00:00:02 John Daub: Hello everybody, welcome to Asakusa here in Taito-ku, central Tokyo. This is the north part of the city on the Yamanote line. It's not on the Yamanote line, but it's a shitamachi (old downtown). And this is one of the most cultural parts of Tokyo. Right now you see that walkway with the green roof? That's Nakamise-dori. We're going to be going down there in a couple of minutes. But I thought I would start up here this time because it gives you such a bird's eye view. This is the Asakusa Culture Tourist Information Center, which is the culture and tourism center. And on the eighth floor you get this really amazing view.

00:01:05 John Daub: And down there you see on the buildings, the left and the right, those are all shotengai (covered shopping arcades). Well, in between the streets there. With loads of street food, loads of shops, things to see and do. And that right there is Kaminarimon. And you can see there's a lot of people there. Actually, there's not a lot of people, but a lot of people for the state of emergency. But not a lot for a Sunday. Actually, this is super light for a Sunday. But it's a pretty cool angle, I think, to be able to come from up here on the eighth floor and look down on the city. Hope the signal's good. How you doing?

00:01:42 John Daub: So in this live stream I'm going to be taking you down there and trying some street foods, also looking at the shotengai. On the other side, you have the Tokyo Skytree. Hey, Jennifer French is in the house. There's Kenneth Lee as well. That is the big golden turd. And right there is the place where you would catch the spaceship boat, which we saw three yesterday, all three of them, and within five minutes, which is amazing. That's where it leaves from, from Asakusa.

00:02:36 John Daub: And down here, there are loads of shops, but we're gonna be going down in there. That is a shotengai. And inside these covered streets are loads of street food, as I said. But I think it's really good to start up here, and I haven't been up here in a long, long time. Impressive. There's also a cafe up here on the eighth floor, which gives you really good views, and if you want to dodge the other tourists, come up here and get a nice coffee. I think you can even get a beer up here, and enjoy the view.

00:03:13 John Daub: All right, so I'm gonna go downstairs now, and we're gonna start from street level. So everybody who's on street level, welcome to street level, which is the Asakusa that you already know. Looks like a lot more people when you're down here. And the view from street level is pretty nice too. But again, like, I love starting from up there, getting a bird's eye view of the adventure at hand. That's Kaminarimon. It's a very big lantern. We were just here a couple of weeks ago.

00:03:47 John Daub: But I've been also talking about where is the best place to stay in the city of Tokyo. There's this guy tree right there, and this is where we were, this building, the Asakusa Culture Tourist Information Center, which is beautiful. We were up there on the eighth floor looking down. All right, let's get a quick look of Kaminarimon before we scope out the shotengai and do some shopping, as well as some street food. If we could find a couple of things, I'm definitely here to eat.

00:04:21 John Daub: I think everybody, when they come to Tokyo, you must make a stop to Asakusa. Just soak in a little bit of the culture. Go for a jinrikisha ride, which is the human rickshaws. This guy right here, he takes the pictures, but maybe he can charm you into also taking a ride. All right, let's go. I'm not going down that main street, because we've been down there so many times before.

00:04:57 John Daub: The thing is, this area is also very used to having tourists. You'll find a lot of things in English here. Get tasty beverages here. See what I mean? So if you were here in Japan, this is what you'd be looking at right now for a lot of you. Oh, look at it. We have some summer, some taste of summer, but these wind chimes are very, very good in the summer. The sound just cools you off on these hot and muggy days that you have. All right, follow these ladies.

00:05:54 John Daub: All right, the back streets is where it's all at. The shotengai. There's one of the restrooms. Just mark this down on your map. There is a public restroom right here. So if you've got to go, you got to go. Jennifer French, get something with mochi. I think that's a guarantee. Find some mochi. Maybe a taiyaki. Oh man, I could go for a taiyaki with custard, extra custard.

00:06:59 John Daub: And we're going to see what kind of shopping is here. For a lot of people, if you're looking for souvenirs and stuff, I do think that this is a pretty good place to do that. The prices are pretty affordable. I think pretty, because this is a touristy area. They know that you're tourists. So if you want to get rid of some of that change, this might be a place to do it. Postcards, little knickknacks made out of bamboo, ear cleaners. We'll take a look down this main street, maybe at the end of it. But I want to show you off Main Street. Let's go down this one alley first.

00:07:30 John Daub: Oh, that looks so good. Gosh, anything but food right now. Let me know if you do lose the signal. I'll do my best to try to get out of a dead zone. This is a live stream, everybody. Dude gamer, hello from Canada. How is your wife and kid? Congrats. I hope that you make the Skytree episode on the new channel. I am working on it. Thanks for the content. You're very welcome. We get a lot of love from our neighbors up north, our Canadian viewers. I appreciate it very much. And I'm happy that you're joining us.

00:08:12 John Daub: Yes, the Kanto flicker is real. This used to be a taiyaki shop. Now it's something else. That's like a strawberry daifuku waffle thing. I don't know what that is. All right, let's see what we can find. Again, it's always changing this area. This is a soup place? That's new. There's a lot of soup places that popped up that are really good. This doesn't look like ramen. Yeah, sometimes you just want soup. What can I say?

00:08:51 John Daub: All right, the shotengai is, I would prefer to buy the gifts and things down here than on the main street, Nakamise-dori, which is where all the tourists are leading up to the Sensoji Temple. So this area is a little bit better. This used to be a family-run business, and now it's a drugstore. They used to have umbrellas out here and all these knickknacks. They sold out. That's a shame to a chain. So I'm already seeing a lot of family businesses are gone from here. Tasty Chronicles for the Kanai Food Fund. Feed Kanai. They're doing very well. I appreciate everybody asking about them.

00:09:29 John Daub: Again, as I was telling you a few weeks ago, we have somebody in the family who's not doing very well. Yeah, it'll be just me for a little bit. Now, let us explore and go straight, straight on. Find something with mochi for Jennifer. Something hot and creamy, custardy for me. Lots of flavors. Nothing like taiyaki, like pancake dough and custard. Come on now. Maybe we'll find a sake vending machine or something and wash it down.

00:10:11 John Daub: Bob Joe's in the house. That's chotengai. It's completely different from when I last visited in 2019. Oh, and get a taiyaki. You got it. I know just the place. It's where I always get taiyaki. And it looks like there's some street food right there. What are they eating? It looks like mochi. Let's go down here a little bit. When I see people eating something, I tend to follow. Oh, this is the melon pan.

00:10:39 John Daub: So Asakusa Kagetsudo, which is a place that I promoted before. Used to have a shop around here, but here's Kagetsudo. They had a shop here, but they moved locations. They now have a place where they just sell melon pan on the street. And they had another shop, a cafe in another area of Asakusa. And Yuki-san, who's the owner there, I haven't seen him in quite a while, but it'd be nice to catch up with him and do another melon pan episode. Their melon pan are quite good. Look at the way they make them really hot, so they get that brownness on top of it. That looks really good.

00:11:30 John Daub: All right, let's get down on the shotengai here. I'm just going to cut through this alley. There's some Japan-based neckties. Kind of cool. As I said, there's a lot of gifts here on Nakamise-dori, the main street leading to Sensoji. But I would probably steer clear of here. Hey, there's an ichigo daifuku with custard. Whoa, check that out. I promised myself I would not get anything on the Nakamise-dori. I promised myself I would stay off of this street. So I'm going to get something on the shotengai. But it's so appetizing.

00:12:19 John Daub: Here you are looking towards Sensoji Temple now. You're with me. For those of you that couldn't make it to Japan because of the state of emergency and the pandemic and all that, I'm taking you around for the next 30 minutes or so, or until I'm full. Boy, there is a lot of street food here. The thing with Nakamise-dori, to film here, they ask you to get a permit. I like the fact that they have a window here. You can watch them making stuff.

00:13:10 John Daub: We're now looking at shopping and moving into street food. So I want to give you an idea. I came here at night before, and there was almost nobody around. The shops are closed. And I love that time when Asakusa is closed, where all the shops are gone. It's so quiet. There aren't a lot of tourists. There are no tourists at the moment. You have the place to yourself. There's this really nice calm to it. That's why I like to stay in this area.

00:13:38 John Daub: That's why. If you're getting a hotel and you want to stay for a week in Tokyo, I would base it here. It's pretty convenient to get to the airports from here. The accommodations might even be a little bit cheaper because it's shitamachi. It's a little older area. But by no means do you have less options. You have sushi right there. You have restaurants galore in the shotengai. It really is worth it.

00:14:22 John Daub: This is a bubble tea place. I thought this place had gone out of business, but it's still here. They have matcha bubble tea. Ladies are hard at work. $7 for that. I don't think so. I'm just not a bubble tea person. Hey, there's Tsutaya. That's the video rental shop. But it seems to also be an old lady clothing store. Oh, there's a line right here. What are they waiting for? There's a line of people. Oh, this is like a teppanyaki monjayaki place. Monjayaki. It just opened. You can smell the okonomiyaki sauce coming out of here. Oh, it smells so good.

00:15:15 John Daub: I wish I could get in there, but that line is prohibitively long. That looks like okonomiyaki with an onsen tamago, onsen egg on top there. They also do wagyu, lots of stuff for tourists. All right, street food, street food. Stay on target. I want to get to that taiyaki place first. All right, let's do it. So you're getting the feeling right now that if you are hungry, this is a good place to be.

00:15:39 John Daub: And I love this area because you also have, if you can't speak any Japanese, lots and lots of places that have people who speak English or will give you English menus. That is very important for a lot of people. And these family-run businesses here have pretty unique fashion, don't they? It kind of has patterns, Japanese sort of patterns to their style. So it's very interesting to see how they can make the most out of their stuff, which is really interesting to me, I think. Fashion sense is something I don't have so I rely on the professionals.

00:16:16 John Daub: More monjayaki. I'm surprised to see this here. I did not know that monjayaki was famous in Asakusa. It is in the area in Tsukishima, not too far away from where I live. Michael-san is here. Totally loving the walking adventures. Let's go find something delicious to eat. We're on the prowl, and I know just the place to go.

00:16:39 John Daub: Alright, interesting. So now we have Mame Shiba Cafe. It's a Shiba dog cafe. This is new. I did not know that this existed so you can go play with Shiba dogs. Which I guess like Akita Inu, right? I should do this. I should totally do this. She's got the same gimbal as me. Oh, we're thinking the same thing. Well here these Mame Shiba lottery you pay a thousand yen and you might get one of these things. That's kind of fun. Trying to make friends with everybody. She was on the move. She took one look at me and said no, thanks.

00:17:41 John Daub: All right, so right there is taiyaki. I always get taiyaki here. It's like a tradition of mine to get taiyaki on the Orange Street. I call the Orange Street because it's an orange street. Don't ask me why it's an orange street. It's famous for that. What's up, Carlos? You're too late, bro. I'm long gone. All right here are our options sweet potato and red bean and premium custard and the prices go up accordingly. Sweet potato is pretty darn good. There's a reason why it's in the middle. It's probably the most popular. However that custard though. It's pretty rockin.

00:18:36 John Daub: I think I'm gonna go for sweet potato because I always get custard. But they said that they have vanilla beans from Madagascar. I'm serious. It says vanilla beans from Madagascar. Alright, if I go back there, I might get something, alright? If I go back there. Alright, let's get it. That looks pretty good. Oh, that looks good too. Thank you. Here's your receipt. Please take a look. It's a very important item. Thank you. Thank you.

00:19:58 John Daub: Our first victim is a fish. This fish shall get devoured in the name of science. I like this. All these signs saying to social distance, wear masks, be prepared. That's kind of nice. It's funny. I like the fact they use characters and mascots. I didn't know that mascot existed. Alright, is that a bench? Can you sit there? Is this a bench? What do you think? Or is it... I don't know. That's a big bee. I don't think I want to be hanging out with that bumblebee. Raymond says yes. Alright, you know what? I could sit here. Ah, that's nice.

00:20:49 John Daub: Alright, this taiyaki is super hot. This is one of a few things that I'm going to be getting. If you can sit on it, it's a bench. Really? Alright, I got a tripod here. We'll put this down and I'll jump in and start eating. I'm so happy. It's a nice Sunday afternoon. I'm glad that we get a chance to do some street food and do some neighborhood walks today because... Yeah, the rainy season is upon us. The rainy season is going to be here. It's supposed to rain big time tomorrow, like thundershowers. So I'm happy that I can get outside.

00:21:38 John Daub: Alright, never mind me and my talk about showers. I have here taiyaki, our first of a few things that we'll eat. It took 20 minutes to get some food, but that's the way life is. You have to work for your food. Taiyaki is made in the shape of tai, which is a fish, a variety of fish here. I like it as sushi. But this is like a pancake batter. In the middle of it, they put all sorts of stuff. Sweet potato, which is really popular. Anko, which is red bean paste. Those are the two most famous things to put inside. But custard, sometimes matcha custard. You'll find all sorts of weird things that they'll put inside. They're chocolate sometimes. I like anko too.

00:22:44 John Daub: That, my friends, I think that the sweet potato, of course, it's healthier than the custard. But the vanilla beans from Madagascar is hard to pass up. It's got crunch to it. It's got kind of a mochi-mochi consistency to it, the batter in there. It is so... It's not as sweet as you think it would be. There's the head. So, Carlos, we have a fish head right there. Mm. The reason I go to this shop is because they use... They cook it with fire. Like, they use old iron molds and cook them in fire. Whoa. There's a slight charred taste to it. The fire is in there. I think it's like gas or something. I know.

00:23:48 John Daub: Taiyaki is something that you crave. Once you've had a couple of these, you start to crave them. There's the crunchy pancake that's soft on the inside, crunchy on the outside. That's how you know you got a good one. Ah. Oh, no, you don't. Look, I know, dude, you're not. And by the way, get off the road. Excuse me, there are cars coming. I'm serious. You're going to want to get out of there. It's just walking aimlessly. You're in the middle of the road. At least cross over there where the people are. Follow them.

00:24:34 John Daub: And don't follow your friends. They don't know either. You know what? I like the fact that they have the skin of the potato in there. I think, oh, this is hot. It's almost takoyaki hot where you'll burn your mouth and lose all the skin on the roof of your mouth. But what is great about this one, you know that they're using fresh ingredients when you have just a little bit of the satsuma imo purple skin on there. Look at that. Oh, man. Richie, you're not allowed to feed the pigeons. I will have the neighborhood grandmothers all over me for feeding the pigeons.

00:25:19 John Daub: And because the pigeons start doing duty all over the place, they'll see the taiyaki. They'll probably do a DNA analysis and then find me. And find me. All right? I can't give them what I ate. I have to take it from another part. The grandmothers here, man, they don't mess around with community protection. Do not be loud after 10 p.m. They will come down on you hard. And trust me, this is so good, these pigeons wouldn't appreciate it. All right. Time to get some more food. This is one of many.

00:26:04 John Daub: You guys are feeding me with super chats. I'm going to feed you with food because you can't be here. This might require something. This is going to require a stop for me, though. Uh-oh. All right. Angelina's, which is my favorite cafe, is out of business here. I walk down the street and I always get sad. Used to be right there. The best cafe. So was it this one here? Or was it there? I can't even remember anymore. I think it was that one, that old building. Oh, they had the best cakes. But they went out of business. I don't know why. I wish they didn't. Serious history going all the way back to the beginning of the Showa period.

00:27:20 John Daub: The Orange Street mascot, I guess. It's creepy. Wow. Just still tasting that natural sweetness of the satsuma imo taiyaki. All right. Here's the main street. I'm here for. Because I have a purpose. Since we've come to this region. Oh, this direction. Sorry. Ronald, I do have a purpose. It's a very important purpose. Nick Chong. Hey, brother. I know you know John, but Ringo in Ikebukuro also sometimes has taiyaki-shaped apple pies. They have a Ringo in Hibiya, at the Hibiya Midtown, in the basement there. That's where I usually buy six of them and I take them home and Kanae Daub eats three and I eat three.

00:28:29 John Daub: And then we have a sugar high and we stay up all night watching reruns on TV. The Asian nerds here. Hi, John. I think Harb's has the best cakes ever I have tasted in Japan. Really? I'm going to check that out. I'm going to show you the hotel that I recommend people to stay at. But right now I found out that I need to get some cash because I gave it all away to Kanae Daub. So we rode a taxi to her house. So just stay. All right, I'm back. I'm now infused with cash. More than ever. More than I wanted. More than I had. It happens.

00:29:04 John Daub: We lost 200 people because I took an ATM run. Yodobashi Camera. Interesting. Yeah, I'm picking up. Carl's got it right. Carl, you got it so right. I'm picking up the super chats in real time. Thanks for your deposits. All right, here's a quick map just to show you where we are. That's the Sumida River, which I'm always streaming on. I love the Sumida River. I live along it. This is Asakusa Station. There's Kaminarimon. And this is where we started at this eye looking down on this street going here. We walked this way, went out to this street here, came across to here, and now we're here.

00:29:47 John Daub: Now I'm going to walk back into the shotengai and take you inside there. And we're just going to eat our way to Sensoji Temple now. I haven't had lunch. Whoa, the mascot's drinking sake. Dude, he looks like a hand with small fingers. It's weird. That's a teacup, by the way. It wasn't sake. He's a little bit too excited. There he is. Oh, that's creepy. Look, all of his people are here. They're all congregating in front of Kaminarimon. It does look like a baseball glove, Cobra Bebop. It is kind of cute, too, and creepy, with legs. I don't think that those two skinny legs could carry that massive load. That's not just me, right? You all feel the same way?

00:30:50 John Daub: Yeah, I think it was right there. Angelina. Angelina has the bakery, cafe. Oh, man, I love that place. Again, that's him in lifelike form. Still creepy. Let's get to it. You know what? No interest in this here. We're in Japan. All right, I took my friends to an owl cafe here on this street. But I was not impressed with the treatment of the animals there. So I promise never to go back there. They also had a capybara, which should not be on the second floor of this creepy cafe and the capybara was chewing on the wires but here's the thing I think that that cafe is out of business I think it's gone.

00:32:03 John Daub: The Asian nerd John sorry John but should be Harb's not harp yeah yeah Harb's I did one of my first videos on the old channel was at Harb's eating a cherry blossom cake that was ages ago it took me 10 days to get permission to film inside the Harb's because it's a chain shop I went through their head office filmed at the Hikari in 2013 yeah they got some pretty good cakes there and pies most of the cakes sometimes pies. Kerry needs to find the capybara. I like these masks in different colors I like the gray ones that's a light gray I've never seen the light gray ones before. it's like skin color or underwear color.

00:33:01 John Daub: yeah I'm just gonna pass on that one wow they got cucumbers on a stick that means it's summer cucumber on a stick means summertime it's not quite that hot though this is also a great place if you're thinking about not a kimono but a yukata to get a summer kimono made out of cotton you can rent them here this is pretty good price you know $29 for the full day and they'll help you put it on this is one of the areas that I think that you would want to walk around in a kimono because it's just so it's so traditional it's so nice and the fact that you see a lot of people also doing the same thing it's kind of neat because in the background your photos look more traditional that way it's a good thing for this area.

00:33:51 John Daub: where's that street food all right whatever the next street food is since I'm loaded in cash right now I'm just gonna get it there's a lot of my hats in there I'm gonna come back here later is that Laurel and Hardy wow that's Laurel and Hardy. America are you found my hat emoji I like that one hey our Wilcox is here hello from New Jersey hey we're exit 7a we'll be visiting next April and staying at asakusa view hotel it's a good place for nine days well done that's a great location I like the the gate hotel too that one is right near that Starbucks that you saw on the main street about six minutes ago it's it's a stone's throw away from Kaminarimon but the Asakusa View Hotel is very famous.

00:35:08 John Daub: here's some outdoor cafes it's kind of neat all street food ding ding ding ding ding ding hey Jennifer French mochi Jennifer mochi lots of mochi Jennifer we have we have daifuku we have sakura daifuku sakura mochi oh this is like sakura mochi oh that looks good too kinako mochi oh yeah they had dango sankei dai as well dango sankei dai I only see these during the cherry blossom season wow this is great this is a anko with mochi that the green is not green tea it's yomogi and there's a miso dango over there they all look good which which is what should I start with here the sakura mochi is good I don't know the anko dango looks really good too kinako yeah mugwort is yomogi in English thanks for that Raymond.

00:36:25 John Daub: well we could try more than one but um gosh I think the kinako mochi looks really good so why don't I start off with something on a stick it has to be on a stick for it to be street food so let's start off with uh anko dango anko dango yes 130 yen yes 130 yen yes and it has been shaped quite nicely on the top there look at that you could drive your car on the top of it look at that look at it. Look, you can drive your car right through it. Wow. So I'm going to eat this for you who can't make it here. And this will give me the energy to go to the next place. Hopefully the next street food is not this sweet, though.

00:37:47 John Daub: I'm going to go in this corner here. They had amazake as well. They had amazake there as well for 300 yen. I'm really, really curious about that. Hey, guys, thanks so much for the super chats. I'm putting it to good use here into my stomach. Jennifer French. Emoji. Wow. That's really good. I want to try it all. I'll tell you what. Tony, you can't try them all. One of these is enough to fill you up. You'll be so full. I'm already getting full. Taiyaki.

00:38:33 John Daub: That's a pretty good street corner. Street food corner. The cucumber on a stick is good, but I think it's too early. Oh, man, you know what? They totally need. What? That's a dude. Awesome. How awesome is that? It's a foreign dude. Walk like a geisha. Not transgender, but people. I think you can dress it. The kabuki artists also. Kabuki is an art where the men would do all the parts, including that for the women. So it's not anything that you think it is. It's fine. It's quite common here. So, but I don't even know it's cosplay. He might be working. All right. Could be a comedy routine or an artist. You just don't know. But for Japan, that's usual. It's not something weird. But if it's your first time seeing like a big Western guy in makeup, probably, probably a talent or something.

00:40:11 John Daub: Well, I'm getting hungry. Let's go find something else to eat now. Something salty would be good. Hey, Jeremy. Get yourself a nice cool drink on me. You got it. All right. Let's see. So we can do here. Prime provisional. Thank you. Adding to the kitty. All right. Here we go. Let's go this direction. Hey, on Alicia. I didn't miss it. Thanks, John, for doing this tour. I love the shotengai in taiyaki, too. That makes me really happy. Let's see if we can find something a little bit saltier. And I definitely need to get a drink. Some amazake would hit the spot. So good.

00:40:52 John Daub: They had amazake at that last place. But let's walk down here and see if we could find something. On the way. I've been down the street many times when it was. Oh, that's strawberry cider. I don't think I'm into that, though. A lot of sugar. I've had amazake. But amazake is like Japanese sake. But it has no alcohol in it. And it's sweet. They kind of pull it before it gets to the alcohol process. Quite often it's chunky. You have some a little bit of chunks in there. And it kind of tastes like sake. Okay. But it's not. And it's so healthy for you. It's cold. There's cultures in there that give you they're good for your stomach and all sorts of things.

00:41:39 John Daub: And there's been a amazake health boom recently where people would drink amazake. Not just in Japan. It was like an Asian or worldwide thing, I think. So if you do come to Japan, you find amazake. Ama meaning sweet. Sake meaning sake. Sweet sake with no alcohol. It's quite good. Might maybe a trace amount, but not. If Kanae Daub doesn't drink alcohol, but she'll drink amazake. Let me put it to you like that. No, you cannot get plowed on amazake unless you add something to it. Okay. Let's just keep this real.

00:42:12 John Daub: Although, although when I was in Mongolia, I took the Trans-Mongolian Railroad from Beijing to Moscow in 2001. All right. It was one of my many epic trips. Stories I have not told you yet. And we stopped in Ulaanbaatar, which is the capital of Mongolia for one night because the train stopped there. Was it one night or two nights? I can't remember. I think it was two nights. And yeah, that's right. We took a Chinese train there and then we got onto a Mongolian train and we took that to Moscow. But I was drinking horse milk, which is fermented, which was fermented and had about one percent alcohol. That was good. That horse milk made me so sick, though. It was good because the locals forced me to drink it. The Mongolian locals. Yeah. But I kid you not, for two weeks, me and my friend, we were man, we had really upset stomachs and not feeling our best. Moscow is a blur to me because of it.

00:43:23 John Daub: A lot of people here. It must be something really delicious. Let's just get a quick look. See some street food. It is curry pan. Kuroge wagyu curry pan. That might be worth it. I never heard that before. It's wagyu curry pan. Interesting. I don't know. I don't know if that's worth it there. Guy went right in front of the shot here. Hey, Cobra Bebop for day drinking. Also, I've been watching Tokyo Sam since you mentioned him. The motorcycle rants are pretty entertaining. Also, you have seen Martina's new channel, King Kogi. Have a great day.

00:44:03 John Daub: Yeah. You know, I hung out with Tokyo Sam. It seems like last week, but it might have been a longer, longer ago. I want to see if he'll do a live stream in Shinjuku with me. He plays it straight, man. He tells you how it is. I've we are not close friends, but we know of each other and have met a few times over the years. But it was nice to connect with him and I'd like to do more stuff with him. He's a fun guy and he's really, really nice. So I'm glad that you're enjoying his rants. He's been a YouTuber here. He's one of the originals. OK, all the way back there in the Tokyo Cooney and Apple Milk 1988 days, which is a long time ago. You have to pay your respect to the people been doing this for so long.

00:44:58 John Daub: Eric served six as well as one of the original people been at it since 2006. You know what? OK, I'm just going to get a drink from this vending machine because I seriously have to wash down all that sugar. I'll check this out. They have their own natural mineral water from Mount Fuji here with us. Kusaya coming out even on the label. Apple Milk. Nineteen eighty eight was her name. Emily Connor, I believe she was. I think she was the big first big foreign YouTube star. She was a celebrity here. And all right, let's get some oolongcha. You can't go wrong with oolongcha. Oh, they got the small bottles. Let's go for that. It's only 100 yen.

00:45:46 John Daub: Look how small it is. It fits in the palm of your hand. Although everything fits in your palm of your hand from these vending machines, I think. Here's mugicha with Pokemon on there. Mugicha is the drink of summer. Barley tea. No caffeine. So that makes it a popular choice. Lots of minerals in there that are good for you. Yeah. That's one of the reasons why I got in touch with Tokyo Sam. And we shared some pretty good stories from the beginning. He took over the JVlogger, Japan-based YouTube vlogger, cherry blossom meetups in the spring for Tokyo, for Kevin Cooney, who went back to the US. And he's been doing a good job of organizing that. Although I'm not sure if he's been doing it recently. It feels good.

00:46:48 John Daub: Forty-five minutes in. It's time to get something. Something salty. What do we got over here? Oh, this is an udon place. Hey, WRX Turbo. Yesterday, WRX Turbo was the first one here. Now he's here 45 minutes in. Whenever I see something with steam coming out of it, you know something good's going to pop out. Oh, it's udon. Okay, so they're just boiling udon. It's not street food. Got the smell of grated daikon coming out of there. Oh, more taiyaki right there. Grated daikon for the udon. Make sure the mic is nearby so you guys get a good audio. It's a little bit of wind here. That's why I'm using the external microphone.

00:47:30 John Daub: I love the Showa-era ads from the 1950s and 60s. Really feel the era. Geisha drinking beer. Gotta love that. They actually would. They would at least serve it. Art on wood. Oh, what is this thing? Teizokuri. Whoa! That's like chicken. It's a deep-fried pizza. Chicken. Oh my gosh. But there's a huge line. That's huge! Should I even wait in? Oh, I am waiting in the line. The line wraps around this way. I don't think I can wait in this. I can't wait this. It's too long. It'll be 15 minutes before I get it. That was a massive piece of chicken. Oh man, put that on the list. I'll be back. You have to come in the evening. You have to come on a weekday. That's another way to put it.

00:48:48 John Daub: In a way, you could say this is scouting for an upcoming episode. Actually, this is not a bad jacket. Look at this. I would wear this back in the US. I know that piece of chicken was as big as your face. Caitlin wrote that. Yeah. Piece of chicken was massive. All right, back this way I go. I'm still on the hunt. I need something salty or something. Beefy. Like a piece of beef. Give me a chunk of beef on a stick. I will be a happy man. Get something nice for Kanae Daub and the baby from David Kimura. David, you're always thinking about Kanae Daub and other people. And that makes me so happy. Thank you so much for that. And be assured, I will absolutely get something very nice. I will spoil her.

00:49:45 John Daub: That was nice. They're doing these photos against the backdrops. So for those joining us, we are in Asakusa. And we're on a street food walk. Street food and shopping walk. Just to take a look around this area. But also to find anything that we can that's delicious. And we found already some anko dango, which was a yomogi mugwort dango with anko on top, red bean paste. We got a sweet potato taiyaki. And got a green tea. Looking for something else to get. That's not so sweet. But it's hard.

00:50:36 John Daub: Oh, check out this garden here. In the center there. It's nice. Sometimes it's, I guess when I come here, it's usually at night when everything's closed. That's why. Hazel Ann is missing Tokyo. I know. I'm missing all of you guys here. It's not the same without, you know, some people said in the beginning, oh, it's so nice, there's no tourists here. It's nice and quiet. But after a while, it's just boring. I need to see your smiling face. And more people here coming up to say hi for you found me card or something. I miss that. I miss that a lot.

00:51:23 John Daub: All right. This is this part of Asakusa is where you'll find a lot of outdoor izakayas. People just sitting outside. I believe there's some more street food in this direction. But I also want to give you, let you feel this neighborhood during the daytime because the last time we were here at night. Hishikagu Africans here. Junketsu on the left. I'm not going to get her something to eat that you know, Kanae Daub would like. Hishikagu African knows me well. No, I'm not going to get her something that she doesn't like and then eat it myself. Although I might have done that in the past with cakes and stuff.

00:52:07 John Daub: It would be like she is here with you. Yeah, I hope that she can come on out and join us in some street food and live streams and some location shoots would be fun, you know. But we're still still a little bit of ways away with the vaccines and getting back to normal. Kanae Daub was a regular last year in all of the live streams? Well, not all of them, but a great deal of them to make it a little bit more interesting to get her point of view. And this year, since we had had a baby, she hasn't been in live streams much at all. I like that look. It's like a goth. It's a shame you can't see the front. Maybe we'll see her on another. Had like a goth. You cut that kimono looking thing. I don't know. There's a kimono or you. That's a kimono. Very, very interesting. Pretty good style at night.

00:52:58 John Daub: This place is great. All right. Not so much right now, but you can sit down with locals, shoulder to shoulder. And if you don't know what to order, trust me, there'll be a local person to order for you. Make sure you leave here very happy in better times. This is the reason why you should stay here sitting outside in local izakaya ordering things with locals. You can't get that in Shinjuku so much. Not in Roppongi. You can get that here in Asakusa. This is why. I put this as the top place to stay, but a lot of people might disagree. I prefer the historical and the cultural area. This feels more like Tokyo to me. But Tokyo means a lot of things to a lot of people. That's what big cities are. Each part of a big city is so unique and different. London is just like that. New York as well. And so is Tokyo.

00:54:00 John Daub: Here's the Richmond Hotel. Did I take a wrong turn somewhere? I could have sworn there was no street food here. New York does not have awesome 7-Elevens. You're right about that. That's only in Japan. But I believe 7-Eleven Japan bought 7-Eleven America. So I hope that they're getting better. I hope they're getting better. I like this. The side of the Richmond Hotel has outdoor dining. Might be a product of the age we live in eating outdoors is safer. Let's go over this direction. All right. This is another. They're close. Crows.

00:55:33 John Daub: Whoa. Check this out. That's really cool. Check out this artwork here. You can get in that box and take a picture. You're not attacked by crows. Oh, that's pretty interesting. Look at the little neck. Neck turn there. How are you doing? Oh, so they got a performance going on up here. Here's backstage. So you're not allowed to go in that direction. But there's something going on inside there. Yeah. If you do like these walks, you're going to like this. Give me a thumbs up. I do appreciate the encouragement. Totally. Hey, how you doing? I almost didn't see you down there. You're a show. Ten guy bird, huh? He's hanging out here on the show. Ten guy. You hungry? I wish you had something. I wish I had some of the taiyaki to give you. He's just like chilling out. This is what cats and dogs do, right? I've never seen a pigeon just chilling like this indoors. People are pretty calm here. So that's nice. No one's going to kick the pigeon or...

00:57:35 John Daub: Okay, I have a quick story to tell you. I have a quick story to tell you right here. I think I just saw some street food that I would say yes to. I'm going to start from here and I'm going to show you some halal ramen. I'm going to show some halal ramen. Oh, it's out of business. So this used to be a kimono rental shop and I rented my kimono. Was it... No, it was right there. I rented my kimono for the opening of the old Only in Japan show. From this kimono rental shop. Hey, do not get near me. That was 2013 and it's gone. There's the old amusement park still in operation. I thought they closed that down. Nice. Very colorful. I love it.

00:58:54 John Daub: Anthony, do not say target locked, please. What is he bombing on me then? Don't answer that. All right, right here. Naritaya. Like Narita Airport. Oh, there it is in English. Naritaya. And they have here halal ramen. Interesting. So everyone's been asking me if they have any of the halal food. They do have it here. Some pretty good options here. And they have vegetarian ramen as well. That I could eat. And I think they have a mochi-kari booth too. So you could get a bowl of ramen to go. But that is a lot of food. I was looking at this one here. Gyu-suji. But they also had unagi. Didn't they? Gyu-suji. Gyu-suji is salty, but I don't know. That looks a little... I should probably come back in the evening when it looks fresher. Although it's like, you know, gyu intestines and stuff. Beef intestines and things like that.

01:00:12 John Daub: Oh, he's on the move. Yeah, Hanayashiki. I have not been there in ages. When I say that, like, a long, long time. I thought that was a real dog. Intestines, yeah. Guts. Oh, lemonade. How's the signal inside here? Japanese-style ice cream in monaka. I don't know. I don't want to eat that, though. You know what? We're at the end here. Let's get off of this street. What? Weird. It's a puma with afro. Hi, John from Oregon. How you doing? All right. Let's get back to the main street. I don't know how we wandered this far away from the street food. So... Let's get back to it.

01:01:44 John Daub: Chan, thank you so much for the note on the Asakusa Hanayashiki. I appreciate it. I thought it had gone out of business, but apparently it's in operation. A Cobra Bebop. What happened with banning cameras in Kyoto? Is it just on that one street in Gion? I believe it is. I don't think they banned all of the cameras. But there's certain areas... I'll be honest with you, okay? I've been to Kyoto many, many times over the last 23 years that I've been living here in Japan. Uh... The number of foreign tourists really, really escalated around 2015. And for the last five years, although there's always been tourism in Kyoto, there's been an extreme amount of them hunting like paparazzi geisha. Geisha watching, geisha viewing.

01:02:34 John Daub: And when one would come out to go to a job, they would... Like crowds would come down on them taking pictures and trying to get in her way to... To get the... Like get a nice picture. But they're working, right? So they don't need that. And so they just said, look, we can't live like this. We're just gonna ban photographs here because we can't do our job. They've been doing it for hundreds and hundreds of years. So they banned photos and I don't blame them. I don't blame them. All right, in order to get back to the main street here, we gotta walk through Sensoji, so let's do it. I did promise you a trip through. Let's do it. Sensoji Temple. Let's do it.

01:03:27 John Daub: It is not a few ruin it, Raymond. It actually was a lot of people. That was the problem. I think a few people sniping for geisha photos, that's cool. But hundreds and hundreds, it was a lot. And I saw it when I was in Kyoto filming an episode. Like I would have liked to have gotten a shot, but I have really nice zoom lenses so I could do that. But man, people with smartphones get right into their faces. I thought that was a little bit too aggressive just to get a photo. They're on the job. That's right. That is the Tokyo Skytree. Great job, Matt. Matt Hayashi got it right, right there.

01:04:12 John Daub: This is the tallest freestanding tower in the world. Somebody said it was the CN Tower. They are wrong. CN Tower is not 600 metres high. This one is. Hisako writes in, why do we need halal food in Japan? You don't, but I've been getting a lot of viewers asking me about it. I've been getting a lot of comments from people that are from the Middle East and from Malaysia and from Indonesia. And there might be, I don't know, like a billion and a half people who would be looking for halal food. So there is a large percentage of people looking for that. But this is still Japan, right? So Japan has, Japan does have halal ramen. You just have to look for it. Halal bentos as well. But they exist.

01:05:06 John Daub: This is still Japan, so halal, there's not a lot of, not a lot of Muslims in Japan, but there are Muslims here. And there's a market for halal cuisine. And that's a good thing. Japan's opening up to the world. They need to be able to accommodate more kinds of people. All kinds of people. All right, let me get some smoke onto you all. So give you a blessing here. I'm going to clean your soul here. Nice smell. It's nice, nice smell. Urban, holy smokes. They cleaned out the smell inside my mask. So big thumbs up.

01:06:01 John Daub: Those are the largest sandals that you'll ever see in your life. Right there. If it wasn't the pandemic, this would all be festival food on a Sunday, but it's been shut down because there is a pandemic. So what we're going to do is go down the street and find something that's not sweet because I am craving like real food. When you do walk to the temple or shrine, don't walk down the center. The center is reserved for Kami-sama. So try to stay out of the middle there. Just keep that in mind. I say that because sometimes I forget. So.

01:06:43 John Daub: And if you do come here to film with tripods and stuff, if you're a YouTuber and you're coming to Japan, this is the office for the Sensoji Temple. And if you go in here, they will give you permits to film. Or was it in here? You have to go in here and register, give them your business card, a couple of them, and they'll give you armbands that you can use to film. So I get an armband here and then they allow me to put tripods and then take my time with filming. But if you start to film, they will, security guards will kick you out. I can do it with a smartphone like this. But if I'm doing like a main channel episode, you're going to want to get permission. It's free. But they just want to make sure that you, they want to know who you are and what your purpose is and what the video is for and things like this. And it's a private, you know, they should be able to, you should be able to tell them that information.

01:07:42 John Daub: Nakamise-dori also requires an armband for any kind of professional filming. But the problem with that is they're so strict. I don't think they require payment, but I do know that it can be hard to get that permission. And I don't know why, because they sometimes think that there's too many tourists here and they don't feel like they need the tourists. But guess what? I probably think they wish that they had more right now. But Japan is a weird place. It is not easy. You cannot film just anywhere, although I do that with live streaming quite often. But I always try to get permission. And it's sometimes very, very hard. And in those kinds of situations, when you can't get in touch with somebody, I've been told unofficially, just film it and then later ask. I've been told that. Just film and then ask later or something. But it's very hard to do that.

01:08:42 John Daub: But I try to do things the right way, because I do like to work with other businesses. Before I was a YouTuber, I was working with other corporations, making videos, commercials, things like that through my company. So you don't want to get the reputation of being a guerrilla shooter breaking the law. That's pretty much what live streaming is. Jersey Devs 2000. I did Hatsumode there at Sensoji 1 New Year's Eve. It was a bit disquieting. Easier to ask for forgiveness than permission, writes in Chan.

01:09:25 John Daub: All right, you know what? I'm going to give you all... Just come over here for a second. All right. I want you all... If you go check out Tokyo Sam's channel, look at his most popular video. This was the video of the year back in 2010. He didn't ask permission. All right. So what? Okay. But he got an amazing shot out of it. He put a GoPro on the conveyor belt sushi. That's a brilliant idea. But I don't know. I would have asked permission, but he didn't. And that's fine, because what he took was magic. Go watch that video on his channel. I think it's almost got a million views on there. The GoPro camera goes through the rotation, and you see slices of Japanese life in each booth at the kaiten sushi. He captures it all. It's brilliant.

01:10:22 John Daub: And then the camera falls into the trash can at the end, and then the chef picks it up, and that's the end of the video, I think. But that was one of my... That wasn't the first video that I saw of Sam's, but that was by far his most popular one, because it's art. Raymond remembers that video. I believe he took it off of his channel, and then it's reuploaded there now. But you have to go and check that out, because I appreciate stuff like that, although he didn't get permission. But, man, I think CNN captured that. I think it was on the news where it captured just this amazing slice of Japanese life. I am not the Karate Kid, although I would like to meet Ralph Macchio and take him on. I think I could take him. I'm slightly younger. We should do a pay-per-view, right? If Logan Paul can take on Mayweather, I can take on Karate Kid for charity, right? I would do it.

01:11:29 John Daub: Oh, there's sweet potatoes. Come on! I guess it's lunchtime. Everything is so crowded right now. I should have gotten everything when I had the chance. Lesson learned. You can see a lot of... What is that? Yo, yo, yo. What is that? Special matcha parfait. That's worth it. There's a matcha drink. Let's do this. Whoa! Check this out. This looks like a garden. Is that natto? No, it's not natto. Special matcha ice. This one looks good. Matcha latte with warabi mochi. Let's try this. You can smell the matcha. It smells great. There's matcha being grinded right there. Let's put these super chats to good use now.

01:13:00 John Daub: Drop my tea. Putting your super chats to good use, everybody. Thank you so much for the contributions. This live stream. Tigrahov's here. I thought you didn't want something sweet. I changed my mind. Matcha is bitter. It's not sweet, right? Yeah, you know what? 1984 was my toughest year. That was the year Karate Kid came out. I fought his fights. All through elementary school. Should I get more than one? Let's get... Hello. Warabi latte. Yes, this is a matcha latte. And matcha ice. Matcha ice. What about cups or cones? Cups are better. Matcha latte and matcha ice cups. 2,100 yen. Do you have more? Yes, please. Thank you. Thank you.

01:14:32 John Daub: The first cup is 800 yen. The second cup is 820 yen. We'll call number 6. We'll call number 4. Alright, we're number 6. So when they say... Wait, hold on a second. We're number 9. So if they say number... Wait. 6. Well, whichever one they call first. Confusing. Alright, so right now they are getting the ice cream ready. And as soon as they call 9 or 6 or both, should be 69, I'll be all over that. So while they're preparing it, let's take a look at the shop here. So they do have some confections here. This is crispy rice with matcha on it. It's like Rice Krispie Treats. That's a nice idea. I wonder if this is daimyo worthy. What do you think, daimyo? Would you want this? Would this be something you would like?

01:15:55 John Daub: Kaminari okashi. Joy reminds me it's a 6. Alright, I'll stick to it. Oh, here's the hojicha, which is very dark chocolate. I think you can try that, but due to hygiene, I will not do that. Let's see what we got over here. Whoa! Check this out. It's like chocolate bombs of matcha. Chocolate matcha bomb. Aroka bomb. 9? 6. 6. Thank you. Whoa. Follow me. Alright, so here it is right here. So it was a 6, although I said is it a 9 and she didn't seem to get the joke. So this looks like a big green turd, aka matcha ice cream. Yay! Party! Actually, this is a thumbnail shot. Can somebody take a thumbnail shot for me? I don't... Do I get them both here? How do I do that? Oh, I should get the tripod.

01:17:33 John Daub: Alright, somebody send this to me. Thank you, Matt. Matt was in on this. Is this a thumbnail? Thank you. Alright, somebody send that to me. Oh, it looks like one of these boba tea straws. Whoa! This is so good. And there's mochi on the bottom. It has the consistency of seaweed, though. That's sort of a problem to me. It feels like seaweed in my mouth because it's all kind of mushy. But the warabi mochi is like a soft mochi that... I don't know, it's hard to describe. That's what a 12-year-old does. They'll show you the con... I don't know how to show you the contents without opening my mouth. Alright, next up. Yeah, it is all about the texture. Well said. Was that Shane? Yeah, it's all about the texture.

01:18:55 John Daub: Ufobob was the first to send me this. I'm gonna take a screenshot. This is so bitter. It's not that sweet. It's kind of bitter. And they put these rice crispy... I guess it's like puffed barley. Look at that. So you get more... That's a great idea because it's not unhealthy. And gives you a little crispiness to it. Mmm. Probably too much sugar today. Let's just say tonight I'm eating a salad. Not nuts. These are like puffed rice. Yeah, puffed rice. But it's like puffed brown rice. Looked more Japanese that way. Yeah. The rest of the day is sugarless. I'm going for a long run today. I didn't eat lunch yet. This is not a good choice for lunch. Wow.

01:20:10 John Daub: Let me give you a good shot of this here. They're grinding it right there. That's what it looks like. So you got the chunks of crispy rice in there. Right? Hmm. I do think that this... This is really, really good. This was about $8, $7. Yesterday, Father's Day. Chichioya no hi desu. Happy Father's Day if it is. That would include me. Nice to see Italian Bombshell here joining us in Tokyo for a little afternoon. Nahomi, thanks for joining us. Bye-bye. It's next week in the US. It's probably next week here too. Brad, welcome. Wow, the warabimochi is so good. It is... This is actually really filling. But here's the thing. The warabimochi almost has no sugar in it. I can't taste any sugar. Just lots of cream. You know, the natural taste of the matcha is just bitter. It's quite good.

01:22:17 John Daub: Mmm. It's quite good. All right. Let me see. All right. I finished with the ice cream. I got brain freeze. Brain freeze. Brain freeze. I can take this with me. Actually, one more sip and I'm good. I like drinks you can eat. All right. Let's retire this thing. That was a good little pit stop. So, what you can't eat, just pour it into the heat. All right. That was good. Off we go. All right. Thank you, Matcha Shop. That was really nice. Let's give them a little bit of a plug. Oh, boy. That was good. Brad Fletcher. Hey, the family's doing great. Special matcha sweet. Kaminari isa. So, isa. Kaminari, which is this kanji. Kaminari isa. Nice.

01:24:15 John Daub: Is that like the first leaf or something? That looks like good ramen. Check out that ajitsuke tamago on top of there. I wish they had like ramen street food right on the street. I would get that right now. Whoa, the ramune is out. It totally is summer. It is summer. They got suika. Whoa. They have watermelon ramune. So, one ramune is 200 yen. That's more sugar. Whoa, they have kimchi ramune. Seriously? It says kimchi flavored ramune. That's nasty stuff. Kimchi? No. Shake your head no, not yes. All right. He's... Actually, the owner ran out of change, so he left his booth here. He just rode off on his bike. He said he'll be back quickly. That's him. He just rode off on his bike right there. That's awesome.

01:25:55 John Daub: He said, sugu ikimasu. Sugu modorimasu. He's like, I would like to try the kimchi, but the owner's gone. He took off on his bike. He just took off right now. He's gone. I think he's coming back. He took off on his bicycle this way. He left all his stock of ramune right there. Anybody could take it. You wouldn't do that in New York, but Tokyo's fine. Not to say that New Yorkers aren't honest, nice people. They're just a few, a select few. Oh, that's kind of funny. Check it out. This is one of those things for sleep, but you get a cyclops. One of those eye covers for the airplanes. It's a good idea. Oh, look at that. Look at the weird socks that they got here. I can never have enough socks.

01:27:07 John Daub: It's a pretty nice afternoon. Didn't find that salty street food I was looking for. More taiyaki. There's dorayaki, which is two pancakes with red bean paste on there. Let's go this way. How you doing, everybody? If you like these street food walks and neighborhood experiences, click that like button. I've been showing you some of the shopping places. There's Governor Koike. I guess the election. Sorry, I think I just touched the mic. Yuriko Koike is the governor of Tokyo. She's been doing a pretty good job, I think. And the elections are coming up again. So a lot of campaigning going on right now. It's quite loud in the neighborhoods as trucks with loudspeakers blaring out, vote for this person, vote for that person.

01:27:55 John Daub: I can't vote. So I try to influence Kanae Daub. She has both our votes. Leo can vote in a couple of decades. Leo will have to do what I want him to vote. He'll be my voice. But I bet you he's going to do... If he's a teenager, he'll just do the opposite of what I say. So knowing that, I'll tell him to vote for the opposite of what I really want. I know how teenagers think. Leo could be prime minister. And then he could give me a contract because that's what corrupt politicians do. You have to kick back to your father. Yeah. Have to raise him right. Remember to do that. Can you see that Prime Minister Daub meeting up with President Biden? That'd be pretty funny. I could see that one day.

01:29:05 John Daub: All right, this is the main street. I would... There's some pies. There's ningyo-yaki. But I didn't want to buy anything on this street. Story told, there's lots of options here. But more importantly, there's lots of really good restaurants here. So if you do decide that you want to come here for your lunch and your dinner, you will find some amazing foods. I'm sure you'll find some really good food in Asakusa. This is in the north. It's also part of the Ginza Line. The end of the road, I believe, is here. So it's quite easy to get from Shibuya to Asakusa. You don't have to change trains at all. And get here.

01:29:43 John Daub: Look, they got matcha right here. But this is more expensive than the ones that I bought here because of the location. Actually, that's not. It's 150 yen for one of these. Cool down with some matcha water right there. 150 yen. Interesting. A lot of these shops here are still family run. There's some ningyo-yaki. They make it with the old iron machines in the back. And we're back where we started. I have not been doing this for an hour and a half, have I? That's insane. What? I got to get back and start editing. Actually, I have to get home and put the futon inside. It's outside. The futon is outside drying.

01:30:38 John Daub: That's kami no udon. It's a big chochin, red lantern at the front of it that leads this way a couple of hundred meters to Sensoji Temple. And we're live in Tokyo looking in this direction here. The rain is coming. The wind is picking up. And that's a sure sign for me to get the heck out of here and get that futon back inside. You're supposed to put your futon outside to dry, not to get wet. All right. Look at this food set. That's a pretty good tempura udon. Ten dollars, about. Gosh, I was looking for like some unagi on a stick or something.

01:31:22 John Daub: One of the things that I like about Japanese festivals is that you get everything all in one spot. And typically they would have that here in Asakusa on the side of Sensoji Temple. Sensoji Temple. Is it called Sensoji Temple or Senso Temple? On the side there, they usually have street food. So I think once this pandemic gets out of the way or everybody's been vaccinated in October, we'll get that street food back again. Because I bet you those street food will be gone. I bet you those people really need some business. The street food vendors with yatai, the stands.

01:31:51 John Daub: We started the live stream, by the way, those that are joining us now. I started live streaming from up there on the eighth floor. A beautiful view looking down. So make sure you watch the playback of this video and you'll be able to see in high definition, I believe, the site from the eighth floor and that street that we just walked on. It's pretty cool looking at it from up there because you get a sense of the history looking at the old buildings. So that's all I got from here. I'll be back with some more food and neighborhood walks until the 20th. Sensoji Asakusa Kannon Temple. 628. That is a real, that's not a typo.

01:32:34 John Daub: Have you tried streaming on the human tricycles? Not yet. That's a good idea. I'll stream on anything if I can do it. 628. What were you doing in 628? When you hear that, you think of the time. They're actually talking about the year. It's pretty crazy. So there you have it. Live from Tokyo. I hope you enjoyed this and thanks so much for watching. I'll be back bringing you some more content around the city of Tokyo. State of Emergency ends on the 20th of June and I have some plans to get up to Tohoku. So I'll be doing a handful of live streams on the 22nd, 23rd, and 24th. Whoa. 22nd, 23rd, 24th of June. Make sure you click that subscribe button.

01:33:19 John Daub: I will be live streaming in Tohoku in Yamagata. In Miyagi up near Sendai. In Akita, I believe. And maybe in Iwate up in Morioka. I'm doing a shoot with JNTO. And I'll be taking you with me on Only in Japan Go. And after that I've got some more shoots at the end of June. Regular travel commences again. I'm back on the road. It's been a pretty tough few months because the pandemic is at its worst right now in Japan. So... I do have to take as much precaution as I can. I try not to travel on the weekends to places like here. But here I am.

01:34:00 John Daub: I'm going to walk across the street and just pan and show you the Tokyo Skytree. You have to remember that this is also very convenient to get to that attraction too. So there you have it. In the last few days I've live streamed from Shinjuku, Shibuya, and Asakusa. The three places that I think are the best places to stay when you come into Tokyo. For me, this would be number one. Shinjuku would be number two. You get kind of the best of both worlds. Shibuya... It's essential to visit there but I don't think it's a good place to stay. If you have any questions, leave them in the comments below. Thank you Tasty. Bye bye from Tokyo for now. See you in the next live stream. Probably tomorrow.