00:10 John Daub: I'm going to be taking you around this area, but also I'm going to be taking you past the Babymetal Legends exhibition. A lot of people have been asking me to do this. It is an exhibition that's going on here in Tokyo that a lot of you can't go see, which really is a shame. I'm going to take you past the HMV Museum, where it's taking place from September 4th to October 1st, and then it moves to Osaka.

00:40 John Daub: This is Shibuya, which is a very famous place for younger people to hang out. It's got a young vibe to it. And here we go. That guy's in traditional yukata (light cotton kimono). We're going to walk around, not take Basketball Street there, but we're going to go straight to the museum and wrap around Shibuya, and then I'm out of here. So join me for the next... Let's take a look at this map here, which is the graffiti! What?! We're here, and the museum is here, so we don't have to walk that far.

01:20 John Daub: Now, 5G is activated, but I don't know how good it's going to be. I've had a lot of issues with it. I tried to social distance, which is really hard, but everyone's wearing a mask. If you've never been to Shibuya before, on the weekend this place gets pretty crazy. Despite the fact that this is a state of emergency, as you can see, a lot of people are just walking around. And graffiti is not done by foreigners. It could be, but young people in Tokyo, especially, there are some people who like to do some not so good things.

02:07 John Daub: What is this still doing here?! What?! I think there's a lot of things that they forgot to take with them when they left town. It's over, people. Sorry, I missed this light here. One of the most unusual things about Tokyo, and it is really weird to me. If you look up there, BOOM! There is a tower of records that's still very much alive here in Japan. And this one is a skyscraper. People still like physical media, and I guess it's a little weird. Newspapers still have a pretty decent circulation in Japan as well.

02:48 John Daub: Wow, there's been so many of these treks. Look at that! Crazy girls. Yuck. Need a shower after that. All right, I don't think the band is actually inside. I don't think there's a band inside there. This light is notoriously long. So if you are crossing from Hachiko Scramble, which is just right there, if you're crossing from here, make sure that you boogie through this quick, because this light is longer than most lights, and will steal like five minutes of your time. It feels like five minutes anyways.

03:44 John Daub: And if you came to Shibuya to eat the blue ramen, that shop is just down there too, about 200 meters. The owner was really nice to let me film. All right, we are back. Oh, look at that open car. They call them open cars here. We call them convertibles. You don't see a lot of them in Japan. Hey, Jotty's in the house. Oh, no, this stupid light. I don't want to sit here all day. Ow, I missed it.

04:30 John Daub: This is where the museum is supposed to be, around the corner here. And I bet a good portion of the people are here for that. He's adjusted the part. A lot of people wear black. It's a Babymetal color. So the Babymetal Legends exhibition is going on until October 1st, and then it moves to Shinsaibashi (shopping district) in Osaka. So it's kind of cool to be able to walk by there. I can't, there's absolutely no filming allowed in there. You can take photos in certain designated areas. So there's no way I'm going to be able to walk by there. I'm just going to be able to take you in there. There's the copyright issues all over the place.

05:08 John Daub: That yellow building is a Tower Records, a holdout for the industry of physical media, which is making a comeback. So if you like these neighborhood walkthroughs, think about clicking that like button. Encouraging me to do a little bit more. I'll be in Osaka on Monday with Kevin Riley doing a livestream. So you're not going to want to miss that. Jumping on the Shinkansen (bullet train) and going down to Osaka. Invited to cover a restaurant down there that's... I think Sony's trying to sell TVs here. It's hard not to look up.

06:16 John Daub: Oh, there's a Babymetal fan. She's dressed like one. Can you tell Babymetal fans by the way they dress? I don't know. I think that the museum is supposed to be in the back. Okay, I think this is. This museum is supposed to be around here somewhere. Sorry. I think that the 5G and the 4G keep connecting, knocking the signal off. Try to activate 5G to get the signal possible. But we've had some issues with that. And sometimes the black screen comes in too. Maybe the YouTube app has figured out a way to get rid of that.

07:09 John Daub: Did I go past it? Did I go past the HMV Museum? No, really? Oh, that cafe looks great. Look at that steak. Oh, man. I have not eaten out like normally outside of our neighborhood in a long, long time. This is one of the few times I've actually taken public transportation in Tokyo. I've never been to this HMV Museum. So it's new territory for me. Anybody want to navigate me via livestream here? It's supposed to be around here on the map. Google Maps lied to me. At least show people the sign. Right?

08:22 John Daub: Oh, there's Miyashita Park. That's pretty interesting. Like, I'm not used to seeing this right there. Usually it was an opening that went straight through to the other road there underneath the train tracks. But now there's that park there. Because of the pandemic, I just simply don't come to Shibuya very often. The Blue Ramen is over there. Not too far away. All right, let's go around here. This is the Tower building once again. And I believe that we're very close to that HMV Museum.

08:55 John Daub: I don't think it's inside of here. Well, we can go past Tower, except it's just loaded with copyright stuff. Love Hotel Street would be pretty cool to walk around. But I don't think there's a lot of people heading that way. But there could be. Who knows? A gentleman never tells. That's weird. Oh, there's a sign for it. Is it? Oh, no, it says Black & Black. What? Wow. What are they going to put there? Looks like there's some construction going on right there. This is new. So next to the Tower building is going to be some probably shopping complex or something.

10:06 John Daub: Michael Susana is in the house. Hi, John. Loving the Shibuya Street. If you find a place to stop and grab a snack, enjoy it on me. You got it. I'm actually bringing back for Kanae again. So where is it? It's got to be in here. I will go the distance for our viewers who have asked me to come here looking for the HMV. There's H.I.S., which is travel agency, the HMV Museum. Where could it be? Isn't it this building? Here's the floor guide. It's got to be here. Yeah, there's HMV Museum right there. Event space.

11:03 John Daub: I don't see one sign publicizing the event. Not one sign. All right. You know what? I guess I'll take you inside. Let's take a look and see. I can't find one sign publicizing this Babymetal thing. So the event space is where? On the sixth floor. All right. Well, you're going to have to go up there for you guys. It is the down elevator. Here's the elevator going up. So we may the signal might die. But bear with me. OK, we're deep inside of a building. We're going to go up there. Yeah, so I might cut off for a minute, but I'll be back.

12:20 John Daub: Actually, the escalator might be faster. Yeah, let's take the escalator. I have no patience. Oh, it's the other way. OK, here it is. All right. This is the Osmo Gimbal 5. The DJI Osmo Mobile 5. I don't like it. It's too small and flimsy. I want my 4 back. This is not good. Interesting. All right. There's a pop-up event space there that seems to have a line. And I'm just taking you. I'm not going into any exhibition, but I'm taking you up to the sixth floor so you can see what the Babymetal event looks like. And then I'm out of here.

14:02 John Daub: Wow. Check it out. There's some celebratory kimono. So if Danny is watching, I hope you're enjoying this. Maybe we get a glimpse of something that we normally wouldn't have. OK, look. All right. One more floor to the sixth floor. Welcome to the event space. Possibly for Babymetal. I don't know what we're going to be able to see. All right. There it is. Maybe. What? It's all weird. OK, so this is the museum, but it's pretty incredible. There's not a sign. There's no nothing in there. That's weird.

16:01 John Daub: All right. This is as far as we can go. We're not allowed to go in there. Hold on. Yeah, we're not allowed. That's as far as we can go. What? That's weird. There's no signs or anything. It could be like a copyright thing. What? No one invited me. And I already went onto the website and there's absolutely no filming whatsoever. So the best we could do is just get some sort of close to the museum. So I just took you to as close as you can get without a ticket and permission.

16:46 John Daub: But if you don't know who Babymetal is, did they play at the Olympics? They're pretty big around the world now. And I know they've inspired a lot of people. And my friend Danny in Canada is very inspired by them. And there's a Starbucks here. Get a pumpkin spice latte. So back down we go to no Babymetal. There's not even a sign. I can't believe that they have an exhibition. There's an exhibition going on and there's no sign for this event. I guess it's like underground. You have to know about it. Maybe they don't want people off the street coming here. So interesting.

17:25 John Daub: So basically we just saw like five minutes of escalator and there was like some staff with radios and stuff that creeped me out. So I took off. There are some other event spaces, but it didn't look like that. It didn't look like the Legends exhibition was very big, which is a shame. Babymetal has their 10th anniversary and they have an exhibition. It's called Legends and it'll be moving to Osaka next month. But I thought it would be kind of cool to check this out. But I'll tell you what, there's no signs. There's no posters. There's nothing about the event. I can't believe they didn't even have a sign. No Babymetal sign.

18:22 John Daub: So Babymetal fans, I got to tell you something. When it comes to Japanese pop groups and idols and celebrities and stuff, the copyright and permissions and like all this stuff is just ridiculously over the top. It's just not being controlled by people. So I do apologize. There's just no like this is it and there's nothing. And that is crazy, right? I guess they don't need the added promotions. They don't need the added promotions for Babymetal. They're already huge. So not one sign in front of this, the central entrance for the exhibit here. That is bizarre.

19:07 John Daub: All right. You know what? I'm going to take you a little bit around Shibuya now and explore beyond Babymetal, which is like all these trucks are so colorful. I'm sure I can make an episode just on this, you know, and the fans are not inside. I saw somebody write that earlier. All right. Sorry, folks. The signal isn't so great. I've gone past here so many times. This is the Loft store. They had so many nice gifts, teapots and chopsticks and things like that inside. I'm going to take you to the back side of there. Very neat.

19:50 John Daub: Oh, we got the Zoom problem. Hold on. Close the app and restarted it. I think we got rid of the Zoom bug. I'm pretty sure you guys will let me know if that's still there. Thank you. This is the back side. If you go straight, take you to Yoyogi Park, this street. A lot of hills in Shibuya. So if you're walking around this area, you're going to get a slight aerobic workout. Move your arms. Get the full body. See, that's how you... Luckily, there's no live cam to see how ridiculous this looks. You can only see my hand.

20:42 John Daub: But the metamorphosis of this area, they've reopened the Apple store here. So the Shibuya Apple store is back. That's kind of a piece of information. If you have any broken Apple gear, which I have more and more of, you can get a fix there. And this building is kind of new. There's just so many little changes here. Every time I come, I discover something new. No street food. I was looking for something that might be able to eat on the street.

21:28 John Daub: Panning around here. We're going to be walking back towards the station. Wow. People are actually using this road. You don't see too many cars coming down this way. This used to be a big, big Uniqlo that's gone now. Right. You want to find street food? Follow the pigeons. They know where to go. They have an aerial view. Pretty quiet here in Shibuya. I guess a lot of it's all concentrated around Hachiko. And people... They know where they're going.

22:20 John Daub: Let's go down this... I love this stairway here. This is one of the walks that you have to do going up and down the stairs here. Usually, there are a lot of pretty stylish shops here. They kind of come and go because the rent is a little high. A lot of traffic going by here. There were a ton of places that were catering to tourists that are going under. This looks like one of them. They're looking for a new tenant of this building. So they've lost a bunch of shops. No one's doing really good right now.

23:01 John Daub: That cafe, I don't know if that's going to... Oh, look at the goodies in there. Boba tea. That's not going to be around much longer. How do you survive without tourists? Babymetal is like M.I.A. For those joining us looking for Babymetal, I went up to the exhibition to the museum. No signs, no posters. Total shock. What? This is a new Rabbit Cafe. This wasn't here before. What? This is new. The reception counter is on the first floor. First go to the reception counter before you enter. That looks cute.

24:03 John Daub: Where's the reception? So it says it's there. Oh, here it is. Here's the first counter. So there's a cat cafe on the second and third floor. And the first floor is for rabbits. And there's nobody there. Oh, I guess you have to go in through a special way. There's a cat in the window. Here kitty. He's licking himself. That's pretty cool. All right. I'd love to go to a pet cafe, but it's just not the season. I think you have to like sanitize the cat hair. There's some bunch of people petting it. I think they got to do. How do you desanitize the cat before it moves to the next person? That's how the plague was spread, wasn't it? Through rats and stuff.

25:08 John Daub: Wow. Check out this omurice (omelet rice) window. It's massive. That omurice has a burger on it. I don't want to stroke the cat with gloves and might as well just stay home and stroke my sofa. I wonder if this rock has a history. Usually, when there's something like this from nature, this is Spain Street. It says here this has a purpose. It's probably been here since the Edo period (1603-1868), and a lot of people don't know about it. But you walk around in the city of Tokyo past things that have been here for centuries. I bet you some samurai dude sat here drinking a beer or something. You know what I mean?

26:04 John Daub: I think imagine going to a pet cafe and they say, please wear these surgical gloves. And why even go stay home and I don't know. You can Amazon order some, you know, fake cat with hair and enjoy that. Put batteries inside and sometimes they'll shake and jiggle. Same thing. Drink a coffee. That's a cafe. All right. You know what? I'm just going to turn around here. This is how I used to walk real fast to get to NHK. I'm going to go to NHK before studio shoot sometimes faster than other days. I didn't want to be late. It takes you straight ahead. Go here. You're at NHK for studio shoots. You're working for NHK. It's sort of good information.

27:03 John Daub: All right. We're walking back towards the station now. It's sad to see that there are some businesses that are out of business here. But for the weekend, this is not nearly as crowded as it normally is. And that's kind of a good thing. But are we watching Dexter in the background as I edit? I'm going to go to the back of the station. This gives me thoughts of something. By the way, Peter von Gomm, my friend Peter, is thinking to rename his channel. And he's come up with some really good ideas for it. And if you're part of the Discord server, I'm going to be asking some questions and polling you and see what's a good new name for Peter's crime channel. Right now it's called Serial Talker, but I think we need something with a little bit more impact, maybe with the word M for murder.

28:12 John Daub: They do have Shakey's Pizza that's still here. There's a lot of stuff that are still here. This is Basketball Street from the other side. And there's the what is it, the British pub? I've been there a couple of times. Usually I'm already tipsy by the time I get there. I don't remember the last time I was in there. That's where the Jackie Chan Robin was. It went out of business. There was a Jackie Chan Robin here like in the year 2000. I think I've told you that story. It's insane.

28:43 John Daub: See Chan is here watching inside of the trunk. Try to find a way to bore a hole in there so you can get some more air, buddy. If not, we could loan you some of the construction equipment here if you need it. Because check it out. Shibuya for you all is going to be a different place. There's a couple of buildings that are gone. This is right next to the HMV building. Right next to the Super Don Quijote (discount store). There's the Tokyo Honten, which is a really nice beer garden up there. And then right here, it's gone. What? What was there? That looks like they're putting in some kind of mega super center or something. Interesting.

29:40 John Daub: So you all are going to be coming to a different type of Tokyo. All right, let's walk back to the station. There's Dogenzaka (hill street) right there. That's where the first Taco Bell in Japan is. You can see the logo right in the center flashing. Nobody eats at Taco Bell in Japan. The menu is like three times the price. And then there's bean burritos on the menu because it's too cheap. They need the expensive stuff. Don Quijote has been moved to here. So you have the mega Don Quijote right here. And if you want to be mesmerized by large fish, just go to, you can go right. You don't have to go to the aquarium in Shinagawa. You can go right here to Don Quijote and you can see fish. It's crazy.

30:43 John Daub: Usually people who have a little bit too much to drink start tapping or pounding on it for attention. Hear me, see me, love me. I'm going to go to the aquarium. Don't tap on the windows. That's cool. It looks like there's a shark flying through Shibuya because it's reflecting the landscape in the background. Wow, that's pretty cool. They did tell you what's here and there is a moray eel inside there. Usually it's in the, oh, there it is. When I'm scuba diving, these things creep me out because I've heard stories of them latching on to scuba divers. Gotta be careful. They get you in the face. They don't let go. Like hyena.

31:46 John Daub: Super excited for the postcard and thanks. I needed a reminder to update my Patreon. Miracle Emery, you're very welcome and I'm really excited to send this to you from Osaka on Monday. This is Dotonbori (famous canal street). I took this when I was with Kevin about two years ago and there's nobody wearing masks and this is, I'm sending this from Osaka's post office from Osaka to you. This is going to be pretty cool. We're close to a big milestone for the postcard club as well. So really appreciate the support.

32:22 John Daub: It's a lot of you already can tell this is Shibuya. It's a much different place. A lot of these buildings I don't recognize anymore. Seth you don't have to wait long. Kevin is back on Monday. Look at this. These smoking places are popping up all over the place too. Japan still has a pretty large smoking population. It is decreasing a little bit but nowhere near the same as North America. At least it doesn't feel like it because there's more of these smoking zones popping up. Here's another one. Selling cigarettes and stuff. Oh is that in the back? I don't know. Oh it's contact lenses. They look like cigarettes to me. I'm a non-smoker. I haven't seen too many people vaping in Japan. I don't think that's caught on but you do see a lot of smoking zones. The where I live in Chofu (suburb southwest of Tokyo) there's no smoking anywhere outside. You have to be in a designated area. If you see somebody walking and smoking the police will ticket them.

33:37 John Daub: Oh look at this. Hey WX Turbo's in the house. Yeah it is 31 Flavors. All right we're back towards the station. A little bit of a Shibuya walk. I unfortunately didn't see much of the Babymetal exhibition. I'm just sort of still in shock that they don't do any kind of exterior PR because they don't want the images. I don't know. They don't want the images outside. At least have some cutouts of the three gals so you can get some pictures with them right? I mean they're celebrating 10 years. You'd think that they would want to be a little bit more happiness to the fans out there but I don't know what do I know.

34:44 John Daub: So you can see at this intersection people start to walk. This is the intersection right in front of the 109 Ichiban-kan (fashion building) building. It's pretty busy and if you continue to go up here it's a pretty interesting walk if you have some time spend about an hour or so and walk up this way to Sangenjaya (trendy neighborhood). And you can grab lunch up there. It's a really interesting part of the city of Tokyo following the Den-en-toshi Line (train line). Well small bike. So here's Shibuya station. Boom!

35:25 John Daub: There are a lot of people out and about more than I thought there were going to be. I came because I was sending packages not too far away and I thought it'd be pretty nice to get out but I've noticed that almost everybody, no everybody I see right now is wearing a mask and everyone I'd say 90% of the people are wearing it properly so that's sort of a good thing even though that they are out and about but everybody does know the risks involved and everyone's taking precautions and that's kind of really good to see.

36:09 John Daub: Oh Nishimura's fruit shop. Check out what they got here. This is you'll see the square watermelon in the window here. Today you just see melon and grapes autumn the fruits of autumn are here. Nashi (Asian pear). There's some Japanese pears which can get pretty massive. If you want to see some very expensive vegetables you don't have to go much further than looking in the back of this shop. Some of the prices go up. That's about a $200 melon back there. And here we are we're back on Hachiko Scramble. Boom! We have done it. And there's the crossing as 10,000 people cross it right now. Maybe not so much.

37:05 John Daub: Thanks so much for watching everybody. Very interesting livestream. I know that the signal is not so great right here but we gave it our best shot. 5G has been a bust in my opinion. Hasn't really helped out so I'm going to try some new things like dual band streaming and ways to try to get this up. But a lot of it is on the YouTube side because the encoding that they use for live streams is not as good as other competitors like Twitch and other streaming platforms. Hopefully YouTube can improve a little bit and put some love into mobile live streaming. I would like that very much. Some good people working there. Thanks everybody. I'll see you in the next livestream. Maybe tomorrow but definitely on Monday as I get to Osaka. And I will bring you with me with Kevin Riley and we'll do at least two livestreams taking you around there. As soon as I release the... I got to release an episode on the main edited channel ASAP. Which is where I'm getting back right now. First learn stand then learn fly.