(speaking Japanese) - [Both] Crazy.
- How far would you go to buy a watermelon?
- We just traveled 5,500 miles for a watermelon.
- Not just any watermelon, but a square watermelon.
Our friend from Only in Japan, his name is John,
he sent me an email and said,
"Hey, the square watermelons that only come once a year
"are back in Tokyo.
"If you want to come, we can getcha one."
He told us to come to this random fruit station
in this city of Japan.
There's, like, Godzilla behind us.
This city's amazing.
We're only here for 24 hours just to get a watermelon.
(hip-hop music)
All right, we found the place.
This is it.
Here's our buddy John from Only in Japan.
- Hey, guys. - This is the place
where we find the square watermelons, right?
- Yes. - Lincoln do you see it?
- Yeah, it's right there.
- [Dan] There it is.
- It looks normal.
Like, you're looking around like it's a normal fruit shop
and then all of a sudden,
you see a watermelon that's square.
- [Dan] Does it make sense that we came
all the way from the United States to see this thing?
- Of course, of course it is.
- Because, you can't just buy these anywhere.
Like, you can't just get 'em in the United States, right?
- No, there's actually only 200 of them made every year
and because we had a really hot spring,
a lot of 'em didn't make it.
So, literally, these are extremely rare to find.
If you find a store that wants to actually sell it,
that's a big deal because most stores
just use it for display 'cause it brings people in.
Like, "Whoa, a square watermelon."
- Guy says that it's 20,000 yen, which is--
- $200. - Around $200?
- $200.
- [Dan] So, there it is.
That's the one.
I think that's the one we want, not these round ones.
Who wants round ones?
- Not these baby oval ones.
- [Dan] Yeah, no one wants oval.
- Thank you. - 20,000, thank you.
- Feel the corners.
It feels like it's just been crushed into a shape.
- [Dan] Yeah, they smashed it and somehow it didn't pop.
(speaking Japanese)
- He's saying that it's strange and it's not delicious
and he's kind of wondering why did you buy this?
(all laugh)
(speaking Japanese)
People just look at it, they don't eat it.
- So, most people that buy these things, it is ornamental.
People put them out as a display in shops
and in their homes, giving them as a gift.
- I just told him that you came over 5,000 miles
to just eat this.
(speaking Japanese) - [Both] Crazy.
- [Dan] Not for you, Lincoln.
Thank you.
- Thank you.
- We have our watermelon.
We need to break it open.
I like the idea of just throwing it on the ground.
But, it'd probably be better if we took a knife
and we somehow, like, cut it open.
Real life fruit ninja here.
Except, with a square watermelon,
which nobody's ever done before.
That sounds dangerous and fun.
(upbeat music)
It's time.
Four-cornered watermelon.
If I spoke Japanese, that's what that would say right now.
This is a square watermelon.
It had a really nice sleep in our hotel last night.
- And our hotel's right there.
- John showed up this morning and he brought us gifts.
He brought Lincoln this rag here, which is nice.
And then, what else do we got here?
- This happens to be a Seki Japan-made knife.
Check it out, made in Japan.
(angelic music)
- [Dan] It almost looks like,
it has some weird markings on it.
Like, it almost looks like it's rotted.
- [Lincoln] It looks like someone dropped orange juice
on it and let it sit there.
- It's a little bit more complicated than that.
It's a very nice knife. - Whoa, that's sharp.
- I got this in Seki which is famous
for making samurai swords.
So, it comes from the same pedigree as the samurai katana.
This is Japan.
- [Dan] Okay, break out that watermelon, boys.
Let's get it done. - All right, let's do this.
(chuckles) Oh, be careful.
It's not easy to do this.
In fact, every year, only 200 of them
are actually harvested.
They have lots more but just so many failures, too.
- Yeah, so, that's a really, really good point.
John's video is super interesting
and goes way in depth of where they actually make these.
Make sure you go check that out
after this video and you can learn even more.
- But, for right now...
- Do it right, Dan. - Okay.
I don't think that's straight, buddy.
The square watermelon, the super sharp knife.
Let's get into this.
I'm gonna go right in this center, here.
This knife is sharp, or this watermelon is not very ripe.
This knife is all that it's cracked up to be,
all that it's sliced up to be.
That is so sharp. (dramatic music)
Oh, that is crazy sharp.
Okay, I'm gonna set this knife down.
There we are. - Oh, it's yellow.
- There's your insides. - I don't want to eat that.
- Why? - It looks nasty.
- It's not nasty.
No, smells, smell it.
- It smells good. - Smells good.
It smells like watermelon. - Really? That's rare.
Usually these things are (laughs) not that tasty.
- Oh, this one's fresh.
This is great.
We gotta eat some of this square watermelon.
Those of you that play Minecraft,
have you ever seen a watermelon in Minecraft?
This is basically it.
- If you've started farming, you have.
- Yeah, if you've started farming, of course.
I farm all the time.
- But, it's really hard to find watermelon seeds.
- It's hard to find watermelon seeds?
Well, it's hard to find a square watermelon.
- I don't want to ruin your knife.
And I'm not good with knives.
So, can you chop this thing up a bit?
- In the spirit of Cobra Kai.
- [Dan] Let us know in the comments,
have you seen Cobra Kai?
And does he not look like Daniel-san?
- Ralph Macchio, baby.
- Everybody always called me Daniel-san growing up.
Daniel-san, Daniel-san.
Then, it kind of went away when nobody knew
what Karate Kid was.
But, now it's back.
- It never went away with me, man.
- I still don't know what you're talking about.
- Yeah, you haven't seen it.
(upbeat music)
- Three, two.
Doesn't taste bad.
- It doesn't taste good, either (laughs).
- [Dan] Lincoln didn't think it tastes that bad,
as he spits it out all over his arm.
"Doesn't taste that bad."
- It's bitter, right?
It's kind of bitter and reminds me a little bit
of a cross between a watermelon and a cucumber.
- I'm going for the edges that are nice.
That's what I want.
I want that, right?
This knife, what in the world?
Check out this piece that I got.
I cut that out.
It is all red.
- [Lincoln] Oh, one bit, whole thing.
Except for the green-ness.
- Do it. - The whole thing.
- [Lincoln] It's not bad, but it's not good.
- That's not bad at all.
- It's doable. - Doable?
- I feel like I've tested worse cantaloupe.
Okay, it does have a bit of a bitter aftertaste,
I will say that.
But, it's not that bad.
Maybe I'll try the yellow part.
Yeah, that one has less taste.
I would eat this not even on a deserted island.
It's not bad, but it's not good.
It's kind of in the middle.
But, it's square.
The only square watermelons in the world.
We came to Japan and saw this.
I hope that you learned something today
and you thought that it was entertaining and educational.
- I don't think it was worth it for the taste.
But, I think it was worth it to see it.
- It was worth it to see it.
I'm glad we came all the way to Japan for this.
We got a flight in a few hours.
But, before you click off of YouTube,
go check out John's channel, make sure you subscribe to it,
and go watch his video about the making
of the square watermelons because it's pretty cool.
I just spit everywhere.
- And it's only in Japan (laughs).
- That sounds dangerous and fun.
If I spoke Japanese, that's what that would say right now.
(speaking Japanese) - [Both] Crazy.