00:01 John Daub: Greetings everybody. Welcome to Mizue. This is a train station on the Toei Shinjuku Line. How you doing? This is a station that I lived next to for a very long time. For about 12 years of my life, I lived at that station called Shinozaki and I would often come to this station because it was bigger than Shinozaki. So it had more stuff, especially in the station area. So for the next 30 minutes or so, I'm going to walk around with you and show you a typical Tokyo neighborhood. This is pretty typical.

00:36 John Daub: Now I want to show you here on the map. First of all, this is the kōkyo (Imperial Palace) in the center of Tokyo. If you take a step back, you can see it's right in the middle. We're actually quite a ways away here, just on the outskirts of Tokyo, kind of the suburbs in Edogawa Ward or Edogawa-ku. I used to live in Shinozaki. The last stop is Motoyawata. Motoyawata is a station that connects up to the train line that will take you to Narita Airport, the Keisei Line, which is so convenient. But this is probably the biggest station in this area.

01:10 John Daub: And I'm going to go and show you right now. Again, it's on the Toei Shinjuku Line, which takes about 30 minutes to get to the end of the line to Shinjuku. There are a lot of trains running every about five minutes or so. And they go in each direction. What I love about the Tokyo metro here is that it is quite organized. You can see here there's a map and it'll tell you where to sit to be close to the stairway. So if you're getting off at, let's say, Jimbocho and you want to connect to the Hanzomon Line, you can see you want to sit in car number one and you'll be really close to the train change. So you can quickly get to the interchange without wasting time walking around the platform. It's super easy. And the longer you live in Tokyo, the more you take advantage of little things like that. So let's get moving.

02:10 John Daub: You can hear these birds chirping in the background. It's sort of just one of these soothing effects that you'll hear, little background noises in Tokyo that make the experience more relaxing. So we're going to go out the central exit. I haven't been here in a couple of years. So for me, it's going to be pretty shocking to see how this has changed. I do like the signs. The public service announcements in Japan are pretty interesting too. Yes, we do have female police officers, things like that. It's good to see. There's also a sign for people that are wanted. So be on the lookout.

03:12 John Daub: Wow. This is such a memory. This is like going down memory lane for me inside of Mizue Station. I remember that little flower shop there. Let's make our way up. I never take the escalator. I would always hike the steps. There's an escalator to the side here. Let's go. Let's Rocky this. Now every single train station in Japan sort of has a consistency to it. But what I like about Mizue, there's a consistency to the station areas. They're called ekimae (station front) in Japanese and each ekimae, they almost look alike. There's a lot of similarities to it. Okay. So I see some new stuff already.

04:29 John Daub: So we're going to go at the main side. Usually there's one side that's more built up than the other. This would be the south exit or minamiguchi and you can see inside of this, inside of the station, there is a supermarket called Life and they're actually partners with Amazon for supermarket delivery at the moment. But it looks like they've really seriously renovated inside of there over the last couple of years since I was last here. It looks beautiful. It was really retro looking a couple of years ago. Welcome to the ekimae. Whoa. This is so typical of Japan here. You have just about everything that you need in life in this one area circling around the station here. You have a taxi stand on the far side, a big Don Quijote. We'll walk by there for a second.

05:49 John Daub: Wow. I used to go shopping here all the time. Crystal Frost is right in here. I love travel in Japan with you. Love your snacks too. Thank you, Crystal. Welcome. I know a lot of you can't make it to Japan right now. So I will take you with me as we travel around the country. Just before this, I was looking at mushrooms inside of a mushroom farm in Niigata, which is so awesome in Yuzawa. Matsumoto Kiyoshi is the staple of any Japanese neighborhood. Everybody has a Matsumoto Kiyoshi point card. So when you have a point card for a certain place, you tend to go there to collect points and coupons and such. But the prices of goods are very competitive because there's such a big outlet. But what I like about it is that these station front areas, it's very open, meaning you can just walk right in. The foot traffic goes straight into Matsumoto Kiyoshi. It's all pretty much on the road. And they just push some of this stuff a little bit inside and they close the gates at around 10 p.m. Depending on the neighborhood rules. Sometimes the businesses have to adhere to neighborhood rules. This is Edogawa Ward.

07:15 John Daub: Walking across the street, you can already see that there are some businesses here. There's a sushi shop. There's a small Italian place over there. There's another sushi shop. Some restaurants. There's a Matsuya, which is a gyudon restaurant in the distance there. Where's the Moss Burger? Oh, there it is right there! There's a Moss Burger. This is the only Moss Burger in my neighborhood, in my area. So I'd have to ride about 10 minutes to get here by bicycle. And this is Mizue Station. This is probably the best angle, to give you an idea. Yeah, there's not a lot here. It's not exactly a tourist attraction, right? But what you see here is everyday life of Japan. So walking around here gives you an idea of what Tokyo is really like.

08:10 John Daub: So let's walk past Yoshinoya here and Kentucky Fried Chicken. I remember when I was coming by here at Christmas time, the long line. Whoa, that looks so good! That's the spicy gyudon, negi-rayu from Yoshinoya right now. Whoa, that looks so good. Oh man, I'm so tempted to go in there and get something. Let's see what Kentucky Fried Chicken's got going on here. They're a little bit more inviting, out here in the suburbs. But Kentucky Fried Chicken, just like most Japanese restaurants, does have plastic displays and they have platters. Look at that! That's avocado chicken salad from Kentucky Fried Chicken, KFC. Looks like they've got some kind of crispy cream looking donut there too. Interesting. The Colonel is buzzing here. Whoa, half-price chicken nuggets! Yes please! Strawberry chocolate pie. And they have ginger hot chicken.

09:26 John Daub: One of the great things about Mizue. And you can see right here, there's Mizue right there written. Mizue Station. And that's the logo right there on the left side of Edogawa Ward. It's a katakana "e" that has been pushed this way. Do you see it? Like, e? And then they push it this way to make a logo. It's pretty convenient, it's pretty neat. I'll see if I can get a better angle of it. But sometimes they'll just take the characters, like katakana, and they'll kind of mush it up. I remember asking the representatives at Edogawa City Office, what does that logo mean? They go, oh, we took the e and we messed it up. That's awesome! There's a police box there called the kōban. The real estate prices here are pretty reasonable. This is the Apaman Information Center. Let's see how much a flat costs in this area.

10:25 John Daub: Alright. So they're mostly just selling it outright. But this is pretty expensive. This is like almost $400,000 for that. But you're buying the entire house. So it's pretty reasonable. Oh! So this rent is about $880 a month. Do you see this here? One month of shikikin, one month of reikin. It's kind of a low-rise, older-looking place. Brand new toilets. You have a kitchen with five tatami mats, a size large. A Japanese-style room with eight tatami mats. And then two rooms, maybe a bedroom and an office. And there's some closet space here. And that's pretty reasonable for Tokyo. But one of the things you have to look for, oh, there's a convenience store. There's a Lawson's. And there's a supermarket nearby. And it seems pretty convenient. You always have to look how far away is it from walking distance to the station.

11:30 John Daub: I'm guessing it might be like a 10-minute walk then. You could just go inside and ask. But we're going to keep moving. That is cheap! So this one here is zero, no key money. Which is another good thing about living here. You don't have any key money outside of the center of Tokyo. Meaning key money is a fee that you don't get back. One month rent for security deposit. It's about $550 with the exchange rate. Or $590 if you go 100 yen is a dollar. And it's one minute, 60 meters from Mizue Station. And it's just one room. That's it. That is pretty cheap. So it's a kitchen dining. It's actually not that bad. So you get a kitchen dining which is 4.5 tatami rooms. And then a 7.5 tatami room living space. And then here's the walk-in. That's pretty reasonable.

12:43 John Daub: That's on top of the station. So maybe we'll find that place. Alright, let's get walking here. I'm going to do one lap around. I'm going to walk you into the neighborhood just to get a quick look. In the front here you have a SoftBank shop. And I remember getting my first iPhone. It was like the iPhone 4. Here, pre-ordering it and waiting in line outside of the SoftBank. There's a Tokyo Mitsubishi UFJ. Or I think it's just called MUFG. Or Mitsubishi UFJ now. So there's an ATM here to get cash out. I use that bank. I use a couple of banks actually. There's a Docomo shop for your cell phone coverage there. On the corner. And this is the entrance to the Don Quijote. Used to be a lot of bicycles parked here. But they really cracked down on that. You can't park your bike there.

13:37 John Daub: Another quick pan over to Mizue Station. It's a really easy place to live. Supermarket, restaurants, all the services. Cell phone, internet, cafes, restaurants. I could live here. But if you get onto the Toei Shinjuku Line, which is a subway line going through here. It's not an express stop. And it takes 30 minutes to get to Shinjuku. So if you do have an appointment somewhere, you're going to have to take an hour out of your 24 hours to get there and come back. Where I live now in Tokyo, it's like a 15 minute bicycle ride to get everywhere. So it's very convenient. It was mostly a decision to leave this area. Was basically how do I save more time to do the things that I need to do.

14:30 John Daub: Hey is that Toro Toro Porco? Congratulations on your own Shinkansen train. I'll talk about that in a second. And Crystal Frost have a snack on me. Just join the postcard club. I just put in some postcards. One of them to I think it was Bellevue Washington. That's on the way. I just put it in the mailbox. So I'm looking at more of the real estate prices. Oh there's also a lot more space out here. So because there's more space in Edogawa, you get bigger places like a massive gym here. Right? There's a swimming pool in this one. A big one. And then you have a driving school right there. And then across the street is the driving school course. So I thought maybe we'd go and take a quick look at that. But there's a ton more space out here than there is in central Tokyo. The air is just a little bit better. Less traffic.

15:29 John Daub: But Edogawa Ward was very famous for the bōsōzoku life. He's not much of a bōsōzoku. They'd have a much cooler bike. This more local punk. This is a lot of punks out here. It's just a true story. My wife used to tell me, be careful. Edogawa. There's a lot of motorbike gangs out here. But I don't think a lot of them are around anymore. Hey Andre from NYC. How you doing? Nice to see everybody. So welcome. This is Mizue. This is an area I used to live around about three years ago. I moved to central Tokyo to Chūō-ku. And this is Edogawa-ku. And I just got a haircut. You can see they chopped me pretty good. I've been going to the same barber for twelve years now. And I'm not moving them. So I still have to make a long commute to get to the barber shop.

16:28 John Daub: Alright. So what you're looking at now is a driving school. And I remember when I took the course. Driving in Japan has nothing to do with taking the test. Getting a license. It has nothing to do with your ability to actually drive. It has everything to do with your ability to memorize the course. And remember the rules. Nothing to do with actual driving. You can be the worst driver, but if you can memorize the course, you can get a license here.

17:04 John Daub: Alright, this is the back entrance to Don Quijote. And we might cut through there. But there's a little alley that I'm going to get through on this side to take you to the other side of the station. It's a politician. Years so I figured I'd stop and do this live stream and just show you because I used to get my hair cut at that place in the corner here until one day the service was just so bad they butchered my hair so bad. Now it's out of business it looks like a skeleton of its former self. I can understand why but when you move to a place finding out where to get your haircut where do you go to rent your videos things like this it's part of establishing a life in any country and in Japan I had to do that myself that's the place that they really really destroyed my hair it's hard that's hard to do because I go in now to the haircut place the barber I don't have to say anything I sit down and they know exactly what he remembers my haircut all of them do they talk about it.

18:44 John Daub: Alright this is the Tsutaya or video shop this is basically the Blockbuster of Japan and outside of the city centers they're doing pretty good. This would be a cultural hub more or less and people come here to get magazines physical media people still like that. So I wanted to show you just a little bit walk over here mostly for my own memory get an idea if it's changed or not wow I used to rent the 24 remember Jack Bauer when those DVDs were coming out got addicted I'd rent like one two three and then I'd watch them all then run back to this Tsutaya to get four five six the next discs and you could return them after hours in this little box here I can't believe it's still there so as long as I got here at 9:59 and put it in that box they didn't charge me a couple of times I had late charges but it's pretty interesting it doesn't look like it's changed much at all I don't think it's changed at all just still showing they're still renting DVDs that's crazy.

20:07 John Daub: Gotcha on here anything interesting can I like that doorbell here it is here's the doorbell I'll that's awesome does this one make a sound too tamarimasu that's pretty cool oh look at that little Shinkansen yeah these doorbells are pretty cool do I have 300 yen let me see I'm looking for some coins 100 150 oh shoot I only have a 500 all right that's too bad I got to skip it there's another one of those right near me I do like this Pikachu vending machine what makes this a Pikachu vending machine I guess it's just having Pikachu on it it's pretty special oh no he's on the mugi-cha here that's what makes it a Pikachu vending machine.

21:20 John Daub: I know I've been playing with that doorbell gachapon thing by my office door and I make sure that Kanae rings the doorbell before she comes in my office kind of annoying for her. How you doing everybody all right we're gonna start walking back towards the station a little bit and I'll show you some of the residential areas between the station and the office so we'll start at the station uh well we'll start we'll start at the station after that after the station I actually have a couple of these in here you can see here it's a very very easy place to live you can see there's some apartments up there that they're a little bit newer ones they weren't there um when I got here but there's again some more apartments and the area around the station area of in Japan all over the place they're called ekimae and there are tons tons of apartments tons of shops all around here this is probably a very typical one.

22:11 John Daub: Hey Joshua skidwar's here hi John thanks for walking around wondering if you would be interested in getting a 3.5 million dollar van Prelude to Kibou with Hakka camera I do have one but it's gotten a little bit old it was like a Samsung 360 from five years ago but I'm looking at the new ones they're all really kind of uh like consumer-ish so I'm waiting a little bit for some new ones to come out but that Insta360 looks pretty sweet I think it's like the X2 or something so I might get that and redo the 360 channel but the pandemic has made it harder to travel and bring you 360 content I'm pretty good at editing editing editing that though I kind of enjoyed it.

22:47 John Daub: This is behind the station now and this side of Mizue's ekimae would I don't know if this would be ekimae this is eki ura (station back) ura means uh back maini in the front this is ushironi this is in the back so this is the north entrance we're walking by a pachinko place I can smell it pachinko smells real smoky and I remember on this side they had a Book Off Book Off being one of the used stores used goods stores where you can sell and buy used items at a discount sometimes you'll find some things that are that you're looking for that they no longer make in there let's see if they still have oh there it is there's a Book Off distance there there's a Nakau 24-hour teishoku restaurant you can get bowls of gyudon curry rice all sorts of stuff at the Nakau I used to eat there a lot when I was working in Ginza it's like I think 400 yen or four dollars you can get pretty good lunch there's a FamilyMart bookshop parking lot for the convenience store karaoke in the distance see that there and here's the back of the station and there's another Matsumoto Kiyoshi so there's two of them one on each side and they make it where you can just grab it here on the wall take it inside it's pretty easy and they just close this up at 10 p.m.

24:51 John Daub: So let's go to the station front area again this is Mizue and it's this is a little bit different from the other ones that we saw earlier we saw it It's becoming a popular place to live because the rent is almost half of what it would be where I live in the area where I am. I got a pretty good deal on my apartment. I found a really nice place to live that's very close to Tokyo Station. Got very lucky. My neighbors are paying a lot more than me in rent now just because they came in later. Here's the Don Quijote. I used to go here quite a bit. Gamer Pro rates in when's 4K streaming coming? I don't know. I think it just depends on when 5G rolls out and the YouTube team makes the YouTube app better for 4K streaming. I think HD streaming will come first. This is the kanji for Mizue. And there's that symbol for Edogawa Ward which is the katakana e.

26:01 John Daub: Flip to the side and there's some pigeons. They didn't react. I think they're used to it. There's San Maruku Cafe. They do pretty good chocolate stuff. You can hang out there at night. Oh, check it out. She took her bicycle in the elevator. So there's a bike parking lot underground. Inside this building up here is also a Daiso which if you're living in this area, it makes it really convenient to get batteries and goods. They don't overpay for stuff that you just want to use a little bit and throw away. It's kind of wasteful. But it's still a useful store. It's a pretty big one up there. Oh, you can get a good bento here. This looks like a family run shop. They have some good items here. And they have a microwave oven on the side here so you can heat up your bento. Wow, 90 yen for ham katsu. It's a pretty good deal. It is a bicycle shop. It is very laid back. Grazi Media writes in here, very laid back neighborhood. It is. It's a very, very livable neighborhood.

27:59 John Daub: And it's a huge difference to someplace like Akihabara or Ueno or Shinjuku. These are really big buzzing places with a lot of people where they go to work. A lot of bigger department stores. Here it's so much more, I don't know, small business driven. But a lot of chain shops like Moss Burger. There's no Starbucks here but there are a couple of other cafes. I think there's a maybe a Tully's that just opened up here. But you do find local places, family run businesses like this Hanasin which is a name of a flower shop or local yaoya (greengrocer) which is a fruit shop here. So I like that. Like this is where I would go and buy my vegetables and fruits to support the local farmers. You don't find that too much in the center of Tokyo anymore. This is a children's clinic. This is a youth center combined with a pharmacy. Welcia is like a competitor to Matsumoto Kiyoshi. Alright. So we've pretty much navigated around Mizue Station.

29:19 John Daub: Crystal Frost writes in here, Lee bought Japanese green from IMI in my local Daiso and was thanks for green tea video. You're very welcome. Glad you enjoyed that. That green tea video that I published a few weeks ago. From Fuji-San city how you doing everybody welcome thanks for joining me in this beautiful Saturday afternoon in Tokyo for those that are joining us just to reiterate this is a live stream and I wanted to um introduce Mizue today Mizue is a neighborhood I used to live in I live by about what was it I moved in 2017 2018 wow three over three years ago I moved to a new area of Tokyo but I still have like strong roots to Edogawa Ward and I miss this place it's just more I don't know more family feeling which is uh more makes it more livable.

30:37 John Daub: Parking lot so it's hard though because if you're gonna be parking your bike it's probably a good idea to find a bike parking lot let's see how much it costs I'm a little bit curious because I would just park my bike in front of the business and try to get in and get out real fast one month and I'm gonna park it on the first floor and it's half price so if you want to park your bike on the first floor it's double the price um this is for ipan this is a everybody and this is for students so student discount this is uh one month and this is for three month pass and by month it's cheaper so you get a yeah I think you get a discount if you buy it but it's half price so if you want to park your bike on the first floor it's three months but you pay half if you if you don't mind parking it up on the second floor you get half the price it's not too bad and the this the thing is that there's less chance of it being taken away not stolen but taken away by the local security the bicycle police there's actual bicycle police oh that's that guy with the loudspeaker about 10 minutes ago he was uh walking around or um driving around the city and he was like oh that's the guy with the loudspeaker about 10 minutes ago he was like oh in his little van trying to get people to like him.

32:02 John Daub: Speaking of liking if you like these local neighborhood tours think about clicking that like button and subscribing with the always turned on so you get those notifications all the time and here we are back at Mizue station live in central Tokyo sort of I don't know is this central it's sort of central is that a bread store this one is a bakery uh not a bakery it's a it's a cafe but they do have baked goods the one thing that this area lacked is a bakery though. I think there wasn't one that I could find, but a lot of the supermarkets have bakeries inside of them. I'm not sure that Life did though. Life is a big supermarket chain. I believe it's based in Osaka, but they're working again. I think I mentioned this before. They're working with amazon.co.jp to do deliveries, so they're getting quite popular, but I'm sure the costs are quite expensive.

33:12 John Daub: Look at that! Strange Danish with red beans and whipped cream ice cream or something. It's a Japanese style azuki Danish. I don't know what that means. That looks pretty weird. They're famous for these, the chocolate croissants, like a croissant with a chunk of chocolate in them. They're pretty good. It's pretty laid back here, so you can see. Oh, sorry. You can see here. People just kind of chilling in the sun. Let's go have a quick look at Don Quijote. I always think that these live streams will have some value to somebody. Hey, Lee Patton is here. Lee, it looks like a beautiful day. It is. It's a really nice day. It's Saturday. I was thinking of actually going over to the Tokyo Skytree today, but I kind of scratched the plans. I probably shouldn't be going to touristy areas on the weekend, but sometime next week, I might go over to that area.

34:37 John Daub: Any train adventures? I'm swinging over here to Don Quijote. Yeah, there was a press release by Japan Rail that announced that I'm going to be, well, I actually have my own Shinkansen train on April 3rd, and it seems almost surreal. It's something that we've been working on for a while, but I got a special Shinkansen train, the Tohoku Shinkansen, and we're using that Shinkansen as a way to promote Tohoku and also announce that we're going to be going to Tokyo Skytree. It's the launch of a new Japan Rail pass. Oh, look at the taiyaki. So, yeah, thank you. I'm really happy. Hold on a second. I think I can go here for a second and just kind of take off my mask. It's hard to talk about it. How are you doing?

35:21 John Daub: So, one of the things I wanted to do was to promote Tohoku a lot more this year. With the anniversary, the 10 years since the earthquake and tsunami happened, this is a time where we really reflect and look back on the history of what happened and how that area is doing. So, JR East has been pretty happy with the work I've been doing to help to promote them. So, this sort of fell together, which is perfect. So, we're taking a Tohoku Shinkansen, a ceremonial Shinkansen on April 3rd, and I'll be doing another live stream to announce this more officially. And you can sign up only, and we have spots for 100 people that watch the show. I'm kind of, I mean, I could ask all of these other YouTubers that want to, like, I don't think that that's the reason why I'm doing this. I want to try to get residents that are living in Japan, not influencers that just want to cover this for their videos, but people who are genuinely interested to go up to Tohoku and visit it, not just to promote it, but also just to enjoy it and to show people, you know, that we are thinking about Tohoku and we are still thinking about travel.

36:34 John Daub: International travel will not be available to Japan anytime soon, I think. But the domestic travel, probably the state of emergency was dropped already in six prefectures, and these four prefectures, Tokyo, Chiba, Saitama, and Kanagawa, still under a state of emergency, which is to stay local, unless it's essential travel for work or something. But we figure by April 3rd, the state of emergency will be dropped, and yeah, I'm going to be getting onto my own Shinkansen live streaming. The ceremony, they're going to be doing a ceremony on the platform of the Shinkansen. How cool is that? And get this, okay? As the Shinkansen makes its way up to Shin-Aomori, because the train stops there, I'm going to be spending the night in Shin-Aomori and then coming back to Tokyo the next day. But on the platform of Fukushima Station, Sendai Station, Morioka Station, and Shin-Aomori, they're going to be doing mini festivals for the train as a way to promote this pass and to try and shore up more interest in coming to Japan.

37:39 John Daub: So I'm just really lucky to be a part of it. So there's a spot for 100 people. I think the link is in the news article that I just shared on Twitter. So if you don't know, I have a Twitter feed. Twitter.com slash Only in Japan TV. If you go there, you can click there and you can apply. Actually, you get a 20,000 yen pass for 5,000 yen off, which allows you to have five days of unlimited travel on the Shinkansen in that area. Plus, you get a bunch of gifts. And a new, like a special Suica card, which is kind of cool, like a limited edition Suica welcome card or something. So it's kind of neat. I'm really honored to have my own Shinkansen. I'm calling it my Shinkansen, but, you know, there's 100 other people riding it. However, I heard that I get a chance to ride in the Grand Class car. That's really, really cool. So I get my own Grand Class car. Peter, my friend Peter von Gomm, is going to be coming with me, PVG. We wanted to class this up, so I needed PVG to help me out a little bit. He's going to be on his best behavior, he promised. So the two of us are going to be making that trip up. So if you do want to meet us, say hi. You know, I don't know how much time we'll have on the trip because we do have to social distance and wear our masks and all that. But you get that chance to join this project. Thanks, Nosh, for asking about that. I'm trying my best. I'm going to put my mask on now. I'm trying my best to get people interested in it. Little things. Actually, that's a big thing.

39:13 John Daub: Before I go back, go back home, I thought I would just take a quick look at. Wow, they do have more shops inside there. There's a Lotteria in there. There's the Daiso competitor, which is Seria 100 yen shop. Saya M says, I'll just just go home for that. I wish. Looks like Ikenari Steak. So the Lotteria and there's a takoyaki place is in the basement. I wish they had it outside. Cool. It's a Pikachu scarf. Wow, it's a hot dog stand. Japanese hot dog stand. Hey, Michael Sassana is in the house. Fuel up on a snack and beverage before heading home. David Kimura, get something for sweet Kanae. You better believe it, Saya. Thanks again. Lee writes in here. That's funny because I thought it was a lottery. It was Lotteria. Lotteria. Let's see what we can get here. I gotta watch out for those bicycles. Let's see. Oh, there's another bicycle bicycle parking lot. Also, this is the bike parking lot for Don Quijote. I had no idea. Interesting.

41:00 John Daub: So let's see if we can get a hot dog or something. Cheddar cheese hot dog. And they have a mozzarella cheddar hot dog. Hot all mozzarella. Well, let's take a look at it. Well, they have 415 yen, so I'll take a look at this. This one is No. 2. Take a look. All right, we can get a variety pack. That's pretty cool. Hi John, thanks for bringing us around to such a local neighborhood. I also enjoy watching the YouTube videos which you have brought us in Yuzawa. Please get something to drink. Thank you. We'll see if I can find a vending machine. Oh, that's really cool. Check it out. So they make them right away. That's really cool. So he adds a little bit of, to the batter, he adds some potatoes to it and then throws them into the deep fryer. That looks really good. It's starting to smell really good too. Whoa, you can see inside the Don Quijote. It's gonna take a minute or two. So we're live in Mizue in Tokyo as I'm trying to get a snack for all of us. I got a mozzarella cheese stick. This is very cool.

44:16 John Daub: Seems like it's gonna take a minute. Oh, there's a Summit supermarket over there. Oh cool, they got the black masks. I was looking for those. So I'm standing on the outside here so I could probably, how you doing? So I'm actually, I ordered a cheese dog. Remember the ones from Akihabara? Okachimachi. I'm waiting for them to deep fry it. So then I can probably eat it here. You got the tripod. It's a nice afternoon. I'm so happy. Oh, who is it? Who were just in here? Hey, Chicago Africans here. How you doing? And Danny, enjoy your high-tech pogo. Bon appetit and have a nice day. Thanks, Danny. Nice to see you. The day after Danny's birthday.

47:14 John Daub: I'm still waiting. We'll be almost there. It's gonna look like that. Check out this on the other side. This is probably more exciting. Look at the live camera of Mizue Station. Hey, Betty C. Thanks, Betty C. Thanks for taking us along. Makes me miss Tokyo so much. Yeah, I know. It's too quiet. I can't wait for everybody to come back here. But we're gonna have the best meetup in the entire world as soon as people start coming back here. It's gonna be huge. Oh, it's dark. So it's been a long time since I've had one of these. The place I usually get it has gone out of business. And this one did not because I think people still eat this here. Marty says, Oh, my. Yeah, Marty. You know all about. You know what's next. We got kind of like our own little area here. So these cheese dogs are quite famous. I have my cholesterol so I'm not I don't have too many of these anyways yeah basically it is a heart attack who wrote that all right itadakimasu I forgot how good these are oh it's so good it's like all in one this one has so much volume to it wow yeah I like it Ronald I I don't like it I love it that's a lot of flavor um this is very popular in Korea this is kind of like a like a mozzarella dog it's not quite melted enough you usually take a bite and go like this but doesn't quite look melted enough to do that they're really good I probably did rush them I might have it's really good thanks for the super chats for this guys I appreciate it.

50:49 John Daub: I'm going to take you back down to the subway and we're going to say goodbye on the platform um in about a minute it's like they should just take the hamburger and the french fries and just put it on a stick and just all mash it together like this it's genius oh right Nosh what would you come on a stick you could put anything on a stick pizza on a stick hamburgers on a stick steak on a stick sushi could be on a stick all right I'm gonna call it that was good I'm gonna call it that was only a couple of dollars I put a sweet chili sauce on it and a little bit of a mustard sauce on it it was pretty good I can smell it in my mask whoa I'm gonna be smelling it for the next hour in my mask here all right just somebody said thank you to the guy and we're off I'm so happy that we could uh I could show you Mizue and I could spend in a couple of like an hour here beautiful day lots of sun get some vitamin D and I'm taking you back onto the subway because I got to get back to central Tokyo but this is my my neighborhood this is my backyard I would call Mizue in my backyard from Shinozaki that's the Toei Shinjuku Line this is the station the blue area and that's the Toei Shinjuku Line and the next stop was my stop and now I I don't live there anymore so off we go inside the Toei subway we need some entry some segway music all right cool let's do it.

54:00 John Daub: Japanese train travel Ken here from Canada in love with the Japanese rail system thanks for always including trains in your live streams I have ridden most of the Shinkansen network can't wait to go back and the Shinkansen network is always expanding it's only I guess in five more years we'll start to have the Chuo Shinkansen or at least we'll be able to know a lot more about it and I know that project is a massive project with a maglev train they'll take it in to Nagoya in 45 minutes I'm so excited about trains so we're now descending deep into Mizue station after starting on the platform about an hour ago I'm getting on to the Toei Shinjuku Line thanks Ken Ken sounds like me I'm a huge train otaku I just get excited about him whoa sui joy vending machine it's kind of crowded let me get all right trying to social distance there actually I already did buy something for Kanae at Motoyawata at the station there's a bakery that I go to in Aeon Isetan got us some baked goods but I'm buying her some stuff when I get back home too at the supermarket for lunch but I think the bakery stuff might be enough this is my train it's going towards Shinjuku thanks so much for watching I hope that you enjoyed this hanging out for an hour I'll be back maybe tonight or maybe and definitely tomorrow for another live stream as we close February really strongly have a good day everybody see you on the Discord server bye bye from Mizue this train smells kind of funky hey thanks Vanessa we love your channel and look forward to visiting Japan ourselves one day have a Sapporo on us you got it.