I'm slapped in the middle there. I guess it's a full flight. There are only three seats available. That's alright. For those who haven't traveled by airplane in a long time, do you remember those long corridors that you gotta walk to get onto the plane?

00:18:48 John Daub: The check-in procedure for flights are pretty much the same. Except they just take a little bit more care, a little bit more alcohol pumps. They did check my temperature really quickly before I got in through the gate. So the security procedures are there. The domestic terminal for Haneda is not too big. This is pretty much it here for Terminal 2. Not too many gates. It's pretty efficient. Somehow they do it a little bit quicker here, and the flights, they can come in and they get out a little bit faster. I don't know how they do it. Guess it's just efficiency. There is a tempura place looks good. Tempura soba.

00:20:26 John Daub: Hey, if you like these airport streams, give me a thumbs up, and maybe I'll do one at Kochi Airport on the other side. We'll go take a look at Kochi. This one has 2020 on the side of it. I thought that was an Olympic one. ANA does a really good job of like wrapping the planes in some sort of anime or manga character. They have the Star Wars airplanes, and they have the Pokemon airplanes, I believe. That's pretty neat. This flight here is going to Sapporo.

00:22:14 John Daub: How you doing? So today I'm off to Kochi Prefecture. I can't tell you the top secret of this topic. It's top secret. But it's something I'll probably be putting onto the channel sometime in December. Actually, for this episode, I'm filming the first part for the next two days. And then tomorrow in December, I'm going back to Kochi to film the rest of this. It's a pretty interesting topic that I wanted to cover for a very long time, and I'm glad that I got access to go and film it. So sometimes, it takes me two trips to film an episode. But this is gonna be worth it. Basically, they're harvesting something down there that I wanna film. When I did the mango episode, I had to go back for the auction in April, but I filmed the growing of the mangoes in January, and that was pretty unique. That's what gives the episodes sort of a reason to watch it. I mean, a vlog is something like a daily thing that you would do like this, where it's finished after one take. Whereas sometimes with the episodes that I do with the edited video it takes me months to do an episode. Just have to wait on some things.

00:24:19 John Daub: Here's the end of the airport, I just wanted to show you really quickly before I go back and get on the plane. I think from this direction you can see the city of Tokyo, so I'm gonna take you to that window to get a quick look, and then I'm gonna turn around. Oh, that looks so delicious! Look at that Baumkuchen (layered cake)! I'm attracted to sugar, like Mothra is to light. Oh, they're making it in the window here. These are like cakes.

00:25:14 John Daub: Now you get an idea of what is inside of Haneda Airport. It's been forever since we did an airport livestream, hasn't it? Here is a picture from this angle. You can see all of Tokyo with the airplane. This is a nice picture here. So it's worth just doing the walk, and then just above that airplane, you can see the Tokyo Skytree. Do you see that? That's the city of Tokyo there. Skytree. That's how you know that 600 plus meter high tower. City of Tokyo. And after our plane takes off, you get a really amazing view of Mount Fuji. And if you can't see Mount Fuji at first, when the plane gets over the clouds, you can see the tip of Mount Fuji peaking over the clouds, which is really interesting. But I think today we're gonna get a pretty good view of Mount Fuji. Great, great view from Haneda Airport.

00:26:40 John Daub: There's a lot of people getting a Starbucks coffee. I'm gonna pass. That's a line. Really? For that coffee? I will probably record it. So I'm sitting in the middle, so it's not a great place to sit to get a picture. But if I can get a picture, snap a picture of Mount Fuji, I will definitely upload it to Instagram. If you're not following my Instagram, you gotta do it because there's a lot of really cool photos. And I'll be posting so many of the photos onto the Instagram feed, as well as share them on Discord, too. We have a photo sharing group inside of our Discord server, which is free for everybody. We're almost at 10,000 users on that server.

00:27:43 John Daub: Here comes the ANA ladies. Professional. They're going on a flight. Look at Miyazaki beef representing. That is pretty cool. Alright, I gotta get me some Miyazaki beef now. Ah, man. Miyazaki beef was just so good. When I made the Omi beef episode, which is one of the top three Wagyu brands in Japan, it's interesting to hear in that interview with the CEO, how all of the brands around Japan, all these beef brands, Wagyu brands, they're all pretty much new over the last 30 years. Before 30 years ago, there were only three brands for a very long time. All of the beef pretty much come in from Tajima, that Hyogo area. Kobe beef is picked from the best Wagyu cattle from Hyogo prefecture. Most of them, a lot of them come in from Tajima.

00:29:27 John Daub: Oh, there's a vending machine. I wanted to get some water. My gate is number 60. Alright, I got 10 minutes. So that was worth it to go and take a quick walk over to the end. They have automated touch guides if you want to find something and you can change it to English. Japan, if you compare it to the Japan of just five years ago. So much more is now in English. And we can thank the Olympics for that.

00:30:48 John Daub: Oh, that's my flight! Passengers on this flight should be on board. What? They said should be on board. Arigatou gozaimasu. Arigatou gozaimasu. What? I'm the last one to get on the plane. Alright folks. That's the life of a streamer. Have a good day everybody. I'm on my way. Bye bye. I'll bring you some live streams from Kochi as I take off. Later gator. Oh, there's a line.