Japanese Crane Games & Claw Machines Tour | Round 1, Taito & Namco Arcade Prizes in Kyoto and Osaka

Japanese Crane Games & Claw Machines Tour | Round 1, Taito & Namco Arcade Prizes in Kyoto and Osaka

Nice. [Music] Hey guys, John here. Just want to give a quick shout out for our second channel, Kanto House. There we do a lot of home vlogs, tech content. I do a lot of guides on the Nintendo Switch, too, as well as house DIY setups, and Sarah also posts her cooking shorts on there. Please give us a subscribe. We’re trying to grow the second channel. And yeah, thanks again for watching. All right. Late night round one stop. Hooray. Oh, ew. Look at him. That’s the mascot. That’s so He’s so gross. The expo mascot. I don’t know. He’s just blob. Allan is scouting his target. About to drop 10,000 yen tonight. There’s a corn purses. It’s a zipper. Oh, that’s kind of cute. I wonder how hard the balls are to get, though. Look, snacks. If you want to get ripped off, he’s going to cry. Oh my gosh, that’s like the perfect plush. Original outfit. All right, Alan, you know what to do. I don’t think we’ll let you get this. You know what to do. Oh, look at that Fuji. That’s cute. Yeah, that is really cute. That is cute. I need to try for this Fuji. I need to find my 100 coins. Alan’s going to try for this. There’s so many things. No, that’s good. This is a This is a good crane game place. Oh, how’s that one doing? Oh, come on. You got to channel your inner Connor. Might be hard though cuz it it is a small box and it’s such a big crane. Well, the first time it got it grabbed it, that was pretty good. Yeah. First try. But now that it’s like that, I don’t know. Okay. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. [Applause] Oh my god. Okay. You have to go for it now. That was pretty close. That was close. You be careful not to hit the wall. Although some people say it’s a strat, but I never gotten it to work. Yeah. Uh, I don’t think you got the bottle. [Applause] The tipping position. Okay. Okay. Come on. Tip over. Tip. Tip this way. Tip this way. Oh. Oh. Channeling all the crank game energy. Oh, the crew. Come on. Tip tip tip tip tip tip tip. Yes. Yes. Yes. Oh, congrats. [Music] First try. First try. All right. All right. All right, round one of scamming. Oh, see it’s just like these big ones, it’s just you just got to work it or not, you know? You just got to go for it. Oh, it’s too heavy. Ain’t no way. Oh, it’s closer. It’s closer. It’s closer. Oh, it’s farther. No, no, ain’t flat anymore. I want to keep trying for this. There’s not that many ways I can do it. So, keep trying. Keep trying. Keep trying. He’s so fat. All right, we out. This is the last thousand we’ll spend. So, let’s try to fur this Mount Fuji. Just do your best. Oh, you’re too far up. She took it away. Everyone else tilt it that way. I think Oh, but it made it better. Made it better. Oh, wait. It’s got in the It got in the hole. It got in the hook strap. It got in the hole. It’s got in the whole strat. It’s the whole strat. Wait, wait, wait. It’s the whole Oh, okay. I mean, anti come back, but let’s try again. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Not in the hole, but that’s fine. It doesn’t really affect something like this. Oh, no. You’re going to tilt it the other way, aren’t you? I think I was supposed to um not go all the way, right? Well, now we got to do it again. So, my personal enemy for the night. Oh my god. Oh my god. This is so round. Is it going to do anything though? Just make sure it grabs at least the edge. Yeah. Oh, it’s flat. I don’t think it’s going to grab anything if it’s like upside down. Actually, it might. This might work. Actually, I try grabbing a bottle. I only have glass now, so I don’t know. I think it has to be completely flat though. Yeah, this is so heavy. I’ll do one more. See, I think you’re just going to end up tilting it that way. Oh, maybe I think you just got to grab it. It’s just like a big cloud. All right, I’m just going to grab the whole thing. Okay, it’s flatter. It’s flat. It’s too far. Got to keep going. I think someone want it twice. I don’t know. What if I push it? I’m going to just try pushing it. Was it Is it all the way to the right when you do it? I think I think you should go more to the right. So now it’s just upright. God, someone actually won Fuji. Dang it. Oh, just came back with some more coins. All right, I messed up my mouth Gucci, but I’ll try to keep going for Kirby or something. Oh, okay. He’s closer. Oh, maybe this will tip him. Oh, he might be too fat. Oh, he’s back to normal. Oh, no. John’s going to try for the curvy. Or maybe not. I can’t move the Oh, what? Okay. Well, just got to pray in between the crotch. Let’s go. Okay. Hey, no way. He’s too fat. Oh, he’s too heavy. He’s too heavy. The skill ones. Oh, he’s in it. Okay. Little tilt. Little tilt. Some white progress. Oh. All right. We’ve been stalking, waiting for the entire refill. Fujier, Miffy, here’s Miffy. See if Sarah has any better luck than me. Oh, it’s 200 yen to play. It’s so wide though. Got to grab the right corners. Wait, you can try grabbing in between. I’m trying to going in between the cracks. Okay. Okay. Okay. Dragged it. Dragged it. Grab a rock. A I threw a rock at you. It threw a rock. All right. Try grabbing in between his ears and grab the moon. My my strat is to grab the moon. Okay. Grab the moon. Grab the moon in between. [Music] Okay. Okay. That’s too heavy. [Music] No. Okay, I need to drag it over. Oh, shoot. Shoot. Oh no. Honestly, most of the weight’s probably like the head. The head. Yeah. Let’s try. Yeah. I was trying to grab it like that. And then I think I’ll drag it. Sure. All right. We kind of gave up on Fuji, but we’re going to give our last push on my Okay. Okay. Oh, so close. Okay. Normal grab. Please flip it over on this side. It’s weight heavy on the right. It’s weight heavy on the right. Oh, okay. Grab him by his legs. In between the leg and moon. Maybe that’s more secure. Flip it over. Oh, he’s like diagonal. Get more coins. That would be funny, bro. That’s like a Pokemon reject. Dang. How many tries for this? Can I just do five? More than I would like. Yeah. Yeah. He has no idea. Oh man. Oh my. I mean, hey, it’s a scale. It’s a scale. We’ve just been trying for my Fuji. It’s like All right. Let’s pray that we can grab it. Oh, it’s too tall. Oh, he’s seesawing. I don’t know. Oh. Oh, what is it? Oh, I need grab. Okay. Okay. We’re in. We’re in. We’re in. We’re in. Oh, come on. Come on. Oh. Oh. Woo. The crotch grab. [Music] The crotch grab is always the strat. Finally. All right. Fun arcade night. Going home. Ah, we’re going to an arcade. There’s Namco right there. But we’re going to Taito down the street. Look at that Tangga sign. So funny. Yeah, Taito’s a good one. This is what Carter does to us. Yeah, he does. He loves Taito. It’s time to make our own Sea Dog VA crane game video. $500. I was going to draw $500 right now. Oh, they take IC. Yeah. Yeah. Wait, some of them. Hey, that’s way harder. Oh, look. It’s the whisper of the heart. It’s a country road. It’s castle in the sky. That’s cute. That’s very cute. This is skill based. Oh, they have the torture on. Mhm. All right. Allan’s going to try for a small crane game. Oh, very fast. You want to go again? He’s going to go again. Oh. Ooh, slippery. Very slippery. Hard. Oh, you almost grabbed two right there. I feel like he needs to like bounce. He’s going to keep trying. He’s going to keep trying. All right. On high alert right now. We actually found a game. Sya game. It’s one of those you got to pull it off. You’re done. Okay. There you go. All right. All right. You got to we we got to start working on it. Wait. So left. So So So you remember once you let go that’s so left and then back. But I’m supposed to do what to it? Do do the do the side on the towards the cup and like pull it pull it this way. Okay. Stop. Okay. Yeah. Do the back. Back. We do further one. Stop. Yeah. And so it’s supposed to be Yes. chair. Okay. Okay. So, now we do the front one or keep doing the back. Keep doing it one more time. Do one more time. Keep doing one side. Yeah. Keep doing one side. Let’s see how far it gets. But don’t go as like far this way this time. Yeah. Yeah. Good job. Good. Good. Good. Good. Good job. Good turn. Very good turn. Okay. Now, this is a little bit tricky. It’s It’s definitely tilting right now. Yeah. Keep doing that one. Or will it end up being like The thing is I don’t think this will make it all the way to So maybe do the this left one. Oh, it might grab the other one. But let’s see what Oh, I don’t know. No, it didn’t do anything. Yeah. All right. Oh, okay. No, no, no, no. Oh, shoot. I told you to go back. That’s good. That’s good. That’s good. Oh, dang it. I think I have to go towards the middle where the weight is. Okay. Oh, okay. Nice. Nice. Okay. I mean, you reset it. So, now you can continue to cuz it it did move further. It’s like tilting a little bit. Yeah. Maybe I need to go further. Oh. Oh. Oh, you did a full turn. Oh my god. You did a full turn. I need to go for that. It’s on the tip now. It’s on the tip. I don’t know if you got it. You didn’t get that one. Oh my god. Okay. Oh. Oh. Oh my god. Okay, that’s good. Oh my god. It’s like hanging on open there. Oh, [Applause] we got I need the I need the on the Okay. Hey. Oh, what a great assist. God. Okay, there you go. All right, that should be it. That should be it. Oh, there we go. Very nice. Nice. Dude, this was so hard to get. Wow. Fighter 6 type arcade up here. Idle Masters, Beat Mania. Oh, they got the washing machine and sound pump. Oh, that’s cool. Oh, another washing machine. Let’s go up one more floor. Anyways, we’re just playing Palmo, waiting for friends. Here we go. Ready, ready, ready, shoot. Oh. Oh. Oh, I win. One point. One point. Oh, is that like magnetic? It is, isn’t it? Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. They call me the pong master over here. Come on. Come on. What you got? What you got? What you got? No. Oh, I’m so good. Oh, oh. [Music] Come on. Come on. Oh, yeah. Oh my god. Oh my god. That was so close. What you got? What you got? What you got? What you got? What are you going to do with me? Come on. What you got? What you got? What the freak? Oh my god. Wait. I think I lagged. Oh. Oh. Oh. Easy. Oh. Oh my god. Come on. What you got? What you got? What you got? Oh. Oh. Really fast. Really fast. Oh. Oh. I win. I’m the palm master. I am the palm master. That is fun. All right, we’re playing a punching game. All right, Alan, show me your moves. Oh. Oh. Oh. Here we go. Here we go. We We get our own animate. We get our own anime. Dude, look at his arm. Oh. Oh. Oh. Oh. What was KGF? Sorry. Sorry. [Laughter] All right. Come on. Come on. Punch him. Oh. Oh. Look at those ragd doll physics. [Music] Wow. In the classic playing Mario Kart. Oh yeah. Everyone’s in. Here [Laughter] we go. Oh yeah. Oh, let me be Let me be a Oh. Oh my gosh. I can be the wrong Oh, wait. What did I do? You got the Liiku. Wait, that’s not what I wanted. Uh-oh. Too bad. Wow. What a character cast of selection right here. Oh boy, it’s Pac-Man time. Luigi’s [Music] [Laughter] two. Let’s go. [Music] I got to drift. I can’t keep holding the camera. Oh my gosh. No. It was so laggy, dude. Was that Mario Kart Online? What was that? Oh, they have English tao right here. That’s so cool. Japanese. And then they have Japanese over there. A, that’s so thoughtful. All right, we also can’t end without playing some Tao. Luckily, we’re playing the English version that they had here. Enter two more. Ensure two more. All right, let’s go songs, Sarah. All right, we’re doing idle normal. [Music] We’re going to play some idol. I got to put the camera down now. Woo! Go master. Oh, easy, easy, easy. That was so close. Nice. Alan and Shelby are hard at work over here, too. What can I say? I’m just better. I’m It’s the sad Dawn versus the Happy Dawn with the baby Dawn. I guess it’s cool. 300 yen. They have their own vacuum bag. slash compressor that you can just take home. That’s really awesome. Dang. All right. Now, we’re at Namco here. Let’s go see. Let’s go in. Yeah, there’s a whole line of Goshaapon right here. Yeah, Namco has the best Goshapon out of all the arcades cuz they do the official shop. He’s going. That’s so funny. Oh, what? One piece majong. You what? That’s crazy. Oh, it’s over here. Crazy. You got foods. So fun. So so fun. All right, let’s look at the crane games. That’s cute. That one’s cute. I saw it at the other one. I like how they do three for 500. Like a discount price. What is this when you save? Oh, it’s over, babe. It’s over. It’s over. It’s him. Yeah, I saw it at the other video. Got to get blue. We have to get the blue. We have to get blue. All right. Redemption for the failure at Tokyo. I got to get him. Standard grab just to test the waters. Nope. No. Oh, okay. Yeah, I think that’s how I got it, bro. He is farther now. Okay. Okay. I’m closer. That’s as far as I can go. So, I just got to just got to pray. Inching him back. Oh. Oh, I mean, oh, Don’s gone. You got to sum my sand. Allan got it. You got a sumi rhythm games, racing games, Gundam games. Oh, wait. That’s cool. Look at this Dragon Ball game. It’s like three screens. That’s fun. That’s really interesting. [Music]

Hop on John and Sarah’s shoulders for the 24th vlog in our Japan 2025 series! Our group tested our skills at crane games & arcade classics doing an arcade crawl through Japan! Come watch our attempts at getting various prizes as we show you what modern Japanese arcades are like!

Watch our entire Japan ’25 series: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL5mDwydd3h9nNGAG2GQeUUGY-22FsWUZP&si=mFTbenDujmQniDMb

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TIMESTAMPS:
0:00 Intro
0:50 Round1 Crane Games
12:37 Taito Crane Games
17:21 Taito Arcade Games
22:55 Namco Gashapon & Crane Games

LOCATIONS:
📍 Round One Kyoto Kawaramachi: https://maps.app.goo.gl/kQ4EhfB4jfVzaQ2v9
📍 Taito Station Namba: https://maps.app.goo.gl/1VyYF3r17xJLe7QZ7
📍 Namco Osaka Nippombashi: https://maps.app.goo.gl/79F4DhFGFKr4Bbur5

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Our Moment (Full) – Instrumental – Persona 3 Dancing in Moonlight

Counterfeit Phantom (Kyoto Jail) | Persona 5 Scramble OST

Freedom Buzz Dance (Osaka Theme) | Persona 5 Scramble OST

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