00:03 John Daub: Welcome! How do you do everybody? I am now on Tokyo Bay. This is the Toyosu area. Over there is Toyosu LaLa Port, which is a shopping mall. This is a beautiful bike path here in Tokyo that I want to encourage everybody, if you're coming here as a tourist, you can enjoy the bikes. You can just take a bicycle. This is the best place to ride around. In the distance you have the monorail that's going by there. Do you see that? There's no traffic whatsoever except for pedestrians on the weekend, which we're going to try to avoid.

00:33 John Daub: With that introduction said, I have taped the gimbal to a stick onto the bicycle. As this is an experiment, and as always, when we do this live, disaster could happen. I've already noticed through my initial test run, which was 30 seconds ago, that I put the stick in the basket. And as I move this, the gimbal also moves. And there's a chance that you could fall onto the ground. I'm saying this because you're watching as far as I can see inside of a smartphone here. This is also going to give you a kind of a unique perspective as we float onto the roads here.

01:04 John Daub: We're going to get a view of Tokyo Tower and Tokyo Skytree. Actually Rainbow Bridge. I don't think we're going to see Tokyo Tower. It's quite a ways away. But when we get to the end of it, I'm going to take you off this stick, show you around, and then get back on the bicycle. And we're going to end over here. Do you see on this side here? In the distance over there, a kind of really creepy neighborhood, sample neighborhood housing development. And I'm going to end the live stream over there. So you might want to watch that part there.

01:34 John Daub: Danny in Canada is here. Hi, John, watching the video from Hirosaki, the Sakura Festival. Danny, that is a classic. All right. If you haven't seen the Hirosaki Sakura Festival of 2017, where I go through the haunted house, you're in for a treat. All right, let's get going here.

04:02 John Daub: But it's pretty sweet. You can already start to see a bit of Tokyo, the Rainbow Bridge in the distance. All right, let's get moving. Oh, this is so scary. This is like a $1,200 iPhone. I don't want to drop it. Again, it's suspended on a stick by duct tape. Okay, because it's against the law to be holding a stick and live streaming. So after we go under this bridge coming up, we're going to be seeing Toyosu Fish Market on the left.

11:13 John Daub: All right, watch it. It's coming in the picture. Three, two, one. Let's slow down. What's up with that? All right, off we go again. The duct tape seems to be holding okay. It's still making me a little scared. You have to experiment and try new things out. I see Noshibroid is here. I hope you finish. He has a Densha de Go video game simulation stream on Twitch, which is really cool. He's checking that out just for a little bit before. Nice to see you here.

12:16 John Daub: I'm going to first on the bicycle just go around once and show you the area. And then we're going to come back around and I'll take you off of the, and we'll walk around for a bit here. In this direction you can go to Odaiba. And if you look to the right side you can just see the Fuji TV building in the center of your screen. From my house it takes about 25 minutes if I hustle to get to Odaiba. But straight ahead there's a bridge that I gotta cross over to get there. I'm not going to be taking you to Odaiba this time but it would be pretty cool to ride a bicycle around Odaiba.

13:29 John Daub: And riding a bicycle is a little bit safer than taking public transportation in Tokyo during the pandemic, which I've been riding my bicycle a lot more than usual. So when we get to the end of the bricks here you take a left and it goes straight around the island again. So you're going back towards Toyosu. So I'm going to turn the bike around. And you can see here there's loads of places to sit with a bento or something. It's really nice to relax here. And I've done some livestreams from this area. In fact people come here all day. You can see on the other side there's somebody with a tent. It's hardcore fishing. I guess you could sit in the tent and watch TV or something. See I can get close to the water's edge here on my bicycle. I'm going to leave my bike right here.

15:21 John Daub: Do you want to go for a little bit of a walk now? Let's take a look up here. I'm going to have to twist you off. Pardon me for a moment. I'm twisting you. One, two. You're off. Try to do it slow so you wouldn't get seasick. Somebody's dizzy. Sorry about that. Juniper goes, weeeeee. Alright up here is really pretty. Wow they've done so much work up here. I haven't been here in a long time. Check it out.

16:03 John Daub: So not only do they have picnic benches but they seem to, I guess they're getting ready for the Olympics. This is part of the bay side. Tokyo Bay side of the Olympics. And they have some of these venues. I'm going to sneak in right here. There's a break in the rope. Just take a quick look. Now this is also an area where they have some barbecue places and Kanae and her family and I, I guess it's my family. We had barbecues over here. We had to pay like a hundred dollars for the whole family which isn't too bad. They brought the, that included the meat. This does look like something that they're setting up for the Olympics. What could it be? This is Toyosu Gururi Park. Toyosu Gururi Park I believe. And that's the link in the description so you can, uh, oh!

17:00 John Daub: Is that? Is it? It is! That's what I think it is. Dun dun dun dun. It's in open water now. We don't see it too often in open water. It's pretty cool. So I'm panning now across Tokyo Bay. Jennifer has spotted spaceboat but unlike our discord server it does not have a, look Jon, space boat. A bot to tell ya. We have a, we've programmed in some neat little Easter eggs on the discord server for Only in Japan. You might wanna go check that out. If you write boat in the discord server chat night uh the bot in there has a little easter egg just telling you wow rainbow bridge right there uh i you can also ride your bicycle across rainbow bridge so if you keep going you want to do a day trip out of it you can keep going all across rainbow bridge into uh hamamatsu cho and eventually up to shimbashi.

18:42 John Daub: Nagi a thanks for sharing the name of the asahi kawa ramen shop on discord you're very welcome um i was looking at the google reviews of that of that asahi kawa ramen shop that had amazing chashu and i guess they changed the chef because it's not getting the same kind of reviews as it used to so i'm now looking back this is towards the toyotsu fish market you actually get a really good view of it from the other side and if you do go around the corner here there really is almost there's nobody there but the path is a little bit narrower but it's such a beautiful brick path perfect for running if you are somebody who's a marathoner and you you need to go for a long run this is the perfect place for it there's no traffic lights it's pretty wide on one side with beautiful views and it's pretty narrow on the other side to do some speed trials and stuff that beautiful hey who usa is here showing some support thank you it's nice to have you with us new patreon supporter.

19:58 John Daub: Speaking of which i can i and i just put the stamps on all of these and we're sending them out tomorrow from tokyo station so if you want to get a chance to get a tokyo station um stamp on your postcard gonna want to sign up today because we're we're putting the labels on tonight it's on patreon wow that's some sort of uniqlo headquarters cool all right let's get out of here time to get back on the bike now i'm going to take you to a weird model japanese model neighborhood it's like this is the kind of place this model neighborhood and here's my mic right here it's the kind of place that i think a zombie apocalypse happened there's nobody there usually especially at night there's nobody even living inside of the houses it's kind of creepy if you do look across tokyo bay you can see the monorail going by and life going over there that that must be hamamatsu on the other side and i believe um oh where is it right somewhere over there oh it's at that round building right there that's the intercontinental hotel.

21:14 John Daub: And i once stayed there with kanai as a present for a night trip and we ate at one of our favorite restaurants in there kanai likes hotel breakfasts so every every blue moon we go and stay in a hotel all right i'm gonna put this on back on here so i'm gonna twist you just I'll do it slowly but you're being attached to the gimbal again hold on a second I have to do it strongly oh it's in wrong oh wow it's hard close your eyes everybody you're gonna go for a spin okay all right you're on there pretty strong you okay you all right do you mean okay all right here we go I don't know why I lacked my bicycle I didn't really need to do that I was gonna take the bike here it's sort of I guess it's on there good enough I don't want to lose a 1200 smartphone onto the ground here life as a gimbal yes you are on a gimbal are you ready to go three two one it's not really that high speed enough to do a countdown but anything to funify this is worth it.

23:00 John Daub: Oh hey urze is here from Mexico the view must be awesome at dawn and night I wish I went there last time I visited nice to see you Jennifer French as well I say that there good just want to give a shout out to everyone who's helping to support the show face of the bandwidth very wide path to ride a bicycle on isn't it going in this direction you don't have the Rainbow Bridge to look at it's not quite as nice but there is um I'm gonna take you off road off this road anyways up this ramp here and you can get a pretty interesting view above of the Toyosu fish market so let's go have a look this is not a battery power assisted bicycle I have to push up the hill whoa careful push push stabilize gimbal doesn't fall off it's hard to do that I can't stand up on the bike because of the it'll make the handlebars go left and right.

24:40 John Daub: Oh look at this check it out there's one of these dokomo rental bicycle points so you could actually just drop off your bicycle right here how cool is that you get a bicycle from Tokyo Station or shimbashi or somewhere and you can just ride it here and leave the bike here take the take the subway back that's pretty sweet so you can also ride above ground gives you a unique or a different perspective here I'm just going to go to the pan the camera to the right you can see the Olympic Village that's what's uh straight ahead of you and the uh ferry terminal too one of the ferry terminals is uh on that island on the other side I was like almost nobody up here check it out there's like people just pitch their tents here and will sleep right outside of the Toyosu fish market that's what's up there the Toyosu fish market just kind of hanging out and having a nice day here seems like a perfect plan right all right let's ride over.

26:17 John Daub: So I'm going to take you now towards the abandoned Japanese neighborhood model Village which I guess has a unique attraction it's a whoa Skytree sighted this is one of the unique points where you get a view of both the Tokyo Tower and the Tokyo Skytree it's a little bit far off you're going to need a zoom lens to get there but I'm going to do my best here with the iPhone from from that open area here you do get a nice view Skytree sighted this Skytree has been brought to you by Brenda mixie thanks for this wonderful tour John you're welcome nice to see Brenda how you doing Brenda all right let's get moving just I was really happy to see the Skytree don't think the people up there at 600 meters high can see me I think that actually the observation takes 450 meters high I believe the top one.

29:02 John Daub: Whoa, it's really jumping. Gold medal! Alright, watch out for the potholes. Here we go down. Oh, that kid's right in the center. Watch out, kid. That's one of those bicycles without any pedals. I wonder if kids really like that. I guess it's like simulating bicycling, but you don't actually have any pedals to bicycle. You're kind of just kicking. I don't know. I think my kid's gonna be a lot smarter. He'll figure it out.

30:51 John Daub: Straight ahead of you is Toyosu's LaLa Port, and underneath the bridge, you can start to make it out. That orange building is where the Bubba Gump Shrimp Company is. From Forrest Gump. I guess they sell shrimp there. All sorts of shrimp dishes. There's so many of them. Alright, I'm gonna ride a little bit away from the speaker. I wanna show you just a little bit of this area here. This is pretty interesting. They actually do have a barbecue going on here. I don't wanna get too involved in their barbecue time, but it feels almost like a college party.

32:13 John Daub: Let's see what we can find here. I know there's a vending machine at the abandoned model house place. There's my bike. Oh, now you can see the pole that I have it on. It's really ridiculous. Ah, technology. If that hut's a-smokin', don't come at all. I guess that's the expression. Some barbecue going on in there. Alright, let's check this out. Bay Park Marche. So, I guess they got some sort of night plan, and they have a day plan, and they're playing Michael Jackson's Bad, so I can't go near there. It's like a force field preventing me to go closer. But you can see people are up here. There are heaters to keep people warm, but they have these kind of tents, so you can spend the whole day in here. Take a nap if you want to. Drink too much, and then sleep it off for an hour, and then go drink some more. That seems like something that people would want to do here.

33:24 John Daub: But it's in an elevated position, and when the sun sets, I don't think it's gonna be so beautiful today, but you'll see here it is a pretty nice view. As I pan along towards the... I guess it's like a river right off of the Sumida River that goes around Tsukishima, Kachidoki, and Harumi. The camera is attached to a gimbal. Who wrote that? Alright, let's take you over now to the other... Even on a gimbal, when it's attached to a stick this big, and I'll show it to you, there's no way to make it 100%. Helicopters really love coming here too. The helicopter business has really been hurting too. I thought I'd give them a call. They have night tours of Tokyo. It's really beautiful, and you don't get busted for taking a drone. This is my setup here. It took me five minutes to make. It is duct taped tripod to basket and pole. And then I just attach the gimbal, the base of the gimbal onto here.

35:26 John Daub: There's a strict no skateboarding policy here. Sorry about making you dizzy. It's part of the fun. If you're sitting on your couch, maybe shake it up a little bit. Oh, there are little doggies here. Oh, we missed them. A lot of little doggies. Some runners really drag their feet. Pick it up. Toyosu's LaLa Port Shop and Mall on the left side. Beautiful, beautiful location. Grab some food there, sit outside. But I usually will buy something from the supermarket there called Aeon Market and bring it out to that point, Toyosu Gururi Park, where we're walking out with a nice view of the Rainbow Bridge. Alright, up we go again. Second level. Try not to run over anybody.

36:55 John Daub: Those joining us, we're live from Tokyo. This is Tokyo Bay, the Toyosu area, and I'm on a bicycle attached to a gimbal on a stick in the basket so I don't get arrested for riding around with a smartphone in my hand. Oh, they're playing futsal. Do you know what futsal is? I'll take you over there. Hold on. Oh, pothole. I guess you can't really see too well through the green. But futsal is a sport where it's a very small soccer field with, I think, three or five people, depending on the size, and it's a lot faster. It's called futsal. I don't know if it's a Japan-only thing, but F-U-T-S-A-L, but futsal. I think it's Japanese. We don't have a lot of space in Japan, so you can put these on the roof of some of the buildings. There's a futsal court on the top of the building in Shibuya, if you take a look, on top of Shibuya Station, I believe. No, that's not a baby. It's a dog. Only in Japan.

38:16 John Daub: All right, I'm turning you around. Let's go to the abandoned neighborhood. All right, straight ahead on the right side, you see a greenhouse. That's where we're going to be stopping, maybe checking out a vending machine there. Oh, wild magic. The barbecue zone is out of business, it looks like. On the right side, there used to be a barbecue area that was ridiculously priced, but offered a nice experience to those who could pay for it. That's gone. Wow, we're a lot closer to the Toyosu shopping mall now. Guess a gimbal can't get out a lot of the micro jitters, unless it's handheld. So I'm going to park right here. We're now in like a model neighborhood, and I was always curious about this.

39:49 John Daub: What is it like seeing these model neighborhoods, especially this one? It's just weird to see the houses right on the Tokyo Bay. So I'm going to spin you for the last time and take you into the neighborhood. I'm going to show you inside, so close your eyes. It's kind of fun, huh? Wee. Your audience is like baby. Sorry. Check it out. See, there's a vending machine here. It's got weird drinks. I think there's another one around here. What a beautiful day. No rain in the spring equals beautiful day. Whoa, look at the house. This is the kind of window I was telling, like, can I one day, if we buy a house, I want to have windows like this and with beautiful views. Big windows. In Japan, people prefer to have privacy over large windows. I think it's kind of weird.

41:17 John Daub: All right, let's get a quick look around. No bicycles allowed. Try to get away from the music here. All right, good. It's interesting. So these are some of the houses, I guess. These are interesting. I like this one here, but I guess you can use the roof. Up on the top, there's probably a little picnic area, like on Peter's house. Peter has a house like, wow, that's a nice looking house there. John would like to live in there. Toyota house. Really? He's at Toyota houses. I don't technically have permission to be filming here. Sorry, Toyota house. That looks like such a nice house, doesn't it? I like to build this in the forest on a cliff overlooking a canyon. Pretty cool. Whoa. Sweet. Gonna need a lot more cash or something like that. I guess it is energy efficient. The modern Japanese homes are really, really nice. And they're getting bigger and bigger, more American sized. Because I guess people are finding that. Why live in a closet when you can live in like this? So a lot of my friends are moving. A lot of my friends have moved to Kamakura in Kanagawa on the beach side. And those that prefer the mountains, they're moving to Nagano.

43:29 John Daub: This is Toyosu, so this is new land. Just wanted to do a quick walk through this model fake neighborhood. It's nice and quiet and peaceful. I don't think we can go in there. Kanae and I are thinking of getting a house, getting out of the city. And in another live stream about six months ago, I questioned whether or not I should be living in Tokyo at all. Then the internet went crazy. So this is a 4LDK. For $160,000. Oh no, no, $1.6 million. So this house would cost $1.6 million. Wow! But it's more energy efficient. It's a Tama home. That's really nice. $1.6 million for this thing? Hey Ryan K's in the house. How you doing Ryan and Nosh Abroad?

44:51 John Daub: Why does Japan like the cement and rebar aesthetic of its home design? I have even seen wallpaper that fakes the look. I don't know. I guess there's a lot of things about Japan and the likes of what Japanese like and what I like as a non-Japanese. It's different. But the longer I stay here, the more I start moving a little bit over towards that side. But I still have more questions than answers. But I do see a lot of... See Japan is a country that just does not have the same amount of... resources, right? So they have to fake a lot of it. Almost everything to this country is imported. Except for the rice and strawberries and people. But yeah, you're right. It's just the aesthetics of it. I like the windows in this house. How much is this thing going for? Hey now, look at that window! That's going to be my office! What? How much? What's this going for? I'm afraid if I touch this red carpet, some guy's going to come out and try to milk me of my savings.

46:14 John Daub: But how much will it take to get you into a new home? I don't... I don't know. 360 triple. That would make it 720... That's like 1000 degrees. That's pretty crazy. Going to the next level. Not just double, triple the 360. Actually, I've only taken you double 360 when I attached you to the bicycle. They're trying to... They promised you more than I could. So it's another million dollar home. It looks like. They even have a campaign. One million dollars. That's savings off of something more. Dipendra Das is here. Hi John! Joining late here. What a beautiful cloudy day. Cloudy and beautiful. Two things you don't see too often, but you're right about that, right? Would you move from Tokyo to Japan? Yeah, I would. Hiroshima looks like a really nice place.

47:13 John Daub: So let's walk around to... Back towards the bay here. Thanks for that. Ah, there's another pretty house. Hi. I guess these are the designs that people... People really, really want these days. It's more subtle. You see this house here doesn't have any windows. The windows are hidden behind this wood. And in a tight neighborhood, this gives you a kind of privacy, but wouldn't blinds be better? I don't know. I kind of would want to have the view. Like this house here has a lot bigger windows. Everybody's different. Everybody has certain different levels of privacy, but for me... Oh, look at the solar panels on there. I don't... I almost moved into a... What they called a designer's mansion. It's not a mansion, just an apartment near Sangenjaya before I moved to Shinozaki. And the rent was about $200 more a month, but it was all glass. It was just insane. And I loved it. And in the end, it was like cement and glass. And in the end, I went with the larger space in Shinozaki. I don't think I made a wrong decision.

48:37 John Daub: Joshua Lim is a new insider. Speaking to... Talking to the insiders, I have a new travel note coming. Working on it right now with a dozen other things. Oh, it's pretty nice here. I like the fake neighborhood. I'm glad that we stopped. You saw the Mickey and Minnie too, River. All right, let's move over past the copyrighted music. Copyrighted music, copyrighted music. Okay. Oh, they said that this one is a pet-friendly house. Oh, it is. Check it out. So you can't let your dog roam around outside, but he can run around all day long in this astroturf zone. Pet-friendly. Wow, that looks so nice. Kanai, if you're watching this, look at all this space. Look at that balcony. You can have a barbecue up there. What? Why aren't I living in a house? Why have I decided to live in an apartment? Wow, look. What is that? What are these called? Like portabellos or something. These round things. I want that to be all glass though. I can sun myself in there. Konnichiwa.

49:53 John Daub: Does anybody else think that they use the word smart too much? Like we're all dumb? Smartphone, iSmart, smart house. I don't know. You know, looking at this vending machine, nothing really makes me excited. This is Nama Hojicha. Let's get one of these. This looks hot. I'm not really into anything else here. We have to end with a drink. I have to sign off with something to drink here. So let's get this. Oh, they do have a hot lemon with honey. I'm going to stick with the Hojicha. Three, two, one. It's nice and hot. Roasted green tea. Nice. It's nice to see that the helicopter tours are back. I noticed when I was riding my bicycle around here, I saw that the kids are out there playing baseball. Baseball in Japan is huge. So I know it is a small drink bucket, but I don't need to drink a gallon. Oh, that's hot. This is hot tea. Another reason why it's small is because it's hot. Hojicha is so good. Not a lot of caffeine. Almost no caffeine in Hojicha, by the way. Because if you roast the green tea, it gets rid of the caffeine. So it's good to drink Hojicha before bed, I was told. Yum. Lovely.

51:53 John Daub: So one last look at the river. Again, just to end this, I'll put this on a note of the reason for this stream. This path here goes around the entire island, and I believe it's about eight kilometers, seven, maybe, I think seven kilometers to go around at one time, which is better than the Imperial Palace, which is five kilometers to go around. And if you're looking for a longer run, I think coming out here to Toyosu, it gives you that opportunity. No traffic lights, not so crowded. Beautiful view, nice fresh air. There's always a breeze coming by because we're right off of the bay. Nice views at night, especially at twilight. You get Tokyo Tower right there lighting up. And there's views of the Tokyo Skytree here a little bit further away. And that Toyosu Station is right there. It's on the Yurikamome Line. And you can go and have some lunch at the shopping mall. That's Toyosu LaLa Port, which is also a really nice place. Kanae and I come here every now and then to go shopping. In fact, we've seen some viewers come say, hey, there's John and Kanae. I think Kanae was way more popular than I was, as it should be.

53:11 John Daub: Mikael, welcome a new traveler. Where's Ultraman? I don't know. Maybe he's under the sea with Godzilla fighting for aquamarine supremacy. I don't know. That's Harumi on the other side. And there you have it. Thanks for the thumbs up. Thanks for liking this video. Once again, I am sending out these postcards. If you can't make it to Japan for the cherry blossoms, I can bring the cherry blossoms to you through this postcard. And on the back of it, I'm putting a cherry blossom stamp. It's all cherry blossoms. And then next month, we'll probably have something with Tohoku. And by the way, we still have about 70... We've had over 100 people sign up for the Shinkansen, special Only in Japan Shinkansen trip on April 3rd. We have over 100 people sign up for it, but only about 30 people have paid. So you can still sign up and get the tickets. You just have to pay before everybody else. But I'm pretty sure we're going to have a full Shinkansen, which is going to be a lot of fun. We're taking up on April 3rd.

54:18 John Daub: Peter and I are leaving at around 7 in the morning from Tokyo Station to go up to Shin-Aomori. And we're going to ride in the Grand Class. And one of the reasons that JR is doing this is not just to mark the 10th anniversary for the tragedy, the Great Tohoku Earthquake, but we want to... What they want to do and what I want to do is very much in tune. We want to show you more of the countryside, more of Tohoku, more of the north side of Japan. And I can't go up there because of the state of emergency. I'm supposed to stay here in Tokyo for the next 10 days or so. But we're very much in tune with this, and it's a great opportunity to share with residents living in Japan a trip up to Shin-Aomori that is so cheap. It's ¥15,000. You can get it from the link in that video from two days ago. And sign up. If you do pay, you get the ticket. Just pay before everybody else because there's a lot of people interested. It's ¥15,000. Typically, one way to Shin-Aomori is ¥18,000, and you're getting five days of unlimited Shinkansen travel into Tohoku for ¥15,000. Use the rest of the money for hotels and food and everything else. You also get a mask and a welcome card. It's kind of a neat deal. And you get to ride a special... Shinkansen.

55:40 John Daub: And if you're another YouTuber, this might be pretty cool to come along if you want to. I don't know. They're going to be doing little ceremonies on the Shinkansen. Not on it. On the platforms at the stops. Fukushima, Sendai, Morioka, and Shin-Aomori also will have little mini ceremonies to mark this special Shinkansen. And I'm just really grateful to JR East and Jeki and Jarman International for making this trip a reality, which is super cool. I've never had... Kashikiri is the word. Like a private Shinkansen car. It feels very much like a... I don't know. Larger than life type of thing. I could never afford it on my own, but in this kind of a promotional thing, we can do it. And you're invited to come along if you're here in Japan. If you're not, maybe one day in the future, if this works out, we'll have another Kashikiri private Shinkansen. But I will try to like it. I'm going to try to do a live stream from the Grand Class, which is the first class as well. And Peter and I are going to try some special bentos, make an episode on Tohoku. It's really cool. Have a great day, everybody. Thanks so much for watching. I appreciate it very much.

56:52 John Daub: We're 1,000 subscribers away from 100,000 on the new Only in Japan channel by me, John Daub. I had to restart. It's a long story. You're probably not subscribed. Maybe you're not. 80% of the people watching are not on that new channel. So we're going to pass it. And I have some, it's going to be an amazing milestone for the community. Bye, everybody. Have a good day. Thank you, Nightbot. Thank you, Saya. 1, 2, 3, 4, I hope that there's something fun like Shinkansen trip. Once country is open, I hope so too, Saya. That would be really, really awesome.