00:02 John Daub: Hello everybody, welcome to Tokyo on a beautiful sunny day. Look at that sky, it's all blue. There's not a cloud in the sky here. How you doing everybody? So right behind me is a barbecue place here in Toyosu and it's completely full and it's quite expensive to rent a place to barbecue here on the riverside. But on a day like this, on golden week when everybody has a vacation, it is maybe the perfect time. Just making its way underneath this bridge here is Space Boat, which is awesome. Check that out, we'll get another view in 30 seconds when it goes underneath the bridge here. But I'm going to take you from here all the way to Garuri Park, which is past the new Toyosu fish market and take a look at Tokyo Bay. And I just wanted to share with you one of the most asked questions that I get from viewers. Because you know, I've been living here for 23 years. When is the best time to be in Japan? And the answer is in May. I used to think it was in the summer, but it's just too oppressive. It's just too hot. The humidity just sucks the life out of you. But right now in May, you have that sunshine, you have the longer days, but you don't have that humidity. And you still have some cherry blossoms in some areas of Japan as well. It's just an incredible time. Check this out here. It's just such an incredible time if you get the chance to visit around May 7th or 8th, right after the golden week holiday. But right before the rainy season. This time is the perfect time. And for anybody who is thinking of booking a trip here, that is when you should be focusing. Now this year, of course, it's not going to happen because tourism isn't open. I don't think it's going to open before summer. But if you're thinking about booking a trip for 2023, start looking for hotels. Kelvin also writes in here, October, November is a good time. You know, November is okay. It's a little bit chilly, but you definitely need a jacket. The humidity is gone. October too, it's hit or miss, but it's also a good time. And it's also typhoon season. So I think that October, some days can be really beautiful like today. But I think number one would be now because golden week, there's a reason why they call it golden week, I think. One of the reasons is because you have, look at this, you have just an abundance of sunshine, gold. It's just absolutely beautiful day today. Now my son and my wife are sick today and they're resting at home. My son is now sleeping. So this is my chance to escape, get a chance to get some fresh air and show you around a little bit. You can see, wow, space boat. Hey, Garrett's going pretty good. Space boat is really going slow. It's making a docking right there, that shopping mall called Lala Port in Toyosu. The bridge is up to let space boat go in and then it'll go next to Asakusa, its final destination. But that's a really nice shopping mall too. There's a cinema up there, Forrest Gump restaurant, Bubba Gump Shrimp, I think it's called. It's pretty neat. I'm getting summertime vibes too, because you're starting to smell the charcoal, the barbecue from this place. I might not want to leave here, but I'm about to get on my bicycle and take you on a little bit of a trip past the Toyosu fish market, which replaced Tsukiji market. Making this, I think one of the most beautiful, if you come in here with a family, I don't know if it's so much for tourists, but it's certainly for residents to make this trip. Nothing beats the Toyosu Garuri Park, which is what I'm saying. I think that's a 10% of the city. It's a really nice place to live. I think it's a really nice place to live. I think it's a really nice place to live. All right, let's get moving. So this is my bicycle here, going for a ride. I was actually reading this book. This debuts, I guess, sometime in July with Brad Pitt, and I'm reading it to try to understand what all the big fuss is about. They couldn't call it Shinkansen. They had to call it Bullet Train, I heard, because of copyright stuff. I'm not sure if that's true, but I've got a wireless mic on. I won't be... Hey, John is here. I'm here. Do you want to go? I'm going to go. You need directions. Hey, John. Okay. All right, buddy. I owe you an apology. Apparently, there was a second statue in the park. It's just with all the construction, it's really hard to find, but apparently, John was right, and I was wrong, and I'm okay to admit that. So, Chan, big shout out to you. And by the way, happy birthday to Uncle Jason in Canada, and Auntie Carrie reminded me yesterday. Happy birthday to you, buddy. All right, I'm putting it down. I'm not going to read the chat for a couple of minutes, okay, because I got to focus on the road, but I'm taking you right now. You can still hear me. I'm taking you right now to the Toyosu Go-Duty Park, which is the end of this, and we're going to have an awesome view of Tokyo Bay. Look at how big this brick walkway is.

05:29 John Daub: I was going running here almost every day until about the pandemic hit, and I was suffering from an injury, an IT band soreness. I haven't been back here very often. It's usually an eight or nine K run, 10K run for me. Oh, up there on the left side, do you see that? This is one of the best places for an outdoor restaurant experience in Tokyo. You see those umbrellas out there? You can go outside, eat, have some barbecue. There's not a lot of places like that. Hey, brad, Johnny is in the house. How you doing? All right on the right side here that's the old Olympic village where that tall structure is on the right side the athletes used to be there and now they're not now apparently people are going to move in there but there's nobody there it's still kind of closed down I think it was Harumi Futo. There's a park at the end that's still closed which is a big shame because I wanted to take you there today but that was plan B. This is always going to be plan B because it's just awesome for me and I guess for you if the signal's good you do have some people fishing here and I believe you need a permit to do that which you can attain at the convenience store which is pretty awesome you go to a law center 11 and get a fishing license you just have to pay a little bit of money that's what I've heard I can't confirm that you have to google it for exact information but at least that's what it was about 10 years ago when I last asked about it. So the weather is about 78, 80 degrees, it feels much warmer in the sunshine humidity is really nice and low very light breeze can smell the sea. And then I'm going to be going up now on the left side you're starting to see, thank you Night Bot for showing the temperature 78 or 26 degrees Celsius. It's not all about it. I've been here almost 24 hours already so that means I've got the you can see Toyosu fish market let's go up here get a better view of a Rainbow Bridge I came here a while ago and took you up there and during the Olympics they had a live camera from this point pointing over to this area which is the Olympic village like looks like they're doing some renovation on the buildings the green tarp there it's interesting team China took this entire building I think and the roof of the Toyo fish market here has a like a green garden it's part of the sustainability of Tokyo being able to I don't know it keeps the building cool in the summer it's not really camping a lot of people will during the daytime bring small tents for shelter and they take it away you can buy them at IKEA or IKEA as we say in Japanese you can get them at IKEA for like 15, 20 we have one just kind of rolls out into a tent and I also have a tent which you already know we're almost there I think we're about one minute away wow Rainbow Bridge is getting bigger I thought about going to Daiba but it's really there you can see some people with tents there they don't spend the night they're just sheltering for the day with a six pack of beer or cola or whatever they got iced tea would be good at this point here we come to a clearing once we pass this jogger and there are loads of picnic tables that you can enjoy a bento or I think Kanai and I were here last year or two years ago this one's called Tokyo Toyosu Gururi Park that's the name of this park the barbecue place an outdoor cafe which is closed for golden week but there's still going to be a lot of people out here and my favorite point my second favorite point besides the one we're développement fancied today a few years ago is right here right here this is sort of a new type of parkClip park it's been around for a while now now these coverings weren't here before but this is also a BBQ Milky place where you have to pay for a set barbecue BBQ set bar with barbecue I think it's like like 10,000 yen. It's quite expensive, maybe about $80 a person or something. But like, you don't have a lot of time to barbecue at other places and to rent a car and to drive out, it's quite expensive. So it still works out cheaper to barbecue here in this point. And how can you complain about the view? You can't. This is just as good of a view as anything that you can get anywhere else nearby, unless you want to be in the woods. But then you got to battle the mosquitoes, right? Jeff, the weather in July is rainy in the first half. I'd say till about the 20th of July, then it's just oppressively humid. It's like a sauna. It just sucks the energy out of you. And this is why I lobbied hard not to have the Olympics at this time, but they did it anyways. That's a park right there that is closed down still, which is a shame. And I think you can just see Tokyo Tower. Yeah. You see it right there in the center of your city. You see that little red color screen coming in there? That's Tokyo Tower. I believe it is. Yeah. It's not a good view because that building's in the way. But at night it lights up and you have a really nice view. I think that's Tokyo Tower. 330 meters high. Yeah. King Boba TV. I'll take some of your questions here before I walk around a little bit more this area. I like October, November weather in Japan, right? I think there's, you know, there's a lot of different things going on. You know, November is really good because the leaves will change. The reason why I think May is good because you get more days of less humidity and more days of sunshine and you still got the longer days because, you know, we all know June 20th is the longest day of the year, right? That's the summer solstice where we got the most sunshine. So you want to take advantage of that. So May is really close to it. So we get longer days than we would get in October, November. That's definitely a plus. And then the humidity is down. You can wear shorts. It's comfortable. You could go to the beach. Maybe the water's still a little bit cool, but you can get a little bit. If you go up north, this is May is the best time for Tokyo and Osaka, the middle of Japan. But if you're going up to Tohoku or Hokkaido, the cherry blossoms are still blooming in May. So you can jump on a flight, go up to Sapporo. And right now is the best time for cherry blossoms in Sapporo. So you can catch that, fly back to Tokyo. And enjoy this gorgeous weather. Ando1135, thanks for being a member for two years. I think you just changed colors too. Congratulations. And I see Michael Sassano is here. So glad I caught a live stream. I agree. May is a great time to visit. I was in Japan in May 2019 and the weather was great. Find a nice snack to take home for Leo. Thank you. I will. I will when I get back. I'm going to ride past that shopping mall and jump in there and get some something for those guys because Leo is still, they're both coughing really bad. And because I'm editing a lot of videos, I'm sleeping in the living room, which is probably the smartest thing. But I've been able to stay fairly healthy. Although I feel like, feel pretty sick sometimes, but it goes away pretty quick. Maybe it's the vitamin D and I'm eating better a little bit now. Trying to get more sleep maybe. I don't, I don't know. Let's go to the vending machine. Michael, let's put that good to good use. Some good questions here. Yeah. There's a lot of reasons why not to come in, in, in, end of July and the beginning of August. But there's so many good reasons too, because it is the high tourism season. There's a lot more attractions. There's more outdoor activities at this time, which means, I don't know. And you know what, if you're going to the beach, you want to come in July and August. But for some reason, once September 1st hits, Japan shuts down the beaches. I don't understand. I mean, even the weather's warm and it's like 35 degrees Celsius, which is what, near 100. They're still closed, close the beaches because it's September 1st and that's just the rules. That's what they do. Fungus USMC writes in here, avoid Japan's July to September. It's a jungle, it's jungle season. It is. Yeah, I would say September 1st, for some reason, the humidity starts to die down fast. It's like, it's like the calendar and the seasons and nature are working in sync in Japan. I don't know what it is, but the humidity starts to really die down September 1st. I don't know, between September 1st and September 10th, it's just you can tell, you can start to smell fall in the air, but the weather stays pretty nice. That's my second favorite time. I'd say that the September, I don't know, September 5th to September 15th, I would say is a really nice time. But this is also typhoon season. So the great thing about May is that you avoid typhoon season and this could be wreak havoc on your travel plans because if a typhoon is coming in, almost all flights are delayed or canceled based on the strength of the typhoon. Kansai Airport is on the water, so there's a higher chance that that's going to be canceled compared to Narita. But I know that when typhoon season hits, there's a lot of flights that end up being canceled or delayed or suspended. So that's a good thing. And just come back the next day type of deals. So it's September, October, November, August, September, October, and maybe the first week of November are typhoon season. But actually there are typhoons brewing right now. Typhoon season is from June to November. Yeah, we don't get too many in June. Most of them will come, and that's not fair. We do get some, but most of them will come around the middle of July. They start to hit hard because that's when the oceans are really warm up here. Let's see here. I've read a few travel blogs from people visiting Japan, and they found early November is the best time to go. Chris Jones, what was the reason for those bloggers saying that? Why did they say early November was the best time to go? Early November is okay, but once you get to November 15th, the domestic travel season is ridiculous. I was trying to book a hotel. I was working with DR, which is a Denmark radio, which is a TV station in Denmark, and was doing something called, you know, I was fixing a location shoot for a show called So Effing Special. You got to hand it to Denmark. It was a wonderful, wonderful crew of people. I was their, I guess, translator, and I set up all the hotels and everything. They came really late. They decided to come like six weeks before the holiday, and I had to book this stuff, but everything was so book solid, and they had a pretty, I don't know, medium-sized budget, maybe small budget. Trying to find a hotel was extremely hard because everyone wanted to see the autumn leaves and had made reservations six months in advance because you know when the autumn leaves are going to change because it's seasonal and it's almost on the mark. Like November 15th to 25th in Kyoto is book solid. You can't find a hotel. It's a beautiful time of the year, though. When you come during the autumn, you're going to be like, oh, I'm going to be like, oh, this is the autumn. The changing of the leaves. Japan and the temples and the shrines and the countryside. It's absolutely spectacular time to be here in Japan. This country's blessed with four wonderful seasons, which keeps life interesting every month. There's something amazing and new, not just with the food, but the weather and the scenery and the events and the festivals. There's so many things here that make Japan wonderful. Nick writes in here, Japan is still closed to tourists, but if you have a job or spouse in Japan or family, you can go and get a visa. Right. That's true right now. It's a soft opening, I believe they call. Jeff writes in here, might cancel his trip in July if it's too humid. I wouldn't cancel your trip just for that. If you've never been to Japan, come in the summer and experience it. And then you can either agree with me or disagree, because some people might like it. Some people might like it. I didn't mind it when I first came here in 98. But the older I get, the less I like the oppressive heat. You sweat it out. I find I get in pretty good shape pretty quick. Remove all the toxins. These are some pretty good questions. I experienced summer in Kyoto. It was fine. Yeah, Aussie and Asian, that's a fine time. Oliver's cheering me on. Thank you, Oliver. And Ando is here. We'll be there for the jet in July. If you're going to be living here, any time of the year is a good time to come, because you're going to be here for the whole year. Might as well come in summer and get it out of the way. The days are longer. There's not a lot to complain about, except for the heat and all of the tourists. But we don't have the tourism problem. We just have the heat. It's oppressive. John Wright is in here. It also depends on what you like. Typhoon season is good for surfing in Japan. If you want to climb Mount Fuji, that is only open in summer. That's debatable. I don't know if they close it, the course. But I've heard that you can climb it in the off season. You might need to get some permits, but that might be worth it for you. I've climbed Mount Fuji. If you're going to climb Mount Fuji, this is my advice for you. Do it in the first four days of July, when the course first opens. There's not as many people. Once July 10 comes around, it just becomes like a Disneyland line, meaning it's like just a complete line from the start to the summit. It's like a line of people. You're waiting in line. It was a lot better 20 years ago. It was such a big tourist attraction. I'd say before the pandemic, it didn't seem like a lot of fun to me. The personality of a brick wall. Imagine spending a few thousand, setting up a business just to circumvent tourism bans. I know. But, look, I have to give a shout out to one of the supporters of the Kickstarter project. He was an amazing guy. He was going to make a trip to Japan but he used that budget to buy a massive fireworks event. Yeah, about $5,000. You know, if you've got a budget and you've been waiting to come to Japan and this is your main destination, maybe that is something that you could do. I don't know. Get a work visa to invest your money and then you can get into the country. There's some advantages to doing that. One, there aren't really a lot of people here right now. I mean, typically this is Golden Week. This whole area would be full of people but it's not. Just my foot. Chris writes in here, how far in advance should one typically start booking things like hotels, activities, rail pass? You know, gosh, it's hard to say. I'll tell you this, if you want to be safe, six months in advance. But three months in advance, there's still, you know, there's still some pickings. If you get into about two months to six weeks out, you're going to be in a lot of trouble. You're going to be in a lot of trouble. If you get into about two months to six weeks out, you might get lucky and anything less than that, I don't know. It's all, I'm sure you'll find something. But if there's a certain particular place that you want that's popular, like Ginza Onsen in the winter for example, six months in advance. Sometimes a year if you know what you're going to be doing. I don't know what I'm doing in a year. So I rarely will do that. But in 1998 when I moved here, I was making flights. I only got certain holiday periods off to travel internationally. So the first trip I went to was to Bangkok for New Year's, 1998, 1999. And I booked that trip in July of 98 and the flight was $1,000 which was really expensive at the time. But I got a seat. Another friend wanted to join me, another English teacher at the time, couldn't get a seat on the flight. They had to come four days later, when the flights and could only stay for a couple of days but the flight was a slightly cheaper but if you don't book in advance for peak seasons you're gonna miss out on the good stuff but if you don't mind staying at a hotel that's maybe you know 15, 20 minutes away or you a taxi ride away you can probably wing it but you're not gonna stay and you're not gonna get a chance to experience like staying in popular places or eating at popular restaurants that all requires advanced planning and advanced notice I know sushi Saito some of the when I went to go eat there with a couple of friends of mine reservations were six months in advance for that place I remember we were we were we paid and we're leaving and he got a phone call and he was booking a meal for five months in advance it's like November it's just June right you know it's like that's the way it is and he got a reservation so for $300 to start a dinner and you know per person it's pretty crazy. I can I just wrote in that Leo woke up so I only got a couple of minutes that's got a support support can I all right let me put the bag here and then we can go for a little bit of a walk we don't have anything special for Children's Day just survival because it's so so crowded and everyone's sick in the family and it's so nice to be back home in the middle of the night and I'm just like oh man that is good tea nice and cool tea you doing makes the best tea all right let's just take a quick look see around the corner here and I'm gonna get on the bike and make my way back maybe take some questions around the Toyosu fish market you can go around here in fact these picnic tables you you don't I don't believe you have to buy anything most of the day most of the time of year you can just come here with your family bring a bento from that shopping mall that I opened this live stream with and and enjoy but you can walk around here and eventually it'll take you to Odaiba that's Odaiba right there that's the Venus Fort shopping mall right there and that's the Fuji TV building you cannot smell fish the fish is indoors locked there's no smell of fish out here it's incredible that's the reason why they built the new Toyosu market for sanitation reasons and there's no ninja rats here it's a problem at the old place there's a Daiba park I'll try to take you there too if the weather holds over the next week Daiba park was an old gun turret I believe for World War one or they built it after the history is a little sketchy I can't quite remember it but I think when the black ship came in they built that turret to try to deter you see it right there the green area under the bridge of course there's no guns there now but it's a historical park I gotta start slowly making my way back home yeah Gundam is there or Gundam however you pronounce it I don't watch it mobile suit Gundam Gundam Gundam all right let's get on the bike and and go back so this is Toyosu Gururi Park my favorite point to come here bring a book bring a bento relax for a couple of hours and ride back it's about a 20 minute bike ride home all right off we go all right I'm not going to be able to see the screen for the next couple of minutes so enjoy the ride the Olympic Village on the left and the Toyosu fish market on the right it's all indoors sanitary clean too clean maybe is that possible there's still buildings check it out a bunch of construction don't know there's so much stuff going on here maybe they got the right prices written here hold on a second this is Kotoku the Koto part of the one of Tokyo's 23 wards they don't have the prices here but I'm pretty sure it's about eight to ten thousand yen per person because Kanai's uh family and I we rented uh got a place for a barbecue and I believe we paid quite a bit of money for the set course menu the good thing about that is that you don't have to bring anything and you don't have to clean up they do all that for you would I recommend Yomiuri Land for kids I guess so ask me in a year the problem is that Leo is too young to really enjoy anything he's just one we want to take him to Tokyo Disneyland but we know he's just gonna cry when he sees Goofy run away which is weird because he doesn't cry when he sees Melon Kuma I bought him the Melon Kuma doll and he adores it he makes zombie sounds when he chases after me so I'm guessing maybe I don't give him enough credit I was looking at the screen I saw REO raining in it Jason happy birthday again buddy Jason's got a little Leo versus man and Kuma it's a shame oh check this out boom look at that Tokyo Skytree right there what a beautiful view with this um sunshine coming through wow I got that episode coming I actually had to go back there three times to film I've only I've done one sorry one of the three so in order to finish this episode I got to go back two more times waiting for the approval for the permits I've already filmed one one part of the episode in the basement gosh it sometimes just takes a lot of time I'm going back to Hokkaido to see Melon Kuma in a few weeks so I was hoping that that can I and Leo could come but it's not going to be possible so it'll just be me for a week up there I'll be back in Nemuro to film the Hanasaki line which is a the the citizens of Nemuro this the easternmost city in Japan up there in Hokkaido they are are self-funding their own train with uh crowdfunding to keep the JR Hanasaki line going because they want their kids to be able to enjoy a train line they don't want it to go away but the population has been decreasing so I'm going over there to cover that train line because it's just something special I think this hotel on the right side just opened up um I think it was after the Olympics or before the Olympics I think it's a one of the airlines right next to the Toyosu fish market I think they I think the Toyosu fish market just opened up tours to see the Maguro tuna auction again it was something that you couldn't do during the coveted era for for a very long time I believe they they opened it up again so but you can't go out go down onto the floor I believe but I haven't asked for a permit to film in there yet it's called the La Vista I thought it was I thought they were building a jowl hotel here I don't think a lot of tourists make their way here you might go to the fish market in the morning eat your fish sushi die and then go back to the city but I'm telling you stick around here for a few hours just walk along here get a vibe for the city of Tokyo you'll go check out my favorite point at sunset this is the place to be wow do you get a sunset that's so beautiful you can have dinner at the Sitabria which is great from spring to fall I think it's open in the winter yeah it is open in the winter too on most days you can sip a beer right here on the on the balcony of the balcony but the top up there get some music pumping now feels like summer you know what I can come up here for a second let's just take a quick look see there's a sign that says strictly no skateboarding this is May in Japan the best time to be visiting the country hold on I'm gonna park my bike all right just come up here wow what's going on here oh wow so pizza is 13 bucks or uh 1300 yen I guess that's more like 11 now it's not too bad barbecue uh pork back ribs 400 grams for 2,000 that's pretty cheap fish and chips for for 10 bucks what are the drinks like here how much is a beer Heartland I don't like Heartland 700 yen well they got pictures Coronas are 700 yen about five bucks now with the exchange rate check it out I'm shocked that it's so empty actually I'm shocked I think you could just go up and get your food if there's an open uh restaurant like a cafeteria style maybe 1300 yen is literally 9.99 really that's too perfect there's my bike right there for now anyways because that bike might become a baby bike I gotta get a new bicycle I had to get one of those bikes where the kid could sit in the front seat and I could just see Leo's face all business as I ride around the city with Leo in the front that'll be a lot of fun all right let's get back on the bike here I'm taking you on this before um this trip here if you go around there's a I don't think I'm gonna go up there again but there's a um I'll take it to just about where the shopping mall is if you go around here and once again no strictly no skateboarding so last time I came here um and saw skateboarders was about three years ago when I came with a friend of mine Joe Hatab who's a really amazing YouTuber I think he's got near 10 million subscribers now we went inside the fish market we said we had permits and stuff I don't think we did we didn't he was able to film in there though they let us in but we saw a bunch of skateboarders and they got busted for a skateboarding they couldn't understand why I guess you have to follow the rules in Japan they were tourists yeah from Chicago here visiting for some skateboarding event all right there's the Lala Port skateboarding is not a crime it's true except in this area they'll find you yeah nothing about rollerblading because that's so far out of style or the kids that have uh is that a comoron you see there's a bird flying in the middle I think it's a comorant does they just dive down and start swimming underwater I thought they were ducks that they're not yeah no some of the kids have wheels in their shoes I wonder if that's illegal I think it's just skateboarding because they they do tricks and stuff on the sides of things that damages uh property so they say wow I could smell the barbecue on the right side is like a um uh sample home village you can see what Japanese homes are like it's kind of neat took you in there last time and we're gonna wrap around here oh wow there's a lot of people I think there's some street food there right above me on this wall was where there was an old gas refinery oil refinery before they put in the Fish Market that was polluted but they fudged they faked their uh environmental reports and then Mayor Queen came in and out that they had it was still polluted and she suspended the Toyosu market move from Tsukiji created so much problem but it was a smart thing to do and the honest thing to do I think that might have gotten her re-elected just based on can we trust her yeah she's certainly not without her uh imperfections but there's no politician that is just like flawless right now all right there's the shopping mall right there they got a food court I've already been in there a few times it's a fun place to go um there's big sales now because for the golden week holiday and the drawbridge is up over there on the left side can Tokai trust her yeah you know I think comparatively I don't think there's any other politician that could do better maybe right now for the city of Tokyo go shopping not night golden week yeah maybe not some really good questions everybody I'm glad that you asked it we got a chance to talk about when is the best time to visit Japan and again I still think yeah people can disagree with me but for me it's um it's always going to be the May 10th about May 8th to May 20th about where the golden week holiday is finished the weather spring has has sprung you got sunny days most of the time check that out very low humidity long days there's no typhoons the days are longer because we're close to the summer solstice I like I you know you can argue this all but it's my channel I say it and we're right I think that I think it is the best time um but you might like summer everybody likes something else for skiers they're gonna say winter right so if you like the fall foliage you're gonna say fall if you like cooler weather I'm a I'm a hot weather guy so I'm gonna say this time to all the way till September October I'm just glad another thing that I kind of I kind of get sad is because I know once it starts I know it's going to end one day so I start to get a little bit pessimistic it's a little bit sad because I already know this is not going to last because I've been on earth too long maybe I peaked I know that it's going to be it's going to be cold soon winter but it's okay because we have Okinawa Japan has it all in the islands Next week I'll be back in Shizuoka to film the matcha harvest. I'm going to film them making matcha. And then after that I go up to Hokkaido at the last week of May, which is going to be pretty awesome. And I'll probably do a couple of trips in between. So Only in Japan Go, this channel, is going to be traveling a lot. It just happens to be right now with the holiday weekend. Holiday week I'm going to be here in Tokyo. For the next three days at least I'll take you to some of the areas. You know what? If we can get to 500 likes, I would show you the food up there. Do you see those food trucks? I'd show you that. But we're not even close to 500 likes. So I'll tell you what. I'll ride down to the corner here. And then if we got it, we got it, right? So by the time I stop, if we got 500, I'll show you the food trucks. It's a little highway bride. It's a little library here. Oh, it's a crowded area. Let me get my mask on. Hold on. I think most people wear masks just because they don't want to be judged. It's one of those people that don't wear a mask. It's different in Japan. Being judged is hard, man. You don't want to be one of those people. You want to be a conformer. I'll conform. Social pressure, something like that. If everybody has one, it works, I guess. Even outside where you don't really need it. But... I hope everybody gets in a vitamin D and some sunshine. Alright, we're still 150 likes away. Come on. Click like. Wow, there's a lot of food trucks. There's a blue bottle coffee food truck. What? It's like that parking spot was made for me. Alright, let's go see what they got. Wait, let me check. 360? Really? Oh, come on. We can totally get to 500. Come on. Do it because it makes everybody happy. Conform! Wait, don't conform. Actually, by not clicking like, you're not conforming because nobody else is doing it. Oh my god, they're singing Zippity Doo Dah. What? Alright, there's a little bit of a convention here. Let me see what that blue bottle is. What? That monkey's in catty, though. I can't like twice. Like, right. It'll cancel it out. What? That's a blue bottle coffee shop, right? Weird. I've never seen a blue bottle truck before. I've never had blue bottle coffee before, so it's interesting. Oh, this brings back bad memories of a Canadian food that I ate here called poutine. It was the worst poutine I've ever had in the history. I think you can't call it poutine because it was so bad. Hello. Hey, how are you doing? Good. I'm actually live streaming. I went to people here. Nice day, huh? Yeah, beautiful. Yeah. I saw you on Instagram. I saw you in this area. Oh, cool. Yeah. I was eating freshness burger. Oh, really? I was in the food court, yeah? Yeah, we brought it outside, me. Yeah. My wife just took the trash inside. It's too nice to stay inside. So just kind of taking people around here. Have you been to the park at the end here? Yeah. So you'll see Gurudis real nice. Just sit underneath the bridge down there from the shade. Have you been to the Sitabria restaurant there, the barbecue zone? Yeah, last. Last summer, like around the time of the Olympic two-ball game. Oh, right. Yeah. I went over there. Yeah. Had dinner. Nice. Are they open back up now? Yeah. It's half crowded. I'm surprised. I thought on a day like this, it would be packed, but. This is interesting. What is that? It's got a robot. What? A robot selling flowers. I know. How does it say upright? Yeah. Bizarre. A little bit like a Sega. Yeah. Got a little bit of a Sega. I guess it has a sensor on it or something. Leah would like that. Maybe chasing it in a circle. You live here in Toyosu? No, we live in Kiyomi. Okay. Yeah. One stop on the Yurakucho line. Is it Yurakucho? Yeah. Actually, it's not on the Yurakucho line. What was it? I can't remember. The Tozai line or Yurakucho? Well, it's on the Keio line. Oh, the Keio line. Okay. Yeah. We'll either go to like Shio or, I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. Tatsumi or Shinkiba. Okay. To get on the Yurakucho line. Right. Oh, very cool. Yeah. We've been watching you for a while. We just moved here last January, January of 21, but we had like kept in touch with Japan by watching your videos. Oh, great. Yeah. So, you moved in at the hardest time to travel. It was a tough time, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I get the feeling that everything's going to open up in a couple of months. Yeah. I think so. I think they need to. All right. Well, it's nice to meet you. I got to take the people here in the area. Yeah. Thanks for saying hi. So, I wanted to see this food truck here. So, this is a bánh mì, which is a Vietnamese sandwich. This is a Saigon ham pâté, number one. Really? I'm not really a pâté kind of guy, but Vietnamese chicken curry. Honey. Honey lemon. Whoa. That looks pretty good. And the cranky pork. What is that? Yeah, bánh mì are so good. You know, Vietnam used to be a colony of France, and some of that culture stayed behind. And these sandwiches making the fresh bread in Vietnam, that's something. Oh, it tells you Uri Kiri. It means it's sold out. All right. You know what? See you. Brandania. Thanks. Let's get a sandwich. I'm going to get a sandwich. Compliments of Brandania here. Oh my gosh, I only got 10,000 yen. That's not going to work. 650. Chicken curry, please. Chicken curry, honey lemon, glass of chicken. No Vietnamese chicken curry? No. Oh, Uri Kiri? Honey lemon. Honey lemon. Oh, I see. Then, this, please. It's okay. It's okay. It's 650 yen. Is the Pepsi okay? Yes. Honey lemon. I said it's on the menu. It's chicken curry, but it's something else here. It's a change to honey lemon. So 650 is like five bucks at the exchange rate. What a view. Daniel doesn't like these sandwiches. Sorry, Daniel. I guess it's hit or miss. There might be some good ones and some bad ones. I think if you're in Vietnam, it's easy to get riced out, meaning you're eating rice with a lot of meals. It's nice to have options, I think. But these days, everything is so global. You can find all sorts of different kinds of cuisine now in the big cities all over the world. But 20 years ago, it wasn't quite like that when I was there in Saigon and Hanoi in 2000, 22 years ago. It's a little bit different, kind of the vibe here. Yeah, there is some sort of a robot that goes by here. You saw it on a little Segway from the flower truck, I think. I left my bag in the bicycle basket. I'm sure it'll still be there. Fingers crossed. There is crime in Japan. Don't think that everything is going to be safe. But I left my bag in my basket. I should get back. They're not making my sandwich here. That's right. This month's postcard club is the green tea plantation that I just visited. I just ordered the postcards. It's really nice. The beautiful landscape of the green tea plantation up on a hill. It's really nice. It's a little bit like a It's so much green. You're going to love this one. Like green and yellow, the color of the new leaves on the trees around the area. We have perfect blue sky right now. So the other one was an Italian truck. Hold on a second. This had this had some pretty good stuff, too. A lot of it is sold out. There's a brick oven pizza truck that I had a couple of weeks ago. That was incredible. He is. He travels on the in the back of the truck. He's got a truck with with fresh logs to use for to burn for a fire. It's awesome. I know you're just. I have to say. I'm asked. Alright. Hopefully this will erase the memory of the what was it? The poutine from Canada, which destroyed me. It was a heartbreak. I'm going to go back to my bicycle to get my tea. 50 to go to 500. I'm going to go to 500. It pays to stick around. It's a blue bottle coffee truck. A lot of families out. Is this shame? Because Leo just started Holy Grand, which is a Japanese preschool. He's been sick nonstop. Three times he caught a virus back to back to back and he's just starting to feel. Okay. He's got a nagging cough, which he gave to Kanai, which is not good. So they're going to be happy. I'll try to get something in the shopping mall for them. I'll bring it back. Thanks, guys, for the. Here's the gifts for that. I'm just not a big fan of these monkey shows. You know, tonight, the video's finished, so tonight I'm gonna release that video on the monkey park. It's been sitting there for like a month and a half, but he's got a monkey in captivity, and I just don't like those shows, I don't know. I'm sure the monkey is, it's a working monkey, I guess. It can feel kinda bad for the monkey. Alright, let me grab my tea here. Bag is still here, only in Japan. Alright, we'll go here to the court. Oh, oh no! I dropped my sandwich. The bag was open on the other side, I thought it was closed. Oh! Oh my gosh. I kinda saved half of it. It didn't tell me it was an open-ended bag. I gotta clean that up. Alright, you know what? I can still eat this. Three second, five second rule, that was a three second rule. I gotta clean that up. Oh my gosh. Mike Chan, it's not a five second rule, it's a five minute rule. Maybe where you live. This is so good, too. Shoot! Oh man, this is so good. I'm gonna go clean it up in a second. It's very good. The pak choi, or cilantro, that's something they use a lot in these sandwiches. It's so good. Thai, Vietnam, Southeast Asia, oh man. Cilantro is just such a fresh herb. I think I'll live. Alright, thanks everybody for watching. I'm gonna finish this sandwich, and then I'll go eat. I'm gonna take it there. We almost got the 500 likes, and that's pretty good. I gotta get back. I gotta clean this up here. Man. So there you go, this is the shopping mall. In conclusion, May. Come to Japan in May. Took me 65 minutes to do a live stream on when the best time to come to Japan is. Oh, there's the bubble gum shrimp in the middle of your screen. And I wanted to go there. David, I got half a sandwich. It's mostly bread now. It's still, that's okay. Alright, thanks everybody. I gotta go back to Leo and Kanai need me, and I wanna get them something to eat from here. So I'll see you again tomorrow probably for another live stream. Oh, one hand. Gotta turn around. Thanks everybody for watching. I'll see you in another live stream probably tomorrow, because I guess it's technically the last day of Golden Week here. I guess May 8th is technically the last day, but for more or less tomorrow is a Friday, then the weekend. So. See you tomorrow everybody. I'm not trying to enjoy this sandwich one handed. I can't. Oh, now the entertainment starts.