00:05 John Daub: Welcome everybody, we are now on the Hokuriku Shinkansen inbound to Nagano Station. I'm going to be giving you a tour around Nagano Station as soon as we arrive. Boy, we're cruising pretty fast. It's supposed to be a rainy day here, clearing up a little bit later on. You can see the clouds are covering up the mountains there in the distance. But I'm pretty excited about this. In about two minutes we'll be arriving on the platform. How you doing everybody? We'll be arriving on the platform of Nagano Station.

00:35 John Daub: So this is going to be a tour of the platform area and also inside of Nagano Station. If you've never been there before, if you've never been to Nagano Station, you are about to be there right now, live with me. And if you take a look at the live chat, you might be able to catch my attention and I'll see if I can show you around a little bit. Going on the Hokuriku Shinkansen and the Tohoku Shinkansen, there are so many tunnels that you have to go through. It is hard to get signal. Oh, there's some of the peach trees? Oh man, Nagano has some of the best vegetables, so that means it has some amazing cuisine here.

01:19 John Daub: We're still cruising pretty fast. So we are in Nagano Prefecture right now. Oh, look at the mountains! I haven't left Tokyo in a very long time because of the state of emergency. But thankfully I've been invited to come here and I have some work to do and I can bring you with me. I had to take a PCR test before coming here. It was one of the requirements, negative, and also I'm fully vaccinated. Good morning everybody. We are now pulling into Nagano Station. They're making the announcements right now.

02:02 John Daub: Look at all that nature out there. We're ready to go. Let's see which door it is. So this train takes about 222 kilometers from Tokyo. Takes a little bit over 90 minutes, an hour and a half, maybe about 95 minutes to get here. Normally without the Shinkansen, the drive here would take forever. Now we're starting to pull into Nagano City. That's beautiful. Again, Nagano was made famous from the 1998 Winter Olympics.

03:20 John Daub: It's a place a lot of Tokyoites escape the heat. They come here in the summertime. And look, we're already being welcomed. Well, thank you for that nice welcome. And thank you, Michael, for being a member, a traveler for the last 11 months. I appreciate that. Alright, we're pulling in right now and we're going to have a station tour. I'm pretty excited about this. I'll show you my ticket on the platform. Again, here, Tokyo to Nagano. Alright, we're pulling in now.

04:01 John Daub: I think that's the Shinetsu Line. Now, Nagano Station was built in 1888, but it has had a lot of renovations and we can thank the Shinkansen for that. It seems like there were only about five people in my car. So the Shinkansen is really light. Again, we are still in a state of emergency. And I only travel when I'm invited to do so. The Nagano Electric Railway is also here. Okay, what's the other side that's departing? The platforms are almost empty here compared to Tokyo.

05:08 John Daub: We are here! Nagano! This is awesome! Oh, it's 54 degrees Fahrenheit, 12 degrees Celsius. It feels even cooler than that because my body is so used to the hot weather. Now, this train departs at 32. So in about a minute now, we'll stay here until the train departs. The Hakutaka 553. There it is. Bound for Kanazawa. It was a pretty sweet ride. Wow, this soba stand is closed probably because of the pandemic.

05:48 John Daub: So we're going to see the Shinkansen take off and then we'll jump up, leave the Shinkansen platform for a minute. So this is, I hope this video is also a good orientation of Nagano Station. Yes, sir. I was here once a few years ago for Change Trains. It's nice to be here. I got to return to Tokyo tonight. So, oh, they still have telephones on there. They take telephone cards only, I believe. Get those at convenience stores.

07:00 John Daub: Shinkansen! Look at the reflection. Just shows you how clean these trains are. Goodbye! Pleasant journeys! Onwards! On its way to Kanazawa. I feel so alone now. There goes my ride. I like how the staff is always confirming stuff. It's for safety. So here we are. Let's take a look at Nagano Station, guys. Are you ready? Boom! Up the stairs we go.

07:52 John Daub: We're the only ones on the platform except for the staff. But because of the pandemic, you can see a lot of the soba stands and the shops on the platform are closed. Again, there's just not enough riders or passengers that are traveling at the moment. Hey, awesome Adam from 2099 is here. Welcome. And second breakfast traveling. Hope you guys are doing well. Nice to see you. Okay, here's the exit here. So let's take a look inside of the Shinkansen terminal here.

08:44 John Daub: It's not a very big place here. Here's my ticket. Tokyo to Nagano. Again, I left at 7:52 a.m. You can see it and it tells you the arrival time, 9:30. Car 5, row 15, seat E. So there's about 8,000 yen for this ticket, about $80. Okay, I think we're gonna get a chance to see some more shops, but there is a little bit of a gift shop. You can get an ekiben (station bento) here. So that's good to know.

09:20 John Daub: We're gonna go out the central exit here. And it tells you, I like it. The changing is pretty easy. This is the Nagano Dentetsu line (Nagano Electric Railway). And if you're taking the local lines for JR, you take the Shinano Tetsudo. That's in this direction. So there's a special exit for that here. So just look up and it'll tell you which way to go. You wanna take the Shinano Tetsudo for Kurohime, Myoko Kogen, and Togakushi Onsen. In English, too. So that's pretty cool that they lay it out for us like that.

10:05 John Daub: Hey, Chan, I hope you're doing okay in the trunk there. We have the best audience on YouTube, I'm telling you. Oh, I took my ticket. I guess I'm stranded here until I buy another one. You're never alone, Chan. I hope you get enough oxygen in there. Alright, here's the thumbnail. Looking back on Nagano Station's Shinkansen exit. Entrance right there. Now this is one of the... It's not as big as I thought it would be.

10:44 John Daub: Nagano being, again, the capital city for the prefecture of Nagano. But when you compare it to other Shinkansen stations, it's not too big. So I'm not sure how long this is gonna be. But we're gonna take a look and see what's here. I haven't been here in a couple of years. At least it seems like a couple of years. But this is a newer station. The Shinkansen, I believe, for Nagano coming in right before the Olympics. And then extending to Kanazawa. What was it? 2014? Wow, look at the view! Oh, this is gorgeous! Check it out! Do you see the purple mountains?

11:42 John Daub: Please refresh your screens. I think the quality is back. Maybe it was just lagging inside of the stations. I'm showing you the mountains. We're in the morning here, right? It's 9:30 in the morning. So you can see until the clouds burn off. If they do, because it is raining. You have such a wonderful view. And the air is so fresh, even though I'm breathing myself in this mask. It's mixing in with some really nice air. Look at that! I bet you there's some nice onsen (hot springs) mixed up there in the clouds. Around the base of the mountain. It is like a painting.

12:28 John Daub: Let's check out the other side here. I'm going to go down the steps and we're going to come up the escalator. I want to show you the whole street view area of the station. Let's take a look at the east side, which is not as crowded as the other side. Please let me know if the signal is not good as well. I will do my best to hurry through some weak spots here. You can see here the Shinkansen track going straight through there. Karuizawa and Ueda were two stations that I passed to get here to Nagano.

13:06 John Daub: This one continues on to Toyama and Kanazawa. There's not too much here. There's an underground car park, a highway bus stop here, and a bus park for tour groups in the area. It's pretty basic. If you're in one of the tour groups there, you know where the bus stop is on the east side. We're now going to the Zenkoji side. Zenkoji (Zenkoji Temple) is one of the big famous temples here in Nagano City. I don't know Nagano City too well. It's not one of the places that I've lived in, but I've been here many times. They're very famous for the Zenkoji Temple, which is beautiful.

14:01 John Daub: Up the escalator we go. There's a 7-Eleven on this side. That's about it. A couple of hotels. There's some lockers, and you can see the mascot for Nagano. He's a bear with an apple head. I love the logo. I love the mascot. There's a whole series of mascots associated with the Nagano mascot here. You can find this mascot on cans of beer too, which make it even more interesting. The more you drink, the more colorful that mascot gets.

15:02 John Daub: Alright, here we go around. The castle nearby here is absolutely beautiful. Nagano Prefecture, one of the natural prefectures. And again, this is where we escape to from the city of Tokyo. Here's a map of the area around the station. And just to give you an overview of what Nagano City looks like. Again, it's very natural. Even the sign is made of wood. Smells of wood. There's Nagano City and the main train station right here. And you can see, just looking at the map and the overview, loads of mountains in between there. There's Takayama Village there. Beautiful place.

15:54 John Daub: And we were on the east side already. We're going to be investigating this side of the station right now. Walking through here. Where is the main temple? Sorry, temple. I haven't been there in ages, but it is a big tourist attraction. We'll figure that out. There's the prefectural office building. That's where the governor would be in there. Alright, so you got a Beck's Coffee stand. That's where I got my coffee from before.

16:39 John Daub: And this is where you could grab the tickets before you get out of the Shinkansen. There's the entrance there. Most people are coming here by Shinkansen. I think by local train, it is a pretty long hike. Nagano to Kanazawa is going to cost you another 8,590 yen. Those two prices are the local train price and then the express charge for the Shinkansen. And then if you're going to Tokyo, you can see the prices are laid out there. I paid an extra 300 yen for the seat reservation. If you have a JR Rail Pass, the reservations are free. So it's about $78. $80 if you take the seat reservation if 100 yen equals a dollar. Right now it's actually 110 yen to the dollar.

17:38 John Daub: Alright, let's go out the exit here. Hold on a second. There's a Nagano City Tourism Office here. Wow, so they got all the maps and information in English here too. Check it out. Here's a Nagano City Guide. And shows you around with the buses here. That's nice. So everything is laid out right here in front of the station. I'm not gonna... The last thing I need is more paper. Trying to do everything digital. That's a really big map that folds out. And this one looks beautiful. This looks like some sort of treasure map. Look at that. Wow. I'm gonna grab some of these for Daimyo supporters.

18:49 John Daub: Alright, let's go down the steps here and check out the west side of the station. Tribute to the 1998 Nagano Olympics on the wall over there on the left. I believe there's a manhole cover across the street too. We're gonna go and try and find. How old were you guys back then? This is 23 years ago. This is the year that I came to Japan. Wow. I came here in 1998. Just after the Olympics. I came in the summer. But the Olympics took place in the winter of 1998. So it was about five months later. But I remember the build up for this. Because I was getting ready to go to Japan when the Olympics were taking place. Hired to come here.

19:42 John Daub: So this is the local line gate for the JR line. You can see a train has just arrived. So we're gonna wait for the people to get out of here. It looks like there's some shopping malls on the west side. It's called the Midori (green) of Nagano Station. So let's go check that out. The west side is called the Zenkoji Exit. Which is a temple here. Now these shops sometimes they have really good bentos inside. You can see the shopping mall called Midori.

20:25 John Daub: Let's take a look here. So in the basement there's an udon shop. That looks pretty good. A Hanamaru is a big chain. Then there's some cafes on the first floor. The second floor looks like it's got some ice cream. Woah look at that chestnut on there. Very nice. And then when you get to the third floor there's some more restaurants. There's some Nagano wagyu up there. Nice. And there's a sauce katsudon. That's one of my favorites. Sauce katsudon and some soba. Can't go wrong with that. Omurice. They don't open until 11 though.

21:12 John Daub: Oraho, which is an omiyage (souvenir) shop. We say gift is this word right here. Omiyage. So there are a ton of gift shops here. A lot of mochi. One of my favorite foods from Nagano. Oyaki (stuffed steamed buns). These are the hot pockets of Nagano. They're so good. Ah man, oyaki. You gotta get them when you're here in Nagano. A lot of chestnuts. Very famous. Kuri (chestnuts) here. Apples are quite famous here as well. So you're gonna get a lot of jams here. Because the fruits are wonderful here in Nagano Prefecture.

21:56 John Daub: Oh, check it out. So it is open. Oh, okay. Let's have a walk through Oraho to end this live stream. Alright, we're gonna come back here in a minute. But before that, I wanna take a look at the area in front of the Zenkoji entrance. Which is the west side of it. Look at that massive Don Quixote over there. I see Potapuff. Mishippo is here. I'm from Nagano, living in Texas now. I miss it so much thanks to the view of Nagano Station. I'm glad that you could be here and I can bring you home a little bit.

22:38 John Daub: I met, for the first time, I met my friend Kakiemon-san. It's funny to say friend, but gosh, we hung out quite a bit. It's been a couple of years because of the pandemic. Kakiemon is one of the most famous porcelain makers, ceramics, in all the world. And he's down near Nagasaki in Saga, Arita. And I met him for the first time during his exhibit here on the roof. I came with an NPO. And we became friends ever since then. Bringing back memories of the last time I was here. His business card just says, Kakiemon 15. He doesn't even need a first name.

23:21 John Daub: The Kakiemon family is considered a living treasure of Japan. It's pretty awesome. I'll take you, you know what, if I can, I started filming an episode on Kakiemon-san's factory. And, gosh, I need to go back in there because he wasn't finishing off the work and he told me to come back. But that was three years ago, so I haven't been able to finish that. Now I can film it in 8K, so I'll be back and go visit Kakiemon-san and show you what he's doing over there. Again, the stuff that he makes going all the way back to 400 years. 15 generations have been making it there. It's just funny how I met him up there. On the roof of the Tokyo department store for the first time.

24:12 John Daub: Alright, looking back at Nagano Station. Wow! I love these wooden pillars here. Look at the front of the station. It does look like these massive trees which Nagano is famous for. Very natural looking. The manhole cover, I believe, is across the street. So I want to show you that. There's a Nagano Olympics manhole cover which has been around for 23 years. I've been told that the pumpkin spice latte is a real thing. I guess we can kind of see on the menu here. I don't see it being advertised though. I guess it's off menu. I'm sure you guys don't want to see Starbucks.

25:18 John Daub: I am super glad that the new gimbal is coming out. The Osmo Mobile 5 next week will be announced because this gimbal is very close to having a name. It's not as smooth as it was. It's a little bit jerky, but I might have to configure it in the app again. Oh hey! There's a post box. So for MJ who's living in UAE. MJ, buddy, I have your postcard here. UAE just opened up. If you want to get a postcard, join the postcard club on Patreon. I'm going to send this to you from here, buddy. Here's the stamp I put up there. This is a nice stamp of the castle in Aizu-Wakamatsu.

26:07 John Daub: I know you want me to hold these on to you until you can visit, but Kanae Daub is telling me to clean these out, so I gotta send some of them little by little. I've been holding on. Some countries couldn't get airmail, so I've been holding on to them, but UAE just opened up mail with Japan Post, so on its way it goes little by little. I have a year and a half of postcards for you, buddy. Got a chance to meet MJ visiting last time he was here in Ginza. It was nice to... You know, I really miss you guys. I really miss you guys. I can't do any meetups. I haven't seen anybody. It's just lonely sometimes.

27:02 John Daub: Apple Pie Shop! Oh, look at those cakes! Yes, please! Alright, we have some time before the light changes. Let's just take a quick look-see at the apples for me. Ooh. Got apple pies over there. You can kind of smell it. Alright, stay on target. I got work to do here as well. Thanks for the fun livestream. Love the Nagano apple bear mascot. Suzette is here! Yeah, I love that mascot too. It's so funny. He's very t-shirt friendly. Looks good on a t-shirt.

28:01 John Daub: Oh, I think that's the manhole cover. Right behind the guy there. I'm crossing the street in two more bars. That's an unagi (freshwater eel) restaurant too, right in front of you. Unagi is freshwater eel. Anago is saltwater eel, so. Unagi would be quite good here. The river's really clean. It's a little chilly here in the winter, but. You hear that? This is for people who are blind. It announces that it's safe to cross. And then you can hear it's a warning that it's turning to red. There.

29:08 John Daub: Oh, here it is! Boy, it is not looking too good. Every year it gets a little bit more beat up. Looks like they made it in '93 when they announced the Olympics were coming here. But it's starting to get chipped away. Somebody needs to clean this manhole cover up. Wow. Alright, let's cross back over the other side. But getting some distance from Nagano Station gives us a really nice view of it. Again, if you're looking for that Nagano sign, it's right up here in the corner. I'm digging the architecture, the design of it, with the big wooden pillars in the front of the glass. That roof in there, so if it's raining.

30:13 John Daub: Funding machine! Anything special about... No, it's all the same stuff. Come on, Nagano. Up your game. Hey, apples. Sewage. Sewerage. Shouldn't that be sewage? I don't... Is that a word? Sewerage? Don't know. Alright! It is a beautiful station.

31:27 John Daub: Jiman 3-Full. How you doing? Hey! I know your brothers! Excuse me! I just wanted to say your cousins in Tokyo say hello! Your Tokyo cousins say hello, and they've asked me to deliver this message to you. Woo! That's all. Stay warm. I'm sorry, we couldn't... I can't give you your gift. Site says, I can't deliver your gift. Stay cool. Speaking of cool, these Nagano pigeons are pretty cool operators. Look, he's just hanging out there. How you doing? Cool operator. It's like the Matthew McConaughey of pigeons. How you doing, brother? Just fine, just fine, just fine.

32:50 John Daub: Alright, let's go. Let's check out this department store and take a look at some of the gifts. I like it. Sometimes on the first floor, inside the basement, or in this case, the first floor, there is a supermarket, which is cool. So you can sometimes... It's not open until 10 a.m., you can see. Again, we're a little bit early. But you can grab a cheaper bento, probably at the supermarket if you want to. Sometimes you just normal bento. Oh, I like to get the apple juice of Nagano. That stuff is so pure. Let's go up to the gift shop here.

33:35 John Daub: Hey, Katayama clarifies. Sewerage, the provision of drainage by sewers. Well done. So it is not a mistake. It's just a new word for all of us. Some of us. Few of us. Just me, mostly. Alright, we're back inside of Nagano Station. So just gonna take a quick look-see here, and then... I think we pretty much did a good job of looking around. Again, some of the gift shops here. You can grab something and get back on the train. This one looks like things made of apple. Oh, and these spices. Shichimi (seven-spice blend). Very famous here in Nagano.

34:48 John Daub: Gonna have to get some of that when I go back. Although you can get it pretty easily in Tokyo, but they have such a wide variety of them. And we'll see what's at the end here. Is it like a food court? Oh, look at this. Look at the chestnuts. I've been there, stayed at the Hotel Metropolitan Nagano next door. I was there to visit the upper Togakushi Shrine's rows of cedar trees. Hey! There is a food court here! This is pretty awesome. Okay, here's an overpass that takes you straight to Don Quixote. How cool is that?

35:33 John Daub: That's pretty cool. So a lot of the shops are closed. Seems like there's a bar. Oh, there's a sake bar! Check it out! You can get some sake here. I don't think I'm gonna do that because that would be not good before work. Oh, check out this gift shop. This looks really pretty. Again, the number one gift here is apples. What? Look at that layered apple pie. What? What? Oh my gosh. Kanae, I'm getting one of these for you. Kanae, look at that. Look at that! Oh yeah, Mama. This is the good stuff. This is a Kanjuku Yukidoke Apple Pie. It's about 1,670 yen.

36:42 John Daub: That's gonna be great. And then here's some miniature apple pies here. But I like that ring there. Let's take a look at some of the other gifts here that they have in the station. Again, a lot of the things are very natural. This is the apple tarts. Here, one of these is about 380 yen. Or about $3.80 approximately. Some apple juice in stylish bottles. It's about 20 bucks for that juice pack. Again, the water is good here so you have a lot of craft beers made here in Nagano. And of course, a lot of sake and wine. Oh wow. Nagano wine. I mean, it's not great, but it is pretty good and it's getting better.

37:38 John Daub: Hey DC! Diane! I got my Nagano Olympic funds for Kanae and Leon. You got it! I'm gonna be taking that. I'm gonna bring home a lot of omiyage back home. So I appreciate that. Check this out! I've never seen this beer before. Six Hop IPA. That looks pretty fun. I have to get one of these for when I go back. Oh look at this! This is chili pepper beer. What? I gotta get this too when I come back. It looks like Kanae! With chili pepper dress. Oh this is the best beer I gotta get that too. I'm making a list. I'm now accumulating ideas now for gifts.

38:28 John Daub: Hakuba beer. That's also one of my favorite places in Nagano. Hakuba. It's a beautiful landscape. And then there's some sake here on this side. There's some nigori (cloudy sake), which is the sake that looks milky. Oh this is doburoku (unrefined sake), which is a more... You can see the hole on the top. That's to let it breathe. But doburoku is more of a less refined version of sake. One of the reasons people still make it is because you don't require all the licenses and taxes are a lot lower for doburoku. But there is alcohol in there. It's a little bit rougher than sake. Which is more pure. So it's an acquired taste I think. It's more alive too.

39:20 John Daub: That looks like some good sake. That one bottle is 11,000 yen. That'd be a good gift. Purple Cat Audio buy-in assortment. Nobunaga-mai. I'm sorry I cancelled. It's okay, buddy. It's okay. I'm just glad that you're here. I'm glad that you're here with me in Nagano. I was just hanging out here by the bar. Wait a second. Could I get one sake shot? I wonder. Hold on a second. So, alright. I like that they have wipes here. Again, I don't want to drink alcohol before I'm about to work. But if I have some time before I leave, I gotta leave in about 8 hours. I might be back here to get a couple of shots. But I can't have a morning shot. That'd be pretty weird.

40:19 John Daub: They do have glasses of wine. It's about between $4 and $13 for a glass of wine. Alright. I guess they're serving mostly wine here. Check this out! Amazake (sweet fermented rice drink)'s soft ice cream! Now that I can get behind. Why do they hide it behind the credit card sign? That looks good. Okay. I've marked off about a dozen things that I'll be picking up. What country are you from? It says touch it. I don't have a sticker. Somebody already touched my area. Whoa! Some people from Mongolia were here. Bhutan is represented? Wow. You think somebody just made it up? I don't know. Maybe sometimes people make stuff up. A lot of comedians in the world.

41:48 John Daub: Alright. There's the mascot there. Aruku Ma (Walking Bear). Aruku Ma. Because aruku also means to walk. So Aruku Ma is pretty cute. Oh my gosh! Look at that big aruku kuma (walking bear) plushie. That's about $27. I might have to get that for Leo. Although Kanae said don't because there's no space in the house. So maybe I'll have to get this little teeny one. Hey there little guy! Cute! Aru kuma. Oh these are so good too. These chestnut pies. Wow! That's the taste of tomoko tomoko. Just got here and of course whenever I see apples, apple pie, tomoko, this would be your paradise. This is apple pie heaven. Nagano Station is full of apple pies.

43:02 John Daub: Check it out. This is about $17 for 8 of them in here. Alright those look pretty good. These are on my list here. Do they have one? Can I have one please? Yes. Oh it's fine. Thank you. Apple jam. Strawberry jam. Wow. Wow. I asked her. I told her she's got all the flavors. Wow. This is the full size sauce katsudon there. Wow. Yeah. Oh really? Thank you. Ok so maybe I'll get a sauce katsudon coming back home. They're really good.

44:56 John Daub: Alright let's try this here as I wait for the rest of the people. I came early just so I could do this live stream. Some of the people coming from Tokyo to help me with the shoot are on the Shinkansen right now. So let's try this apple pie here right in front of the Nagano 1998 sign. If you're having fun click that like button. I'm always having a little bit of fun when I do these live streams. Okay, let's open this up here. Check out the floor of Nagano Station. What YouTuber shows you the floor? Wow. Toasted. Let's come here to the corner. Ah, here's Zenkoji. Itadakimasu (let's eat). Mmm, really good.

46:01 John Daub: There's just light butteriness to it. Just semi-sweet. The natural flavor of the apple come out. That's pretty good for an omiyage apple pie. This is the main temple. It is so beautiful in there. And the story is, if you pay a little bit of money, in the basement, there is a test. It's all dark in there. And you have to feel the walls to find a golden knob on the inside. And if you find that knob, it brings you good luck. But I have to tell you, it's completely pitch black. But it's a pretty cool experience. And it is a little scary. If you don't like darkness in small places, you would not go in there. But it's hundreds of years old. Mmm. I went there 20 years ago. I don't think it's changed much.

47:05 John Daub: Okay. There you have it. That was a pretty good adventure. If you have any questions, leave them in the comments below. I hope that this episode on Nagano Station kind of gives you an overview. So when you do come to Nagano, you are ready. You have just been to the station from the east side to the Zenkoji. And then you're going to be on the west side. You're now a Nagano Station master. You can pin that to your chest. You're going to have to make the pin yourself. But when you do, send me a picture.

47:43 John Daub: This is the part of the livestream where you can write in where you're watching from. Anybody from outer space, it's nice to hear from you. Oh, that's why we're here. I'm here for fireworks. I wonder if this is the place where we're going to be launching them. They're taking me there now. All right, everybody. Whoa, Mexico City. I see you guys are still in Mexico. Hawaii, Tampa, Seattle, Texas, Portland, Perth, Melbourne, Houston. Wow, awesome. Vegas, baby. Chan is writing in Trunk. Guam. Awesome. Malaysia, Netherlands, Sacramento, American Canyon, England with Apple, Bath, Finland, Sydney, Singapore, El Salvador, Manila. Awesome. The whole world. The Milky Way.

48:48 John Daub: Jason's out there. And Jason, I know that. I've seen your screen, your background. It is the Milky Way. I can confirm that. All right, everybody. There you go. Nagano Station. I had a lot of fun. I hope you did too. Don't forget to click that like button. And I got a new main channel episode coming in a few days. If not tomorrow, if I can get it out. It is about up there in Hokkaido at the coldest Yakiniku Festival in Kitami. It was like minus 20 and I was barbecuing outside. With 2000 people. One of the things that we could do before the pandemic. That episode should be coming very shortly.

49:22 John Daub: Thanks so much for watching everybody. I'll see you from Nagano. If I have time and I find something interesting, I might go live again later today. Who knows? Just really happy to be able to share this experience with you. Chan, you would do great in the basement there. You would love the basement of Zenkoji Temple. You'd love it there. Ciao.