This is a live view of Haneda airport at 6 45 in the morning.

I'm not joking.

This is before seven a.m. There's the clock right there.

In fact, I've got to get in and board my flight to Chicago.

Takamatsu is my destination today for a location shoot, but it wasn't too long ago, about a year ago that during the bone holiday, the oboe on holiday, there wasn't, there weren't many people at all traveling and now look at it.

It is, it seems like domestic travel in.

Japan is back.

This is the automatic baggage check in which is amazing.

You can check in online for a and a, you go right up here.

You, you show your bar code on the screen, you put your baggage in this like Star Wars type of, I don't know what you call a capsule and your luggage goes on the, on the rack and to your airplane, you don't have to talk to anybody.

It's amazing.

Really quick.

I always get to the gate in 10 minutes or less from here.

How you doing everybody?

I'm off to Chicago for another location shoot.

I think I just got back from Hokkaido.

It's pretty crazy.

But I thought I would just check in with you and show you how amazingly busy Japan is.

The shinkansen platforms have been busier.

It's not the same as 2019, but it certainly is.

Um, a lot busier than the last two years.

This is all really good signs For those of you that have been looking to come back to Japan and to travel here for years.

A lot of you, I read your comments, we had about 800 comments on the live stream where I was talking about only 8000 foreign tourists came to Japan between June and July after Japan opened the doors were seeing domestically travel is back.

The pandemic or coronavirus isn't stopping the domestic people from flying despite the worst infection rate in the world right now is here in Japan.

Um, so I'm guessing again my prediction is, this is all over and people can visit again in october.

Anything can happen though.

Um, it's a whirlwind, Who knows?

But the problem is that for you as a tourist, it's just too difficult to plan your trip right now.

So I mean, I think nobody, apparently, nobody wants to take a tour out of the 800 people who commented, I don't think there was one person who said I wanted to take a tour.

Most westerners are, especially Westerners are independent travelers and they don't want to be chaperoned or quote unquote babysat.

Here we are on the floor of the airport.

I'm gonna go into the, I'm gonna go in and start getting boarding my flight.

I took the monorail here, I've been taking taxis over the last two years and I still had to fly, but this time I took the monorail and it was, it was pretty safe.

Everybody wears a mask.

Nobody was coughing.

I feel a lot more safer because a lot safer because people are adhering to the protocols and doing their very best and it is always a risk.

But that should never stop you from following your dreams.

Which is for me only in Japan and covering amazing stories and I got two good ones and I'm filming over the next four days and then I'm taking a break from travel and I'm just going to edit the crap out of them literally before I go in, I just wanted to show you these vending machines are still here.

These are the Prefectural local vending machines with goods from all across Japan gifts that you can get domestic Terminal two.

But I'm, I'm guessing that they're in other terminals.

These are the strawberries from a certain region of Fukuoka.

Fukuoka is famous for the strawberries.

So they have their kitkat flavored strawberries, you can get a human doll right here.

Look at them, can even breathe in that 900 yen.

You can get ramon.

Um, Ramen wow, is it a ramen or a bag?

I think it's a bag.

I like this.

So just city has curry rice from different curry places in the town.

I guess this is toy Rama, which is a beautiful prefecture.

I'm looking forward to getting back there on the sea of Japan side and they have some really nice confections as well.

But one of my favorites.

Here's the Fukushima one with the masks in there.

Look at that.

It's like culture in a vending machine.

I love this.

Here's Yamagata.

They've got melons in there.

But one of my favorites is the Akita dog because you can get yourself an Akita dog for only 1500 yen right here with a tuxedo.

That's awesome.

All right.

Look that man is doing an exact posture as the emoji.

Did you see that?

He's doing the exact same posture.

It was meant to be.

So, whoever came over the design was right on.

All right, I'm gonna get to the gate here.

It's starting to get really busy.

My flight's at 7 25.

It starts boarding in five minutes, but I'm pretty confident that I can get to the gate in five minutes.

T.

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A take that.

Well they're doing a good job.

I guess.

They're doing the best job.

The best job that you can do at T.

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But in Japan you can bring liquids through domestically in Japan, they move like a ninja.

I don't even know what that means when it comes to checking on their, well they check you and you don't even know it.

How's that?

That, that's really good by stealth and x ray, which is not stealth.

What?

There's the board, there's my flight.

Takamatsu, the, it's right in the center.

It's Maman Aku.

It's boarding soon.

Gate 46.

Alright, everybody.

This has been pretty awesome.

This is a short and sweet stream from Haneda airport.

Everything's coming back.

It's all good news.

Okay.

I know it seems pretty depressing.

It's all good news.

If you look around me there's a bustle and a hustle and a bustle and that means that it's not long between.

It's gonna be twice as crowded.

Alright.

Revenge travel is real.

I've seen it.

I'm seeing it right now.

People are going home, they're no longer staying, staying scared.

Which is good.

People moved on.

I hope that the politicians do to uh make the call Prime Minister Fukuda.

It is time see everybody.

I'll see you on the other side and be sure to be live streaming from shikoku and an island on the inlet c and then another island right after that.

And I'm going to Okayama for a night.

It's gonna be a lot of fun.

See you soon everybody.

Oh wait, I always want to say thanks for the super chats craig thank you and thank you for we did smash that Kickstarter goal, didn't we?

705 backers.

How crazy that brand Dayna.

We're doing great.

See everybody.