00:00:01 John Daub: Hello everybody, welcome to Tokyo in this episode. I'm going to be talking about flights to Japan, booking them in May of 2022 after the announcement that you are maybe allowed to come here as a tourist starting next month. Is that the case and what's going on?

00:00:30 John Daub: One of the most asked about questions that I'm getting on Instagram and social media, people are direct messaging me like crazy right now, and I have no way to really answer them all. What do I do about transferring between Haneda and Narita Airport? Can I stop over in Japan? Can I travel inside of Japan for just 24 hours? Do I need a visa? These are so many questions that are just flooding in as a result of Japan announcing that they're going to gradually open up tourism to Japan.

00:01:00 John Daub: So I'm going to break it down, the best that I can at this time. And next week after I get some more information, I will do another travel update on this channel. This stuff is just kind of breaking and evolving, which is another reason why I have not done a very thorough video. Somebody asked me, John, could you please do a more concise video on the entry process into Japan? And the answer is, nobody really knows what exactly the policies are.

00:01:30 John Daub: So when you're booking your trip to Japan, please take caution. Number one, if you book with Expedia.com or Travelocity, one of these third party sites, please keep in mind that if the situation changes, the airlines are not responsible for your tickets. They are. So I highly recommend that you do not use third party applications unless you can guarantee that they're going to take care of you the same as the airline would.

00:02:00 John Daub: Now, in this day and age, I have not seen too many prices that are more expensive by booking directly from the airlines, and I have not seen any advantages booking with a third party site because the airlines have become very competitive. I always book directly. You don't want to know why? Because during the pandemic, they're going to take care of you a lot better than the third party booking sites.

00:02:30 John Daub: And unless you can get a guarantee in writing or you pay for a fare that allows you to have a refund, a lot of you that are booked through a third party agency are not going to be able to get the same benefits as those that book directly with the airlines. ANA and JAL have been wonderful. They're very careful with refunding tickets through the pandemic and understanding the situation.

00:03:00 John Daub: If you have a difficulty in coming into Japan for some reason, they're the ones ultimately in charge of you once you get on that flight. So they're not allowed to report you. I don't think if you can enter into Japan, it just causes a massive amount of problems. So you might not know until you get to the airport, which is why if you book with a third party agency, call the airlines directly. Call your third party agency directly. Get that information.

00:03:30 John Daub: If the airlines, one viewer wrote into me that the airline told them that they weren't responsible. I don't know what airline you're flying. It sounds like an American carrier. But the airlines are directly responsible once you get on their flight for you when you get into Japan. They have to know the rules. And if they don't, that's a problem.

00:04:00 John Daub: If you're flying and transferring from Haneda to Narita or you're flying to Narita and you need to transfer through Haneda, don't do that yet. Please make sure before you pay for a fare, you have to know the rules. And if you don't, you can't do this. All right? Just make sure that you can. I know a lot of you booked this in anticipation that Japan would be open.

00:04:30 John Daub: And I've been, that's not, that guy's pretty good. I bet you the police bust him. The police bust him in about five minutes. So let's sort of enjoy this guy. Maybe we'll give him a couple of bucks. Encourage street music here.

00:05:00 John Daub: King Wong writes in here, John, I just booked my air tickets like five minutes ago. I booked directly with JAL. See you in November. Buddy, that's awesome, King. And I just put your postcard in the mail to Singapore. Buddy, it's on the way. That's exciting.

00:05:30 John Daub: Here's this month's postcard, the green tea harvest of Shizuoka. And they've gone out to everybody except for those in Finland. Unfortunately, due to the war, Finland is not receiving airmail right now, but for Tomi and Auntie, it's going to go out to you as soon as airmail restarts to Finland. And I'm guessing it's going to be really soon.

00:06:00 John Daub: Wow, he's really rocking. Hey, long time no see. Hey, brother. Genki. Genki. Been a while. Yeah. Yeah. What are you up to?

00:06:30 Leon: I'm just kind of last year when I thought I would dump some coins into this guy here. Yeah. Encourage him to keep going when the cops get here. Been a while. Is he, he's really going to town. Those look like didgeridoo pipes from the before [?].

00:07:00 John Daub: Yeah. So how's your married life?

00:07:00 Leon: Married life's going well. Well, you know, I'm still looking.

00:07:15 John Daub: Where are you still looking? So I know, I don't know. Oh yeah, that's my car now. Yeah, long time no see. I know. Are you still working with the freeway?

00:07:30 Leon: No, I haven't. You haven't, bro. Yeah, I know. But someday, someday. I work with the freeway. A bunch of agencies. Someday.

00:08:00 John Daub: He's my college friend. Oh, my gosh. I'll be starting up the Yakiniku events, I think, this year again.

00:08:15 Leon: Okay, cool. Just out of necessity. So hopefully we can get everybody back to work.

00:08:30 John Daub: Yeah, we can get everybody back together again. All right, yeah, let's do it. After years of going away. I know. It seems like it might be a good idea. Yeah. When are you expecting to be started?

00:09:00 Leon: Probably September. September, okay, cool. Maybe at the end of summer. We'll see how it goes.

00:09:15 John Daub: All right, all right. I'm also been a shut-in, right? Everybody's been a shut-in for years. So it'll be good to get everybody together again. Yeah, better do something. Yeah, well, it's good to see you. I gotta get going.

00:09:45 Leon: Okay, me too.

00:09:45 John Daub: It's Leon. He's been here for a while. Yeah, Leon, he's been here for a long time. He's been in Japan, so it's nice to see people on the streets. Come say hi.

00:10:15 John Daub: I used to do an event called Yakiniku Party. Yakiniku (grilled meat). And on the 29th of every month, which is Niku niju-kyu, but Niku, we call it Niku no Hi or Meat Day, I would get about 30 or 40. It ended up being like 70 at the end. People just kept coming, organizing these events.

00:10:45 John Daub: But I kept losing money because the people didn't show up. I'd have to pay for them, so I stopped doing it. But because of the pandemic, and the long times of having to stay home and not going out, I might restart this in September. It was a Facebook group that I had. We had about 500 members. We'd all just go out and eat meat together.

00:11:15 John Daub: So I remember Leon from that, and he was in one of the acting agencies way back when. So that was kinda nice to see him. And he said he's still single, so. If anybody's interested, direct message him.

00:11:45 John Daub: So I'm getting back to the flights here. Sorry about that. If you are thinking about flying into Japan, and you have to transfer between Haneda and Narita, before you book your flight, make sure that you can do that. Meaning, please book directly with the airlines, and if you have any problems or policies change again, you have to work with them.

00:12:15 John Daub: Yesterday, Kanae and I, we called ANA to book our seats because we're traveling with Leo. It took one hour to get through to them, and we had to pay for that call. I think it's like 10 yen for every 30 seconds or something. So that's kind of expensive.

00:12:45 John Daub: But ultimately, at this time of uncertainty, please don't book with third party agencies unless you have a guarantee. Because I feel bad because I get, I've gotten, I don't know, maybe about 50 or 60 messages over the last five or six days. It's like come in really heavy on Instagram, on Patreon, on Facebook, which I, by the way, I don't check my personal Facebook page.

00:13:15 John Daub: So please don't write me to my personal Facebook page. I almost never check it anymore. Facebook's like dead. Mostly Instagram and Discord as well. And you know, I don't want to see anybody get stuck with a 1000 or $2,000 plane ticket and not be able to get to their destination.

00:13:45 John Daub: Now, right now the policy is for domestic flights. The transfer to Narita, if you're American, looks pretty easy right now. If you've had three shots, you can transfer right to a domestic flight at Narita Airport and you can get a report without any PCR testing. You can go straight through.

00:14:15 John Daub: And we're starting to get reports of people who are doing that right now. Those that are visiting family or have a reason to come from the United States. And it's just straight through. You don't even have to wait for PCR tests anymore, apparently, which is good news. Travel seems to be coming back a lot quicker than we all kind of expected.

00:14:45 John Daub: But that doesn't mean we're out of the woods yet. There's still a pandemic going on and the situation could change. Now, if Japan opens up the border, and I want everybody please to just consider this, not all the Japanese people are for tourism to open up. A lot of people, especially those in Kyoto, are kind of not wanting this to happen because they like the way Kyoto used to be, quiet Kyoto.

00:15:15 John Daub: And over the last 10 years, it was loud Kyoto. So there's some pushback. There's not as much as I'd expected. I thought there'd be a lot more. But seems like the border will open this year, fully open, for most countries. And just depends on your situation. But it also could close again, which is worrying.

00:15:45 John Daub: So I need you to understand something. If you don't book directly with the airlines, and if you're not flying in a Japanese carrier, I can't say that you're going to be getting the best service. I've already seen like, what, some of the American airlines, Delta Airlines, United Airlines. They're kind of scary right now with customer service. And I would be worried booking them. I would fly with the Japanese carriers.

00:16:15 John Daub: You're coming to Japan but that's just me and you probably would pay a little bit more but you're getting way better service. I've always found your luggage isn't thrown. I've always just felt like the service was better on Japanese carriers when flying to Japan and it's like flying a premium economy in economy. So think about it like that. It's just a better flight I guess and the food is better and you stay healthier maybe.

00:16:45 John Daub: Just my recommendation to you because I'm getting so many messages. I'm just going to do it as a general live stream like this and answer questions now. If any of you have any questions please go ahead and ask me in the live stream. I'm going to walk a little bit around Ginza here and show you the area and the street while I'm waiting for some questions to come in.

00:17:15 John Daub: And again next week I plan to do another live stream going over the travel update more thoroughly because I just keep getting more requests and questions. You can book JAL via Hawaiian too they signed a partnership that was approved pre-COVID. Yeah I think that's a good idea too but I would always book directly with ANA because I just don't know.

00:17:45 John Daub: I'm sure Hawaiian has really good customer service too but you want to make sure because Japan is the problem it's not the United States. So if there's an issue that goes on I always think that the Japan carriers are going to get that information first before all the other carriers and it'll trickle down to them.

00:18:15 John Daub: So they're always going to have the most up-to-date information and if you're thinking about coming to Japan in the next six months I would consider flying a Japan carrier if you can. And I know for a lot of Americans if you're flying from a hub city that's really hard to do but you could fly United and then catch with ANA or you could fly American Airlines and then Korean with JAL.

00:18:45 John Daub: There's a one world alliance and the other one SkyTeam. I can't remember Indonesia [?]. I'm not sure. And the other one is the Indonesian one so yeah I'm not sure about Indonesia. Check MOFA's website the Ministry of Foreign Affairs that has all the information up to date.

00:19:15 John Daub: Don't even take it from me if you're booking your trip and spending thousands of dollars don't get information from a YouTuber. Go directly to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs that's the responsible thing to do because the information that YouTubers give could be outdated really quickly the same as even the newspapers don't even get the information that quickly.

00:19:45 John Daub: The Ministry of Foreign Affairs is changing the website updating it more and more frequently now and they're the authorities so always go to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs the airline those two they know and then you can check also the Japan National Tourism Organization they also have a toll free number you can call and ask them questions about travel to Japan as well.

00:20:15 John Daub: These are good questions they had some kind of didgeridoo music like didgeridoo remastered version of Toto or something with like a disco Toto going on there. Yeah Jody I did say Finland right now there's no airmail going to Finland and most likely due to the war going on there so I have a bunch of postcards to resend out.

00:20:45 John Daub: Any other questions here walk back here I love the way that you can kind of social distance walking down the middle of the street on the weekends it is very crowded here in Tokyo people are out and about now.

00:21:15 John Daub: So here I wish our moderators could highlight videos but we don't have that kind of access yet from YouTube. I've used both JAL and Singapore Airlines to fly Japan they have been excellent. I would guarantee that Singapore Airlines are going to be excellent but they're more to the rules so sometimes if they have it written in the rule and you don't like the rule they'll stick to it.

00:21:45 John Daub: Singapore is really strict with the rules ANA and JAL as well but they kind of will bend a little bit more than Singapore won't bend on a lot of things but they're really good. I've flown Singapore a lot was a KrisFlyer for a while.

00:22:15 John Daub: Um what do we got here actual question any advice for pets ashes I don't know I don't any special work moving Doug is anybody here can help uh Abby I don't know about pets ashes because it could be something other than ashes in the urn. Urn? I don't know.

00:22:45 John Daub: When is the cheapest time to fly to Japan? I would say in the off seasons, maybe during the typhoon season, not in the summer. Stay away from the Japanese holiday seasons of Obon, Golden Week, and Shogatsu, which is the New Year's holiday, those three.

00:23:15 John Daub: And yeah, I don't think you're going to find too many super deals for a while though. Unless it's on like Aeroflot. I don't know, can you even fly on Aeroflot, would you want to? I don't know.

00:23:45 John Daub: Personality of brick wall, JTB is it's only tour packages, so you probably can't choose which airlines. Maybe many tour agencies book the flights, planes as well. I don't get your shoulder caught on the slowly opening yokan doors. Exactly. Don't, do not do that. It can hurt.

00:24:15 John Daub: Just booked round trip from LAX to Narita for $840, July, August 31st. Thanks for the info. I'm glad that you got that. Make sure you can get a refund should things go sour. But that's a really good price. Again, that's coming from California. From New York, it's always a little bit more because of the flights longer.

00:24:45 John Daub: They're here telling people not to ride bicycles and doing something here. I'm not sure. I like how they walk in unison, but they should, their feet should match up like one, two, one, two, left, right, left, right. Walk your bicycles. Yeah.

00:25:15 John Daub: I think it's like a part-time job. So different. Don't you think? I think they should be in unison more. One left, right, left, right, left, right. Oh, he's busted him. He found a bicycler. God, they're really, look at, he's holding his sign. They totally attacked her. They are some serious bicycle law enforcers.

00:25:45 John Daub: I wonder what the training is for that. How do they simulate it? Different scenarios. I'd like to get in on that job. Travel insurance is a good idea, too. I don't know. Travel insurance. I think less and less you need travel insurance.

00:26:15 John Daub: As a result of the pandemic, I never get travel insurance. I've never really had too much of a problem. But again, I've only flown directly with the airlines. So in those situations, the airlines have been really good in taking care, but I try to avoid the non-Japanese airlines.

00:26:45 John Daub: But in the end, it pays off paying a little bit more with them. It's been my experience. I think a lot of you might be the same. Does travel insurance cover pandemics? I don't know. You have to ask the insurance. There's hundreds of insurances, even thousands. Each one is different.

00:27:15 John Daub: So I highly recommend that you ask these questions to the insurer. Some of them might. How's the motorbike lessons going? Chen, I start that on June 1st because I'm going to be in Hokkaido. I have to go to Shizuoka next week and Nagoya.

00:27:45 John Daub: A week after that, I have to go to Hokkaido for a week and then I have to go to Tsukuba to film a factory at the end of the month. So I start the motorcycle license June 1st and then it's intensive. I got to go back to Hokkaido for an auction. So I might have to break up the lessons. It's going to be interesting.

00:28:15 John Daub: Simon writes in here, I bought a ticket for 600 round trip from Seattle to Tokyo in November. Fingers crossed. It sounds like it's going to be okay. Hold on a second. They're coming out. I hope they don't come after me. It sounds like it's going to be okay.

00:28:45 John Daub: But I just hope maybe you have some assurances from the airlines should the policy change for whatever reason. I don't think it's going to though. I don't think you, I think if you open the country, you open it for good. I don't think you can go back after this because the credibility, Japan's credibility would be damaged.

00:29:15 John Daub: And Kishida-san, after his speech, you know, trust, trust in, invest in Kishida. I think he's, he's heading in the speech. Like I would not invest in Kishida if he closes the border again. So once it's open, it's open, which I, you can assume that's why Japan is opening slowly right now and not just announcing Japan's open because you can't close it again.

00:29:45 John Daub: And they're kind of just having a wait and see thing. And after waiting for so long, I don't blame them because they know this once they open they're open. All right. All right. So some good questions here. I thought I would do this. 30 minutes. I'll go on a little bit longer.

00:30:15 John Daub: If you have some questions, I'm very happy to answer them about your trip coming to Japan. But next week, once again, I'm going to have a more thorough travel update as usual. Do they start off with training wheels or do they have ninjas on either side? I'm guessing ninjas. Parents look like ninjas right there.

00:30:45 John Daub: They're trained in the art of, I don't know, milk providing. I can't, I guess diaper changing. I didn't get that same training. It's been harder for me.

00:31:15 John Daub: The yen is getting a bit better, isn't it? A carry? No, it's not. I would say it's about 129 to the dollar. It's still hovering between 128 and 132. I think it's going to stay like that for a while, but it's, you know, it's hard to tell these things.

00:31:45 John Daub: Peter and I were, we were talking about this and, uh, it doesn't, it looks like the, the rate is going to be better than it was three years ago for those that are visiting this summer. And then we don't know. I don't know. I don't think the rate's going to get advantageous for, for us on the Japan side. It's going to stay like this for a while.

00:32:15 John Daub: Carlos is excited to get back to Japan. That's nice to hear. Is there a problem with Japanese carriers catering to smaller Japanese bum? What? I don't know. That looks like that Ferrari is blocking the street over there. Look at that. Whoa. Only in Ginza.

00:32:45 John Daub: Bank of Hawaii is giving 123, 24 yen to the dollar. Wow. That's an awful rate. But then again, it's still pretty good if you compare it to like three months ago, right? So I don't know. That's a tough one. I think that rate's too low. I think it would be 126 and give them 2%.

00:33:15 John Daub: Don't give them more. Don't never give the bank more than 2% on an exchange. That's my policy. It's a Corvette actually. Thank you, Johnny. You got better eyes than me. It was probably Minecraft quality too. So I have to give you credit for that. Good spot.

00:33:45 John Daub: 134 yen for a Euro. Wow. How much cash is best to take? I don't know. Japan has, that's actually, that's a better question than I thought it was when you think about it now. Hold on a second.

00:34:15 John Daub: How much, Japan is a cash country. More people use cash than maybe any other country. Like credit cards and digital money was not a big thing until about five years ago. And I'm noticing more and more places are taking plastic.

00:34:45 John Daub: And I think as a result of the pandemic where money is just another contact point for spreading the virus, they've been moving more and more to touch. So I'm guessing you don't need to bring a lot of cash. You can keep things on your credit card more, but just keep in mind that if you travel outside of the city, there are situations where credit cards are not, or digital money is not as useful.

00:35:15 John Daub: So that's actually a really good question. And I think that the country has changed the most over the last two and a half years during the pandemic as just a direct response to not wanting to touch so much money. I've been going to food trucks and being able to use credit cards.

00:35:45 John Daub: My credit cards are now touch activated. I have an American Express card, just touch it and I can pay for things. So that's been really useful. It's easy. No actual cash trades places. So, but you don't need as much as you used to, but I would always have about 30,000 yen in my pocket just in case, especially if you're leaving the city and you're going out to the countryside.

00:36:15 John Daub: But you can get cash at 7-11 with usually for foreign credit cards on the PLUS system or any post office as well. So it's kind of convenient now to get cash 20 years ago, 24 years ago, when I came to Japan, I couldn't get cash anywhere. I had to literally change money at banks because Japanese ATMs would not take foreign credit cards.

00:36:45 John Daub: Only Citibank, which are only in a few cities and now their Citibank is gone. So from here, anyways, some really good questions, $50,000, maybe Zimbabwe dollars. I don't think you need that much.

00:37:15 John Daub: Lots of places except the Suica card and can be loaded on the iPhone easily. Yes. But if you want to buy the ICOCA card, the Nagoya, the Osaka one, for some reason, it doesn't work with the iPhone. So I think that might change over the next year.

00:37:45 John Daub: We're watching the authorities bust down on riders. Should've tackled him. Guy needs to get to the gym. Or maybe he doesn't, maybe he knows Kung Fu or something. Judo.

00:38:15 John Daub: Have you flown during the pandemic? I have, I've flown quite a bit domestically. I haven't flown internationally yet. Here. I'm looking at, I got my ticket from LA to Tokyo via Air Canada. Uh, I'd never fly Air Canada, even to Canada.

00:38:45 John Daub: Do you, I think I should move July. Um, I don't know. I think I'm, I think you're going to have to talk with Air Canada though. If Air Canada is allowing you to go, then you can go. All right. Air Canada won't let you. I, I, I don't, I don't, this is why I won't book with a foreign airline.

00:39:15 John Daub: All right. I don't know why they would book the ticket. First of all, you don't book a ticket unless you can get on it. And if you can't get into Japan, then they're not going to be able to, you gotta get your money back. They can't just take your money like this. So please be careful with where you book.

00:39:45 John Daub: Air Canada, I've heard some very not great things about them. So I'd be very scared to fly with them to Japan with not having the right amount of information. And maybe my fear is unwarranted. I don't know, but I can tell you, I wouldn't put my money on a trip this year with a non-Japanese carrier to save a couple hundred dollars because it's just going to be a headache.

00:40:15 John Daub: And it might be, it might be, it'd work out well for you, but the risk is increased because it's just not the same customer service. Japan's culture with the customer service is just so good, except for Apple Japan, which might have the worst customer service in the world.

00:40:45 John Daub: I'm still waiting for my iPhone Apple Japan. It's been six months. Even the Tokyo police can't even get in touch with your customer service. It takes months to do that. Gosh, awful customer service. Don't get me started.

00:41:15 John Daub: American Airlines. Yeah, I'm not going to fly them. I'm not flying anything except for JAL, ANA, maybe Singapore Airlines because they are pretty good. Not that you have a choice. Some of you just don't have choices. I could be picky because I'm flying from Haneda and Narita. You know what I mean?

00:41:45 John Daub: Yeah, REO, you know, okay, you could use that Apple, but don't use anything with a bite in it. Steve Jobs would roll over in his grave if he knew how bad Apple Japan's service is. They should be all fired.

00:42:15 John Daub: Let's see here. All right, last questions here. If you have issues with a refund you paid by card, your bank might let you raise a disputed transaction. Jeffrey, I paid my iPhone with my American Express Gold card and they couldn't do anything about that. So I don't know.

00:42:45 John Daub: I think you have to make sure you have to know your credit card very well too. It's more of a Japan problem than an American Express problem probably. But make sure you have some sort of travel insurance if you pay by your credit card. Usually there's some ways to get money back, but again, that could be a red tape thing too.

00:43:15 John Daub: I think I got 10,000 yen for the iPhone that never showed up. Even though I gave them $1,500, I got $100 back from insurance. I don't understand how that works. I'm not sure how it's my fault either. It just never came. How is that my fault?

00:43:45 John Daub: Walmart has discounted center for airlines and their prices are around $1,200 and I've seen... I'm online. Why would you pay that to Walmart, a third-party reseller? The airlines are even cheaper. Get it directly from the airlines.

00:44:15 John Daub: If they are charging that fee that low, then there's a problem. You're probably not going to get a refund or get any assurances for your ticket. You get what you pay for pretty much.

00:44:45 John Daub: So if you're thinking about getting a trip to Japan, just please understand the risks that are involved at the moment and then understand, in that case, if there's like no refunds and you're trying to save a couple hundred dollars, it's a gamble. I'd say that that's too much of a gamble.

00:45:15 John Daub: Either wait until 2023 or book with a Japan carrier or fly domestic to a place where you can book with the Japan Carrier. I don't know. Looks UGG-I think that's an Australian company, right?

00:45:45 John Daub: When we flew back to the United States, we had a choice. We could have flown United Airlines. and it was it was about $400 cheaper to fly American Airlines but we'd have to change through Chicago I'm not I know no way one not with a baby because yeah I'm not gonna transfer to domestic flight.

00:46:15 John Daub: I saw something like inside edition and they pulled an entire family United Airlines off of a flight a baby was in the toddlers they changed the flight they moved the teenage son to another flight so that they could fly together with the toddlers the parents and that caused them to get booted from the flight because they overbooked it could have been Delta but there's no way I'm playing domestic with a kid it's no way craziness really not for not connecting to an international flight.

00:46:45 John Daub: I'd rather drive do some Chris Griswold that's just me is it possible to arrive in Japan without a vaccine I'm not sure if you can come in yet I think that Japan doesn't want you to get sick here because they don't want to take care of you because they're having a hard time taking care of its own citizens most of them are over like 65.

00:47:15 John Daub: Cinderella that's Cinderella or she's wearing Ukrainian colors bubbles freedom it's no white that's right the Ukrainian it's no wait I like that India still closed the border for tourists that's what the prime minister said yeah I think so.

00:47:45 John Daub: I'm not a big fan of Modi right now he's a little bit too close to Russia a little bit too close Modi Mr Modi I can't I don't know I don't want to get involved in Indian politics but um yeah this war is causing a lot of problems with just travel in general I can stay on topic here.

00:48:15 John Daub: Those coming from Europe have to be rerouted and go all the way around um that massive country and it's causing lots of problems too with mail so for Finland um Patreon supporters I apologize your postcards are getting held here but I will send them out as soon as airmail restarts.

00:48:45 John Daub: India is very critical of the United States and Ukraine right now I'm not happy about that all the I've been watching Indian news very disappointed in the coverage I don't know I hope they turn it around um so there you go.

00:49:15 John Daub: Okay thanks guys uh you can leave comments below I'd be happy to answer it to you make sure you watch the snow monkey episode that I uploaded uh think it'll bring you a smile I just put that on the main channel yesterday leave me a comment I'm going to check that as soon as I get back and I will respond to you if you ask me a question on the snow monkey video we'll definitely be checking this for comments about travel.

00:49:45 John Daub: And next week stay tuned for a video for me giving a more thorough travel update kind of explaining the questions about if you're vaccinated and vaccinated and what countries you're coming from I'll be able to link it in the video in the comment section below.

00:50:15 John Daub: I'll be doing a bit of a live stream the first time I do an OBS studio type of live stream I want to be able to lay that out more uh by doing like an OBS studio type of live stream being able to show you stuff on the screen I want to be able to do that next week.

00:50:45 John Daub: I'm going on the 19th and the 20th to Shizuoka and Nagoya so I'll be doing travel live streams then but sometime as soon as I can get that information and more set on what June looks like I'll be able to bring you that information because I think um June might still be too soon.

00:51:15 John Daub: The first people to come into Japan you're gonna be welcomed with not a lot of people and and Kyoto really quiet because once Kyoto opens up it's gonna get a lot louder although Chinese tourists are not allowed to come into Japan or they're not allowed to leave China without like a purpose other than tourism and they were made up the majority of the tourists.

00:51:45 John Daub: It's gonna be still a lot more crowded once the borders open up so you probably it's nice to be one of the first people to be here in Japan when that happens just kind of a little bonus you know it's a little more empty.

00:52:15 John Daub: And we do we can I and I ever looking forward to coming to Singapore again really soon we have to get to that Night Safari we went right before they closed and were disappointed with that yeah make it in time.

00:52:45 John Daub: Alright everybody take care thanks for the questions I appreciate it and I'll see you another live stream probably tomorrow bye from Ginza.