00:00:01 John Daub: Did you ever get the feeling that you're being watched? Welcome to Minato Sakai. This is an area in Yonago that many consider to be the creepiest, scariest, most frightening road in all of Japan, especially at night. Check it out. This is the station. It's very famous for the anime series GeGeGe no Kitaro. And you have all of these yokai (Japanese spirits/monsters), kind of like monster gods. They're all around. It's a really big tourist attraction during the day, but at night, wow, this place really comes alive. Look at that mural on the wall. Very cool, huh?

00:01:32 John Daub: You're doing! Dude! Surprise! How you feeling? Give me back my light. This is Dean, and he stinks.

00:01:52 Dean Newcomb: What do you know about this road?

00:01:56 John Daub: I've been here four times. It's very, very scary. Never been here at night. So that's a first. It's full of all kinds of ghouls and goblins and scary stuff. So I think we should get into it.

00:02:13 Dean Newcomb: I don't like the opening of this already.

00:02:18 John Daub: So this road is very famous for the statues that line it. A buddy of yours, huh? I don't know too much about the characters. I don't know the characters of GeGeGe no Kitaro. But I'll try to fill you in as much as I possibly can. This town, Sakai Minato or Minato Sakai, is full of amazing statues. And you're going to see this character all over town. Whether or not you're a fan of the manga series or the anime, you're definitely going to want to check this out. Look, even the restroom has yokai on it. Look at the disabled side here. That's awesome. It's got one of the characters on there with the eyeball.

00:03:13 Dean Newcomb: Now Kitaro is a yokai boy, right? The character.

00:03:20 John Daub: Yeah. A good ghoul, you know? He's a nice guy.

00:03:24 Dean Newcomb: Oh, like you, Dean.

00:03:26 John Daub: Just like me. Except he's the good guy that links the human world and the monster world. Isn't he like the guy that mends relationships between humans and monsters? So he's got a big job.

00:03:43 Dean Newcomb: He does. And he lost his eye. And that eye is just an empty hole. And his hair covers the empty socket. And his father, which is just a big eye.

00:03:59 John Daub: I think, so I've heard this a few times and never fully understand it, but I think his father dies. And then Kitaro wants to get his father back. So he pulls his eye out. And then that becomes his father. Or maybe somebody knows better than me.

00:04:17 Dean Newcomb: Do you mean it looks like this?

00:04:21 John Daub: There he is. That's him? Hi, Dad. That's his dad? What the heck is going on? This series is freaky. You just see this stuff on buildings. What the heck is going on here? This is a weird, weird, weird road. And for kids, they're probably not going to be so scared. But I'm scared of spiders. So it's just creepy.

00:04:47 Dean Newcomb: Do you know the characters, honey?

00:04:48 John Daub: I don't know. But it says there are signs here not to even touch them because, yeah, just be careful. We're going to take you down the nasty road.

00:05:01 Dean Newcomb: I used to think it was a nasty road. It is pretty scary at night.

00:05:05 John Daub: Now, a lot of people come here during the daytime. Tourists, right? They like to come here during the day and see, oh, look at the little characters. How cute. But come at night. This is when things get real. You feel it. And you know what? There's nobody around. So if you were going to get attacked, it would be like now, right? Like, who? Why would you come during the day here? It doesn't make any sense.

00:05:34 Dean Newcomb: Do you know about the kappa (water imp)?

00:05:36 John Daub: Kappa? Oh, the kappa. Yeah. Does that kappa spring on the gate coming up? What is that? It's just a ball with coins in his head. Oh, I just looked. Sorry. Yokai. These are yokai. I don't know. It's creepy.

00:05:51 Dean Newcomb: Now, Kitaro battles foreign yokai or something, right? Like Dracula from Transylvania or like Russian werewolves or Russian mafia or something. I don't know what he battles. But in the series, he's saving Japan's humans and yokai world or something.

00:06:12 John Daub: This road has been newly done. I think it's presented really well. But this is pretty creepy. Oh, my. Of all of them so far, if that was chasing me, I think I'd be the most scared. If that was chasing me, dude, I would already be back in Tokyo. Tottori Prefecture is a quick 90-minute plane ride. The good thing about Japan is it's not so big that flying pretty much anywhere doesn't take long, right?

00:06:45 Dean Newcomb: Right.

00:06:46 John Daub: That's the cover. Wait, look at that playground. It's completely covered by that tree. What kid's going to want to play in a tree jungle gym? It's crazy. I wouldn't be surprised if that was the show. They're all walking. They're all in the shape of a yokai right there, the walking man. They've done an excellent job of lighting it up, and this is Kitaro, the main character, right here. And you can see he's got one eye, the other eye has been pulled from his face, and there's a socket that's covered by his hair. It's really creepy, but what they've done, and here's a gift shop here. That's not creepy. I don't see anybody in there. Kitaro with his dad.

00:07:40 Dean Newcomb: Yeah, Nekomusume (cat girl). I remember her. Oh, Nekomusume. She's the cat's daughter.

00:07:49 John Daub: They've done an amazing job of illuminating the street now. So as you walk down this... What's called here... Hold on, I'll move this car here. The Mizuki Shigeru Road. That's the official name. Who is the creator of GeGeGe no Kitaro, back in 1960, I believe. Local legend. Local legend indeed. He's very much beloved. In fact, the airport that we're going back to. Do you know what the name of the airport is?

00:08:20 Dean Newcomb: Mizuki Shigeru Airport? GeGeGe no Kitaro Airport.

00:08:24 John Daub: They didn't name it after the author. They named it after the yokai. The airport is named after a yokai.

00:08:30 Dean Newcomb: Stand in the shadow. Show us your death pose.

00:08:36 John Daub: That's creepy. You gotta work on that. Work on your death pose. How do you death pose?

00:08:40 Dean Newcomb: I don't know man. You're too happy.

00:08:47 John Daub: That's creepy right there. Marty Dittmer. New undies for John. What? Marty. I could use a new pair. Uniqlo. Ervin Irvine. Get real dinner. Okay. Yeah. We're gonna eat something at the airport. We haven't had much food at all. But as you walk down the streets, what you're gonna see are little tidbits of information. And if there was like ever an amusement park, and this is what I love about Minato Sakai. I thought it was Sakai Minato. Is it Minato Sakai?

00:09:21 Dean Newcomb: Sakai Minato, isn't it?

00:09:23 John Daub: Right. I thought it was. It means the same thing. But the station said Minato Sakai. I don't know why. It was weird. Maybe it's broken like the scary anime series. But they offer lots of tidbits. In fact, this could be in itself a theme park, but it's totally free. You can walk through here for free. You don't have to pay anything. And if you're from Russia. Whoa. They have Cyrillic. Don't get that very often, do you?

00:09:46 Dean Newcomb: No, you do not.

00:09:47 John Daub: I guess there's a lot of Russian cruise ships that come through here. Oh, what is this? This is pillow yokai. That's pretty creepy.

00:09:53 Dean Newcomb: Yeah.

00:09:57 John Daub: So when you're plastering a wall. Oh yeah. To paint. Yeah. Kabe (wall). Nurikabe (plaster wall yokai). Like plaster. Plaster wall. I mean, where do you get the idea one of the characters is going to be a plasterboard wall? It's pretty mad, right? Yokai are pretty creepy to me.

00:10:16 Dean Newcomb: His mate is creepy. You are creepy.

00:10:21 John Daub: Hey. Because of the lighting. It's just bad lighting. Okay. It's not you. It's just the lighting. All right. Let's look at some of these characters. That's pretty creepy right there. Some of these guys are kind of cute. Look at the shadows. They've done a great job of lighting this street with. Just take a look down the street here. Isn't this the coolest, most terrifying street? If there was like Michael Myers walking down through the shadows, you just see him going through. Those lights, that'd be pretty creepy, right? Michael Myers walking down here or Jason and Freddie, all three of them. Imagine it's terrifying.

00:11:08 John Daub: Honestly, I'm kind of glad that Dean is here. I don't think I could do this by myself. But coming at night, I think is part. Is that an eye on his head? Well, the lights just dipped. So the lights, the streetlights go on and off. So these streetlights go on and off and flicker. That in itself is super cool.

00:11:31 John Daub: Dean. And you find anything interesting?

00:11:33 Dean Newcomb: Like a purikura (photo booth) with me? Not really. GeGeGe no Kitaro purikura. Do you remember this date?

00:11:41 John Daub: Yeah. Is it a date? I don't think so, dude. Oh, look, that's good. You can do even if you're on your own, right?

00:11:48 Dean Newcomb: Yeah. People with no friends can get that.

00:11:52 John Daub: They're cute. It is really cute in a creepy way. Whoa. There's another yokai. It's nasty looking. Ugh. No, thanks. No touch. Look at the shadow there. I think during the day there's a lot more. There's street food and there's a lot of things that you could do. I'd like to come back here and try some of the yokai food that they have. But at night, there's just something really, really special. There's not a lot of traffic here. But these statues that line it are super cool to look at. And you won't find this anywhere else in the world. This is really unique, where horror or really scary yokai are part of the attraction.

00:12:54 John Daub: Now, GeGeGe no Kitaro, from what I understand, is somewhat based on the traditional story of Momotaro (Peach Boy), who is a little boy who battles demons down in Okayama. And he kind of saves the world. Whoa, the lights are naturally turned off there. The street lights go on and off. It's so cool. Whoa. What is that? Oh, you can see the eyes on that ghost. So the gate, the torii gate (shrine gate), this is a shrine. You can see the eyes on the gate.

00:13:38 Dean Newcomb: You're going to like this.

00:13:41 John Daub: Oh, it's an eyeball. You ready? Oh, dude, nasty. How about that?

00:13:50 Dean Newcomb: Yeah, how about it? Lovely. Do it again.

00:14:00 John Daub: Spin the Wheel of Fortune. The eyes on the other side. I think he's getting dizzy. Very creepy. And it's on a wet rock. That in itself is pretty nasty. So that's Kitaro's papa.

00:14:20 Dean Newcomb: Right.

00:14:21 John Daub: So this is a shrine. And again, like this whole street is like an amusement park. It's got, wow, you can put your prayer here. I guess you have to pay something, kakuyen (coins) or something for that, right? It's pretty interesting. All right. Look how small it is. That's where you do your prayer. I guess you have to do it on your hands and knees. This is pretty creepy. I'm not going any further. I think you can go even further back there. Oh, nasty. Oh, yeah, that's creepy. I'm still kind of recovering from that opening. Hey, does this do real water, Dean? This pump? Maybe it turned off. Oh, just don't drink. Whoa. If you want to see something scary, drink it. It turns you into a yokai. That's what they don't tell you to do. You turn into, you look like him, Dean.

00:16:12 Dean Newcomb: Drink it. Somebody said, I'll give you a fiver if you drink it.

00:16:18 John Daub: Fiver? Not enough?

00:16:20 Dean Newcomb: I'm speaking in my language, huh? Oh, is that how you talk? A fiver. Yeah. I'll do it for a tenner.

00:16:26 John Daub: You'll do it for a tenner, huh? A tenner. Do you mean like one of the four opera singers, huh? You'll do it for a tenner, huh? This shop is the coolest place I went to when I visited here last time. It has a guy who's been here since basically the street was popular and he's model making in this shop in front of you.

00:16:50 Dean Newcomb: Oh, wow. Yeah. So all these models that you see in the window are made by him.

00:16:55 John Daub: Oh, he made all of these. Let's take a quick look here. He pours in the resin and then casts them and then he paints them. So you came here for an NHK show then?

00:17:04 Dean Newcomb: I came here with Runaway. Oh, with Runaway. Oh, right. Episode 10. Is that on your channel?

00:17:12 John Daub: It is. So you can take a look at the episode where Dean came here on the Runaway Japan channel. That's Dean's channel. I think I have a special just about this road as well. That's creepy. I wouldn't want that in my house. Hey there. What if he starts to move? Ooh. Okay. Pass. Yeti. Pass. You need a lot of pass. That's a lot of eyes. Pass. Yeah. The imagination put into this series is extraordinary. And I think that's what, oh, I almost stepped on that. It's a shadow created right there from this light. Do you see this? The light is fantastic. I don't think this was here. I think this is, oh, and it turns on and off. So that's kind of unique. Kids are going to love this street. And if you're 46 years old like me, probably you're going to be scared to death. And attracted. Are you attracted to, are you not?

00:18:18 Dean Newcomb: I'm no, no, no, no. She looks kind of creepy to me.

00:18:25 John Daub: Pretty creepy. There's a hotel. Help me help. In New York. Where you can stay in a GeGeGe no Kitaro themed room. What? Is it a love hotel? Nope. Oh, it's pretty creepy. Yeah. It's really creepy. You have to look up at it. The monster here, the yokai. That's pretty creepy. Yeah. That's Kitaro's father. Halfway. Oh, this is halfway. I like the fact that they put a map here. Yeah. It's pretty easy to find your way around. These again, like this lighting didn't exist. So if you've been here in the past, it's kind of neat to come back here. I think to just take a little walk through and see Japan's most frightening road in person. Even the manhole covers, by the way. Look at the manhole covers. Have yokai on them. This is just I think that's for water. We'll find another manhole cover. I'm almost positive the manhole covers in the street have GeGeGe no Kitaro on them. The mailbox at the station had characters on it too. The mailbox had a yokai on top of the Japan Post box. That is creepy hands coming off of the street like that. That is so brilliant and disappears. And then you'll be walking here not expecting it. And then this happens. You just made it. I was not that lucky. It's only like 7 p.m. So it's okay. It's not like whoa. Oh, that's him. That is creepy. No, thanks. I don't want to meet him in a dark alley. I don't want to meet him in a bright alley. Just stay where you are. That's me running from the station about 10 minutes ago. What what? No way. Yeah. So the camera stand is pretty neat. I see right. It's got this little. Oh, it's got a little for your iPhone. You can just watch it in there. That's pretty smart. I guess not a lot of people are going to take a photo. Okay, we can take a photo. Wow. What's that? And no flash, please. And where's my time? You know, there's my time timer. You had to click the arrow in the middle left. Yeah, they're above. Yeah. There. 10 seconds. Go. 10 seconds. We got to sit through this for 10 seconds. I got to warm up my smile. You guys are in this character. Okay. How's that?

00:21:46 Dean Newcomb: I don't know. You tell me.

00:21:49 John Daub: Oh, you look pretty creepy. There you go. Thank you. Camera stand. I was possessed by a higher power. Well, look at that. Yokai. It's walking man. Right there on that sign. Looks like an average ordinary man with no face. Totally creepy. I'm going to go. I thought that was ET. The name of this anime is GeGeGe no Kitaro. And GeGeGe is the sound of, in Japanese, like a crackling sound. And Kitaro is the main character. Oh, here's some kappa. They look like kappa. Yeah. How you doing? No, how you doing? You look so sweet, right? No, how you doing? No, no, how you doing? No, no, no, no, no, no. How you doing? No, how you doing? Okay, that's enough of that. Just keep moving. Okay. Let's get kind of boring here. How you doing? Stop it! Dude, that's creepy in a sexy pose. Yeah, sexy. Why? Scary or friendly?

00:23:27 Dean Newcomb: Scary.

00:23:28 John Daub: Scary or friendly. I want to know. Scary? Or seductive.

00:23:32 Dean Newcomb: Or seductive.

00:23:33 John Daub: Yes. You want a piece of that? Do you know that he has some ichi yen (1 yen coins)? Oh, wow. People gave money?

00:23:40 Dean Newcomb: Yeah. What? Totally. There's a five yen in there. That's weird.

00:23:49 John Daub: I guess he got like a super chat. This is a one yen super chat right there. No, it's not. It's not free coins. Watch yourself, peso. Three, two, one, manhole. Hurrah. Check it out. That is one of the best manhole covers in the history of manhole covers. And I am writing that history. Therefore, it has been spoken. Therefore, it is. Isn't that awesome?

00:24:17 Dean Newcomb: John, how much does it cost? $2. Oh my God. You have to make a manhole like this. You can't buy them one at a time, but it's quite expensive to make the mold of it.

00:24:27 John Daub: I bet it is, yeah. And then, yeah, you have to, oh the details on there. What makes a manhole cover cool is all the dirt, the natural wear and tear on it over decades.

00:24:37 Dean Newcomb: Do you know that I never knew that manhole covers were interesting at all? What? Until I learned from you. I had just been sleeping.

00:24:44 John Daub: I taught you about, are you a manholer?

00:24:46 Dean Newcomb: Well, I know about them now because of you.

00:24:48 John Daub: No, admit! Say, I'm a manholer. Just do it. Do it now! Do it! 3, 2, 1, do it!

00:24:54 Dean Newcomb: I'm a manholer.

00:24:56 John Daub: You can't erase that. That's on the internet now. Dean, you can't erase that. Sucker. Alright, look at this over here. Woah. That's just a head on a plate. Nasty.

00:25:11 Dean Newcomb: Nasty. Maybe he didn't have much time when he was creating the character. I thought that was a zombie. It's a person. Not yet. Not yet. It's a zombie.

00:25:32 John Daub: I remember this from last time I came here. Natalie was in the team. She had a book. And basically you can go around this street and try to find all the stamps. I'm not quite sure. But there's a lot of them. There's like 40 stamps maybe for each one of these statues and characters. And it's like Pokemon. You gotta get them all. And if you get them all, you get some tiny little prize from the visitor center. A tiny little respect. Like a pen or something. It'll take you about 10 hours. And you will earn a pen. You earn a pence. I see you're making friends with random women on street sides. Well done. That's how you gain their trust and then you scare them. That's what I would do. Hi, I'm a nice guy. I'm from England. How you doing? Just chase them down then. Chase them all the way to the station. If anything, they'll never miss a train. Whoa! Walking eyeball with sake. This is so awesome. I would love to climb that sign and take a selfie. And I don't even take selfies but I would take a selfie with that sign. I just want the sake. I'd take a selfie with the sake. Um, does it say the name of the characters? Not really. It says the name of the characters in braille. That's wonderful. I like that they do that though. They kind of add in, did you put that ichi yen in there?

00:27:07 Dean Newcomb: No.

00:27:10 John Daub: I like the fact that this is accessible in different languages but also for people that have visual impairments. You can use braille. That's really incredible. And then the streets also, for those that don't know, have tactile pavement. So never walk on this by the way because somebody who is visually impaired probably might be using it. And it takes you all the way down to the station. That's really wonderful. Yeah. You notice... Right. You know to stop here because you can feel it on your feet to stop there. Actually, the streets are pretty creepy just as is. It's really dark. Around this street is a very small town. It's very small town. It's basically a fishing town. Sakai Minato? Yeah. Right? So it means that people are around really early in the morning and then they're not around now. Everyone's at home. I wonder where they went, Dean. I wonder where they went. Did you ever ask yourself? The kappa. The kappa. Dude, don't touch it. Would you sit there? That's where all the people sit there and they disappear. Stuff like that. It's creepy at night. You know what's creepy? There's nobody here. Stare into the light, Dean. Stare long and hard. It's ghoulish. I've seen a lot of guys like that walking around Tokyo. He looks to seem to have made a mess. Yeah, he seems to have made a mess. Seriously though, the normal streets, Dean, are really creepy. Seriously. I think that that street is creepier than the street that was supposed to be creepy. It's ironic. Just saying. I wouldn't want to walk down that street. I'll walk down this street, which is supposed to be scary, but it's not. It's cute. That street. Oh, the light just went off. How about skeleton? It's a flicker. Oh, that's nasty! Oh my. How you doing?

00:29:46 Dean Newcomb: I'm very good. Would you like some chicken on those bones? That was a joke.

00:29:55 John Daub: Oh really? Is there a whole genre of skeleton jokes? Yeah, really? I don't remember any of the skeleton joke genre. When I was in elementary school, I don't think anyone said... Why did you... A skeleton, a werewolf, a Dracula walked into a bar. Never heard... Maybe because in elementary school we never had bar jokes. Which is a shame. A skeleton walks into a bar. Ouch. Wait, I don't get it. I don't have... Oh, okay, never mind. Tell, tell. That's kind of generic. Summary, summary, summary. Terrible? Yeah, I don't get it. I get this though. Evil monster, yokai, squirrel, rat thing. Eats young boy who looks like Brad Pitt. Eat his face. See what I mean? Scary, isn't it? Huh? I don't know why, but I'm putting my mask on. Keep your mask on. Now I'm safe. You need more than a mask to protect yourself from this. What an awesome street of horror, writes Roadtunner. It is pretty amazing. I agree with you. Johnny Seawalker's here! Long time no see. Finally! The Mizuki Shigeru Road. Thank you. You're very welcome. I know that a lot of people have been asking for this road for a very long time. You know, this road is really cool. It's in the details, right? Here's one of the stamps. Oh, here's one of the stamps for the stamp rally. So you can take part in stamping. You can also... Ah, yeah. So here's the stamp. I got nothing to stamp it with. I got nothing to stamp. You have something...

00:31:51 Dean Newcomb: A stamp for the back of your hand. I'm not gonna stamp the back... Like I went to a club, a skeleton club. Went clubbing.

00:32:01 John Daub: I'll put all the stuff... You do it. You do it. I'm not doing it. I like how the lights go on and off. They just suddenly will go out. You're hanging out, on a date, falling in love, holding hands. You look into each other's eyes. Something might be happening. You know you're shy. You look the other way. Decide that it's not the time. But then this happens. Do it! This happens. This happens. This happens. This happens. Why isn't it going out? And then this happens. That was pretty creepy. Are you back there? That's not funny. Then this happens. That's not funny. Neither is that. The light's supposed to go off like five minutes ago. Watch. It'll go off when no one's around. See, that's the thing. It's very unexpected. This is a creepy road. But all this scary stuff's making me hungry. I think I lost my lunch. That's really cool. This is a real... You know what's really cool? The taxi lights have the eyeball on the top of the taxis, right? I like that. And she's got blood on her teeth. Look at that. Or is that rust? From too much blood. I don't know. The taxi is not amused. Or is very amused. Hey, Dean! We could've opened our bottle of beer on these teeth. I think that would constitute a bottle opener. Yeah. Shouldn't have used my tripod. Should've came here. I love this street. It's so much better at night. Because there's not a car. I mean, there's very few cars here. Guesses. Ian, please, for what this is. I don't know what it is. It's a yokai. It's a phantom hamster. No way. Seriously?

00:34:33 Dean Newcomb: Oh, you made that up.

00:34:36 John Daub: The side streets are even creepier. Dean, immerse yourself in mysterious liquid. What do you think that liquid is?

00:35:05 Dean Newcomb: I'm gonna hold this water. Or maybe beer. It could be beer. What a shame. It's right outside the bar, isn't it? So do you like spiders?

00:35:15 John Daub: No, no, no. Do you like common spiders? No, I do not like... Let's move on. There's no end to this! Is there? I think we're like 75%. Oh, 75%. This is really long. I'm impressed. The details, the lighting, how far did they go to make this? And this is a free street. This is not an amusement park. You can walk down here for free. Just come to the station. Another reason to come to Tottori, right? I think this is definitely a must-see. And it's really close to Yonago, isn't it? Yeah, the airport's named. In fact, when you arrive at the airport, I put it on Instagram, I saw the stories a couple of days ago when we arrived. The eyeball is inside of a suitcase, and they release that before all the other suitcases, so the first suitcase that comes out is an eyeball in the suitcase. It's really cool how everyone's participating in this, right? The taxi company's doing it, the airport's doing it. Everybody's all in on this anime, GeGeGe no Kitaro. The whole town, in fact, even a lot of Yonago is in on this, because the omiyage (souvenirs), the gift boxes, they all have you know, you can get eyeball gifts. That's what makes this place really famous as Yokai Town. Everybody's all in, and it works because everybody's all in. You know? Pretty cool. I understand it's not just an eyeball. We know that he's the father of the story. Welcome to the livestream. But none of us are experts on GeGeGe no Kitaro. So anything that you all can add into this, I love the participation. Click the like button if you like these really scary streams. The only reason I'm doing this is because a lot of people liked the old house livestream that I did a couple of weeks ago. I uploaded it as a short, so I figured because we had a thousand likes on that, I'd bring you some more creepy stuff. So your likes indicate to me what you want to see more of. Even the bus sign is all in. Look, this is the bus sign. That is awesome. So we had to return our rental car, and we came here by taxi, so we gotta take a taxi back to the airport. What a great experience this is. That's his tongue on tofu. What? Nasty. This is the end of the street. Dude, monster eating little boy crawling away. Nasty. Are you creeped out by this just a little bit? He's got quite a lot of donations as well. Yeah. I like the entrance to it on this side too, with a clock. A creepy clock right there. The Mizuki Shigeru road. Here in the daytime, you could have... From behind, it looks like a very pretty maybe geisha, perhaps a lady of the night, somebody with a very nice face, and then you come around to the other side. She's got no face at all, and teeth that make a tomato into ketchup. Let's see the manhole covers. I guess they're all... I thought I heard something. We walked quite a lot. How do I like it? How do you like it?

00:41:40 Dean Newcomb: I like it. I like it. I think of all the places in Tottori, this is the place I've been to the most.

00:41:44 John Daub: I think I've been here now four times. Yeah. So it keeps luring me back. There's something real special about this area, Yonago, the Daisen-Oki National Park, and Matsue nearby is also really pretty. There's so many nice things, but with all that beauty, you have horror as well, all mixed in. I love it. There's a contrast here that's just very, very nice, very special, very unique. It's frightening. We named imagination as the soul of Japan in this prefecture and in this episode, and that was because of the huge diversity between a place like this, which is very fun and family friendly, and then something as epic as Mount Daisen, and then yeah, and then over on the Tottori city side, you've got the sand dunes. Sand dunes. Right. So like, in one prefecture, you've kind of got a lot of different things to enjoy and explore. Explore. I think that's nice, you know? Nice. Nice. Very nice. I'd be in my top five. Tottori's in your top five? Top five what? Prefectures of Japan. Top five prefectures of Japan? Yeah. Wow. More, better than Saitama?

00:43:17 Dean Newcomb: I think so. But if you're from Saitama, I'm sorry. But yeah. Tottori is more charming. Really? More charming. This is charming? Lowest population in Japan, right? Lowest population? What? Lowest, yeah. Least populated. Least populated. Really? I thought it'd be like Hokkaido or something. Yeah, there you go. It's not true. Hokkaido is all one big mass, isn't it? Yeah. That's Sapporo. There's two million people there. I thought we were being followed. Lot of post boxes. I mean, what do you think's in there? Mail? You write creepy. I don't think so. Another stamp rally point. No, that vending machine didn't move. Did that vending machine just move? Was that there before, Dean? We walked just by there. Things could be moving. I know. Play with my mind. Mind games. This is the part of the livestream where you can write in where you're from. So let us know what part of the world you're watching from. Probably not the east coast in the US. You're almost certainly asleep. Nottingham, England. Nottingham, England? Nottingham, England-ess. You don't say. Bloody hell. And you? I dare not say, yet I be judged. They look like Yoda. I thought that was Yoda. Australia. Australia. Melbourne. Wisconsin. England. Lebanon. Lebanon? Yeah. My basement. Nasty. Nasty. And nobody mentioned the eighth planet. That's where I'm from. So the seventh planet. Depends on Pluto, if you count that as a planet. It was when I was in school. Do you know what the eighth- Back when I was in school. Do you know what the eighth- the seventh planet is, Dean? Tell me.

00:46:11 Dean Newcomb: Uranus.

00:46:15 John Daub: Just not gonna go there. I'm just not. Well, you should go there. Well, you should because it's your anus. In both ways. It's your anus. So you are there. No matter if you want to be there or not. You're there. Alright? Seventh planet. I hope your friends judge you in a big way. I cannot be judged. All I know is that you're from Uranus because you can't just- You can't separate that. It's your. It's yours. Therefore, I'm not involved. Okay, dude. It's turning into a scary stream. It's one of these streams you don't want to swim in. Because you know you won't come out the same on the other side. It's like Monster Barbershop. ...mostly plain clothes, but rocking geta (wooden clogs), which is making a really cool noise as they clip-clop. Oh, right. He's wearing geta. Yeah. Clippity cloppity, clippity cloppity. Clippity cloppity. This is from the hotel, isn't it? You would- one would assume? Dean, do you know where the Klingons are from? Star Trek? Mm-mm. Not sure. Some kind of crap? You should know this. JWHIS13 knows where the Klingons are from. Chronos. Yeah. No, I don't know. Maybe. I don't know. Dean, of course, is not a fan of Klingons. I couldn't tell whether you were speaking about the- those Klingons or the people that just kind of hang around with you when you're not- Oh, the clingy people, yeah. Look at that yokai. Nasty. I don't think we saw this side of the street here. You know what? This has a really distinctive feel of Halloween, like I'm a kid trick-or-treating just without the candy and door knocking. It would be so cool here. Right? Yeah. Hey, you have Halloween in England?

00:48:37 Dean Newcomb: Uh, yes. It's one of those things that America invented, I thought. Yeah.

00:48:44 John Daub: Japan kind of loves it so much it's overtaking the number one destination for Halloween. Hello there. This is my father. Oh, wait. He's wearing geta too, like that guy. That's why they're rocking the mask. So you think he was wearing the geta because that was Kitaro? Clippity cloppity? Do you think? Are we now doing the only British accent? I don't know. No, I'm just imitating you. Clippity cloppity. Just imitating Dean. How dare you insinuate. This music road. That could have been him. Old school cycle shop. That has nothing to do with this road. Mmm, those are the best roads. Best cycle shops. Look at this scary vending machine. It says monster on it. Do not drink that at this time of day. Or night. So folks, what do you think of this street? Approve? Disapprove? Like? Don't like? Do not click the like button. Or don't dislike button because you don't like the street. Don't do that. That would be harsh, wouldn't it? Don't judge me by the street. Judge me by if you like this stream, maybe. Mr. Clayton is from the Big Apple? Some of us are awake. Indeed. What time is it? In the Big Apple? Yeah. Well the Big Apple could be Aomori. I'm not sure. Hirosaki City or New York City. So I'm guessing it's daylight savings time is over. So it's 13 hours different so it's like 5am or something I think in the Big Apple. Scary. Kowai (scary). Whoa! Look at the sign on that shop. It's blinking. The eyes of the pillow monster guy thingy. No, it was blinking red, I swear. Do you see that? And it has that noise of when someone walks into your shop over and over and over again. It's creepy. That means ghosts are going in there. Something's entering if that's ringing the bell. Is that only in Japan?

00:51:12 Dean Newcomb: I guess so, right? Yeah.

00:51:21 John Daub: I'm so familiar with that noise now. Do you know the Family Mart jingle? The thing is when you go into Family Mart you can't get it out of your head. Ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding. It sticks in your head for... 7-Eleven doesn't have that. They have that Beatles song, right? No, what is... I forget. They play some song over and over in the 7-Elevens. It's pretty creepy. Jingles are a really big part of Japanese marketing. Yeah. Big camera. Big camera. Ding ding ding ding ding ding. Don Quixote has got it. Don Quixote too is addictive. It's annoying. And Yamada Denki. Yamada Denki. Oh my gosh, please. You start... your mind will explode. They totally work. Totally. Why don't we make a jingle for you? I need a jingle. We got one. Do we? You're not. Do you want me to do it? Well, Peter did the, you know, only in Japan. He should do it more... He should do it more in a friendly voice. Yeah. He should do it... Peter should be more friendly. His voice is too... Only in Japan. Hi! Only in Japan! I wonder if he could do something more, you know, like inviting. I can get Keiji to do one. Keiji? Yeah. Seven year old boy compared to Peter von Gomm. I'd like that. Yeah. Peter's pretty versatile though with his voice talent. No doubt. I'm pretty sure he could probably do it. Considering that we flew ANA, right? We get to hear Peter stalking us. Brace for impact! You know, he... Yeah, it's kind of... He does the safety videos for ANA. And we can't... You can't escape him. His voice is everywhere. I asked him, why don't you do the Tokyo 2020 announcements for the Olympics, right? I think, wouldn't that be a pretty cool job, right? That would be very cool. He said that... He said no way you could pay him enough for that job. You know why? Because of all the international names, impossible to pronounce. It is the worst job in the entire world. Imagine trying to... Oh, and let's welcome the team from Greece. You can't... I can't even start to pronounce some of those... Some of the names from like... Wow, it's really, really hard. Some of the... They have letters in like... Like even the Danish team. I still don't know how you pronounce that Æ letter. They have that Ø letter. Yeah, the letter with the slash through the O. I sign my name sometimes with the slash through the O. I don't know if that has a meaning or not. It just looks cool. Like a dagger through John. Very cool. Alright. I'm pretty good. Alright folks, I hope that this was really interesting for you. Definitely click the thumbs up. We really enjoyed this. We gotta go to the airport and head back to Tokyo now. But if you do like this video, give us a thumbs up. Definitely check out that man who is creepy as can be.

00:54:42 John Daub: Dean Newcomb. Who was in this street. You look so guilty. Guilty! Who was here on this street in episode 10 of his YouTube series called Runaway Japan. So check it out. It will challenge you. Physiologically. And in many directions. This street is in Tottori Prefecture. Yonago. You can fly here 90 minutes from Tokyo. It's really cool. This is actually a 15 minute taxi ride. Or a 15 minute drive from GeGeGe no Kitaro Airport. The airport is named after these characters. Which is awesome. And the fact that Tottori is also where Conan, the anime series Conan, detective, also in Tottori City, embraces that. They full on embrace their manga and anime culture. So very very interesting. Have a good day. Have a good night. Wherever you are in the world. We will see you in Tokyo. I'll see you in Tokyo again. Maybe this weekend with another live stream. Keep it positive everybody. And if you want to see the most frightening street in the world, possibly come here. Sakai Minato. Because it's pretty creepy. Later. Deependra Das. Do an Indian accent too. I would never. No I'm not going to insult all those people. Mr. Clayton. Santosh. Thank you Santosh. Tokyo Tom's. Your funds for the vending machine. We'll hit that on the way back. Amanda. Finally catch the live stream. Thank you Amanda. Thank you Santosh. Johnny. Roadtunner. Jeff Ang. Irvin Irvine. And Marty. Much love guys. Later.