00:19 John Daub: Hey everybody, welcome to a live stream. This is one I'm going to be talking about driving around Hokkaido in the winter. I did this recently in a video I uploaded in Kitami, which is the extreme north of Hokkaido, and I'm going to share with you that experience renting a car from Toyota Rent-A-Car and then some of my experience driving around Hokkaido in the snow. It's kind of a different beast. It's not the same. In fact, it was downright different than anywhere else I've ever driven before, except perhaps in the United States in the northeast in the winter, something like this. If you're in Canada, this is probably something that's not new at all. How you doing everybody? Looking at the live chat. I have a picture in picture here because I'm going to show you some of the VTR, the video here, starting from the rental. So let's get right to it. This is the car rental area and you can see there's two of them: Suzuran and Poplar. And the weird thing with this is that they're right next to each other. So I don't know why they need to have two of them. This is the rental car that I got. It was a small compact Toyota. Pretty cheap. All right, there's my car. I'm about to take off. Sapporo New Chitose Airport. This is where I was picked up from the airport, taken here, got the car. It is snowing. I'm a little bit worried about driving in the winter. It's about a 300 kilometer trip from here to Kitami, which is where I'm going to be going on this trip because tonight they have an amazing yakiniku (grilled meat) festival with about 2000 people in minus 30 degree weather Celsius. This is going to be a lot of fun. All right, let's get on the road.

02:12 John Daub: So the car had a navigation system on it and you could change it into English, you see. There's a guide right there so some of the stuff was in Japanese, it just depends on the car, but almost all of them from Toyota Rent-A-Car had English menu. But you had to before you get into the car and leave ask the people if they could set up the navigation in English and they'll do that. They're pretty happy to do that because they don't get a lot of foreign rental car people. Actually I think maybe it's a little bit scary for people to get into a rent-a-car especially Americans because we drive on the other side of the road. But one of the great things with Hokkaido is that it is really easy to drive there because there's not a lot of traffic around so there's not a lot of stress. It's not as stressful because there's not like traffic like you would have in Tokyo which makes Hokkaido really perfect for rent-a-car. Unless you have a Japan Rail Pass and you kind of already know where you're going to be going. Yeah this is something I wanted to do because in the latest upload the world's coldest barbecue festival in Kitami, check it out if you haven't already. I drive from New Chitose to Kitami and it's about 300 kilometers. It took me about four hours to drive all the way there and the drive was pretty nice. I could relax quite a bit and I think it was because there just wasn't a lot of traffic and the view around me was just beautiful.

04:01 John Daub: So I think after you get into the car and you drive for about 10-15 minutes, you get used to driving on the left side. Just your brain switches over and you know, as someone who's been driving on the right side, that wasn't too much of an issue to move over and drive on the left after about 10-15 minutes of driving in it. You just kind of should study the rules a little bit in advance. Let me show you some more pictures now. So after you get in the car, this is what the scenery of North Hokkaido looks like. It's pretty snowy. This is, I'm actually just leaving the rent-a-car agency. Turning and getting under the highway. Pretty easy. And then the signs above, this is pretty good to know. The signs above are almost all in Japanese and English. So it makes it pretty easy to get around. There's a blue, the signs are blue and you can see right here the highway. Take this lane. It's very international. I'm going at 500 percent of the normal speed so you can see what the highway looks like as soon as you get on. Again there's like nobody out there. It's so nice especially in winter especially on a weekday. Now New Chitose Airport is very separate from Sapporo the city so you're starting off from a point which is very easy to leave to get onto the highway.

06:22 John Daub: And if you look at a map of Hokkaido you can like this is such a perfect point for you to go either down south to Hakodate or go to anywhere around Hokkaido from New Chitose Airport. The rental car that I typically get is Toyota Rent-A-Car and the reason why I use Toyota Rent-A-Car is because I've noticed like the other agencies they sometimes might have hidden fees or they might not be as clear so when you bring the car back there's like stuff that you didn't know about or they're more apt to ding you for anything that you didn't catch before. Toyota Rent-A-Car is more expensive but I've always found if you paid for like a reputable organization in Japan you don't have any problems. And if I compare it to I've only rented a car two three times in the United States and each time was painful. I don't know just like these charges keep coming up and you don't get that with Toyota Rent-A-Car. Everything was pretty straight up right from the beginning and I think the other ones Nippon Rent-A-Car is another one, Orix is another one, they're pretty clear about it but I pick a company and I kind of stick with it because you can accumulate points.

07:28 John Daub: Yeah this video was right before the pandemic started in February so I thought also like when you're driving around in a car it's also much safer than public transportation and we didn't know what was happening with the pandemic at the time. When I rented the car for this episode the Diamond Princess was in Yokohama dock. There were more cases in Hokkaido than there were anywhere else so I was quite worried and renting a car although I was going to do it anyways did give me peace of mind. But as someone who travels with a lot of photo equipment and if you have a family of you know like three or four or five or more renting a car takes a lot of stress out of traveling because boarding a train with all the luggage getting off of the train it of all the other people around can be quite stressful. A car changes everything for you here. Let's take a look at the website here this is the Toyota Rent-A-Car it's all in Japanese hold on I'm going to go over here and navigate. Can I change this I think you can change it to English you can. All right cool so there's a menu that allows me to change it into English: "Begin your journey in Japan" how cool is that. I think in advance you can pick where you want to rent from so I picked I believe the Suzuran or one of the places near Hokkaido so they have their own page that makes it easy for you to see what's available.

08:55 John Daub: And in summer which is the high season for Hokkaido you have to book a car in advance and there's a premium also for rent-a-cars uh in the summer it goes up a little bit just because demand is so high. Scroll down you can select the car of your choice that's what select means. Alright let's push this I usually look in Japanese okay it just seems it's just maybe the prices are different I'm not sure I don't think so. So there's the economy there's economy plus and then they have kei car (light vehicle) I'm just scrolling here so let's take a look at some of these I usually will pick economy or SUV. They have an SUV and it's smaller but you can pick this it's a little bit more. Let's take a look at some of the cars though this let's see if the car I selected is here I think it was an Aqua that I showed before. Sometimes they don't have them available so let's pick the economy and see what they have here. Ok so it's showing in the Tokyo area and Nihonbashi is not far from my neighborhood so it's a region code picking up where the local one is here. Let's see let's just select the Nihonbashi one in Tokyo then and you can see the cars usually they'll tell you what's available.

10:35 John Daub: Oh wow this is expensive I think it just be because it's last minute and they don't have anything available. Let's pick on the calendar next there's two Thursdays from now and then we'll return it within a day search for car so you can see like searching is pretty easy. Wow this is pretty pricey actually um maybe it's the location I selected now. I'm a gold member of Toyota and if you're with i think what is the which car rental what one of the car rental hertz maybe you can transfer that over and you become a gold member and it's all twenty percent off from the price that you see actually these mini cars on my phone are cheaper they're like five thousand is half the price I don't know maybe it's more insurance or something. Let's pick this here I'm going to select economy and you can see it asks you right up the top if you want an ETC card and an ETC card is fast pass it's like a card that allows you to go through the toll booths really quick it's very important to have one I think it's good to rent. Their €300 per day I believe if you rent them from Toyota Rent-A-Car which is not so bad because at the end you just pay it all right so you accumulate all of the toll charges on your ETC card when you get the Toyota Rent-A-Car they pay everything for you. I mean everything is on the same bill which is great if it's a business expense because it's all out there.

12:26 John Daub: There's insurance stuff here. And of course, you're going to get the insurance. But it's all like, there's no like special super insurance or prepaid. Like all these add-ons are not there. It's pretty simple. And I found this, that if you don't have time to return the car right away, when you get the gas at Toyota Rent-A-Car, it's almost comparable to going to the gas station itself, which I thought was really incredible. So I stopped going to the gas station unless it was like right there. I would just return the car as it was. And the price that they quoted me was very similar to the same thing I would have paid myself. And that took out all of the pain. And that makes me want to go to Toyota Rent-A-Car again, because I know like you just build relationships with people.

13:16 John Daub: Tig Rahoff, do you ever celebrate Ohtani from Oshu on Angels baseball team? Actually, Ohtani is from Iwate Prefecture, not from Hokkaido. I think he just played there. I'm not sure. But I think he's from Iwate. And yeah, we all celebrate him in this country. We do. He's pretty big, pretty big deal. I think somebody tried to throw a ball at him. And that made news here. Hired a car and drove around Mount Fuji and accidentally went through the toll. Oh, very embarrassing. Yeah. And I wish I knew about the ETC cards. Definitely. And the tolls are not cheap either. Were you in the back of the trunk? And was there somebody else who had to pay, though? That I kind of want to know. All right. So back to the page here on the Toyota Rent-A-Car. There you can fill in your name and address and your driver's license information, your flight information. I think this is all really set up for tourists.

14:25 John Daub: I'm going to jump back to the Japanese one and see if the prices are different because I'm kind of curious about this now. And then we're going to look at some more footage and talk about my experience driving up in Hokkaido once again. All right. Back to Japanese Toyota Rent-A-Car. So let's pick next Tuesday from 8 a.m. Because that's when they mostly open. And then we're going to return the car. Ok. That's where we're picking it from. I guess we can pick where we're picking it from. So let's pick Chitose. Chitose Airport. And right here. Boom. Suzuran. Which is one of the choices that I showed you. Wow. Ok. And the time to return the car. Let's pick the next day at 8 p.m. So it's like a two day rental. Let's search. So this is the Japanese site. I want to see if the price is any different. No it's not. This is really expensive. What's up with that. Seriously. I would not pay these prices. I would search around. Ok. So here's the regular cars. I'm going to show you the SUV. This is from Hokkaido. This is the Vitz is a pretty good economy car here in Japan.

16:05 John Daub: Now economy usually means it's not a hybrid and you're going to have to pay a little bit more for the gasoline I think than you would with economy plus. Usually the difference between economy plus and the economy is the hybrid which means less gas and impact on the economy. The Yaris was a decent drive and the Roomy which is I believe like a boxy car with a really high roof. They're great but the tires are so small and I found that like taking curves too fast can result in you tipping over. So you might want to think about that. But it's very comfortable for the family if you get one of these like boxy cube cars that they have. The economy plus again the Corolla is in here. The Aqua is here. I like driving the Aqua and Kanae does too. These prices are a little bit too high but I don't know I guess a lot of people are discouraging you from renting the car. The standards are interesting. The standards include the Prius here which is on this price listed as like two hundred dollars a day. Oh no these are for two days. Ok so cut that in half. So it's about one hundred dollars a day for the Prius and that includes the insurance is baked in there. The economy plus would come out to about eight thousand five hundred per day eighty five dollars and the economy would be about sixty five dollars.

17:28 John Daub: So you can see it's a gradual increase. And then there's the Mark X which I've rented before and the Mark X would come out to one hundred and fifty dollars a day or a little bit less than that. But it's a pretty good ride. That's not a hybrid. So you're going to pay more for gas. Then there's the like super luxury which is two hundred and fifty dollars a day and the Crown is in there which is a pretty good car. Let me go to the SUVs because sometimes I rent. All right. Here's the SUVs. I think just there's sold out the RAV4 is one that I've rented before. That's the blue one right here. That was really nice. And Kanae and I drove this once to Niigata for the fireworks festival there last year and it was really good. It's a smaller SUV. You're higher off the ground and it's a really good drive but it's about twenty five dollars more a day. I think than the normal cars. But it was worth it to us because I just wanted something nice. And oh you can get a sports car. The sports car that they have here is the 86 which is not available. The 86 is like a collaboration between Toyota and Subaru.

19:22 John Daub: So you know I'm pretty comfortable with Toyota Rent-A-Car but I would check around. The thing is if you do try to look for a budget rent-a-car place be keep in mind that those charges do come back in other ways just like everywhere else. So the other thing with renting a car let me get back to the main screen here is that you want to have an international license and getting that in advance is a necessity. They won't accept your American license. So you're the truck. Triple A or the auto club in your country usually will provide that that's needed with your regular license and your passport in order to rent a car here. If you're a resident of Japan you need to you can use an international driver's license for the first year after that you need to have a Japanese driver's license and they actually check a lot of the rental car places. They kind of know. And if the police pull you over it might become a problem. I know friends that have gotten away with this but because you can get the international driver's license issued and they don't know that you're a resident of Japan and all this other stuff. But in Japan legally you're supposed to get a Japanese driver's license within a year. I didn't drive until I got my Japanese driver's license. So it wasn't a problem. I didn't need the international driver's license.

21:37 John Daub: But if you're renting a car here from abroad do keep that in mind. Everybody's pretty friendly though. I've never heard of anybody having any issues with renting a car from agencies. Toyota Rent-A-Car again. The rental car companies usually have their own rental places. I saw that Honda had rental car companies too. Because they want to rent out their cars. Which means they probably sell more. And that's kind of a neat thing. Where the car companies themselves are doing the rental car business in Japan. Let me talk a little bit about the experience driving in Hokkaido in the winter now. But you can see there's some snow on the road. And it is a little bit icy sometimes in Hokkaido. The roads are not plowed because there's so much distance between towns and cities. It can take a long time between the roads are plowed. Now you can see in this shot here. It's a much better situation. And the snow had fallen. It actually on the other side of this tunnel will start to fall again. There's sometimes I do cross the line. And there's a beeper thing that will tell you to do it. You can change the navigation lady from Japanese to English as well. Which is helpful. She'll tell you to stay away from the line. Which sometimes I do. Because I want to stay away from the snow in the middle.

22:40 John Daub: This is a long tunnel. And on the other side of the tunnel I saw this. Wait for it. As I cut through the tunnel. I'll take some of your questions as well. If you do have them. Okay here's the other side of the tunnel now. And you can see the snow is starting to come down. And I'm more central. This was after Obihiro I believe. And driving up now straight north. When the snow came down. The roads also became more icy. And so you do have to slow down. The roads do become quite icy. And you can see in Hokkaido. The weather changes pretty quickly. So you have to be ready for just about anything. Especially in the winter. But you know if the locals are driving. Then it's okay to be out there. If you've never driven in the snow. Just take it really slow. And a lot of people have asked me about snow tires. You can tell Toyota Rent-A-Car. Because you're renting in Hokkaido. Where exactly you're going to be headed. And they will make the decision whether or not to put snow tires on. But it is an issue in some places. And there are times where in the middle of the night. It will snow super heavy. And you'll wake up and your car is under like a meter of snow. And not only do you have to dust it off. If you don't have snow tires. It's really hard to get out of the situation.

25:02 John Daub: You can see I passed through. The snowy areas. And now I'm just driving. The sun came out. And it really does dry off the roads here. They do salt it. And they do maintain it. But you can still see there's some snow in the center. It is hard. To predict the weather. I'm moving pretty fast. I think this is 700% driving towards Kitami. The highways are pretty nice. Everything is pretty nice. I'm driving in Japan because it is a very developed country. So the highways system here is amazing. Chan writes in here. When I was in Iceland. Cars had studs on the tires. Do Japanese have studs on the tires? They do have snow tires. But I don't think it's quite the same thing as stud tires.

26:01 John Daub: They also have a lot of service areas (SA, service area) in Japan. So. You don't have to go too far before you hit one of these. There's always vending machines. Open 24 hours. Sometimes food vending machines. And here I left the GoPro on. I forgot to turn it off. And you're going to see me like jumping out of the car in a second. The service areas have really clean bathrooms. I've never had a dirty restroom. At a service area. Again sometimes there's restaurants. Usually the restaurants will. In really local areas. They will close in the evening. But usually there's like a food vending machine or something. A lot of them have gasoline stations too. But here. This one is a small one. This would be called a parking area. Or a PA on the map. And. The service areas. Or SA. Are a lot bigger. When I see them on the map. Sometimes I'll drive through a PA. To get to an SA. Service area. Because I know they're going to have better restaurants. More services.

27:20 John Daub: Because that's what they do there. Some of them even have like amusement parks. And things like this. The bigger ones. So if you do your research. You can find some of the best parking areas in Japan. Some of them even have specialized cuisine. Which is pretty crazy. And the parking or service areas. Are run by the local people. So you'll find like festival like food stands. Or food trucks there. Serving local cuisine. Some of the restaurants from the town. Local towns will have a satellite there. Especially if they're famous. Selling the cuisine to drivers going by. Which helps to attract tourism to the town. So they do do that. At service areas in Japan. It's very smart. But I gotta tell you. The Japanese service areas. Are amazing. I think that's in itself. Almost a reason to drive around.

28:34 John Daub: So sometimes in Hokkaido. You have to go around. So in local areas. That are off the highway. Sometimes it's just one road. So you have to pay attention. And stop. And let traffic come through. Or go through slower. And if you see somebody. You might have to go in reverse sometimes. That's happened. But here's night is starting to come on. You can see the roads. The highways going up to Kitami from Obihiro. Are beautiful. And the speed limit. I never really go over 100. It might be 90. But Hokkaido might be 110. But I typically will stay at or below the speed limit. Just because I'm in Japan. And I don't want to get a ticket. I'm doing like 67. Through the tunnel or something. This is a lot of tunnels in Japan too. Do you have any questions? Any questions about driving in Hokkaido? I think that if you do come to Japan. Even if you have a rail pass. I think it might be worth renting a car. And driving for. Even for 6 hours. You can rent a car for as little as 3 hours. Depending on the car. Or you can rent it for 6 hours. I do 6 hour rental. When Kanae and I go to Costco. For example. Just for food runs. And stuff like that.

30:17 John Daub: A speeding ticket here is quite expensive. I heard. I don't know. I've never gotten one. And I don't know anybody who has. Some of the foreigners try to talk their way out. Pretending like they don't know Japanese. But the cops now have like translators. Translation machines now. So it's not that easy to get off. Like it was before. So keep that in mind. HelloHi821. Do you get speeding tickets up there? In western US? I can't remember the last time. I had two hands on the wheel. Really? I actually drive a 10 and 2. And just got into a habit of doing it. When I get on the highway. A lot of people put their hands down on the base. I still keep it at 10 and 2. And I don't know why. I very rarely will have one hand on the wheel. I think the test to get the license was so hardcore. That I had to. I really got used to just doing it the right way. And you know. You have to. They put you through a grinder. When you get your drivers license here. And you never forget. It's pretty harsh.

31:30 John Daub: Some good questions here. How expensive is fuel? Gasoline is expensive compared to. It used to be. Because now in America. Gasoline is really expensive. Here's the thing. The price of gasoline in Japan. From like 15 years ago. The increase is just marginal. It really is not that much more. But I saw in the United States. It's so much more. I guess it's taxes or something. But if you compare the prices of fuel. From the US. The gasoline price rises. And in Japan. I think the US has had higher. Gasoline prices. Higher prices. Faster inflation. Which we pay by gas. In Japan by the liter. So the prices. To Americans. Who pay by the gallon. It used to be like. One liter was the same price as one gallon. But now that a gallon is so expensive. In the US. It's not as expensive. Driving in Japan. The gasoline is more expensive than the US. But it isn't as bad as it used to be. Comparably to prices in the US. Right now. A lot of the places. Are full service. Especially in Tokyo. But when you go out to the countryside. A lot of the places are self service. Unless you ask for service. And then they'll fill your tank for you. In most situations.

33:01 John Daub: So if you've never had. And I grew up in New Jersey. And we don't have self service. Everything is self service. But you have to. Get used to full service. In the entire state of New Jersey. So New Jerseyites. Unless you've driven a lot out of state. Are going to be a little bit shocked. At having to do self service. And some countries might be the same way. But you have to. Get used to doing that. And when I first had to do it. I remember other drivers doing it for me. And showing me in Japanese. It was pretty cool experience. They had like ENEOS. Which is one of the chains here. You can use your point card for. Tsutaya. Like a T-Card. And get points for getting gas. Which is pretty cool. But they accept most major credit cards. I didn't have any problem with American Express. Visa, MasterCard. Anything like that. But I'll tell you this. Japan is also a cash country. And don't depend on plastic. Get into a bind with your credit card it doesn't happen as much as it did about 10 years ago but it still could and you want to have that cash you don't want to go searching for an ATM in the countryside especially because they might not have one and sometimes the convenience stores are not so convenient in the middle of nowhere right so make sure you do have like a couple hundred dollars on you and you can always change it back if you don't need it at the airport but it's always good to have.

34:32 John Daub: Can you rent an electric vehicle yes so um it is more pricey if you look now let me go back to the rent-a-car here i'll show you the um the electric cars i used to rent uh right here this is a Prius i believe oh this is a new one i would rent the Prius quite often and okay back to the rental cars the most of the cars above uh economy it are hybrids sometimes the difference between the economy and the economy plus is just being hybrid which means you pay less for gas which means that you're probably paying the same amount but i will usually pick the economy plus because Kanae and I loves this Aqua which is i believe that's a hybrid too um or the standard the Prius here is here it is right here the the Prius is a hybrid um is a full EV car and it drives really smooth but the problem with the Prius is that the window in the back is so um narrow it's hard to see back there and i don't like it but it's a pretty nice drive it's a smooth drive except for that back window um i probably would never buy one though there are other better EV cars um full electric cars but that's one of them um Prius is a good one that they have.

36:24 John Daub: I haven't rented from anybody except for oh no that's not true once i think we did Nippon Rent-A-Car but almost all of them were exclusive to Toyota Rent-A-Car uh the Yaris is another um SUV like car there it is this is a sweet looking car i don't know maybe i'll try this one out with but in general though i think it's a pretty good car um you can pick the car and Toyota Rent-A-Car it has a pretty good selection of Toyota only cars if you want to run other ones Nippon Rent-A-Car or Orix are pretty good companies um there's some other ones too uh Honda had their own rent-a-car which is Honda only i just want a nice car that drives smooth and is safe and the thing with Toyota that i've liked is that i feel like they maintain the cars really well and it's usually almost a new car there's nothing older than like two or three years old so i think they just resell it back after it's done being a rental car or it's auctioned off but i've always had really good experiences and i want to be safe and i know that Toyota's cars are well maintained and the people are pretty professional.

37:21 John Daub: And i've had staff there who could speak a little bit of English they even have magnets that you can get um in fact when you get there i know sometimes we want to avoid trying to feel like being a tourist but if you're not getting there you can get one of these magnets that they have that say that you're a foreigner visiting Japan it says like um international visitor or something it's all different it depends on the prefecture you can also get it at the city office at sometimes um when you arrive at the airport you can ask them at the rental car agencies they always have it at the airport it's a magnet that'll attach onto the back it allows other drivers to know that you ain't from around here so other people are more cautious but what i found and when i use it and i am from around here people are friendlier people like you more and they wave and they're curious and they talk to you and that's kind of a good thing so i encourage you to get that um uh for your car just for fun just do it even if you live here in Japan do it it's kind of cool and you can keep one if you're local and just put it on your car anytime and it just i don't know if you're a beginner driver there there are marks that you're going to have to put on there Kanae had hers she still has hers maybe no no she she was promoted last month i believe she had the renewed license but i still think she should have those marks on if you're a senior citizen you need to have a special mark as well on your car so those are some of the things that you should be aware of.

39:05 John Daub: Good questions i let my japanese license expire i let my u.s license expire so now i have to get an international when i go back to the us and rent a car on that that's going to be interesting the reverse culture shock i was really nervous to let my american driver's license expire but i was getting tired of being called in for jury duty even though i told them look i'm not in the country i'm not coming back anytime soon stop inviting me to jury duty and you know my my father would let me know when i got called in and i would have to go online and often call them and say look please man so now i'm not. I think Kanae just came home yeah with Leo so they were out he was sleeping that was another reason why the live stream may or may not have started late they went for a walk uh if you have any questions you can leave them down below um the audio is out of sync i apologize for that we had technical difficulties might be like a second i don't think it's as bad as it used to be i'm still working this out you know youtube studio streams there's more problems than there are with twitch and so i probably will so i'm not sure what's going on with youtube but um it's always going to get better and better and i appreciate just having the platform at all.

40:20 John Daub: Um if you have any questions let me know in the comments below i'm happy to answer them about renting a car but please do take a look at the new video that's out uh the world's coldest barbecue festival in Kitami Hokkaido it's an awesome episode the drone shots you're gonna love it i matched up with the video and i'm going to put the music in the description box below and also i'm going to put up some of the stuff that i've been working on and i'm going to put the music pretty good i spent an extra week on it trying to polish it up and and get people's names and and fix some things and we have even pretty good subtitles in there i don't know if we have indonesian subtitles but oh by the way if you'd like to subtitle these we on the discord server have a subtitle group doing that and chinese too we really could use your help or just contact me through the website onlyinjapango.com has a contact form or the discord server i appreciate that.

41:19 John Daub: I do have a bunch of postcards left this is Osaka and i also have a couple of daimyo packages so if you'd like to join the daimyo package group i will send it out we have taiyaki (fish-shaped waffle) this month which are one of my favorite snacks from a famous maker and mango flavored KitKats and um Japanese Lego Shinkansen train piece which is a series that i'm doing for our daimyo supporters i believe there are two boxes left so if you're interested in joining i'm really happy to have the support thanks everybody i'm already working on the next main channel episode to edit and we'll be doing some more live streams as well hopefully from the road the state of emergency ends at the end of this month in October, and I'll be on the road again, maybe even sooner than that, because I've been invited to film. But I've got a lot of location shoots planned for December, and we'll be getting out what I filmed already for the rest of September. So see you next time, everybody. Have a question on Japan? Yeah, check out the Discord server. Thanks, Nightbot, for that. Check out the Discord server. I might be going for a fireside chat. So if you go to the Discord server, I'll go into the fireside chat and continue this in a second party for the next 10, 15 minutes as well. So see you on Discord.