00:05 John Daub: Hello everybody and welcome to Nishi Shinjuku. This is a public toilet, the newest one in the Tokyo Toilet Project. It is unusual and pretty awesome. It doesn't fit in at all, it seems, to this neighborhood, but yet it totally does. The shape of it is long, almost like a toilet bowl, and you see the place to wash your hands is right there. We're going to try it all out. Let me just pan around so you get an idea of this area. How you doing everybody?

00:45 John Daub: So, actually the Park Hyatt Tokyo is just over there. That's where they had the Lost in Translation movie, if you remember that, with Bill Murray, Scarlett Johansson. Very iconic movie of Japan, and it's kind of interesting that they would put this right here. They're always looking for spots to renovate the public toilets of Shibuya-ku, so I'm guessing this is in Shinjuku? I'm not sure. All I know is that this is a pretty stunning toilet.

01:25 John Daub: Now these faucets here will actually work. There's more than one. Look at this. Is this not the weirdest thing? They all work. I guess it depends on your height, and it runs a river that goes down into the center there, which will collect all the water. I guess if your hands are really dirty, you're really gonna mess up this system.

01:55 John Daub: Alright, let's take a quick look inside, and I want to show you where this is exactly. On the map, it is so clean, and they do a really good job of doing so. Public restrooms in Japan are always like that. Look at that. The light turned on automatically, and this toilet automatically started to clean itself. When I walked in there, there's a sensor in there. All of the buttons and dials. You would not expect this in a public toilet, and in many countries, they would probably be broken, and I don't know why. Just people that are angry with life.

02:35 John Daub: We don't have that here. These public toilets are pretty clean and usable, and that's one of the weird things. I'm not gonna show you the ladies' room, because I don't want to get arrested, but if I did, I could do it in passing. Alright, I feel dirty now. Ha ha ha! Toilet! Oh man. Only John would bring you a livestream from a public toilet in a city.

03:00 John Daub: Alright, where exactly is this spot here? So I made a little map here to give you an idea. So you can see the tall buildings here. That is the Park Hyatt. That might even be part of the Tokyo Metropolitan Government Building. I'm not really sure. The Park Hyatt is just right there where the highway bends around. So yeah, that's where I am right now. I think I got a better map. Hold on a second. Oh, I do. I do.

03:40 John Daub: So this is Shinjuku down here. You can see the really tall skyscrapers. As you pan around, there's some parks. So Shinjuku does have green areas. There's the Tokyo Metropolitan Government Building on the top now, just going out of screen. It's not far from the station, and it's right where the highway bends around there. It's beautiful. There's, on the left side, the Tokyo Metropolitan Government Building. Free observation deck. You get really beautiful views of Mount Fuji from up there. You can, depending on the weather.

04:20 John Daub: And there's, you see on the left side, that big green area? That's Meiji Jingu (Meiji Shrine). So you could walk there to here, and that's where we are. It was under construction when they actually made this map. So it's finished now. Let me see what else we got. I want to show you. Oh, look at this. This is a multi-purpose bathroom here. Let's open it up, and we can take a look inside. Wow. Wow, it auto-cleaned right there.

04:55 John Daub: So it's got soap. What do you call the people with bags that need to have them washed out? Colostomy bag. Thank you. There's a baby changer, so if you have a child, you can change diapers. Everything is just super clean. Lots of space, so you can come in here with a wheelchair, which is great, and it turns off and self-cleans in a way. Somebody has left some trash there, but they, three times a day, will clean this restroom.

05:30 John Daub: There's a lot of space that breaks it all down. Men's toilet, women's toilet, accessible toilet, which is this one right here. Wow, which is bigger than the other toilets combined. And on the other side, I guess the men's urinals is quite a lot of space. There's three in there. And then here's the sink, which is so unique, isn't it? It's so unique.

06:00 John Daub: Now, the creator of this is Sou Fujimoto. You can see his name is written right here. And I like, from the architect's mouth, let's just read this, vessels and fountains. I believe that a Tokyo toilet is a vessel and fountain. We propose to Tokyo that a public toilet is an urban watering place, a fountain in the city. We propose a public hand-washing facility that is open to not only those who use the restroom, but also to a wide variety of people with different purposes.

06:40 John Daub: The toilet acts as a single large vessel for everyone's use. The shape of the facility with its large concave center is the result of incorporating hand-washing stations of various heights. That's why. It is intended to create a small community of people from children to elderly to gather around the vessel to wash their hands, drinking water and engage in conversation. We would like to propose a new type of public space where people can gather and communicate around water. I love that!

07:25 John Daub: So the question is, can you drink it? And the answer is yes. Tokyo's water is drinkable anywhere! It might taste a little bit like city water but it's water. You won't get sick from it. This is cool! I've actually gotten to know this Tokyo Toilet Project quite well. I was on a TV show just a couple of weeks ago where I brought this up as one of the new attractions of Tokyo.

08:00 John Daub: This started around the pandemic when the Olympics were coming and a lot of tourists could not go to these toilets. I can't think of another place in the world that does it like this. And when the country reopened, I noticed that people would come here and take pictures of it. And I made this video really quickly just to give you an overview of some of them that I've been to.

08:35 John Daub: This is the clear glass toilets in Yoyogi Park, not far from NHK where I would sometimes go into the studio there for TV shoots. I walked across the park one day a few years ago and yeah, there you go. You can see inside of the toilet, thus it's transparent and super clean. And everyone can see you doing your business unless you lock it. So make sure you lock the door and then the panels freeze over and you can't see inside anymore. You can see kids are playing and if you're not careful, they're going to see you doing your business. Now, I never heard of anybody that had something go wrong with them.

09:25 John Daub: Here's another one that I did about four months ago, which is really cool. It's got this old style to it that's made of, it's a copper roof on there, but I like the wide open door and I don't show, I'll show you if you look up the live stream at the inside of it, but it's really nicely done. This is underneath the highway and this is the one designed by Kengo Kuma in Shibakoen Park, I think it is. It's about 10 minute walk from Hachiko Scramble. So it's not that far away and it's a kind of, you walk away from the Don Quijote and the Tokyo Honten department store and you're here. It's basically like walking around in a forest.

10:15 John Daub: That's the way I felt and of course the toilets are clean. I'm guessing that Kengo Kuma wanted to give that impression that you're walking in a forest among all of these public toilets. If you see what was there, Google Maps has some of the pictures from five years ago and you can see it wasn't a very inspiring toilet. Do toilets need to be inspiring? In Tokyo, they kind of do. And I'm kind of happy that they are.

10:55 John Daub: They didn't, so blue, they didn't get rid of the toilets at Yoyogi Park but there was some maintenance problems. One of them was broken so they were trying to fix that. I believe it's fixed now but yeah, that's one where I think maybe people play with it too much. So just remember, there's electronics in there. Don't bang the stuff. Make sure that they last at least for years. Treat it as though it were something in your own home and I think that that's what a lot of people here in Japan do with the public toilets.

11:40 John Daub: They treat it, what if there's a glitch? I mean like a little boop. I don't think that that would ever happen. I haven't heard of that ever happening. It's been around for at least four years now, three or four years now. So that's hundreds.

12:10 John Daub: Yeah, the crazy ideas don't stop there. There are dozens of toilets. There's one that I went to recently in front of Ebisu Station, JR, which is on the Yamanote Line. That one is pretty neat. It's very designer. I don't think it's as extraordinary as this one but it's still pretty amazing. There's, where did I see a couple of them? I think you just walk around Shibuya-ku, get lost. You'll stumble upon two or three.

12:50 John Daub: Yeah, I can see a few of them. But it's all listed on their website, which I actually have right here, I think. Yeah, I was wondering who cleans this? And they actually have a team of people who will do that. It says here the public toilets stand the test of time in addition to our focus of designing impressive facilities. We at the Tokyo Toilet believe that providing comfortable experience through cleaning and maintenance does equal. Yeah. That's a good point. Important. That's right.

13:30 John Daub: You can build a toilet, but then the maintenance and cleaning start. And that's important. So the Shibuya city government and the Shibuya tourism associations are working together. I love the fact that they created this because it really is a tourist attraction for me anyways. I'm freaking here. I'm standing in front of a toilet, right? I'll take some of your questions here because I think it's a fascinating thing.

14:10 John Daub: How you doing? Oh, really? Awesome. Yeah. Thank you. Bye bye. That was nice from Australia. So you can see that the opaques are not fully opaque. They were opaque. You can't see inside of there. I'm taking some questions here from Jakarta has a toilet in Indonesia. Are there Tokyo Toilet Project tours? I don't know about that. If they did have tours, I would take it. I'm actually. Yeah. Possibly there could be an episode about this coming soon on the main channel.

15:00 John Daub: You know, me and Japanese toilets. That's not a wonderful thing to say. You know, you're looking at you can see in this video that they have like uniforms. There's a lot of pride with this project. And I think it is run by the city government. So I mean, the uniforms that they have, I've seen them come in and clean and they're happy about their job.

15:35 John Daub: And this is something that I've really noticed about people who work in Japan. They do their job and they're very competent at it and they're happy to do it and they do it the best that they can do it. And I tell young people, if you start off with a humble job and you can't do that job the best that you could do it and better than other people, how are you going to be successful in life? If you can't clean a toilet?

16:15 John Daub: Well, that's it. I always if I had an interview, I would have a dirty toilet and say, I want you to clean this toilet. Well, because I want to see how much pride you take in your work to me because I'm a bachelor and I had to clean my own toilet. It is a humbling experience and you want it to be clean and you do a good job at it because it's your freaking toilet. So I think the same kind of thing applies to any work that you do.

16:55 John Daub: And I have a video on the edited channel where I talk about you get to the cleaning schedule here. Here's the uniforms that they have. Look at that. It's amazing. I wonder if you could buy these online. Walk around. I'd walk around. Well, I wouldn't walk around town with that. But you can see they're just screen recordings from the website. Check out the website because I think they'll lay out the history of each of these toilets. And that's kind of cool.

17:40 John Daub: I was waiting for this truck to get out of the way, but they seem to like this to park right in front of the toilet, which makes a lot of sense. This might be one of the nicest, most beautiful toilets in Tokyo. How often do bachelors clean the toilet? Hey, this one cleaned it almost every day. It was almost like a ritual after every use. Keep the toilet as clean as though you would want it in your own home. And it was in my home. So maybe not every day, but almost every day.

18:25 John Daub: Carrie, you can come and use our toilet anytime. All right. The amount of cash some of these YouTube clowns splash around just convinces me money nowadays is worthless. I'm off my mortgage and well, look, I think I don't even know this has nothing to do with the toilet, but if they splash around cash and they're making entertainment, is it any different than television shows? It's called an investment. And if you put in money into your content, people are going to watch it. Thus, it has value.

19:10 John Daub: Thus, it can be compared in a way to any other job. That's my response. If you don't invest in your own work, then heck, that's how MrBeast does it. You can make that money back pretty quickly. People want to know. And if you invest poorly and you do it on a topic that nobody wants to watch, you're going to lose quite a bit of money. So it works both ways. There's high risk and high reward.

19:50 John Daub: I mean, let me put it to you like this. All right. I'm flying to Hawaii on June 11th to 14th to film an episode. It might be the most expensive episode because I have to fly to Hawaii to film it. But I'm going to do it. But it's an idea that I had that I believe is something nobody has done before yet. I want to cover this topic and it's connected to Japan. So that's what I'm going to do. And then I'll get a chance to meet with everybody in Hawaii.

20:35 John Daub: But I got to spend money in order to do it. That means I got to stay at Waikiki at almost the sort of cheapest hotel that they have. It's not a resort. It's none of the hotels seem that bad. Although I haven't ever been to Waikiki. But it's all about the money. I see Michael Sassano is here. Hi, Michael. I'm Ron Dania. But that's all part of it, you know. And what am I filming? You'll see it soon. But it's not something that's very expensive. But the travel to get there is. Thank you, Patreon. You're going to love this episode.

21:25 John Daub: It's going to I think you're going to love this episode. It's hard for me not to get like images of Jack Lord and the Hawaii Five-O song. Hey, Craig Kawaguchi from Maui's here. Hey, Craig. I don't know if you can make it to Oahu. But I don't have time to make it to Maui. You're going to have to bring that beautiful Maui to us if you have time on the 11th and 14th. And we'll find some time to do a meetup here.

22:00 John Daub: I'm panning one more time across the toilet. We will definitely do a meetup. Ron Dania, Michael, everybody. If you guys know of a good place to have a meetup and a time that would work, send it to me. I probably will see it on Patreon. But you can try Instagram mail, I guess. Because I'm looking for a place. I can't just go to a place and I can't just do it in a place where parking is like $30 an hour or something in Hawaii. It's crazy. Don't forget Magnum P.I. Yes. I didn't watch that as much as Hawaii Five-O. I don't know why. It just wasn't syndicated back in the eighties. I think it was because it was still on primetime TV.

22:50 John Daub: Did the sinks water the tree? That's a good question. All right. It is a real tree. You know, I don't think so. I think it could. I am right now. Give it a little bit of a drink here. It's not much. Give it to the roots that might be around here. It's going to rain, I think, later today. But you can definitely drink it and it's clean.

23:25 John Daub: I wish they, you know, the one thing that I think is, is that could, that would be cool usage of the excess water. Well, the one thing that I worry about is that you do have to touch the handle. And if the handle is nasty, then you're getting that on your hands. And you can't use the same hand to drink from. It would have been nice if they were auto, but then I could see pigeons coming. Can you imagine that if these are auto and then the pigeons would come and they figured it out and they would, they'd learn how to drink from the water at any time. There'd be just pigeon poo all over the place. Maybe that was one of the things that was in their mind when they created this. Do you think?

24:15 John Daub: Because I want to tell you something. I'm just going to tell you. The crows here are freaking smart. So are the pigeons. They learn. They learn. The crows would definitely be. They wouldn't be, look, they're already coming. Do you see that? Look at them. I've just given them knowledge and they're standing there. You don't have thumbs. You can't open that. You can't open the spigot. Hey, I see you. Toby (crow). But bottom line and there's the lines are really beautiful on this thing. It's a pretty incredible toilet.

25:00 John Daub: I could see myself spending half a day here getting work done, but I think, you know, it's a public toilet and you, ah. Wow, did you hear it? It operates the self-cleaning unit. And then you have to close it and then it locks. It's a smart toilet. Mr. Strength, that would show weakness. I'm not going to drop a deuce in there. Come on. This is a live stream. Everybody can see what you're writing. This stuff follows you through the rest of your life.

25:40 John Daub: They say Nishi-Shinjuku is where you'll find. I already pinned this in the description, but there's a map right here. So yeah, if you want to find it, you can just go to the description of this video and you'll find a Google map. Or come out of Shinjuku Station, which is right here. I was on the Oedo Line, I think, and walk straight until you get to here. This is the Park Hyatt Tokyo. So it's just across the street at the Nishishinjuku section of the Tokyo Highway. You are here. It's a true story.

26:30 John Daub: Alright. Any questions? Do they have a bus tour? Do they have a bus tour to all the bathrooms? No. You know what would be the worst job in the world? To be the bus driver of that bus tour. You have to announce that you're pulling up to a public restroom every five minutes because it's in Shibuya-ku. And it's pretty amazing, okay? No. That's one bus driver job. No bus driver would want that job. Not even these guys here. So...

27:10 John Daub: The gimbal's a little shaky. So I'm going to walk back with you a little bit towards Shinjuku Station. So there you go. Bye-bye toilet from all of us at Only in Japan Go. Click the subscribe button. And we'll visit another toilet because I've got a pretty good idea that they're going to keep on coming up with these ideas.

27:50 John Daub: Now if you stop and say hi to me, you're entitled to a You Found Me card. And some people did not ask for them. They did not get one. This Park Hyatt Hotel, it reminds me so much of the late 90s, early noughties. Like the design of them. You'll see this design all across Japan. This is what Japan looked like when I first came to Japan. Like Kansai Airport kind of has this look to it.

28:35 John Daub: And every time I watch the movie Lost in Translation, it reminds me of my first five years in Japan. That movie came out in 2003, I think. So it was around there. I came in 1998. So the aesthetics has changed quite a bit in the way they design buildings. But it was pretty... It's very nostalgic for me to see that movie because that was the Japan that I came into. And that's where they built the building. That's that hotel that they were staying at.

29:25 John Daub: I think that movie is $4.99 on the iTunes store. I actually bought it so I can reference it every now and then. It is a nice hotel. Though it might be the second most expensive hotel after the Aman which we did... We kind of looked at a couple weeks ago with the hotel's prices and quality around Tokyo Station. I'll probably do another one of that for Shinjuku. I'll probably do another one of that for Shinjuku in the next couple of weeks. If you guys like it, let me know. That episode was pretty interesting.

30:15 John Daub: I don't think as many people saw that one because I've done something similar in the past. But when people ask me, Can you recommend a hotel to stay at in Tokyo? My answer is I live here. Thus, I don't actually know from my first hand knowledge. Because I have not stayed here in a hotel. Just a couple of them. And it was mostly for work. Like they would say, Would you like to stay in a hotel? And I said, Does that include breakfast? And they said, Okay, yeah, sure. Because everybody loves a good hotel breakfast.

31:00 John Daub: That is the Docomo Tower in Shinjuku. Look at that. I think they were renovating. Yeah, they are. You see on the left side, they're renovating the clock. That building was built when I was here. Around 1995 to 1998, I believe. It's a nice building. I remember how it looked really cool. Very New York City-esque. And this almost looks like the Louvre even in Paris. Japan borrows quite heavily from abroad, I think, in some of the designs.

31:45 John Daub: Tokyo Station itself on the Marunouchi side is designed after Central Station in Amsterdam. And you can really see that if you put them side to side. It's not exactly the same, but it borrows quite a bit where it's noticeable. That's the new Kimpton Hotel. Part of the IHG chain. So if you're a member of that, you get to use your points there. It's kind of pricey. But they've got a garden up there.

32:30 John Daub: This is what the public toilet looks like at night. That's really cool. So it's the brightest thing in the area. And I guess it's good for security, too. Because you can see the suspicious people around there. Because you're just illuminated from the toilet. I can see the police. How did you catch the criminal? I saw him in the glow of the toilet. Public toilet. Because it's so bright. I love Tokyo in that way. It's so cool. It's always evolving.

33:15 John Daub: And right around the toilet. You have things like this. Check it out. Now this is an amazing tree. I'm sure there's a story behind it. Look at this. This is a good reason why you get lost and just walk around. So this tree used to be a lot bigger. I guess it got hit by lightning or something. It's 300 years old. So that means this tree survived the firebombing of 1945. Where nearly everything was destroyed.

34:00 John Daub: This area wasn't as bad as the area down by the Sumida River. But you can see that is a pretty powerful looking tree. You might even see some scarring. See the wind has really picked up here. On some of these older trees, especially down by the Sumida River, if you find them, you will see some scarring from the fires. Some of them did make it. Yoyogi Sanchome. Wow, the wind is strong.

34:45 John Daub: Okay, I'm going to get out of here. But it's really cool. You just walk around. You see a little corner shrine. That's why getting lost in Tokyo is really cool. You know, how many times have I walked around? I walk around Tokyo quite a bit. Jason, that's a lucky tree. That's not a saying. It's still alive. I don't know what kind it is. I walk around Tokyo all the time.

35:30 John Daub: And I see something that looks like a cafe or a restaurant. I was like, well, look at that trendy, awesome looking restaurant. And it turns out to be a hair salon all the time. I said, boy, I wish it was a restaurant. It looks like they serve some pretty good food. But it's not. It's a hair salon. Tokyo has too many hair salons. I don't know how they stay in business. That's why they have to charge $60 for a haircut. Although this place charges 1,700 yen. It's called the Convenience Cut Room.

36:20 John Daub: Let's go super wide. I think it's a great idea if you do come to Tokyo to explore the toilets. That sounds so stupid to say. But from the moment I landed, I was like, hey, Michael, it's 12 PM in Japan. Pick up something to eat. You got it, buddy. I can smell the curry. I think I just passed an Indian restaurant right there. Oh, that smells so good. I might be doing a U-turn. Oh, man.

37:00 John Daub: Yeah, the moment I arrived at Narita Airport in, that was the second time I think I came in. I came in through Kansai Airport, I should say. Yeah, I remember using the public restrooms there. And it was so clean. It had washlets and stuff. Spray coming out. I'd been on like a 14-hour flight, right? Coming over from the east coast of the U.S.

37:45 John Daub: And you get to Japan, and the first thing you want to do is not use a... Whoa. See it drifting? First thing you want to do is get out of that plane and use a decent restroom that's not 50,000 feet in the sky. And I was surprised. In another country, you're very hesitant to use it. I'd say the U.S.'s public toilets might be some of the worst in the world. I've traveled to half of the countries around the world, a lot of third world countries, so to speak, and some of them are cleaner than the ones that I've seen in the U.S. And they're safer, too.

38:40 John Daub: But in Japan, public toilets are well cleaned because those that are using them often make sure that it is cleaner than they... They try to leave it cleaner than they found it. You remember the Japanese were cleaning the stadiums at the World Cup in Rio, and then again last year. They like to keep the area cleaner than they found it. And then the people who clean the toilets, they still clean the toilets.

39:25 John Daub: So what you do is you get a toilet that's sometimes cleaner than the one in your home. And although I did clean my toilet pretty well, I still would sometimes go... I was in a very small apartment. This is a TMI. I was in a very small apartment. I literally, to use the toilet, I had to put one foot in the bathtub. It's a very awkward feeling.

40:10 John Daub: All right, let's cross the street. I think I can take you. Take you by the government building. I think there's a dead spot in the signal. I had to put one leg into the toilet, into the bathtub, which is empty, in order to use it because it was a tiny 1K in Futako-Tamagawa, which is a very trendy area of the city. It wasn't so much back then. It was still pretty trendy back then. I think it was like $1,000 a month for, I don't know, it was like 18 square meters or something.

41:00 John Daub: The bed was one of those fold-out beds from the wall, Murphy bed, I think you'd call them. But instead of going the long way, it went the side way. So you could put it away, and then you'd pull it down if you wanted a sofa. It doubled as that. But I would walk across the street to the department store, which was about 100 meters away, with a newspaper under my arm, and the staff all knew me. Sometimes, you know, it's quite my second home. If anyone ever asked, I said, you can come and use my toilet anytime.

41:50 John Daub: Boy, I love the architecture of the government, the Metropolitan Building. That's part of it there. Wow. So this side of Shinjuku has changed quite a bit. During the pandemic, we saw a lot of the businesses being replaced, going out of business, new businesses coming. Oh, I remember the last time I was here. Yeah, Tocho. City Hall, or the Metropolitan Government Building, because Tokyo is not actually a city. There are 23 wards and many towns within the metropolis.

42:40 John Daub: Something people sometimes don't get. So it's Tokyo Metropolitan Government, not Tokyo City Government. Interesting, huh? Bet you didn't know that. When people say, what is the greatest city in the world, and they say it's Tokyo, they'd be wrong, technically, because Tokyo is a metropolitan area. I live in one of the wards within Tokyo called Chuo, which kind of means center.

43:25 John Daub: The most beautiful toilet I've ever used in Tokyo, probably, Wako Department Store on the top floor, where they sell the jewelry. I went in there and it was gold. I don't think a lot of people know about that. You could actually use that toilet. Don't tell them that I sent you. In fact, just forget about me if you go up there and use it. I do not exist. You're on your own, all right? I don't want to be associated with you going up there to use, a department store toilet. I might get in trouble. I don't know. I don't want any trouble with Wako Department Store. It's Ginza, a very powerful place. Very powerful.

44:20 John Daub: This is supposed to be a bustling area of the city, and it's so quiet. I think the Keio Plaza Hotel, which is one that a lot of people stay at, is right here, right? Is that the one right here to the right, coming up, the white one? I can't remember. I just remember that they had a great view of this building you're seeing on the left side. Look at that. That's right, Mr. Torotoropoko. A luxurious toilet is very conducive.

45:05 John Daub: Hey, Bitrate, I told you to forget about it. I'm not here. You're on your own. You should make T-shirts so when you visit Japan, it says, only in Japan sent me here, and everyone can blame me for your behavior. I will not make that T-shirt. Not a bad T-shirt, though. Yeah, this is one of the coolest buildings, and it was built, you know, I remember, did anybody see that Karate Kid character? I think it was in Cobra Kai. It was in one of the movies where Daniel came back to Okinawa or something, and they put a big sign that said Tokyo on this, like they CG'd it in there, and it was the most tackiest thing I'd ever seen.

46:00 John Daub: But up there are two observation decks. I think each one of those is an observation deck, and it's one of the best views. It's free because it is the city hall. You can see the bigger windows, and you have amazing views all the way to Tokyo, to Mount Fuji, but maybe not today. It's a little bit. A little bit cloudy. Let's go down here.

46:45 John Daub: For anyone who's joining us, we have finished our tour of the toilets. It was a pretty good tour. You can see this is what it looked like from the outside. We were there just about 10 minutes ago, and you can watch it in the playback. All toilets should look like this. Very clean, isn't it? Here's the guy's side. No, I did not go in the lady's side. Place for hand washing. And then the sinks. These are really cool. You turn them on, and all the water flows into the center there.

47:40 John Daub: That last one, you can spray it onto the tree to give it some water if you're feeling. But the designs, the lines of it, I really wonder what it looks like in five years. Does it grow mold? Does it stay this white? It's part of the maintenance. But I like the fact that they keep it white because white is the color that is clean, and you know it's clean because you can see it and smell it.

48:25 John Daub: And now we're in Shinjuku, and we're heading back to Shinjuku Station. So you can see, see it's not very far to get back to Shinjuku Station. I'm kind of walking through the heart of it now. I think we have about three minutes to go. This is the last week coming up to get that Godzilla meets Mario postcard in the postcard club from Shinjuku. I believe they've already changed the poster, so that is very limited.

49:15 John Daub: I'm not sure what we're going to do with the next postcards, but you know, this is kind of cool. Like, I could say, I can see this being a postcard, for me anyway. These are the public, public telephones, which you just don't see anywhere anymore. And the first four years that I came to Japan, I use these phones all the time. Look at the way it slides out. I think this is really retro. You see this here? I'd plug my computer in here, dial up America Online in the US, I think Hawaii or something, and I'd download my mail, and when I replied, I would come back and upload it via this.

50:10 John Daub: Public telephones. Only Japan had something like that. I can't remember at the time anyways. And then the US, I believe some of the ones in New York might have had those ports, but they are dinosaurs. Just see green one next to gray one. And then they had these orange ones, which are quote unquote international phones that required a different card. You can get the telephone cards, even to this day, you can still get them inside of the 7-Eleven. Which is interesting.

51:00 John Daub: People collected those telephone cards. If anybody was in Japan before 2005 about, you had a telephone card because that's how you would call mostly. And each card had a unique design of Japan. And you could pick. Usually the convenience store would open up a book and they'd have about a hundred of them, different designs, and you could collect them. And I have a collection of about 30 of them.

51:45 John Daub: No little is here. All you got to do is go to patreon.com slash onlyinjapan. One word. Postcard Club. And I've been sending new sign ups to postcards to say thank you for signing up. So if you sign up this last week, I'll send you this month's and last month's to say thank you. I've got about 10 Godzilla postcards left. Shinjuku