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00:01 John Daub: I am back in Tokyo. This is Ameyoko Market and of course you can see there's a lot of people here. Well, actually there aren't a lot of people here, and that's the focus of today's episode. I just got back after about 12 days in the United States. Of course I had to go to the dentist. One of the reasons why, probably because I'm visiting my friend Shimura-san over here. I'm going to introduce his shop in a second. I've already talked to him and that's why this livestream kind of started late.

00:30 John Daub: But believe it or not, Japan is still breaking tourism records despite the fact that there is a prophecy that there's going to be a massive earthquake happening on July 5th. It's a manga prophecy from somebody who has apparently made correct predictions in the past. Hong Kong, some airlines in Hong Kong have cancelled flights, and tourism from China and Hong Kong in particular — the neighboring countries — is down pretty significantly. But still, in the past — in the month of May, Japan broke tourism records. It's kind of amazing when you think about it here. The inbound tourism figure was, let's say, 3.7 million, up 21.5% year on year, and the most ever for the month of May. The JTB, Japan National Tourism Organization said on June 18th, this is crazy, it was also the 8th consecutive month for Japan to receive more than 3 million visitors abroad. That's huge. That means that Japan is going to be breaking another record in 2025 and probably it's going to follow them in 2026.

01:34 John Daub: But you can see here — the next one here: "Foreign tourists set May record in Japan, but Hong Kong figures fall." I wonder why that could be. I think it's because people are staying away because they really do feel that there is an earthquake imminent. I just came back from the United States — here, despite the fact that there might be some imminent earthquake. But earthquakes happen here all the time. This is supposed to be the big one though. I'm not going to talk too much about it. I've already done a livestream about it. But I wanted to show you what it looks like here. A lot of the tourists — it's amazing though, a lot of the tourists from East Asia, the numbers aren't as much. And I can see it just walking around. Of course, this is just a snapshot of it.

02:19 John Daub: Let me show you the article that this came from, just a few days ago, not too long ago. Here — "Foreign tourist set May record in Japan, but Hong Kong figures fall." It's not just Hong Kong. I think a lot of the places had figures fall. And actually, in June, a lot of the flights have been cancelled. The inbound tourism figure was 3.6 million, up 21.5%. It was the — I think we read that here. In May, South Koreans accounted for the most inbound tourists, 825,800, up 11.8% from the same month, followed by China with 789,000, up 44%. And Taiwan — Taiwan is mainland China, which is crazy. And that's just a small island, but so many tourists from Taiwan come to visit their neighbor, Japan. Very friendly thing. But the number of visitors from Hong Kong was 193,000, which is way down. That's 11.2%. You can see the eighth consecutive month is pretty big here. "The rumors sweeping Hong Kong through social media is the huge earthquake will strike Japan in July." What do you guys think about that? Would you stay away? Are you staying away? It stems from separate prophecies by a famed local feng shui master and a Japanese manga artist. So apparently it wasn't just a Japanese manga artist. The JTB said that it did not know if the rumor led to the drop in visitor numbers from Hong Kong in May. Yeah, you know what? I can pretty much say that that's probably why. But demand for flights from Hong Kong to Japan have remained uncharacteristically low. I think, of course, they cannot say that it's because of the prophecy. I mean, they're the government organization. You can't justify prophecies. But — the less you talk about it, probably the better. But it is big news. And what's going to happen when July 5th and nothing happens? This is probably a pretty good time for you to — this summer, I don't think there's going to be another — there's not going to be another summer like this where you have less — there's always going to be a lot of tourists in Japan in summer now. But probably less than normal because the neighboring countries aren't coming as much. That's kind of interesting. So if you're thinking about coming and you weren't sold on it, maybe this is the summer to come.

04:35 John Daub: Jared, aloha and mahalo. Thank you so much. New York was good. I'll talk about it in a couple of minutes. Hope all is well. All is great, Jared. It's great to see you again. Scott Tan, thanks for always bringing to our attention the latest news from Japan. It's kind of big news. And now that July is approaching — we're just like a week away from July or so, maybe 10 days — kind of big news here. And travel — I'll talk about my trip coming into the United States as well. Coming into Japan as well. I got in at 4:30 in the morning. I'll talk about that in more detail. I think Satrio is here. Hey, Satrio! For the OIJ Nostradamus episode — you got it, buddy. Hey, Satrio. I wanted to show you our friend here. Satrio was here just before. I love Ameyoko. I can't remember if my dentist is here. But this is Shimura-san's office, his business. So you always have to stop here. And Shimura-san, of course, has all — Konnichiwa! He has all these goodies. And again, everything is 1000 yen. I don't know how they do it, but everything you get for 1000 yen, and in a bag you'll get a massive amount of goodies in here.

05:53 John Daub: Satrio — Indonesian tourist! Yay! Satrio, so it's nice to see you again. So definitely come over here and stop in and say hi to Shimura-san. Hi! There you go! Trust me, you will not leave here without having your sugar fix from these guys. Arigatou! I always stop in here. That's why this livestream started late. I did an NHK show featuring him like 20 some years ago. And ever since then, we've been friends, kind of every time I go by here. He asked me about my trip. How did he know about that? He asked me about my wife and child. And I know he's got a daughter that used to live in the United States. You know, this is the great thing about living in Japan for as long as I have is that you make friends with the community. It really enriches your experience living here. And I think even as a tourist, when you come back here, it's kind of nice to see old friends. And Shimura-san has been here for like over four decades. So if you do come in and you make friends with him, you know he's going to be here again. And that's one of the things that I love about Ameyoko — there's still a lot of local businesses here.

07:08 John Daub: Now, I came in here at 4 o'clock in the morning. 4 o'clock in the morning. It took me five minutes to get through immigration. I got my bag. It took me 30 seconds to get through customs. And I caught the second monorail. I thought it would catch the 5:05. There's the first monorail from Haneda Airport into Hamamatsucho. It's at 5:05. I had to catch the 5:18. That's fine. I still got in before 6 o'clock. I was in my house and it was hot. Oh, my goodness. You know what? Our heat has already started. One of the things that Shimura-san told me is that it did not rain. I was gone for about two weeks. It did not rain much at all. We're both really worried, especially about the rice harvest. Prices are going up for just about everything. He can still keep those confection prices down, though. I don't know how. He's like a wizard with that stuff. But hey, Jay24B — Hello from Texas! Thank you very much. Nice to see you here. So tourism numbers are going to go down this summer. I think it's because of the prophecy. I think whenever this stuff comes, it's probably a good time to come. Now, I'm going to be — I am somewhat scared. I'm just going to hang out here for a second. I am somewhat nervous. The prophecy does not make me feel better about it, but I'm going to be climbing Mount Fuji on the first day of the climbing season to film an episode. And I'm going to be staying on Mount Fuji for four days. So I'm kind of worried about — I don't know. They said it might blow. They talk about it. It's probably not going to happen. It's like I don't want to be on Mount Fuji when it erupts. Nobody wants to be up there when it erupts. So I'm going to be up there and I'll probably try some live streaming up on the top of Mount Fuji as well. So it's going to be — going to be really —

09:01 John Daub: You can see the trains going up here. I love Ameyoko. It's changed a lot here, but still the vibe of the old Japan — old show at Tokyo — still remains here. So I do feel happy when I come here, especially after being away for a couple of weeks. I am back in Tokyo. I am back in Japan. If you really feel it here, but it's become more ethnic, which I think is also great. You can find a lot of foods that I'd normally would never see before, as well as a lot of different smells. We come down the street all the way. Let's go to the other side of the road. Let's go the other side of the road. We keep this one short. I'm guessing — now the more I look at the numbers, the tourism numbers — there's a great, very high chance that Japan passes 40 million tourists. And as soon as July passes, I think people from Hong Kong are going to be coming back. Imagine if the Hong Kongers and everybody — how do you call people from Hong Kongers? Imagine if the Hong Kongers actually came. We would definitely be passing 40 million tourists, which is a huge milestone. I think there's a good look at all that matcha. I think there's a really good chance that we pass 50 million in 2026. That's crazy.

10:20 John Daub: Run down. Yeah. Hey, Mahalo Scott 10. Thank you. Good luck on your backpacking trip up Mount Fuji. I'm really — I'm actually trying to get in shape for that because I got to be on that mountain for four days. You got to be in somewhat decent shape. Anybody can climb it and then go back home. But to live up there, that's not easy. A lot of the businesses are just opening. Shimura-san's business just opened as well. I bet you if he sees you Satrio, he'll remember you. I'm pretty sure — I'm so — I don't know. I'm just kind of feel surreal because I didn't get that much sleep on the plane. I just arrived. Sometimes I like walking away from the crowds and walking on this side. Cars still come on this side of the road, so you still have to watch yourself. As you can see, here comes a booze truck. So the flight in was okay. I got a little bit of sleep. Nobody said I said it was — it's 343 and economy. So I sat on the three side and no one was sitting in the middle. So I got the stretch out a little bit more than usual. I didn't watch any movies. I want — I downloaded some shows on Netflix of a series called Suits and I've been kind of watching that a little bit in the background. So you might hear some references got lit up. Here's some — there's some references from that show. I didn't get a lot of sleep though, but I was excited to get back home. I was curious to see what my plants are like because they hadn't been watered in two weeks. But everything seemed to be okay. You know what I mean? Despite the heat wave in Tokyo, the trees were good. Check it out. They are really — Oh my goodness. I love that. That's really those shirts sell.

12:50 John Daub: There's something for everybody here. There really is something for everybody here. It is a true story. This is on me — Yoko. Everything's for sale. Just when you thought you escaped politics — Yoko brings it right back in. Apparently I had a Y-class ticket, which meant it was the cheapest and the worst possible ticket you can get with — and if you get a Y-class ticket, I got a bid your price. But when I checked in, they told me that I can't bid my price at the Y-class ticket. I said, so why did you take my credit card? You strung me along. I was waiting for the notification. You didn't even send me anything. In fact, it's still there. It's pending. She said, no, you're your bid's been crossed out. Sorry, you're going to have to sit economy, and that's fine. So I said — this yesterday from New York — when you do the bid your price thing, it's a win-win. You got to think of it like that. All right, let's say you win. Okay, you win. You get this premium economy. And if you don't win, you saved whatever you bid. You didn't spend that money. So in the end everybody wins. So now I have an extra 50,000 yen to blow on. I should probably just not blow it. Just keep it. Don't — don't waste your money. But I would have certainly gotten more sleep. I went to the dentist this morning. I've been going to the same dentist for I don't know about 15 years now. Really nice guy. He fixed — I don't think it was a cavity, but he fixed the crack in my molar. That's a little sensitive. Still. He didn't use any Novocaine, which really kind of hurt a little bit, but I told him I could tough it out. You think you can and I could, but maybe you want to get that shot of Novocaine, but it toughens you up, you know. But nothing hurts more than getting your tooth ground while still alive. And then you can smell it and I'm holding on to my hand like I'm gripping my other hand like this. And then it's over and now it feels good. From pain will come pleasure. I guess.

15:10 John Daub: Yeah, I'm not a big fan of the bid-my-price system anymore. I've only won once and you know when they didn't respond — it really hurt. It was hard to plan for it. I was like, are they going to tell me now or are you going to — you like if then I'll plan for the lounge. So instead I bought some food at Penn Station and I took it on the subway, the Long Island Railroad, and I ate it in the terminal because I had five hours to kill. And I went on the plane. Happy I brushed my teeth. Got on there. Fell asleep. Missed the first meal. Missed a meal. Missed — it is the first time I missed a meal on an ANA flight. I fell asleep. I woke up and there the cart was gone. Everybody had finished eating. It was just the power nap. I thought I'm just going to close my eyes. I woke up — everybody had the trays and they started putting it away. Of course they said they'll bring it to me. But I said, you know what? I'm just not going to eat because I'm not that hungry. And anyways, maybe you know I could — I had actually — there's a bakery called, I forget, there was a bakery in Penn Station. I bought like a cookie from inside of there. So I just ate that. That was good enough. I missed a meal and then I fell asleep again and I missed the midnight snack that they do, like a sandwich, but I got the breakfast and it was okay. I think that the — the food on ANA quality has been going down a little bit. I've been — I've been going with them for a long time, but you can tell — trends, but the food quality on ANA has been trending down. And here's one thing that really worried me. I've been — I've been taking ANA for like 20 years. It was the first time anywhere that they weighed my carry-on bags, like Frontier Airlines or Jetstar. They weighed my carry-ons and it was over by one kilogram and they made me — maybe this is like an ex-employee of Frontier, but ANA made me put one kilogram of stuff into my check-in bag. I was — I didn't — I'm not going to get upset about it. So I did it. I put my book in there. So I was — I was going to read a book. Obviously I didn't need it. But so I put the book in the bag. So what do I do if I want to read something? I just buy another book. So the airplane is still going to carry the same amount of weight. In fact, it's going to carry more weight because I bought another book because it took my book. I didn't know that. The book — apparently she was pretty nice about it because I was being cool about it too. I'm like, okay, whatever, it's a book. So I got the weight down like it was like 500 grams and they said, okay, you can pass. But I said, why are you being so strict about it? ANA has never been that strict about the carry-on luggage. Just the size of it, not how much — I've never seen them weigh it. But this year, they used to be able to check in two bags for economy. Now I could only check in one for economy. So you have to pay an extra — two bags. It's like $200 for a second bag in economy. Premium economy is two bags, I believe. And business and first class is still two or three bags. So the weight is also different from 25 kilograms to 35 kilograms if you're in business class. I thought — they're trying — they are starting to nickel and dime just like the other airlines. And that kind of takes — makes it feel less classy. And I've noticed a degradation in the food quality on ANA. And that kind of worries me and the direction that they're going. But that's the way. They've partnered with United. So that's just the way that all the airlines are going. But ANA's worst food is probably better than United's best food. I'm just saying that just off the cuff here. But it's probably something like that.

18:55 John Daub: This is Katsuo Bushi, or Bonito Fish. This shop has been here for ages. They just got a new sign. But this is worth going in here. This is the fish flakes that they put on Okonomiyaki.

19:11 John Daub: How long has this shop been here?

19:15 Bonito Flakes Shop Proprietor: 200 years.

19:17 John Daub: 200 years. The same place.

19:18 Bonito Flakes Shop Proprietor: Yes.

19:24 John Daub: I interviewed NHK here 20 years ago. The sign changed a little. It's beautiful. Thank you.

19:36 Bonito Flakes Shop Proprietor: She said they've been around for over 200 years. The main shop's in Nihonbashi. But they've been here for a long time. I filmed there for NHK 20 years ago too.

19:46 John Daub: That's 2008. It feels like 20 years ago. They make some good Katsuo Bushi. They're still here. Comparatively, if you look at Tokyo, people are a lot stiffer than in other places. This is up here. You might miss it, but there's a shrine. Is it a temple? It's a temple up here. And there's also — I didn't notice this, but there's a temple down here along Ameyoko. I don't know why I missed this. It's interesting. Coffee shop is here. I love the mom and pop shops and the closeness that you can feel with the people. It certainly helps if you speak Japanese. And it certainly helps if you come here before noon.

20:25 John Daub: Now with the tourism numbers, this is what worries me with the tourism numbers. They haven't opened up this yet. But this is the most popular Takoyaki place, maybe in the city of Tokyo. And you can see it's not even open. Oh, it is open. But there's no line here. There's always a line here.

20:54 John Daub: No line today. Oh, it's early. We're getting closer to lunchtime. But it seems a lot more empty than usual. This isn't the kind of summer I thought it was going to be. Do you guys ever eat these before? These Kororo. These are really good. It's like a gummy but it actually tastes like the fruit, especially the grape. These are so worth it to try, to snack on. They had a melon one which is really good. It really tastes like fruit. We got the Daifuku out here. Look at this! Mango mochi. Oh my. This is so tempting. Mango mochi. They put everything. There's mochi for everything. Look at this — Yuzu mochi! There's Ramune mochi! Chibi Dango. Apple mochi — Ringo mochi. Ichigo mochi. Grape mochi. Peach mochi. Cheyenne Mascato mochi. And melon mochi! Melon mochi? Eh? I kind of want to try it. And of course the sign says here, mochi, mochi, mochi. And of course there's some colored Daifuku there. Seven-colored Daifuku. That's kind of neat.

22:39 John Daub: I get some confections here to send to my Daimyo supporters on Patreon once a month. This is one of the places that I stop at, as well as local regional confection whenever I can get it. Ooh, somebody bring the fire. They get some peanuts and stuff. Locals will buy that, like the peanuts and the almonds here. And if you go to the second floor, oh my goodness, they got a lot of stuff. I recommend this side more than the other side. This is the other side that you can go into.

22:51 John Daub: Nikki. That shop's called Nikki. They've been here for at least 50 years. Hey, Pacific Northwest. I totally want to buy some mochi, but I'm kind of not going to eat it. I just got my tooth filled. It's the devil. It's the devil. This is a very unique place to go up. Again, this temple. I can't remember the name of it. You'll hear the bells ringing. You'll get the smell, the incense up there that are burning, and you get a nice, like, feeling being up above Ameyoko Market here. And a lot of the business owners do go up there and pray in the morning.

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24:35 John Daub: This shop is new-ish. They have like gifts from Hokkaido and other places. I've noticed that a lot of them are starting to take advantage, not just of Ameyoko being Ameyoko, but of finding these gift shops, finding these things from across Japan that people might want that you can't normally find in Tokyo, but now you kind of can. Or are these like close to the expiration date? Because you only normally find these in Hokkaido, or at the Hokkaido store. Or you could just order it online and have it sent. But — Oh, here's the Royce Caramel! These are so good. I don't see any new Kit Kat flavors recently. Yeah, but tourism is — it's on the rise, but the summer looks like it's going to be a really slower than usual summer. Although it's going to be busy, it'll be not as busy as you would think. And that's kind of a good thing, maybe. Because most of the tourists are coming from Japan's neighboring countries. And if this earthquake doesn't happen, then I think a lot of people in Hong Kong will be feeling like they probably should have came. Can't hide in your house — not from this earthquake anyways. That's not going to happen. Should we even be talking about it? I don't know how it's worth. Alright, this is the place I was the most curious about. Alright, they're getting close to finishing it. So for the longest time there was this old building here. And you can see the reflection — the train going in the reflection of the building here. They're building some new restaurants here. And it kind of — the more they take away from Ameyoko, the more they lose the vibe. They already put in a new sign here, which sort of looks retro. I think this one's better than the one on the other side. But it's certainly changing the complexity of the neighborhood. The Don Quixote, when it came in, I think it took a little bit away from the feeling of what Ameyoko is. I think what Ameyoko's core was used to be the black market of Japan back in the olden days. Olden days, I mean post-World War II. This is the black market. Amey meaning America. And the American goods were here. So you'll find Zippo lighters and Army-Navy stuff and chocolate from America. Sweets. So it's got that kind of history to it. Peso — can hear the Don Quixote song. Peso, do you want to go in there? They kicked Peter out once. I'm kind of scared. You can't really predict an earthquake. So I — Look, it's going to happen, but I don't think it's going to happen on that particular day. But I will probably have to do a livestream that day. So you were here. Alright, I'm just going to stand here. Peso, you can soak it up here. Did that make your day? How was that? Full blast! That's loud. I don't think it's copyrighted. We're going to find out.

28:03 John Daub: This is the discount ticket shop. So you can usually get like a couple hundred yen off of train tickets, plane tickets, Shinkansen tickets. You can save a thousand yen if you're going to Hiroshima, for example. So it's worth looking at the discounted tickets and know that they are real tickets. You're not going to get ripped off from the discount ticket shops because I've used them all the time. You know where they are, the physical shops. You bring it back and you can yell at them. That's worse. You don't want to lose your reputation. That's more than the money. That's what a lot of people don't understand about Japan. The reputation is more valuable than the money.

29:42 John Daub: 4,000 yen, please. Thank you.

30:03 John Daub: Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. We're the best people out here. You're welcome. You can take — cell phones. These are really good. You know it else. Stop — you? Stop.

31:23 John Daub: You know, if I put this in my mouth, I'm going to lose all the skin. It's not a good angle either. See, the doctor put this tooth in. See, he's working on my tooth there. This is a big mistake. You don't know how hot this is. It's like basically — it's a big, big mistake to let the steam out.

32:02 John Daub: Well, we got a bunch of people. We hit our goal. So I think it's good to have a reward. I'm going to have to go back to the dentist. I think he said don't eat anything for a while. It should be okay. Do you see the steam coming out?

33:02 John Daub: Klaus class, I don't think it does. Well, I'm going to lose that skin. I think I shouldn't be eating yet. My tooth is kind of raw. Still, he put in some ceramic. And you know what? I also told myself I wasn't going to eat octopus because I felt bad after watching the Octopus Teacher movie. I'm still eating it. It's hot. Fool me once, shame on me. Fool me twice, shame on you — fool me three times —

34:50 John Daub: It's all right. It could be worse. It could be better. These are really good takoyaki. They're big. John Lopez has had these. Stop while you're ahead. Oh, this is really good.

35:40 John Daub: You can always check to see if they're skimping on the octopus. That's a pretty big piece of octopus. There's some more sauce on there.

36:26 John Daub: That was good. That was good. I don't know if I was supposed to eat yet. I just got out of the dentist. I mean, it's soft and chewy, but what I did for you guys was just confirm that they're still putting in pretty generous pieces of octopus. Yeah. Despite the fact that I said to myself I wasn't going to eat octopus because octopuses are supposed to be friends of the humans because the teacher taught the octopus stuff in that Netflix movie. It's food anyways. Look, if I had that rationale, I don't think I would eat any food. But let's just say I don't eat as much octopus as I used to. It's been a long time since I ate takoyaki. But when I do, it's usually at that shop. So, oh mama. That was good. Thanks guys. I guess this cements, definitely cements the fact that I am back in Tokyo. There you go. Had takoyaki. It's off my check mark if I were a tourist. But I live here. I live here. Just a shout out to Shimura-san once again. I told him not to and I was serious about it. He still gave me a bag of food, snacks. He's a good guy. And he put ice in there so it wouldn't melt. That's how good a friend he is. He's so nice. This is the great thing about making friends here. He put it in a special bag. Oh no, he did this. He packed this. He said, take this up to Mount Fuji and eat it. I don't think I'm going to do that. But if I'm going to Mount Fuji, I'm going to be eating like good food. Whoa! Choco ball gummies! Oh my god. He put a lot in there. Matcha sticks! Holy macaroni. There's two or three of them in there. See, he gets a lot of these things where the makers overproduce or it's getting as — Oh, I love these. These are really good. I might take these with me. All right. Well, thank you. Shimura-san is a — Whoa, there's a motorcycle cop. Those guys are cool. All right. It's nice to share a little bit of time. Now that I'm back in Japan, I'll be doing some more live streams. We're going to talk about the stuff that's going on. I'm going to — I'm going to go to Nagoya to film here in Japan because it's Only in Japan. But tomorrow, I'm going to Nagoya to film, at least that's the plan. I'm still waiting on a location where they want me to go, but I'll be in Nagoya tomorrow, and later on this week I got to go back up to Yamagata to film the Sato Nishiki Yamagata cherries. And I'm planning to go to Nagasaki as well. So it's going to be a very busy, very busy couple of weeks. And this unagi does look really good. Although I could tell it's not domestic unagi. It's too thick. That looks like it's farm-raised in China, but I mean it's still really good. But usually there's a lot more antibiotics and stuff in the water so they don't get sick. So I said — I've never eat unagi that's been coming from China because I got an allergic reaction. But it does look really good.

40:37 John Daub: Thank you, Klaus — says welcome back home. Thank you to everybody. I appreciate it very much. It does feel good to be home, despite the fact that Kanae and Leo are still in the United States and they sent me pictures of them and I'm very jealous, but I'm also here and that's also you know kind of cool. And I'll be here just to film for a few weeks and then back to America and then back here for the fit to finish off the summer before August. It's going to be — it's going to be really busy. And I'm hoping that I start to show you a lot more than just Tokyo. So make sure you subscribe to the channel. And oh, one last thing — Postcard Club. So far I'll confirm it tomorrow, but I'm 99% sure I'm going to be — I'm taking a stack of postcards to be sent from the top of Mount Fuji with the special Mount Fuji summit stamp on the top of it. So make sure you're in the Postcard Club before July 4th, July 5th — if you want to have your postcards sent from the top. And it'll be sent literally from the top of Mount Fuji going to your house. That's kind of cool. That's in my — in the Postcard Club. UFO Bob just shared the Patreon site for Only in Japan. I appreciate it. We got a lot of new Patreon supporters for the Postcard Club. So it's really fun. I sent the postcards from the Osaka Expo last month, and this month is the Miyazaki mango auction where they paid $5,000 for a pair of mangoes. And next month is a Mount Fuji summit, which is going to be really cool. And I have never done anything like that before. Everybody, great chatting. I'm getting out of here. I'm taking the Oedo Line, but I'll see you again tomorrow in another livestream as I was taking in Nagoya, I guess. See if we got some time — maybe Sakai, downtown Nagoya. I get a lot of traveling. What then?