00:02 John Daub: Hey everybody, we are just minutes away. Welcome to Hakodate Airport. That's a Japan Airlines flight heading towards, I'm not sure. I'm off gimbal, and I thought I would just share a little bit of Hakodate Airport with you. Yeah, that's our flight most likely, coming to gate. And it's not that far away. You can see Hakodate, the mountain from the city with beautiful night views just across the water there. That's where you stay on the other side over there. But today, we're here.

00:44 John Daub: Alright, we're going to watch this departure go. Alright, I love flights departing like that. You can see the crew over there. Do you see the guy standing there? I bet you that they wave or they give a big bow right before they depart. Let's see what happens. Now they're waving to the passengers. Oh, that's so nice. And then here's the bow. Job done.

01:15 John Daub: One of the great traditions here at the Japanese airport is that the crew will wave and then give you a nice bow. I'm not sure where they're off to, but we're leaving from Hakodate to Tokyo. We're flying back to Haneda Airport right now. Hey, there's Jason and Carrie. How you guys doing? I'm off gimbal. Sorry about that. Actually, I lost one of the pieces to it, so I got to kind of handhold it. But that should not stop you from being bold. Be bold.

01:50 John Daub: Alright, here we go. It's more natural, isn't it? Without a gimbal. There's something really nice about shaky video footage, right? Who's with me? Not too bad. You're going to have to go a lot faster than that if you want to get off the ground, Japan Airlines. It's making me worry about my own flight here if they're going this slow. Maybe it's one of those U.S. Army Osprey copters that just started flying. Oh, that's awesome. It's going to be flying right over the city of Hakodate. Or maybe it's going to turn around right here. Oh, that's a beautiful shot with Hakodate in the background. Check that out. Oh man, a beautiful little regional airport this is.

02:53 John Daub: Hey 007, 007GF, we're heading back to Tokyo. Our flight leaves in about an hour and a half, so I thought we might as well just go live, share this experience with you. What's cool here is for the observation deck, you can see all these people waving as they say goodbye to the flight. I guess there's some people they know there, or they're just here celebrating too, I'm not sure. We're gonna find out. In a second, I'm gonna show you Leo and Kanai. ANA gave us a stroller, which was nice. Oh, they're all the way down there. Oh my gosh, do you see them? There's Kanai in the very far distance behind that kid. See them? He's pushing the baby car. Leo is an independent kid. He doesn't wanna be pushed. He does the pushing.

03:57 John Daub: All right. Let's see this bird fly. Let there be flight. What was that Disney movie, The Rescuers, with the two mice that fly on the bird? We've been celebrating, the moderators and I, our Discord server partnership, which is totally awesome. We were finally approved as partners. It's a big deal. It's one of my favorite Disney movies of all time, because it's the one I remember the most as a kid. Like how do these mice fly? That's pretty cool.

05:03 John Daub: Here he goes. Go, go, go. Look at Leo, it's like still pushing the baby car. Kanai and Leo don't even care about this departure. They're on another kind of departure, a baby car—we call that a stroller, a stroller is called a baby car (bebi karu) in Japanese. Alright here he goes. Alright Japan Airlines is departing Hakodate right now live, you're live—this is happening on the other side of the world. An airplane is picking up speed. Oh this is so cool. John is panning without a gimbal. Go, go, go, go. Are you guys waving? One day this will be you, being able to return to Japan. He's a free man. It's still up there.

06:14 John Daub: So cool. It's turning around, going right back over the city. It's heading down towards Honshu. That's so cool. Alright let's go say hi to Leo and Kanai and I'll take you in to actually see the airport. You can already see it's child friendly—lots of playgrounds here, lots of kids here. Oh an ANA flight is going to be departing. That wasn't ours, I hope not. Gosh it's so cool. Now I know why you need a gimbal.

07:01 John Daub: Leo! Let's ask them if they enjoyed their trip to Hokkaido. We were in Noboribetsu last night, one of my favorite onsen towns. Leo! Dada's here! Pushing his ANA stroller. The airport's pretty crowded. I guess there's a flight. Leo we should write your name on the back of this thing. So how was the trip to Hokkaido?

07:34 Kanae Daub: It's good, it's pretty good. We ate a lot of seafood.

07:40 John Daub: Oh yeah, the dinner at the ryokan was great. Yeah, we went to Noboribetsu, the onsen was really good. It's a little windy up here. There were many kinds of onsen at Noboribetsu. Oh right, inside there was like 8 kinds of onsen or something—different salt bath, a pink bath, a milky bath. I don't even know what the minerals are in there but it was nice. So now you've been to Noboribetsu. You weren't there when I did the naked man festival in 2020. Leo, did you like the onsen?

08:17 Leo: Yeah, bye bye.

08:21 John Daub: Yeah, I basically bathed in ramen broth. Did they have a ramen bath tonight?

08:26 Kanae Daub: Ramen? Ramen bath?

08:29 John Daub: Yeah, all in all. Leo, you're not gonna watch the airplane! Leo, watch the airplane! Here, can I take this camera?

08:40 Kanae Daub: Sure.

08:48 John Daub: Leo! Leo, you have to watch the airplane! You've never seen an airplane. You're gonna be one of the passengers on the next flight! Airplane! Leo, you're gonna be on an airplane flying in the air. Do you even understand? Yeah. We're not gonna be on that. That's not taking us to Tokyo, that's a JAL. Leo, watch this airplane, this is gonna be you.

09:25 Kanae Daub: Watch your head, it's a choke hold!

09:30 John Daub: You don't wanna walk, right? He should watch the plane take off. Yeah, he doesn't care. Can you lock it? You don't care? He wanna push the baby car. I don't think he cares because he's never seen an airplane. He said hikouki in Japanese. He doesn't know airplane, he only knows hikouki, hikouki. Gosh, he choke-holded me.

10:02 John Daub: Is that flight crew wearing a skirt? That might be a flight attendant, I don't know. Alright, let's watch as from Hakodate an ANA flight, I'm not sure, is now departing. The captain is speaking for this livestream, but where this plane is going, we won't know for a little bit. And look, there's another—the prop plane is leaving too soon. Yeah, Leo's interests are in pushing a cart around as a plane is going. Leo, oh my gosh, how could you miss this? Look at that, that's awesome. Hakodate, the mountain in the background as we watch this JAL flight. That was so cool. There she goes. Leo, did you see that? Leo, did you see that?

11:37 John Daub: Alright, you know what? Let's take you inside. I could use this baby car as a tripod. Let's go inside, Kanai. You wanna go shopping? Alright, let's do it. This is entertainment. Look, make sure you hold hands. He rejects it if I try to hold his hand. Leo, hold dada's hand. Hold dada's hand. Look, he rejects me. Ok, the prop plane is leaving, that's what the wind is. Alright, I'm running inside. Hakodate—take you inside, I'll show you the airport.

12:37 John Daub: It's not that big. A little mascot. Alright, you can see here, this is where people go through security. As I pan up here, obviously, it's not exactly crowded. Flights seem to take off in bursts. Now we're gonna wait for an hour and then I bet you another two or three flights will take off. That's the extent of Hakodate Airport. This is how big it is. Comparatively to the US, almost no security—domestically, they don't actually check any IDs. They didn't check my driver's license, they didn't check to see if I was who I was. They just scanned it and that was enough. That's Japan—they know all about you before you even come in through the door maybe.

14:06 John Daub: So that's how big it is. Hakodate Airport is not very big at all. The buses come in here. This is like a drone-looking view here, the model—this is what a drone would see, except the drone would be more stable than I am with a camera. So there's three gates. Four gates. One of them is empty. So they don't have a lot. This opened in Heisei 17. I came here in Heisei 10, which is 1998. So seven years after 1998 this airport opened.

15:00 John Daub: Nice little play area up on the second floor. I think that girl is too big for that. I'm gonna report her. And down there there's a couple of shops for gifts and goods and things like that, omiyage (souvenirs) to take home. If I rode that, they would report me. All right. Leo's still pushing the cart. That's Kanai [and] Leo. It's gonna take forever.

15:47 John Daub: All right here's some of the rules. There's no drones allowed of course, 150 meters height. These are actually all the drone rules—30 meters from buildings, cars, and people. Always in line of sight, only during the daytime. Don't fly with festivals. Don't rig your drone to drop packages on people. It's no good. Stay away from helicopters. Don't chase—don't use your drone to chase people. That's an old one. You can't do that anymore. Don't fly in bad weather. And then don't get drunk and drone. The drones are coming. Don't do that apparently. This is all stuff you should know—it's common sense.

16:46 John Daub: Leo. The planes are all gone. He doesn't want to. Oh my gosh. He's a pusher. Good job. You pushed that all the way. You're gonna fall asleep on the plane, thank goodness. You can push it all the way to the gate. Push push. Thank you to ANA for the beautiful fox leather interior on that thing too. Thank you Leo. Don't drink and drone with PEG. What are you insinuating there Jason? No. Peter is the rebel. Rebel forces.

17:34 John Daub: Leo, Leo slide. Yeah I know. Those kids are too big too to be playing with it. I'm gonna report them. One girl was hopping on that on one of the things and her legs were so big. Leo you gonna go back outside? We're gonna get a suntan. You're gonna look like Dada. Yeah yeah. Look at that hat. Is that a squid hat with a cable car on it? That's awesome.

18:11 Kanae Daub: We're going to the back?

18:18 John Daub: Yeah we do. But we should probably go downstairs. Yeah. You're going to the back right?

18:24 Kanae Daub: Yeah.

18:25 John Daub: If you wanted to do shopping you would go now right? Who's the boss here? I think we know who the boss is. Leo is the boss. Follow mom. Look at the way mom—in two seconds Leo will forget about everything.

19:10 John Daub: Leo. Are you okay?

19:15 Kanae Daub: Okay. Bus.

19:22 John Daub: He's tired?

19:24 Kanae Daub: No. No.

19:26 John Daub: Jennifer is not tired. He just wants to push. He wants to push. We have an accident here on highway. No kids were harmed. The back door doesn't open though. Did anybody do that on the last day of school? On the last day of school they would open up the back and then jump out the bad kids. Did you ever do that? Okay yeah just take them back outside. It's okay. I'm coming in a minute.

20:14 John Daub: Hakodate Airport is accommodating to all types of people including kids and that's really cool. School buses are very cool. And so are those little mini cheesecakes. Oh I gotta find that. Hokkaido is not good for your waistline. And those butter sand cookies are pretty good too. Marusei butter sand. Wow.

20:43 John Daub: Alright, so that's pretty much Hakodate Airport. I hope you learned something and it wasn't something that's like bad about my quality of livestream today. I think you learned a little bit about Hakodate. It's a kid friendly place. And don't give Leo a stroller—carry him sometimes, you know. ANA they offered it and we said yes, we should have said no. We'll be okay.

21:19 John Daub: It's been the last 10 seconds watching Kanai try her very best to make a tough situation not as so tough as Leo takes command. Leo's in control. He's gonna be a pilot maybe. I'm not getting on that plane. Are you? Alright everybody have a good day. I definitely wanted to do one more livestream here in Hokkaido before I went back to Tokyo. I got a travel update coming and a bunch of stuff and another video on the main channel and all sorts of things coming. Hey there's Hokkaido beard—it's a classic from Sapporo. And there's our flight too. So good things are coming. And if you haven't already, join us on Discord because it's freaking awesome. Because Only in Japan is now—HELLO. Thanks guys to our moderators for making that possible, especially HelloHi821 and Peso and Katayama and all of you. See you back in Tokyo. Try to do some Instagram stories to fill in the blanks. See if Leo's still in control.