00:00:04 John Daub: Hello everybody. Welcome to Hibiya Park. This is a place where we've got tons of food festivals going on here. And over the last several years, since this pandemic was here, a lot of these festivals were either canceled or greatly, greatly reduced. Just wasn't as much fun. But today there is a festival going on here and I fear that I might not be on time. It goes on here from the 28th till today. Look at that. Ramen meat, deep fried goodness, all this stuff. And then over here, it starts up again on May 3 to May 7. So this festival continue with a hiatus tomorrow, which is a little weird. Let's go into the park. I just wanted to show you around and then talk about some of the food festivals that are here in Japan. Because I think that this is one that you probably shouldn't miss right now. There's six. Hold on. 1, 2, 3, 5, 10 different booths here with all different kind of foods ranging from takoyaki, wagyu beer, ikura seafood. Here ramen is represented. Just about everything from around Japan's from. From foods all in one spot here. And then it's great to be outside at the amphitheater here. There's a Hibiya Park. In front of the fountain is a pretty cool area to hang out in. Here's a map of where, where I am right now. So you can see there's the Imperial palace in the center of your screen on the bottom. Now Tokyo Station's on the left center, and that big wide opening is Imperial palace there. And if we zoom in, there's Hibiya park, which is sort of like a central park. It's not so big, but it is significantly big. And that blue spot is the fountain that you're going to see in about 30 seconds as we wrap around the park here. It's a great place to go if your hotel's in the area. You can eat a lunch, have a bento inside of here. It's got a lot of history as well. Right now there's some flowers blooming, which I can show you. And there's that fountain that was in the center. And guess what? They're packing up. I was not on time. Never mind that. This is sort of about the festivals returning to Tokyo. And I'm going to show you some of the big ones as well. How could I not know? I thought they were going to be on until tonight. They kind of closed up a little bit early. But you get kind of the feeling right now this is the Wagyu place. You get some steak from here. I think they're wrapping up right now, guys, on top of the truck. Really? Maybe there's takoyaki. Let me ask here. Takoyaki is like the soul food of Osaka. Yeah, it's finished. Hungry? Oh, no. Well, let's take a look around. Sometimes this happens. What are you gonna do? There's more steak here. It's like they just put all of it onto a tractor trailer. They open up the side, and there's a kitchen inside of there, which is kind of cool. But they've been doing festivals in this area for a very long time. It's just for a very long time. Maybe we can take a look inside of the truck here. The kitchen. That's kind of interesting. Look at that. So they've been doing festivals here in Hibiya for a very long time. And I think it's just one of these events that you have to come to. The Oktoberfest is here. The Christmas markets are here. And the fact that there's less people means the signal is better. So you get a clear view of Hibiya Park.

00:03:55 Kanae Daub: Oh, here's the ramen place.

00:04:06 John Daub: Yeah, they're closing up right now. I know. Finished at like 1pm. What? Oh, this is zangi. Do you guys know what zangi is? So zangi is karaage, which is deep fried chicken in Japan, but it's the Hokkaido version of it. I don't know what's really different. Maybe the flour they use. I'm not sure the oil that they cook it in. But zangi is what they call karaage. So you could say karaage. They'll understand you. But zangi is the word they use up there for karaage. They even said here above the. The red here, it says Hokkaido karaage. So. I tried always give. Always give a. Give some effort here. Whoa. They had matsuzaka beef. This is in Japan domestically more famous than Kobe beef. A lot of people internationally know Kobe beef, but this is domestically within Japan, more famous. It's from Mie Prefecture, and they consistently rank as the top brand here. Kobe beef is still pretty good, but all of you know Kobe because it's just the better marketing.

00:05:24 Kanae Daub: Man.

00:05:25 John Daub: They're not grilling anything either, so that's a shame. How you doing? Festivals in Japan, especially in Tokyo, are on a big scale. You can go and check out this live stream I did right before the pandemic hit the January of 2020. Check this out here. This is. This is inside the Tokyo Dome of all places. You could just see the scale of it. There are hundreds and hundreds of street food. So if you're coming in January, especially in the beginning of the January, put this on your calendar because this is the biggest street food venue in all of Japan, maybe even the world. Here I am walking around it. This is. You can see there's no mask. It was pretty, pretty eventful. But I think that this is one that everybody should go to because every single street food in Japan is represented at one spot here, which is absolutely incredible, I think, especially to be inside of the Tokyo Dome. So you would get your food and you can go sit in the stands where you would be watching a baseball game and eat it up there. I still might do this episode. I took a lot of video footage from there, but because it happened during the pandemic and everybody had their masks off, it seemed like maybe hard to explain. Now it's easier to do an episode similar to that. There's also a lot of festivals that are done here, especially in the fall and the winter, but all throughout the year. I'll put a link in the description if you're interested because you should check out the festivals here at Hibiya Park. Michael Zosada is here. Made another livestream, another beautiful day. Street food. Snack on me, Michael. I will take that and use that somehow. Maybe I'll come back on the third and see if PVG will come because they're reopening this event on the third. It's just too nice of a day to be trapped inside the biggest street food because that was inside of a stadium that I showed. The biggest street food street festival would be the Tori no Ichi in November. And if you're coming in November, you have to go to this. It is insane. And last time I went, I tried to film, but every time, every time we started to get in, somebody would stop us and say hello because there were so many other visitors that had figured it out about it. There weren't a lot of visitors back then. I can't imagine what it's going to be like this year. So this live stream I did with Kanai about four years ago and it gives you just a taste of what that is like. This is about like I'd say like a mile and a half, like 2km of street food stands. It's just massive in scale. And Torino Ichi. If you're. If you're another YouTuber and you're looking for street food, this is it. Everything is here again. It takes place every November and the last few years it's been downscaled a little bit. So I can't imagine how big it's going to be this year. It's gonna be massive in scale. I'm just. I'm just disappointed that. What? All right, there's some stuff over here. Let's take a look around the park. Maybe. Maybe we'll find something. But of note. Of note, a couple of things here. That building in front of us has some of the best curry rice in Tokyo. And a lot of people don't know about it. Usually there's a line out the door. I think it's like all you can eat for 1500 yen or something. I don't know. That might have been years ago's price, but that building's been here in the middle of Hibiya park for a very long time. Right now, the blue azaleas are blooming here. And this might be more impressive than the street food. You know how I am with nature. And if you go up to Hitachi Kaihin Koen, which is the park, which is the park up about an hour and a half from Tokyo, you're going to see like millions of these. In fact, the entire ground is covered in blue. I think it might be past its peak because everything is just earlier this year. But you can see here, the blue azaleas are just stunning right now. And when you. When you have them all blue like this on the ground, it's so fantastic. Like, I don't. It's hard to get excited about flowers for most people, but when you see so many of them and you can see the entire landscape is blue, that changes the way it makes people appreciate nature or start to appreciate nature just a little bit more. It is gorgeous right now. All right, let me describe the smell. Fresh green. Not like the city. I could do this all day. Getting a little bit dizzy. The Liberty Bell is over there. I did that episode a couple of years ago. I think it was during the pandemic when you weren't. You couldn't go out too much. Oh, that's the little park part of Hibiya park where you could sit down and where I went to go get some food at a stand and some dude was hitting on Kanai. I was not happy about that. I always. I will never forget about that right there. Luckily I got back in time, although yet nothing was going to happen. But it's not nice. It's flattering, I suppose. Here you go. There's some people taking Instagram with the blue azaleas. You can see in the. It's really nice time of the year. All right, there's some tents over here. Let's go check that out. Oh, hey everybody, by the way, if you're in Japan, I'll be on tbs. Hito will be a news program once again to talk about inbound, the foreign visitors coming to Japan. The boom that's going on again, thankfully on Friday, May 5th. Usually I'm on between 12:30 and 1:30. So if you're in Japan, you tune in. I think it's like Channel 8. I don't know. It's just TBS Tokyo broadcast. So I'm kind of excited to go back in the studio. It'll be the second time this year I hadn't been in years because there was no tourism. Some helicopters above here. Oh, it looks like this is just a place where you could sit and eat your food. Wow, the blue azaleas are still here. I think they're at the end of the cycle. But once again, mark on your map if you're coming in the beginning. It's like the middle of April. You got to go up to Hitachi Kaihinkoen and go and see those flowers because it is the most. One of the most surreal sites in the world. And I'm glad that I covered that way back when. And it's become quite popular now as a day trip from Tokyo. I think they're still in bloom over here. And at a direct rights in here. I was just at Hitachi. What? And you did not go to the park? The Hitachi Marine Park, I think it's what it's called in English. That right there in the center of your screen is the Imperial Hotel. And it's about to close down for 10 years as they redo it for for the future. It has a real show up feel inside the lobby there. Like time had stopped in 1965. But when it comes out of it in 2030, I think it's going to look pretty good. But it's going to be a really long process. And I'm talking with people I know, the concierge in there, I'm talking with them. Maybe I'll be able to get an episode before done because the history of that hotel is impressive. That's where Queen Elizabeth stayed when she came here. This is where Marilyn Monroe and Joe DiMaggio had their honeymoon inside of there. So a lot of history. Marilyn Monroe and DiMaggio were trying to make babies in there maybe. It's crazy. There's a picture inside the lobby of them peeking outside the window of the Imperial Hotel with all this paparazzi and fans and people outside. DiMaggio and Marilyn Monroe, two of the biggest celebrities in the 1940s, 30s, 40s, 50s, probably the 50s, right? I can't remember when the picture was taken, but it's really impressive. There are lots of other flowers in this park. It is absolutely a beautiful park. I think if you compare this for me, this is better than Yoyogi Park. Yoyogi park kind of, I don't know, it's kind of like spread out a little bit. There aren't so many attractions in there. There's Meiji Shrine nearby, but it's sort of a meetup park where you can hang out with your friends. This is a park where you can stroll around. You feel in the center of scenes like this is next to Ginza. This is next to Tokyo Station. This is next to the Imperial Palace. This is an urban jungle, but a paradise within that. And that's what makes this park pretty darn special. And when they throw in, they throw in festivals. It just makes it better. The one thing I have against these festivals though, they have these idol bands playing at that amphitheater and it totally ruins everything because I don't like idol bands. But I think that for the domestic touristic people here, the Japanese, they really like that and they think that that brings people in. But it actually makes me not want to come here. Raise your hand if you're. If you're also not into idols. Just kind of creepy to see these, I don't know, like 40 and 50 year old dudes dancing around to teenagers. But I don't know, I'm not afraid of things I do not understand. So I just don't like the music, but I like the energy. It's kind of nice. Can feel that. Alright. Sadly they're packing up, but they're gonna be back on the 3rd of May. And I wanted to take some questions and talk a little bit about festivals in Tokyo with a lot of you guys here. This is the first day of May. I can't believe it's May 1st here in Japan. You are evil writes in Michael. I haven't heard that before. All right. What about morning musume? I don't think they're still a thing, are they? I can tell you this morning musume was pretty big when I was an English teacher and my students would always give me morning Musame cards. So I think my favorite morning musume would be Rika students. Jorge George from Portugal is here. How you doing, George? Very cool. So let's put this down here. See if we could take some questions about. About festivals in Japan. Tokyo, what's been going on here? The last couple of weeks, there have been more tourists coming to Japan than I've. I. To me, my head is spinning just seeing all the people at a lot of the attractions here in the center of the city. It's just really. It's a very positive thing, but it's confusing because my mind is not technically ready for this. Boom. And everybody who was saying, I'm never going back to Japan because they closed the country and they're so anti this and blah, blah, blah. Yeah. You know what? All right, stay home because it's already too crowded. We don't need you. You can stay home. The people who want to come can come, and they're going to be rewarded with something really special here. Did you go to the Bacon and Beer Fest or Spam Fest? I have been to a lot of festivals with bacon, beer, and Spam. I've been to a lot of festivals with a lot of things. How you doing? Ah, no. Hey, nice to see you. They shut up all. They shut off all the food.

00:18:29 Guest (Risa): Today's the last day. Right.

00:18:31 John Daub: Tomorrow they have offered and they start up again on the third.

00:18:35 Guest (Risa): Okay. Because they settled May 1st. So we came here for four food, and now it's all sh.

00:18:39 John Daub: I know. I'm quite. Oh, really? Are you guys want a card? I have a. Let's see here.

00:18:48 Guest (Risa): Eight months ago. So your videos kind of help.

00:18:50 John Daub: Oh, wow. Helped us a lot, actually.

00:18:54 Guest (Risa): Thank you.

00:18:55 Guest (Amit): Thank you.

00:18:56 John Daub: You're welcome. Oh, no, it's okay. So you guys. You guys came here eight months ago, and how do you like living here? Different.

00:19:05 Guest (Amit): I used to visit. Visiting versus living. Very different story.

00:19:09 John Daub: It is very true. Oh, wonderful. Okay.

00:19:11 Guest (Amit): So I moved here with Shiseido, and.

00:19:14 John Daub: Okay.

00:19:15 Guest (Amit): I'm here for three years. We're trying to change the culture, but let's see. Maybe.

00:19:19 John Daub: Yeah, you're laughing.

00:19:22 Guest (Amit): We got that on video.

00:19:23 John Daub: Yeah. You. You can't. Yeah. Thank you very much. I'm Risa. Nice to meet you.

00:19:29 Guest (Risa): And Amit.

00:19:30 John Daub: Ahmed. Nice to meet you, Ahmed. Where are you guys from originally?

00:19:34 Guest (Risa): We're from New York, but originally from India.

00:19:36 John Daub: Oh, okay. Fellow New Yorkers. And my mother's half Indian, so we have a lot in common.

00:19:42 Guest (Risa): I remember once I showed her, I said, hey, you know, he has some Indian connection. I think you mentioned it.

00:19:47 John Daub: Yeah, yeah. My mother.

00:19:48 Guest (Risa): Yeah, yeah. Because she always, like, he has such a kind and lovely space.

00:19:53 Guest (Kanae Daub): I didn't. I didn't Follow you initially, but you have forget all that you do. But you, you have such a warm, loving, caring way.

00:20:04 John Daub: My mom will take credit for that. It might very well be because that's

00:20:07 Guest (Kanae Daub): what attracted me to watching your show.

00:20:10 John Daub: Well, thank you. I will.

00:20:11 Guest (Kanae Daub): Very warm and welcoming.

00:20:13 Guest (Amit): But he also works very closely with all the TV channels like you do work with.

00:20:18 John Daub: Oh, yeah, yeah. I'll be on TBS on Friday to talk about the tourism coming in here.

00:20:22 Guest (Amit): You know what, it's getting crazy, right? I mean, it's good for you, but

00:20:25 John Daub: it's very crazy before all that.

00:20:27 Guest (Kanae Daub): So we were happy to get a few.

00:20:28 Guest (Amit): So we got like a few months of Japan to literally ourselves. It was great. And then we did it again and

00:20:35 Guest (Kanae Daub): now it's just everybody told us, no,

00:20:37 John Daub: go now, go and see, go now. Oh, not at all. Not at all. Nice to see. I'll see. I'll see you around.

00:20:45 Guest (Amit): Yeah, you can come over for some Indian food.

00:20:49 John Daub: Oh my gosh. That would be incredible. Oh yeah, I got your card here. Yes, I would love that. Okay, wonderful.

00:20:58 Guest (Kanae Daub): Anytime you're in that area, just give us a call and.

00:21:01 John Daub: Absolutely. Well, everything is only 15 minutes away. Thanks, guys. Yeah, bye. Bye. Well, that was so nice. So I think for a lot of people that have been living here in Japan for a, for a long time and those that have just came here before the tourism open opened up again are starting to really see the difference. And we see here now, wow, it's. It's just different right now. You don't see a lot of people. But that was really great to bump into people again. People are stopped wearing their masks. I didn't want to flip the camera over because you never know how, how comfortable it is. But you make a new friend here in the city and that's really great because wow. To get home cooked Indian food, that's way better than going to the restaurant. So we'll have to keep in touch. You make friends all the time like that. That's really great. And the, the community for expats, people living here in Japan, it doesn't really matter where you live or the politics of your country. We're all like sort of outsiders. So it's very easy to make friends like that because I have, I. Not right now, but I've had friends that were from Ukraine and I have had friends from Russia. And the last thing, we're just so separated from a lot of the stuff. When you're part of this community, despite the fact that there's a war going on, you know, a lot of people just don't think about politics all the time, which is hard. But that was really special. That have somebody stop and say hi like that. That was cool. Michael wanted to see them. Well, maybe you will if we. If Kanai and I and Leo go over there for dinner one day. That was just cool. Yeah. The festivals here in Tokyo, to get back to that, I think that it does. It does a lot of help to do some research before you come and maybe plan into this, because there are a lot of sites in Tokyo. But it's the festivals, I think, where you start to see the culture and you feel it. You get to meet the people that are working at the stands and around here. Usually a lot of Japanese will come here too. So you're not waiting in line at Skytree or something. Although I love Skytree, you know, going to see attractions hopping from place to place. I don't think you really get into the culture so much. I always tell people when you come to Japan, one of the things that you got to do is you have to go to a Japanese ryokan or traditional Japanese inn. And that's when you start to feel that traditional culture living inside of it. Despite being here in Tokyo, it's not quite the same. Look at the trucks are leaving. What? Like, it's not. It's still lunchtime, so lunchtime. All right. Did I miss any questions while we were. While I was talking there? They live in Roppongi Hills. It's a beautiful area. There's a lot of. And he works for a company I think is headquartered here in Ginza. But Roppongi is hills. Is a lot of expats living there because the embassies. There's a lot of embassies around. Embassy is in Kudansta. I know because I've been there many, many, many, many times. But in Roppongi, that's very close to where the US Embassy is, the Russia embassy. Oh, hello. You have found me. How you doing?

00:24:15 Guest (Salah): I'm good.

00:24:16 John Daub: Yeah. Where are you from?

00:24:19 Guest (Salah): Egypt.

00:24:20 John Daub: Egypt.

00:24:21 Guest (Salah): Wow.

00:24:22 John Daub: How long have you been here in Japan?

00:24:24 Guest (Salah): One month.

00:24:25 John Daub: One month. Do you want to talk to the people? All right. We have a visitor here. There you are. Hey. From Egypt. What is your name? Salah. Nice to meet you, Salah. What are you doing here today?

00:24:40 Guest (Salah): I was in Shimbashim.

00:24:42 John Daub: When I saw you live. You found me. I'm not today. I have the cards.

00:24:47 Guest (Salah): Yes.

00:24:48 John Daub: Well, thank you very much for coming to say hi. Are you visiting or you live here? Oh, you live here. Oh, awesome. How long? Two years. Two years. Okay. So you're a neighbor of mine?

00:24:59 Guest (Salah): Yeah.

00:24:59 John Daub: Awesome. All right, well, thank you so much. Yeah. Bye. Bye. Well, that was nice. I love it when people come and find and say hello. I have a bunch of cards here today too. Wow. He walked from Shimbashi. That's. That's about a 20 minute walk. I've been doing it for 25 minutes, so that makes a lot of sense. Awesome. So if you want to know about the festivals that are taking place, go to tokyochepo.com that's my friend's site. He's one of the co founders, Greg Lane. He's like a brother from another mother, a Kiwi who started that site. I remember when he did it. It was around the same time as I started, only in Japan, back 10 years ago to this day. And that site has really done a lot. It's more than just cheap stuff. They do a great job of not just making content, but updating it quite often. So tokyochipo.com is one word. And you can go in there and they have all the festivals and they keep it up to date, which is incredible. It's a lot of work that they do there. This festival here, I think it's done before, but it's under the name of Furusato. Furusato is kind of like a local region. So a lot of these foods here, Zangi from Hokkaido, ramen was from another area. The beef matsuzaka from Mie Prefecture, the other one was, I think, I can't remember where that other meat was from, but all these foods, the seafood probably coming up from Tohoku or something. So they brought all of the prefectures into this area to do this festival. And again, like when they bring all these countryside attractions to Tokyo, the hope is, of course, that people will leave the city and the golden route, which is Tokyo, to Kyoto and Osaka, which is like 90% of the tourists right now, especially 90% of the Western tourists coming here focus so much on the same things. So there's a lot of. A lot of more to this country than just Tokyo. Kyoto, Mount Fuji, Himeji Castle, Hiroshima. Those are all really important things to see. But I always think you should add in a Japanese Ryokan, traditional Japanese inn, stay somewhere out in the countryside. It's a reason for you to go see Yamanashi Prefecture or Yamagata Prefecture, or go down to Shikoku where Kochi Prefecture is, or Miyazaki and Kagoshima, those places just to stay, because you wear yukata, a cotton Kimono, you get Kaiseki cuisine, which is this really fancy Japanese food that comes in courses that seems like it never ends. You can have a beer and drink and eat slowly. Or Kanai doesn't drink alcohol, so she has tea, which is really incredible. So that experience, I think, is really, really amazing here. Yeah, it's just a shame that. Here's a map here. Just a shame that it closed. A lot of the stuff is right here at the large fountain. So the festivals are here. If you want to see the Liberty Bell. I think you Americans are going to love this here. It is a replica of the Philadelphia Liberty Bell that came about when Douglas MacArthur was leaving Japan as the. During World War reconstruction of Japan. He left here, I think it was 1956. And his parting gift to Japan is this Liberty Bell. And he wanted Japan to remember democracy. And I think for me, as an American and someone who's lived here in Japan, I love that connection with the US and this gift that they gave. It's still here on a hill. And it used to ring at noon, but the ringing was a little bit annoying to the people in the office buildings here. So the Liberty Bill no longer rings like it. Like in Philadelphia. It no longer rings. So freedom. Freedom rings, just not on that bell. There's a Yamanote line going in the background. I wonder if I could show you those pictures inside. Is anyone interested in seeing the pictures inside the hotel of. I think I can make this light. Is anyone interested to see the hotel pictures of Marilyn Monroe and Joe DiMaggio? All right, Joyce says me. All right, let's see if I can go in there. There's some pictures of Babe Ruth as well. That was. That were here when he was here. So this hotel is a really significant, Really significant hotel. But it's going to be sad when it closes down. And it closes down. You can see it right there in the courtyard in the museum, which is on the left side here. So we'll go in and take a quick look. I don't know how good the signal is, but. Hold on a second.

00:31:00 Kanae Daub: Oh, wow, here it is. Thanks for bearing with me. Oh, that's Margaret Thatcher. Oh, there's Babe Ruth. That's Babe Ruth with some kids, Japanese kids that were playing baseball back then. That's so awesome. See the history. You can feel it when you're. When you're standing in the place where it happened. There's a lot of famous people that have been here. This is like the hotel and Jean Renault. Wow. Is that Cary Grant? That's Carrie Grant. Is that Rodney Dangerfield? No. Oh, There's Sammy Davis, Jr. Oh, this is awesome. Sammy davis jr. There's nick, president nixon. And up there, there's. Hey, joy. There they are. Marilyn monroe and joe dimaggio. Let's see if I can get the glare off it now. Mail.

00:32:25 John Daub: Monroe, look.

00:32:26 Kanae Daub: Stunning. I have not technically stayed here, so I cannot have a picture here, but

00:32:36 John Daub: you can see the original hotel look like this. And they're going to be renovating this hotel for 10 years. It's going to take apparently. So there's a lot of, like, I highly recommend you stop in here.

00:32:50 Kanae Daub: There's a lot of other, like, artifacts

00:32:52 John Daub: that you can see, as well as a really, really nice cafe, which I bought some tea at once that cost me. Oh, hello. You did find me. Yeah, in the hotel. Well done. Yeah, I got a card right here. Where are you guys from? Spain and Italy. Okay.

00:33:13 Guest (Spanish/Italian): Thank you.

00:33:13 John Daub: Thank you so much. You're welcome. Yeah, the pictures are over there if you want to see. There's some pretty big people. Bye. Bye. All right, let's get out of here.

00:33:27 Kanae Daub: Oh, I want to show you the flowers here.

00:33:29 John Daub: So this.

00:33:30 Kanae Daub: These flowers are really famous, too. Check this out. This is the lobby. Wow, that's just beautiful. Every season they change this up. If not every day they have something new, I think. And it's such a beautiful part of the lobby. And I think this hotel is going to change so much. Yeah. Awesome.

00:34:15 John Daub: They even have a little rock garden here. Very zen. That's right next to Hibiya Park. Again, there's just so much history here. While the police are out, I wonder if there's something going on with the G7 summit, which is. All the world leaders are coming here to Hiroshima.

00:34:42 Kanae Daub: Look at all the police officer.

00:34:51 Guest (Passerby): Wow.

00:34:52 John Daub: Men in blue to heaven. Is that a parade? Overtime this week. Tokyo's modern history is pretty cool. But when you. When you see the pictures like that, right? Especially Americans, when you see DiMaggio, Marilyn Monroe, honeymoon, did Tokyo. That's so badass, isn't it? Man. I guess they went to a. They thought they were going to a country where they could escape all notice. That's not possible here. Even back then, it traveled all on the other side of the world. Maybe Babe ruth had told DiMaggio how wonderful it was when he came here in 1934. He had one of the warmest welcomes coming in here. The ambassador to American baseball. That in itself is a really big story, and a lot of it has to do in this very area around the Imperial palace and Marunouchi, where Babe Ruth stayed at the time. I wonder what his room looks like. He seemed to like hot dogs. I wonder what he ate. What did Babe Ruth eat when he came to Japan? Did they bring his own? Did he bring his own hot dogs with him? Get a lot of questions. Gabriel writes in here. Can you show us the you found me card? I'm just curious.

00:36:37 Kanae Daub: You have to find me.

00:36:40 John Daub: But if you don't, they look like this. It's got the old logo still on it. Yeah, Babe Ruth, Not Baby Ruth. For those that are watching Babe Ruth, the Babe. George Herman Ruth is the name. He was born. He goes like 1870. I think his birthday was in Baltimore, Maryland. A lot of reports I did in elementary school were on Babe Ruth, historical figure who could hit home runs, change the dynamic of a major league baseball. Now we've got Shohei Ohtani, who's the Babe Ruth of this generation. And it just so happens that he comes from Japan, where Babe Ruth inspired the game and made Japan, I believe, strongly, the national sport. It's more popular here than any other sport for sure. There's a Yamanote Line track center. This is a great place to end the livestream. I want to say thank you to everybody for watching. Joining me on this little tour here. We've got a family photo to take. And I just finished the chicken episode which will go up tonight. Peter Van Gomm. Let's see. I don't know. Can I show you a clip of that? Peter Von Gomm, who's a very talented voice artist here in Japan, he voiced over a section of the video. I don't know if I can actually show this to you. I'll give it a try. He voiced over a sec. This is just a clip of a boss rooster and I wanted to kind of humanize the chickens because people need to have an understanding of where their food comes from. And I think it's kind of a good thing to learn about that. But in Japan, they do food always a little bit differently, especially livestock. It's next level stuff here. That's just a small clip. I've been editing this one for weeks now, so hopefully it does well out there. But Japanese chicken farm to table, focusing on chicken Nanban, which is my favorite dish in Japan. They call Miyazaki's Jidori chicken, which is the free range chicken of Miyazaki Prefecture. They call it the Kobe beef of chicken, which is funny to me because the number one beef in Japan is actually Kagoshima Miyazaki. But Kobe beef is most recognized outside of Japan. So they call the Kobe Beef. I just thought that was funny. Miyazaki Jidori Chicken is the Kobe Beef of chicken. That's what this episode is about. That should be the title. Depends. The Kobe Beef of Japanese Chinese Chicken. Miyazaki's Jidori. So that episode will drop tonight around 10:30pm if you're Patreon supporter, you'll get a sneak peek on it, I guess. Like a couple hours before, but yeah. Thanks everybody for joining me. I'll see you in another live stream tomorrow as we explore and learn a little bit more about Tokyo. Thanks for subscribing. See you then.