00:00:02 John Daub: Hello everybody, welcome to Shibuya Station, right in front of the Hachiko Scramble. I'm trying to find the best and strongest signal for you here. Now there's a sign, a billboard right in front of the entrance that says people should stay at home during the weekend and Halloween time. And I'm not here for Halloween, I'm here to walk to Harajuku and take you with me. But again, no drinking, no loud speaking, no close contact with people, even if you're robbing them. What? It looks like a robbery, doesn't it? No loitering. And they know a lot of young people will come here for Halloween.

00:00:44 John Daub: There's Conan telling people to stay at home and watch the online event. What? I've noticed that the Hachiko Scramble here, welcome to Shibuya everybody. They've upped the game. Q-front has added another TV screen up on the top and we see every now and then another video, I guess for Coca-Cola, which is probably going to be doing the New Year's event here. So I know that ad space is so expensive in this area. I've also noticed that these two TVs here have been playing Squid Game. Netflix promoting pretty hard. Squid Game, one of the more popular Halloween costumes.

00:01:20 John Daub: But you can see here, not really much of a Halloween vibe except for this zombie guy who has yet to eat anybody. He just kind of searching his prey, considering who looks the most delicious. Hopefully not me. How you doing everybody? I came this year because I know that there's not going to be any Halloween. It's raining and it's because of the pandemic. They're telling people not to come. So I see almost no Halloween costumes and I know the signal is going to be really bad here.

00:01:54 John Daub: So I'm going to make my way through here and get quickly to Harajuku. They are on some kind of sports team, their brothers or they're here in Halloween costume. I'm not quite sure which. Shibuya. It's always nice to be here, although it's not my favorite place. No costume. I leave that to Leo. He's dressed up as a Jack O' Lantern Draco or something. But you can see here there really isn't any costumes this year, at least not right now. I don't know if tonight people are going to come out, but there's a very strict no drinking policy.

00:02:41 John Daub: And the live streaming cameras here. You can see me live. Actually, if you're looking live at the Hachiko cameras here, you could probably see me waving somewhere. But because the signal is not very strong here, I think it's best just to keep on walking. There's Q-front or there's Shibuya Stream over there and Hikari. Wow, it's so loud here. All right, let's get out of here again. I'm going to do my best to keep the signal strength strong.

00:03:16 John Daub: I noticed that the 5G signal is great for download speeds, but the upload speed is actually slower than 4G. I don't understand how 5G could have slower upload speeds. I guess they haven't built in receiving. Well, it's a lot of people now. For all of you that are worried, almost everybody like 99.9% of the people have masks on, which has kept a lot of people safe and the numbers way down. We've had about 20 people or less a day for a very long time. So Tokyo, the infection rate is really way down. So we really have this under control here and we like to keep it that way.

00:04:00 John Daub: It's about one kilometer, one and a half kilometers, about a mile to walk to Harajuku. And we're going to go past Tower Records and go underneath the bridge. Now there's been a lot of redevelopment in the area. Yeah, the max resolution to 720p on live streams. I've already asked YouTube to fix that or at least to change the encoding so you can get a higher quality stream out of less bandwidth, which they should be able to do.

00:04:35 John Daub: Look at these people taking pictures of, I guess they're fans of this group up here. V6—if they had two more, they would be V8, which would be a copyright infringement. Don't know any of the pop bands. McDonald's has been here forever. Raise your hand if you have done an all-nighter in Shibuya and survived in that McDonald's, trying to wait for the first train. I'm going to cross the street because I know that this side has worse bandwidth. There's a Tower Records right in front of us and that's sort of the way towards Harajuku walking in this direction.

00:05:17 John Daub: You can also go underneath here and cross over to the Miyashita Park Complex, which is what we're going to do. Wow, there's two Pikachus. All right, let's go stalk them. Wow, there's graffiti in here. If I take a Poké Ball and I throw it at them. Look at them holding hands. They're a Poké couple. They're in love. Oh, did you see that?

00:06:10 John Daub: This is Nonbei Yokocho (drunkard alley). This is the area that I'm glad that Shibuya has decided to keep alive. Now these buildings are from the Showa era up here. You can see they're not in the best shape, but to get rid of this would get rid of the identity of what Shibuya was. So they have to keep these around. I know the owner of a couple of the shops having done a couple of NHK shows here. So maybe we'll get some access and get the story. This is the Miyashita Park, the new shopping center. We're going to walk in this direction towards Harajuku instead.

00:06:43 John Daub: You can come out of the back entrance of Shibuya Station from this direction if you want. Hey, John Daub is here. I see WRX Turbo was the first one to chime in and Michael Sassano. Happy Halloween, buddy. It's been a while since I've seen you on here. Been busy with school and stuff. But anyways, how's your day so far? Pretty good. I'm at and about on Halloween. I'm at the end of this. There's a burrito place. I'm going to pick one up for kind of a snack and take her back a regular size burrito. She said don't get her a large. I don't know what that means.

00:07:15 John Daub: Now there's a lot of izakayas (pubs) underneath here. And again, because it's raining, you can see that it's not exactly the best place to eat. The tables are all wet. But underneath here, people are enjoying a Sunday. And that's it. This is more of a Sunday than it is a Halloween day, I think. Because even though Halloween has a party here in Shibuya.

00:07:47 John Daub: Oh my gosh, look at this. This is so awesome. I hope the signal is okay. This is Hachiko Scramble cartoonized, anime-ized, I guess like a drawing. And you can see the jack-o'-lanterns are actually trash bags. And you can see the people picking up the trash, which is good. And the police up there telling people to be good people. I'm not sure. This is just like last year. It's like they've taken last year and put it into a drawing. Hey, I think that those three were at the last party last year. So kind of a neat little Halloween image. There's a QR code if you want to check it out. Just screenshot that and see where that takes you.

00:08:42 John Daub: Because I know where this stream is taking me, Harajuku. So up there on the roof there's a skateboarding area. There's a volleyball court. There's a bunch of stuff that you can do. If you rent it from the city, it's pretty cheap to do that too. I know the signal is not that great in this area, so I'm going to kind of cruise through here now. Destination, Harajuku.

00:09:17 John Daub: So there's another sign here, sign of the times asking people to wear their mask and to smile. Kind of get that vibe. Dan R., thank you. Happy that you're here. Happy to be doing another live stream. The Kickstarter event has about 12 hours to go. We've raised $47,000. We're close to $50,000 in Japanese yen. It's like 5.4 million yen. So we're going to have an amazing fireworks show in Nagano in just a few days. November 3rd is the launch date. We've upgraded. We've added a longer program. I'm pretty excited about that.

00:10:10 John Daub: We're rolling over some of that money to get a star mine and a shakudama (large spherical firework) for the Yamanashi event November 28th. The community has stepped up and contributed to this. So I'm so amazed. There's a link in the description of this video. You can click and support if you catch it within the next 12 hours. The postcard is epic this year! You can add this to your collection from Nagano. I'm sending it from Nagano. This from your college for the New Year. Hours to get one and we're getting closer to 500 supporters which is my sort of goal. One was a thousand but 500 is not bad. There's Kanae, Leo and I right there in the center. Do you see that? Hold on, I'll zoom in and you get a better look right in the center. And I will send this from Nagano in the next few days if you support the fireworks project, which I would greatly appreciate. So would everybody else because each contribution makes the fireworks event longer. We just buy more.

00:11:42 John Daub: All right here we go. Would this be considered a Halloween costume or camouflage? I'm not quite sure but that's pretty cool. Hey Bob Joe, happy Halloween. It's like camouflage I think. Kanae would shaketsu or something. I think it's gonna be pretty expensive but it looks like it's one of these things that you wear when you have money to burn. You have to buy at least one of these things but you might want to buy a lot of them. It's like urban camouflage or botanical garden camouflage, more like it. I like it. I wouldn't wear it. I'd buy it for someone else.

00:12:22 John Daub: I crossed the street for a reason. One, you get a really cool view of what a lot of you haven't seen yet. Miyashita Park, the new shopping mall there. You can see it's got a really futuristic design. It's got kind of these poles overhanging it. So when you look at a distance, it looks like some kind of space tube. But they have also some vegetation. And over the years, I think this ivy or whatever it is is going to crawl over to the other side, which is going to make it kind of feel less like you're in the city and more like you're in a green city.

00:13:03 John Daub: Because you're still in the city. Just do your best. Add greenery here. And I think that they're doing a pretty good job in Shibuya to make it feel like that. No way. They've got the Christmas tree out and there's some sort of event. Check this out. Oh, they're going to fight. Oh yes. You can't fight. Dun dun dun dun. Whoa. Just a typical day in Japan. Am I supposed to do something? This is why you subscribe. Because you just don't know in a live stream what's going to happen.

00:13:47 John Daub: I guess they're doing some kind of talking or something. But the voice is so small on that brown one. This is hilarious. All right. We just, I don't want to spend too much time here unless they decide that they want to get out like a soft samurai sword and battle. There's more adults than children watching. Absolutely. Yuru Chara (mascot characters) are unforgettable. I guess it would cost a lot of money to hire an actor or somebody to do work. But if you create your own Yuru Chara, you get kind of like a character that people don't forget that identifies with your brand. Anybody can be inside there. So it's going to cost a lot less. Whoa. Check it out. A lot less to a pretty freaky looking car. Lifeguard. That's one of the soft drinks here. Kind of like a Mountain Dew. So having a Yuru Chara for anything is a really smart idea. We might need one for Only in Japan.

00:15:17 John Daub: All right, everybody. I'm going to walk up towards Cat Street a little ways. Just the beginning here and then circle back. So I wrap back to the left and Cat Street is this little known alley. A lot of you might know about it. Cat Street will take you to Omotesando and it's certainly not traffic like the road that we were just on. And there's a ton of shops, especially in about 300 meters when you get closer to Harajuku, closer to Omotesando. Hopefully the signal is a little bit stronger because of the more sparse spread out population in this area.

00:16:04 John Daub: The Hachiko Scramble. It's always hard to get a good signal. Just really shocked about how 5G doesn't have a good upload speed. It was like 200 megabits a second down and three megabits a second up. It's like I was shocked at that. Obviously not made for live streamers. So you can see Shibuya is now in the rearview mirror here.

00:16:36 John Daub: You know, I think when all the renovations are complete—because I've been living in Tokyo, you know, for gosh, I moved to Tokyo in 2004. I lived in a place called Futako-Tamagawa. And since then, I've been a Tokyoite. But before that, for the first seven years in Japan, I lived all around the country. And Shibuya was always a fascinating place for the first couple of years. But I just wanted to avoid the crowds. However, they have done an amazing job of renovating it, redeveloping it. So it's more easy to navigate around and a lot less stressful.

00:17:16 John Daub: So you can see skateboarders are not welcome here. Although they still do come. So you can see Cat Street is kind of a cool place. But skateboarders should be here. It really adds to the character of the area, doesn't it? All right, let's go back onto this main street here. You can see the JR train going by. Boom shakalaka. Thank you for supporting the fireworks project. We're getting so close. I'm going to do a live stream tonight, the last 30 minutes of the campaign. To see if we can conjure up enough, like a little bit more support. We get to just one more push. Maybe we can get a couple more shakudamas. That would be pretty sweet. Because that'll make the November 28th event in Yamanashi on the base of Mount Fuji so much cooler. And it's going to be pretty cool because it's the end of November on the base of Mount Fuji. So I would not be surprised if we have some snow.

00:18:29 John Daub: Very little Halloween here. I don't think they're dressed for the season. But on the first floor of a lot of these shops, a lot of these buildings are fancy shops, brands, fashion brands. There's Paul Smith. His shop right here in Tokyo is right between Shibuya and Harajuku. This area is quieter between the two stations. It's more peaceful. But it's also very navigable on foot. So you can get between the two in like 5-10 minutes.

00:19:17 John Daub: I remember when they were doing the underground, the new Fukutoshin Line. This new subway line, the brown one that connects Shibuya with Harajuku. Tokyo Metro now has a competitor to JR's Yamanote Line. I remember when they were doing that for years. 2004, 5, 6, 7. This whole street was under construction and it was just a disaster. And now it's so much nicer. The Fukutoshin Line, not one that I take. I live on the other side of the city. Which is another reason why for those that are wondering, I haven't gotten a chance to see Tokyo Sam again. We still are going to do something together. It's just now he's a morning person and I'm a late night person. So he's really pumping along. Like on a day like today. I think when it rains he doesn't get on his motorcycle. So we have to meet on sunny days. So when I have time, usually there's like a weather thing or something that prevents us. And it's going to be an hour probably of commute for both of us. So that's another reason why it's just hard to meet up. But we're still going to do something here.

00:20:47 John Daub: Alright. From this point, you can start to take some of the alleys. Batman and Fossil. It's a shame though because Batman is just not big here. Japan has its own superheroes. So DC Comics and Marvel Comics, just not quite as big as you'd think. Let's go off road a little bit because some of these alleys have a lot of character to them in the Harajuku Omotesando area. Thank you, Christian Hansen. It is a little chilly. Weather is about somewhere between 16 and 19 degrees Celsius. I have a ball of pants so I could go shorts. But I have the legs on because of the rain. Usually we'll wear shorts until November. One of those weirdos.

00:21:44 John Daub: Look at the graffiti. I mean this area is known for young people. And I guess young people got to leave their mark. Wow, this would make a great office. The rent's got to be astronomical to rent out this warehouse looking place. How much do you think that is? That'd be so cool. The Only in Japan studio. That's got to be. Oh man. You know, theoretically. Let's say I didn't start over and I was cranking out videos. I would have the funds to totally do something like that. Starting over was really hard. It is really hard. It is exciting nonetheless.

00:22:47 John Daub: All right. Let's go this direction until we get lost. Which I kind of am. Let's do it. Studio Kickstarter fund. That's a look at this is what I love about. So there's not a lot of outdoor cafes. It's not like Paris in a way. But there are places that are really stylish and you don't find them in places except for here. Like this area of the city. This side of the city. And as the Showa era buildings get knocked down, more places like this open up.

00:23:24 John Daub: Look at this great burger joint. Great Burger Tokyo Japan. I've never seen this place before. Huge windows. Kind of a Halloween theme inside. You see they're selling pretty good looking burgers in there. Smells like a burger. A lot of shops have closed down. This would be an ideal spot for an office. Wouldn't it? You guys could come and visit me. Knock on the door. I'd be here editing or something. That'd be so cool.

00:24:06 John Daub: Wow. This looks like a barbershop. But it's actually a fashion shop. Unless you... Wait. Can you get a... I guess it is a barbershop. They're selling clothes in there too. Which makes sense. They are cutting hair inside there. That's one awesome vending machine. And there's another restaurant here. What is that there? Cafe. It's hard not to like this area. Quiet. Narrow streets. You find a place. There's a pizza place. Let's take a look and see what the prices are like. A little pricey. Margherita for $15. But I'm sure the rent is astronomical.

00:24:54 John Daub: So on the right side, I see a new bakery. Wow. These did not exist. I haven't walked down this alley in ages. The Little Bakery Tokyo. Yeah, Jotty. That's kind of a ripoff. But the rent is high here. So I think local... There are people who live here. Probably come out here and will buy a pie. $15 for dinner is not that much, actually. They do sell New York pizza by the slice. But one slice of cheese pizza is 900 yen. Like $8 for that. Now that's expensive. A slice of pizza for $9. But I bet it's really good. And it's cheaper than traveling to New York, right? So the fact that you can get like those kinds of items here is pretty amazing. Just it is pricey for what you're getting.

00:26:05 John Daub: But wow, check this out here. All right. I'm gonna take a step back. It's just after lunchtime, but there's still a line. And a lot of these places, they don't need to have big signs. They're known. Except not known to me. So let me see. It looks like there's... This is a noodle place, right? That's the kanji for men (noodles), right? Yeah, that's the kanji for men. I think it's like a... Could be a ramen place. Not sure. I'm just gonna keep moving on. The rain's coming down a little bit stronger.

00:26:44 John Daub: This does look like an English pub. But for real, it is a fashion place. Stuart Lane is what it's called. Oh, here's a post box. So I have something for my buddy Jeff in Philadelphia. Jeff Kennedy. This is the last day to get a postcard and you upgraded. So here's your postcard. It's on the way from Harajuku. Thanks, buddy. Chan wanted to say hi and show his support. Not much room in the trunk. Make sure you get some exercise. I guess kicking the back of the trunk is pretty good exercise. And chickens on biscuits here. Merry Halloween. Indeed.

00:27:39 John Daub: I would love to imagine having enough money to live up there. That'd just be so sweet. I could just go outside and get a burrito every day. Then I'd be twice my size. Start to sumo wrestle. Look, does that bike got a motor? Oh my gosh. Is it a bicycle or a motorcycle? It's so confusing. Coswheel. Do you see this? What is this? It doesn't have a license plate. It's got like motorcycle wheels. It has like something that looks like an engine, right? I guess it's an electric bike. A smart bike. I don't know. It's got a speedometer. It's not a bike, but it looks like a bike. It's even got like a motorcycle looking headlight. Oh man, like just walking around this area. People are so creative and innovative.

00:28:51 John Daub: JPvideos88. I hope you will read all comments of your viewers. Yeah, you know what? I can't look at the screen all the time. I have to also see where I'm walking. So I prioritize those that are supporting. Probably going to get a shout-out because I appreciate it very much. And Lisa O. I will try something new. You know, but a lot of people are talking to each other in the live chat. So my eyes are mostly looking left and right. Making sure that it's not a Q&A, but an experience. Because I'm experiencing it too.

00:29:38 John Daub: All right, this area. I know a little bit better here after rounding the corner. I don't ever remember this shop though. This is Yai Yai? Looks like they have chicken. That looks amazing. Garlic garlic. Horumon (offal). You can smell it. I guess there's some chicken in there too because it smells awesome. And then this is the great thing about walking from Shibuya and just checking out the alleys. Like things are changing all the time. These shops don't stay in business for more than a couple of years. It seems they're always changing but you'll find these alleys and shops available. So next time I walk through here, I bet you there's something there. It's always changing.

00:30:28 John Daub: And you'll see here. What's down there. There's a restaurant down there. So you can walk down into the basement and you have another new restaurant to try. That's another great reason to live in this area because it's always changing and innovating. Oh yeah, I've eaten here before. This ramen is out of sight. Yeah, this is the one they put so much chicken. I guess you can get like karaage (fried chicken) in your ramen. The chashu steak here was out of sight.

00:31:05 John Daub: The hard thing about going into restaurants and eating is when you remove your mask, you're not allowed to talk. So unless I call ahead, it's really hard for me to jump into a shop and make a food stream out of it. I like street food because you can stay outside but very much have to respect the rules of the restaurants and times are changing.

00:31:51 John Daub: Oh my God. This is a little showroom. Look at this. So we've come down this alley. There's a ramen place in orange. I pan around here. There's more alleys with more shops. And then this is just it looks like a little showroom here or gallery. Chance on display until today. It's probably an artist who's rented this out to show off his work. Connick 07. Thank you so much for all your awesome videos and all the. You do and your delightful disposition. I'm quite happy because I know soon I'll have a burrito in hand and I'll be taking one back to Kanae while Leo is still asleep. Hopefully she gets a chance to really chow down on that burrito. We don't get a lot of burritos where we live on the other side of the city. We don't have such a variety of non-Japanese food. Although Jeans is pretty stacked, just different.

00:32:52 John Daub: All right. I'm glad that I came in this direction. This is the corner that a lot of you really know from Condomania, which is right on the corner of the Harajuku intersection here. Jingle my and it's gone and they've taken out all of those old buildings and they're going to redevelop it into something else. I don't know if it'll be a shopping mall or what but you can see construction. Well, it's not going on right now, but it's in place. So there you go. These shops are still here. And if you'll pan around you'll find that walking from Shibuya to Harajuku, this is where the Miyashita Park shopping mall is. We went on Cat Street to this side here, but you can walk straight down this road as well. The Fukutoshin subway line Metro goes underneath here and on the left and the right. There are all of these boutique shops and really cool places that are always changing. But Cat Street and the alleys off of it are extraordinary.

00:34:02 John Daub: Like that kid just dropped his phone. I hate hearing that sound. Those that were wondering where they use clothing places. There was a place called Chicago. I guess they sold out and another used clothing place took its place called Anchor and I don't know if it was Anchor before but this looks pretty pricey. Actually, this is the Ichiran ramen. It's good ramen, but it's chain ramen. So I don't eat it often. By the way, the e-bike you saw earlier is worth a shakudama number 10. Really? Oh, that's an expensive e-bike. I don't know how much e-bikes are. I still get the normal bikes. Yo in Dubai send us some of that rain in Dubai. All right. Here you go. Catch it. It's going to land right on the lens. Rubbed a couple of drops in there. Maybe it'll send digitally to Dubai.

00:35:23 John Daub: All right. This is the intersection here. I mean, it's not raining enough for me to use my umbrella. Camp that Ohio State. I was famous as the one guy. He would never use his umbrella but be holding one. I would walk in the rain and I said it just takes a lot for me to get my umbrella out like a downpour. It always felt good to get wet. And when I got back to my dorm room, I always felt pretty good, energized from being rained on.

00:35:55 John Daub: Oh, there's the burrito place. All right, that's our destination here. So what I want to do—I took you here to the intersection. A couple of my friends told me not to introduce this to you, but up on the roof of the Tokyo Plaza in Harajuku is a secret Starbucks that has a garden up here. So it's one of the nicest places to enjoy a cup of coffee. Although it is a chain coffee and I know a lot of people are against that. It's still an awesome place. You don't have to drink the coffee. I think you just enjoy the park up there.

00:36:34 John Daub: All right. I wanted to take you to the entrance to Cat Street before we ended this live stream. So I'm going to wrap around take you up Omotesando and wrap around back to this intersection and stop. Just a touch of autumn colors, right? Just a touch. Peter writes in here. I was in Tokyo for Halloween 2015, 2016, 2017. It's kind of weird seeing Tokyo and its people not going out. Yeah, I think last year they might have tried to do something for Halloween. I think maybe this is why they're very much cracking down. Last night before I went to bed and I guess around 9 p.m. I did check the Shibuya live cameras to see what the vibe was like. Totally not like it was in the past. I guess when you can't have drinking and you're not allowed to be shouting. There was a huge police presence and they were making sure that people did not get out of hand. I did see some people in costumes, but just wasn't the same.

00:38:02 John Daub: I'm coming here just to see how the TGI Fridays is doing because although I've only been here maybe three four times. I don't want to see this go out of business because it's just sort of a little bit of America in Japan and I want to keep that. So the TGI Fridays is still doing well and maybe I'll bring Kanae and Leo here just before we go to the USA to psych ourselves up. Oil and grease. This has been here for a while, but it's not the first location for TGI Fridays. That would be in Shibuya, I believe just across from Tower Records. There used to be a TGI Fridays there. I wish they bring a Bennigan's here. Did you guys hear the news? Bennigan's was an Irish American chain restaurant that was huge in the 1980s and 90s. I believe it went bankrupt because they didn't change with the times but they've resurrected and come back and Bennigan's is starting to. They have half its locations in international places and they're weird places. Kind of excited because I would love to have a Monte Cristo sandwich. Bennigan's is not in Japan yet, but I'm tempted. You can franchise these. I'm not going to franchise one, but I'm tempted to send an email and say please come to Japan. Just set up one because when the tourists come back then and the price is pretty low right now. I think it's a pretty good opportunity.

00:39:32 John Daub: Whoa. So I love these public messages. If you go outside wash your hands. This is from the city of Tokyo. If you go outside wash your hands and yeah, social distance. Don't talk around with masks off things like this. I love that the city does this. People feel guilty when they see that if they're doing it, you don't have to tell them. Just a little nudge or reminder is enough.

00:40:03 John Daub: I want to show you a Funashi is hanging out with the other Yuru Chara. I'm a pair boy. He's from Chiba Prefecture from Funashi. Like to meet him. I met his cousin Nebaru-kun in Mito few years ago with Jennifer. Probably some of the best live streams or the early ones where we got to meet with Yuru Chara and we did some really crazy stuff live. Nebaru-kun is a natto character and I can't tell this story. I love this story. You have to see this live stream. It's such a classic live stream. The signal was pretty good for this to another testament to the YouTube people that your encoding is so bad. It looks even better from 2017 than it does now. All right, he took the art. We bought him a beer. He took the beer. He reached with his hand that whoever's inside the Yuru Chara could—nobody knows—and brought the beer inside his capsule. And then his eyes turned into stars and the beer came out and it was an empty glass. I couldn't stop for the rest of the night. I was reliving that memory because the stars of his eyes—his eyes turned from normal eyes to stars because he was drunk and we bought him like three beers over the course of the night. He's got to be feeling it. We keep—here's the thing too—at the end of the night we called him a taxi. And he was going to go home. Whoever was in there and his handler who is another guy who's a guy dressed like a woman just awesome and like a carrot like a natto lady or something and he wouldn't get out of his costume. So they couldn't do it but he was a little bit tipsy, but he wouldn't get out of costume. It was probably one of the most fun live streams that we did and the channel was so new there. I think we just had a few thousand subscribers.

00:42:24 John Daub: You can see the Japanese flag here and a lot of that is because today is also an election day. So a lot of people been asking me about this is Omotesando. The Showa is a of Tokyo. Let me but asking me about a travel update. I'm going to wait until the election is over to do that. I think that's good. There's going to be some major announcements and policy changes when the election ends and the government is more solid.

00:43:12 John Daub: Bear misses those autumn colors. Oh gosh, you know you're all coming with me on November 3rd. I've already rented a mini SUV from the Toyota Rent-a-Car Arise and Leo, Kanae and I are coming with. We're leaving very early in the morning on the third and the fourth and on the fifth. I'm going to be showing you some of the amazing autumn colors of Nagano. It's going to be really great because you don't quite get it in Tokyo. It's pretty but it sure is a lot better out in the countryside like fireworks right now. I'm mostly going to be near the Kurobe Dam area, which is so stunning and I want to get some drone shots and some photos of it for another episode. I'm going to be making Japan's got four seasons. Of course, I say that because a lot of the visitors come from Hong Kong and Singapore and Malaysia where there's two seasons wet and dry like in India.

00:44:51 John Daub: I'd like to see a little America in Japan every now and then. Look in the mirror. Look at Leo. All right, we're back here at that intersection. Pretty amazing adventure. Be filming the next 8K walking adventure here too. And I'll see if I can do one at Nagano. I think from Nagano Station to Zenkoji, which is the big temple. That'd be pretty cool walk to do an 8K show you some different areas of Japan in 8K is part of the goal. So Only in Japan Go has uploads now too because I know that the signal strength is not that good and not everybody is in on these long walks and longer format. But for those that are I'm so happy that you're with me and join me on each one of these adventures.

00:46:00 John Daub: So here we made it to Meiji Dori Avenue. And now my final stop is to that burrito place to get Kanae her burrito. It's going to be she like I guess she wanted like pork or something. I'm not sure I'll have to send her a message to check on her. Hey, Craig Porter's here. Here's something to help with the burritos. You got it, buddy. All right, I'm going to upgrade Kanae's burrito to super large. This is going to surprise her and say hey compliments of Craig Porter. Can I get a little bit of cilantro on the side too? She likes that. I appreciate it so much Craig. So there you have it. Oh no, hello. Hi, 81 reminds me about the Burrito Rio. Baby wrapped up in a tortilla blanket. No burrito for Leo, although he is eating and if you check Instagram the stories Kanae made a really special Halloween meal for Leo in his costume his Jack O' Lantern Dracula.

00:47:16 John Daub: Wow, that's an illuminated NFT advertisement. Says all these NFTs coming on all these ads for NFT markets. Now, I did a live stream about it and people were not very excited about NFTs and I don't know what to think about it. That's why I did the live stream and I'm talking to people about that. But seems like this market's not going away. I'm not a cryptocurrency person, but I don't know. I just keep my eyes open on all sorts of emerging stuff. That's what the view looks like from the intersection without the Condomania there. It's still kind of shocking to me, but I really do appreciate you guys sticking around for the end here.

00:47:54 John Daub: Go back and watch Hachiko Scramble in the playback and I'll be on tonight to talk about the final moments of the Kickstarter project. We're like 12 hours away from the end and I think we can get the 500 people. So even if you just give a dollar. I'm going to put your name in the credits of the video, which you can't watch because you have to buy the video, but I'll thank everybody who gives a contribution on social media. So perhaps your name will be in the end of the credits of the live stream or I'll find a way to say thank you to everybody who contributes to this Kickstarter. My goal for this get as many people involved in it. And so when we do have this in just a few nights, you feel a part of it more and you all are. Because you're part of this community and thank you so much for making this happen. The people of Nagano and the community on the side of the Chikuma River there are so appreciative and you're going to see them come out during the live stream. See everybody. Have a good day. Have a good night. Happy Halloween from Harajuku and a very tamed Shibuya. Don't forget to click that like button and subscribe.