Tokyo Station Shinkansen View from KITTE Building

welcome to tokyo station that here is the modern uc side of tokyo station in iconic view and in this episode we are going to be going to the best shinkansen train spotting area in the city how you doing everybody it's a beautiful spring day um this building was built i believe 1912 1913 i always get it wrong but there's a story behind that too i've actually taken you to this building before it's right here how you doing everybody hey jason hey anna i saw you there this is the kite building right in front of us this is the main post office and where i send almost all of my postcard club postcards i send it from inside of here because they give you a tokyo postmark on there so if you're just in the patreon post card club from tokyo where i send you postcards definitely join us up there there's already some people we're going to be going there in about two three minutes but i thought i'd show you the exterior this time this is a new building it was built about oh i want to say like five years ago it was completed the old tokyo post office was not nearly as nice but they baited in sort of the old classic look to it with a new style it's got that white nice white uh coating to it so let's get up here to the one two three four five i think it's like the sixth floor but we're gonna find out inwards the top deck it's kind of exciting last time i was up here which was about a month ago and i showed you dr yellow which is awesome you don't get to see that very often it's very rare it leaves every 7 to 10 days kite in japanese which is the name of this building it means stamp it's got this beautiful ceiling to it so there's an elevator right here and i'm going to take you up there right now sixth floor wait it only goes up to the fifth floor we're almost there sorry about the signal we're inside the kite building i'm going to show you the best live streaming spot in tokyo all right we've reached the fifth floor are we still there air to the ron flying train actually that'd be pretty cool the shinkansen goes so fast it sort of does fly off of the rails there's restaurants up here on the fifth floor but because of the pandemic there's really not a lot let me show you down here whoa that's a pretty nice view of all these shops here all right let's get a move on to the top deck it's free to come up here by the way i actually didn't even know about this until i actually didn't know about this until about um a few months ago which is crazy i know a lot about the best train spots i don't know why i missed this one um because i guess i just saw it as the post office building all right here's the sky deck or this is called kite garden which is a not a 360 view but it's a pretty pretty good view of the whole area follow these nice people out so sky garden has a map the map looks like this i guess it's more like a triangle but i think oh you can go around all right interesting so we're gonna do a 360 then hey michael cesano john would be cool if you could get a drone shot inside tokyo station i know i'm trying to get drone shots of uh of the tohoku shinkansen but i guess there's some rules against you know i'm trying to figure out the policies so i don't break any rules the e5 and the e6 traveling together through uh farm fields through rice paddies would be pretty awesome now i've taken you to this spot to see tokyo station several times in the live streams you see that right in front it's a beautiful shot of the exterior tokyo station i see tony p's in his in his high flying uh desk chair wow the renovations for tokyo station were completed about i don't know like seven six seven years ago but we're on going for from about 10 years ago and i remember they did a projectile mapping on the exterior of tokyo station i actually uploaded that to another channel i think that might even be available um like a john dob channel from 2010. so they made this really old facade come to life it looked like they're a bunch of clocks and moving parts on the exterior of it was pretty cool so that's where we started you can see the olympic countdown clock right there in the middle the torch is now and somewhere near nagoya i believe making its way and behind this old modern uchi building here maranuchi exit of tokyo station is the news station and we're we're slowly walking into that direction behind it you can see the signs that's the isis side right there and this building going up is going up so fast it wasn't there a year ago it's going to be completed in record time there it is on the right side do you see it that's a hokushin content that's what i was hoping for i'm trying to get a shot for the postcard club it's going to be this shot guys i'm ordering this shot so if you if you want to join up sign up for the postcard club you're going to get the the shinkansen and the exterior of the tokyo tokyo station it's gonna be a pretty wicked shot and you're gonna you're gonna see me take it well maybe you'll have been to the spot the day that i took it a beautiful sunny day look at her the tokushin constant glistening in the sun on platform 21 why do i even know that information because i was there sitting for a while wow i don't think we're gonna get a chance to see dr yellow but if we did that would be pretty cool it's also lunch time right now not a lot of people out on about because of the pandemic but again state of emergency is over so we can travel freely which is really cool i think that tohoku shinkansen is going to be making its way it's going to be departing and on the other side is the tokaido shinkansen and you actually kill from one to the other without exiting you have to exit it it requires a different ticket so this makes it difficult for those that are trying to to go from osaka to hoku you have to you definitely have to change a tokyo station there's no question about it let's see if we can follow this i'm gonna set up my tripod and get some pictures here that train is going to and it's racing the yamanote line which is in the lead now that she cuts in the leave but the yamanote elena is catching up quickly it's gonna be a close race local train versus bullet train they pretty much have to go the same speed but just to show you how long the shinkansen is there's the end of the yamanote line and you can see the shinkansen hasn't ended yet there's the end right there that's a long train 16 cars i believe ah there's an ant on me hey no free rides aunt how's that ant get on me i've been moving the whole time so we're going to see two tohoku shinkansens e5s i think that's a hayabusa but we can't see from this view along the platform if it's connected to the e6 which is the the red one the one that goes off to akita it is pretty much like a football field 100 yards or more moving at 300 kilometers per hour it's that is pretty cool i don't know how quick the french tgv and the other trains go but the fact that the shinkansen is as long as it as it is and it's going as fast as it is it's pretty amazing and they they picked up the speed in uh tohoku i believe these go over 300 kilometers an hour i think they go 320 now in some spots you have the yamanote line making its way in i think that's the sobu yokosuka line goes from chiba to yokosuka i'm not sure the green car is a double decker do you see that so you can get seat reservations and usually this train is crowded going home in the evening but uh today it's gonna be fine [Music] hey i see junkies in the house you have just purchased canai's lunch thank you janine carl how you doing guys the tohoku shinkansen these um tokiwa green shinkansens don't depart very often but the tokaido shinkansen you're seeing another departure and they leave about every five five to 15 minutes so i'd say regularly 10 minutes if you miss one don't worry there's another one coming this one looks like uh that's not the tokaido line this looks like the old tokaido line the tokaido line is one that if you take a local train you can get to osaka it takes forever but you can do it it stops almost at every stop on the way sometimes you have to train strain change trains at atami and again at uh sometimes hamamatsu or toyohashi very few of them i think only one goes all the way to nagoya without having to change almost all of them change in atami i believe but i've done that so many times on a ticket called the ishun jihachi keeper and jihad jihachi means 18. so it's a kind of like an experience oh look you can see i got you know what i should do i should take a picture of me right there doing the opening of the train and have a friend with the tripod here that would be pretty cool shot and i'll stand there and take the opening and uh yeah that's a great good idea just use a really zoomed lens in there and you get the you can feel the size of tokyo station so i'm right now in the corner i'm in the corner of the kitte garden and this is the the best view from this angle oh no that we just lost the tohoku the other tohoku shinkansen just departed shoot i wanted to get that departing although it would have been only a few seconds but from this angle let me pan around and give you an idea of what the from the from this point and that that's the opening do you see this lip here that's the opening of the yacht side of tokyo station so you can see as i pan from here you can enter in here and if you have a ticket you can cut through all of this underground and get to the marunouchi side which is the old dome in the center of your screen right now that's right and just a blink gina got it right the tohoku shinkansen is gone so there are a couple of places mostly over towards um um i don't know the tohoku shinkansen the thing is it goes underground like a subway wow you can see the mess of wires that's crazy all those wires giving power to all these trains there is another shin content again they're like every five minutes there's uh different ones that the nozomi leave about every 10 minutes and then in between there there's the um hikari which it has uh a few more stops and key places and then there's the um kodama which is um i think that means echo in japanese it actually stops at every stop and i prefer it it's not that much slower if you like the shinkansen and you want to have a more relaxed ride take the korama because it it'll get it'll take you longer but you can really stretch out a trip if you just want to ride the train there's no reason sometimes the nazomi is too crowded because that's what the one everybody's getting on in tokyo and you get a chance to really um slow it down get off on the platform sometimes you can get an ekiben if you're riding the kodama you have a 10 minutes at certain stops it allows you a chance to to get off the train for a second stretch your legs don't stretch too long because you might miss the train but i think if you get the jr rail pass you can't take the nazomi you have to take the kodama i hear a train coming in a lot of these sounds are so iconic to tokyoites ah there's the hokurikushinkanza coming in while the tokaido comes in from osaka tohokuriku shinkansen just arrived from kanazawa how cool is that that's super exciting this is a great place to grab a bento from the station on a beautiful day like this and you can see here i guess and eat it out here on the garden there's loads of space um it's very relaxing andrew fort wayne's here tasty chronicle rights in here some vending machine money for future non-carbonated drinks stay away from the caffeine stuff so you can get better night's sleep tasty thanks for thinking about me i'm really tired i'm here i'm up here because i want to get some shots for uh the video and also take a um the postcard club postcards are leaving the 10th so it's a little later than usual i gotta order it today after i take this picture did you see the two nubs let's follow the yamanote line out go go go looks like a model train from up here if you do like these train spotting spot episodes click the like button because uh that's how oh just in a blink it's gone there were two now there's one wow they move so fast you can't take your eyes off of them if you do you might miss it there's a starbucks on the other side of the on the other side of uh the station this side the nihonbashi exit if you take a left outside of there from the starbucks you can see the tohoku shinkansen fly by i just saw it right there it's a on the corner you can see it sort of on the rails that's also a nice train spotting for the tohoku shinkansen in tokyo but the problem is that it goes underground that's why when i do tokushinkans in my live streams when it's running it's often cut off by the signal yamanote line is a very long train as well but let's count the shinkansen together shall we one two three four five 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16. i think i lost count somewhere 17 18. did i get that wrong i think i lost count somewhere i got dizzy 16 right i counted 18 something wrong 17. somebody counted 17. i don't know i got 18. i don't even know why yeah michael turner you you got it right i i it could be 16 and a half i don't somewhere between 16 and 18. i'm pretty sure it's 16. so to get from the the oh is that the uh next the narita express man it's a beautiful window on the front yeah that's an adidas express very pretty trend it's got that big bulb on the front it's a great great view if you drive in the train i still got my eyes peeled on this oh another one just pulled in now the tokushikana just pulled in if i was a real uh train otaku that was a real train otaku i would have the schedule in my hand and would be able to to wrap off all the stops that that particular train would be doing i can i can't do that the hayabusa train which which is the e5 the tokushin content is ten cars cars ten to three or is it oh we get a departure that looks like it's also the hokuriku shinkansen or the they both go sort of in the same direction it's nice to fun it's nice to talk um took trains cause i could do this all day but i i don't know what do you think is this one of the best spots for train spotting you can see tokyo station is always going to be the main hub all right shinjuku is a big station i got that but the shinkansen it's got all of the the national trains running through it it goes up to hokkaido it goes down to kagoshima all these trees well actually they have to train in osaka for the sanyo and then but that's not the point the point is that you get such a wide range of the trains here this would be probably the best train spotting spot in the world i don't know i is that's like a old statement isn't it look at that you have the tokaido line and the shinkansen together at sandwiching another two cutters she cuts into tolkien constant and the hokulea cushion content and here comes the yamanote line doesn't want to be forgotten it's a power spot this is such a power spot i can feel the the power of the trains it's exciting where all these people could go anywhere how come i'm not on one of these trains this is this is actually the last day of my past so i could jump on a train and go somewhere but i can't i gotta go tomorrow or the next day because of the baby who's sleeping right now so i got a chance to escape for these pictures here supposed to be back in an hour so let me swing right by this way and give you one more last view from here you get a better shot of the exterior of tokyo station this is the old modern uchi side for those that are joining us click the like button if you like this kind of content train spotting is one of my uh hobbies some people like to go to cafes and watch people i like to go to cafes and watch trains it's kind of cool there's the shin motor building in the moto building right there um in a beautiful open plaza here lots lots and lots of sunlight the city of tokyo and and in about a year you're going to start to see the construction i believe they're already starting to to flatten it out of the torch tower or the flame tower i forget what it's called it's going to be the the tallest building in japan 387 meters high is going to be right here on the horizon you're going to see that starting to be built and then i think it said that it's going to be completed in 2027 so there's some time going on here here comes another what looks like a hokuriku shinkansen entering into the tokyo station pretty exciting wait if i went to young i should have told kanai hey can i i'm going out to get some lunch she's okay just bring me back bring me back a bento and then i go all the way up to sendai to get it it's pretty cool to come back here's your lunch where were you sendai talk about delivery same day service sendai is about 90 90 minutes from tokyo so it'd be about a from door to door i can i think i can do it in three and a half hours that sounds like a challenge that's what you would call a special you know what okay all right there's nobody here it's like listen to this yesterday i filmed um some hyperlapse inside of tokyo station i got permission to film hyper lapses so you can see from the isis station all the way to the platform of the tohoku shinkansen it was it's a pretty cool hyperlapse um while i was there i asked kanai what do you want for lunch and she said uh she wanted to she wanted an ekiben and i said okay so i got her a sendai guton self-heating ekiben one of the ones where you pull the yellow strings and it starts to heat up it's a self-heating bento and it was really good i got two of them that the pro the only thing was it's pretty pricey it was 16 for one boxed lunch but the quality of the the beef tongue was really good sunday is quite famous for utah i think it's made from a fame famous shop so we did have an amazing day i don't think we're gonna get the same thing but i'll buy her a bento from the area lunch is lunch is one of these in-between meals oh if we pan down check it out these people do not know they're being observed from a distance [Music] there's lots of other trains this could be the azusa i thought was started from shinjuku that goes towards there but i i i think it is yeah and the x's uh negative express is pretty expensive but if you're connecting up with the shinkansen and you have a japan rail pass anyways it kind of makes sense to get that doesn't it just jump on there if you don't have a rail pass the kc line is a little bit cheaper and in fact you can ride the local quesay line and it takes you roughly about the same and you connect up at yawatakese or moto yawata for the toy shinjuku line and you can jump on the subway which is cheap that sometimes is the cheapest option but you're only gonna save maybe 15 bucks and after a long flight you're kind of stressed out at least i am taxi's expensive the average cost for taxi from here to narita was uber was 27 000 yen or 270 dollars and if you take a regular taxi it's cheaper i think it was uh 2400 uh 240 dollars from here to nalitek's uh airport it's quite a ways to get to haneda it's about from here about ten thousand no at night about ten thousand yen and during the day about eight thousand seven thousand eight thousand yen from where i live it's about five five to six thousand yen depending on the time of day there's a twenty percent premium on taxis after ten pm until five am i believe [Music] all right there's a train leaving oh we just got a second tohoku shinkansen two noses popping out i would say that the tohoku shinkansen has the most unique nose of all the the trains it really is long and i don't know if that gives it any extra speed i just know that it makes it cooler because it's so long where's the hokurikushinkansen right there not quite the same nose but i don't think through the mountains it travels nearly as fast when you get to the sea of japan side um i don't think it hits the same speeds as on the main line but tohoku has been been redone and i do know if you do ride the akita shinkansen which which uh jimmy's across from murioka so that's the red one that's connected with the green one the e5 and the e6 the speeds are about half of what it is it's much much faster than the usual local trains as we see the hokurokushin content taking off but not nearly as fast as the the normal tohoku shinkansen line that going aomori the thing with the tohoku shinkansen and my argument on why maybe it's not the greatest it has the best trains but the line itself is is so much in tunnels it's it's it's sort of sort of depressing so when i was filming the ekiben episode a couple of days ago i was a little bit depressed that we were in tunnels the whole not depressed i should say frustrated because we were in tunnels all of the [Music] time so i might have missed a couple of super chats i do apologize there's still some bugs in the app two random crap three right in here i don't see any reason the shinkansen trains aren't completely automated that's a good point i think they might be in the future oh there's a point there there's a point in yakucho when these two trains come together you have them going on the left and right of you very closely and uh i did an episode on that it's pretty cool if you catch them right once an hour you feel the wind of both the trains rushing past you sometimes one's going one way and another one's going another way you just have to catch it at the right time i did in that live stream that was like two years ago and at yakuza station it's a that's a power spot man and then when i was doing it other people would went over there and tried to do the same live stream or the same episode it's cool i think more people should go and do that try to find um amazing train spotting spots and um soak in the power of the green side i can hear the the music echoing all right we should have a departure any second now go cheers i don't know wouldn't it be pretty cool peter was was doing the voice of some of the some of the shane hunts and trains pretty they're pretty uh interesting there's another tokaido shinkansen and i believe that's tohoku lines uh sorry the tokaido lines yeah pvg is the voice of ana for the uh announcements i thought he was the voice of disney but it's funny though when all the voice artists and they they have a really cool clubhouse that they do i'm not on i'm not on clubhouse that much but peter's on clubhouse a lot and they have a pretty cool clubhouse um like a voice artist's clubhouse and you get like the voice of of j.r tokyo is in there josh keller who is a friend as well and um you get other narrators other voice talents so you hear these iconic voices in one clubhouse it's pretty cool i'm trying i'm trying to get peter to do discord with me the competitor i think we just lost it to tohoku shinkansen too you blink it moves yeah all right so let's even get the 500 likes i'm gonna walk this way before i start to take some pictures of of the shinkansen thanks everybody i appreciate you coming and spending your afternoon a little bit with me here at tokyo stations beautiful kitte garden up here on the sixth floor it's free for everybody to come it's got an amazing view you can walk um i don't know i would say like 180 degrees maybe but on a beautiful sunny day like today offers a a nice view of the city of tokyo the old and the new that's that contrast a lot of people like [Music] now you can see down the street here the traffic on the other side that's the road i know on the other side that's the road i take to get home i came by bicycle again [Music] any questions i think i'll go catch up on john's videos um i do have the uh sushi video which is done i thought it would upload it last night but i was so tired i couldn't make i wanted to do one more uh look at it with fresh eyes temperature is like a very nice 20 degrees celsius maybe i don't know i don't know what is that like upper 60s lower 70s perhaps train dance instructional videos someday matt gamer that's maybe i can make up a couple of pretty cool dances that'll inspire the world or uninspire them i don't know depends how you how you feel about that dance the kids liked it you're very welcome mer 580s thanks so much for joining me tasty chronicles laughing over there in the other side of the pacific i might do that best spot drain best train spotting spots of of uh japan there's so many of them and that's a reason to go out sometimes some people go to tourist attractions i go out to like farm fields to find nice perspectives to take pictures and stuff so it just uh makes makes it unique and that's where we started the live stream right there it's pretty cool thanks so much for watching everybody um i'll have another another live stream i was hoping we'd get to see dr yellow but they don't announce when it will be leaving that's an interesting train um i'll see you in another live stream tomorrow i will do an in a q a and i want to talk to kanai about um uh the whole process of having a baby in japan was really cool my friend paolo did a really good episode on this um so there's not too much that i can add to it he had his son nine months before we had hours so he's done most of the baby stuff it's almost redundant to do it right now um i'm sure we might have a different take of it but in a live stream i wanted to talk with kanai and see how she's doing and how how some of the differences between the us and japan some of the things that we went through that was unique and different so we giving birth or having a baby in japan it's it's different it's in some ways easier some ways it's just like what and those are the things that we'll talk about um have a good day everybody thanks for joining me on this beautiful afternoon not a lot of people out and about warren van toronto lunch time soon what's tokyo station's echi been like it's really good there's an ekiben matsuri inside there where they have bentos trucked in at 5am because the trains aren't running yet so they can sell them here in tokyo station that's dedication always fresh no preservatives the tokyo station one is my one of my favorites but it's a little pricey 17 i believe for 16 17 for one appreciate it thanks guys

Channel: ONLY in JAPAN * GO

Views: 19,677

Rating: 4.9253335 out of 5

Keywords: Only in Japan, Japan, John Daub, Japanese, Tokyo, shinkansen, trains, Tokyo Station, E5, E6, speed, above, KITTE, trainspotting

Id: JiA_yEzOJfI

Length: 38min 39sec (2319 seconds)

Published: Tue Apr 06 2021