FIVE G Legendary Synth Shop,Tokyo Visit 

‘Oh look, there’s a Korg Volca Mix.’

Imagine going there and meeting Nick batt. That would be the complete experience.😃

Thank you for this awesome tour!

Many thanks for the tour of this fantastic shop!

Awesome, thanks for the tour!

Wow! Out of all your videos, this is one of the most exciting! You really went through synthesizer-alice's rabbit hole

So funny watching you guys explore. I've lived near here for many years so to me its just Five g- local synth shop. Also there is a less obscure and probably less interesting entrance which is funnily enough the front entrance of the building :D Great segment!

What an Aladdin's cave of synths, so many rare and common synths mixed together right from the early 70's to modern day stuff, amazing!

Thanks for the tour! Nice reminder of how Tokyo streets feel in the beginning too. Have a good nap! :)

Awesome video Nick. First class in all aspects. Thanks for posting.

Thanks Nick and Andy! Really enjoyed this!

I really enjoyed this video! Felt like I was hanging out with Nick and chums in Tokyo, would love to see more super down-to-earth videos like this. :D

Tokyo is an insane maze so congrats on finding the place, and thanks for the tour as well.

I had no idea this was there when I visited that part of Tokyo. Amazing to see both the synths and Japan again. Great video - hope the jet lag wasn’t too bad.

Enjoyed the tour, thank you!

Thanks for sharing Nick. ~ Truly a place of dreams and memories ~

Good work fellas, enjoyed that tour. Jet lags’ a bugger.

Great synth tour thanks

Thanks for the tour

Wow! Thanks for bringing us along!

Awesome ! All of a sudden I have a desire to take a trip to Tokyo ! Dream store !

Fantastic!!! Have a wonderful visit!

Fantastic place! You know you are famous when you are recognised in Tokyo haha! The wobbly video did give me motion sickness though ha!

Take a shot every time Nick says "Crikey!"

Thank You for this great video

I found this den of iniquity while living in Japan 2002-ish. Wow! It has not changed a bit! It still has many of the same synths (or they've been replaced by same). One of the only places in Japan where I felt truly at home. I bought a Studio Electronics Omega 8, SE 1X, and a Juno 6 there. The quality of their vintage products is probably the best you'll find anywhere in the world. I really miss that place!!!! Thank you SO MUCH for this perfect trip down RAMemory lane. ❤️🎹😀😉

Wow 😮!! The Triton still sounds good!! Korg has a formula that has proven to be timeless. Saw an SP1200 in there too. And the Prophet 6 was lovely. Great job Nick, Thanks! I probably would not have another opportunity in my life to see this store.

Excellent walk through....and instruction on how to find the place!

Have fun Nick, that was amazing! Nice homage to the Michael Myers jump scare at the 08:30 mark.

Also: very nice to see how respectful people are. Not trying to photobomb the video or interrupt the video making process. That's nice.

Thanks for showing how to find it too! I'll be sure to visit one day!

Stopped by when I bought my Ondomo. Wifey said nope to the Buchla. Love fiveG. Love Tokyo!

Thanks for this, guys! A suitably geeky way to speed my busride home after work.😁

fantastic video, thank you

That was like a trip through Santa's Grotto. I felt your excitement. Amazing.

I hope you wear the dress for the next Sonic Talk, Nick :) Not sure exactly what that Ace Tone at the end was, but they're Roland before they became Roland.. oldschool!

I was just there last weekend, I made the pilgrimage too.. 2 Jupiter 8, prophet 10, 3 x emulators, a couple of CS15, monopoly, vocoder plus and to top it off I think I spotted a DX1 in there... mind blowing!!!!

That's where all of our old synths went! I've heard many of the classics end up in Japan.

That is such a cool shop. I also spied a Buchla Easel in the background there.

That was really cool. You're making me miss Japan.

Exclusively! Thank you!

Awesome, I could spend all day in there!

"The System 100 is considered to be the Dog's dangly bits..." That is ace!

Thanks for showing us round!

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Love this!

"Anyway, that's kinda pretty much the sh- OOH! What's this guy here!?" 😂

WOW what a candy store full of fun. I wish we just had a music store in my town.

I love that shop! Next time i go to Tokyo I will get something vintage from there! :)

Astounding. That place looks like heaven.

The awesome thing about all those cheap Roland sounds (or any cheap synthesis sound really) is how great they can sound with a good reverb. I only JUST put out a video about the awesomeness of reverb yesterday, and when you were pressing the keys there and commenting on how cheesy they sound, all I could think was "I bet that'd sound quite nice with a good reverb on it." 11:15 in the video, if anyone's curious what I'm talking about.

In a weird kind of way I would feel starstruck seeing these keyboards in person. If I had to pick one thing to take away I think it would be a MemoryMoog although I'd be happy with pretty much anything in there. Great video Nick!

Great video :) the little smile when Nick said: "there is a Korg Volca Mix" is great, haha ;)

This is so good Nick,and i think you gonna buy some new old stuff sone,i almost can hear you drooling ;)

Best 5G visit I have seen. The wide angle here really helps! Helps ignite GAS.

Great tour, thanks Nick! Right after you were talking about the SH-1 "...amazing bottom end, you're probably not going to be able to hear this..." very next key press the fuse in my shitty home cinema amp kicks in - no sound. Talking about proving a point there. 😉

I enjoyed the video very much. :-)

Dog’s Dangly Bits!!! You are the best Nick!!!!

Nick, I'm quite sure you are gonna dream well after this visit to the synth heaven.

Wow! Maybe the Waldorf Blofeld Desktop in 3:40 is what I bought at Five G on September 27, 2019. It was in the same place on the showcase. Waldorf Quantum is so expensive that I can't buy it, but Blofeld sounds great! Five G staff were friendly and polite and I did a good shopping.

Five-G and Echigoya Music both definitely worth the visit. Like many places in Tokyo, those shops are located on upper-floors of common buildings, with no indication from the outside. Enter the building until you spot the shops on the floor guide.

I only one been in a shop in Amsterdam that was close to this, only close. Yet in the 90s I met a guy that had a MemoryMoog, the whole Korg MS line up including sequencer and vocoder, a Matrix12 and Expander, Moog Liberation, Moog The Source and prolly ten or so synths that I forgotten about in his basement studio, including 48 channel mixer. His name was Karel and was 100% hobbyist.

Great video. Been there and bought there. Nicest people. He didn’t show the work benches behind the counter which take as much space as the display area. Everything is warrantied. For reference 1¥ = ~ $.01. Just add a decimal point two digits in from the right. There is a modern synth and audio shop nearby called Rock On. Worth a visit also, but just a few legacy instruments

Been there twice, incredible place!

I'm surprised you guys got away with filming there! I thought they had a no cameras policy, but then again last time I was there was 5 years ago, or maybe they just don't care :D

I love your videos 👍

I love that place; I’m in Osaka right now but I’ll be making my return pilgrimage next week. Glad you found the place!

Amazing episode 🙏🏿🔥🔥🔥🔥🇨🇦👊🏿

haha i was there LAST WEEK (from Canada). We are like two ships that passed through the night :)

They've got loads of jupiter 8's that look mint, and they've got a handful of matrix 12s. Another day in paradise 😎 The sh1 has A LOT of bottom end. I think it's cause it shares circuitry with the system 700. I've had 3 191j cabinets of system 100m & they're delicious. You need a handful of oscillators to get a juicy sound, but they're stable, compared to what was around then. I think the stability is in part based around the use of CEM chips. In fact, the CEM 3340 is used in the sh101 as well, (its a single vco). There's also a module which has a vco, vcf and vca in it (the 110), which is based around the CEM 3394.

Oh man this is great. Wish I was there

Awesome !

walked right by that entrance last year not knowing it was just upstairs! Damn.

i remember in 2009 i was wandering around shinjuku backstreets and discovered a little shop where three old guys were siting at their benches repairing various synths etc, what caught my eye initial was seeing three origional 808s sitting on a bench awaiting repair.. i tried to find the shop again on later visits to tokyo but was never able to retrace my initial footsteps properly

Was that Katsunori Ujiie from MusicTrackJP 13:48 ... This place is like a miniature Keyboard NAMM get together... Great Tour Sonic State!

Very good video would love more in this style just for fun lol

I swapped an Alesis HR16 for an SH101!!!

Ive been there. That place is crazy. Creators Land used to be pretty wild too.

approaching it looks like another famous synth store, Schneiders Laden in Berlin, in the city, but somehow secluded. you would never expect such paradises awaiting you.

This place is legendary indeed. Last time I was there (it's literally 50m from my hairdresser, so I go there once a month hehe) they were in the process of fixing a LinnDrum by ear... Also, if you are in the area, Echigoya music (えちごやミュージック) is smaller, but they have some interesting pieces of gear too.

Welcome to Japan!

This is maybe Nick at his most hilarious. His excitement and all the small quips are killing me. “104,000...bargain” 😂

I'm not sure it's still the case; but it used to be worth checking out a chain of pawn shops called '2nd Street'; they'd often have things like Space Echo's and Akai samplers on sale for super low prices. I remember having to pass up on an RE201 for £150 as I had no way of transporting it home.

"That's where the drummer exploded!". 😄

WOW, WOW, WOW............OMG Where would you start??? So much crammed in there. Like I remember Richer Sounds Hifi Shop in London, packed but in a tiny space back in the eighties......WOW. 😧

Ahhh the Five G. My Jupiter 8 came from that exact spot in the shop where the JP-6 sits now. Too bad it doesn't have speakers and harmonica patch. I will probably just dump it.

Favorite place in the world!

How much of it is set up for Japanese voltage? Older stuff usually isn't selectable in the back and might need a visit to the tech to make compatible.

Oh wow that was fun!

Once I get over the ocean and there's nothing to look at, I down a few drinks and sleep. Then I'm ready to blend in with the new time zone for a few days.

Great prices

12:30 The elevator guy is stalking you

I have the same racking too LOL. One Chrome, one black (because they were out of chrome when I went to buy another)

Proper synthshops are rare these days!

Cheers Nick, PEGI 18 shop tour....... :)

Is Kurzweil not old enough or classic enough? I noticed that none popped up. All in all, I felt it a privilege to see all the ancestors of sound design on one show. Thank you. Dozo!

Nick, you lucky son of a gun! My wife and I went to Japan last week. I wanted to go to Tokyo (to look at synths, of couse) but my wife said Osaka is cheaper and has just as much "stuff" as Tokyo. First of all, Osaka is beautiful, it was a wonderful place to visit. That said, I couldn't for the life of me find anywhere to look at synths (or buy them), aside from the occasional Yamaha store that only had some of those obscure electronic concert pianos that seem to be so popular in Japan. (Not sure if you know what I mean, silver double decker synths that place a huge emphasis on performances and no synthesis). Anyway, you're a lucky man, you got to do exactly what I was hoping I could do. The unfortunate thing is, I'd planned to go to Japan for months, and for the very purpose of seeing Japan's amazing synth market. Turns out, it just became a great time of brand-name shopping for my wife. :P Thanks for sharing this awesome video.

Five G is amazing.

Missed the CS-80 right at the front of the shop (it has a cover on it in this vid)

So short, I hope it is part 1 :)