00:00:05 John Daub: Welcome to one of the most beautiful fishing villages. Peaceful, traditional, as a fishing boat makes its way in. Look at that, in the distance you have Mount Daisen, 1,724 meters high. With the sun just starting to pop out of the clouds there looking so majestic. This is Miho-no-Matsubara [?], no, Miho-no-Seki and it is one of my favorite locations in all of Japan to come and visit.

00:00:35 John Daub: Welcome! I love this fishing village and if you ever want to get off the beaten path, get away from Tokyo, Kyoto, that worn-out trail that all the other tourists go to, you have to make your way to this side of Japan. This is the Daisen-Oki National Park. Miho-no-Seki is included in that. Yesterday we went all the way over to Daisen which is that mountain that looks so beautiful with that backdrop and these clouds. We were there on the other side just yesterday. And today we're here. We're here on the sea in what is the head area for Ebisu, the deity of the sea. This is his hometown, I guess you would say. It's a beautiful setting, isn't it?

00:01:19 John Daub: And joining me on this live stream to help me walk around and keep this interesting is a man that needs a very small introduction, Dean Newcomb. Good morning, Dean.

00:01:30 Dean Newcomb: Look at the... you're a model, look at that.

00:01:35 John Daub: That was a good introduction. Please.

00:01:40 Dean Newcomb: You're making me blush. How you doing?

00:01:41 John Daub: I'm doing fantastic. I really like it here. It's very peaceful. It's very quaint, isn't it?

00:01:46 Dean Newcomb: It is.

00:01:49 John Daub: We came here quite early in the morning. It is 8 o'clock right now and you can tell that there's this tranquility to this fishing village. I don't hear the car horns and the traffic and the construction. It's just chill. And that's what makes this the perfect place just to kind of reset and change up the scenery on a day like this.

00:02:10 John Daub: I'm going to take you on a trip to Japan. Miho-no-Seki is very tourist friendly as well. And I'm going to be also taking you on this live stream. Buckle in for about an hour as I take you over to Miho-kan or one of the ryokan (traditional inns) over there. We're going to get a chance to look in one of the hotels as well as Miho Taisha (Miho Shrine), which is one of my favorite shrines in all of Japan. There's just something very, very precious about this place. And you're going to get an idea about it over the next hour.

00:02:37 John Daub: Now, I'm going to take you down a couple of side streets before we go to the shrine. Thank you very much. And I hear locals are so friendly. They're talking to the...

00:03:01 John Daub: Hoki is one of the towns over there, Hoki-cho. And Mount Fuji, they call this the Mount Fuji. You see Daisen behind us. They call that right over my shoulder the Mount Fuji of the West. Yeah, that was cute, right? Yeah, so she stopped you to point out that this is the Mount Fuji. Yeah, this is the Fuji of the West. We were just there yesterday. I love that. Population is very, very small, just a few thousand people in this whole area. So it is a really, really awesome place to visit. And you're going to see why in this live stream. What makes this so special and what makes this a must-stay place on your itinerary.

00:03:45 John Daub: Now, you can fly here from Tokyo into the Yonago Kitaro Kichijōji Airport [?], or Yonago Gegege no Kitarō Yōkai Airport. Why are you laughing?

00:03:53 Dean Newcomb: I...

00:03:57 John Daub: I love that airport. You can fly in there and it's a very short trip. Of course, rent a car is the best way to get around the area. An international driver's license, if you're American, will only cost you $10 to pick up. And it's very easy to drive around here because there's not so much traffic and not that many roads. It's hard to get lost, although Dean found a way this morning.

00:04:16 Dean Newcomb: It was an accident. It was an accident. The navigation system.

00:04:21 John Daub: This is the ichiba (morning market). And I guess we're a little bit late, but around 6:30, 7 o'clock, maybe between 5 and 7, fishermen will start coming in and unloading the fish. They don't all go to Tsukiji. They go here. And you can buy the fish and actually pick up the fish that you like, your own fish. And you can take it to your ryokan, wherever you're staying, and they'll cook it for you for dinner. That is an amazing meal.

00:04:46 Dean Newcomb: That is amazing.

00:04:47 John Daub: Yeah. Last time I was here, I saw they were drying squid. Oh, right. Over on this corner. And these boats have the lanterns on them, right?

00:04:58 Dean Newcomb: Yeah.

00:04:58 John Daub: That attract the squid to the boats. So they're probably squid fishermen. Yeah, these are squid boats. Do you see those big lanterns in the middle? They look like huge light bulbs. Yeah, they fish at night and they put the lights over the sea. These big, massive light bulbs. And the squid go up to them. They go to the light and then they catch them. Damn. Squid got it. After a couple more hundred years of evolution, I bet you the squid start to jump out and drag the fishermen down to the deep.

00:05:27 Dean Newcomb: Fishermen are pretty tough, though.

00:05:32 John Daub: Yeah, right here. And in May, this is the shrine right here. That is Miho Shrine. We're going to go there in about a few minutes. They're getting ready for a very special morning ritual that they do every single morning, right? At 8:30. So we're getting ready. We're getting close to that. Yeah, we're two minutes away.

00:05:53 John Daub: All right, we've got to give everybody a little overview quickly. I know, right here. This building, I think it dates back almost 400 years. And that's rare in Japan, right? What is impressive with this building to me are the windows. They're also pretty old looking. You can see the texture in them. The way that they shine is a little bit awkward because it's old, old glass. All right, I think we can go through here. We might lose the signal for about five seconds. So bear with us.

00:06:50 John Daub: After we go to after the taiko (drum) performance we're about to see, I'm going to take you down this street. It is one of the most beautiful alleys. And of course, you're going to meet Ebisu and some of the best manhole covers in Japan are here. We're going to get a closer look at that. So stick with this live stream for a little bit longer. We're going to stick with this morning ritual, but I'll try to explain it to the best that I can. This is maybe my third or fourth time. Yeah, that's part of the Miho-kan, I believe, which is the ryokan I stayed in when I was shooting the NHK show. Mihonosaki Land of the Gods. I think that was the name of the episode. Something like that. Fushigaki Shinji. Had to memorize that line for the episode like 100 times. Fushigaki Shinji.

00:07:55 John Daub: Hope the signal is coming in loud and clear.

00:07:58 Dean Newcomb: Okay. Again, this is Dean Newcomb, channel Runaway Japan.

00:08:01 Dean Newcomb: Hi, guys. Yeah. Good to be here.

00:08:05 John Daub: Here we go. Nozomi. Oh, hello. There she is. Ohayō gozaimasu (good morning). Hello, everybody. Introducing Nozomi. Good morning. Nozomi is going to help us a little bit with the shrine. And Dean is here for moral support.

00:08:31 Dean Newcomb: Always.

00:08:32 John Daub: Dean, have you been here before?

00:08:35 Dean Newcomb: I have just once to this town and to this shrine. And actually, we were here together, right?

00:08:38 John Daub: Yeah. Right. Yes. About one year ago. Oh, just one year ago. It feels like just last week.

00:08:48 Nozomi: Obviously, I'm not in this circle of friends.

00:08:51 Dean Newcomb: I'll just be standing to the side here.

00:08:56 John Daub: But Nozomi, you've been to the Oki Islands before?

00:09:02 Nozomi: Yes. Oki Islands. You've been there before. Yes. Yeah. What is it like there? It must be very beautiful.

00:09:09 Nozomi: So beautiful. And the thing in Oki Islands, I'm so, oh, sugoi (amazing).

00:09:21 John Daub: Sounds like fun. Oki Islands is, I don't know, it's a nine-hour kayak ride if you're crazy enough to do it. Or you can take a ferry for two hours, two-hour ferry ride from the mainland. Yeah, the ferry is recommended. Don't try to kayak there. Don't be a Dean. Although you could challenge his record if you beat nine hours.

00:09:44 Dean Newcomb: Duncan took nine hours too? It's in the same boat. Oh, he was in the same boat. So we share that record.

00:09:53 John Daub: All right. Welcome to Miho Shrine. When you come to the entrance, you see these really big knots here. Nozomi, what is this? Entering a different world. Shinsetsu (new world)? Yes. A new world. So it's the boundary of worlds from our world into the god world, something like that? We just entered the world of gods and they're about to start a morning ritual. I'll try my best to quietly explain to you what's going on. Follow Nozomi. You can hear the taiko drums. They're just starting. So this is a morning festival that takes place every day at 8:30 a.m. So if you come and stay in Mihonosaki, you'll be able to see this ritual that takes place for about 30 minutes and we'll bring most of it to you. And then we're going to move on and show you some more of the fishing village. Yes, they play taiko drums. And yes, there's dancing involved. And no, none of it has Dean dancing.

00:12:04 Dean Newcomb: Unless he wants to.

00:12:05 John Daub: It's up to you. You can totally dance. I'll be the only one filming at the quietly ASMR's.

00:12:23 Nozomi: Creepy route, asami morning, like a morning present to God for God, for everyone's happiness is what the praying for. What do they chanting? What are they chanting now? What is it? Nori Norito (Shinto prayer). Many meanings. Happiness for everybody. This is what they're chanting for. So just a chant that they have at Shinto Shrines. And that's the purpose of this ritual just happiness for everyone every day from 8:30 to 9 with taiko drums and dancing and chanting alright guys we're whispering very very quietly but it might seem loud to you so for the next couple of minutes I'm just gonna let you listen okay miho no seki for those joining us this is the morning ritual at miho shrine behind just listen for about five minutes and then we're going to take you somewhere else we have permission to film here by the way we are in advance so don't worry about if we're breaking the rules focus on the ritual.

00:22:05 John Daub: So this is Miho Shrine for everyone who's joining us and at 8:30 every morning they do a morning ritual and I wanted to step back so you can get a look and see it usually there's about 10-15 people who will come and watch not too many in the summer there might be a little bit more but it is one of the attractions of this fishing village called Miho-no-Seki and I know about it because I came here and stayed here for almost a week for an NHK show about five years ago for the Aofushigaki Shinji (Blue Wisteria Festival [?]) and it's nice to be back here again and again for 30 minutes they're gonna be doing chanting but they also play taiko drums and they also have music so they take like how long is the chanting for as a teen me need do they play taiko they play taiko drums wow what is the what is the significance of the dancing number down sure something is a thing to pray for you got a Ah. One old praise of God. So the dancing is like an offering or gift. Again, this morning chant is a ritual and they do it daily as a gift to God. It's every morning at 8:30. The chanting can get a little long in the tooth. It's not so exciting to watch. But for the next couple of minutes, I wanted to show you a little bit around the shrine and then we're going to go back in there and take a look. But yeah, we do have the ability to film here. So let me just show you around the temple, the shrine a little bit. And then once they start to play the taiko drums, we're going to be able to hear that.

00:23:59 John Daub: So Miho Shrine has a very long history. Nanden maitsuki (ancient origins [?]). The first period is don't know. Yes, but about 1000, 10,000. About a thousand years ago. You can see Ebisu is the god, the deity of the sea as represented here at this shrine. Wish to be able to bring happiness. That's a really nice one. Mariana Kato. Thank you. So you'll see a lot of English and sometimes Thai and Chinese wishes here. So we're going to walk around and then walk around the shrine so you can walk around the entire shrine. As they're doing the morning ritual, the chanting will continue for the next 10 minutes, but they're going to start to play the taiko drums when they do. We're going to hustle back and show you that really quickly and then move on to the rest of the Miho-no-Seki village. This is such a fantastic little town, but it's a morning town, right? So it's really good if you come away from the people now. It's a morning town. It's really good if you come here like in the morning, if you're driving, leave the hotel like six. Come here. Spend the morning and then you can also go back. But I love staying at the Miho-kan, which is a place where I guess the emperor has visited before. So it's a very important.

00:25:58 John Daub: Look at the little hamster. Hey, hamster. Is it a hamster? Hey. Hey, hamster. Hey, so small. Looks like a field mouse. Yeah. It's a little special mouse from the ranger the wildlife and stuff the mouse has not come this way maybe I can scare him no don't scare him ok you can scare him Dean's gonna see if he can scare Pikachu see him do you see him? oh yeah thanks Dean you did a good job of scaring the mouse it's funny cause elephants are scared of mice I love this you can see moss and grass growing on the roof very connected to nature you can see this every evening in the evening too? yes oh they do this in the evening as well so for everybody joining us this is the morning ritual at Miho-no-Seki at Miho Shrine it takes place every morning at 8:30 and it's a morning prayer for everybody for happiness and they're gonna be putting on a taiko performance and a dance as a gift to God that is the significance of this ritual done every day the other side interesting isn't it? fascinating so they do that every morning at 8:30 to 9 o'clock we're very fortunate to come and say that it's ok that we filmed it we let them know in advance but in general it's ok to be taking photos here at the shrine so don't worry too much about that but always be very careful and very respectful whenever you go to any place of worship and try to keep your voice down I've been whispering the whole time.

00:42:37 Dean Newcomb: Dean what did you think? it's pretty interesting pretty spectacular I was kind of sorry it's a bit of a funny thing to say but did you see the shoes that they wore?

00:42:49 John Daub: I saw the shoes yeah it's a really interesting type of geta (wooden clogs) and it looked so difficult to walk down those steps I was kind of worried for them yeah they go very slowly and take their time the thing with wearing a kimono for example and wearing the geta is that you go slowly and you start to be very careful I like that.

00:43:10 John Daub: Now this is Miho-no-Seki and the reason why we're here is because this is the must-go-to fishing village I love this place I've been here so many times and you can see as we make our way outside of Miho Shrine which is where we spent the last 20-30 minutes I'll put a chapter list here so you can skip around if you want to later on in the playback but this is such a beautiful place to just relax for a night or two or even longer depending if you just want to feel the vibe of old Japan because this traditional fishing village it never changes it's been the same for the last 50 years 100 years I don't think it really sees a lot of like probably still using fax machines I bet you people are still writing letters I like that this is the type of place you come to to write letters right? to write a letter, to write a book, to write a poem exactly this is where you would come if you want to write a book or you want to be really creative you would settle in here for 3-4 days and you could probably finish the whole book in that time just really really chill all the creative juices start to flow at a place like this beautiful beautiful give it a bow yeah let's give it everybody when you leave here do it for all of you as well yeah beautiful.

00:44:43 John Daub: This is the time warp here when you go through this into this street exactly we're going to go back in time now and take you down this street which is the alley but I want to start off with the manhole covers here so what is this fish here is that tai (sea bream)? Tai Ebisu? yes Ebisu Tai baby Nihono-seki lighthouse oh there's the lighthouse oh we gotta go here that's one of the top 100 lighthouses in the world I read not sure what the significance of this Matsu tree the evergreen tree I'm not sure what the significance is but maybe long life and yeah there's a seagull here so just I love that manhole cover and the fish jumping out of it shows a activity although you don't really see that here too much it's a place to relax but Ebisu this is like the hometown of the deity Ebisu the god of the sea and you can come here and you feel that through the walking the streets here it's really amazing this street is blue cobblestone street yes this is look blue this this stone is green you're right green or blue last time I was here you explained to me that you can really see the color when it's wet is that right? so when it rains here the colors of the stones really come out yeah rain is a good time it's a good to relax in the mihokan and just kind of eat and relax and write and walk around go for strolls here you can really think here because it's so quiet this street is main street ah this is the main street.

00:47:22 John Daub: Ah Nozomi when should we go to the mihokan? alright is it mihokan desho? we got access to bring you inside of one of the traditional inns, ryokan this building, there's two? yeah! this has not changed I remember he took me on the tour the owner when I stayed here of this building and it goes back I think over a hundred years yeah well past the taisho maybe all the way back to the Edo period maybe can we go inside? oh we can go inside! alright boy I spent four wonderful nights here for NHK a long time ago ah it's been a while! NHK yeah Johnny's in Japan you're Shinji Aofushigaki right? yeah! it rained every day do you remember? yeah! it's been a while! yeah ah this is the front desk from eh how many years ago? it's from the Edo period right? ah it's from the Meiji period 120 years ago this was ah this was a ryokan 120 years ago oh you can stay here? last time I was in a different place yeah last time I stayed at another place and I was told to eat breakfast here ah you had breakfast twice right? yeah ah I remember ah wonderful can I go inside? yes yes yes ah then I'll take a look at the entrance so I have to take a look around 400 yen entrance? ah thank you yes please ah so I'm gonna take you up to the second floor in a minute but let's take a look here on the first floor just have a quick look around here look at these amazing artifacts this looks like totally lost in time the telephone how do you even dial the phone? there's no number right? I just talk to them from outside and take it if you say it's a Nango-shitsu (switchboard room [?]) you just pull it out and it's a Nango-shitsu so it's an old switchboard system to it that's pretty crazy the phone just rings so again 120 years of history to this building it's been a ryokan a traditional Japanese inn and you can stay here I remember when I did stay here it was in another building but we eat breakfast on the second floor in that room and I remember every morning I would just sit out at the sea and it was just such a time everything clears from your mind when you're here it's such a remarkable place because everything else that was happening in the outside world it just kind of ends here.

00:51:06 John Daub: I'm gonna take you to this tommy room to the window so you can get a quick view for those who are joining us now live of Mihono Seki this is the bay here that leads out to the Sea of Japan eventually yeah this is the best place to stay too you can just stay and sit in this chair and chillax write, read a book get a nice view of Mt. Daisen have a coffee and then you can watch if you come here in the morning when the sun rises you can see the fishing boats coming in the town and again as I started this livestream the Ichiba or the fish market right there is underneath the roof and you can go there pick your own fish and this place Mihokan will actually cook it for you for dinner if you're staying here that was one yeah let's go up to the second floor you can really feel the history yeah we can go this way up here whoa this is like climbing a mountain be careful be careful wow there's like a left and a right division here we gotta go to the left this could be a choose your own adventure so this looks like it looks like it's outside but it's not it's originally outside oh it's originally outside we put the roof on later okay let's just have a quick look see wow this is so old this is the Mihokan Mihokan this is the Mihokan staff maybe that's his like an old man right? that's his grandfather from a very long time ago wow this is Daisen meeting at Daisen Mihokan came here to celebrate yeah so you can see actually it hasn't changed at all this is the Mihokan this is the Ryokan right there it hasn't changed at all in the last century I love that about this place just frozen in time that's where we just were overlooking the sea you can smell the history you know history smells old look at the walls on this place whoa original right? you don't see this a lot it's made of earth I don't want to touch it just a little bit you can feel the texture here nobody really does that you can see the straw in there it's part of the construction of the walls the original 120 year old building it's amazing isn't it this is the restroom so we gotta go back guess one could call that daubing it's better than wax on wax off daub the wall JPB that's a dab that's totally different different spelling different meaning I have to be careful with my head I'm not a Japanese this room is this room is daishen oh yeah just really quickly here you can see they have put in windows above here but this used to be the outside okay so by putting in the windows and making this an indoor place it really protects the history of the original roofing from 120 years ago so you can feel that history inside now now it never rains so you place really precious objects inside Joy I'm impressed as well very impressive yeah you can see the copper roof here it's turned a little bit green here Rotunner more funds for visiting places thanks for showing us a great place Rotunner thank you very much I really appreciate that this is where we ate breakfast every morning yeah this is a reason to stay at the Mihokan I'm telling you right now it's a little bit pricey I didn't pay an HKBed but you can eat breakfast and you have the view of the I had coffee here many times and you have the view of the fishing boats coming in the morning that's where we started the live stream about an hour ago over there check it out there's the orange bridge that Dean walked across and you can see what an amazing view the price always varies it's usually around 10,000 or 20,000 yen to stay here you can check on booking.com or tripadvisor it's like about that it just depends on if you want meals or not and the high season and the low season but this is a place where the emperor had come to visit so if you go into the main entrance you're going to see a picture of the emperor coming to visit which is really really special yeah let's go take a look here really quickly and I want to take you a little bit out more they also make their own soy sauce in this village which is pretty unique whoa check this out that's a beautiful little room to drink coffee or have a beer with somebody where's Kanai? beautiful calligraphy on the walls here yeah this is beautiful tatami (mat flooring) as well you can smell it I had dinner here with uh my last night with the NHK staff we had dinner in here in this room and each room has a special purpose and I think there's a picture on Instagram in fact I think there is a picture on Instagram of us having dinner and me with the Mihokan owner and his wife, beautiful wife we're back here eating dinner with the fish that we bought at the market which was the final scene of this what I really love about this I just opened that door because I know what's back here I don't know if I can open these windows here I think they're locked yeah I can't go from here some of these old houses you can see on the other side that's also the Mihokan and I have access to go in there I believe by paying ¥400 you can look down on the street and the alley and it's kind of interesting sorry about the dirty windows but you can it's kind of interesting to peak from the second floor from the alley into this what used to be Main Street to do it again when I was filming here for NHK I had lots of dead time and he let me go in here and kind of relax sometimes because nobody was renting it out but it's a really beautiful place let's get back outside and I want to show you some of the street again there's so much to see here in the Mihokan I'm going to take you to the lighthouse which is one of the top top lighthouses in the world top 100 let's see if we can get to 700 likes this is audience participation you have a voice and you can also just keep chatting me this is a live stream so you also have access to come into this one I believe and just really quickly I'm going to open oh it's locked just quickly you can take a look in here it's really pretty inside there next time I'll let you in there let's walk around and Dean is going to meet us if we can get to 700 likes I'm going to take you to the lighthouse by car how cool is that we're 140 likes away we can do it bonus time hey Nemesis is here hey John love these places thanks for all your work thank you I really appreciate that from Singapore hooray it's me click that like button I want to see the lighthouse this is a beautiful lighthouse Todai (lighthouse) in Japanese so down at the end of the street there's an old shoyu (soy sauce) shop right shoyu factory and I remember that was the best soy sauce I had ever bought and I might get a bottle before I leave here oh yeah this is an old sake shop I think we filmed this for NHK too Fukuda san yeah get some booze miho is original sake miho's original sake is made here whoa oh that's their original booze they make that here that's what I like I love it when these small shops good morning I love it when these old shops they're still in business making oh this is a guest house here oh right here so you can stay in this guest house there are other places to stay besides miho oh this is miho he is very much an entrepreneur so you can stay here it's a little bit less pricey than the than the main building I think but it's great there are some abandoned buildings here yeah dry fish oh they're selling dry fish here you can buy many kinds of fish good morning oh no no no you can come in and take a look oh so he's selling nonoguro (blackthroat seaperch [?]) oh smells wonderful actually it doesn't really have a smell it's all dried so they're drying the fish you can see it especially in the spring oh nonoguro they have ika (squid) and they also have some some other fish here again the best manhole covers in Japan one of the top ones but seriously you can walk around the alleys for hours and hours just wandering and wandering this is the shoyu shop right? yeah it's only 1 minute oh really? ok we're gonna take a quick look this way and then I'm gonna take you to the lighthouse we're 70 likes short so if you're watching share some love and we'll take you we'll extend this and get into a car and drive over to the to the best lighthouse road trip it's up to you good morning wow oh I can smell it this is where they make the soy in their little factory you can really really smell it oh it's so good I wanna lick look at those bottles are they booze? wow they've been making soy sauce here since the Edo period you can go to the shop which is right in the front there yeah and you can buy it and it's really really affordable I bought like 6 bottles of them but one of them exploded in my suitcase on the way back and destroyed some stuff but it was so worth it it smelled like soy sauce like really good soy sauce and you can eat soy sauce ice cream yeah oh right they got soy sauce ice cream surprisingly good it's so good it's different you know homemade soy sauce is so much different than like the big manufactured brands it tastes different it tastes there's some freshness to it again look back at this street it is so incredible this is why I come to Mihonosaki and I keep coming back just resets my mind to come and walk these streets alright folks we're 25 likes away I know we can get there here's the soy sauce shop and the factory aloha welcome aloha goodbye thank you Robin Smith is here have a sake on me you got it it is mind you like 9am but it's never too early to add a sparkle to your day Zeke Gilpin is a new traveler welcome you've unlocked a series of very special emoji we're looking for Dean there he is he's gonna drive us if we can get 700 likes and we did alright road trip so we're gonna say goodbye to this area but we'll see you again by car yeah time to go to the Todai Dean we can go to the Todai the boat's making its way out to the sea now they're gonna go fishing alright this is the entrance to the Mihokan let me show you the emperor good morning yeah this is the front this is the Tenno (emperor) visited here right the picture's here this is the front oh right there the emperor came to visit that's really cool so that makes this a very significant place to stay and I spent many hours waiting here for the NHK cameraman to come back after filming half the job of working as a reporter is waiting around for them to take b-roll alright Dean thank you brother that's right sweet ride shall we thank you thank you for the help we'll see you soon alright here we go thank you extended live stream this is what happens when the community works together excuse me where is the lighthouse right take a right go straight it's so easy to get there bye bye that's a nice set isn't it yeah he remembers me I knew it we kept in touch a little bit after the shoot but it was like five years ago he was surprised to see you well I do have a little bit more white hair yeah I do have a little bit more white hair road trip guys I don't know I going to be super clean out here we will share this with you as much as we possibly can those watching the playback this is a live stream this is not uploaded and we're at the mercies of 4G LTE and the YouTube app which just limits this to 720p probably for good reason because if a 1080p video starts to lose its signal it looks lousy 720p is a very good compromise now this is part of the Daisen-Oki National Park system and I really love it because they put the national park as not just one open space oh there's the lighthouse 1.8 kilometers got it well done Dean the national park here it's not just one big space they've added all of the national park in different areas so it's a little bit broken up yeah it's broken up which makes it really unique Daisen-Oki National Park in different segments of both Shimane and two prefectures yeah I think Okayama might even be in there I'm not sure but Oki Island is I think if we round to the lighthouse on a clear day we might get a chance to see it Dyson is still looking beautiful I know Dyson is still in view it's awesome clear all the way to the top again I don't know if this signal is going to hold out but we're going to do our best to keep this going he's in for the lighthouse he's in it to win it and Kanai is with John John why is Kanai with you? I love it oh it's okay with the sound I wonder if closing the windows hurts the signal it's like I'm like old school I'm like yes wifi zero traffic at all speed limit is about 50 kilometers usually on these local roads if there's no sign then seems local I just go 50 look at that hawk did you see that? it took a big dump that is a crow killer right there that was massive that hawk that could have been an eagle not sure eagles are from Philadelphia everybody knows that alright we're about to arrive they could have been a falcon I don't know I'm confused any big bird like that looks like it's an attack bird that's awesome that's like part of it are we here? we are here I guess so because we can't go any further let's go right up to the front cool do it can we just keep driving Dean right there that's the dump hawk there he is is that him? let's go David signal not holding up video is choppy oh no have we made a mistake hold on signal hold on we're almost at the tip refresh your screens we are currently right here at the tip of the straight that's Miho Noseki right there and this is just a 5 minute drive or if Dean ever wants to run it a 15 minute run for you for me it might be 20 minute run oh yeah I was here for NHK we filmed the sunrise at the lighthouse I remember coming 5am 4.30 5am half asleep waiting for the sun come up and the first time we filmed the sunrise here we totally failed it was cloudy clouds roll oh there it is this is one of the top 100 lighthouses in the world not just Japan the world can I get the qualifying points for being a top 100 lighthouse yes is it the lighthouse or is it the view from the lighthouse do you know what makes you a contender to be a top 100 lighthouse Dean all these questions difficult questions as well right you know why they probably serve curry rice inside there and everybody loves curry rice or flavored ice cream oh flavored ice cream I gotta go back and get some of that soy sauce ice cream the shop is still closed because it's like 9am but most people are still there the average age of people in Mihonoseki is like 60 though so whenever you go you're gonna be the youngest person there unless you're 60 then you're average right but there's such an amazing charm to it and the people from oh you can see the oki islands do you see it Dean wait a second dude you kayaked there dude you kayaked that's mad right but the fact that you can see it is quite amazing because last time when I left I couldn't see the island so that's even more intimidating I hired a fishing boat for safety to follow me along and point me in the right direction because what happens you've got tide and basically let's face it once you're you know a few kilometers off the land you can't see anything it's just water so you would easily misnavigate and just head off in a different direction sounds fun right next time how about you know we do it together no no I'll take the ferry a korea do you understand how far korea is you can't even see that what happens if you miss your target you end up in the north so the bottom island of the oki is 45 kilometers off off the coast here oh it's 45k to get there yeah 45 kilometers to the southern tip of the island wow so we're probably seeing about 50 kilometers today wow 50 kilometers wow that's pretty amazing so we can see all the way to the oki islands and these are very special islands very natural over there on the other side if you do have another day or two I guess you can't just stay there for a day right you have to kind of spend like it's not worth it yeah I think you could easily enjoy up to a week on the oki islands but you need three days I think three days at least and it's totally worth it it's not just an island right it's multiple islands you can island hop you can island hop I like that this is part of Shimane prefecture and the oki islands are also part of the national park they are indeed the Daisen National Park I like it a lot yeah it's one of the top 100 Dean I told you Dean has never seen supernatural either by the way it's really irritating but you look like Sammy okay you don't look like Dean you look like Sammy you're right they probably do have curry rice I know because I ate it here I had advanced knowledge yeah aye aye skipper oh he's got a name I found the mascot Umimaru-chan Umimaru he's a ship captain fused with a seal yeah ship captain fused with seal this is a beautiful when we say Todai for lighthouse so this is the Miho-no-Seki Todai so this is the Miho-no-Seki Todai and yes it's a little bit western in fact right this is a registration number for being a cultural asset for Japan lighthouses you know back in the day before electricity all you had was lighthouses right without a lighthouse you would be lost at sea probably hitting the coast and destroying your ship make some friends over there okay over here it's not the great it's a better view if you go in here Dean and I don't think we have time to eat a curry rice but I remember having a really beautiful lunch at the lighthouse and they're just setting up for breakfast here yeah they have the partitions to separate people that's nice it's a pretty reasonable I'll take a photo here it's a pretty reasonable price for lunch too here as well very good food I thought sorry about the wind it's coming in strong because we're at the lighthouse go to eat oh they got the go to eat campaign so you can get a discount the times we live in if only we had time they did have a menu didn't they I thought they had a menu out here but a lot of the great thinkers of the day have come here to to think and eat I thought and ate actually I waited and ate as NHK was filming what time does the sundial say what time is it Dean? am I allowed to use my watch? yeah I can't read a sundial quarter to ten 9.41 on a long live stream yeah Cobra Bebop thank you welcome to everybody here we are in Miho no Seki this is the Miho lighthouse one of the top 100 lighthouses in the world and we brought you here live I hope you did enjoy this live stream thanks so much for clicking that thumbs up button and encouraging us to do more we do have a pretty good signal maybe because the tower is right there I don't know is that a cell phone tower? could be it could be oh look they have a buffet it says here Miho no Seki lighthouse buffet yeah I could eat all you can eat I'll put them out of business they shouldn't be offering stuff like that jeez I'm really hungry hey John just before you finish you wanna check down here? I got a good hint a hunch alright I'm walking down this direction Dean's pointing me in this direction I don't know why yeah let's see what we find a hawks nest? woah there's like these secret paths yeah off the wall what there's a shrine over there yeah so you can have a little bow and I think that goes back oh ok up here you can picnic up here which way should we go? I think the views are already well we can look from there as well but the views are already... alright quick we're gonna quick it'll only take us to a little while 30 seconds to walk over here you can see the Sea of Japan right beyond the Torii Gate (shrine gate) so this lighthouse is more than just a lighthouse it's a place of prayer you can pray here what a view right? you normally have this and the shrine in the background right? but here you've got the gate and you can just look out to sea and I feel like you can see a tiny little lighthouse out there on the rocks oh is that a lighthouse? or is that a bird? if that's a bird it's a big one it's like an emperor penguin hey Junko, Yoshida thank you say a little prayer yeah it is a nice change from Tokyo alright let's go check out over here before we end this live stream um this must be a nice view I would love to end with that view of the sea in Daisen on the other side right? hey KX dot dot dot I can see Godzilla in the water holy crud he's coming right run John, run Jimmy who's Jimmy? who's Jimmy? run Jimmy Jimmy whoever you are run where are you going to run? this is like an island you run to the other side he'll find you it's like one step for Godzilla he's gonna get you my prayers will be answered Dean said I prayed for a lot of stuff including food unless there's food here I don't know if my prayers will be answered there better be like a big katsudon (pork cutlet rice bowl) or something yeah big pizza with extra pepperoni or something good call this trail goes on for a while maybe you don't have to hike the dangerous roads but look at this folks and this is the perfect place to end the live stream check it out whoa beautiful view of mount Dyson with these clouds coming in the whole bay in front of us it is a cloudy day we don't have the same blue skies of yesterday go check out that live stream we were there on the base of this mountain in a little town with street food just yesterday about 20 hours ago and now we're on the other side looking at mount Dyson and it is majestic isn't it soak that up click the like button if you enjoy this kind of content leave me a comment below tell me if you've ever been to mihono seki or where your favorite coastal town on the sea of Japan is and we will answer that do subscribe and to the new channel only in Japan, Jon Daub you can find that channel there's 5 new edited episodes waiting for you welcome back and see you in the next live stream have a good day, have a good night wherever you are in the world, stay positive, stay happy bye from Jon and Dean.