00:04 John Daub: Hello everybody, welcome to Haneda Airport Terminal 1. I don't often get here, but today I thought this would be a great opportunity to show you JAL's side of Haneda Airport. Terminal 2 is mostly dedicated to ANA, All Nippon Airways, one of the two national carriers of Japan. This one is the other, and we've got an amazing view here. Check this out. If you look right over the tail, you can see Mount Fuji. We're going to have an amazing view of Mount Fuji from the air today, as the sun just came up about an hour ago or less. It's just coming up right now. Look at that. This is from Haneda Airport.

00:54 John Daub: It's such a clear sky today. It's going to be an incredible flight. I'm heading to Kochi, which is a 90-minute flight. Wow. That's how you start a live stream. Now, I'm not a big fan of JAL. Over the years, their pilots have been sort of dodgy, and I just don't think JAL has such an identity despite being called Japan Airlines. I mean, Blue Sky is the name of their shop, and it's a red sign. It just never made sense to me. And I noticed Terminal 1 is just so much more chaotic than Terminal 2.

01:34 John Daub: I think maybe because JAL has been bankrupted in the past. I don't know the reasons exactly, but it's just a different experience. Both of them are really good airlines, but I always thought ANA was just a little bit ahead. Now, I'm heading to gate number 5B for my flight to Kochi, and we'll stop along the way. Maybe we'll see something interesting. Here you can see some of the flights taking off. There's an ANA, a JAL flight going where? I don't know. But it is such a beautiful sight to see an airport. I just love being here. And again, there's Mount Fuji right over the gate. That's just so cool to see, isn't it?

02:43 John Daub: How you doing, everybody? Good morning. Yeah, so I'm gonna try to make my way to the gate here. But you can see this is such a beautiful scene. I love flying. And the Shinkansen is really nice too, but there's just something special about flying. Alright, let's make our way to the gate. That's so cool.

03:11 John Daub: Alright, let's go to the gate here. Check this out. There's a playground here as well. Something of notice. Alright, we're gonna keep walking. It's called the Power Lounge. This is a really different experience than Terminal 2. I don't know why. Maybe it's because it's not as good.

04:06 John Daub: Every country has their national carrier. Japan has two. America has several major carriers. I don't think the United States has a national carrier. But you have allegiances. You're United, you're American Airlines, you're Delta, you're Continental if they're still here. For me, I just have a lot of miles on ANA. But this is a job where I'm working with the prefecture. I think it's the prefecture of Kochi, but I wanted to go down there and introduce Ningen.

04:52 John Daub: So a robot is going to be welcoming me. Oh look, cheesecake. It looks like Pac-Man. That's an apple cheesecake. Actually, there's some onigiri. I might get a water here. Okay. I'm not going to use all these elements because you don't usually eat on the flight; they don't serve you food. These are rosukatsu sandwiches, breaded pork cutlet sandwiches; they're quite popular. I'm not actually that hungry but this looks really interesting. This is like a combination of a tempura and rosukatsu sandwich. Not sure. This one looks like it's the best. This is a sandwich of an egg sandwich with chicken katsu. I think I'll get that. Just something to nibble on in case I'm getting hungry up there. Right now, no one is sitting next to me on the plane. So that's kind of a good thing. Empty seat.

07:06 John Daub: Thank you. Please stand at the seat in front of you. Please stand here. Please take a seat. This looks really good too. Man, Japan does confections like no other. I was telling you a little bit about omiyage (souvenir gifts) and gifts that you need to buy. I'm not bringing anything with me to Kochi. It's such a short trip. Hey, Craig Kawaguchi is in the house. Thank you, Craig. Guys, I'll be in Kochi in an hour and a half. I'm going to be doing a live stream around 11, 11:30 at a little town called Ino. And Ino is very famous for paper, washi paper (traditional Japanese paper). There's a washi paper museum. I believe it's closed. I'm not sure exactly. But it's a really beautiful little town.

08:15 John Daub: And this is one of the purposes of this channel: to take you with me on trips and show you things that are off the beaten path on a more regular basis, which I can do with these live streams, which is really exciting. And I'm about to go to do a live stream here. I'm not sure if I'm going to be introducing the robot or not, but it's a little accessory robot. It's a robot that you attach to your shoulder that also can translate for you. And it's good for people that have issues with their vision or with their hearing because the robot has sensors that can see and hear. And it translates also in Japanese. So if you're walking into a shop, someone says Japanese, it'll translate into English for you. I'm really curious about this because I think that'd be something great for travelers, not just people that have vision impairments.

09:07 John Daub: Let's see what this thing has to offer, because I'm so interested in how Japan uses robots as a solution, whereas the rest of the world thinks robots are scary and going to take over the world, Skynet and all that. That's the opposite here in Japan. They see robots as the solution for a lot of the weaknesses that we have in society. All right, we're almost there. It's called NINNIN if you want to Google it. N-I-N-N-I-N. Same with a robot. And I wanted to do this last year, but I didn't get a chance to. Now I can do it this year.

09:47 John Daub: You see the World Cup is not really on the forefront anymore in Japan. I don't know. Is anyone watching the World Cup? Maybe it's because of the political stuff going around it. I'm not sure, but it's not really as watched as in the past. Terminal 1 is available through the monorail. Of course, buses, hotel buses. It's really easy to get to Haneda Airport. Much easier than Narita in many ways. Wow, this airport. Look at all this space here. I'm just going to pan around this direction.

10:37 John Daub: Well, this vending machine. Let's see what they got. Sometimes you can just pick up a sandwich from one of these vending machines and it's pretty good. This one's always got the egg salad sandwich with the ham and potato salad mix. That's a go-to here in Japan. Donuts. Oh, this is from Family Mart. Oh, that cinnamon roll looks like that could really do some damage. I'm kind of hungry. I wasn't hungry a couple of minutes ago. I started looking at food. I started getting hungry. Well, they even have Japanese Pringles here.

11:20 John Daub: Again, you can use your IC card, which is a Suica or Kokica that's from Osaka. The different regions have their own cards here. But when you do arrive in Japan, get one of those because they're just so useful, not just for public transportation. But if you go into the convenience store, you just want to get a drink or something. You just touch it. See, and they have it here on these vending machines. It just makes it easier to get it. And it's a little bit cheaper, too. I should have gotten the water here. All right, let's just take a quick look to see if they have anything else of interest before I go in and board my flight here. Hey, Josh. Oh, Josh has to get the cinnamon roll. I'm going to have to go back. That's evil. I love it. My flight's at 7:35, so I have a little bit of time left.

12:25 John Daub: Kukoben. I guess it's like in New York. They have something called the Hudson, which is like a tourist shop. You can get mugs. This is the domestic terminal, so you don't have a lot of souvenir stuff. Not as many. So there are wireless charging ports here, but there's no wireless charging, I guess. There's no coffee shops here. That's interesting. There's another Fly Red or Fly Blue with a red sign. They can't use blue because that's ANA's color. It'd be confusing. But they can't say Red Sky. Blue is a better color for airlines, I think, but they can't say it's a red sky, I guess, because it's the sun coming up. Beautiful.

13:34 John Daub: Yeah, guys. So if you're interested, try to make some time for around between 11 and 12 Japan Standard Time. And I'm going to set up the live stream as soon as I arrive in Kochi, talk with the people and see when the best time is to do that. But I think like 11 to 12 is the best time. I think that's what it's going to be, the time we do this live stream. I want to make sure we have a strategy as well. And I want to understand the walking path that we're going to do. And then I'll schedule the stream because I'm not sure exactly what time, but it's going to be somewhere between 11 and 12 today in high definition. Here's the gate. There's my gate to Kochi. Wow. It's boarding really soon. So I guess they're boarding now. Do you see that? Got the bows. Yeah. So I'll see you guys in a few hours. If you have any questions you can ask me right now. I'll give it a minute because we have some time. Let's go see if we can still see Mount Fuji over here. If you have some questions, write it in the chat right now.

14:44 John Daub: And I also want to show you before we leave what does it look like on the other side of the terminal? I went through security. Let me talk a little bit about that experience. It wasn't that great. Security was also pretty chaotic. And here's what it looks like. So this is the other side of the terminal here. These computer monitors where you can use QR codes to check in. And then these are the luggage terminals where you will hand in your luggage. You can see the one guy just put it on the belt. I guess you scan your QR code on the screen on the left side there. You put it on that belt and it'll take it away. ANA has got these little capsule pods that look like space. But this is, I guess, more standard. But it's kind of cool with the domestic luggage check-in. You do it with these terminals here. That's pretty cool.

15:54 John Daub: Here's the check-in terminal. And you can see there's not a lot of people. They move pretty quickly, but they have different machines, more like the U.S. type of machines compared to the ones that they have in other places in the other terminal. So I thought it's a little bit more chaotic and it took a lot more time. Hey Bradshaw Studio, thanks. You're not allowed to film in front of the machines and all of that, but you can do it from inside the terminal from a distance there. I think that Terminal 1 is a little bit more chaotic than Terminal 2. Am I just because I'm somewhat partial to ANA than to JAL? We say ANA in Japan for ANA. So maybe, but yeah, every now and then it's nice to fly JAL. I do have a mileage card. It doesn't have a lot of miles on it. I got to use that, but should be a good flight. And I'll tell you all about it when I get to the other side. But if you have any questions, by all means, let me know.

16:55 John Daub: Is it worth getting a tour guide for visiting Japan? It depends. A tour guide can really bring out your trip by giving you information and snippets of history and local knowledge. It does make a huge difference. I've done a couple of these magical tours. I don't even know if they're still in business in Hiroshima and in Kyoto. And having a guide show you some of the significance of the buildings as you walk by and then take you into restaurants that they know and can introduce new food that you've never tried before, that in itself really has a lot of value. But I'm not a tour guide type of person. But sometimes having a guide really does help. It's just on a case-by-case basis. And if you have the money and if you feel interested in it, some people just want to walk around and get lost like I do. So it's a good question. But there's a lot of companies that are doing that guiding here. Nice question. Alright everybody, I'm off. They're calling me over there. Diamond class. See ya.