Join us on our DISCORD server 24/7 ONLY in JAPAN! discord.gg/eczNWfu - it's free - and to join our Postcard Club patreon.com/onlyinjapan (only 5 Tokyo 2020 Olympic postcards left!) hope you enjoyed our tour around Monzen-nakacho! John & Kanae

I see Kanae, i click. I wouldve watched live but i was on the road when i got the notif. More Kanae! 🥰

I absolutely love how the Japanese built around the temples and shrines. Preserving their priceless cultural heritage for posterity :D

Gorgeous Kanae & lovely John.... you transport me out of my broad, beautiful but boring, Australian reality - to the land that fascinates me....giving me more options to explore next time I’m there! Good work!

Another great video!

Thanks for the virtual tour. Now I know what I have to look foward to. Awesome!!! Your videos give me Life. 🌏💛

Love your tour shows a spectacular tour and travel show .

Loving this!!!

Very good presentation! Thanks for show and relate!

One of your best!

Your totally right! This is what we looking for! 😍😍😍

will visit this town next year for sure!!

Thank you 🙏 John for cleansing us. It was very thoughtful of you. 👍 Levi 😀 ✌️

hello from NY!!! i always miss your live stream!!! either I'm sleeping or on my way to work ..ugh thanks for the informative streams!

I really like the narrow alleys in this video. It's so beautiful with nice greeneries around. It's truly historical. Thank you 👌😆😆

Thanks for the awesome stream John. Would really visit the shrine and the alley filled with traditional Meiji era shops and izakaya~

Look at this greenery, adorable potted plants make the alleys look alive, love it!!!!

Another great livestream. I love the Showa era vibe of this neighborhood, as well as the ties of the shrine to Sumo and the monument to Ino Tadataka, the man who surveyed so much of Japan - on foot! Monzen Nakacho is now on my list of places to visit when I make it back to Japan.

Love these so much ESP city of Tokyo your favourite place John!!!! 🤣🤣 I love these spots around city of Tokyo area!!! I never get sick of it!!! 👍👍 Hello kanae!!! 😁

The amount of plants growing is wonderful to see.

Will definitely check out this local area and try the kushikatsu restaurant! Thanks for showing us Monzen-nakacho when I return to Tokyo.

Love your video. Thanks for sharing... I missed Japan. I was there couple week ago. I really like Toyama area...

Good afternoon John. I am always amazed how you can bring the Japanese culture over in your videos and I love how excited you are when you explore new things and show them to us. I really enjoy and love your videos. As you said, it is relaxing and in a beautiful nature. Please, stay like you are, never change. You can make the world a better place. If I were a producer, or would have connections to somebody....you would have your own TV show to bring the Japanese culture to the world. It is so much fun to watch your stream and I love that you can still get excited like a little child in a candy store. Do not get me wrong. Its not a critic, you are an inspiration for anyone, I learned during the past week so much and love to see more. I'm like a sponge, give me more....lol. You and your wife are amazing and I hope you both are staying well and safe. God bless you both. ❤

This was such a great stream. Thanks for this rare look at a unknown historic area. You should definitely do a walk through at night in the bar district to show the atmosphere of the izakayas. I bet it would look like a Ozu movie.

New sub. I will be in Japan the end of August. Thank you for showing a place that tourist really don't venture to... I always look forward to exploring places just like this. 😁

Tokyo’s amazing, love this neighborhood

Wow, thank youuu

I like the plants infront of houses...so cool...

I stayed in that neighborhood recently. Loved it.

Wow! My kind of place. Can't wait to bring my tiny family there.

Hi ..I’m playing catch-up w all your videos... Thanks for info aboutMonzen Yokocho and Fukagawa Jinguu

Love the contents of all your videos. Kanae and you look great together. Hope I will visit Japan again. Nam myo horen ge kyo. Nam myo horen ge kyo Nam myo horen ge kyo.

This is what I’m looking for!!!

Enjoy your videos

Yeah, midnight snack run coming up !!!

Thanks for doing the video. Me and my wife love your show very much. One of these days, we would love to visit Japan. Last time I went was back in '85....

I'm enthralled with picturesque little lanes, but I have to admit that I get frustrated when I get lost! I love the thoughtful things you do for Kanae like buying her flowers or snacks!

My trip this September to Osaka got cancelled because of Covid 19 (flight cancelled, wouldn't want to take the risk too of travelling). Now I'm living vicariously through these videos. Thank you, John.

Hope these neighborhoods stay around in some form. I enjoyed some peace and quiet during my time in japan in such areas and it’s such a great contrast to the typical hyperactive craziness found elsewhere.

Happened to Watch this video a year afterr release , REALLY NICE AREA!!! I really like Takashimadaira area... also pretty much lacking in tourists.. apart from me🤪 CONGRATULATIONS BOTH TO BABY❣️❣️❣️

Nice temple and street food. That statue about the guy who mapped Japan is Inō Tadataka. I love maps and learning more about the history of mapping. Mos Burger? They've done partnerships with Mister Donut, which started in the US but due to its rival Dunkin Donuts' (owned by the other brother), it moved out and became popular in Asia

I love Monzen-nakacho! I lived there for a month - great low-key area :)

This area is so clean for a night life spot. Love the cute izakayas

Great Walk :)

You are speaking to me, John. This is the place I want to see. Plus, the countryside looks appealing. I don't see much from the KZfaq channels about Japanese art and crafts, traditional or modern. The Japanese culture has much appreciation for beautifully elegant design.

Looks like a wonderful place to live and so close to central Tokyo

The weather turned out to be great today!!! we saw so much...we had a private tour guide who took us all over...

This reminds me so much of where I lived in Fukuoka in the 60's .. Kasugabaru Prefecture

I miss good old days before pandemic, and hope to visit.

what a beautiful day

I just discover your channel and videos.Congratulations really cool and informative.Only thing I suggest is 2 mics if your going to have A guest with you and next time introduce her more formal. Domo Arigato.

I only knew Yanaka! This is so cool!

Ohmygoodness!!! I just booked a hotel exactly in this area for next year March17-22. I booked even without knowing the place. I am super glad that you and Kanae had this video - can’t believe I found this! Btw, I have some questions though as I have some concerns on my trip (with my senior citizen mother): 1. Will be arriving in Haneda airport at 5AM - Any recommended place to rest (particularly for my mom)? 2. Wondering if restaurants would already be open around 7am in the area? Thank you!

Gorgeous Kanae ... Arigato

It's great to see Kanae enjoying her life as a wife of a world-class vlogger! 👍👍👍

It is really tough to research these traditional/retro kind of streets. I'd love to visit this area.

John, please do some videos in the Aomori prefecture. I lived in Misawa many years ago. It has a special place in my heart.

34:28 perfect timing for the tunnel reverb during 'the grand sumo tournament'

Ok these street food videos are killing me!!!! I LOVE DANGO!!!!!FEDEX to Tucson!!!!

I like the tarot flavour Boba I liked it BEFORE it was popular

Kanae.. Kawaii!!😍😍😍

John, have you ever met David Hoffmann of David'sBeenHere in Japan? He has a long series of Japanese street food covered some areas that you've been through in your series. But yours are a lot more broader and deeper into the cultures of Japan. On the other hand, his works are mainly about food (90%). He eats and drinks a lot in his shows... By the way, I'm from San Francisco, California. I really like your series. Keep on the good works. God bless!

I can imagine that some of the more complicated kanji is very difficult to hand carve. into the stone like that. Amazing.

I learned from Tabieats that you can tell the difference between a Shrine and a Temple, if it’s a Shrine it will have a Torii Gate in front of it (entrance).

This place is only 2 stops away from me and I love how hidden it is from tourist. Many good places to eat and friendly people compared to the rest of Tokyo. Oh well, John revealed my secret dinning spot.

1:47 wow! I would like to take a picture of that just before sundown

Thanks for the video. Next time we go to Japan, we’ll experience the little suburbs in Tokyo. We only go for a three weeks every time, but when I come home I really miss Japan. I’d gladly go and live there, but she-who-must-be-obeyed says no!

Gateball = croquet = korokke... ^_^ This video reminds me of the hours I've spent wandering the back streets of Bangkok and Chiang Mai.. That tanuki... that was an unmasked tanuki. I wonder if there will be a dagashiya in this video.. will just have to watch the rest of it tomorrow, it's already too late at night.. ^_^

0:31 I bet tourist will start flocking Monzen Nakacho after watching this video hahahaha

Cool

When are you gonna show the Chongryon aka the North Korean community in Japan? That would be great to do a vid on

you are one lucky man....................

Showa Era is best Era :D

I did see in NHK channel a top ranked sumo wrestler play a piano as a hobby when he gets to go home.. and he was darn good at it.. forgot his name though

been watching for a while, maybe upgrading video quality would help a lot. we are not all rich i know lol

the mizu manju's shell are made from kuzuko or kuzu powder.

"getting food and just trying it" -- I agree! I am fortunate enough to have no allergies, so I can eat anything put in front of me. Of course, I do have preferences... My first day in Japan I ordered two random things off a menu (mainly because they were two of the only things I could pronounce) - okonomiyaki and takoyaki. For most people, excellent choices! Me? Even the scent of seafood makes me nauseous. :,) The chef was within view, so I ate as much as I could without making myself ill, feigned fullness, and asked to take the rest to my room. LOL At the time, I hadn't yet realized how much seafood of various kinds is in most Japanese food. I learned quickly! Good times. XD

What do you film on? What's your setup for these videos? I also wonder what type of cell plan you have to stream like this all the time :)

Having limited vacation days and (money), it's hard to re visit Japan. I miss walking in Tokyo and getting lost hahaha. God willing next year, I can have a week for Japan. :)

I've been to practically every station in Tokyo over 15 years but I've never been here. Thanks!

Can you visit the flea market where they make the different knives?

Kanae's so pretty

@10:06 the lady behind you! I've seen her many times in your videos and in others also! Does she look for youtubers just to be in their videos? lol

Go Bucks!

49:19 i'll assume that wasn't an automatically closing door since it's more hilarious that way

"The Buckeye in me will destroy it" lol

Tomioka Hachiman Gu? Thats the same name as the big temple in Kamakura

9:03 im not up on my john lore did he go to Ohayō state

I'm in my kitchen now. You made me what a coffee myself. . It's not mons. But it's Mea Shu Cafe.🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🎃👻☕🙋

That’s your lovely wife are you guys doing you look great together

🎶Public park pigeon bathing in the water 🎶

kindly tell Kanai to make youtube videos about places food and dancing..

Go Buckeyes!

hello , how long did it take you to learn Japanese? And where did you learn?thank you

Pidgeons are the rats of the air. Boy... you are so easily ... look a squirrel... distracted... LOL John...JOHN... pay attention!

Dassai in 2022 is £37 for .72 of a litre. Takai !

John you said in one of your other videos that you can't buy property in Japan, why?

What is this new channel that you mentioned?

Could you do a sumo episode? This would be very interesting 😊

26:08 you definitely meant to say hashtag here i think, lol