00:00:04 John Daub: Hello everybody, welcome to the monorail. This is the Tokyo Monorail that will take you to Haneda Airport in a pretty quick 15-20 minutes. And this might be the best way to get from Haneda Airport to the city center. Now in another live stream I showed you the cheapest and most effective way to get to the city from Narita Airport. So there are several ways to get to the airports. This is probably many people's favorite because it's very reliable, it's very clean, and it's been moving back and forth between Haneda Airport for quite a long time, as long as I've been in Japan.

00:00:50 John Daub: And the next one is going to be an express monorail, which is coming in here. So make sure you take the right monorail. Sometimes you'll take a local one and it'll take you about 30 minutes more. But in this episode I'm going to go over the schedule and go over the monorail so that you guys understand this when you do come to Tokyo a little bit. Let me show you the map for the monorail here. So you can see Haneda Airport's at the bottom there. And the monorail, the red one, is the one that is the express one. That's the one you're going to want to take. And it'll take you right here to Hamamatsucho.

00:01:25 John Daub: Both of them dump into Hamamatsucho, even the red one there. And then from there you can grab the Yamanote Line and get anywhere in the city pretty easily, which is convenient with the monorail. Now you do have to change trains from the monorail station. We're waiting for the next monorail to come in here. You do have to change stations, but it's about a five-minute walk from one to the other with luggage. Just go really slowly. And the less luggage you have the better. You can also take the trains. You can get to Shinkansen. You can get to Tokyo Station pretty quickly with the monorail.

00:02:00 John Daub: And let's see the next monorail coming in. Yeah, here it comes. It's exciting. Look at the monorail. Here comes the captain. Whoa. I want to show you how much luggage space there is now on the monorail so then you can kind of get an idea. Now they put on the, we're going to go down to the subway after this so we can compare the two. Which one is better for you? Daimon Hamamatsucho is in the center of the city and this is where the two of them connect. So this is the perfect point to show you. Not only is it the terminus for the monorail, it's also a place where you can pick up the Asakusa Line which is the Keikyu (KQ) which will take you to Haneda Airport.

00:02:55 John Daub: So you can take a look at the seating. There's kind of like this upper berth here and there's some seats there. But if you look inside the train here, there's a place to put luggage up here. And then there's like a luggage bay right here. Oh, there's like a luggage base here. But there's not a lot of space. If you've got a ton of luggage, you're going to have some trouble with this. Most people will put the luggage on their laps. But if this fills up, like there's a rack above here, you might be in a little bit of trouble.

00:03:25 John Daub: So again, this isn't exactly a peak time to come. Oh, there's another luggage rack right here. There is some luggage racks above. You could stand here and put it here dealing with the luggage racks here. You probably want to put to the side, keep the wheels down. That's probably the wrong way to do it. But time to be using the monitor. Say goodbye to this monorail. And then we're going to be going down to the subway here. You can see the schedule up above. They leave like every 10 minutes or so. They started around 5:00 AM and they go on until close to midnight.

00:04:48 John Daub: All right, let's go down and see what the tickets cost to ride the monorail. I think if you've ridden the monorail before, why don't you leave me a message here? Let me know which one you think is the best way to get around. I came in here with an entry ticket. If you want to just enter in, it's 160 yen and you can stand on the platform. This is great if you want to meet people here or you want to film the monorail, which is what I wanted to do. But I do like the monorail. It's very rarely delayed. It's pretty dependable. You can take buses.

00:05:29 John Daub: In fact, let me get wide. You can see you got to go up and down this. So you can see here there's a quick transfer to JR. Actually, this is really good to know. I forgot that they did this. You can go straight in if you go this way there to JR, but if you're not going to JR, make sure you go through the right lane. You can see the exits. Boom. So how much is it? You can get from Hamamatsucho to Haneda. It's 500 yen. That's really cheap. So that's, it takes about 15 to 20 minutes, I believe, if you're taking the express train and you can get the tickets here. It's very Haneda Airport 1, Haneda Airport Terminal 2. You can get a one-day pass if you want to go back and forth. That's pretty good to know. And you can pay with your IC card as well as cash.

00:06:54 John Daub: If you take this exit, this will take you straight through to JR. And that's really for a while. They're just finally finishing it up here. So you're starting to see the flow is so much better than it was probably the last time you were here, maybe three years ago. This will take you right into Hamamatsucho Station and you can get right onto the Yamanote line and then to the Shinkansen if you're going to Shinagawa. Or Tokyo Station. I would recommend going to Tokyo Station because if you have a non-reserved ticket, it's very hard to get seats at Shinagawa.

00:07:28 John Daub: There's some lockers here. There's medium sized ones. The small lockers are 400 yen. The medium are 600 and the very large ones are 800 yen. So that gives you an idea of the price. You could pay with an IC card too, which is good to know. Here are elevators if you're going down to the subway. That's where we're going to go right now. If you're looking at the monorail, the times that they start, this will give you a good guide here. See here. They start around, oh no sorry, this is the bus. Disregard that one. Let me see if I can get the schedule. Oh, here it is. So this is the time. This is just a rough guide.

00:08:19 John Daub: So the trains start rolling around 5:15, but if you have an early flight, like 6am, I highly recommend that you grab a taxi. The last thing you want to do is to be late. If you're coming, I can help you do that and that will help you make sure you're not late to the flight. If you got to get there two or three hours in advance, yeah, you're going to have to take a taxi. Now, I'll grab a taxi and from the city, it's about 5 to 6,000 yen. Taxi prices have gone up. So we're going to Daimon station. You saw that right there. The taxi prices have gone up about 20%. So it could be about 7,000 yen if you're taking the highway.

00:09:06 John Daub: You could take the highway to get to Haneda, but that's a third of the price of what it would cost you to go to Narita airport. So, it's not too bad. They take you right to the departure terminal. You can see they're still doing the construction. The taxi is coming from Haneda airport. It's super convenient. If you're on business and you have a business credit card and you can get a receipt and you're not paying for it, you have a taxi. Monorail can get kind of crowded. But again, I haven't had an experience where the traffic was too bad coming into the city from Haneda.

00:09:53 John Daub: Now, I recommended the bus from Narita airport last time. Narita is much further. It's about an hour away. The bus is so much cheaper and only a couple of times have I had traffic on Wangan Dori, which is the road that comes along Tokyo Bay when you get closer to the city. Only once or twice did I have some traffic and it was delayed maybe 20 minutes. But I could just sit there and the bus had free Wi-Fi. So I saw a lot of benefits with that. It was just really relaxing. I didn't mind the traffic at all. Got off. It was on street level. Very easy to grab a taxi from Tokyo station, get where I wanted to go. You can take a look at that. I'll put a link right here so you can get that information.

00:10:33 John Daub: Here's Hamamatsucho station behind me. And you'll see the Yamanote line and all the other lines coming in. So, coming to Hamamatsucho via the monorail is pretty darn convenient. You can see that right here. This is Daimon. So, that's Tokyo Tower right in the middle of your screen there. So, we're pretty centered, right? You can walk to Tokyo Tower in about 15 minutes from this location if you want to put your stuff in a locker and go explore from here. But that's the entrance to Daimon right there. And that's as far as you have to go to get to the Keikyu Line, which is the other way to get to Haneda Airport.

00:11:19 John Daub: Now, the Keikyu Line right here, check it out. You got, well, actually, you can get from Narita Airport on the right side. You can stay on this all the way to Haneda Airport on the left bottom side. You see that on the bottom? After Shinagawa, which is sort of center left there, if you get on the right train that indicates Haneda Airport, you'll get there. So, you don't even have to change the trains. However, it is slower. And your best bet is to get on the right train. So, you can see me on the side here. The best thing that you can do is to get off at Shinagawa and ride the Narita Express if you're in a hurry. Or you can just get off at Shinagawa and then get an express train from there. That's my advice.

00:12:20 John Daub: All right, let's go down underneath there and get a closer look, closer look at the Keikyu Line. This area is kind of neat. And if you're staying in this part of town, you do have some attractions here. This is the Kyu-Shiba Rikyū Gardens, which is really pretty. But it's the bigger one here, Hama-rikyū Gardens, which also has the sea boat access, which will take you to Odaiba. This is a really, really good park to walk around with. There's the Italian Garden, which is kind of bizarre. And the little Italy here, which is also, guess, it opened around the year 2001 with Shiodome, this complex here of new buildings. There's a lot of hotels in this area. Shiodome and Shimbashi is right here.

00:13:12 John Daub: This is Hamamatsucho Station. Tokyo Tower is right here. And you have Daimon Station connecting with Hamamatsucho Station. So that gives you an idea of the layout. When my parents came here for our wedding, they couldn't stay at the same hotel because it was so booked in a lot of places. And one hotel they stayed in was somewhere in here. I can't remember which one it was. But it was pretty good, although it was quite tight. I forget. I think maybe it was the Mitsui Garden. I can't remember. But the rooms are smaller in the center of Tokyo than, let's say, Tokyo Disneyland. So I always tell people, if you can, you're better off staying at that Sheraton at Tokyo Disneyland.

00:13:58 John Daub: All right. So that's the area here with Tokyo Tower and Daimon Station. I made a little video. I'm going to show you the 3D Google Earth here that gives you an idea. There's the Hama-rikyū Park in the distance on the top there and the smaller park between the skyscrapers, which is kind of neat to walk around in there. And you can see right below is Hamamatsucho Station. That's the one we're connecting. And I want to take you, just show you the monorail. There's the Rainbow Bridge. You don't go over that and get to the airport, which is on the right side. Yeah, right there. So that's where the monorail will start. So that gives you a little bit of an idea. All right. Let's go underground and I'll see what the prices are for Keikyu.

00:15:08 John Daub: So again, I think there's an elevator somewhere. But when you come in with luggage, just be mindful. There's an escalator going up but not an escalator going down. This is the closest entrance to Daimon. If you just keep going straight on street level, there is an elevator. I'll show you where that comes in. I think it's just down here. Hamamatsucho Station has changed quite a bit in the last three years. There's been a lot of renovations going on. And the location of the entrances have changed slightly. So that's good to know. Keikyu and the Asakusa Line, they're basically, it's just basically the subway.

00:15:50 John Daub: So here's the elevator right here. Oh, sorry. There's some lockers again. The prices are a little bit cheaper actually. The smaller ones are a little bit smaller. That's 400. The medium-sized ones are 500. And the bigger ones are 700 here. So you save 100 yen if you shop around. But it looks like they're all full. This is Daimon Station connected with JR's Hamamatsucho Station. Here are the tickets. You can easily get one. Or you just use an IC card and touch. But it's actually cheaper to get to Haneda from here. Hey, Brandania. Thank you. It's 470 yen to get to Haneda Airport. Look at that. You save 30 yen. Don't know if that's worth it. But saving is savings, you know. It all adds up.

00:17:01 John Daub: Probably a little bit cheaper from Shinagawa, which is right there. But the way you know if it's going to Haneda, because some of the trains will go straight and they'll take you to Kanagawa. But a lot of them will have this airport logo on it. So before you get on the train, make sure you know the time that your train is. And you see this logo going to the airport. Don't get on a train that's not going to the airport. Just to put that out. And I highly recommend for the monorail as well, know which terminal that you're getting off at. And most of you will be getting on at the international terminal. Or terminal 1 or 2. But make sure you know the terminal before you depart for the airport. You're going to need that information. 100%.

00:17:51 John Daub: Getting tickets is pretty easy. These are the new machines. They're really big screen. There's one with even a bigger screen right here. But you can change this to English if you want. And you can see the ticket prices. You want to go to... Oh, you could even go to Narita. Here. You want to take the KQ line. And you're going to Haneda Airport. Terminal 1 and 2 is 40 yen more. And then that's it. You can pay. It doesn't take credit cards. Just cash and IC cards. So that's it, you know. Just make sure... You can charge your card here as well. This is the way you recharge. If you want to get a Pasmo, you could even buy an IC card right here. You can get one with your name on it as well. Or you have point charge cards, Pasmo.

00:19:28 John Daub: So here you can buy it. Purchase. Personal user info. So you can put your phone number and stuff on there. Or your name on there. And that's really useful in case you lose it, the police will contact you if you have your personal information on there. So you can type in your name. I'm just going to cancel. This is the map for Toei, which is the subway system. It really doesn't have much relationship to going to Haneda Airport. But it'll give you an idea of where you want to link up to get there. Daimon, which is where we are, is a really big interchange for Toei.

00:19:45 John Daub: Let me see, where the heck are we? Oh, this is the metro. Here's Toei. And Toei, we're right there where the circle is. So you can see there's some trains going in different directions here. But what I like about Daimon is that it's on the Oedo Line, which is the circle line for the Toei subway line. And it's also on the Asakusa line, which if you're going to Asakusa, you can get off on the monorail, get on your train here, and it'll take you right up to both the Skytree at Oshiage or you can get off at Asakusa, and you can make it pretty easy there. So that is your option. The entrance to the ticket, you get your ticket, you just go right here, and there you go. You're on the train. It's pretty easy!

00:20:52 John Daub: If you want you could just get an IC card. That's what I have and you can just touch and you don't have to buy any tickets at all. There's even an ATM machine right there. Check it out. So if you need cash, there's a 7-Eleven ATM machine that'll take foreign cards. So it's pretty easy to get around.

00:21:14 John Daub: Okay, so there's some great questions here if you are coming from Shinjuku. I actually searched this. All right. Let me give you a couple of options as well. So you see here. This is Shinjuku here. You see this so they gave me two options. See if I can put the other one here. Oh, yeah here. So on the left side here. You can see me and you can see me this side here. So on the left side here. I saw Brandania was there and Michael Sassano. How you doing, buddy? Shinjuku to Haneda Airport again 500 yen. It'll cost you. It'll take you 38 minutes according to the schedule on the very left leaving on the Yamanote line to Shinagawa and you would change trains to the KQ Airport Express. You wouldn't take the monorail from Shinjuku. That's not the best route.

00:22:23 John Daub: You want to go to Shinagawa and then get on the KQ which is this one here? So it'll take you. The monorail and KQ both end up in the same place. So it's not any further away. If you do take the Oedo line, which is the second option the subway you could change to the monorail here at Daimon. So you have two ways that one is a little bit longer. It's 42 minutes and costs 712 yen. So it's more expensive to do that. So that's a good just put that as 212 yen more if you want to take the monorail from Shinjuku so I. There's always a different creative way. It's pink because of Mother's Day. Happy Mother's Day today. All the moms out there.

00:23:06 John Daub: No, I did one of them from Shinagawa though. So if you're going from Shinagawa right here, you can see if you left it for at 2:25 pm. You just take KQ because KQ is very close to Shinagawa. It takes you 15 minutes to get the Haneda from Shinagawa. That is so convenient and it costs 292 yen or about 300 yen if you buy a ticket that's so cheap. So Shinagawa is a really good access point into the city. Michael writes in here. It's about 3 p.m. If you have time find some quick and easy snack before you go and head home. Thank you, Michael. Actually, I'm going to also I'm also going to get some flowers for Kanae for Mother's Day. There's a shop right nearby. So maybe I'll add a snack to it now. Thank you for that Michael.

00:24:07 John Daub: Yeah, we just had a afternoon together and kind of a morning and let's see if I have a picture. Well, here's a nice one. I can add it in here. So we rode our bicycles. I'll put this photo on Instagram. It's nice for all the mothers out there. We had a really nice bicycle ride this morning. Leo wanted to go out and he rides in the front seat. Kanae likes this bike because it has a battery mine doesn't but I need to get in shape anyways. So happy Mother's Day to all the moms out there. It is Mother's Day here right now.

00:24:41 John Daub: Any other resources? Oh, there's one other route that I think might be really useful for you guys if you are at Toyosu. There is a bus that goes from Toyosu. The Toyosu bus starts at 5:15 in the morning. In fact most of the transportation will start at around 5 in the morning give or take the next bus after that is at 5:45 so it runs every 30 minutes from Toyosu. The bus is about 700 yen so it's a little bit pricey but it's a straight shot to the airport. It's usually not very crowded in the morning off on the highway there and it's a convenient way to get there because bus I think it's pretty convenient.

00:25:26 John Daub: Now Kanae and I and Leo are going to Okinawa on Wednesday and we'll be taking probably this bus. Monorail I think wouldn't get us there in time so because we're taking a really early flight so this is this bus will get us there an hour before. Domestic flights in Japan you have to be at the airport 45 minutes before that's it for domestic flights. If you're taking international flights the normal two and a half to three hours but let's go up here we'll go up street level now but for domestic flights if you have luggage it's good to get there maybe 55 minutes in advance but if I don't know what this will lead I'll probably get lost we can go we can go out this way so that would be the smart to do.

00:26:24 John Daub: Make sure you get to Haneda at least 55 minutes before your flight let me just put it like that. You check in it's really easy to do for domestic flights in fact you don't have to even talk to anybody ANA has this like Star Wars type of thing where you type in and then under all in domestic flights you check in to your name and you find your you confirm this stuff and this gate opens up you put your suitcase in there it scans it you put the tag on it by yourself and then it just like closes and then jettisons it into a conveyor belt and somehow it magically appears on the other side I don't know I thought it was it's pretty amazing.

00:27:02 John Daub: Hey hello hi 821 you got it buddy we're gonna make Mother's Day a team effort I'll definitely tell her that it comes from me Leo and John and everybody else from the whole community as he Jason is here hello hi 821 Michael Nick Vincent Arturo I don't think it's a I don't think it's a Western thing we have a Mother's Day here as well because if they're selling Mother's Day flowers they're selling flowers and yeah I get it from the same place that I've been getting it every year and they know me I usually go with Leo he's taking a nap so by the time I get home it will work out perfectly and mom will have some flowers for this afternoon I'll see if I can get a shot of it and put it on the Instagram for all of you to share in the delight of Mama's Day.

00:28:28 John Daub: So getting out at Daimon station is pretty easy as well you can see there's some ATM machines on the left more lockers um these are at 100 yen for 60 minutes so there is a time thing but all the lockers are in use it says man man. All right let's go up I was just here with Peter von Gomm oh wow that's right it was here with Peter we had some pizza at a really delicious pizza place we always well not always but whenever we get a chance we go to a place called Devil's there's the there's a pizza we get Chicago style. I'm gonna go to the next one the diet this is less meat than usual that's not that far away from here.

00:30:01 John Daub: There's the entrance so we do have some nice stuff here in Tokyo I don't even know why they where they dumped me out here oh I know where I am I think I can cross the street real quick you guys you guys know where I am I think you can see up here yeah there's Tokyo Tower way up there do you see it whoa it dumps me out right in front of Shiba Park that exit how cool is that so you can walk around this area too if you have some time before the flight this is a really nice place to be I was there for the carp flying streamer Carp's called koinobori [?] a few days ago live stream from there.

00:31:11 John Daub: Alright if you have any questions you leave them the comments below I really appreciate it thanks guys I will see you probably tomorrow and do another live stream and take you to a different place of Tokyo before Kanae leave on this same stretch an I jet off to Okinawa where I'll be doing some filming for the main channel, making an episode about World War II, some history there as well as some other historical stuff. And it's nice to be able to take the family with me and share that experience as well. Whoa. You can see what McDonald's has on menu here. They still have the Samurai Mac. Boom. Got from Daimon Hamamatsucho and the monorail. And I will see you in another episode really soon. It's going to be raining really soon too. So much history here.