00:00:00 John Daub: Welcome to Costco in Makuhari, just outside of Tokyo in the wonderful prefecture of Chiba. How are you doing everybody? We just finished shopping at Costco here in Makuhari. We were discussing as we were packing our car up, life in Tokyo is just too small for Costco. My wife Kanae is in the car. We're going to discuss this as we drive to IKEA. We say IKEA in Japanese. We're going to have even less room in the car after we go shopping there.

00:00:35 John Daub: So this time when we came out, instead of renting a car—because I rent a car, Tokyo doesn't have any purpose to actually own a car in Tokyo—instead of renting a normal car, I actually rented a truck this time. I wanted to also show you this truck because when you come to Costco, you end up buying a little bit more than you want to. The portions are pretty huge. They're the same in Japan as they are in the United States for so many things. There's the little truck I bought. It's called a Pixis, I believe. It's from Toyota. And you can see we still have a lot of space. So even if I buy a desk or something for Twitch live streams and all this other stuff at IKEA, we'll still have some space left over. This is about $50 for the rental plus tax and stuff like that. Probably come out to $70 with gasoline.

00:01:34 John Daub: There's Kanae right there. You ready? That's a van. I guess it is a van. It's less of a truck than a van. Good call. Van life. So we're going to drive now from Makuhari over to Minami Funabashi, which is where IKEA is. She says IKEA. I say IKEA. You say IKEA. That's the Japanese way. I say IKEA.

00:02:22 Kanae Daub: The Japanese way is IKEA and the American way is IKEA. And the Swedish way is more like the Japanese way. I've been told.

00:02:30 John Daub: Yeah. Marty Dimmer is here. Hey, Marty. That's not a truck. That's a white postal van. Marty knows because I sent him a red postal van. He's probably trucking around on your kitchen table. I'm pretty excited about today because we've been at home for quite a long time. And it's nice to be able to get in the car and to drive around. I have a navigation system here, which is all in Japanese. This is an older truck. It's called a Pixis. It's a Toyota. Is this a Daihatsu or a Toyota?

00:03:00 Kanae Daub: It's Toyota.

00:03:01 John Daub: It's not a Toyota. It's not? Yeah. I don't know. I've never driven this before. I can tell you this for sure. There's no power at all. I gassed it. I pushed down the gas pedal, which they call akuseru (accelerator) in Japanese, and it was like going nowhere. So it doesn't have a lot of power, but it's got a lot of space. So when you're going to drive around Tokyo, drive into Costco, instead of getting a little teeny Japanese car, which fills up so quick, the backseat and the trunk, it's good to get a truck. This, again, was $50, which is the same thing as a compact car, which is really cheap.

00:03:35 Kanae Daub: Yeah, good for shopping.

00:03:36 John Daub: Toyota owns Daihatsu. That would make sense because it has a D mark on the back. I can show you. It's not a Toyota. Yeah. But I got this at the Toyota Rent-A-Car. I can show you here. That looks like the Daihatsu symbol. And then here's the navigation system that's going to be taking me to IKEA or Ikea. That's so confusing. It's a nice little truck. We have a rainy day, as you can see. As I drive, Kanae is going to be controlling the picture so you can see outside the window a little bit. I got the windshield wipers on.

00:04:11 Kanae Daub: I do my best.

00:04:12 John Daub: Do your best. I don't think you're going to be able to hear any of the messages that you might have. If you also live in Tokyo or in Japan and you do have a car, write a comment below. Is Costco too big for Japanese lifestyles? Does it make any sense to buy the massive portions? We have like a box of 12 tissues in there that's going to take us two months to go through. I guess if you have a family, perhaps, massive jars of tomato sauce or a pickle jar that's this big. I don't know, in Japan there's no place to store them, at least in Tokyo, unless you have a house.

00:04:47 Kanae Daub: Yeah, we don't have a space.

00:04:49 John Daub: There's not really much of a space here. So Kanae is in control of the chat. Marty says it's nice to see Kanae again.

00:04:56 Kanae Daub: Yay!

00:04:57 John Daub: Oh, and Leo was just at Costco yesterday! I think Costco can be a part of everybody's daily life.

00:05:02 Kanae Daub: We say Kostoko (Costco).

00:05:08 John Daub: Kostoko? Japanese say Kostoko. You say Costco, we say Kostoko.

00:05:14 Kanae Daub: Kostoko.

00:05:15 John Daub: Brandania writes in here, Aloha Kanae!

00:05:17 Kanae Daub: Aloha!

00:05:19 John Daub: Aloha! Mahalo! Pineapple! Be careful! Be careful! That's an Alfa Romeo, I don't want to crash into that. Now typically in Japan, I could just go backwards here. Typically in Japan, people back in. But what is the point of backing in? Because all the luggage goes into the back, right? So you're going to need to go in front in. I'm still the only one who thought of that. In Japan they don't.

00:05:53 Kanae Daub: Wow!

00:05:54 John Daub: A lot of people are writing in here. Brenda McSee is here for two Ikea cones.

00:05:59 Kanae Daub: Yum yum.

00:06:00 John Daub: Actually, we could use some Ikea ice cream and desserts. She likes the French fries there. Tony P. Long time no see. John and Kanae, happy you are both doing well. Thanks Tony. And air to the Ron Conley. Kanae, can we see your trained John dance for his physical activity? I could definitely use some dance training.

00:06:20 Kanae Daub: I do get excited. You gonna dance? I do. After I have a couple glasses of wine, I do get a little bit excited and start to dance. Actually, he can dance very well. He have original style. You do this.

00:06:32 John Daub: No, I can't. No, I can't. That's so funny, Ron. Azrayan! A stream with Kanae is a special one. And the need to feed Kanae. Thank you.

00:06:46 Kanae Daub: We ate soup, right?

00:06:49 John Daub: Wait, can we turn left?

00:06:53 Kanae Daub: Yes, you can go left. We can go.

00:06:57 John Daub: Okay. We'll turn the screen around once we get over here. Be careful. We turn right.

00:07:08 Kanae Daub: Yes.

00:07:09 John Daub: We're on the road. It's only about seven kilometers to get to... Oh, five kilometers to get to Ikea. We're already getting the meatball talk already. You can see there's nothing... After this red car, it's really close to get to the beach actually, right?

00:07:29 Kanae Daub: Yes.

00:07:30 John Daub: Makuhari Beach is not exactly the cleanest in the world though. Yeah, but it's raining today. Oh, Kanae, this has no power.

00:07:38 Kanae Daub: We can go slowly.

00:07:46 John Daub: Yeah, I'm not in a hurry. Oh, there's the Costco's food court on the right side. Oh, there's a windshield wiper in the back too. I just figured that out. That's the Aeon Mall up there, which is massive. It just wraps around this entire road actually. I was thinking of... They have Uniqlo too.

00:08:10 Kanae Daub: Oh, yeah.

00:08:11 John Daub: They got Uniqlo. What is your... Does anyone have any recommendations for food at Ikea besides meatballs and french fries and ice cream? Because actually, we just ate at Costco. We had pizza.

00:08:26 Kanae Daub: And you had the...

00:08:27 John Daub: Oh, they didn't have clam chowder this time.

00:08:30 Kanae Daub: Yeah, so we had shrimp bisque, shrimp soup.

00:08:35 John Daub: Shrimp bisque, which was a new one. But it was good.

00:08:40 Kanae Daub: It was pretty good. Yeah, and you had hot dog too.

00:08:44 John Daub: Yeah. You can turn the camera around and check it out. It's not exactly the best day in the world. I was thinking, what should I bring you today to livestream and say, you know what, we'll just share the ride with you as we go to Makuhari for the day. The highway was kind of expensive. The Tokyo Highway, from where we lived to get on, it was 1,090 yen just to get on to the highway. And then another 380 yen. So it ended up being 14 dollars just on the highway. So I might take the local roads home, which is really painful because there's a lot of traffic here. I'll be turning right in a minute. I'm going at 50 kilometers per hour. Because I think that's the top speed of this car. I don't think it goes any faster.

00:09:57 John Daub: Oh, that's Hawaiian pancake coffee. They got Hawaiian pancakes. Oh, it's Nosh. Get the Daim Pie. Oh, it's those little candy bars with hard caramel inside of them. Daim Pie. Daim is like a Costco-made, like a Swedish little chocolate candy with caramel. It's so good.

00:10:26 Kanae Daub: Oh, that's good. They didn't have that last time.

00:10:32 John Daub: Yeah. They didn't have that last time. Hey, Neil McCann's here, new traveler. Thanks, Neil. You just unlocked some emoji. I think we're like 15 new travelers away from the next emoji level. The Daim is like, I remember when they first came out like 15 years ago at Costco. It might even be before that. And you bought a bag this big and it would take you forever to eat. You get so hyped up from the caffeine. Well, we didn't buy any cake from Costco this time.

00:10:59 Kanae Daub: Yeah, that's true.

00:11:02 John Daub: All right, I'm taking a right here at Mr. Max. I've never heard of this chain before. Only in Chiba. It's a Shin-Narashino station. Oh, just a light. We have an arrow. Shin-Narashino. And then we hang a right, a left one here. Did we hang a left one? Boy, that stinks. Look on the left side. She's got a white raincoat on. She has to stand there with a mask on. She's got a mask and a face shield. That's awful. Hey, Brendan B. Pedal to the metal for that 50 mile per hour wind in your hair. 50 kilometers an hour is even worse. All right? I was on the highway and I had to be in the left lane, which is actually the slow lane. It depends on the other side of the road is the USA. And it's just no power whatsoever. And it's actually, it's not a bad thing. If I get into the Mark X or a car with power, I do tend to speed a little bit more than usual. Or should I just say the flow of traffic? I don't know why I just turned off and automatically turned back on again. It's weird. The flow of traffic can be really fast if you're in the wrong lane, which I'm often in.

00:12:34 John Daub: Oh, let's try. You want to try these here?

00:12:36 Kanae Daub: Yeah. We bought these chocolate at Costco.

00:12:37 John Daub: You know what? We always buy something. Who else does this? You always buy something for the car. Somebody knows this snack.

00:12:47 Kanae Daub: Oh really? Somebody knows. I don't know. I have never seen this. I've never eaten it.

00:12:55 John Daub: CaGi. It looks from Switzerland, I think.

00:12:57 Kanae Daub: Yeah, it's from Switzerland. They have classic milk flavor, 60% dark, and coconut.

00:13:06 John Daub: It's floored, Kanae, and I'm not going anywhere. I'm flooring it.

00:13:12 Kanae Daub: I tried one. Seriously? Yeah. I'm going to throw it at 50 in 15 seconds. I tried classic milk.

00:13:21 John Daub: Oh, nice. Thank you. You want coconuts?

00:13:26 Kanae Daub: Oh yeah, coconuts please.

00:13:27 John Daub: There's a Family Mart. Oh, that's really chocolatey. That beats Kit Kats. Costco had some big Kit Kats. They had a coffee flavored Kit Kat in there.

00:14:09 Kanae Daub: Cafe? Yeah. It's good. Like low cars.

00:14:16 John Daub: The thing is, you know, after we get all this stuff at Costco, we're going to go to... We don't have a house yet. So basically we have to carry all of this to the elevator and make several trips. I have to illegally park the car and hope that I don't get ticketed really quickly getting all the stuff in and out. It makes me a little nervous. Parking tickets are a little bit pricey. I think it was like Peter said for motorbikes it was like 50 or $60. For cars, it's almost, I think it depends, like $150 for a parking ticket. And I don't want to get one. Hey, Toro Toro Poco! I find my car goes faster if I make engine noise with my turn. It feels faster if you do that. That's for sure. It feels faster. If I take the highway, it takes us about 35 minutes to get from central Tokyo to Makuhari. If I take the local roads, it takes 58 minutes. And often longer. Found for the ticket, Brendan B. Yeah, you know what Brendan, don't, Brendan, let's not start finding a ticket I don't want to get ever. I found a place where I can kind of sneak, sneak, like hide the car a little bit and be able to get the stuff in there. We'll probably be okay. I'm pretty quick. Hello, John Wakamatsu. Hi, I sometimes drive more than 500. 100 MPH. Miles per hour. Okay. On the freeway, I can park six cars at home.

00:16:13 Kanae Daub: What? Six cars? Yeah, we can't even park a bicycle.

00:16:19 John Daub: Joshua Carrico. Hello. Can I cooking channel when? Can I cooking channel? Don't look at me. I don't know. Soon.

00:16:33 Kanae Daub: Really? I don't know.

00:16:35 John Daub: Cooking with Kanae. I can see that being, I would subscribe. Not because I had to, but because I wanted to. You cooked ramen last time. And it was really good.

00:16:45 Kanae Daub: It was really good.

00:16:46 John Daub: Some people said I should have whisked the soup more. So Kanae, now that we have all these ingredients that it's going to take us three months to eat. What, what for Kanae? What would you make? What would you make? Yeah. What would, what would, what are some recipes that you think you would want to share? Remember, the audience is mostly gonna be international. So they want to see Japanese, Japanese meal, Japanese food.

00:17:18 Kanae Daub: I think so.

00:17:18 John Daub: What would you like to see Kanae cook? Instapot cooking would be one sub channel. It would be like a playlist in there. Instapot with Kanae's Instapot. We tried nikujaga (meat and potato stew) by Instapot.

00:17:29 Kanae Daub: We tried Nikujaga by Instapot. Yeah. Best time? Hmm. What could it be?

00:17:34 John Daub: I could be a guest on her show and cook Pop-Tarts. Chicago African writes in here, I miss only Japan with Kanae cooking episodes!

00:17:42 Kanae Daub: I know. We're gonna have to do one. It's been a while. What could it be? When the pandemic was really bad, and we really couldn't go out, we did a lot more stay-at-home stuff.

00:17:58 John Daub: Now it's kind of half and half. We can travel around, but inside of the Tokyo Chiba Kanagawa bubble. And we're only making this trip because it's a necessity. Chan writes in here, Hi from Australia! I'd watch a Kanae cooking channel.

00:18:15 Kanae Daub: Ooh!

00:18:16 John Daub: I'd suggest omurice, takoyaki, and onigiri. That's good.

00:18:21 Kanae Daub: Yeah.

00:18:23 John Daub: We have a takoyaki machine at home.

00:18:25 Kanae Daub: Yes. I just bought, we have a gas grill. No, no, actually we don't. We don't have, we have okonomiyaki. I just found it yesterday. Takoyaki? Yeah, when I cleaned in the room.

00:18:37 John Daub: Wow. I must have bought that a long time ago. You forgot. You ordered by Amazon and you forgot.

00:18:43 Kanae Daub: I don't think so. I think it's okonomiyaki. Yeah, we have okonomiyaki too. That'd be good. Yeah, we often do make okonomiyaki and monjayaki (Tokyo-style savory pancake) at home with my family.

00:18:56 John Daub: Yeah, this truck is a rental. For those that are joining us, we're now driving from Costco in Makuhari to Ikea in Minami Funabashi, which is a five kilometer drive. And I showed you in the beginning of this video what this truck looks like. The rental cost about $50, which is pretty cheap for Tokyo. But it's a six hour rental. All right. So I kind of, we just literally, we woke up at, got the car at 10. We got it returned by 4. It's now 1:30. We have. So we have an hour in Ikea and then an hour to get back and then an hour to unload the truck and then an hour. But no, that doesn't work out mathematically. But it is raining, so it's not too bad of a day for driving.

00:19:41 Kanae Daub: Yeah.

00:19:42 John Daub: If it wasn't raining, I was going to actually go to Mount Fuji, but we can't see anything probably. So it stinks for you because you were going to go to Mount Fuji. Not Kanae. I'm talking to you out there in the audience.

00:19:54 Kanae Daub: Talking to me?

00:19:55 John Daub: Yeah, I'm talking to Hohou USA. Hohou USA. I was going to take Hohou to Mount Fuji. Cover me up. Do you have Sam's Club there or only Costco?

00:20:06 Kanae Daub: Only Costco.

00:20:07 John Daub: I would like to have a Sam's Club or a BJ Warehouse or something. What's Sam's Club? So in New Jersey, we have BJ's Warehouse, which is more popular than Costco. But no, here it's just Costco. However, I don't think that this, and I'm glad that we're dragged back into this. And Joshua writes in here, Kanae Cooking Channel went, okay, don't look on Matsu. Let's watch it again. Yeah, you know, Costco is, it was an interesting arrival to Japan. And the one we went to was the first one that arrived in Japan, Costco Makuhari, back in 2006, I want to say, 2007. And it was, it wasn't very popular because the items inside of Costco were too big. And they still are kind of too big. But you have to buy a membership in order to go into Costco. So the people that were going there were just internationals like me that know about Costco. And there were a lot of people, expats that signed up right away to go to Costco's in Japan because you can get foreign stuff there as well. But over the last three years, I've noticed, and yesterday I took you to like a fake house neighborhood area in the bicycle livestream. The houses are getting bigger and bigger in Japan, especially out in the countryside where you need a car. So it's becoming more economical to get, go to Costco's to get that membership. And it becomes almost an event like going to another country. I remember Kanae said that this, it smells like America inside there.

00:21:39 Kanae Daub: Yes, I feel like that.

00:21:41 John Daub: Right? Yeah. It smells like America. Hey Tasties here. We just saw our Daimyo supporters unboxing. That was funny. This should cover part of the soon to be parking ticket.

00:21:51 Kanae Daub: No! Ow! Don't jinx it. The last thing we need is more parking tickets.

00:21:56 John Daub: Yeah. Any parking tickets. Do I have to take a left here? Oh no, I'm taking a right. So we're good.

00:22:02 Kanae Daub: Yeah.

00:22:03 John Daub: We got some. Yeah, almost there. This is typical Tokyo traffic here. This is why we left with lots of time. You can kind of see. Every now and then you'll see a Peter on a motorcycle jetting through between the cars. There's always one guy. Every time a motorbike goes by, does that, Kanae goes, there's Peter. Spike021, my super chat disappeared. You should go to Umihotaru (sea firefly PA). At the Tokyo Bay.

00:22:31 Kanae Daub: Yes!

00:22:32 John Daub: We should just do a day where we drive to Umihotaru. Awesome suggestion, Spike. That's a good one. They have a foot bath there. We have a tunnel to the Umihotaru. Yeah. It's the Aqua-Line. And half of it is under the sea. Half of it is under the sea, or two thirds. And then the last third is a bridge that goes to Chiba. And in the middle is Umihotaru, which is one of the first parking areas that I ever went to and the only place that I ever saw them selling dolphin which is kind of nasty but... um I don't think they do that anymore Peter did you see that peter... it could be there's a 50 50 chance that all motorbikers could be peter 50 out of 50. it's always peter this is the longest five kilometers in the history of driving almost there this is pretty slow um so ikea or ikea one of my purposes nasha broad should be happy about this is to get a second desk for the twitch streams so i can put the the new formatted windows imac on to there um it's to get that desk and that's another reason why i needed this car because i you know what the rental of the car pays for itself because delivery from ikea to home from japan is like 40 to 50 or more depending on peter wow that guy was going fast it's gone he has a blue jacket yeah so it's kind of expensive to to send the um goods from ikea back home um and then sometimes you can't even do it they won't watch you they'll say they'll say no tomorrow is a big day and i don't know if i'm gonna live stream it but you remember last year we got a new refrigerator frosty yeah and we live streamed frosty a coming tomorrow we have the opposite of frosty we have a washer dryer um all-in-one laundry machine is coming tomorrow we have to think of a name for the laundry machine what's the opposite of frosty all right so we have frosty and melty because it's a washer dryer that dryer gets hot in there we were waiting for like one month yeah yeah that was weird i was like, what the coração I bought it a month ago and then I actually haggled and got a couple, 20,000 yen off of it. I haggled at Bic Camera. But then they said, okay, great. Thanks for buying it. And then they gave me a piece of paper and it said, your washer dryer will be coming on March 9th. I bought it like February 10th, I think. I need this now. So for the last three and a half weeks, Kanae has been really excited. This is kind of her birthday present. All in one. And it is because I upgraded it, okay? It's the best washer dryer machine that they have on the market, okay? You can control by smartphone.

00:25:53 Kanae Daub: Oh, really? Yes. I didn't know that.

00:25:55 John Daub: That's kind of crazy. Smartphone controlled. Oh, they got drill bits on there. Look at those big mega drills. I'm going to sneak up here. Whoa. You could mix a lot of chocolate with those. Like that. Like a industrial chocolate mixer. Yeah, like the chocolate fondues. Chocolate fondue. Yeah, like a stadium. It's big chocolate fondue. Can't social distance then. There's too much chocolate around there. Everyone's going to be there. Look at the chocolate drill bits here. Hey, John writes in here, are there any videos of Kanae dancing? There's one.

00:26:32 Kanae Daub: There's one.

00:26:34 John Daub: What style? There's one of Kanae dancing.

00:26:37 Kanae Daub: Oh.

00:26:38 John Daub: And Jimbo386, John and Kanai Green is from Peru. How are you doing? Fried mochi cooking class and mukbang.

00:26:46 Kanae Daub: Yes!

00:26:47 John Daub: Fried mochi sounds awesome. Can you do that?

00:26:50 Kanae Daub: Fried mochi? Yeah, definitely have to live stream that.

00:26:54 John Daub: Writes in Natalie. Absolutely. Kanai did a dancing video three years ago. That's when I was introducing Kanae after we got married. And she danced to a song that I use in Only in Japan videos because it's royalty free. We have to dance again. I think I missed the turn. No. I was supposed to turn here. This one? Thank you. Okay, now 430 meters. Almost. Not almost. Really? I think it's the traffic light that's holding us back. Nothing's more fun than waiting in traffic with our friends. All 1,285 of you. That's crazy. Can you dance in the back of the car? I don't know. Nobody asked that. I'm going to super chat Kanae for that one. It's too small. Let's crack that bag open. What's next? I had coconut. What's the next flavor? I can give you dark chocolate. We've gone a total distance over the last 28 minutes of 3 kilometers. Rockin'. Can I try coconut this time?

00:28:10 Kanae Daub: No, this is dark chocolate. Which one do you like? Coconut or dark chocolate?

00:28:14 John Daub: Coconut. Good stuff. It's good. Hey, Brendan B. Renson here. Start the driving song. 99 bottles of beer on the wall. 99 bottles of sake. Take one down, pass it around. 98 bottles of sake on the wall. And thank goodness we have a van because I don't think we could fit a lot of bottles of sake on the wall in most of the Japanese cars.

00:28:53 Kanae Daub: No.

00:28:55 John Daub: I actually think if you're asking me how this Daihatsu drives, it's pretty basic, but I'm not complaining. The price was right and it's pretty good for what it is. It's a kei car (light vehicle), actually. This is actually a kei car. You got bottles of beer on the wall. 97 bottles of sake on the wall.

00:29:22 Kanae Daub: Kyūjūnana (97). Om desu yo (that's right).

00:29:26 John Daub: Sorry. I took one down and drank it all. And that's the end of the song. Got drunk and fell down. 250 meters. We're moving. That's a big deal. The street has traffic jams all the time. It's famous. Above us is Keisei Doro. What's above us? Wangan Doro (Wangan Road). Wangan Doro. It's famous for having all of the bosozoku (speed tribe) motorbikers. Because the Netflix, Netflix, no sorry, the Vice Japan Bosozoku video was, half of it was on Wangan Doro. A contribution to the Japanese. I'm going to rent a Nissan small van next time. Actually, Toro Toro Porco. Wangan Night. I saw that. Actually, we're going to, I don't know if it's going to be with Kanae or another YouTuber or whatever, but I was thinking of getting another camper van with my friend Jared's Dream Drive. Ooh, Perrier. And you can sleep in the back of the van. And now that springtime is here, I thought that would be pretty cool to, circumnavigate. Can you drive and circumnavigate Mount Fuji with a camper van? Sounds like a pretty cool adventure. That was a Toyota Hiace, which was really big to drive. That freaked me out, driving around Tokyo in a Hiace.

00:31:03 John Daub: Kanae is still a beginner driver.

00:31:05 Kanae Daub: Yeah. But it's been one year when, after I got driver's license. So I need to practice more.

00:31:18 John Daub: She's actually a very scary driver. All right, I'm turning. Light. Uh-oh. I'm going like 10 miles per hour. It's not a big deal. Actually, I am going at 20 kilometers per hour, which is close to 20. I feel very scared to drive at Shutoko (expressway).

00:31:34 Kanae Daub: Yeah. It's around Mokikiri (?). So we're underneath Wangan Doro. Wangan Doro? Yeah, Wangan. Wangan Doro is above us, right? This one is on the right. Where's IKEA? Isn't it the other way? Did I make a mistake?

00:32:02 Kanae Daub: Yeah, we kind of made a mistake. Do we have to go right now?

00:32:14 John Daub: Thanks for watching. We've got a small emergency. IKEA is over there, and I'm in the lane to go the wrong way. We have to go turn left. I have to turn left. But we need to go to turn right. But I have to turn right, so I have to hang a Uey (U-turn). Uh-oh. I have to figure it out. That means we'll be with you for another extra five minutes. Thanks a lot. Jeff An? Hi, Joe and Kanae. I'm happy to finally catch a live. Yeah. Thank you. Oh, nice stamp. That's Pear Man. Yeah, really? You have the laughing sticker? Really? Cobra Bee Bop. Cobra Bee Bop. Thank you. Hello. Yeah, you know, laugh it up. Because you know what? We're eventually going to get to our destination. Eventually. Look at, there's like no space for those trucks. That exit hole was made just for trucks. Look at that. It's like the square fits in the square, right? It's like perfectly made for that truck. So in a moment, you are going to be turning right, which is the wrong way. Way to LaLaport (shopping mall)? Yeah. Open the window. There's a lot of people out. I'm glad that we didn't take public transportation. Exit hole. More pole. Brendan, Brendan writes in eventually, Alien BR. Game over? No. No. Let there be more game. I don't need a finger for Ikea meatballs. Yeah. If we ever get there. If we ever get there. Okay, we're turning. Okay, okay. Careful. We're turning. And I don't know where we're going. This is LaLaport on the left side now. This is the Minami-Funabashi LaLaport. And the windows are all steamed up and I can't see behind. How do I turn around, Kanae?

00:34:28 Kanae Daub: I have no idea. Okay, I can search for. Yeah, I'm panicking. We can turn right again. Really? Or should I go left? Actually, I could turn left here. No, I got to go straight. It's too late. Yeah, it's too late. Okay, go to the left. There's no U-turn marks. That guy was in a hazmat suit. I'm panicking. Can I U-turn here? No, I can't. I should just turn left here, but I can't see the windows are all steamed up. I do not be. Ikea. You got to turn around. Okay, so go straight. Kanai didn't know how to use Google Maps until last week. I'm serious. No, we have to go to the left, but we can't. It's too late. Yeah, the next left. She seriously did not know how to use Google Maps. I said, can you find it how to get there in Google Maps? She goes, what's Google Maps? She's using Apple Maps. And I said, that's why it takes you 10 minutes longer to get everywhere. But it's a woman's problem.

00:35:45 Kanae Daub: It's not a woman's problem. It's difficult. No. It's difficult for women to watch.

00:35:51 John Daub: Nicholas. Hey, Nicholas Lesak is here. Get the DIY taco kit from Taco Bell. Do they even have that here? Do they have the DIY taco kit in the Japan Taco Bell? We're good. We're golden, Kanae. I'm doing a left. I'm hanging a Louie here. Can we go left now?

00:36:14 Kanae Daub: Yeah. Really? You're going like 10 miles an hour. It's all good.

00:36:22 John Daub: Nicholas, I shall check for you. And if they have it, Nicholas, we shall make it. How about that? If they have it, we shall make it. We shall make it. We shall make it. Chan writes in here, can you write that Kanae before it disappears? Because for some reason, the Super Chat disappeared. Okay. I drove around Mount Fuji in September 2019. It's actually short drive. Wow. Lots of things to around Mount Fuji. So, you should try paragliding next to Mount Fuji. Oh, that's nasty. A crow has totally ripped apart all the trash in there. Can I? Oh, okay. I want to.

00:37:02 Kanae Daub: Yeah, let's focus on how do we get out of here.

00:37:05 John Daub: Okay. We're trapped. Brendan, three lefts makes a right. Brendan, this road curved. No, no, no, just go straight until tomare (stop). Okay, but Brendan, we kind of curved. There was no left. No, no, no, careful. Watch out. Watch out. Yeah, go to the. Oh, look at those pigeons. No, no, pigeons are fine. Okay. Okay, stop at tomare. Okay. I saw pigeons. Then turn left. Turn left. Okay, hang a Louie. Yeah, Google said turn left. It's tiny. You gotta say hang a Louie. People say that. Okay. Always stop for three seconds. Okay. This is the recommended stop time. Left and go straight. This does not look like where Ikea is. We can turn right. Neil McCann is having a fun time. Oh, no. Turn right. It's hard. These poles are in the middle of the street, in the side of the street. Look at that. Yeah, Google said turn right. Turn right? Okay. Yeah. Thanks, Google. Oh, look at that. That's tomare. Tomare. Tomare. Yeah, these poles are scary. One, two, three. Okay, then we go. Oh. Sorry about that. Now which way? Turn. No, no, straight. Straight on?

00:38:43 Kanae Daub: Yeah. Then we hang a Louie or we hang a Ralph? Just turn. Just go straight and turn left at the corner. Hey, look at that shrine. Yeah. There's a little shrine there. Oh. Turn left? Awesome. Oh, we're coming back to LaLapalooza. All right, but I don't want to make another wrong turn. We only have six hours with this car, with this truck, van. Are you calling it a truck? Sometimes it's a van. It just depends how. Okay, go, go, go. Tranquility now. Go straight. Go straight? Okay. Now focus on the road, not on me. Okay. Stop looking at me. Stop looking at me. Stop looking at me. I only missed the light. Are you sure it's straight or left?

00:39:40 Kanae Daub: Yes, straight. I'm sure. 100% or just? Yeah, Google. Yeah.

00:39:47 John Daub: Okay. If Google says so. Google said go straight and turn right in 900 meters. Oh. Hi, John. Hi, Con. I'm so happy to catch your couple's live stream. Please drive safely. Thank you for that. Thank you. I am trying my best. I did not expect to get that. The first thing I did was get lost. It is not that hard to get there. It's only five kilometers. It's Bayside. Just five kilometers take 40 minutes. I got this, Kanae. I got this. Prepare yourself, Kanae, for meatballs and French fries and that weird lingonberry jam that they put on the side. Because you're about to get it. I shall not lose my way. Dun, dun, dun, dun, dun, dun, dun. Swedish Superman. This way? We can't go right. I can't go right. If I go straight I'm going into this ocean. Left, left? Okay. Swedish Superman. Straight? Left?

00:41:03 Kanae Daub: Yeah, straight.

00:41:11 John Daub: Oh, this is the back of Minami Funabashi Station. This is the side that I never go to. Oh, there it is. Right over there. Destination. I can see it on the right side. I can smell the meatballs. Do you smell it?

00:41:31 Kanae Daub: I smell the meatballs. Really? Yeah.

00:41:34 John Daub: I can't. It's just a little bit of lingon jam. Is it called lingon jam? Be careful. It's okay. I know. It's called lingonsylt (lingonberry jam). Ikea Street Ahead. I can't miss it. Oh, you know the street? Do I turn right? Which way do I go? I gotta turn left.

00:42:05 Kanae Daub: Yeah, turn right. Turn right.

00:42:10 John Daub: It's a nice looking playground. Here's a crow! There's a crow! Let go. Okay, turn right. It's not a crow. Yeah, slowly. Crow? Crow stamp. It's Toby (crow). Don't touch Toby. He'll bite you. Even as an emoji. It's got the power to bite you if you touch the screen. It's true. Dangerous. See ya. Alright. We are here. We made it. Welcome to Sweden. Svensk. I haven't been in Sweden. Oh, you haven't been to Sweden? Oh, that's awesome. We can go ride the X2000 from Gothenburg to Stockholm. Then make a trip up to Uppsala. And then drink some schnapps in Småland. Hang out in Malmö. Hey, free parking. I like IKEA a lot. Oh, is this van gonna make it? Oh, power up. Come on, Daihatsu. This is kind of scary. Power. No, no, no, no, no, no. I'm flooring it. I don't like this kind of the parking.

00:43:39 Kanae Daub: I know. It's like jet coaster.

00:43:49 John Daub: Well, not when you're going three miles an hour. Come on. We gotta go all the way up? Oh, no. That's like an abandoned garage. We can go to a live stream in there. Freak people out. Why do we gotta go to the roof? Seriously? Again? Okay, no, here. Okay. Just slow down. You're now live in Makuhari. No, sorry. Minami Funabashi IKEA. The first IKEA in Japan. This is the first one I went to. 2006 it opened. I remember I was one of the first people to come. I came here the first day that this opened. I was so excited. I was so excited because Japan doesn't have a lot of foreign chains. Even back in 2006. The boom started around that time and IKEA had not come to Japan yet. And now they're here all over the place. But I still come to this one because it makes me feel happy. Do you see a parking spot? Do I back in? Should I go this way? I'll just don't enter. We can go there. Okay. It looks empty. No, it looks completely packed. All right. Kanae has gone to the toilet. Actually, I saw that tip. That's a really good tip. But there's a place where we can actually pull the car and then put everything into the back of the truck or the van, which makes it easier to do. So, yeah, don't worry about it. That was a good tip. I got to wait for Kanae to get out of the restroom. So we can pull our car in here and then park. I can park in here and then put all the stuff in the back there. So we're going to go get some meatballs, I guess. Thanks so much. Thanks so much for watching. The answer is, yeah, Tokyo life is a little bit too small for this. But what are you going to do? It's a lot of fun to come and go shopping. Thanks so much for watching. We'll see you in another live stream probably tomorrow or tonight. I want to do some midnight camping. Bye from IKEA. Thanks, Neil McCann. We arrived at our destination. And Natalie B. And TDSTR. Oh, do they? I don't think they got cinnamon buns here. I got to check to see if they got cinnamon buns here. Thanks, everybody. See you later.