00:01:00 John Daub: Hello! Greetings to Tokyo Disneyland. This is the Sheraton Hotel just outside of the Tokyo Disneyland amusement park. I'm here with the guests of today, Kanae and Leo. We're going to share with you our video from yesterday and Leo's birthday going through Tokyo Disneyland. Leo is now three years old and our guest is gone. How quickly our fortunes turn as he has more energy than I do. He keeps going. Kanae, he keeps going. Where'd he go? Okay, well Mama's going to go get him. So our guest is gone. He walked off the set. He'll be back.

00:52:00 John Daub: Right now is a peak time where a lot of tourists, in particular from abroad, are coming to Tokyo Disneyland. But actually yesterday was really interesting because I got a chance to see so many Japanese high school kids, in particular girls, coming to Tokyo Disneyland and DisneySea. I guess some of them have spring holidays, but it made the lines super long. For example, everything was 170 and 180 minutes. You're going to see this in the clip that I roll in a second.

01:26:00 John Daub: It's funny because the fashions that I'm seeing now from the girls here are the same fashions they had like when I came here 25 years ago. Everything has come full circle. Check this out. You can see those long socks with the tape. I haven't seen this in 20-some years, and I guess they're back again. And then these ones look really hot, maybe good for March, not good for summer. But almost everybody had these—Ugg boots or something, weird socks, leg warmers that kids were wearing around. Either they're on school trips, playing hooky from school, or they actually have spring holidays. Different schools from around Japan have different holidays.

02:27:00 John Daub: I'm also going to talk to you about these walkie-talkies. I bought a pair of low-powered ones for Leo to communicate with him, and there's some information you need to know. Without further ado... Torjorobogo, thank you! I wanted to share with you guys not just what Leo was doing today. We found this bus game inside the Sheraton where he could actually drive a bus. I thought that was really cool.

02:58:00 John Daub: Let me show you where we are exactly in Tokyo. Tokyo Disneyland is in Chiba—it's not actually in the city of Tokyo. From Tokyo Station, it's about 20 minutes. From us, we live in Chūō-ku, which is not too far away—it's only like 15 minutes to get here. The Sheraton is that S-shaped building, one of the older hotels here. The Toy Story Hotel, one of the newer ones, is on the right side—it looks like a toy, like a Lego block. And then the Beauty and the Beast Hotel is the newest one, on the other side of that blue station. That's completed, and they're going to be reopening that in April or June. It's really close to the park. You don't have to stay at a park hotel—we do like the Sheraton. But I'm always questioning, why are we staying here? We live 15 minutes away. But it's nice for a little vacation to get away.

03:50:00 John Daub: We did just focus this time on Tokyo Disneyland, which is smaller than Tokyo DisneySea if you compare them. Both of them are a little bit older now. This year is the 40th anniversary of Tokyo Disneyland, and it feels it. I think this is one reason why Universal Studios Japan might be more popular right now. But there's still a lot of people here—don't get me wrong. The lines were crazy. I remember during spring holidays they got up to about 5 hours for one ride, and only kids would wait that long for a 30-second ride. In this video, you're going to see most of the rides at 170 to 180 minutes, which is like 3 hours.

04:53:00 John Daub: Let me show you the video that I took here. This is from Apple—I just took all the clips, kept them like 5-second clips, which is kind of the secret of doing these auto-edit things. And then before I went to bed, I rendered it all out, and created this with a little bit of help on the human side. So he's 3 years old. The Pirates of the Caribbean was sort of renewed. We ate at the Queen of Hearts restaurant, which is not too bad—that's inside the castle.

06:31:00 John Daub: Mama wouldn't do it. Hey, Mama! Aloha! Everybody loves the parade. I think they do 3 of them a day. You can see all the kids now. Look at the wait time—170 minutes for Space Mountain. That's also if you have the... We'll talk about this in a second. There's 170 minutes for this new ride, the Beauty and the Beast. The sun is going down. And there you go.

11:14:00 John Daub: That was created just right on the iPhone. I just put all the clips together, and iMovie rendered it out. I kind of fixed it up a little bit—sometimes it was a little off. But it took me about 10 minutes to edit. It went very long, I changed the music to something maybe a little bit better, but it kind of worked out. It hit like the beats and stuff, which is impressive.

11:38:00 John Daub: So if you're living here in Japan coming to Tokyo Disneyland, I think it's one of these things where you can just take a quick vacation because it's so close. In Tokyo you just take a train for 15 minutes and you're kind of there, which is neat. The experience was fun, but you have to really time this right. The best times to go would probably be in the winter after Christmas, maybe January, February. From the middle of March, which is now, the kids are all out there and it's pretty crazy. Summer gets pretty crazy with foreign tourism, and September and October seem to be the best, right before Halloween starts. Once Halloween starts, all the domestic people come back to see the ghosts and stuff.

12:41:00 John Daub: The birthday boy is still over there—you can see him running around back here. I don't know if he's going to join us. Kanae, is Leo going to come? Leo! Alright, well Leo is away. Tabitha's little boy is almost going to be three too, so you can understand when they just conk out. I think it was like 3:30, right before we got on the Jungle Cruise boat, which is one of the loudest rides because the engine is so loud and the guy's on the speaker talking. He slept through that. We put him in the stroller—we call them baby cars in Japan—and walked him around the park once, then woke him up after an hour. I was like, you're missing it. And then we did a couple more rides.

13:24:00 John Daub: These things cost about $20. They have a range of about 300 meters, but in reality it's more like a hundred because you have things always in the way. These you don't need a license, but in Japan they're very strict on walkie-talkies. I don't know why since everyone uses smartphones anyways, but apparently because Japan has a lot of earthquakes and emergency situations where they rely on it, they keep the frequencies clear. So if you're bringing in walkie-talkies from abroad, you could get arrested—I'm serious. It's one of the few laws every tourist should know, like bringing in pocket knives. This is one you can get in big trouble for because the communications division is stricter than the police. If you start using non-licensed foreign walkie-talkies on frequencies you shouldn't be, they will track you, fine you, and they do not give mulligans. These are low-powered ones—you're not going to get in trouble using them. They're ridiculously low-powered and not great, but fun to use for kids. 20 bucks on Amazon.co.jp. Whatever you bring into the country, just keep in mind. Same with medications—do your homework before you come.

14:58:00 John Daub: Without further ado, we're going to go say hi to the birthday boy really quickly before we check out. We have a noon checkout time here at the Sheraton. It's beautiful—the day is warm, about 18-20 degrees Celsius, or like 60s. Leo, say hello. Hi. Leo, hello. Hi. You're so lucky to work, you paparazzi. Alright sir. Everyone wants to say happy birthday. Excuse me sir. Wait a moment. We got him—he fell down. Happy birthday. Happy birthday. That's all we're going to get from him.

16:02:00 John Daub: Where's he going? Look at this—this is how mom stays in shape. Welcome to my life. This is what it's like every time we leave the house. It's going to be like this for the next couple of years. Leo, I have a question: which one do you like, gyoza or pizza? Do you have any comments, sir? Happy birthday! Leo, how old are you? He's a turtle. How old are you? Alright, there you go—that's the extent of your interview for today.

17:04:00 John Daub: Thanks everybody for watching. We're gonna get back home—we had a really good time and it was fun to share it with you. If you have any questions about Tokyo Disneyland, leave them in the comments below and check out our Discord server where we have about 17,000 people, many of them here in Japan. It's free to join. We might stop off at this bus—he took mom in the bus. The game center is really cool in there. We put in 200 yen for one play and he ran out and didn't play, so we stopped putting money in because he just wanted to play around. But there's a lot of really cool retro games, including the taiko drum game—that's kind of neat inside the Sheraton.

18:00:00 John Daub: We usually stay at this one—it seems like the best for cost performance and space in the room. It's just a massive place. The breakfast place is also very comfortable. This is the dining room in the Grand—it's sponsored, but we're always really happy when we stay here. You can see it's really nice inside, very spacious. We stayed at that table. Lots of stuff for the kids, there's an omelet bar of course. Mom went to get the food while I stayed with Leo—she disappeared for like 10 minutes and came back with a mega barge of food, which is nice. Actually wasn't that much because people in Japan don't take more than they need. It's pretty busy between 8 and 9 a.m.—we went at 8.

19:04:00 John Daub: Alright everybody, that's it. If you want to scream or comment, do that in the comments below and I'll see you next time. Bye, we're checking out—see you on the other side. I think he's ready to go home. That's kind of creepy, Children of the Corn type, just standing there. Did you see that? There we go, and it starts again. I gotta get back to work chasing him. Bye everyone.