00:00:00 John Daub: Hello everybody, welcome to Tokyo. It's midnight and this is a Tokyo midnight cherry blossom safari. Check it out. This is what I'm talking about. Every cherry blossom season I'll come out here with a flashlight and I'll take you around my neighborhood or a place close by and show you what looks like snow on the trees.

00:00:23 John Daub: I think it's at nighttime when the cherry blossoms are the most magical because the dark sky, the contrast with the white blossoms is just incredible. And now that we've upgraded the live streams to 1080p, I think perhaps you'll be able to get an even more beautiful view of them. Check it out.

00:00:44 John Daub: This is my favorite tree just down here. The signal's not too good, but I'm going to show you a video. Hold on a second. The weather is really bad. I'm going to show you a video of what it looked like. You can see the tree. The rain is coming down. There's a puddle here. I'm going right through it. How you doing everybody? Welcome. It is a little bit past midnight. I got to keep it down because I'm in a residential neighborhood, but this is one of my favorite places for the cherry blossoms.

00:00:56 John Daub: And you can see we're at full bloom, which is beautiful. And no rain, no chill, no wind is going to stop me from coming out and doing what I do, which is this. So thanks everybody for joining me for the next 20, 30 minutes or so. Look at it. It really looks like some kind of magical. You need a flashlight to really appreciate it, to make it glow. But it looks like it's winter. It looks like it's January or something. It's pretty incredible.

00:01:31 John Daub: Bradshaw Studio, Josh Schneider, thank you guys. Welcome. I'm going to take you across the street. It's even more beautiful over there. Is that even possible? I'm going to have to continuously wipe the screen. There's not much I could do about it. But we're in the center of Tokyo. You can see the cherry blossoms right there.

00:02:04 John Daub: We're going to walk down where there are a bunch of them across the street on a green light here. And I'll take you around an area. I probably came here last year too. It doesn't really matter because every year is special. This one in particular has rain. You can see across the street. There's the cherry blossoms there. I'm hoping that this light will turn real quickly because this is chilly. All right, good. There are a couple of my favorite blossoms right in front of us.

00:02:39 John Daub: And I was here last week and there were one or two. And I think it's important to show what a couple of days does. Let me get the flashlight out here. What a couple of days can do. Look at this. Oh my gosh, it's so beautiful. Wow. Midnight snack run. This is from Josh Schneider. Midnight snack run for old time sake. Really? There's no sake involved. Wow.

00:03:19 John Daub: I love these long walkways. Nobody here because it is, you know, like almost 1am. It is just beautiful. Wow. It's crazy beautiful. I could stay inside and, you know, admire it from a window. But it's just, you know, you have to get a little wet sometimes on days like this because they're not going to be here forever. They're not going to wait for you. You have to go to them. That's true love. I don't know what I'm talking about. Oh my gosh.

00:04:16 John Daub: Okay, here you go. Turn the camera around. We've got a lot to appreciate here. Let me see if I can get some of the water off of the lens. I'm completely soaked. All right. Boom. Yeah, Josh, I know what you meant. Thanks for the super chat, buddy. I'm just in your leg here. We're having a good time. Look at the way they just dance, right? This tree had a couple of blossoms in the middle of it if we compare it to just a week ago.

00:05:07 John Daub: And now look at it. And they're at full bloom at this time. They will hang on in rain and wind but not for very long. And I'm hoping that this is going to pass maybe tomorrow and then we'll still get a few days extra of cherry blossoms because next week I want to enjoy it on the weekday when there's not going to be a lot of people. Places like Nakameguro (中目黒), for example, the river there, they're incredibly crowded. It really is hard to appreciate nature when you're surrounded by 10,000 people like in your face.

00:05:54 John Daub: That's why you come to places like this and you come at times like this and you probably won't bring a light like this because yeah just make sure if you do go to residential area don't shine the light into people's windows because that you might not make any friends. Wow this is like a tunnel a cherry blossom tunnel. Sometimes you'll have street lights that illuminate them but you really do have to bring your own light to really appreciate it just a little bit more.

00:06:28 John Daub: And I would totally get some midnight snacks but I kind of stopped doing that because it wasn't good for me eating at midnight and it's not good for you either. You can see how windy it is right now. I have a mic to cover that cover it so it's not too windy and hopefully this is coming in at 1080p beautiful HD size comparably looking back at the years that we've been doing these live streams and 720p when I started in 2017 we had 480p we didn't even have 720p so we've come a long way with live streaming but you can't do that with a camera so I'm gonna show you how it works.

00:07:03 John Daub: I'm gonna stop the elements the wind the chill the rain it's really chilly I got shorts on because if I had pants on it would just get wet I got shorts and sandals on. Alright I'm gonna walk over towards a place where we're gonna be able to see the Tokyo Skytree. Let's see if I can muffle the wind a little bit put the mic inside. I do have an umbrella but it's hard to do both all right let me show you while we're walking towards there my favorite tree in this neighborhood.

00:07:40 John Daub: So what I like about it is that it's at the base of a stairway and it kind of reminds me of maybe like a scene from The Exorcist or something in a beautiful way. I mean it is dark at night and wet streets but the way that this cherry blossom tree just hovers over the stairway it's really beautiful. And I would go running here when I was in better shape a few years ago quite a bit but now I just walk around the neighborhood in the rain and appreciate it. The rain also makes the bark a little bit darker adding more contrast to it.

00:08:23 John Daub: Here I'm gonna walk up the steps a little bit and then look back at the tree and you can see just how beautiful it is at night in particular gonna wipe the lens there. Yeah if I pan down from it you can see the two streets as a beautiful footpath that you can run on and this tree just like welcomes you and for a week out of the year it's like this. It's just so magical. That might be my favorite tree in this neighborhood.

00:09:04 John Daub: It's not a big tree. It's not a massive tree with a lot of people picnicking around it. It's really hard to do something like that. But it's a tree that I like because I see it a lot. And for me, at this time of year, this is when you see that tree that you walk by every year in its full glory, in its full beauty. And that's, to me, it's a special time for that reason. Because youth and beauty is short, and we must appreciate it. Like this.

00:09:41 John Daub: This is a bigger sakura tree. This one's not... Wow, this one's got some time to bloom here. I see Michael Sassano is here. How you doing? This one is still blooming, so we have a couple of days. That bodes well for us, folks. So, for those of you that are coming, these trees, some of them might be hanging on for a little bit longer.

00:10:08 John Daub: Another reason why I wanted to come out at midnight was to just also gauge how long the sakura season is going to be in Tokyo. If the blossoms are flying off right now and we have the blizzard of white petals, then we know for sure that there's not going to be a lot remaining next week. But because it looks like... I should have brought a towel. It looks like these blossoms are going to hang on. As long as this wet stuff goes away. Which it's forecasted to.

00:10:35 John Daub: We're still going to have a fairly decent cherry blossom festival next week, which bodes well for the city of Tokyo as well, because we definitely need that. There's a lot of people visiting Japan right now, in particular Tokyo, who don't know about going to the countryside, who don't know the countryside, who want to see the cherry blossoms. So this is great. You can just look down below. You see a few petals, but you really don't see a lot of them. Get to shine the light on it here. You see a few, right? That's good news.

00:11:11 John Daub: Oh, gosh, the wind is strong. All right, let's walk over to the corner. I think we can see the Tokyo Skytree in the distance. Out here, it is a little creepy and there's a part of me I've been editing all day today. There's a part of me that's in my mind feels like there are zombies around. I don't know why. Just be on the lookout for that.

00:11:48 John Daub: This is a smaller Somei Yoshino (染井吉野) tree that was probably planted in the last couple of years, but it still blossoms very well. And you can see we have a very impressive flow for a young and give it another 10 years. There's a tree in Fukushima that is 1000 years old. You need a car to get there. That is considered one of the most important trees in Japan.

00:12:21 John Daub: Look at the one here. This one has a streetlight that is flowing from. I'm going to clean the lens again. So that streetlight really does do a great job of bringing out that white blossom color. Hold on a second. Yeah, there you go. It's a little bit better. I don't have to even use this light very much, but the way that these blossoms flow down to the river, too, you can see there's some lights on the river that adds to the view as well.

00:13:03 John Daub: I'm not so afraid of Sadako. I think we would get along very, very well. I mean, she can't even see anything. I think now that we started talking about it, let's stop because it's slightly creepy. Keep it to ourselves. Hey, like peach. 14 months. Thank you so much. We have some really long term members here, and I'm so grateful for that.

00:13:49 John Daub: OK, we're coming up to another row of cherry blossom trees. This area is called Tsukuda (佃). It's an original island in Tokyo Bay. I believe the only original island. The rest of it was manmade, built out. It's starting with Shinkawa (新川), which is across the river here. That was built manmade in the Edo period. But this rock was where Osaka fishermen were stationed to fish for the Shogun, the Shogunate.

00:14:22 John Daub: And they would I guess that's the story. I guess they had to be from Osaka and they had to be on this island. And I don't think they wanted to be in Edo anyways. And they would send the fish by ferry across to the city. OK. And they would send the ship to the fishmongers. So there's a vibrant community here. The festivals are pretty vibrant. But a lot of celebrities live in this area. The rent's a little high.

00:14:54 John Daub: All right. This is the point. And, you know, I come here a lot. This is where Kanae danced a few years ago, almost five years ago. We've been married going on our fifth year, believe it or not. This year will mark the fifth year. Twenty eighteen. That's pretty crazy when you think about it. So we might do something special for you guys here. Once I can wipe the lens again.

00:15:23 John Daub: There's some sakura tree here. These sakura trees also are planted for the kids that are born in Chuo-ku (中央区). And Leo was born in Chuo-ku here in Tokyo. That's one of the twenty three wards or cities within the metropolis of Tokyo. And Leo has a tree here, too, planted by the city. Is that it? Or is that? No, that's the new one. Oh, yeah. Look at this. This is the new one.

00:15:53 John Daub: I wonder. I don't even know which one's Leo's. I can't remember anymore. So it says congratulations to all the kids that were born this year. And they've planted a new sakura tree here for the kids. And oh, look, look at that. They put the names of the kids here. There's some in English. These are the names of the kids that were born in this ward. And then there's a little Yoshino tree planted in their honor. And you can see it's just a sapling. It's so small.

00:16:25 John Daub: And over the years, it's going to get bigger and bigger. And there are other trees around here that represent older kids. And Leo was born two years ago. So I'm guessing that it's this tree. Can you see the names? I can't even see the names. Is Leo's name there? Wow. If you guys can come and check it out. Is it this one? I got to bring Leo here. I forgot about this tree.

00:16:57 John Daub: Where's Leo's name? Did they write any katakana? Dob Leo. Where? Do you see it? Yama. So that's a Tati Tuteto Kikuchi Ishi. Oh, my eyes are bad. I can't find it. Oh, this is a Showa 3. I think that's Leo's birthday, right? They spelled my name wrong. I can see there's some katakana names here. There's a Chinese name. Lee Unyi. That's nice. I don't see it.

00:17:55 John Daub: All right. Well, maybe I got to get my eyes checked. I don't even know. Is it Showa 5 or Showa 6? It's so confusing. It's 2023. I'll check tomorrow. Nevertheless, it's pretty cool. There's the mighty Sumidagawa (隅田川) River. This is the river that goes straight through the heart of the city. That's Spaceboat. Spaceboat will not be making its way through at this time of night. But I will.

00:18:31 John Daub: Leo was born in Reiwa 2. Okay. That makes sense. He just turned two. So it was two years ago. Hey, Brandani is here. Takdiak is here. Thanks for all the dedication all these years. John's greetings from Switzerland. Looking forward to seeing you in December after five years of not being back. I will be here, except I often go to the Christmas markets in Europe during this time. So we might be jettisoning over to your neck of the woods.

00:19:13 John Daub: And Muhammad's here. Enjoy your night walk, John. Fan from Singapore. Welcome. Thanks for joining us here. We have a beautiful chilly rainy night. I got the light held up here. And this is also a very beautiful spot. We have a few more mature sakura, some Yoshino trees with the Sumida River glistening down below with some of the city lights. It really is a beautiful scene here.

00:19:43 John Daub: Let me see if I can zoom in a little bit. Let's use the main lens and it makes the city lights really pop. Yeah. You can see the wet bark of that Somei Yoshino tree. It makes it darker. Adds a little bit of character to it. Getting some water is always good for trees. Thankfully they don't feel the cold as far as we know. Although Japan does wrap them up with some bamboo jackets every now and then.

00:20:27 John Daub: You can see the light in the distance. That's Tokyo Tower. I don't know if the light is actually on or not. But it's in that direction. It's Tokyo Tower. Wow. That's so nice. All right. Let's go down under the bridge. From here you can see Tokyo Skytree. Check it out. You can see the different lens on the iPhone makes a huge difference. Yeah. You can't really see it. Sorry. I'm going to go back to the main lens here. The tallest free-standing tower in the world.

00:21:34 John Daub: Let's go down under the bridge. There are a lot of sakura on the other side. A lot of the sakura at the Tokyo Skytree are of a different variety. They're the pink yaezakura (八重桜), I believe. And they bloom about two weeks earlier than the Somei Yoshino. So all those pictures of the cherry blossoms, all those blossoms are gone. So you're not going to be able to see that picture with the, at least unless there's Somei Yoshino. But I believe that they're the version that bloomed a little bit earlier.

00:22:20 John Daub: It's a pretty beautiful picture. It's a pretty shot. You see this with the, under the bridge with the Tokyo Skytree right there. This is a nice area to run if you have a hotel in Tsukiji or Ginza. You can come out to the Sumida River and the path here, no traffic lights. You'll be able to run for, I don't know, you can run all the way to Skytree in that direction. Just follow the Sumida River and it's beautiful.

00:22:45 John Daub: All right. We're on the other side. Let's take a look. I see my friend Jeff Kennedy is here. Hey, buddy. When you come to Japan, come and meet this tree, Jeff. We're going to name this beautiful tree Jeffrey, right next to the bridge so you can find it. This is right next to the Chuo Bridge, the Jeffrey Tree.

00:23:42 John Daub: Let's walk a little bit along. We're going to go up. I want to stay on the riverside. I know the signal for some reason isn't very good over there. Just years experience walking in this area. But you can see there are some streetlights. Now, if you go and travel around Japan, especially outside of Tokyo, you're going to find that a lot of the places illuminate the trees. And they have street foods. They make a real festival out of it.

00:24:08 John Daub: And they don't get the same kind of numbers as Ueno Park. Ueno Park is insane. But if you go out to, the first city I lived in was called Okazaki in Aichi Prefecture. That's the prefecture with Nagoya. And they had a beautiful festival in their park. There's also a castle there, street food. Not as many people, which is perfect. That's the castle where the Shogun Tokugawa Ieyasu was born. And I lived 50 meters away from it. And every spring I would walk out there. Actually, it was just one spring when I think about it. 1999. I was out there.

00:24:47 John Daub: And I enjoyed every single second of it and just was so impressed with Japan. And I said, this is the most beautiful thing I've ever seen. And that really impressed me. That they would, like, this country is my home. 1999. I'm living in a country that has so much beauty like this. America does too. But you can't walk out at midnight and appreciate it unless you're living out in the countryside. Can't do it in the middle of the city like we are right now.

00:25:25 John Daub: The Tokyo subway does not run 24 hours a day. It runs until about midnight. JR will run until about 1, 1.30. But it's definitely limited. Alright, let's go up the steps here. Oh, you know what? Yeah, let's go up the steps here. If you missed your last train, you're either staying at a manga kissaten (漫画喫茶) or manga cafe. Internet cafe. Or you are staying in a hotel maybe. Or you're taking a taxi home which will cost you an arm and a leg. Or you can just sleep on the street. That's what some people do. I wouldn't recommend that though.

00:26:15 John Daub: Wow. I need a stronger light. But I brought this light on purpose because it isn't too strong. Because this is a residential neighborhood. And the last thing you want is to shine a light into somebody's window. Although this light does have police car LEDs that go blue and red. So like I could freak out a bunch of people. But it doesn't make a siren sound so I'd have to do that myself. I'm not above that.

00:27:10 John Daub: That's the dance. Do you see them? Little breeze. That's the dance. They're so heavy right now. The blossoms do... This is the most... I don't know how much leaves weigh. But this weighs more than the leaves. So that's the dance they do. When the rain... When the wind hits. And they are wet. Let's see if I can get in. They won't even hold still. Hey! Freeze! No! That's the dance that they do.

00:27:47 John Daub: And with the zoom lens it's really hard to get them to stop. You have to shoot them with like 500 shutter speeds. Or a shutter speed of 500 or more. Or else it blurs. Freeze! Oh it did for a second. The Somei Yoshino cherry blossoms don't have a smell. So there are varieties of them that do. But this one in particular doesn't have much of a floral smell to it. So if you smell something good it might be somebody standing next to you. Probably me. I smell like soap most of the time.

00:28:37 John Daub: It's not quite as dark in the city. You can still see there's a glow from the city lights around. So I'm going to walk down towards the river just a little bit. This is also a beautiful path to run under the canopy of cherry blossoms right here. Tomorrow if the rain holds off there will be a lot of people with blue sheets here picnicking. But it's nothing compared to what you see at Ueno Park.

00:29:27 John Daub: The way that the blossoms, you see these branches. They're all trying to swoop down to the river to collect up some of that moisture I think. So you get the backside of the river. But this is what it looks like to be underneath the canopy. And it looks like we're still not fully at 100%. I'm looking down at the ground and this is the test here. And again I said this about 20 minutes ago. It bodes well that there are not a lot of blossoms despite the heavy rain.

00:29:56 John Daub: Most of the day if it can hold out and tomorrow it starts to subside. And Sunday it says that the weather might improve. We could have a pretty decent week next week. It's a little bit cooler here. Because you guys are here. It's hard to do a zoom lens with this because of the wind. But you can see they're just really heavy with all of the water that's on it from all the rain. Looks like snow.

00:31:30 John Daub: I believe this is the Tsukuda Bridge. And I just passed the Ohashi Bridge. Or is this the Tsukishima Bridge? I can't remember. I think this is Tsukuda. I'm not sure. I forget. I just know that this area is really great for walking around because it's quiet and pretty safe. And you have the Tokyo Skytree just past. That's Chuo Ohashi (中央大橋). I know that right there. And you can see the Skytree on the left side between the bridge doing its thing.

00:32:30 John Daub: I used to do yakiniku (焼き肉, grilled meat) parties here. You're not allowed to have a barbecue in the city of Tokyo. But if you time it right between the security patrols, you light the fire as soon as they go by. You can get a good three hours before they go out. And then you can actually come back around. I'm just saying I wouldn't do that. Although I just said I did. But nevertheless, it's not encouraged. I don't encourage you to do that. Don't do it. But somebody had a barbecue here. And it was me. Maybe.

00:33:10 John Daub: Maybe you want to give it away. It's nice to see from our friend Ninja Monkey. How you doing? He will be back in summer. Yeah, right here. It's a beautiful spot right on the stairs. Somebody that you might know had blue sheets here and had about 100 people come for barbecues right here. And that was maybe 10 years ago. This person no longer does these kind of parties because this person is busy.

00:34:05 John Daub: I used to do them. Well, this person used to do it on the 29th day of warm days. Because 29 is ni and ku, which is niku (肉). That would be niku no hi (肉の日), the day of meat. And that was the day that we would meet. Not me, other people. Because I didn't organize these parties. I'm not supposed to. But I might have. It's a rumor. Wow.

00:34:42 John Daub: You can sit down here as well. So if you have a bento, there are some park benches here. And you can sit and enjoy your lunch. There are food trucks here as well. Just about, I don't know, like 200 meters towards a supermarket that is on Google Maps. Boom. Today they had a brick oven pizza. I believe. I don't know if I can import the pizza truck guy? Yeah, maybe I can. I think I just did.

00:35:21 John Daub: All right, hit the like button. And I will show you what a brick oven pizza truck in Japan looks like. This might be pretty cool. There are a couple of cherry blossoms in this direction. How do I know? Because I would run quite a lot in this area. Mike Chan would run quite a lot. Mike Chan wants that pizza truck. Come on, guys. Just do it. I'm going to show you anyways.

00:36:03 John Daub: All right. Here it is from a distance. He's got a brick oven pizza oven in there. It's so cool. And let's see here. I think I might have zoomed in on there. Yeah. And then here he's got the fire roaring in his truck. And he's bringing out some very tasty morsels. I have tried the pizza. Peter von Gomm and I got one. We sat out on the river a while ago. Oh, they got pizza Romana. That's like anchovies or something. All right, let's go down here. It looks too scary. I'm going to back away. All right, let's go this way.

00:37:29 John Daub: Somebody mentioned like 20 minutes ago. Sadako. I think you're not even supposed to say the name. I think it's giving me the creeps because it is 1am and there isn't a soul out here. There's no witnesses. So I think just let's not talk about any horror stuff or anything that might jeopardize the beautiful blossoms. Okay. Let's just the land of tofu cars. Don't say anything. Okay. Can you use that emoji? But let's keep it to a minimum. We don't want to, you know, bring something here.

00:38:20 John Daub: Yeah. I'll tell, please. No, don't even write it. Okay. I can see it. Just keep it to yourself. Spirk Dick, Kevin. I think you didn't get the message. I mean, in the way that it is a silent bicycles over in this direction in the light away. If there was somebody standing under the opening of the tunnel down there. I mean, don't imagine. But if you were to imagine, imagine it. It would be down there. The end of the street. Oh, my gosh.

00:39:35 John Daub: All right. This is Tsukuda. And I was talking to you a little bit about the history of the town. This being an island of Osaka fishermen fishing for the shogunate back in the Edo period. And they're famous for a festival that takes place in the summer. Not every summer. Every two summers it takes place. And here is the only mikoshi (神輿, portable shrine). It's not that the only mikoshi. The portable shrine. It's really pretty. My mind is not functioning. Beautiful.

00:40:15 John Daub: All right. Let's walk down the street in this direction here. That car just pulled up. At least it's a witness. It's good to have other people around. Sounds like a EV. Tokyo is very safe at night because of the pandemic. They didn't hold that festival the last couple of years. So I cannot wait for them to hold it again. I haven't been yet, but I'm sure it's going to be a very, really great festival.

00:41:06 John Daub: A lot of festivals have been canceled over the last few years, and we're starting to feel happy again. The cherry blossom festivals are on in full force. And that's just a really wonderful thing. Although, as I tell you over and over, Tokyo is average. The best festivals are outside of the city. This is in the middle of a scooter is a red bridge. It's a really scenic red bridge. And it's not something that you expect because this is just a what is it like a ten minute five minute bicycle ride from Ginza. This is five minutes from central Ginza.

00:42:07 John Daub: Somebody was walking their dogs at 1 a.m. Do you see there's a tree in the middle of the nagaya (長屋, old row houses), which are the old row houses. That tree is a shrine. They built the houses around the tree and become this area. Go between the buildings between the buildings and give a little prayer. In fact, I can do that if you guys encourage me. I need some courage. So I'm getting a little creeped out. There's some cherry blossoms down there at the end of the street. All right, let's go walk down an alley.

00:43:01 John Daub: How crazy is that at 1 a.m. This is an old, old area. It is going to be something like that. It's going to be here. Here's a shrine. Kazike courage for both shrine and then beer. I think I might need one of those. Oriens Angel. I don't think that that's funny. You didn't see anything behind me because you're not even you can't even see behind me.

00:44:07 John Daub: All right. This is the way to the tree. I showed you that tree earlier. Let's go down the alley and I will show you. Let's be really good. Did you get for being a member? That one is a secret as it gets. Well, it's not really many guidebooks, but is a very nice temple. You can see the tree coming out unless you knew about it. You wouldn't know to go down that alley. You can see there's a sign right here. See the red sign that kanji on the top is Tsukuda.

00:46:14 John Daub: That's the name of this town. It's an old town. And again, it's only 10 minutes away from Ginza, which is crazy. When you think about it. I love this place. Yeah, there's lots of food places open. Just not around here.

00:46:39 John Daub: All right, everybody. This is a good place to leave you. My bike's just over there. So I hope this was informational. The rain has stopped. That's always good news. It was really, really good. I'm glad it's coming down at the start of this live stream. And for me, this is a time of year I don't want to miss it. I don't want to miss the cherry blossoms and I don't want you to miss it either. So I'm out here for all of us. And it's just a magical time. And I'm going to capture this like mentally. I'm taking mental photos. I don't have to do that anymore because you got YouTube.

00:47:26 John Daub: Yeah, I'm going to see in April if I can go up to Fukushima, which is my favorite place to go for cherry blossoms because they have a very special connection. I think that we don't have here in Tokyo the cherry blossoms. It's a time. And again, Fukushima is more like it's really like a samurai culture, like Bushido, all that stuff. You get that up in Fukushima, especially in the Aizu Wakamatsu, the central part of it. And they have some of the most beautiful cherry blossoms because those samurai up there are tough as nails.

00:48:01 John Daub: Of course, there's no samurai anymore. But wherever the toughest samurai were, were often where the most beautiful cherry blossoms were. And maybe Tokyo samurai, Edo samurai were kind of wusses maybe. But no, they get some pretty good ones here. But they have like thousand year old cherry blossom trees up there. And I want to see some of those. But I hope you enjoyed it. If you have any questions, leave me a comment below. Join us on the Discord server for the after stream special. I'm not going to be there, but other people will. You can talk to them because they're all really nice. See everybody. And don't say that name. If you say it three times, it comes. It's not Beetlejuice. It's Michael Keaton. We already know that. So don't say the other name.