00:00:00 John Daub: Hello everybody. This here is the 24-hour vending machine corner in Haneda Airport. But it's not the only vending machine corner available. I want to show you just really quickly some of the options. But there are better ones in here than this, believe it or not. Just in the arrival hall, I found this. They have all of these omiyage (souvenir gifts), like you can buy this stuff before you get on your plane as gifts. And right now, the departure hall is pretty much deserted up in Haneda. I just arrived at 10:30 p.m.

00:00:40 John Daub: But I found just across from the arrival hall, these, which are also omiyage gifts that you can take with you on your trip. Look at these. I might have to forego this 24-hour vending machine corner and get this. Oh, but it's sold out. These are like butter cookies which look so good. I can understand why they're sold out. And then I saw this. Look at this one. This vending machine has karepan (curry bread) or curry donuts.

00:01:04 John Daub: And look, they actually have the models of them in these dioramas. What's different with this? The spicy level. Take a look at the chili peppers above there. This one got three. And for a bag of them, that's chicken. And I think that one of them is beef. You can see the varying levels of spiciness. You can see that the departures is pretty much deserted. Hey, how you doing? I wanted to take you just, let's look at these machines and I'm going to take you to a better one. I keep finding them here.

00:02:00 John Daub: Here's some coffee. This is like the Georgia stuff here. Milk. Onigiri (rice balls). Bakery. Some edamame snacks in there. Some sandwiches. The bakery looks good. Then there's this one. And this is a ramen vending machine that takes credit cards. I don't want ramen, but I saw they had milk curry ramen and you can get this to go. This is the domestic terminal. Thanks, Joy, for pointing that out. And you can see this is the freeze-dried kind of ramen. But I found a vending machine that might be better.

00:03:51 John Daub: Here's some Häagen-Dazs, some more milk and there are massage pods. But let me show you the other one. Look at how clean the bathroom is. Just past the arrival. It's so empty right now. I thought I might get some dinner. This is the domestic Terminal 2, I believe. Oh, there they are. Over here, they have other food vending machines. And I thought they got rid of the hot food vending machines, but they brought them back like different kinds. Haneda Airport is just so nice. Look at the charging ports there. Instead of the USB charging ports, they have actual electrical ports because they're safer. Like I wouldn't use these. Always use these.

00:05:29 John Daub: These three machines here in particular are really cool. This one is a Konohana Hanabi (fireworks flower dessert). Hanabi means fireworks, but it's some sort of dessert. Look at that. You get two of these for a thousand yen. And look what's inside. Like these amazing fruits. Like in a crepe. I'm not even sure. Made from Gojo-do, which is the name of the company.

00:05:53 John Daub: All right. Next to it is this one with a tiramisu. I don't know. It's from Fujiyama. So it looks like a Mount Fuji. Right? It's like a cannoli. Don't know what that is, but they all take IC cards. You can get a big pack. That's like 5,200 yen. But this one looked really good. Now this one, folks, is the international food. It's like airline food. So I thought I would try one of these with you. This one's French. Diabolo chicken. A diabolo chicken. This one is a shrimp cream sauce. This one is Singapore chicken and paella. And then this one is a coq au vin. Oh, boeuf bourguignon. Some kind of French. Let's try that because that looks really good. It takes cash. And it's all 1,080 yen. So you have to push on the button here.

00:07:23 John Daub: Oh, it's frozen. So it doesn't come cooked. I don't want that. It comes frozen. You have to read the label. Interesting. All right. Well, you know what I'm going to do? In that case, I got to go upstairs and get that curry and get one for Kanae Daub. I'm not going to buy frozen food and eat it at home alone. That's crazy. Check out the airport here. Haneda is just so cool. I'm going to pan up and this is the lobby. So if you come out of the train, you pretty much enter into here if you go to the domestic terminal. Terminal 2 is ANA. Terminal 1 is JAL. Just to give you a point. Typically.

00:08:36 John Daub: Oh, no, they closed it. Oh, what? They closed it. How are you supposed to get up there? It was already deserted when I went up there to take the video of it. And now it's officially closed. Oh, when's my last train? Hold on a second. Let's see some of the businesses here. So this is the arrivals terminal floor one. There's a lot of restaurants here, too. So I was telling you, like, if some credit card services, you can go to the Sagawa and they will be there. And if you go to the desk, actually, you can send it as door-to-door service. You can take it to here. It's open from 6:30 a.m. to nine. And they'll send it to your hotel and you can get on the train and just relax. Just take what you need. And then tomorrow morning, the next day or sometimes within a couple of hours, your bag is at your hotel and you don't have to carry anything.

00:09:29 John Daub: There's some more vending machines. Maybe there's something better here. I'm going to go back and get that Hanabi dessert. Maybe I'll do that. These are also frozen. Look at this. This says Kansai famous Japanese store, Kansai Gourmet. And we have gyoza, 20 gyoza for a thousand yen. We have ramen. There's a soba teishoku (soba set meal), which is with okonomiyaki on there. This looks really good. And if you want to, you can buy a set of ice for 300 yen, but comes out frozen. So I'm like, that's good for domestic. If you want to take it back to your family. But I want to eat it now. Oh, check this out. Musubi cake. Musubi is like the Hawaiian onigiri.

00:10:34 John Daub: All right, let's go back to that Hanabi one. I'm going back for the Hanabi one. Oh, there's some ATMs. The Japan Post ATM, the green one will take foreign cards, by the way. FYI. Wow, they still sell masks. They still have mask vending machines. Interesting. All right, let's get that Hanabi dessert thing. That ramen is looking pretty good. Oh, somebody's getting it. I hope it's not sold out. Hey, Satrio's here. Satrio, it's 11 p.m. You think I'm going to get a Boss coffee? You crazy. But I'll show you a Boss coffee if I can find one. Oh, Satrio, this is for you, buddy. Look at it. If I order it, I'm going to be up all night. I'm going to get one of these. Look at those. It's frozen.

00:13:24 John Daub: I think they're all frozen. This is good until the 22nd of October. Shall I open it? All right, let's try it. It's a Hanabi dessert. It has all these fruits in there, but it's frozen, so I don't know. Like, I think if I eat it, it's not going to be good. I'm so tired. I got up at 4:30 in the morning, and it's now 11:30. I haven't really slept much, and I've been driving all day as well. Top secret mission. You want to see? All right, here. Enjoy this as I struggle to open it up. Why is it vertical? This is the view from the plane going to Kagoshima. This is hard. It says keep frozen. Well, watch it in horizontal. I think I got it in horizontal. Okay, watch it in horizontal. Yeah, okay. Oh, it's all frozen. What? That's Mount Fuji about 12 hours ago. It's super frozen, Joy. That's right. It's super frozen. What's up with that? Oh, my God. I'm sorry, guys. I can't eat this.

00:15:04 John Daub: You know what? I learned something really interesting today. They look like firework balls. Like numbered. These are number two sized fireworks. They're quite small, but they pack a punch. But they're frozen solid. I can't even. It looks like it's mochi or something. And inside there, it's mochi wrapped in a bunch of fruit. And all the fruits look like fireworks because all these fruits have different colors in it. There's nothing I can. I'm not going to eat this. It's frozen solid. So, basically. Here's a picture of what it looks like. That looks really good. Hey, gimbal. Look at that. There's banana, fruits, kiwi. Is that blueberries? Nice. Oranges. It's lots of color. All right. I'm going to have to seal this up and eat it later. Take it home.

00:16:21 John Daub: I got to go. I have to get down to the monorail. My spider senses said that I'm going to have to go. There's probably not going to be too many more trains. Didn't think about it. Oh, there's the escalator down. John's hijinks in the middle of the night. Maybe it's unfrozen by the time I get home. Loads of restaurants here. There's a soba restaurant. Getting down to the public transportation is so easy at Haneda. I'm getting back from Kagoshima. Here's Fuji from the window. Looking good, Fuji-san. Looking good. Sometimes you can't see Fuji from the Shinkansen, but you can when you're in an airplane.

00:17:45 John Daub: And here we are. David Goliath. Welcome. Where I at? You are at Haneda Airport. And John is taking the monorail. But first. Am I? Monorail is at 11. What time is it? 11 and 11:16 is the next one. All right. I'll take the 11:16 monorail. So we got some time. Not a lot. What do they got here? Krispy Kreme? So Krispy Kreme Japan is different than Krispy Kreme America. Maybe. They have some very funky looking donuts. It's a sweet potato black cat. And a maple pumpkin jack. This is Jack O' Lantern. And a chocolate ring of Mont Blanc, which is chestnut. Interesting. All right. Let's get on the monorail. Oh, hey. There's a Yoshinoya right near the monorail. Get my Pasmo out. Here's my Pasmo. It's called a Hayakaken from Fukuoka.

00:19:30 John Daub: You too can have your family of monorail workers. I just have to. I've got Kanae. I've got John. I've got Leo. We got to work on a daughter. Fill that out. Interesting. Oh, they got some vending machines in here too. You know, I noticed that they took out the gachapon (capsule toy machines). I couldn't find any gachapon machines. That is an utter disappointment. But we've got about five minutes or so. So we can investigate. Oh, this is a nice. This is a pretty interesting one. This is a typical Western food vending machine. You put the money in and the coils push the food out. They have the Afogado, which is one of my favorites. These are chocolates with the chips on them and with a nice biscuit underneath it. And this is the chestnut flavored chocolate, which is quite good. They also have milk chocolate. And what is that? A sable milk chocolate and then a strawberry chocolate, a normal chocolate. So they're getting their different kinds here. So these are snacks you can eat on the train. Although most people don't eat on the monorail. But if they're selling these snacks at the monorail, I guess you can eat it before you get on the monorail. And then the typical drinks here. Oh, there you go, buddy. Satrio. There's a Wacky. What's this? It's a Brazil Boss coffee. That's like a very rare edition. And then there's a Boss lemon milk. Satrio.

00:21:11 John Daub: All right. I got one more. This green vending machine could be something bizarre. So let's just go take a look. See. The confection makers often have advertisements in here. And this is a K. Minamoto. Sells in San Francisco, New York, Honolulu, London, Taipei, and Tokyo. Interesting. All right. So what do we got here? This green machine looks interesting. Oh, it's a figures machine. You see these in Akihabara. And now the monorail. Well, for 300 yen, you can get these little teeny retro games. Remember these from the 1980s, 90s? Keychain games. You get bored of them in five minutes. But back then, you didn't ever get bored because it was the 1990s and 1980s. Look at these helmets. Is that Akabeko from Fukushima? Look at this little teishoku from Yoshinoya. It's got the rice and miso soup in there too. Interesting. Most interesting. Okay, down we go. Into the monorail.

00:22:37 John Daub: Well, there's the expo for the Osaka Expo. Have you guys seen the character for the expo? He's freaky, the mascot. Welcome home, John. It's a long day. I did not sleep much at all. Oh my gosh. Nobody here. It's like a ghost town. Oh, I can actually get on this one. They do have vending machines on the platform too, but this is like a ghost monorail. What time is it? I have my own private monorail train. Haneda Airport Terminal 2. This is bound for Hamamatsucho. Kichijo? Kyshu? Chutetsu ryu dotō. Dedication led to. This is the local train bound for. I get my own train? It's not private anymore.

00:25:14 John Daub: I had a good trip everybody. I really want you to wrap your head around this. Haneda Airport has some of the best vending machines in Japan. And they put all the modern stuff in there. But the reason what makes the vending machines interesting are that they're omiyage vending machines. They're gift vending machines. And a lot of them look really good. Just make sure you remember they're frozen. And because it's domestic terminal, you have to heat them up yourself. But they do have portable microwaves. Makita, which is the vacuum cleaner company. They have a portable microwave that you can, battery powered microwave that you can carry like a suitcase. It's compact. And you can go to these vending machines and heat them up yourself. I was thinking about renting one for a day and then making an episode with it. But Haneda is definitely better than Narita. But it's not a, if you're taking a flight for a long haul flight. It doesn't matter. They're both gonna be, you know, 30 minutes or an hour. It doesn't really matter. Narita is pretty comfortable. If you take the bus or the train, it's almost like a straight shot into the city. It's pretty convenient. I like the bus because it doesn't stop anywhere. From Haneda, it's just quicker. Right?

00:26:38 John Daub: Let me put it to you this way. From central Tokyo to Haneda airport, it's about 4 to 5 thousand yen by taxi. Maybe 6. Max. Well, it depends what side of the city you're coming from. To Narita, it's like 20 thousand yen. Maybe 23 thousand yen. Between 17 and 23 thousand yen. That's a lot. That includes the tolls though. You can also take Keisei. I'm sorry. It's Keisei, right? I can't remember. I'm so tired. It's the Asakusa line. So the subway line is the other option. I prefer the monorail because it stops less and it's not as crowded. The route that it takes, there's not a lot of office buildings. But the other line goes through the Yokohama Tokyo commute. So you have to be careful. Monorail is better in that situation.

00:28:21 John Daub: I didn't think I would make the 11 o'clock train. I guess we did. So I'm heading home! You guys skipped it. Oh, here comes the monorail from the other side. Yeah, the Keisei is the Skyliner from Narita, um, I'm just so tired. I can't think of what that line is. Is it Keihin? Keihin, maybe? My mind is broken. It is a big monorail. It's a fun ride. Thank you. Thanks, guys. All right. I'll be back with another live stream tomorrow. Wow. I want to do a director's cut, and I want to talk about interviewing a 92-year-old atomic bomb survivor tomorrow, and we'll talk about that in the live stream. I'm going to the U.S. in a few days for about a week, and there won't be as many streams from Japan, obviously, but I'll find something creative to keep us all entertained afterward. All right, everybody. I'll see you tomorrow. Good night. Mata ne (see you later). Otsukare (good work).