00:01 John Daub: Wow, I cannot believe that we have this weather in November in Tokyo. It just doesn't feel right. It's about 24 degrees Celsius. It's November 5th, 2023. This is not typical weather here in Tokyo. In this episode, I'm going to go over what a typical November is like here in Tokyo.

00:28 John Daub: Japan is a very long country. It goes all the way up to Wakkanai, the very tip of Hokkaido, down to Kyushu and then Okinawa, which is a subtropical place. It never really gets that chilly down in Okinawa. You might need a jacket in January. But it's got a wide range of temperatures. Sitting in the middle sort of is Tokyo, maybe a little bit more north.

00:58 John Daub: We have weather that's very similar to maybe Washington, D.C., or Virginia or North Carolina. It never really gets below 10 degrees Celsius or 50 degrees Fahrenheit in the winter. So it doesn't get too chilly, typically. Check this out. Here's the weather that we will typically get in November. I pulled it up because I was really curious about this myself. November is typically 17 degrees Celsius, which is like the 60s Fahrenheit. But it feels like upper 70s, low 80s. I have a T-shirt on and shorts and sandals. That's not normal. This is too nice. If you're planning on what to wear, don't plan for this. In November, you're going to want long pants, maybe a button-down shirt, a sweatshirt hoodie or fleece or sweater. Maybe a light jacket is quite nice.

02:01 John Daub: It doesn't really start to feel like winter in Tokyo until about December. We start to feel a nip of winter around December 10th or so. It doesn't really get like winter until mid-January. Then it's cold because it's dry. Today it's just perfect. If we compare Tokyo's weather to even when it is this warm, this is perfect because there's zero humidity, even here on the river. It's dry and comfortable and the sun is shining and it hits your face. This is really pleasant warm. It's just too nice. So let's walk along the Sumida River and I'm going to show you and talk to you about the weather here in autumn.

03:05 John Daub: Yesterday, the day before yesterday, I was at the world's oldest hotel and you can see koyo (Japanese autumn foliage). The leaves have changed. The summer was quite hot. In fact, it was one of the hottest summers that I can remember. The rice and the vegetables are not as tasty this year. A lot of the farmers were telling me. On top of that, the colors for the autumn koyo are not as vibrant as they were. A little bit too brown. The reds were a little brownish. The yellows were more on the brown side. But it still looks pretty nice. It's not the same kind of vibrance as we got in years past. That, again, is the world's oldest hotel called Nishiyama Onsen Keiunkan, established in the year 705 AD. That's a new building, though. It's an old hotel as a business. I like to go there every now and then. I got invited by the 52nd CEO, who's a really good friend, and we keep in touch.

04:15 John Daub: I was also here yesterday, the day before yesterday, and you can see on the back of the 1,000 yen note, I was at this spot. I didn't even know it. It's in Lake Motosu, and the autumn foliage around the lake is really nice. I was able to get a good look at the area. It was just starting. We were like maybe 400 meters up or so, but it's starting to look really nice. The peak seasons for different places in autumn change because of elevation, but also because of the different zones that the whole long country of Japan is. So if you're looking up in Hokkaido, you might even be past the peak. If you're looking at Tohoku, it is the peak right now, and it's about two weeks earlier than it has been.

05:03 John Daub: You can see the Skytree. Do you see that in between the bridge there? That's a nice view right in between there. You missed it just about two minutes ago, or two minutes before I started the live stream. Spaceboat went by here, so maybe we'll get a chance to catch them as I cruise through here once again. It's the way to go. If you come into the city, you get to see some of the best things that are out there.

05:45 John Daub: So if you're looking up in the ocean, which is where's the biggest lake in China, there is the Lake of the Lime, and this is the Lake of the Ammonite. It is one of the main lakes in the world. This is a wow-faced lake. There is a beautiful lake. What I am very proud of is that it's not exactly on the right side of the lake. It's on the left side of the lake. The river flows along the bank, but the river flows along the bank, so it's not on the right side of the lake. It doesn't flood should a typhoon or some massive rains up in the mountains of Nagano and Gunma bring all this rainwater down into Tokyo. We don't have a problem. We just close these locks and the walls, the riverbanks here will do the job. Arthur Vandele is in the house. Thank you. Nice to see you, Arthur. And I see Bread Just Studio is here as well. What a beautiful day. I cannot believe that this is November. We're getting close to the end of 2023 and I got shorts on with sandals. I could have gone tank top but that would have looked even weirder. You can see people are wearing long sleeves. I think it's just because it's November. But you can obviously get away with shorts today and Birkenstocks if you really went hardcore summer. And guess who's here as well? W.O. Rx Turbo in the house. How you doing? Oh look at that, it's crowded. Remember in the years past where I would be out here and there would be nobody on board? Now we have a lot. Let's wave to them. See if we can get some. Oh we got a couple. Right there, yes. Right in the front. This is our back and that's a good sign. The signal is going in and out because we're between the buildings but it'll get stronger as we move out over here.

07:52 John Daub: It's very rare to get temperatures like this. Take a look here. The rainfall is something that you should also plan for. November is a really good month to come because you don't get a lot of it. In the winter in general, Tokyo, you're getting most of the rain between June, July, August, September and October. And that September and October number is heavily influenced by typhoons. So when a typhoon is not coming, you get quite a lot of sunshine. But when the typhoons come, they drop a lot of rain. The number of rain days is probably not as high, but the amount of rain dropped is quite significant. That probably impacts June, July, August as well. But June, more of the monsoon rains that come in here, so it is chillier. You think of June as being summer but in Tokyo, it is a little bit chilly because you have the rains and the winds. So I'm always wearing a jacket and long pants. Even into July, believe it or not. But really though, I've got shorts starting in March as soon as I see the first cherry blossom. I'm like, okay, summer is here and I go full on summer because I can get away with it. So if you're going to plan for rainfall, that's really good. November is not too bad because we don't get a lot of typhoons in November. Typhoon season is over now.

09:25 John Daub: This is really important as well. The reason why you should come in summer if there is one because everybody knows about the super hot humidity. The amount of sunlight that you get is significantly reduced of course in the winter. November being a lot less, one hour less than October. It gets dark real early and it gets light about a normal hour actually. But you only get 10 and a half hours of sunlight. So I'm outside kind of getting a little bit of that right now. December and January of course the darkest months. But you have to plan more indoor activities of course in the winter but you also have to remember that you're not getting a lot of sunshine. And June, July, August you're getting a lot more. That's something that you want to plan for. I do like the bridges of the Sumida River. Going underneath them offers a unique perspective of the Tokyo skyline as well as we move on to the other side here.

10:31 John Daub: Let's take one more look at the temperatures in Tokyo. Again this is only Tokyo. It gets down to about the coldest is about freezing. You'll hit that as in the middle of the night in January and February. How do I know that? Because I often go every single New Year's I'll be outside at the countdown and it is typically quite chilly so you have to bundle up. But in the day when the sun is out, if it's out, it gets to about 10 to 13 degrees Celsius, 15 degrees which is about 50s, 55. It's quite comfortable. It's not too cold. It's not like going up to Sendai or Hokkaido which is always in the minuses from the winds and the snows that are falling up there. I've been living here for 25 years and I've seen some cold, cold winters and I've seen some pretty warm winters. And I'm always hoping for a warm winter. It just makes it more bearable.

11:37 John Daub: The thing that's the worst, if you're talking about is Japan cold or not? Yeah, it's going to be chilly and in particular if you're traveling around, the further you go west, we say west to Kyoto from Tokyo, west to Osaka. It's more west than south. So it's like west, southwest maybe. It typically will get warmer going west towards Osaka, Hiroshima, Fukuoka. And Hiroshima typically has more sunshine. It's kind of like the sunshine coast on that inlet sea down there. So I love living in Hiroshima because of that. You just get more sunshine. They have lemons and olives. So that's a sign of how much sunshine they get down there in that part of Japan. And then Kyushu which gets a lot more rainfall from the typhoons that hit it but also has really nice weather, really warm, a lot of onsen. The vegetables and the food is so delicious down in Kyushu and Shikoku as well. Shikoku might be a little bit chillier because it's got more mountains in the center of it. Although Kyushu does have some mountains. Most of those are volcanic which is warm.

12:48 John Daub: But when you look at Tokyo, yeah, I'm always hoping for a warm summer, a warm winter because it's bearable. But more than the coolness, again to get back to this, it's the dryness of winter. This is the thing that I don't like about Japanese winter. It's too dry. And it has to do with the fact that this is just an island, right? The dry air comes in. There's no continentality. It doesn't get too cold or doesn't get too hot. It's pretty moderate. But the dryness is awful. All my fingers, they start to chap and the skin starts to peel and you got to put cream on every day or else, it's just not bearable. Everyone gets sick because of the dry air. The dry air is just so conducive to getting everybody sick.

13:41 John Daub: Ohio State is not playing records right now. Ohio State won 35-16. And if you're trying to get me to watch it, I'm just going to say the score right now because I know what it is. Kyle McCord is not playing great ball. It's so frustrating. He's the reason why they might not win at all which is sad to say. But let's just give the young guy a chance maybe. But Rutgers did play pretty strong, I have to admit. Look at this. Let's wave. Ahoy! Oh, we got some waves. Awesome. Bye-bye. There they go. That's really, you know, I love to see the boats go by. This is why living in Chuo-ku along the river is one of the best places to stay. A lot of you might be attracted to Shibuya or Setagaya because it's cool. There's nothing better than living out on the river. You're going to have to get out on the river and Tokyo Bay. Next to Tokyo Station, near Haneda Airport. I know all the people love Setagaya. They like to live in this area because it's got a lot of cafes and restaurants and stuff. I'll take this over that.

15:11 John Daub: So I know Pewdiepie and a bunch of other YouTubers are living in the Setagaya ward. I'll take this. Day in, day out. It's just so much better. You see the boats, the Skytree, and I've got my share of really nice restaurants and cafes and bridges. And it's more affordable here, which makes no sense. All right, let's have a seat here. I wanted to take some questions now because yesterday, it was raining this morning, and then it was like, oh my gosh, the sun feels so good. This is abnormal weather. Oh, this is crazy. This is where my wife and I danced, and we went on a family vacation yesterday. I did stop by here. This is Arakurayama Sengen Park. Famous, I think it was on the cover of Lonely Planet a few years ago. 99.9% tourists. 0.1% are Japanese guides bringing foreigners with them. But you get the pagoda with Mount Fuji and long views across Fujiyoshida. I did a live stream here and at those places that I just showed you earlier. It's a really nice place. I think it's worth stopping by, especially if you have a car. A lot of bus tours will stop by here as well, so it gets crowded at times. But you can see the autumn colors have changed, and I did get a really nice shot from here on my Instagram. Check that out.

16:45 John Daub: I was walking down the steps to get back to the car because Kanae Daub, Leo and I were driving to Keiunkan, the ryokan for the night, and I was walking down the steps like, wait, I went back up two steps. This is a perfect framing of it. So you can see the autumn colors, Mount Fuji and Fujiyoshida city down there. And you got a nice shot right there. And there's a couple of pictures of the family in there as well if you want to go check that out on Instagram. Yeah, there you go. So let's take some of the questions here, which I like to do. I would love a postcard of that photo. JKO Adventures is making a play for it. It's going to be a tough one. It's either that or it's going to be this one. And I got a wider shot of it that shows all of the autumn colors. So it's going to be a tough one for November, JKO. I'm actually ordering the postcards on Monday. And they should go out around the 10th or 11th of this month so they get to everybody ASAP.

17:53 John Daub: Shirley Studios writes in here, what is your opinion on the historical... Like, I don't want to get into that. I don't have an opinion. I think... I ran into a Japanese early 30s person who denied... There's people who deny history in every single country of the world. I don't want to get into it because it's a political thing now, but it's over with. It's 78 years ago. A war when the war started. And when you look back in the 1930s, like a lot of it... If you go through the history books, a lot of it starts all the way back to the West. It goes back all to the Russo-Japanese War of the early 20th century and the Japanese navy getting too strong, making the West panic a little bit. So treaties were signed, things were done. Japan could not get any oil and Japanese felt quite disrespected. And if you look back at the history of, and this is what kind of brewed with all of this occupation stuff. If you look at the source of it, it brewed from the West's fears of Japan's coming power. And if you looked at the way that they destroyed Russia in the war, like it wasn't even close. They were just so efficient. You have to go back and look at the historian's account of how Japan just decimated Russia on the sea and took land and stuff. And how the West was like, wait, an Asian country just defeated a Western power, which is Russia as part of Europe with the czar and all that, destroyed them. It was pretty strong. A lot of treaties came along with that. But one of them, the embargoes, the treatment of Japanese in the US back then, there's a lot of history rooted before all that stuff happened that created that need to go get oil because of the embargoes, they went and did some bad stuff to go and do it. And you know, of course this is really nasty history and I don't want to hash it on a live stream about weather. I have an amateur historian and I'll leave that to the professionals.

20:28 John Daub: But my opinion of it is that if you look at the sources of the war, you can kind of see the signs that Japan made some really bad choices to get the oil and had they gone to Sakhalin in the north instead of going to Indonesia in the south and occupying that, those places for oil, they would have found an abundant amount of gas. They didn't have the technology back then in the 1930s and forties, I don't think. But they didn't have to go down to Indonesia for oil. They could have gotten it all from Japan right up north instead of going south, they should have stayed north. Sakhalin has a ton of it and now that's part of Russia. Interesting. History is interesting. And you know, a lot of people in countries that were occupied by Japan, you know, still suffer through that. And I've had some comments with stories from it, but those stories should be told by you instead of making complaints and comments on the videos. Tell those stories. I told somebody who commented, look, if you're in one of the Southeast Asian countries, you're upset that I made a video about Hiroshima, which is right here. You're very welcome. I try my best. I wanted to tell Hiroshima story. I lived in Hiroshima. I love the trains in Hiroshima. I really like Sasaguchi-san who was 14 years old when the bomb went off. And it's a story about the trains and her story of the bomb. It's not a political story, but I got comments about that, about why didn't you make one on this? I said, well, it's not about all the other stuff. It's not a political story. It's about the Hiroshima trains and Sasaguchi-san. That's the story about this. I think you, if you want to tell that story, please tell that story. I made that story because the people in Japan are leaving us very quickly that were from that generation. And we need to hear those voices. We need to hear those stories. And she had an amazing one. Not a lot of people saw that. Only about 25% of the subscribers, 20% of subscribers saw that video. And it's maybe the most impactful story that I've told on Only in Japan.

22:39 John Daub: Jody, you know, you tell a story and if you want it, if you think it's political, then that's your feelings, but I did not make it from a political standpoint. Tell the stories. If you're from Philippines, Indonesia, I encourage everybody to do it. I think people should know, people should remember, people should not forget because we will repeat history if we do. Wow. It's just, this is not fair. I know some of you might have really bad weather today and here in Tokyo we have perfect. I don't think you can get even more perfect. Maybe a few less clouds. The air is fresh. It just rained. So it cleaned off the streets. Warren did New York writes in here in Japan occupied China. There's no quite frankly, that could be true, but like history is always, you know, in hindsight, it's easy to see 2020. So what I do as a creator is I try to tell the stories from the point of view of the people telling them. That's why YouTubers don't like to do interviews because people will click off in an interview, but I love interviews because it's not me telling the story. It is as uncut as I possibly could giving you the story from the words of the person who was there. Learning history from somebody who is a master. That's what I really love. And that's how I learn by listening quite a bit. So I know that a lot of you subscribe to the channel. Not this one, the other channel, because the stories come from experts. The latest one I thought was pretty significant was this one. It's the samurai. It's a racing event that's been going on. Actually, it's a military battle event that's been going on since the year 1326 celebrating its 700th anniversary this year. I went there one of the hottest years on record. I believe they're going to change it to May because it was just too hot. I was there suffering. I was dehydrated at the end of it and I was lucky I didn't get anything worse. I know that a lot of other people in the shade, they didn't move much at all. You have to drink a lot, but I was out in the open filming this. So this was hardcore.

25:02 John Daub: This episode is starting to pick up steam. A lot of people getting it. It's a lot of views, I think, because I can see the trend is going up on that video. So I want to say thanks everybody for watching that one. That's a real historical, real cultural story. And if you want to get to know Japan, get to know this event. 35 generations of people doing it. It originally was started in Chiba from Masakado, Taira no Masakado. The guy whose head was chopped off in Kyoto. And it flew all the way to the spot near Marunouchi where it rests today. We don't talk about him anymore. But he was one of the first samurai. Think about that. There weren't that many in the beginning. He's one of the first and he was based in Chiba originally. So the clan from Chiba moved up to Fukushima in 1323 and brought the festival that Taira no Masakado started back then. So it's a good story. It's all on Only in Japan. I think I told it better than they'd ever did it before because no one had ever really done the history because I don't think that they saw it being interesting to foreigners. A lot of Japanese covered it. But I said, if you tell the story with, and you don't lean on the history. It's just an event with a bunch of horses and people in cosplay. But what? It's not a role playing thing. It's an actual thing passed down from one samurai to the next beyond the age of samurai. The way that they market the festival is not good. It's not a role playing festival. It's actual armor. These are actual things that they've been doing for 700 years in that same spirit passed down from 1323, which is crazy.

27:03 John Daub: Hey, ChampagneSumo writes in here, what cameras do you use? My main camera was the Alpha 1, but I dropped that in a bathtub, so it's sort of my main camera. It still works. So I take that usually for the opening so I can punch in from 8K if I'm uploading in 4K. So it's like having two cameras. You can get a zoom and you can get a wide, kind of a wide shot. I like to use the 135mm 1.8 Sony G Master lens because it's just so buttery smooth. I use the A7S III. I use the Rode mics now and what is it? Probably the DJI 2s when they come out and just got the Pocket 3 and that might replace the A7S III. It's just a really good camera and easy to whip out. So cameras don't make a huge difference. Story makes a huge difference. Even if I just used iPhones, it would be pretty good, which I've done. JJerseyGirl, I saw a trailer of the remade Shogun. The 1980s. I saw a trailer on James... Wait, they're remaking it? Really? I love that. Sanada Hiroyuki is the only one I recognize. Interesting. I'm going to check that out, JJerseyGirl. Thanks for telling me about that. You could do it with Kodak cameras. You'd have to use actual film though, John. And if you want to know more about that, ask our friend UFO Bob who is in the production business and knows all about film cameras. As you can see, I'm using the Kodak cameras. This is what I was waiting for. Our friend Spaceboat makes its way.

28:42 John Daub: There are other boats that go down the Sumida River, but none quite like Spaceboat. It's hardcore. No, it does not dive down, unfortunately. And no, I'm the only one who calls it Spaceboat. It's not actually called Spaceboat. It's the Suijo Bus, and there's three of them that are in this sort of mold. But dude, cool, nice. Do you live in Japan? Yeah. 25 years. Just here. And welcome to the channel. Don't forget to subscribe. Wish you could do a collab. Yeah, that's probably not going to happen. He has a certain posse that he has on his channel, and so do I. My door is always open, but I'm not sure what the value is. We're from different generations. You can tell in the content stories that we choose. Wow, that's a beaut. I rode it last with Leo and Kanae Daub. Leo fell asleep before we boarded it, so it didn't count. So, that's the Himiko. So, we are due. There's the pilot. Diver, go down. Go down. That's the bathroom. You see that protruding window, the circular one that looks like a B-52 window? That's the bathroom, I believe. And they'll, I don't think they do it on this boat, but the other one you can go up on the roof, but offers a really good panoramic view. They do have AC. Really good panoramic view of the boat. They have a lot of information about the city as you go under the bridges and stuff. And they have narration guiding you on the history of Tokyo and the river and the bridges as it goes under. So, I think it's really worth taking this when you come to Japan.

31:15 John Daub: This is six times zoom on the iPhone 14, and there's one time, which is the main lens. To be honest, I don't like to talk about other creators, what they're doing. I think that's their own business. I'm friends with some of them. I don't have any contact with a lot of them. Paolo is a good guy. He's got a son that's my age. I've met up with him and his wife a few times. Very hardworking guy. Hardworking family. Great work habits. Different style than me. But, you know, I've always been encouraging Paolo to go as strong as possible, come up with new ideas. We used to trade ideas. I remember six years ago, I remember when I first met him, I think he had 30,000 subscribers. And now he's got three million. So, very proud of him. And he's showing Japan in a very positive way, whether you like his style or not. He's Paolo, and he's a very cool guy. And he loves food, and he loves the culture here, and he does a great job on his channel. And we were supposed to meet up just last weekend. Actually, today. But he's quite busy, and I'm going to be busy tomorrow, too, so we moved it to a couple weeks. So he's one of the people that I'll try to hang out with. Greg Lamb is an awesome guy. It's usually people that are in my generation, right? And his wife and Kanae Daub get along very well, maybe better than me and Greg. No, me and Greg get along pretty good. We have fun. And, yeah, you know, the other creators, I don't know. Because they're great. They might be too young, or they haven't been living here for a very long time. Like, I'm married with kids. I don't want to go out boozing and drinking at a bar or stuff. I like to go out to dinner, have fun, hang out. I don't need to go clubbing and stuff anymore. I'm not 23. I'm a man with responsibilities, okay? Just like the people I hang out with. You're only as good as the people you hang out with. So pick the people you hang out with carefully. Because they make a big impact. They make a big impact on who you're going to be.

33:29 John Daub: Johnny, yeah, boozing. I almost don't drink anymore as well. If I have a beer, it's like I can't even finish it. And if I have a glass of wine, it's a third of a glass. So, you know, I feel better. And this is so cool to see another space boat. Wait, which one is it? Hold on. This is the Emeraldas. Hey, Emeraldas. Did I get that right? I just... I'm trying to see it as it moves. I always thought that was the Esmeralda. But we're past that era, John. Yes, indeed, Carrie. Hey, I still like to have fun, though. But I don't go to clubs and I don't do drinking parties and, you know, I don't hang out to be cool. This is a natural coolness. I don't care. And this is the best part about it. And this is where I think you start to get authenticity. When you just don't give a darn anymore. I don't care about little things anymore. If you want to comment that you call me old or you say you have white hair or you're starting to look a little older, I don't care. It's okay. It's all like real shallow stuff. You know what I care about? I feel good. My health is good. My friends are doing well. Things are popping. I live in a great place. Everyone around me is healthy and doing good. And when they're not, you know, that's what I care about. Toku, Texas, you're going to like one of the episodes I'm producing that as well. If that's one of your addictions, you're going to love what's coming down the pipeline.

35:21 John Daub: This is November. Dudes, this is not summer. What are you doing? This is more like on the verge of December. And you're in Tokyo doing this? Holy macaroni. That's just so awesome to see. And Andy's taxes. Just to put it in perspective. Young people should feel like that too. There's nothing to really worry about in this little petty stuff. There's nothing. And once you start to realize that, younger people realize that, they start to become more authentic people. And you start to see who they really are, you know, as people. I see that with Leo when he's only like two and a half. I bet your school changes him. I'm somewhat jealous. Now we have four boats in one shot. This is crazy. We've got one here. This one looks like, oh, look at the people up there. This is coming from Toyosu. And then if we turn over to the right, we've got two boats coming up as well. Look at that. One is passing the other one. This is a race. We've got the first one passing the second one. The second one is hanging out behind there. Meandering behind the boat here. The first one's coming on here. The Tanakaya. Oh, they're doing like a karaoke. I'm waving to them for you guys here. We don't get any waves here. Let's wave to this other boat. Oh, this is the one. One of these tour boats that will come. They're definitely going to wave. Let's see if we can brighten up some people's days here. Here they come. I'm at the point, everybody. Welcome to Tokyo. I'm your official welcomer. We've got a couple in there. Welcome. That just made my day. That was awesome. There was like 10 people on there waving back. That's humans for you. We're not connected. We're separated. There's no way I'll be able to get on board. But you can still find some kind of connection.

37:51 John Daub: Hey, my buddy Jeff's here. I always watch you and Greg and I love your videos of survival and recovery. Yes. Speaking of survival, the ideas that I have for this winter are going to be pretty fun. Gosh, I was really, really. This is a day when the weather is like this and everybody is feeling really positive. I'm just super excited about what's to come. This weather is criminal. It shouldn't be like this. Hey, REO. How are you doing? All right, everybody. I think it's been fun. I got to get back. I have a video that I'm working really hard on right now that I'm hoping that I can get out ASAP. I'm taking the thumbnail picture tonight. Then there's another one and another one. Oh, my gosh. There's so much stuff going on here. I don't know how much I'm going to be able to live stream, but I want to hang out with you guys and keep you in touch.

39:00 John Daub: For those that are joining me right now, just to sum up. Right now, it's 24 degrees or so. It feels warmer in the sun, but typically, it's 17 degrees. That's what makes today such a treat. It usually doesn't get too much. Maybe it'll get to 20 for a little bit one afternoon, but never really gets to where it is today and yesterday. We feel really, really lucky. I got shorts and sandals on in November. It doesn't make sense to me. It's been a long time since I've had this. If you're thinking about December and January, you get less sun. It's the sunlight. It's colder, but there's positives to these seasons as well. The cuisine might be better in the fall, in the winter than the summer. The summer, of course, is so hot and humid, but today is an anomaly and it's a good one. It's a good one. All right. I'll see you again tomorrow. I'll try to bring you to live stream. I have another Q&A about autumn travel. There's some destinations. This is two weeks earlier than typically. I know Kyoto right now already has koyo started. The changing of the colored leaves. It's already started in Kyoto. Usually, it's around the 15th of November to about the 25th. Usually, it's later. Then Kyushu, it starts to come around December actually. It's following the cherry blossoms, but this year because the summer was ridiculously hot and sunny, the koyo aren't as vibrant and they're early this year. Again, it's so warm today. What are you going to do? Aloha. I saw Michael Sussano. Weather almost looks like Hawaii.

40:43 John Daub: That cormorant disappeared out of nowhere. These are the birds that dive down. In Gifu they have a leash around their neck. Did you see this? These are the cormorants. They're swimming birds. They pick out the fish and you don't know where they come out. In Gifu they have them attached to boats with fire and the fish come to the surface of the fire and the birds will grab the fish and then because the ring stops them from swallowing it, they pulled the fish out and that was how they did fishing in Gifu back then. It's quite famous. Oh, there he is over there. Oh, he just went down. It's a swimming bird. You know, if you came back as a bird, wouldn't you want to be a bird that could fly and also swim? That just makes sense. I think that's an aosagi over there or a white egret maybe. And there's the cormorant there just dived underneath there. Which bird would you rather be? The black cormorant that can swim under the water and also fly or the graceful white aosagi with a massive neck. So if you, you know, did drop some food in a Coke bottle, you'd be able to get it out with your small head and beak. I don't see where the bird came up for air. The problem is I bet you that those swimming birds can get attacked by sharks and stuff. I don't know. So which one would you rather be? You can tell me in the comments below. That's like a big question. All right, everybody. Thanks for hanging out with me on a beautiful Sunday afternoon. I can't believe it's 24 degrees Celsius. It just doesn't comprehend. It's like 80 degrees it feels like. Get a bento, sit out here in the corner of Tsukiji and watch the boats go by. That is a wonderful, in fact, if you stay at a hotel, the Apa Hotel in Hachobori or around Tokyo Station, you can get a bento. I'm going to go down to the station. It's just about a 15-20 minute walk to here. And there's Tsukiji over there. That's St. Luke's Hospital and the Tsukiji area where that tall building is in the distance there. So it's pretty easy to get here. To Chuo Ohashi, Chuo Bridge, which is the center of Chuo-ku, the Chuo Ward, which is where I live. It's nice. I feel very lucky to live here and I'll probably eat lunch at it and go for a lovely run maybe to Toyosu and around the Toyosu fish market or you can go running along the river all the way to Asakusa or Asakusa all the way to about the Skytree if you wanted to without traffic lights there's a couple of places we got to go up and around the bridge but it's an amazing run along the river here in Tokyo you don't have to just go along the Imperial Palace you can run around here and definitely around Toyosu which is such a beautiful wide uninterrupted path with a lovely view of the city so much better than the Imperial Palace and not crowded on this side so another reason that you might want to stay at the La Vista Hotel in Toyosu because they have amazing breakfast and also it's just such an amazing view of the harbor and the bay and that area for walking around in particular if you have a family that's probably a better place to stay more space alright everybody I'll see you in another live stream tomorrow until then enjoy your weekend bye from Tokyo Matane John just said Unagi bento oh my gosh magic words now I'm hungry