It takes about two hours to get the Yonezawa which is where I'm going to be headed for the next few days.

Oh, I guess I got way more bags than I need because on this shoot I don't know what to expect.

You gotta be prepared for anything.

We've got a mask up here.

I actually have a better mask.

This is the Ice Essential entrance.

I usually come by taxi and it drops me off right there, goes around there so it's pretty easy to get on the scene constant.

I think we have about 15 minutes so we might have time to grab a bientot.

Welcome to Turkey station everybody.

I'm getting onto the shinkansen with JR East Pass.

It's five days of unlimited travel on the shinkansen.

The Tohoku shinkansen, not the Takeda and that goes to Kyoto.

Um and you need an assigned seat so I had to get a seat reservation again.

I'm calling this action constant run because usually I'm booking which it means going pretty quickly now you can grab a ticket pretty fast over there using your credit card to the yellow ones are for credit cards only it moves pretty fast.

I can usually get a ticket within 90 seconds or less if I'm on the run for real.

I'm kind of on the run.

All right, we have 15 minutes.

Alright for those that have done these runs before, you know exactly where I'm going.

I'm heading to that green one right there, You can tell the shinkansen by the colors now, It's early enough where I might be able to grab a bento here.

Oh my gosh!

If you were to keep going straight you would go hey, how did you get into here?

How'd you get in here?

What?

I've never seen a pigeon inside in this deep, poor guy's lost.

I'm sure maybe he's gonna get on the shinkansen.

Alright, going straight here on the left side, there is a bento shop.

I have just enough time to grab one.

Let's see what we got.

I want to be on the platform in five minutes.

Huh?

There's a lot of bags.

Alright, this is the Ebony, a shop you can see it's it's almost empty now, usually there's, you can't even see the floor, there's so many people wanting to get a bento on the wall here, you can see they have all the different kinds that are available.

The specials around here.

Okay, alcohol, my hands here.

Mhm.

That's one of my favorites.

Let's see here.

Oh this is my favorite of all time.

This is the Tokyo station even, they only, they only make a certain amount of them.

This looks like there's only 10 here right.

Mhm, those are the self heating vent owes the ones where you pull the string and it starts to get hot.

Yes, thank you.

Mhm?

Gosh, there's a lot of them.

What should I get, What should I get?

What should I get?

Mm hmm.

Oh this is a unagi bento.

That's $15, That's way out of my price range.

Mm hmm.

This is a cheaper Unagi bento.

Unagi and chicken.

Mhm.

That looks good.

Mhm.

Alright, let's see what we got here.

This one's a yaqui nicu bento.

That looks good.

Grilled beef on rice and then this one is a wine meshi.

This has wine in it.

What I like.

The outside of it looks pretty cool.

Alright, just get something john doesn't matter, doesn't matter anymore.

Get something.

The Chicken one looks good.

You know what?

I'm gonna go with that.

Mhm.

I'm going to go with it.

Age old.

Favorite salmon.

Mm hmm.

Uh kodo and yeah, I did that.

Hey, that's not bad.

Mhm.

Mhm.

Hey, just, is that what you?

No, Yeah, yeah.

Hey, I got the same mass official receipts.

All money must be accounted for.

Thank you Sean, I saw that coming and Sean ah I'm running out of hand space.

This is the battle all the way to the end.

Yes, like the Gimbels all crooked.

You're crooked.

Look at the nose on it.

I love it.

All right, My train's at 7:12.

I don't have enough time to get a to get a coffee.

They stopped serving coffee on board.

I believe I can grab something when I get there.

Hey, nedra, thanks nedra, I'm on the run.

Mhm.

Mm hmm.

Can you guys do you think?

Mm hmm make sure you have the right past.

Alright there it is right there.

Platform 23.

Mhm.

Tsubasa.

Okay.

Here we go.

I do want to want to weren't you?

Weren't you?

Why are these escalators going down?

Okay.

See.

Mhm mm hmm.

Okay this is To pass a 123 car number.

Hello there, Car # 15 seat three a.

Mhm.

This is good cardio.

Hey matt this does help with the better selection buddy.

23.

There it is.

Okay.

No wait.

Mhm Wait Okay it's the same thing sometimes the trains are they split at Sunday.

This is the Yama, Yama Biko too.

Alright, find seed.

15 nine.

It's like a riddle.

Mhm.

Okay this way.

Mhm.

10 Okay we're in the right direction.

Look at that.

I guess this is where it departs, it shifts to the to the Yamagata shinkansen and alright take no prisoners.

My alcohol pump fell out.

Okay we could do this.

12 3 cars to go.

There's like nobody getting on this train, all the cars are empty.

Do you know?

15 3 A three a.

So get in from this car.

Oh yeah mm hmm mm hmm.

Oh I went the wrong direction.

Okay think And # 34123.

Whoa Check it out.

It's a double Wisconsin drag racing do it.

No but you know over $20 double.

It's a double.

Oh this is the best ever.

Alright, we got about five minutes, so we're all good.

All baggage is put away.

You know why?

That's pretty cool, isn't it?

Check out that uh That image here live from the Tokyo station platform number 22.

I love the Tohoku shinkansen, I love that color.

All right, let's get let's get a drink.

E Mhm.

Get rid of some coinage.

Oh, that's got yogurt in it.

It's yogurt flavored.

Oh there it goes, go, go, go.

Yeah, Wow, She's A Fast one.

Mm hmm.

Oh boy, that coffee would be good, but it's cold and I never get cold coffee from a vending machine.

Alright, I better get on the train.

Mm hmm.

Stupid.

We can't see the nose of it.

But I think you saw that the connection.

Alright, let's just jump on.

Alright, I gotta get off this livestream by Ueno and I'm not allowed to talk because of the coronavirus protocols.

I don't want anybody to feel uncomfortable so I'm not gonna be speaking much at all.

Maybe some very light whispers.

All right.

Better to be safe than sorry.

Okay, we're saying that's why I'm going, hey, I can john loves stressing out.

Hey, here goes another ship.

Cotton.

Yeah.

Hey Nicholas, thanks for the drink buddy.

Yeah.

Alright, let's get let's open up this bento.

I gotta stop at Ueno, I want to say.

Mhm, look at the Dakota on that.

I love this one.

It's a big piece of salmon.

Some egg right there.

Nice.

This is breakfast.

Mhm, mm hmm.

Okay.

Okay.

Oh my God, He's got a runny nose.

That's symptoms of omicron.

Mhm.

Okay.

Yes.

Yeah.

Their money ladies and gentle.

I think I might want to move now.

Runny nose and hacking this doesn't sound good.

I'm going to have to move.

There's an unreserved seating over there when in doubt, when in doubt book others Akihabara, he already knows because it's cold and one of the symptoms of omicron, the top symptom.

Oh my God.

All right.

I'll see you guys in Yonezawa.

Um, just think positive thoughts and uh, yeah, we got a, we got a lot of beef to eat.

I'll be filming in a wagyu episode up there as well as and nonsense.

So it's gonna be pretty exciting.

Thanks everybody.

We're in the tunnel, Ueno Station.

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