I Heard Tokyo Had Slums… So I Went

[00:00:00]Bro, that smells like the strongest odor of heaps and heaps of human [ __ ] There's not even a shop open, bro. The shops don't even exist, lad. All the shops are boarded up. Oh, what's coming out of that [music] house, lad? That's a straight hoarder's house. Kapow spicy kungpowman.

[00:00:23]Welcome to Tokyo, brother. Look at that Tokyo sky tree. Buddhist temples. It's all going on right now. All right. The place we're going, we're pretty central in downtown Tokyo. As you can see, this place that we're going now, let me explain this place. It's called or it used to be called SA. And this place was they actually changed the name to try to like eradicate the memory of this place that once was a slum. They eradic they like completely changed the name and wiped it off the map. It has new names now. There's two suburbs that make up this old place called SA. Um, and they've given it two different names.

[00:01:03]I'll tell you what the names are in a second. I can't I find it hard to pronounce it, so I'll read it off the phone. But, um, this was at one point in time a proper slum. All right. You think in your head, Tokyo doesn't have a slum.

[00:01:17]Tokyo doesn't have a ghetto. Tokyo, it's not dangerous. You're right in that it's not dangerous. This place that we're going to is not dangerous, but it very much was a slum once upon a time and still is until today Tokyo's poorest neighborhood. It's now it's like more of a place that it's like a day laborer place where they stay in like overnight host.

[00:01:44]It's pretty gritty for Tokyo. All right. Relative to Tokyo, it's pretty gritty. And um yeah, it's it's the poorest part in Tokyo by quite a bit. The second most poorest part on the other side is like not even close.

[00:01:59]So this is like notorious here. Like if if you ask someone in Tokyo, where's the poorest part? Where's the dangerous part? They'd say this place. Although, like I said, it's not going to be dangerous whatsoever. And that's the beauty of this country. Here's the two the names of the two suburbs that that it's called now. Nihon Zatsumi and Kiokawa. Nihon Satsumi and Kiokawa. So for decades, this was known as a city's laborer district. Thousands of workers live in cheap boarding houses. Was once a slum, has a reputation of poverty, and is considered one of the toughest areas in Japan in general. It's quiet, but old streets, cheap hotels, and the workingclass atmosphere are all still there. That's the rundown. SA It's actually not far from here. It's about 24 minutes. About 24. You can't say about 24. You got to say 25, 30.

[00:02:54]It's about 24 minutes and 22 seconds away from where we are, right? Look at these. This is mad.

[00:03:01]They're everywhere through Japan.

[00:03:04]Like BS um carrying tourists around.

[00:03:07]They call they call them rig shores. And it's just a bloke carrying around. But they they don't only pull you around the city. They give you yarns. They give you yarns. There's lime scooters here, by the way. I have a lime account. So, if I find one, we're scooting. It'll make this 24 minute 22 second journey go down to 13 minutes and 51 seconds. So, you got to appreciate that 11 minutes and 19 seconds saving. And I just if I got that right, if I got the mathematics of that right or anywhere even remotely close, that's you got to give me a round of applause for that. I have if I got I swear to God I just rattled that off my head. So I stopped at a a green light standing there. That just nullified my goatness, didn't it? We're actually coming quite close already. I'll try to film this without the reflection there. So it's like we started down here in Asakusa.

[00:04:04]We're already there. So we only got to make it up to here. Kiukawa and Nihon Zatsumi. Still looks quite decent here.

[00:04:13]Quite nice. Don't have the vibe yet that I'm entering a poorer place.

[00:04:21][music] I feel it. I feel it coming on.

[00:04:30]Like nothing drastic obviously, but let's be real.

[00:04:36]For Japanese standard, this is getting very different to anything that I've witnessed so far. Already I feel it coming on, bro.

[00:04:48]Lad, that's like a mad. Like, is that a Nissan Sylvia? Remember, we're in Japan.

[00:04:52]You see a lot of these mad cars. um old um [ __ ] JDM Japanese sort of like early 2000s, late 90s tuna cars. Look at this.

[00:05:03][music] Look at that. Is that nice? Look at the intercooler. The piping.

[00:05:17]Ain't no spoiler even. This place's got a prop.

[00:05:27]He's got one bride bridey seat, one OG Sylvia seat. That's mad.

[00:05:34]Sorry, I don't know too much about cars.

[00:05:36]Like, I like cars, but I'm not one of those people that make it my life.

[00:05:43]If I say if I think of a nice car that I like, I'll sort of buy it and drive it for 6 months and then get sick of it.

[00:05:48]Other than that, I don't can't say too much. But I I have enough appreciation to know that that's a cool car. See the thing, bro? These are everywhere. We all know about vending machines in Japan. I don't know about the whole Japan, but Tokyo anyway. And yes, they are everywhere. They are in every lane in the most unusual spots. Like, but the thing is every single one of them has the exact same thing. It has the exact same. There's a range of about 12 drinks and every single one of them has the exact same stuff. It always has that some green tea, an ion water, different cold coffees.

[00:06:29]Um so always some vitamin C drink and then normal water and there's a matcha.

[00:06:36]They all have that and I like they're nice nice drinks, nice range, but I mean they are in every lane with the exact same thing. Like they are blueprints. It sort of like takes away the specialtity of it. Do you know what I mean? Like if they had different things and you rocked the game came up to vending machines, you're like, "What's in this one? What's in that one?" Oh, wow. But they don't like Yeah. They want the exact same thing and they're all like 30 m apart.

[00:07:04]It's crazy.

[00:07:07]You can definitely see it with this housing here that's even still standing.

[00:07:11]You definitely see the remnants of like slum living sort of thing. That's significantly now significantly different. [music] Do you find it odd that there's an entire building covered in net?

[00:07:32]Does anyone know what that's about? Can someone please explain that in a comment? There's an entire building.

[00:07:38]These houses are pretty. How you going?

[00:07:40]But let me There's an entire building covered in net. Like the entire thing was what? Look.

[00:07:54]No idea. Even the windows. The windows are netted over.

[00:07:59]It's an apartment block. Zaitto Tokyo Asuka apartment.

[00:08:08]All right, we're only about 3 minutes and 48 seconds away. So, when we cross 2 and 1/2 straight [snorts] where they we're coming up to Niko Katsuma. [music] You see where these vending machines are, bro? They put them everywhere, bro.

[00:08:26]You know what I mean, bro? They put them everywhere.

[00:08:30][music] This is the beginning where I can see on the map that once we cross this street, everything up that way is the old SA hood, slums, and the poorest part of Tokyo until today. Thank you.

[00:08:47][music] Bro, that's those um I don't want to film. That's those tiny apartments.

[00:09:04]These This is the place where you would find, by the way, you know, you have all seen a lot of people do those um YouTube videos where they stay in a tiny apartment. This is the exact suburb where if you came to Tokyo, you would as a YouTuber come and rent one of these apartments and that is them. Um, one person has their window [clears throat] open. Especially in Japan, like looking in people's probably some guys that come out and do judo on me, but that apartment right there is you're not going to be able to see. I'm not going to stick the camera in. That's pathetic. But it's small, bro. It's like one room. Every one of them is one room.

[00:09:42]And it's like from here to there. And his clothes are hanging up there. And you can just see a shelf there with like his stuff on it. I mean, here's like the entrance of another one.

[00:09:56]That's a counter right there. There's a b sitting right there so me. Tall white guy with camera. This is not good.

[00:10:06][music] I can see for the first time at the end of this street in the background like big like projects. So it looks like government housing projects. The first time in Japan I've actually seen that or in in the city of Tokyo. Anyway, [music] like you got to understand where we are.

[00:10:33]We're in Japan. So minor things, I'm not trying to be dramatic about them, but like that is not normal in Japan. That's that's that is very not normal. You know [music] what I'm saying?

[00:10:53][music] [music] >> [music] >> This building is rough as.

[00:11:21]All right, I'm starving. Surely there's food here.

[00:11:27]We've been walking through sort of like more neighborhoody areas.

[00:11:30]How beautiful is this, bro? This building's rough as. How beautiful is that? Tokyo Sky Tree. You can see it from everywhere, bro. What a building.

[00:11:47]It legit smelt like this back there.

[00:11:50][music] What's going on in the back lane here?

[00:11:59]cuz what are theies doing? What are the old fellas doing in the back lane there, lad?

[00:12:06]See the old fellas kicking act in the lane down in the hood? What are you doing down there? Suspects. Find the spots.

[00:12:16]This lane has an extra amount of um vending machines. Look, but that's what I mean. Look at all the vending machines. And look, it's the same thing. Look, I'll show you four vending machines.

[00:12:29]One, two, three, four.

[00:12:38]Wow. Tattoo.

[00:12:42]Good. Oh, good.

[00:12:43]>> Good.

[00:12:46]Thank you.

[00:12:48]Where's the food? Food. Where?

[00:12:51]>> Food. Which way?

[00:12:52]>> This way.

[00:12:54]>> All right. This way. Here. All right.

[00:12:55]Thank you. Thank you. This way. Going the wrong way. What's that orange building behind me? It was starting to get a bit trappy that way. Sort of wanted to continue, but I'm too hungry.

[00:13:06]They're breaking. That's the same old fellas.

[00:13:12]I was on one side of them just holding the camera down there and they were all looking 2 minutes later like a bad putrid spy. I am on the other side of the lane with the camera point. He just seen me. He's like, "What the is going on?

[00:13:26]Is this open or closed? At least we're getting a drink. At least we're getting that drink in a little supermarket in the hood.

[00:13:37]>> Hello.

[00:13:39]>> Oh man.

[00:13:46]>> They got food sort of cooked here. Oh, look at the amount of food ready. They You need to heat it up though. Look.

[00:14:01]This is sort of like an electrolyte drink. They got it everywhere. Pari sweat. If you've been to Asia, you've definitely seen Picari sweat.

[00:14:25]I'm going to pump this whole drink here because there's no bins unless you're at like a convenience store in um Japan.

[00:14:32]So, if I don't use [clears throat] that bin right there, then I'm stuck holding a bottle until who knows how long. It's like a lemon Gatorade sort of thing.

[00:14:42]>> Tastes a lot like a lemon Gatorade. Not as nice though. Not as nice. Is there such thing as a lemon Gatorade? The yellow Gatorade? Yeah, it tastes like the yellow Gatorade. Tastes like lemon lemon sports drink, bro.

[00:14:56]All right, we're going to walk up to a main road here and we go left. And there's shops up there. There's like commercial zoning on Apple Map, so there's not a lot of food around here. I guess it makes sense.

[00:15:08]We'll find it up here. It's time to eat 100%.

[00:15:13][music] >> [music] [music] >> cars.

[00:15:37]No offense to anyone, but does anyone know that smell you get when you walk around Thailand or Bali? I just got that like that sewage. I just got that in Tokyo.

[00:15:50]No offense to anyone. You all know that smell. That's you know that random Southeast Asian smell. Surely there's food just up ahead here.

[00:16:01]There's a Pizza Hut.

[00:16:04]We're not eating at a Pizza Hut. It's got to be Japanese. Just cut down a lane. Maybe there's something [music] Yeah.

[00:16:19][music] >> [music] [music] >> Why is the only thing to eat so far in this whole hood? A Pizza Hut. Ah, I'm walk I'm walking the main road and everything. Surely there's something here. Surely they sell light globes.

[00:16:52]That's a apartment block.

[00:16:57]No idea what that is. It's not food.

[00:17:01]Bro, I'm so confused. How How is not one of these places at least like noodles?

[00:17:09]I'm not I'm not trying to get like, you know, like a big sushi sashimi place or a Japanese, god forbid, we find a Japanese barbecue house, bro. I'm talking about like a a ramen. How has not one of these places sold food?

[00:17:25]Where's all the food, brother?

[00:17:30]Where's the food, lad? You think we just want green teas and vitamin C's produce the food vending machines? What's wrong with you? Where's the food? A man would literally starve their death here cuz bro, this whole hood must be living on Pizza Hut, lad. Straight out cuz when we find a food spot, it must be packed, bro.

[00:17:53]We I've walked I've walked that many back streets, that many like down that many main streets. I've walked nearly the whole length of that main street.

[00:18:05]Like that's where we went in two streets down near the Pizza Hut. We're back here. Nothing.

[00:18:14]There's not even a shop open, bro. The shops don't even exist, lad.

[00:18:20]There's a barber over there and then a close two, three. All the shops are boarded up, bro. All the shops are boarded up. Like Rusty bought it up cuz this says Udon Soup, but it's not open.

[00:18:39]That was a Udon soup place closed. Look at the shops.

[00:18:45]Roller shutters. Roller shutters. Roller shutters. Roller shutters. All their roller shutters behind the trucks. Not a single store open. There was a place there. Living water coffee and burgers, but it's closed.

[00:19:01]I'm crossing, bro.

[00:19:04]I'm stressing out too much for the Japanese etiquette of not jaywalking, brother. I need food right now. Cars. No more laws are getting followed right now, lad.

[00:19:16][music] By the way, are you thinking I'm going to give you what? Look, Monday. Monday 2:04 p.m. It's 2 o'clock on a Monday, right? In case you are thinking like this is some obscure time like 8:30 a.m.

[00:19:36]on a Sunday. No, there's no food.

[00:19:40]Nothing is open. The whole thing is closed. There's a 7-Eleven.

[00:19:46]There's a 7-Eleven.

[00:19:48]I'm Ch JPT. And this is Monday a day off, a known day off in Japan and or is today a public holiday in Japan or something like that? Today is not a public holiday in Japan and it's also a normal working day on Mondays.

[00:20:06]Big holiday periods finished a few weeks ago and Monday is a normal uh normal day, normal working day.

[00:20:16]Oh, I was starting to think it was like public holiday or is this Monday there?

[00:20:20]Sunday, bro. I'm I'm about to go back down to 7-Eleven and at least have a I'm so hungry that I'm becoming aggressive soon. Eating in the hood, bro. It is what it is, cuz I can't dictate. I thought we're going to come down here and get some smogus board. I was clearly wrong about Japan's poor area. They don't even have shops open here. Pizza Hut and 7-Eleven. It's the only things that are open. I'm too hungry right now to continue walking through streets and lanes to nothing.

[00:20:54]So, how about we go down this 7-Eleven, have a feed, and eat like they do in the hood here.

[00:21:02]Apparently, that's how they eat in the hood cars. It is what it is. And then we'll go find something different to eat. At least then we'll have the energy to um journey around better. We'll try further up that way. But that's deeper.

[00:21:15]That's up that way is where all the the projects look. So maybe the shops are all under there. We'll see.

[00:21:25]Legit. And it's popping in there. It's pumping. All the bikes, all the all the people at the front, lad. It's pumping.

[00:21:36]Guys, I'm starting to think this is the only place to get something in the hood here.

[00:21:40]7-Eleven's the only place to eat in a Japanese hood. All right.

[00:21:49]Different different types of meat. It comes cooked already and you just heat them up in the microwave. So, you can choose your meat. This is what makes people makes um 7-Elevens uh really intriguing here is they have different proteins. They have different toppings, different noodles, different salads, different rice dishes, pastas, pork, bacon, cheese, ketchup, pasta, all cooked already. So you can come here.

[00:22:15]Look, look at this stuff.

[00:22:19]Chicken schnitles, pork cutlets, curry pork cutlet. Look at that. Look, rice bowls, plain rices, macaroni cheese, sushi's, tuna, spinach, and tomato bolognese.

[00:22:50]That looks nice.

[00:22:52]See, it's not necessarily Japanese food here. I mean, it's just it's all food here. All dishes that are ready to go.

[00:23:01]Like, it ain't it ain't nothing like crazy. It's 7-Eleven food. But, bro, it is what it is. We came here and everything's closed and everyone's eating at 7-Eleven, so it is what it is, bro. We don't make the rules.

[00:23:18]Onion bacon bolognese. That looks mad.

[00:23:25]Onion bacon bolognese.

[00:23:30]>> Yes, please. Hit it up, please. Thank you. All right, I got something different. I'll tell you what it is in a second. Something more Japanese.

[00:23:38]Thank you.

[00:23:39]>> Thank you.

[00:23:41]>> All right. A lot of 7-Elevens, they have places in them you can eat, but that 7-Eleven doesn't. I don't know if it's because we're in the pool area, but yeah, that's the first 7-Eleven I've been to where there's not. It's usually a dining area. Let's go down here. I'll show you what I got. See how they see the range of stuff is real interesting.

[00:23:59]And you can get even more technical and buy individual ingredients. Like you can buy cooked vegetable, um, a sauce, a cooked protein, and then you take it all home and mix it together. But we're eating in a lane, so I had to get one of the more prep uh prepared ones. I did like the look of that pasta, the pork pasta. But I'm going to pick some I pick something more Japanese. Is that our little table? Is that our little table?

[00:24:25]Are we just eating in a lane on the corner? I think I'll put a They kind of think I'm a swimmer. Maybe they will.

[00:24:32]But anyway, our regato.

[00:24:41]This is how it's done, brother. I got pickled cucumber.

[00:24:46]Pickled cucumber. It's with chili, garlic, and sesame. I love this. They have this in um heaves of Japanese, even Chinese restaurants. That's beautiful. I moved here because of the wind. The wind was pumping there.

[00:24:58]I got chicken, fried chicken, like chicken karag with a sweet vinegar and tarte sauce. Look at that. That looks mad. And then I got this is what they heated up. They didn't heat that stuff up. That's still cold.

[00:25:15]This doesn't have a translation on it, but it looks like noodles. Looks like the pork cutlet, egg, and rice. Let me open all this up.

[00:25:27]Oh, that smells mad. That smells so strong. Let me taste this. I love these, bro.

[00:25:35]That's so nice. You hear the crunch, bro? That's fresh as fresh cucumber. Spicy, too.

[00:25:52]Okay. All right. Nice. Some um pickled ginger, an egg, brown rice with some seaweed, bit of pasta. Wo! What? The size of that fly. What was that? Came over like a helicopter.

[00:26:12]Poor cutlet. Well, all right. Let's pump this, bro. Let's do [clears throat] people think I'm crazy. Is that how you eat in the hood, bro? In Japan.

[00:26:25]I thought was so this chicken goes. It's cold, but I reckon it's going to be gone. The sweet vinegar and tart sauce on it.

[00:26:44]It's all right. It's all [music] right.

[00:26:50]It's unusual. It's not bad. It definitely would have been better.

[00:26:55]There's no crisp to it at all. It definitely would have been better if it didn't get refrigerated. It's not like crispy fried chicken. It's like soft and chewy.

[00:27:05]The sauce goes all right. It's all right.

[00:27:10]I'm lucky that I'm starving because not cuz I'm starving. The chicken's like a five out of 10. I feel like it'd be a three otherwise.

[00:27:22]They're beautiful. They're so nice.

[00:27:27]It's not too garlicky. It's more sesame and chili.

[00:27:32]It's not like 10% garlic.

[00:27:36]90% sesame chili, but it's cold and fresh as man.

[00:27:43]All right, let's get into this.

[00:27:47]I can't believe that this is what we're eating [laughter] and this is the circumstances in which we're eating it. All right, let's get into this pickled ginger. My poor cutlet. That's [clears throat] so nice, bro. It's the pickled ginger from sushi stores. It's such a nice nice pickle.

[00:28:19]See how this pasta goes.

[00:28:21]It looks like it's flavored with some herb or or or pepper.

[00:28:26]Seaweed.

[00:28:30]It smells like seaweed, man. The pasta smells like seaweed.

[00:28:36]Seaweed and sesame oil. What else did we expect? But strangely, it's nice. It's actually nice firm pasta like al dente.

[00:28:48]Um, it tastes good. It's salted seaweed and um, [snorts] sesame and it actually tastes nice.

[00:28:58]This goes all right, bro.

[00:29:01]This goes all right. Oh, the price.

[00:29:05][snorts] Wow. All of this was $11 Australian. [snorts] Almost forgot the price. That's the most important part. This was >> [snorts] >> $11 Australian. Not bad. Think about that.

[00:29:19]Pork cutlet pasta with with rice and and egg, a thing of chicken karagi, and the salad side. $11. That's pretty mad. Heat it up for you. Heat it up for you.

[00:29:32]Chopsticks provided, bro. $11 goes off.

[00:29:40]Japan's not a cheap place, by the way.

[00:29:43][snorts] It's not It's not like China. It's not like um Vietnam. It's not cheap. You [snorts] can You can eat dinner in Japan in Tokyo somewhere just like a normal size dinner and it ends up being like $85 a person. It's not like a cheap place. Normal dinner, not fancy. We'll see. We'll taste this rice.

[00:30:06]We'll taste that. See how it goes and then we'll go on with it. Taste the egg.

[00:30:09]Not going to eat all these rice. That's a lot of rice. [snorts] That's a lot of rice, bro.

[00:30:22]That's me. That's me.

[00:30:27]Those coppers with sirens. Speaker phone.

[00:30:32]They're yelling something out on the speaker phone. All right. Now for the hardest task in Japan. Find a bin. We're not We're not finding a bin, bro. This will have to be illegally dumped somewhere at some point because I'm not even lying. We will walk around with this all day.

[00:30:54]I came back to the 7-Eleven.

[00:31:00]Like I said, the only place where bins exist.

[00:31:03]That went all right. $11 for refrigerated, prepacked, heated from the fridge food. Tasted good, bro. It tasted good. Tasted good. All right, let's continue. Hopefully, now we can find a a hot food place or a restaurant or something open, a lunch spot.

[00:31:30]The chili cucumber. Don't touch that lane. didn't look like I had a lot going on.

[00:31:37]Had a lot of flags, but then I seen the first two flags in the front of the shop were both closed. So, felt like we're going to walk down a lane of closed doors. They just have old flags out.

[00:31:51]We're heading up to the suburb now. Um, which isn't in the furthest side of of this um area that we're walking through, SA. Um the the place that seems to have all of like the the bigger towers, you can see them up there. Like bigger towers like this, like obviously low low economic living towers. They're not government projects, but they look like it.

[00:32:19]Maybe they are government projects. Who am I to say they're not government projects? Who am I to say? I wouldn't even know to be honest. They do look like it though.

[00:32:40]>> [clears throat] >> Honestly, first wall in Japan I've seen with bro. Pretty sharp razor spiking like anti- climbing, anti- theft spiking on the walls. First time I've seen that.

[00:32:57]And there's another 7-Eleven.

[00:33:00]The only other store that I've really seen open other than where we bought that drink. That little convenience store.

[00:33:08][music] [music] This place is getting rough as bro. What do you mean?

[00:33:34][music] But this street is rough ass. Look at this.

[00:33:40]Still Tokyo Sky Tree in the background.

[00:33:43]All right, but this is it here. Now we're between all the towers on a main street. Like an actual busy street.

[00:33:54]Yeah, this is the street. There's even a McDonald's there.

[00:33:59]This is where I was saying that we were walking towards that we could see off in the [clears throat] distance.

[00:34:10]Look at their bridge.

[00:34:12]Oh, that bridge looks like it's about to collapse.

[00:34:20]>> There is a spot there that's open.

[00:34:23]A Japanese spot there that's open. Does look like it has ramen. It's there.

[00:34:29]We'll do a lap though.

[00:34:34]That's closed.

[00:34:40]Imagine having to walk up that staircase, bro. To your front door. Look at this. Their front entrance is there.

[00:34:47]They're right beside the train tracks.

[00:34:48]Look at this. Look at that staircase, brother. Ain't no lives here. Get in the northern deep north suburbs of Tokyo.

[00:34:55]Brother, you're doing tricks every day, mate.

[00:34:59]Like that lives at the top has bum cheeks of steel, brother. Let's look down this lane, lad.

[00:35:10]Sorry, but there's all my little businesses down this lane.

[00:35:25]Hey, what's coming out of that house, lad?

[00:35:29]That's a straight hoarder's house.

[00:35:35]Are you all right in there? What's going on? Holy.

[00:35:45]What?

[00:35:47]Bro, what?

[00:35:51]What? What?

[00:35:54]Bro, that smells like the strongest odor of heaps and heaps of human [ __ ] You know, the smell of human [ __ ] in public. That house is full of human [ __ ] That's crazy.

[00:36:13]Look at these houses around here, lad.

[00:36:16]Bro, that house is full of human [ __ ] What the What's going on in there? This house. Look how small the house is, by the way. That is full. Pouring out human [ __ ] Look at all the little flies coming out.

[00:36:42]That's crazy.

[00:36:44]But at least it didn't smell like a deceased person, bro. This is like, look at the houses here. You're telling me this is actual slum remnants, bro. Look at the houses there across that road.

[00:37:02][music] >> [music] >> I want to cross this road to look in those streets. [music] There's all mad lanes of businesses in them down there, too.

[00:37:35]You can see it in these little pockets of um of these old houses. You can see the little pockets of the old houses still standing the from the slum type days and they're mostly being knocked down and all of these massive cheap houses are being built. uh apartments even right there like where that's happen right next to the house that smelt like human [ __ ] is another block probably being made into an apartment like that that would have looked like this like 6 months ago I love in the middle of it look in the middle of it maybe he's got a little hair boutique right there that's mad look down there cuz lucky we found that right between the towers there's this lane I'm telling you it looks like a mad little market street that's underneath sort of like an industrial area. That's crazy.

[00:38:30]You'll see when I get there. Has an like an industrial area on top and underneath is like these little local markets.

[00:38:38]Perfect, bro. Perfect. Fine.

[00:38:41]KFC.

[00:38:51]>> [music] >> Yeah. Wow. Wow. Wow.

[00:39:00]Wow.

[00:39:01]What did we find back here, brother?

[00:39:04]Like a little market world.

[00:39:08][music] >> [music] >> This would be one of the least expected spots in Tokyo for them to see tourists walking around with cameras in this lane. Couple mad food spots. Let's just do a little lap and we'll find.

[00:39:34]Look at this. This is where they're all eating. We found it. This is why no shops exist anywhere because right in the middle they got a markets and it's all like yeah really cheap and plentiful.

[00:39:58]It's built into the houses.

[00:40:04]All right. So, but I'm just completely hypothesizing this, but you can imagine back in the days when there was these little You can imagine back in the days when there was these little slums, these slums here in Tokyo. Look at the back lanes of them and all squashed together like this that in between this whole little little community was a market strip. Look at that. Look at the streets, bro.

[00:40:41]So, between all of all of this would have been like a little the little local slum market and it remains until today.

[00:40:51]And that's what that would have been because I found it odd that we're walking through. I thought it was like a big market, but it was just one strip and it seemed really commercial and it was literally touching. It's literally one one of the lanes of this slum. It just has a roof over it and this [music] doesn't [music] look at that road from one side even to the other. Look on the other side just like this side. On this side the same thing.

[00:41:25]Look at all the houses.

[00:41:32]That's crazy.

[00:41:34]That's crazy. This is what you call tiny apartments, bro. Look at this. A complete knockdown lot.

[00:41:49][music] There's food everywhere, by the way.

[00:41:53]Next spot will be easy to find. I want a ramen or some type of soup.

[00:42:05][music] I reckon this spot, lad, right in the middle of this market strip. I reckon this spot cuz they got that many different dishes. I don't know if any of these are ramen.

[00:42:31]I don't know. Ra, but let's go. It looks like there's such a variety.

[00:42:43]>> Thank you.

[00:42:44]It's nice and cool in here. It's burning hot out there, by the way.

[00:42:55]Yes, there's pictures, lad.

[00:43:02]>> I got a feeling this is Chinese food, bro. I don't know why. Maybe I'm tripping. It looks like Chinese food.

[00:43:12]They baited me with pictures of soup outside and now the menu has no soup on it.

[00:43:25]I'm going to get that. It looks like It looks like Sichuan chicken.

[00:43:30]>> Hello.

[00:43:32]>> Can I get Can I get this, please? This.

[00:43:34]Yeah. Chicken. The chili.

[00:43:36]>> Um, and is this noodles? Noodles?

[00:43:40]>> No.

[00:43:41]>> Um, this one. You >> can't.

[00:43:44]>> Yeah. One this one. Yeah. Thank you.

[00:43:49]Drink.

[00:43:51]Yeah.

[00:43:52]>> Yeah. Yeah. We drink um >> you have cola. Coca-Cola. Coca-Cola.

[00:43:57]>> Cola. Zero.

[00:43:58]>> Hey.

[00:43:59]>> Yeah. Thank you.

[00:44:00]>> Thank you. Thank you, bro. I got no idea what I just got. One's chili chicken. I know that. [gasps] The other one I pointed at um I pointed at like what looked like a plate of noodles, but then I thought it looked like shredded cabbage. So, I panicked and picked some huge plate of red rice.

[00:44:24]So, I think we're getting some type of like red rice. It looks like a kimchi rice [snorts] and um chili chicken and hopefully a Coke Zero.

[00:44:36]Forgive me if I talk quietly in here.

[00:44:38]Nobody's talking. It's really quiet.

[00:44:45]She gave me this drink.

[00:44:55]It's like a really, really, really weak tea. You got to concentrate hard to figure out it's not water. Thank you.

[00:45:11]>> Nice.

[00:45:12]>> Oh, beautiful. Thank you.

[00:45:18]Why does it look nothing like the picture?

[00:45:31]Did they run out of chilies or something? Relax, bro. Anyway, I was looking forward to the chili. The chilies is the only reason I got it. I'm not going to lie. There fried onion on it. Heaps of fried onion.

[00:45:57]It tastes like seafood, unfortunately.

[00:46:03]Like, it's all right. It's all right, except that the oil must be so old. And they've been deep frying fish and octopus and squid and everything in it. It legitimates chicken, but it tastes like seafood.

[00:46:27]It tastes like salt and pepper calamari.

[00:46:30][laughter] The more I think about that, the worse it's getting.

[00:46:42]That's so annoying.

[00:46:48]It is seafood.

[00:46:50]It is seafood.

[00:46:54]That's calamari.

[00:46:57]The toughest, most unbreakable calamari ever.

[00:47:03]It's the complete wrong dish.

[00:47:07]All right. Well, I would prefer to get the wrong dish than to get the right dish and it tastes like the wrong dish. Do you know what I mean?

[00:47:18]At least now it tastes like what it is.

[00:47:22]Sorry. I'm happy. I'm happy. I'm happy.

[00:47:24]You heard her though. She even said chicken. She said it. Editor, play it back.

[00:47:30]>> Can I get this, please? Yeah. Chicken.

[00:47:32]The chili. Yeah. Chicken.

[00:47:35]>> She said chicken. And I said, "Yes, chili chicken." Yeah. Anyway, doesn't matter.

[00:47:42]>> Thank you.

[00:47:55]Whoa. There's the chicken.

[00:47:58]Where did that come from?

[00:48:03]Where did that come from? I ordered a plate of rice and chili chicken. The chili chicken came all right here.

[00:48:21]Bro, so good.

[00:48:33]It's got tomato [clears throat] seasoning on it. Like it's spice seasoning.

[00:48:39]They These chilies are active.

[00:48:45]I don't know where the calamari came from, though.

[00:48:49]All right, let's suck the calamari.

[00:48:54]That's brown.

[00:48:57]It's pretty spicy. Them chilies are hot.

[00:49:08]actually goes off. But actually goes off here.

[00:49:13]My little hood spot.

[00:49:16]It was all right. That was all right cuz it went all right. I had that I like painting in card. I tell you why I like painting card. Cuz then straight away overseas like in a different currency cuz then straight away I get the notification of exactly what it was converted to Australian currency. But I had to pay in cash. Then it was 2,290 yen, which is about 20 bucks. $20.15.

[00:49:41]All right. 20 bucks. We got it right the first time. That's all right. That's pretty good. The chicken was mad. What about Bro, the I looked I before I left, I looked at the picture that I pointed at. It was rice, bro. It was a plate of like tomato rice. Sort of looked like kimchi rice. I don't know how they got salt and pepper scoot from that, but whatever. It was all right. The salt and pepper scoot. They were actually both pretty nice. Let's cut down here through these through the last bits of these slums. Bro, I want to look for a drink like a matcha place or some type of dessert cuz I have a feeling that was Chinese food though.

[00:50:21]You don't know already. I'm sure if it was Chinese already in the comments, it' be like, "Spion, you complete tosser.

[00:50:26]That was a Chinese restaurant, you tosser.

[00:50:30]Um, but I just had I've had a feeling that was Chinese food. It was Chinese food. Salt and pepper squid and like chili sichuan chicken. No Japanese food has Look at these trucks going right through it.

[00:50:43]Look at that OG train station there with a little truck. Bro, look at this station. This is so OG ghetto. Like look at this.

[00:50:56]Look at this lad.

[00:51:00]That's cracker.

[00:51:02]Bro, that sky trees everywhere, bro. Get out of my nostrils, mate. Everywhere I look, I see you.

[00:51:10]What you looking at?

[00:51:16]I like this little trap village. Tokyo trap village.

[00:51:24]Bro, look. They're right on the tracks.

[00:51:27]Look at these houses. Look at [laughter] the staircase. Look at the house. Look at this staircase. And then kapow.

[00:51:38]Spicy kungpow.

[00:51:46][music] What's that? A little coffee shop.

[00:51:59]Back out onto the main road.

[00:52:08][music] A big 24-hour gym.

[00:52:16]What?

[00:52:18]Why? Why in the middle of Tokyo in the hood here is there a 24-hour gym and it's advertised completely with white people? Not a single Asian. Not a single one.

[00:52:31]You know what I think it is? It's like, you know, when there's those places in Australia like JD Sport and and they advert even though in Australia they advertise completely with like Africanameans cuz they think that we think they're the coolest people on earth. So they advertise if Africans and we're just like I think they're doing the same thing. I think there's like that's their version. It's like oh white people go to this gym. I must have go.

[00:52:57]Yeah. All jokes aside though I really would love like a cold sweet matcha latte. Like an iced matcha latte.

[00:53:08]Anything actually cold and sweet. We'll set it off right now. We're coming to the end of the hood here. Funny they sold a dessert in the vending machines. Bro, I'm surprised they don't sell anything but those drinks. Like, you think at least one in five would have confectionary snacks or something.

[00:53:33]That's the first time I've seen a Coca-Cola vending machine like that.

[00:53:37]That's legit the first one. I wonder what's in it. The same stuff, bro. What?

[00:53:47]It's the same stuff as all the other ones. I got excited for a second that there was going to be a bit of variety.

[00:54:02][music] Guys, I just come back past that water's house that smells like poo. He Someone's in there. Look.

[00:54:28]Someone's in there doing something, lad.

[00:54:31]I don't know what's going on there, cuz he's just rolling around in his own poos, brother. It's crazy how apart from the one main street, not even that other main street, the one main street that we were just on and around where the markets ran off. Apart from that, every other store, every other business is completely nonoperational.

[00:54:56]She shut us up. Whatever they were, I have no idea. But every single thing is closed all day on a Monday other than here, a place to do your laundry.

[00:55:09]pretty much in this this part of Tokyo.

[00:55:13]That's it. Every business is gone except the main street. And bro, there is not a lot on that main street. There is not a lot. Like, bro, if we I I swear we seen all together. Lucky that little market strip exist between those that those little shanty place because other than that but there was a handful of places to eat that were open.

[00:55:38]A handful. I'm talking about I've been walking brothers I've walked the length of like four suburbs looping for about 3 hours now. I'm talking a handful of places. Everything is just closed.

[00:55:59]And even now as we leave to find a place to get a matcha, no chance. We're lucky if we're going to get any type of dessert that isn't from 7-Eleven. But we'll see. We'll see.

[00:56:13]We'll leave back to the downtown to the tourist spot now. We'll see if we can get a dessert on the way out of here.

[00:56:20]Bro, look what I just found. Cuz look what I just found. Where have you been for the last 3 and 1/2 hours? Cars, brother. Lime scooters, brother. Bro, we're on. We're finally a dessert now.

[00:56:34]Cars. Let me get this. Let me get this, brother. Let me sort this out.

[00:56:43][music] That's it.

[00:56:46]Watch this, lad. We are on. I'll tell you the biggest hack, bro. I swear this has changed all of my travels. I was in Europe and my MS goes, "Why don't you hire a Lime scooter? They're everywhere.

[00:57:03]You can make an account like in Australia. Then you can just hire a scooter and fly every country that you're in five times faster." And I looked at her like, "Relax, Lime scooter with you with your ideas. I'm the professional traveler here. You're giving me ideas." And I done it cuz it is the best thing ever. I was flying around Italy like I was, bro. Like I was the gladiator cars. It was the best thing ever. I can't believe I've been to Europe like 12 times without it. Now everywhere I go, if you're going to travel, have a lime account. There is bikes and scooters everywhere. Cars. You could walk around or you can just do this. Lad, don't touch. Completely electric. No pedaling. What are you talking about pedaling? Brother, I'm flying through the hood of Tokyo and you don't even know, brother. I'm flying through the hood of Tokyo like it's a Harley-Davidson, brother. Look, look. They look at them more. They're jealous of me now. Cuz professional. I got a scooter. I got a camera, brother.

[00:58:03]I'm like JB High.

[00:58:14]And the thing is, you fly on the roads too. You don't need a license. You're flying the roads belong.

[00:58:20]Look at me.

[00:58:22]Hey, there's that Pizza Hut. Latest Pizza Hut. Hey, I reckon we're going to have to get our dessert from a convenience store or 71.

[00:58:47]I was thinking, bro, how annoying that we're forced to eat so much from like convenience stores. But then again, how appropriate.

[00:58:58]Like, how appropriate. You know what I mean?

[00:59:04]Is there anything around here? There's a fruit and veg.

[00:59:11]Look at this white guy. Go home.

[00:59:16]In your streets. You go home. Relax.

[00:59:23]You can pause these, too, by the way.

[00:59:25]Pause. Ride.

[00:59:28]They put on pause so no one can steal it so you don't have to cancel. and then reactivate your ride.

[00:59:38]Surely they got matcha something. This is like a throw off 7-Eleven.

[00:59:45]But this one goes all right. You know, matcha milk bread. Well, there's matcha something.

[00:59:51]Oh, that looks all right. Matcha milk bread.

[00:59:58]Matcha and white chocolate scon. They They're rock hard though. They look like they need a be Oh, what's that?

[01:00:09]What is this?

[01:00:11]Go. Well, don't milk bread, bro. I just squished one and it was like pastry with like hard cream inside. Good on my chest half.

[01:00:28]All right, we're getting one of these.

[01:00:30]I'm telling you that's goated. I can feel what it is. It's like cream and it's a hard chocolate outer.

[01:00:43]I don't know what these This is This looks mad, too. It's like a matcha sponge cake sort of thing.

[01:00:52]Actually, these coffees look mad.

[01:00:56]Oh, lemon tea.

[01:00:58]That's what I'm getting.

[01:01:01]Lemon tea.

[01:01:04]Look at that.

[01:01:09]I'm jade. I'm so jade.

[01:01:13]That was $6.

[01:01:15]$6. Like, bro, we're pumping it here like warlords. That was six bucks.

[01:01:22]The two desserts and the drink, bro. In Australia, just that bottle of unsweet the lemon tea would be $6. I'm kicking back here pumping. I'm on the scooter.

[01:01:31]Lads, let's try this sponge on first cuz I know the other one's going to be hectic.

[01:01:43]Oh, brother. It's like a pancake.

[01:01:46]It's like a matcha pancake, brother.

[01:01:50]Look at that.

[01:01:57]It's a matcha pancake full of matcha like cream.

[01:02:02]That's very matcha, brother.

[01:02:05]It's very matcha. Matcha.

[01:02:08]That is good.

[01:02:10]Yum. Almost done.

[01:02:15]It's so soft.

[01:02:18]It's so soft. The whole thing is like a marshmallow.

[01:02:23]I put the rubbish in the little bucket behind me. I got my own personal bin and I just leave it in there when I dump the scooter cars. Don't touch. This is what I'm looking forward to.

[01:02:37]Oh, bro. What?

[01:02:41]What's that?

[01:02:47]What's that, brother? It's crumbling everywhere.

[01:02:53]It's like black bread.

[01:03:06]It's like black bread with the same matcha mous inside.

[01:03:12]I don't know what the black bread is, bro.

[01:03:15]I'm not even going to lie.

[01:03:21]It tastes like burnt bread.

[01:03:24]It's so weird. It tastes like charcoal flavored bread. Like charcoal. Like burnt wood.

[01:03:33]Is that charcoal flavored bread with muncha in it? It tastes So to give you a tech, it's soft. It's not crunchy, but it tastes like charcoal bread with matcha inside. The matcha taste like the herby tea taste.

[01:03:52]It's a little bit poo, brother. I'm not going to lie. Yeah, I call it poo. What?

[01:03:56]Don't touch. I'm going to give you wraps for everything. It made me walk around for 3 hours to find a feed.

[01:04:06]Oh my god, that is goat. That is the cleanest green tea.

[01:04:14]Mild lemon flavor, mild sugar flavor.

[01:04:18]Like if you think of Lipton lemon tea, probably about 25% of the sugar and lemon flavor and more of a clean green tea flavor. That's cracker.

[01:04:32]Just like that. Just like a full Viking brother. Professional barbarian.

[01:04:40]Oh, does We got our matcha.

[01:04:47]Bro, what are you talking about? Why are you trying to pressure me? I'm paused.

[01:04:51]Ah, I'm not paused. I'm ready to go.

[01:04:58]Let's go.

[01:05:01]All right, that's it, bro. That's We're actually appropriately right now leaving the poorest area back towards where we started from.

[01:05:13]Look at me in the middle of the street like a professional.

[01:05:19]That's all right. It goes all right. The food in Tokyo's poorest suburb goes all right, lad.

[01:05:26]And and my way home is just by following that Tokyo sky train up there.

[01:05:33]See you later.