я была в этот период в Японии, и так хочется перешагнуть через экран и попасть в то время, у меня тоже возникли такие ощущения, что кто-то попал в прошлое и снимает...😊❤
@@SnausageVonBrathearst he's saying that ordinary Japanese people at the time wouldn't film ordinary everyday scenes lile this. just like you wouldn't record your city today.
God, this makes me so nostalgic. I first went to japan as a teenager in 2001, and then lived there from 2007-2010... this footage just brings me back in the best way possible.
*_Wow, and I lived in Japan from 2005 to 2009. So I basically saw Japan the same way as you did._* ☺ *_Digital cameras and iPod Touch were so abundant that time._*
I remember traveling there in 1999 and they used to sell these really cool transparent VHS tapes (which were still popular at the time) and I would bring home tapes and so many little gadgets and stuff back home to The States.
1999 - 2002 in Tokyo was probably the best time of my life. Although, at the time I probably didn't know it. What a great time to be living there. A lot of fun.
I traveled there around those exact years (and eventually went back again, last one being in 2005) basically 5 trips, and yeah those years were awesome, a lot of cool stuff came out in movies and a lot of the big arcades were still open. Now they're all closing, even the Sega building is gone.
Wow! Time really flies fast. This brings me back to my junior high school years. One of the best years of being human. Going out with friends and talk all night, no social media, analog phones are still useful.
I was 18 at 1999 around Christmas and hanging around Shibuya. this made me memory recall. Thank you for recording this. and was searching myself as well!!
During this exact time (1999) I was studying Japanese in college in the US, never imagining that I would ever actually travel to Japan. It seemed like another planet. Then, in summer ‘01 I ended up studying abroad at Waseda in Tokyo. After graduating back home I moved to Osaka in ‘03 and worked there for 3 years. Now I’m fluent and I go back about once a year.
@@raheamjones3727 How could I have been a teenager in the 90s if I was born in 1992? I was only 7 years old in 1999. A 7 year old is not a teenager, and we only have a 3 year difference!
haha damn you're a kid bro. I was 27 in 1999. you millennials missed out big time. growing up in the 70s and 80s was dope. being a young adult in the 90s was even better.
Kind of a golden age; everything was possible, many ideas still novel! I was lucky to have had that rosy tourist experience as well, in the early 2000's.
Areas that have undergone major changes over the past 20 years are Marunouchi, Roppongi, Akasaka, Shibuya, and the area around Skytree. In particular, the skyline around Tokyo Tower has changed significantly.
This video is fascinating. Something about the VHS quality and feeling of nostalgia for a place I've been but during a time I hadn't is hard to describe. Its familiarly unfamiliar. Like seeing a fully inhabited liminal space but its all real.
Great nostalgia! I just found, edited and uploaded my own DV footage from 99 in Tokyo and it’s so fun to compare with this. Some locations are naturally the same.
90s wasnt just PEAK Japan it was also peak society in general. Everything went downhill in the 2010s when social media became mainstream and society became fixated and constantly online. That's when you start to see depression, anxiety, and financial issues escalate and here we are.
@@TheWayIsPeace i don't have any patriotic spirit. I'm from Germany i don't care for the country. and i don't think there's anything gonna happen in the 2020s. maybe when Russia has finally defeated Ukraine they will invade Lettland etc. as well but unlikely
90s was a time of economic crisis for Japan. Mass layoffs. Social media has no causation in misery. It just happened at a time of steep cultural decline.
my first trip to Japan was in 1999 😥 I WAS THERE AT THAT EXACT TIME... I remember they had a small Toei store (that closed 3 years later) they used to sell original animation cells for just a few yen (very cheap) even stuff from the 80's and I bought a lot of them... I miss traveling.
The 80s & 90s in Japan were the pinnacle of contrasts between a country dominated by global corporations like Sony, Sharp & SEGA at the cutting edge of technology, economics & cultural relevance, and a nation still steeped in centuries of tradition and history. It's of course still mostly the same these days with Japan still maintaining its economic and cultural power, but there's something about the late SHowa & early Heisei times that were peak Japan.
I love how at some point you can hear both the lood monotone speech of the proselytiser and the muffled high pitched pop song from some shop nearby...! in the first footage
I went there in 2018 and it’s still amazing and has a great vibe. People love to look back on the past with rose tinted glasses. If you have the chance, visit it while you can !
2018 was before the mask obsession they developed during Covid. Japan is definitely not a must travel destination until they get rid of that nonsense. This is coming from people I know who have been there recently. The old Japan pre 2020 is GONE.
1) Do you consider Japan as a highly developed and advanced country ? 2) How would you personally rate Japan (from culture to technology, architecture, food, local products, scenery/landscape, standard of living/quality of life, etc.) on a scale level of 1 to 10 ? 3) How would you overall describe the characteristics of Japanese people ? 4) If you have 3 or more words to describe Japan, what would it be ?
1) Do you consider Japan as a highly developed and advanced country ? 2) How would you personally rate Japan (from culture to technology, architecture, food, local products, scenery/landscape, standard of living/quality of life, etc.) on a scale level of 1 to 10 ? 3) How would you overall describe the characteristics of Japanese people ? 4) If you have 3 or more words to describe Japan, what would it be ?
My grandparents' house was in Tokyo. During summer vacation, my parents took me there. It brings back memories of when I was 6 years old in 1999. This time I will take the child and go to the parents.
Yup I was there during this time.. nothing much has changed besides the wifi’s, smartphones started coming in… not many foreigners in terms or tourists too as compared to now. When I go to Tokyo now, it will remind me of these nostalgic places…the kaiten sushi near Shinjuku station, Takashimaya building etc still there…and oh yes, the Tamagochi was a craze then..SoftBank as it is now, was called j-phone back then. Sakura bank was around before it became UFJ. Also much more green public phones then. Didn’t recall seeing any Uniqlo back then either
Right? I'm watching this video and the city has the same type of energy now as back then. I live in LA and the energy and culture of the city is constantly evolving; though for the worst.
I love the aesthetic of this (especially night time) I love the lights and signs everywhere it's like living in an arcade or casino but everywhere. I think that would be so cool. Like bladerunner.
This isn’t the Tokyo I know, but the one I love, in an era that built the one I do know. Culture from the 80s to 2010s both in America and Japan probably built the core of my personality. Difference between Japan and America is that we were broke over in America lol
My only memory of 1997 Akihabara Tokyo was when my Aunt who is married to a Japanese guy brought my Mom including all of us to their homefor a week. Uncle is a collector of art and art materials and basically gave us so many pencils and brushes when we demonstrated we can draw cartoons and anime. Pretty good stuff. Still sturdy after all this years.
If you are Japanese, you will always have Japan and a people after you've passed on. You belong to something larger. If you are white, your future is complete dispossession and erasure as you become a hated minority in your own lands.
Similarly to the rest of the world, Japan also frequently reminisces about the past. This phenomenon is called "era name + retro" in Japan. It is common to refer to past eras by attaching the respective era names, such as "Showa Retro" or "Heisei Retro". However, "retro" has a slightly different meaning from "nostalgic" and is primarily used in a positive sense.
I found (while traveling in Japan) that most people there are NOT into retro stuff at all... I would go shopping for things that were maybe 5 years old by then and all my friends would refer to them as "oh that's old" everyone there lives for the moment or for the future, they don't seem to look back... There are some shops that try to play the retro thing, but that's more of a business idea more than anything else... Trends move super fast over there, people get over things real quick. Again this is by my observation and conversations I've had whilst traveling many times in Japan.
It's funny. If I had saw this picture quality 10 years ago I'd be like it looks bad. But now at 29 I'm so nostalgic for the raw VHS look of things. What was normal then is magical now.
Beautiful video,thank you. Did there already exist internet cafes, internet points in 1999? Anw there is a difference from the current Tokyo ... but not as much as I thought! At least in appearance! Ps Yurikamome line to Odaiba is a great beautiful part of the video. It's incredible to think that, for example, the Ferris wheel and Venus fort Mall are gone, demolished last year!!Greetings from Italy
There was a time when each decade had a clear identity in fashion and design, however the past three decades seem to have very little to distinguish them. I have lived in Tokyo since 1996 and it looks pretty similar now to then.
It's nice to see such a rare footage. Also, may I use some of the footage for my school assignment (of course, definitely non-profit and for personal use only, and will credit the video)?
Tokyo seems to have plateaued since the late 90s. It still mainly looks like this. But back then it was like looking at the future. I've been there 4 times and last year was my most recrnt it feels very 90s still.
Yeah, that was my thought. Been twice, 2018 and 2022, and in that month and a half-ish total spent there I was a bit surprised at how this video looks quite similar to how it does now, though a lot more digital displays and such. I don't see it as a bad thing because like you say being there it does have some kind of vague 90's feel to it which I personally enjoy.
@@shecklesmack9563 1) Do you consider Japan as a highly developed and advanced country ? 2) How would you personally rate Japan (from culture to technology, architecture, food, local products, scenery/landscape, standard of living/quality of life, etc.) on a scale level of 1 to 10 ? 3) How would you overall describe the characteristics of Japanese people ? 4) If you have 3 or more words to describe Japan, what would it be ?
I think mid 2000s. Internet was there and decent but not all of life. Only regular flip phones no smart phones. No social media. 2005 was probably the peak. Pre Facebook, Twitter all of that nonsense.
@Jesus Christ The release of the iPhone ruined the internet and negatively impacted worldwide culture. Society truly changed for the worse after everyone was manipulated into thinking that being connected 24/7 was a good thing.
1) Do you consider Japan as a highly developed and advanced country ? 2) How would you personally rate Japan (from culture to technology, architecture, food, local products, scenery/landscape, standard of living/quality of life, etc.) on a scale level of 1 to 10 ? 3) How would you overall describe the characteristics of Japanese people ? 4) If you have 3 or more words to describe Japan, what would it be ?
Wow tokyo didnt really change much compared to 20 years later. Japan is still stuck in the late 80s before the bubble burst. Only recently I witness some kind of transition (at least in tokyo)
My first time going to Japan on my own was in 2002. I remember the rainbow spectrums of Docomo, KDDI mobile flip phones at every electronic store. Good days...
