00:01 John Daub: Hello everybody, welcome to the suburbs of Tokyo. This is Unoki Station, about four stops away from Kamata Station on the Tokyu Tamagawa Line. We're going to take you live from here to there on a suburban train in Tokyo. How you doing everybody? It's a beautiful Sunday afternoon, late afternoon. We just got finished filming a shoot.

00:35 Kanae Daub: Hi, good afternoon.

00:36 John Daub: Kanae's helping me on this episode that I'm producing for December. It was a pretty interesting and enlightening episode. Oh, there goes the train! It's not that big. This is going in the other direction. We have about four minutes. The great thing about these stations in the suburbs is that they're so small. As well as all of the houses, you can see how close everything really is out here. The Tokyo suburbs, it's certainly different than you would get from Shibuya. Yesterday's livestream, walking around that area, it's certainly very, very homey. You have the telephone poles above. The little businesses, family-run businesses. It's kind of nice to see.

01:31 John Daub: Now this station, Unoki, is not very big. I thought this is a perfect example to take you through the suburbs. This is going to be fun. I don't know if we can sit in the absolute front, but we'll be looking out the window. When we get to Kamata Station, which is about seven or eight minutes of riding the train, we'll take a quick look around there and then take some questions at the end of it. Again, this is a livestream bringing you the suburbs of Tokyo, an area that I don't think many people come here.

02:05 Kanae Daub: No? Just this bento sign. Two cats eating from a bowl. That's cute.

02:13 John Daub: You've never been here, have you? Wow, someone was here. See the new world. I went to Unoki during the 2018 Japan trip through Kamata Station.

02:27 Kanae Daub: Really?

02:28 John Daub: Hey, Randania's here. There's a boba. Is that a boba tea place? You wouldn't expect it here. In just a minute, we got to... I think the other side, Kanae.

02:42 Kanae Daub: Yeah.

02:43 John Daub: This is Tokyu, not JR, so you can get the other side. Look at the tracks here. That's where we're going. Look at the grass growing on it. This is so different than central Tokyo with the subway. There's a FamilyMart here. There's a sign for Unoki. I'm so happy you guys are joining us for this. How you doing, Randania?

03:17 Kanae Daub: You hungry? You just want to stay at Unoki?

03:19 John Daub: Is that a jazz club? I don't know. I think it's famous for jazz, maybe. There's a saxophone there. At first, I thought it was a pint of beer. All right. You can see here that the tickets are not too expensive to get around here. Look at the Sugoca card. This is what's from Kagoshima, and they actually have it listed here as one of the IC cards they could use. So that's kind of neat to see. How much is it to Kamata? 130 yen. Yeah. It's good to Tamagawa. So we're going this way, right? There's only six stations. Seven stops. That's crazy. All right, let's get in here.

04:14 John Daub: I love the accessibility here. Even though it's a local station, they have ramps for people in wheelchairs or with luggage. A lot of that has changed in Tokyo over the last few years because of the Olympics and the Paralympics. It was good that it was held here because of that. Accessibility has gotten way better.

04:35 Kanae Daub: Could we have timed this better?

04:35 John Daub: No way. I'm going to go in the front. All right, we're going to be pretty quiet because it is a little bit more crowded than I thought. Enjoy the view from the window as we go through the beautiful suburbs of Tokyo. I'm starting to realize that this is not the most exciting side of the train. I wonder if I can run to the back of the train, maybe. So we're still wearing masks on public transportation. Everybody has the masks on. I think it's a good thing, especially in crowded areas like this.

06:10 Kanae Daub: No, Halloween's tomorrow, the 31st.

06:24 John Daub: [Japanese inaudible]. It is hard to see through the window. It's not yet done. Let's go to the other side. May we? Because there's no sign. I'm going to go there.

07:13 Kanae Daub: Okay.

07:15 John Daub: I'm not going there. No... You go to the hotel.

07:26 Kanae Daub: Hell no.

07:28 John Daub: [Inaudible]. Let's get out of here, wait a minute. Dude, my fucking face... Bye, family. Hello. Like my family? I would. I can't see anime. I don't know. Maybe I can watch some anime.

08:09 Kanae Daub: What?

08:11 John Daub: What are you watching first?

08:13 Kanae Daub: Momoko and dad and daughter-in-law.

08:16 John Daub: Oh, dad and daughter-in-law.

08:17 Kanae Daub: What? Let's watch Star Family's animation.

08:20 John Daub: What? I want to take a picture of this. I'm not used to it. How much is it?

08:26 Kanae Daub: I guess it'll be on date. I'm not going to wait until I get to the day. How long does it take?

08:32 John Daub: I think it'll take about a day or two.

08:34 Kanae Daub: I feel like I'm going to taste something that I haven't eaten yet. This is the next destination.

08:44 John Daub: You can see the Tokyu line from here.

08:47 Kanae Daub: I see. It's a line that goes straight down. This is a black line. It's red. It's on the line. That's why it's always like this.

09:12 John Daub: I'm going to buy this or this from the store.

09:19 Kanae Daub: I will definitely get a test for my kanji. I will definitely get a test from the store. I don't know which one to buy. I want to buy a lot of delicious drinks. I'm sure that will be a lot of drinks. I want to buy a lot of champagne. I think it's better to buy a lot of champagne than champagne. I think so too. I think it's better to buy a lot of champagne. The cost is about 0.3 million yen. The price is about 0.3 million yen. But the price of 0.3 million yen is lower than that. The price is about 2 billion yen. So it's a good deal. I'm going to buy a lot of Japanese drinks. This is a delivery service. Here are people who are on an express train. I'm going to buy it.

11:03 John Daub: We're here!

12:22 John Daub: Welcome to Kamata. But everybody was saying, hello, Kanae. Welcome to Kamata Station. Sorry, the train got a little bit too crowded, so we didn't say too much. But this is the Tokyu Tamagawa Line. It says right there. There's Kanae saying hi to everybody. You can see it's quite a local line. It's not very big. It's just three cars long. Again, it's like a suburban line, so the population of Tokyo is quite high, but in this area, the trains are more frequent and smaller. And that seems to be a better way for this particular line. Whereas the Keihin-Tohoku Line that we're going to take next is much, much longer and still frequent because of the amount of ridership that goes on here. Tokyu is one of the private lines that they have in the city of Tokyo. So let's take a look at the station for a couple of minutes, and then we're going to take the Keihin-Tohoku Line.

13:20 Kanae Daub: Is there something?

13:23 John Daub: Yeah. It's Kamata. Is it famous for anything?

13:25 Kanae Daub: Yeah, Kamata is famous for gyoza (dumplings).

13:28 John Daub: Gyoza? I never heard of that. Kamata gyoza? I think so. I thought it was just an interchange, but I guess I was wrong. Hey, Aiken's in the house. It is really... There's a Kobe bakery. I've never been to Kamata Station, or at least I think I have once, but I don't really remember much of it. The station pretty much connects. It's the JR with the Tokyu Tamagawa Line, and you can see that we are already at the entrance to JR. There's a Uniqlo in here?

14:17 Kanae Daub: What?

14:22 John Daub: The great thing about these IC cards here, the Suica and the Sugoca and all the other cards, is that you don't have to... You have an Akitaka, you have the Sapporo one. This is the... Check this out. This is Kyushu. That's Hokkaido. The flying squirrels, that's really cute. Then there's the frog of Sugoca. That's okay. All right, we're taking the Keihin-Tohoku Line.

15:03 Kanae Daub: This way.

15:04 John Daub: Yeah. Yeah, this way, I think. So there's not a lot to the station. There's one of those digital vending machines. Leo is with grandpa right now, and that's where we're going to go get him now.

15:19 Kanae Daub: You going back to your house?

15:22 John Daub: Yeah. Oh, okay. Wow, so this is the terminus for the Keihin-Tohoku Line.

15:29 Kanae Daub: What?

15:31 John Daub: So the Keihin-Tohoku Line starts here at Kamata. That's kind of significant. Yeah, let's go to the front. I think we have some time, maybe. Or usually I run, so we could do that. I always like the front trains. It's usually less crowded because it's so far away to get to there. People don't like to walk. Kanae, I don't think we're going to make it. I think the train is going to depart in like 10 seconds. Oh, look, the sunset's coming. It starts to get dark really early in Tokyo. All right, we're not going to make it to the front. Oh my God, there's so few people here.

17:46 John Daub: [Japanese inaudible]. Please be careful. I like that space for baby cars and wheelchairs. That's great. The sun is setting, and there's going to be this really beautiful purple sky in October, at least recently. We've been having these really beautiful sunsets when there are almost no clouds on the horizon. Yeah, I'm glad that you guys are enjoying this. We're going to cut off in a minute here, but it's funny. The trains really aren't that crowded right now, and people are still at work. But in a couple of hours, it's going to be very crowded.

19:09 John Daub: This is actually Ōta (one of the 23 wards of Tokyo). Ōta is the one closest to Kanagawa and Yokohama. So that's where we were to film today. Oh, you can see the platform is a lot more crowded. Kanae is already sitting down.

19:46 John Daub: All right, guys, if you like this, click the like button. If you enjoy these train videos, let me know because I might try to hit some more local train lines. It's just super interesting to take a look at the life in Tokyo in particular. Train culture is so strong. Because people don't have cars that much because the parking is so expensive, it just makes sense to take the train. So it can be quite an experience just that. So we'll go one more station here. This is the part of the stream where you can let me know where you're watching from and when you're coming to Japan. Come on. The next station is Oimachi. We're going through Dean Newcomb's hometown. How you doing, Dean? We're waving. That's pretty cool. Welcome to Tokyo. The next station is Oimachi, Oimachi. Doors on the right side go to Ōtsuki. Please change for the Tōkyū Ōimachi Line and the Tokyo Rinkai Gozafuku Zensu Rinkai Line.

22:46 John Daub: Well, I'm coming right away. All right. I hope you enjoyed that. That's the Keihin-Tohoku Line. Thanks everybody for watching. I'll see you in the next livestream tomorrow. We're off.