00:00:00 John Daub: At ease of Iwate. This is where I've been for the last 45 minutes filming shots. That line in the distance is the Tohoku Shinkansen, the green and red one, the E5 and the E6, going by at 350 kilometers per hour. Was that like 250 or something? I've been here filming and I gotta go back. I only have about nine minutes before the train leaves. I'm going off road and we're gonna—whoa—I gotta go from this spot to Yamanome, which is a very local station in Iwate.

00:00:34 John Daub: Can I go this direction? I don't know. I'm not going to risk it. I'm going to go this way and I've got to go fast. So get ready for some drama because for the next 10, 15 minutes, I'm going to be panicking as I try to catch this train. I know I can do it. It's leaving at 11:13 and it's like 11:06, but the station's right over there. I think once I get to this tunnel, we should be fine.

00:01:01 John Daub: You don't have to look at me and run. I just turn around. This is much, much better. Okay, look at this nature. Welcome to Iwate. This is what's called a drive-by. Look, I've got to get the shot, man. And I've got two Hayabusa going by. So if the first one's no good, the second one filmed in glorious 8K.

00:01:37 John Daub: Oh, that looks nice over there. I found this spot by scouting it a couple days ago, but it was too windy for any drone shots. So I had to come back. I'm so out of shape. Oh, there's the station. Do you see that in the middle of your screen? We got to get there in like six minutes, but there's a roundabout way. There's nothing direct. If this was India, I could just walk on the tracks. Not in Japan.

00:02:06 John Daub: All right, we got to go. Hey, look, there's some kids. Hey, kids. Okay, keep going. I don't think the gimbal can even keep up with this one. I promised you some adventures from Iwate. Tohoku. You're getting it right now. Weather's warm, but it's not as warm as it was a couple of days ago. It's cloudy. Not the best weather for drone shots, but I filmed it.

00:03:27 John Daub: Hey, what time you guys got? Somebody help me out here. What time do you got? I can make this train. 11:08. Okay, I got five minutes. It's going to be close. And it departs on the other side of the tracks. That's great. Even out here in Iwate, they have the tactile pavement for people visually impaired. That's really cool.

00:04:03 John Daub: He's pruning. No time to prune. Koinobori (carp streamers). A very good sign of spring. Keep going. No time for koinobori. Hey, those guys look like runners. All right. I see the station. We're golden. But I don't give up until the end. Okay, I'll give up. I'm going to go to the station. We're almost at the end.

00:05:00 John Daub: If somebody held up a stick of a carrot or a cold beer, I'd be running a little bit faster. There's a vending machine. No time for that either. And don't dump your garbage here. There it is. All right, we're good. So here's the town. As you can see, it's known for trees. It's known for a whole lot of empty fields, which is perfect.

00:05:58 John Daub: Welcome to Yamanome Station in beautiful Iwate. If you're stressed, that means I'm doing my job. Hey, Brandani is in the house. Okay, let's walk through here. Now I'm going back to Ichinoseki, so I got to cross to the other side. Oh, baby. I knew I could do it. If you run, you could shave a few minutes off your time. That gives you leisure time to cool down and towel off.

00:07:00 John Daub: It's beautiful though, isn't it? Check it out. There's not a lot out here. This is perfect for drones and also for showing you a little bit of the countryside. Train's going to be rolling through here any second now. It's a wanman (one-man operation), I believe. It's a train that doesn't have—as you saw, there's actually in Yamanome Station, there's no conductor. There's nobody inside there. So you have to have your ticket or get your ticket in advance. But most people have commuter passes that are out here.

00:07:46 John Daub: Oh, mama. Ooh, that was fun. Should be any moment now. Ah, that was a great spot. Hey, Danny. You're in better shape than me. Really, Danny? That means that you're in really bad shape. I haven't been out much at all forever. Oh, look at that tree over there. Beautiful. I have to go find it now. Look at that. Little touch of spring here. Cherry blossoms are starting to bloom up north. I think they're just about peaked in Hirosaki and Aomori. They're a little bit early this year.

00:08:28 John Daub: It's gonna be hard for me to travel tomorrow because of the state of emergency. Oh here it comes. You see they always keep the lights on. You can see it just down the line. Now yesterday, two days ago when I was here, it was on this side. Imagine if the train's on this side, I'm gonna have to panic run the other way. And what makes things worse—I accidentally washed my ticket through the washing machine but they still accepted it. So it doesn't look good. In fact, I can't use it through the turnstiles but they just said a visual inspection—it's still valid. So we're all good. All right, here comes the train. Ah look—look—it's cute. The one-man. Oh wow, I better go to the front here. Run, run, you gotta keep running. Bye bye Yamanome Station.

00:10:07 John Daub: Oh that was dangerous. That's freedom man. Wow, that's wonderful. You're walking up here beautiful. Why don't I live out here? A great spot for drones. There's about three people on the train but we'll keep it quiet for everybody. I'm out in the countryside so hopefully the signal picks up a little bit better over the river here. I'm not going over a bridge over the river. Wow, I'm coming into Ichinoseki now. This signal should be getting better about now.

00:12:24 John Daub: Happy birthday to Tony P. Thanks for joining me on this adventure. The next train is the [inaudible] train. Please pass the right in by the door to the opposite train. Thank you for traveling with us, and we will always love you.

00:14:20 John Daub: Oh, gosh, I want to ride on this one. Check that out. Look at that. So there's tables, and the chairs are facing towards the window there. Beautiful. This is the kind of train where you just spend an afternoon relaxing. Maybe I can sneak on really fast and take a look. Let's take a quick look here. Whoa! It's like a museum in here. Just going to take a quick look. Oh, wow. I can't open the door. Let's follow this guy. All right, so these aren't quite as nice here as that first car. Whoa! That first car was a lot better, but that's a very nice-looking train.

00:15:17 John Daub: Hey, WRX Turbo, missed a couple of live streams. You made up for it, buddy. All right, that was fun. Technically, it would still, I believe, be considered a wanman, this train that we rode, because it says right here, wanman. Right there, do you see? Wanman. So technically, even though it's two trains, it's considered a wanman, which means one man, but there's, as you saw, two men. It's weird, but wanman. I don't know. Two trains, whatever.

00:15:56 John Daub: Oh, so when you get on a wanman train, make sure you take a seidiken (boarding ticket), or I believe that's what it's called. It's a ticket that tells you the number, the number where you got on. So it's proof that you got on. If you don't, if you fail to take one on these local trains, they will charge you the full price sometimes. Sometimes they'll believe you. Just depends if you look honest, right, Irvin? But I look honest. Thanks, Irvin.

00:16:21 John Daub: I just saw that come in, and I missed one super chat earlier. I apologize. Adegara Captains, thank you for your service. Thank you for your service. Now John's going to get some lunch at that bakery, that looks so good. The cheese curry pan looks so good. Bye bye, wanman. That's the Tohoku Honsen (main line), or the Tohoku main line. So if you're not taking the Shinkansen, you're riding that thing. And it takes forever. That's the beauty of it.

00:17:07 John Daub: If you're interested in some of the Pokemon with you stuff, you can go and check out the live stream from the last live stream. I took a look at the station's Pokemon stuff, but let's go get something to eat because I'm starving. My Shinkansen isn't until 10:50, so I have about 30 minutes to kill. So let's go try some street food. Again, I'm on the—for those of you who want to click the like button, if you want to see me eat some more stuff—my ticket went through the washing machine, but it was still accepted. Just don't do that normally. It looks really bad, but they still said, okay, as long as it stays on the line, it's in one piece so far so good. But the more I take it out of my pocket, the more chance it just crumbles and disintegrates.

00:18:03 John Daub: I learned the word disintegrate from Star Trek when I was a kid. You can learn words from Star Trek, Cheryl MP. Thank you for touring with us, working and heading back to Kanai and Ryo. I've been commuting back and forth. Chicken or fish. I always like the train videos. Thank you. Make sure I didn't hit him. And Tony P happy birthday, my friend. And Tokyo Tom, I believe had a birthday there. Welcome to Ichinoseki in Iwate.

00:18:21 John Daub: This is a point to start off where you can catch the Pokemon with you train to go to Kesennuma, which is a place deeply impacted by the tsunami. And they love visitors there. So when you come back to Japan back, maybe October, maybe next spring, definitely hit up Kesennuma and spend a couple of days. There's some really good new restaurants. Ken Watanabe, who was in Batman and some other really famous movies, he has a restaurant. There's a really good pasta restaurant. And you can check that out too, right next to the port.

00:19:00 John Daub: The question is which Star Trek series? No, it was the old one with Captain Kirk. Because when I was a kid, they didn't have too many options like 1980s. All right, let's see if they give me a hassle with my mushy ticket. And then I'm gonna end the live stream because I want to take you to Fukushima in about two hours. Hey, I had it as a mask. All right, we're good. Still in one piece. All right, let's go get some bakery items. And Sunny Tasty Chronicle said I should get some eggs.

00:20:00 John Daub: Hold on, let me check what time it is. This is deja vu. I was just here. So weird. I was just here. All right, the clock of fortune, which looks like something from Wheel of Fortune is 10:25. So we have 20 minutes. So I could actually take this and go back to the platform of the Shinkansen. Maybe we'll see another train blow by. All right, let's go get some food. The Beatles just love our Iwate. I think that area has great sweet onions. I know it does. The vegetables here. Awesome. Thank you, Mr. Beatles.

00:20:30 John Daub: All right, let's get some food. Support a local bakery. Let's see what they got here. Basil chicken, potato bread. That's awesome. Whoa, caramel banana. That looks like the same kind of bread, just different toppings. And this one is a white something. What is that? Cream cheese. Oh, it looks good. All right, let's just get it. Konnichiwa.

00:21:15 John Daub: Gratin croquette pan. Wow, looks good. Good fun. Oh, this one I wanted to get this cheese curry pan. Look at the grilled cheese on top of there. All right, that's good. Please give me some coffee. Yes, can you do it? Thank you. Yes. Yes, please. Thank you. It's a little bit of a three-year-old. I might have a three-year-old. Yes, I have it. Yes, thank you. Yes, thank you. Yes, thank you. Thank you. Oh, I'll come back again. Yes, I'll come back. Oh, black is fine. Black is fine. Spring campaign. Thank you. Hot coffee. No beer today. Wow, it smells so good.

00:23:30 John Daub: There's a booth. All right, Sunny, this is also what I was thinking of getting a couple of these eggs here, Sunny. I think they got them upstairs. All right, let's get one. I'm not going to hold this with the coffee. I'm going to do it upstairs. They have met the Shinkansen terminal. All right, you're coming with me. Extended live stream. Because we got 274 likes. That's not good. Come on. Stop liking. Love is in the air. So is alcohol.

00:24:02 John Daub: Alright, where's my ticket? Destroyed ticket. Keep liking. I need your likes for power. Alright, I got my coffee and the ticket. I don't know how I'm holding all this together. Oh, this coffee's hot. Oh, sorry. Thank you. Alright. He's explaining something. Bye, Pikachu. I'll be back one day. I promise. I'll be back to Ichinoseki. I love this place. Tohoku Rocks. I'll be back, Pikachu. Alright, I'm just gonna touch his nose. Pikachu, I'll be back. Touch your nose. If you come here, touch his nose right there. Rub it three times for good luck. Then alcohol your hands again. Because that's kind of nasty.

00:25:14 John Daub: Alright, let's get going. I'm supposed to do social distancing nosh abroad. Come on. The Shinkansen is in that warehouse over there. So that's where we're going right now. If we're lucky, we'll get another chance to see it blow by. Oh, man. What a day. I got all the filming I wanted to do here. Twice. It's awesome. Two Hayabusa passed.

00:25:53 John Daub: So I came here two days ago. This is two and a half hours away from Tokyo. Just to film one shot. And I couldn't do it last time. What a waste, right? So I came back here just to get that one shot again. So it took me 10 hours of my life to get these two shots. One from a stationary camera and another one from a drone. Because it's going to make the video so much awesomer. Is that a word? I think so. Hey, Elvis, camera's in the house. John, make sure you buy something for Kanai and Ryo.

00:26:29 John Daub: I'm getting this something from Fukushima Station. And I'm going to try to take you with me. So from Fukushima Station, I want to go to an observation point. Another place where you can catch the Tohoku Shinkansen. It's an awesome train spotting spot. You need a long lens. So I have a 300mm 8K camera. 300mm lens. So I can really pop in and get a good clean shot. For an HD or even 4K export onto YouTube. So I'm pretty excited about that.

00:27:02 John Daub: This is the walkway to the Shinkansen. I just call it Shink. But Kanai gets upset about that. She said I should properly call it Shinkansen. Let's catch the Shink. Speaking of Shink, let's see if we can get one of these Hayabusa tamago things for Tasty Chronicles to eat. That would go good with coffee. Thank you. Hello. Can I pay with a Suica? Oh, really? I have a Suica. I'll try it with a Suica. Excuse me. Is it okay? Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.

00:28:29 John Daub: They don't have the Neapolitan one again. It's like deja vu, being here. Now I get all these bags! My hand's burning from the coffee. I don't know if I can do this much longer. Oh! My hand is burning! They didn't have one of those cardboard thingamabobbers. Alright, you know what? Okay, wait. I gotta just—I'm gonna drop something. Michael Sasano's in the house. Love that the last multiple Shinkansen livestreams. Alright, let's see if they accept this. All right, he waved me through.

00:29:12 John Daub: All right, there's my train. The 11:51 to Tokyo. The Yamabiko. Juseki is one to four. Which platform? Platform number 12. So we'll go up here. Hey, I saw you before. Hey, Nosh said to give you a hug. No, she's at waist level. That's not very—I'm just going to rub his nose again. That would look really bad to give him a hug. Witnesses. Get on the train.

00:29:46 John Daub: This is the Yamabiko, which is not the express train. This one will take me to Fukushima. Fukushima is not on the express line. It doesn't typically stop there. It goes Tokyo, Omiya, Sendai. Tokyo, Omiya, Sendai, Morioka, Shin-Aomori. All right, I know this spot quite well. Wow, it's like I was just here. Deja vu. All right, hold on. Coffee down. Let's see the bling that we got. Oh, my hand's burning. This coffee was so hot.

00:30:48 John Daub: I saw my buddy Greg Lamb yesterday. He met me in the park in Yogo-ku. And we talked a little bit about life. The pursuit of happiness on YouTube. He has an awesome channel. Check it out. It's called Life Where I'm From. And he did a pretty good video on what life is like. It's like an Olympic village. And I wish more people had seen that live stream or video because it's kind of a neat look into the countryside. I believe it was Saga Prefecture. I like the fact that he'll focus on some places that are not inside of Tokyo. If he doesn't go just for popular stuff, he'll go for a story. So he's very much in the mold of Only in Japan. Although we're good friends.

00:30:30 John Daub: So our one-month episode just turned into a food episode. Brought to you by WRX Turbo. Michael Sassano. And I'm going to get an ekiben (station bento) in Fukushima to ride home with. So I appreciate that, guys. And hey, Urze is here. Remember carrying a lot of things. You seem—seems you need an extra pair of hands. I need a friend. So, Urze, come to Japan. We can help each other out. This is cheese that's been grilled on top of a curry pan on the top here. That's pretty unique, right? That's a really good idea. Wow. Mmm. Mmm. Putty putty. Very crunchy. That's good. You see the curry inside there with the cheese. The crunchiness of the slightly burnt cheese and a sort of a sweet and spicy flavor. And then the spicy curry with the bread. Some panko on top there. Awesome. Mmm. Save the rest for the train.

00:33:59 John Daub: Next up, this is a korokke pan (croquette bun). Korokke. Does it go on your head? No. That's a boshi pan (hat bread) from Kochi Prefecture. And I should put the boshi pan emoji on the livestream. In the next livestream tomorrow, I'll put the boshi pan emoji on there. That's pretty cool. This is a korokke pan. This is a breaded like—is that potato? I forget what it is. It looks like potato korokke, which is mashed potato, deep fried. Then they put it in bread and bake it. How awesome is that? Put some cheese and mayonnaise on the top there. Japanese mayonnaise. Yummy yum yum. Mmm. Excellent. It's so soft and very tasty, the korokke. But it's what they've done is made it crunchy on top here. A little bit of cheese, a little bit of seaweed for something extra. It's a pretty good pan. Not a lot of bread, so it's a good balance. It's if it's too bready, it would detract away from the korokke. Mmm. It tastes like some tonkatsu sauce on there. Very good.

00:35:39 John Daub: One more. I heard something coming. I don't want to miss it for you. I'm trying to get my train to fly by. Can you hear something? So this is a—I'm not sure. But check it out. Hey, the Beatles was too slow for baby registry, but I've upgraded my membership to the postcard club. Thank you. I just sent out a couple of postcards today. One from the station. So I'll send yours out as soon as I get back home. Hopefully it gets there by the end of the month. All right, let's open this up and see what's inside the Shinkansen.

00:36:26 John Daub: Now, if you're enjoying this doorbell just too much. Oh, wait, this must be yellow for a reason. Oh, sometimes use logic. Oh, look at the box. Oh, this is too cool. Watch this. It shows you the engine, the driver's seat. Nosh, is this like an auction for the doorbells? All right, we got $2. Who can do $2? Anybody else? $4 for another ding dong. We got $4. $6. Nobody? Going once. Going twice. Going three times. Sold to Nosh Abroad. You're going to buy the next 20 of them.

00:37:39 John Daub: All right, the expiration date seems long enough to send. Let's open this up here. Bob Joe gets in there for 500 yen. Bob Joe gets five ding dongs. It's got a nipple. This is so good. I'm going to buy this one. This is the sugar here is like the sugar that they use in like Krispy Kreme donuts. It's so good with the white anko (sweet bean paste) and the castella bread. Oh man, highly recommend it. That was awesome. I'm so rejuvenated from that run.

00:38:44 John Daub: All right, here's the deal. Here's the dealio. I'm going to be in Fukushima Station in like an hour and change. I'm going to try my best to take you with me to an observatory point where I'm going to try to film the Shinkansen going by. I got to get back because Kanai is waiting and I got to bring some bentos with me from Fukushima. Ekiben. So stay tuned. Make sure you subscribe. Click the notification always buttons. Subscribe to the new channel. It's a requisite. I just put in a new video that almost nobody watched. Well, 40,000 people. That's kind of small for the budget. But it's a great channel on the whole. On sushi, Saiko Sushi, go and watch that one and leave me a comment because I'm so happy-er if you do.

00:39:41 John Daub: And these doorbells have been brought to you by Nosh Abroad. Each time you hear one, Nosh gets another wing. Basically, he looks like he has a lot of wings. You don't want to know what he looks like. He looks like a ding dong. All right, let's get moving. Cars one to four are non-reserved. Where would that be here? All right, don't look at me. Look at the tracks. It's much more attractive. The tracks set themselves up by being attractive. These are some attractive tracks.

00:41:07 John Daub: This is the end of the line for us. It's goodbye. It's not farewell. Wait, it's see you soon. It's not goodbye. All right, so don't sweat it. I'll be back. Make sure you subscribe so you get the notifications. Join us on Discord. It's free. Discord.gg/onlyinjapan. It's free invite. Join us, talk about the trains awesome. And I'll share with you the pictures on Instagram as well. Only in Japan TV is the handle there. So you check it out. Oh, here comes—I hope sometimes the seats in the back are our seat train one is in the back. If I make that mistake, I get a hustle. She's a beauty. I'm gonna get a little bit of a—I could look at her all day. Give her respect. Respect. I respect you. Social distancing. She does have a long nose, but it's a mark of distinction.

00:43:16 John Daub: Welcome Kisabeka new traveler. I think we can get on here. Sit in the back. Sit in the back right here these two lovely seats claimed. There's a chance that a train might blow by real fast every now and then. Machine constant just makes up on you. You'll be napping like sleeping like this and then the Hayabusa and the whole train shakes. I'm telling you this train it swoops over to the left side. It's so crazy.

00:44:57 John Daub: I did enjoy my time riding, walking around Ichinoseki. This everything the values in the detail. Watch this. You can see the seats inside just an ordinary. Oh wait, I can see the engine. That's awesome. What about the caboose? I can see the engine! That's awesome. What about the caboose? That's really awesome. Alright, I'll try to send these to our daimyo. See if I can order these online. Or else I'm gonna come back with a box with like 50 of them.

00:45:55 John Daub: So, I will take you—Mrs. Quills, if I saved it for Ryo, it would be so moldy because he's still eating breast milk. He can't eat normal food yet. I once tried to give him normal food but Kanai stopped me? And she yelled at me. Alright, we shouldn't be talking on the Shinkansen but there's only two people on this train. So, just keep it down. Respect. Double mask. You can still see snow on the mountains. Well, it is a bullet train. It just started. But in about three minutes, this thing will be cruising at 350 kilometers per hour. When you say that, you have to rock it. Do some air guitar. Alright, see you in Fukushima. Stay cool. Stay rockin'.