00:03 John Daub: Hello everybody, welcome! One of the citizens of Osaki. Bye bye! Sorry, I couldn't help myself. One of the citizens of Osaki. This region of Shinagawa is one of the fukutoshin (secondary city centers), I guess, secondary metropolitan areas of Tokyo.

00:37 John Daub: It's undergoing a lot of renovations, redevelopments, and it's pretty nice. And it's also the headquarters for Lawson's, Mos Burger, Fujitsu, I think, and Patagonia has their main shop here. And it's pretty massive. Kanae Daub and I were just in there looking for down jackets. Thanks for the recommendations on that, too. So, for the next 15-20 minutes or so, I'm going to show you the amazing area that is Osaki.

01:07 John Daub: If you are coming here to shop or hit a restaurant or want to have lunch and you're staying in a hotel nearby, maybe it's worth it to explore a little bit. I know it's a big business area. You can see a lot of suits here. But, hey, there's also a lot of trains. And there's the Yamanote line going by. Osaki is on the Yamanote line. So, it's a really big major stop in that sense. I think there's 29 stations now. It keeps increasing. The new Takanawa Gateway station opened up a couple of years ago for the Olympics. And there's the Sony... I don't know if that's the headquarters, but it's a pretty darn big building.

02:03 John Daub: The one on the right here is the Think Tower. And Kanae has gone over there to get a Mos Burger, and I'm going to join her. So, that's where we're going to end our livestream looking at this amazing station. Kanae will join us. I think it's pretty nice down jackets, but here's the funny thing with Patagonia. They said that the ones, the really heavy jackets won't be coming until November because they're in transit from America. Oh, there's the Shinkansen. They're in transit from America. Oh, it's on the other side. We can't see it. Maybe when we get over to the Mos Burger side of the tracks, we'll be able to get a look at it.

02:41 John Daub: If you look around, Osaki is... I mean, is it inspirational? It's no Shibuya. It doesn't have all the bright lights and stuff, but what it is, it's a manageable area. And I've been walking around here for about 20, 30 minutes. I haven't been here in ages. Let's look at the other side. This is a brand new pedestrian gate, a pedestrian walkway that leads from the station to the Osaki Gate shopping mall, I think it's a shopping district, shopping building. And this is a brand new, the new east exit to it.

03:18 John Daub: So it's kind of neat to have all these new redevelopments finally come to fruition because, you know, Tokyo has been under redevelopment since they announced the Olympics were coming here. So a lot of these sites had construction for such a long time. They're now finished. And the tourists that are coming are getting a chance to experience a brand new, really amazing city that is so different than it was before. Oh, look at the Olive Terrace. Look at those restaurants, man. It's making me hungry. The one thing Tokyo doesn't lack are restaurants. Like really good ones.

04:02 John Daub: Let's look at the station here. Thanks everyone for joining me. I love sharing these stations and the neighborhoods around it because, you know, you don't know where to go sometimes, including me. And places are always changing in the city of Tokyo. Oh, that massive mascot was for the city for Hello Work. I think I met the other one. He gave me some tissues. I got out of the station. I started snapping pictures of a mascot and he ran over and gave me tissues. I think maybe I can put that video on Instagram if you follow me there. Only in Japan TV.

04:46 John Daub: That was funny. Kanae was laughing. I think she's a little shy when a mascot runs up to you. All the people are watching. So there they are in Halloween gear. I thought they were the Osaki mascots, but maybe they are. But apparently they're for Hello Work, which is a government organization that helps people who are looking for jobs get jobs. That's nice. They've got jobs. They're mascots. I wonder if the person who's inside the mascot outfit got that job through Hello Work. That would be pretty cool. But it'd be funny if the people inside were hired from Hello Work.

05:40 John Daub: You can get here at the Yamanote line, but I believe the Keihin-Tohoku line? There's a bunch of other lines that go through here. The closest Shinkansen stop is Shinagawa. There's a massive Tsutaya on the other side. Used to be a CD, a Blu-ray, a DVD rental place. But now they do, I guess... It's the Convenience Culture Club, I think. CCC is the name of the head company for Tsutaya, and they do other stuff besides the DVD rental. But they were the Blockbuster of Japan, and they're still around. Which is interesting, and Blockbuster is not. Tsutaya diversified enough.

06:20 John Daub: Out in the countryside, Tsutaya is also the Starbucks hub for most of the prefectures that are kind of rural. Because that's the place everybody goes to read magazines and books and stuff. So that's something to know. If you go to Tottori, if you go to Shimane, a lot of the other places you find at Tsutaya, you'll probably find a Starbucks near there too. Just funny. Partnership. I guess it's similar to the Barnes & Noble in the United States. Some of those bookstores have little Starbucks inside.

06:55 John Daub: But here at Osaki, we don't have to worry about that. There's tons of people. Oh no, that's exactly what I was talking about! What a coincidence. Now you can see the Starbucks combined with the Tsutaya down the street. You see that? That's what I'm talking about. It's like the Barnes & Noble Tsutaya collaboration, I guess you could say.

07:23 John Daub: Young Padawan is here from Cali! Coming back in November. How awesome is that? I'm still kind of reacting to what I saw the other day at Haneda Airport. I did get trolled a little bit by a couple of people who complained and said, no, you should leave people alone. You're not an official news outlet and things like this. Hey, you're absolutely right. I think I was pretty respectful and I just asked people where they got off on the plane. In light of all of you that have been watching this series for the last two and a half years and wanted to come back, I think it is extremely relevant to go to the airport and then find out what the situation is like so that all of you can prepare for your trips to Japan. I might not be a news agency, but I work for one.

08:20 John Daub: There's Mos Burger. Their headquarters is over here. So let's go. Oh, wow! I don't know if that video is still on YouTube, but I made a commercial for Mos Burger at the beginning of my YouTuber days with a company. They hired me to edit it and everything. This is the headquarters Mos Burger Cafe. This is the main one. And if you go anywhere in Japan, this one probably has the most delicious burgers because the executives come here to eat for Mos Burger.

09:09 John Daub: Sayonara! Are they using curse words? I don't think so. I can still see you! Did they call me a baby? Let's see where Kanae is. Yay! Are they calling me a baby? I think they called me a baby. Did she call me a baby? I'm not a baby. I am not a baby to chase them down and scare them now. Is that what a baby would do though? Secret revenge. Ah, there's Kanae over here. Okay, let's go. Let's go in and talk to her. Maybe we should sit outside, Kanae. It's nice outside.

10:56 John Daub: We're trying to communicate. Let's see what happened. Ready? Fukuoka? I can't understand what she's saying. Oh, it's not working. Ah, so she can't actually come here. Apparently it's closed. So we're just going to make jokes at her from the window. That's funny. So we can't actually go in through this door. We're separated. Yeah, it's unfortunate. Is that my burger? Tashino? That's my burger? Your burger? I don't know if she's doing that strange Japanese gesture. Can anybody translate? I can't. I'm afraid to go inside because it seems like it would be rude to film that guy really close to her. All right, let's just go inside then. All right, I'm going to take you inside. If I get busted, it's your fault.

12:22 John Daub: Let me show you a little bit more before I go in there of the station. I told Kanae 20 minutes and we're 12 minutes in, so we got some time here. There are some of the hotels around here. And for people that are train spotting, this is a great place to do that. There's the Daiwa Roynet Hotel. A lot of these, I guess, are blocked by this new Think building here. But I think there's another hotel. When was the last time I was here? It was either Tamachi or Osaki. And my friend Dan from What's Inside? was here, and he scored some tickets. I don't know how he did it. But he scored some tickets to the Rugby World Cup, like, semifinal. So Kanae, Dan, and I went to the semifinals there. And that was really amazing. But he was staying at a hotel that had one of the best views of the Shinkansen going through here.

13:18 John Daub: Whoa! There's a Denny's here, too. Some good-looking restaurants. Again, when I made the commercial here for Mos Burger, they had the best Mos Burgers ever. And they have a training center, I think, upstairs. That's why. So everybody has to train here. It's the Mos Burger that you don't want to get stuck at working because everyone is scrutinizing you. Again, Lawson's has their headquarters here, too. So it's interesting to see this. Let's go in and say hi to Kanae and then maybe scarf down a burger.

13:56 John Daub: They have self-checkout. This one is mine. It's still on? Yeah. So this one is my burger. But they made it perfect. Because it's the original. It's spicy. Oh, that's a spicy Mos Burger? Oh, yeah. That's my potato chip. French fry here. You can't eat outside today because of rain. Oh, I can't eat outside? Yeah. Oh. That's why. Hi. How are you doing, everybody? Hi. It's kind of strange to eat and talk, right? So it's hard to live stream in your face. But it's still kind of crowded. That Mos Burger is the most perfect one, too, that I've ever had. Right? Because this is the headquarters.

15:08 John Daub: When I made the one, I think it's still on YouTube. It was on the Mos Burger website for several years. How to make a Mos Burger. I edited that and you can get the Only in Japan vibe to it. So I'm sort of partial to Mos Burger. But I guess I have to take a bite. It's so good. Yeah. So did you like any of the Patagonia jackets? I found one. I found one. Okay. I like the black jacket. That's your Christmas present? Maybe. Wow. Because he said no Halloween presents. There's no Halloween presents, right? Christmas presents. At the price tag, it's a Christmas present.

16:18 John Daub: I should get Kanae one of these. These souffle pancakes for dessert. They look so good. Oh my gosh. Don't bang. Wow. Maybe I'll get her that as a present. Hey, shout out to David Yoshimoto. Thank you. David writes in here. Hold on a second. Thank you, David. Wow. That's great. The message, appreciate all the updates for the last two and a half years. I'll be there for Thanksgiving. Gobble, gobble. Awesome.

17:13 John Daub: You know, for Thanksgiving, I guess we typically would just eat sushi. The first year I came here in 1998, Thanksgiving, I went to the local sushi bar. It was a little pricey, but it's Thanksgiving. They were playing Christmas music by Elvis or something in the background. It was just such an amazing, like you got Elvis singing Christmas music on Thanksgiving eating sushi in Japan. That was just awesome. I don't think you're going to get your turkey dinner here, David, but who knows? Now that we have Costco and a bunch of other Western places, you might even be able to find it. American Embassy, I think, used to do some sort of Thanksgiving events as well.

17:57 John Daub: And Scotty H., thanks for being an insider for 17 months. Howdy from South Carolina. Hope your recovery from the hurricane is going okay over there. It's nice to hear from you, Scotty. Thank you, Daisy. The next best thing to being in Japan is watching this channel. Absolutely. That makes me so happy because I just love bringing you with me. I love watching you on these adventures.

18:40 John Daub: That restaurant looks well-known. I was like, is it a restaurant? I think that's an Indian curry restaurant. Oh gosh, the wind is a little bit strong out here. Autumn Cuisine is out too. You see that kanji up there? That character means aki (autumn). And you'll see starting in September, the food changes. More potatoes. Chestnuts. Things of that nature. Sanma might be on the menu, which is an autumn fish. The harvest for that's been going on, and they caught more than normal, so the prices are way, way cheaper.

19:36 John Daub: And then on the other side of this Think Tower in Osaki, we got construction. So they aren't quite finished. There's more to come. But this area near Shinagawa is under a redevelopment, and it's just so exciting. So exciting to see what comes next. Right? So in a few years, this video might be pretty valuable, because there'll be a building here. Probably a skyscraper, possibly a shopping mall, maybe a hotel. I'm not even sure. But that's part of the city of Tokyo. It's always evolving.

20:12 John Daub: And I can't wait to go to Shibuya. I'm going to do this probably by the end of this month, maybe before Halloween. I want to go to Shibuya and talk to foreign tourists that are coming here for the first time, repeaters, and ask them what they think of the new Shibuya area because it is totally different than it was five years ago. You might not even recognize it. It's crazy. I still wouldn't stay there. Shibuya is not one of my favorite places to stay, but it's a nice area to kind of hang around and take a look at. There's the Think Park Plaza, which is where we were, the Mos Burger headquarters. But yeah, you know, if you're going to stay in Tokyo. My recommendation is always going to be Asakusa. If you're on a budget, Asakusa. If you're on a budget, probably Koenji, which is the Brooklyn of Tokyo. They call it that. Brooklynites probably have no idea.

21:11 John Daub: Is that Michael Sassano? It is! Finally made a live stream. Hey, Michael. Looking forward to the live stream from Osaki Station. You are here right now, buddy. And street shadows in the house coming back for honeymoon in January. Oh, how cool is that? Sony employee. Whoa. And that building is our global corporate HQ. Very big and has an employee only FamilyMart inside. What? I have some compliments on some of their cameras here. I wonder if I could knock on the door. I'm here to give you some compliments. I'm very impressed with Sony's service, too. They have a building in Akihabara for camera repair. It's so quick, so painless. Very few people. Because the stuff just works.

21:59 John Daub: And it's such a huge shift from the reputation that Sony had 30 years ago, which was not that good domestically. It's gotten so much better. And that's really cool. I'm happy for their success because I switched to Sony gear from Panasonic. For those that are joining us, welcome to Osaki Station. And I'm taking you now to the JR Station. And then I'm going to go back, head back to Kanae and buy her some dessert. Oh, yeah. It's so good. This station is famous for being Mos Burger's headquarters, Lawson's headquarters, Fujitsu. There are a bunch of other really big companies. And as you saw, Sony, which is the building right up there.

22:50 John Daub: You know what? I just couldn't go Canon. I'm sorry, Canon. I've been waiting and waiting for their cameras, and then they always stifle. They hold back. And Sony probably does that, too. But Sony doesn't hold back like they used to. Canon does. They like give you partially crippled cameras and stuff so that you can't have the full tech. There's a Shinkansen going by. You can't have the full tech right now because they don't want to cannibalize their cinema line. Sony being a new player it's been pretty disruptive and I've been really happy with their gear.

23:32 John Daub: Oh that's futsal! That's like soccer or football but it's futsal on a smaller court. I don't know if we play this abroad but in Japan it's very popular especially for corporate workers as team building exercises. Then you learn that everybody around you stinks and nobody can score a goal because they're so weak from sitting at a desk. Reason to get to the gym. Sponsored by Puma. Right there. Shout out to Puma. I asked Peter von Gomm's son Joji what should we name our child if he's a boy and he said Puma. I have no idea why. I think he was wearing Puma gear.

24:16 John Daub: Oh that's where we were! I think that's a hotel over there and that hotel has one of the best... I think it is. I think that's where maybe that's where Dan stayed and they had an amazing view of the Shinkansen rolling by. Don't ask Joji, Peter von Gomm's son for naming ideas. It's not good. Whatever he's wearing that becomes the name. Nike. Every time he walks past the store called John Lobb, he sends me a picture of him smiling. I don't get it. John Daub, John Lobb. It's totally different. Like high school humor maybe.

25:10 John Daub: All right everybody. What I do know is that Osaki is a pretty cool station. I don't get a chance to come here that often but if you have a reason to maybe you will. Sony employees. But it's on the Yamanote Line and you can make a day trip out of visiting all 29 stations of the Yamanote line and it could be something of an adventure. Oh I have walked around the Yamanote line as a marathon it takes 9 to 12 hours to do that by way it's the same as a full-on marathon it's about 44 kilometers to go all the way around the Yamanote line so you could do that in 12 hours and stop off for drinks and stuff at certain places. I think that's kind of a neat challenge to do that's something interesting to you.

26:01 John Daub: There it is all right everybody thanks so much i gotta get back to Kanae and that burger came out a little early see everybody have a good day have a good night i'll be back tomorrow with another adventure um as i edit all the videos that i took and a couple from Hokkaido a few months ago so there's a main channel barrage of releases imminent see you then thanks Michael thanks David see you guys bye Jason Carey.