00:00:02 John Daub: Hello everybody, welcome to central Tokyo. This is the island of Tsukuda here in Chuo. There's the Tokyo Skytree in the distance. You see it right there. It's a beautiful sight. That's Chuo Ohashi right there. And I'm going to give you a schedule, a rundown of some of the best places to go in Japan for the cherry blossoms. What is the schedule? When is the best time to hit it? Especially right now in 2023.

00:00:27 John Daub: Now you're looking at a mature someiyoshino sakura tree, which we call cherry blossom tree in English, sakura in Japanese. And it's about 15% bloomed. But there are other trees that are further along. It just depends on when you come to Japan and where you're going. Here's the map for the 4th. You can see the forecast for this year from the Japan Meteorological Agency. They're predicting Tokyo to be one of the earliest, around the 20th of March. You can see the layers over the country.

00:01:17 John Daub: Japan is a narrow country, but it does have different temperature zones. So of course that has a big impact. When you say, am I going to be in time for the cherry blossoms? It just depends. It depends on where you're going to go. If you come now, you're going to see them in Tokyo. But there's none up in the north because they haven't even started to bud up there. But if you go down to the west, which is the south, it looks like the bottom of the map, we would say that's West Japan, Kyushu. That's about a week behind Tokyo.

00:01:47 John Daub: Tokyo is going to be always the first place as well as Wakayama and parts of Shikoku. Kochi Prefecture usually pretty quick. And then orange and then pink and purple up there. So you could come in June and see them up in the very north of Hokkaido. So it really just depends on when you come and where you want to go. And that determines if you see them or not.

00:02:14 John Daub: And you'll always see me right here. How you doing, everybody? Yeah, it's a pretty exciting time. Yesterday I took you into Ginza and we could take a look at the people that have returned here. And I haven't seen Japan this crowded since 2019. Or the very beginning of 2020. I was going through Tsukiji Market two days ago in the rain. And there were so many people I could not ride my bicycle through the main street to get to Ginza. Thus, I had to cancel a live stream. Also, it was raining. So it was not the best day.

00:02:49 John Daub: And another thing that's very important when you're coming here for cherry blossoms is the weather. I want to show you the weather forecast for Japan for the next week. Check this out. This is very important. This is from the Japan Meteorological Agency as well, I believe. Tenki.jp is a website. But you can see here it doesn't look good. In fact, today and tomorrow are the two best days for the rest of the week. And since the cherry blossoms are coming out, there's a great chance. Again, it's like Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday. Rain, rain, rain, rain, rain.

00:03:28 John Daub: It does get warmer on Friday. On Friday at 23 degrees, which is like lower 70s maybe? But it's going to rain. It's probably going to be windy too. So I'm hoping that we get through the 27th and the cherry blossoms hang on. Or else we're not going to have a really good Tokyo viewing of the cherry blossoms this year. And it happens. We're at the mercy of the weather. There are times where it's really warm like right now. I'm getting a lot of sun. It feels great. But in about 48 hours, it's completely going to change. It feels like winter again. It's windy. It's cold. I'm wearing shorts right now. I'll probably be wearing pants and a winter jacket. And that's spring at this time.

00:04:16 John Daub: So the cherry blossoms, again, it's so difficult to predict exactly. You can get an idea. But it's impossible to predict the weather. So everyone who's coming here to Japan had better bundle up because you're going to get a very chilly day. So it's going to be a very cold day. I'm going to be looking at what the weather looks like this week that's coming up. I think with the rain. I guess the temperature looks like it's warm. But it's definitely going to feel a lot cooler because there's no sun involved. The sun makes a huge difference. So always check the temperature, the weather, and see what it looks like for the rest of the week here.

00:04:48 John Daub: You can see here Japan is a pretty long country. Let's look first at the top ten places in the top twelve places that this website has said in Tokyo. Japan's list. Tokyo is not my favorite place to go and see the cherry blossoms. It's probably my least favorite. The only reason I think it would be good is if you like the festivals, the parties, you like a lot of people. And I think for the nature, that's not exactly what I'm always looking for. But everybody's different, so Tokyo might be really good.

00:05:23 John Daub: The Meguro River is probably the most popular at night. It's a date spot because you can stroll the river with the person you love, holding hands, and they illuminate the someiyoshino white cherry blossoms, and it looks almost like it had snowed. It's a magical sight, and if you've never seen it before, you definitely have to stop over at the Meguro River. Just go early and leave early because it gets more crowded. It's pretty crazy. You'll get some sakura champagne. You'll see some sakura food being sold by vendors. The last three years have been pretty sad with this. It's been a long time since I've been to a festival, and almost shut down. But this will be the first year where it's back on, so expect it to be very crowded.

00:06:03 John Daub: I think Ueno Park is also going to be quite crowded, and the drinking will be back. So please do take care. I recommend that you maybe take one or two drinks, but don't get wasted in the park this year. I don't want to encourage that at all, please. One of my favorite places is Chidorigafuchi, which is number three on this list. Chidorigafuchi is a strolling park. It's quite crowded at the peak. It's near Yasukuni Shrine, right in the middle of Tokyo, just around the Imperial Palace, which is that big center green area in the central area of the urban region.

00:06:40 John Daub: This is super crowded. You can't get a signal to live stream very well as a result of it. It's near the Indian Embassy and goes around towards the British Embassy around this part of the city of Tokyo. It is just beautiful there. And you have the moat where the blossoms will all fall down, probably around the very end of March. You'll start to see them falling into the moat. So it's worth it just to see the entire moat just filled with white blossoms. It is stunning.

00:07:09 John Daub: Yoyogi Park is a favorite if you like parties. It's not a great park to see the blossoms. It's good for partying. That's Yoyogi Park. That's always been where we would set up the blue sheets and drink with our friends like 15 years ago. Roppongi Hills is nice. A lot of these places are new. Inokashira Park is one of the favorites and maybe the most beautiful and historical places in the city of Tokyo to see the cherry blossoms around a lake there. It's very natural. I think it's a natural setting. There's places where you can hide out in the trees and get a little bit more privacy out there. It's a fairly big park.

00:07:49 John Daub: And there's things to do around Inokashira Park. There's the Mitaka. It's the Ghibli Museum. And then there's, of course, the town. It's on the Chuo Line. Anyway, how can I not forget the town? It's the most livable, the most desirable place to live in Tokyo, too. Kichijoji [?]. And Rikugien Gardens National Park is also on the list as number nine. That's also a beautiful place, but it's quite small. For me, you know, it's not about Tokyo. As I told you, this isn't the greatest place to see the cherry blossoms.

00:08:31 John Daub: Live Japan is what that list is from. You'll see different lists with different rankings. Shinjuku Gyoen, the blossoms bloom at different times. So we've seen in this channel where the cherry blossoms were blooming like in the end of February, depending on the variety and the location. So again, like if you say if you're going to be in time for cherry blossoms, which ones, you know? The festivals? I guess everybody is talking about the festivals, right?

00:09:00 John Daub: I want to walk around this area and give you another look at what it looks like right now for the cherry blossoms here. This is along the Sumida River. I love to come here because it's more residential. It's more open and the riverside is beautiful here. A lot of the cherry blossoms, the sakura, you'll find blooming along the riverside. And that is the best place. They get more light there and more water. And that's all really a big part of it. You can see the big mansions, the big tower condominiums. Yeah, I would say it's about 10 to 15 percent bloomed. So you still got a lot of dark branches on the trees. But it won't be long before it just is all white.

00:09:54 John Daub: I'm just really sad that this year it's going to be cloudy, rainy, and slightly chilly. You can see the hoikuen, kind of the preschools they all come out to during the daytime. All right, check it out. This is a tree closer down to the river. It doesn't get as much sunlight right now. But this one looks like it's about 20 percent bloomed. Just a guesstimate. There's some buds there. Let's go to one that might be a little bit better. See if we can find one that might be in the sun here.

00:10:44 John Daub: Once again, this week is about Tokyo. Next week, probably moving up towards Fukushima and Sendai, right? So it moves up. And you can catch this up for a solid month. The cherry blossoms. Here we go. Zooming in. Wow. Some of Yoshino don't have a smell to them. It's very neutral. The yaizakura had some smell to it. But these didn't have much at all. It is nice. You see the Sumida River. The main waterway going through the central part of Tokyo. You can see a lot of them are just budding. You know they're going to start opening up tomorrow. If I were to come back tomorrow, a lot of these would be way white popping out. It's so close.

00:12:03 John Daub: So here's a map of Japan. I want to talk a little bit while I'm walking down the river. A little bit about the geography of Japan and where some of the best places are to go. We're in Tokyo, the star, the capital. But I would say that the rankings are that the number one place is Nara. Mount Yoshino or Yoshino-san. Yoshino is probably the best place because of the sheer number of cherry blossoms and the different varieties of them. Nara is famous for the deer and, gosh, the parks, the temples. It's a very old capital of Japan.

00:12:52 John Daub: Kyoto is also nice with the temples and shrines, but it's too crowded. So it's never really top on the list. Mito, which is just north of Tokyo, is famous for natto fermented beans. And also the ume blossoms in February. Plum blossoms. These are sakura blossoms. Cherry blossoms. So they're different, but there's some sakura tree right there. Tohoku is one of my favorites. Fukushima is quite famous for it has some of the oldest sakura trees in Japan. And before what happened with the tsunami and earthquake, Fukushima was known for its peaches and for its nature. Its sake. Its onsen, its natural hot springs.

00:13:41 John Daub: I would say Akita, Morioka, Aomori, all of Tohoku is just absolutely stunning. Especially Aomori's number one festival in Japan. According to my book, would be the one up there in Aomori. It's just absolutely beautiful. It really is. And then I remember at Golden Week, which is the beginning of May, they start to bloom in Hakodate. This is crazy, right? They're blooming in Hakodate in May.

00:14:18 John Daub: I didn't think I would get a second chance at this, but six years ago, almost to this day, I started hitchhiking from the very south of Japan and went up to the very north. You can see this on a Blu-ray that I have out in the store, Only in Japan store. I literally went out for adventure, I'll be honest with you. But I also went out at this time to follow the cherry blossoms. And I started out too early in Kyushu. And I found that I caught up with it just after I left Kyushu and like around Fukuoka and was able to follow them up pretty much until I got to Hokkaido, which is amazing. You can see when I got to Hakodate at the end of April, beginning of May. They were out. It was just amazing because like two weeks before, they're finished down where I was two weeks ago. And here they are blooming right here. So it's following nature up. So you can do trips like that. In fact, tailor your Japanese trip to follow the cherry blossoms. Of course, it's a high season and a peak, so it's probably going to be a little pricey to do something like that.

00:15:19 John Daub: Yeah, this is a beautiful area. I'm to the side here because I do know the schedule and I was expecting this. This is also a great place to see. My favorite boat and yours, spaceboat. So let us take a moment out of our schedules to appreciate the magnificence that is spaceboat. No, this boat does not dive down, nor does it fly, although it looks like it could. Right now, the crew is setting up the boat so people can go outside. They wait until after the bridges. They get through all of the bridges down the Sumida River and get into Tokyo. And it's nice because you can leave the belly of the beast and go up to the top there. And from there, you go underneath the Rainbow Bridge to Odaiba. And it's so awesome. You look up and there's the bridge. It's not too expensive to ride this thing. Prices have been going up. But we definitely want them to stay in business.

00:16:29 John Daub: Let's wave to the people here. Is anyone waving back? Oh, there's some people waving. Bye-bye. Bye-bye, spaceboat. I will ride you once again. Even look in the back. They've got these space age windows in the back. This could totally launch to space and be totally fine. They need to add rockets, though. Oh, they just let people up because they're getting underneath the bridge there. Oh, that's awesome. I want to get on that boat.

00:17:18 John Daub: Yeah, this boat will take you through a lot of, you'll go across the river. You'll be able to see a lot of the cherry blossoms, especially at Hama-rikyu Gardens, which is one of the stops before it goes across the bay. It's the way to Odaiba, Hama-rikyu Gardens. So you could jump on this boat at Asakusa, float down the Sumida River, get off at Hama-rikyu Gardens, take a look at the cherry blossoms that cut across to Odaiba for lunch. Sounds like a pretty good plan. And now it's gone. It's coming from the other way, too, pretty soon.

00:17:55 John Daub: Let's go up here and take a look at the sakura one more time. I'll take some of your questions. If you want to ask about the cherry blossoms in Japan, I'm here for you. So let me know. And I'll use my expertise, because I've traveled the country many, many, many times in search of sakura. Looks like there's a tour for visiting residents. Pretty good way to see the city. Look at this one right here. This one, there's almost no blossoms on it. I guess it just depends on where it's located and how much sun it's getting. Well, there's only like three or four that are blossoming, and it's probably because of the sun hitting it.

00:18:51 John Daub: It's like asking, why are some people insane and some people geniuses and some people geniusly insane? I don't know. What makes people different? Trees are the same way. We don't see it, but perhaps they're really different. It's hard to tell. Yeah, you know, at my son's daycare, there's another foreign child. Leo is half. And every time I go in there, somebody thinks that I'm that foreign child. Even though she looks very different than me. She's got blonde hair and blue eyes. They think I'm the father because I'm foreign. So in Japan, all foreigners seem to look alike. I was like, how could I be this girl's child? Just look at me and look at her. That's impossible. But of course, I have a sense of humor about it. I'm not actually angry. I think it's just funny. So I always tell Kanae, yep, they thought I was this other girl's father again. I'm actually Leo's dada. Cute girl, though.

00:20:29 John Daub: This one is going to be beautiful when it pops out. Just like popcorn, really. But you know, at night, there's a lot of places that'll light it up. I used to live in a town called Okazaki. This is where the shogun was born. Tokugawa Ieyasu was born in this city of Okazaki. I lived there for the first 14 months in Japan. And they have a park. It was right across the street from where I lived. I lived in a little town called Kosei-cho inside of Okazaki. And that's where the castle is. And for a week every year, I was there for two of the cherry blossom seasons. They lit it up. I went back the next year. They lit it up. So it looked like it had snowed. And for me, I'd never seen anything like this. It's definitely only in Japan. Just the sheer variety, the sheer volume of the white cherry blossoms, the someiyoshino ones, lit up into these tunnels. It's the most amazing natural sight. Like, why doesn't every country have these cherry blossoms? Maybe the weather? I don't know. But it's just, for a week out of the year, it's so special.

00:21:51 John Daub: Sean808, aloha. Hey, hope to catch you next week in a visit to Japan. I'll be here. Hope to catch some sakura too. I think you'll just be on time. Your timing seems to be pretty good, Sean. There you go. Look at that. These will be out around Wednesday, I think. And by Friday, it'll be full bloomed. So I think by Friday, it's all going to come out. If it's fully bloomed by then, this is the way it goes, okay? All right? After full bloom hits, the first rain and the first wind that's strong knocks them all down. I remember there was a year where the blossoms hung on for like a week after because there wasn't any rain or wind. It was a bizarre year. And we had the cherry blossoms in the same spot for like two and a half weeks. That just does not happen. Those are like the blessed years and the cursed years. And this year, it looks like it's going to be cursed for Tokyo, but it'll be really nice for other places.

00:23:04 John Daub: Gracie just got back from Japan and got some amazing sakura. I'm glad that you got some. Sorry, Mike just popped off there. All right, let me zoom in here. I can see a little pink spot. Let's make it bigger. Again, cherry blossoms, the buds are pink, and then they turn into white blossoms with the someiyoshino. This is the most famous variety. But the kind that you see here, the one that you would eat is called the yaizakura, and they pickle those. Most of the country's yaizakura, they're organic, so they say, and they're grown in Kanagawa, which is not too far away from here. There are farms where they handpick them for the ones in Japan anyway. They handpick them for confections and things like this.

00:23:58 John Daub: So when you can go around Tokyo or Japan, and you'll find it this time of year in particular, the cherry blossoms pickle them. They're pickled on desserts and cookies and yokan inside of sake or certain kinds of booze. They make liqueur, sakura liqueur. They also grind it into a pink powder. The yaizakura is a pink color, not a white color, the flowering, so it looks more pleasing. So when you say cherry blossoms, there's so many varieties of them, and I don't have a graph to tell you, but I know there's about six or seven that are pretty prevalent. The someiyoshino, which is the tree right here, is the most prevalent one, and that's the one that everybody sees and I guess hopes for, and the festivals are around this one. But right now you can see most of the trees look like this. They're just kind of budding here. So you're on time. If you're flying in next week, or this week, or even next week, you should be able to see them in Tokyo.

00:25:06 John Daub: But I'm guessing April 1st is probably going to be too late for Tokyo, and you're going to have to go up to Utsunomiya or Fukushima to catch them, or Sendai even, which is also a beautiful place. I think around where Sendai Castle, the old castle, used to be, I'm sure there's some beautiful cherry blossoms over there, a couple that are popping up. Stunning. I don't know if I'm going to have another time this week to do it, because of the rain and the chill that's forecasted to come in, but I'm going to have to come in here. Let me take some of your questions about this, and I'll put on the map here. This is the map of the cherry blossoms and the forecast for this month. Do you guys have any questions about the cherry blossom season?

00:25:58 John Daub: I always think that you should probably dress warmer. Definitely. I know it's spring, and you see sometimes the weather's really warm, but you have to be prepared for winter-like conditions. At the end of March in Japan, it's just always going to be like that. Can't wait for Ueno. I say it sounds like weino, but I'm saying Ueno. I'm not emphasizing the u. It's just weino. It's there. Ueno is a nice place to go. It's not really my top spot, though. It's beautiful, but I don't think you go there every day.

00:26:43 John Daub: For people, for Japanese, I can't speak for everybody, but I can speak for a lot of my friends, because I've lived in 17 different cities around Japan. The places that people say are their favorites are the places in their neighborhoods. It's a tree that is the most special, where 50 weeks out of the year, it's either green or dark. And then for two weeks out of the year, that tree in their neighborhood is just special. And you walk by it every day. And for this small period of time, it just becomes really special. And those are the trees that most locals here in Japan love the most. The trees that are around them that bloom in their neighborhoods, not out to the tourist attractions.

00:27:33 John Daub: Now, if you're a tourist visiting, of course, Ueno Park's going to be maybe one of your top places. But for me, when I lived in Shinozaki, in Edogawa Ward in Tokyo, Shinozaki Park was one of my favorites. And it's still one of my favorite places to go. Because it's close, it's not crowded, and it's just, I know these trees. And it's funny that they have this blossom thing for two weeks. It's just funny to me that trees do this. Still, even now. But I would say Ueno is too crowded. Chidorigafuchi in Yoyogi Park.

00:28:10 John Daub: Tamara writes in John Bright because of the rain. Yeah, I tried to get them in now, but the thing is, there's just not a lot of them. I mean, it's hard to appreciate it. Like, I just want to jump into this bunch here, because this is the most beautiful bunch. But it's hard to go to these places to appreciate the blossoms when they're not at least at 50% yet, which is the curse of this coming week with the temperatures coming.

00:29:14 John Daub: Takkun writes in here, is sakura season a good time to visit for vacation or is it too busy? That's a great question. I have a great answer. So you can still see it here. It's not too busy, I wouldn't say, but I can tell you right now, Tokyo is just too busy. It's crazy the amount of tourists that are here. I don't think there's going to be a normal time anymore. But if you're looking at the big parks, the tourist parks and cities, the big parks and cities, they're going to be crowded. The cherry blossoms are everywhere, though. They're not just in one big park. They're in the entire city. They're in the entire country. They're everywhere.

00:30:04 John Daub: So there are places where you can go to appreciate it, but if you're coming here to go to the big parks, they're going to be crowded. But if you're coming here for the cherry blossoms, for the seasons, you're going to have places like this where you have the cherry blossoms, and there's almost nobody around because it's a residential neighborhood that's about 10 minutes from Tokyo Station. This is Tsukuda, just across from the bridge. Like, if you just go straight from this bridge, you get to Tokyo Station. There's almost nobody here. So you don't get a lot of people in the residential neighborhoods except for the residents. But if you're going to Ueno Park, you're going to Shinjuku Gyoen, you're going to Yoyogi Park, you're going to have a lot of people there because they're going there to drink. They're going there to party because there's some food stands there, and it's fun.

00:30:52 John Daub: But if you're looking for the natural scenery and just to relax underneath the cherry blossoms the way, I guess, they would be doing for centuries, the way the samurai did it, it's a time to look for internal peace and enjoy that life is short, just like these blossoms, and they're here for a moment, and then they're gone. And that's the beauty of them, and that's the comparison to everyday life that people in Japan, I guess, not everybody nowadays, but they say the samurai did.

00:31:28 John Daub: It's a great question. For me, I think I see the cherry blossoms maybe different than other people do in some way. Just, you know, in the beginning, I was just, my mouth was open like, I can't believe how beautiful this is. And now, it's just like a time of year where you just stop everything to admire nature, and that's so important in life because everything moves so quickly right now. These cherry blossoms move quickly too. They're just here for a week, and you're getting to see the start of it right now with the river.

00:32:08 John Daub: All right, everybody, I hope this is useful for you. You can go ahead and write questions down below, but this is a time of year. I know there's so many really tough things going on around the world. There's things that are way out of our control. You know, the war that's going on in Ukraine and everyone's sending really positive vibes and prayers that they can get through this really tough time. On the other side of the world, in a peaceful place like Japan, right now, we don't have an earthquake going on, so it's all peaceful. You have to stop and admire the beauty and send this beauty to everybody else around the world. This is what YouTube is really good for. We can share this kind of stuff with you. I don't smell anything. There's nothing there.

00:33:06 John Daub: Yorisa writes in here, how about Kyoto? I mean, they have temples and shrines. Kyoto is just too crowded for me. I think there's some places away from the center of Kyoto. Kyoto is actually a prefecture, okay? It's a state, like. So you can go out into the countryside of Kyoto and it is absolutely beautiful. There's no question. But when you say, how about Kyoto? How about Nara? You're asking about the tourist places and they're all going to be really packed. And it's all going to feel a little bit uncomfortable, maybe. Whereas like here, you can put down a blue sheet on the ground like right down here. You just put a blue sheet. You bring some sandwiches, a couple of bentos, a six pack of water or sake. And you have fun. And that's what the cherry blossoms mean to me.

00:34:01 John Daub: To get Leo, to get Kanae, to get her family to come out and for a day stop everything and just have a picnic under the trees. Something called hanami. Hana means flower and mi means to see. So cherry blossom viewing is what it means. So just to do hanami underneath the sakura, that's such a great thing to do. But if you're asking about what is Kyoto, like you can't really do hanami. You're basically walking. There's a lot of people. It's loud. But there are places in Kyoto that are also quiet. And I look for those places for this time of year. But there's no question taking a photo with the dark brown of a temple and the striking white blossoms, it is beautiful. It is really beautiful. It's just, there's a million people that are thinking the same thing. And they all go.

00:34:55 John Daub: You just have to look around. Here's the weather map for the rest of the week. It looks bad. I see Chana's here in the trunk. How you doing? It does look pretty bad, the weather. Jennifer French is here. Hey, Jennifer. Thank you for these Sakura updates. Were you thinking of Kichijoji earlier? I was. Since my friends Simon and Martina are no longer living there that I know of. I think Simon is in Portugal. And I guess Martina's here. They used to live there. And I would go to Kichijoji just to go to visit them. Hang out at their house and drink coffee. But they're not there.

00:35:44 John Daub: You're very welcome, Chana and Jennifer and everybody. And tomorrow, I'm going to see what Peter's doing. But it's the last day where the weather is like this. So we'll try to take advantage of that because the rest of the week looks miserable. Right? So we'll go out and see what we can find. Maybe there's a festival going on. There's some food stands going on. Maybe there's some that has started someplace. So I'll try to find that and take you there tomorrow to really enjoy it. But it looks like this weekend on the 25th and 26th. It might be raining, but maybe there's some periods where it's not raining or the weather changes where it's not raining. And I can go out and show you that festival because this is what it means to me.

00:36:27 John Daub: But I want to show you what a normal sakura festival is like, the cherry blossom festival is like. And you don't get a chance to see that. We haven't gotten a chance to see that for the last three years. So I myself as a human person want to take my family and do that. And I can share a little bit of that with you because I think it's a cool time. But the weather looks pretty bad. And it looks like around the 28th, 29th, it'll be good again. So I just hope, please, please sakura, hang in there until the weather turns good again. One week from now, we're like the quiet before the storm.

00:37:25 John Daub: Joshua Skidmore is here. Thanks for the weather report as well. I'll make sure to bring a jacket. Please do when I get to Japan in a few days. Thanks again for the great videos. You're welcome, Joshua. Yeah, if you forget your jacket, you can pick one up at Uniqlo. The one in Ginza is a skyscraper and they still have winter stuff up. I think it's on the seventh floor. But they have in different sizes too, all the way up to XXXXL, which is awesome. Because I have some family members that are just tall and they need those larger size. You got to go to the Ginza shop. Because they have those extra large sizes, but they still have some winter things for people who forget it or going to the southern hemisphere because it's winter down there.

00:38:29 John Daub: There's the map for the rest of you. I will try to travel and see some of the cherry blossoms as well on this channel. So definitely hit the subscribe button and join me as I go from place to place and take you with me. I'll be traveling again. I got two episodes to upload this month. So we have 10 more days left. And then I'm back on to a very hard production schedule, a lot of editing. I'm going back to the editing right now. Get back on my bicycle. All right, everybody. Have a good day. Have a good night. I hope this is really fun for you. I like sharing. See you tomorrow.

00:39:19 John Daub: Yeah, if you'd like to talk more about this, head to Discord. Only in Japan Discord server. We have a community of people talking about the cherry blossoms right now. Bye-bye.