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._*
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.
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.
When I watch such videos, I get the feeling that I’m being strangled, and I want to quickly go back to my own world, as if I could get stuck in the past
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!!
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.
Videos like this truly blows my mind, because its basically a time portal that allows us to travel back in to time and witness moments in all of those people`s lives that we wouldn`t be able to witness otherwise. All of the people we see in this video just walked around minding their own business, completely unaware that some random people from all around the world would be watching them 20+ years later on their phones, wondering about who they were, where they were going and where they are today.
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.
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.
@@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.
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.
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.
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.
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 ?
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
Man this is so natsukashii for me! The first time I've ever went to Japan was in 2000, Osaka. Then I visited Tokyo in March 01! That scenery of shibuya crossing and maru-q, that's like cemented in my brain! I still visit Japan yearly and have many Japanese friends. Nowadays we reminisce of this time period of Japan.
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.
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 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
gosh how I hate being a teenager at this time... I really wish I lived earlier or experienced the late 90s teenage life. I can't help but get jealous of my parents !!!
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
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 ?
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.
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.
Я помню в это время продавались одноразовые фотоаппараты (может и сейчас есть), когда уезжала, я понимала, что больше не увижу Японию, если только случайно по телевизору и фотографировала всё...Как хорошо, что появился интернет и можно поймать это ощущения.😊
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.
10:46 I remember getting off my flight in the middle of the night, taking the train into Shinjuku where I had a room waiting in a cheap hotel, and going to that McDonalds
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
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.
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._*
old man living in a dump with a stressful wife now?
@@sungjae832 he probably lives in a dump with a stressful wife
@@sungjae832 Not even remotely mad you weeaboo gimp.
Best and worst memories you have?
2000年問題にビクビクしてた頃ですね。
たった今生きている人が昔に戻ってじっくり撮ったような、本当に貴重な映像。
普段日本にいる日本人ならこんなにじっくり撮れないですね。
ありがとう。
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...😊❤
why couldnt you film this as detailed? do you mean the price of high performing cameras?
@@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.
@@yoloni I use to do that back then, thats all i did with my new cam corder
私は外国人ですが自分が暮らしてた国でも、町でもないのになぜか懐かしさを感じます
20世紀特有の雰囲気ってものがありますよね
その雰囲気で涙出ちゃいそう
スマホがない時代が幸せでした😢
ウソこけｗ
お前の文章どう考えても外国人じゃなくて日本人だろｗ
@@ヤナさんカナ そうですね。確かにスマホがあったほうが便利に決まってるのになぜかあの時代に戻りたいって思っちゃいますよねー
私も小さい頃に戻りたいです
日本語お上手ですね。
@@パワハラだよねぇみんなそうじゃないか
I really love the smoothed out, mildly grainy look of VHS. Everything looks a little more dreamlike
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.
because we were living in a dream
VHS love is not plastic love
it look like some 9/11 tape... 😅. ah nevermind.
When I watch such videos, I get the feeling that I’m being strangled, and I want to quickly go back to my own world, as if I could get stuck in the past
SAME
こういう長尺の映像も大事ですね。今この時代の映像も数十年後には懐かしまれるのですから。
その時は何の変哲もない風景でもその時にしかない空気感を映像に収めることは重要な事だと思います。
過去は二度と来ないからね
撮れる時に撮らないともうその時代の景色が見たくても見れない
@@dy2110タイムボカンで過去に戻ります
1999年クリスマスあたりの東京をまた見れるなんてありがたいです。住み始めたばかりでうろうろ歩いてた場所が映ってとてもなつかしい。ここから2010年くらいにかけての変化がいろいろと大きかった気がする。
自分は2000年くらいから海外で暮らしています。映像見てるだけで、雨の中を歩く感じとか、露天の近くの匂いとか、感覚が蘇ってきます。
@@cozyenglish9272 映像のおかげで色々と思い出せてありがたいですよね。また20年くらい経つとどんな感覚でこの映像観れるかなんとも不思議な感じがします。
@@PK-wx1jl大丈夫、20年の後あなたはいないです
ギリ20世紀、懐かし過ぎず最近過ぎず。ネットもあったけど今ほど使われていなかった時代。これからどんどん再開発されて大きなビルだらけになるから貴重な記憶です
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!!
It’s unbelievable that this was 20 years ago already
Time really flies, pal
23
I have seen it from March 1998 and been here ever since it’s been crazy
@Daenack Dranils so? So he cant believe it, did u even read the comment
@@foufoustv2060 no
懐かしい…
1999年は私が高校生の頃です。
よく友達と遊びに行った場所が映っていて楽しかった記憶が蘇りました。
だから何だよ
@@はぬゆひやなかに なぜ失礼なのか
@@はぬゆひやなかにあなたのおとうさんおかあさんの頃(ころ)のおもいでをはなしています😊
@@はぬゆひやなかにだからお前は本当に失礼だよ
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.
old man living in a dump with a stressful wife now?
@@yeahtbh.161 Celine is a woman's name lol
@@isviewer so she's the stressful wife now, cool.
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.
@@corrado nah. it wasn't that good you're delusional.
センター街のＨＭＶできてすぐ行ったのが昨日のようです。本当に街に音楽が鳴っていて活気がありましたね。😢
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.
The Internet Was Strong In The 1990s, Especially In A Technologic Pole As Japan, Just See The Year The First Touhou Game Was Released.
この映像内のどこかで自分が何をしているのか思うと不思議な気持ちになる。
この頃に戻りたい
That Impreza WRX STI in the beginning 🔥👌🏾
Great footage! Lived in Japan 99-05. Brings back so many memories.
I was 23 then. It was wonderful when ppl didn't look down at the phones all the time.
Videos like this truly blows my mind, because its basically a time portal that allows us to travel back in to time and witness moments in all of those people`s lives that we wouldn`t be able to witness otherwise. All of the people we see in this video just walked around minding their own business, completely unaware that some random people from all around the world would be watching them 20+ years later on their phones, wondering about who they were, where they were going and where they are today.
I absolutely love this!! I lived there 2001-2004 it was magical!
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.
またきてね❤
行きますよ〜
I feel like I’ve seen someone that looks like you in Kobe yesterday 🤔
Lol. I wish it was me that you saw in Kobe. I love the butaman at Roushouki in nankinmachi 😋
@@jasonjackson4555
Ok no answer
自分は高三でした。
当時付き合ってた彼女が大好きで、バイトの給料貯めて買ったバイクが楽しくて、とても幸せな時代でした。
Are you still together?
@@LadyOfTheNight.
هذا مانتخيله
@@badinaser2282 مدري يمكن في أمل 😅
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.
I was born in 1992. I wish I could have experienced the 90s as a teenager at least.
@@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.
I was born in 2006 but I wish I lived in the 90s, it's kinda funny I have such a nostalgia for a time I wasn't even alive !
The 90s were amazing. Everything has gotten worse since.
It was great, I was never in Japan at the time but the 90s was something special. =3
Came back from my Tokyo trip, it’s crazy how much it didn’t change in 20 years, Odaiba looks exactly like that
Sam thoughts. I went to a trip in 2018 and it was pretty much 70% the same as on this video.
Japan was way ahead back in the days. but it stopped growing. most of the stuff are still the same.
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.
懐かしい。
たった24年前なのにずいぶんと昔に感じるくらい今と雰囲気が全然違った。
パラレルワールド的な。
記憶を保持してもう一度体験してみたいな😂
3:47 流行歌と宗教団体の演説が重なって街に響く光景が世紀末感ある
ミサイル落ちてきそうですよね
当時4歳...おじいちゃんもおばあちゃんもみんな元気で楽しかったなあ.....
I'm glad UA-cam is suddenly suggesting this video to everyone.
This video has suddenly gone bananas! Is it featuring somewhere or something?
@@bruisedblood No idea! I think sometimes UA-cam just likes to randomly pick an older video every now and then to suggest.
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.
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.
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 ?
man this is a gold mine for vaporwave artists looking for an album cover
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
Man this is so natsukashii for me! The first time I've ever went to Japan was in 2000, Osaka. Then I visited Tokyo in March 01! That scenery of shibuya crossing and maru-q, that's like cemented in my brain! I still visit Japan yearly and have many Japanese friends. Nowadays we reminisce of this time period of Japan.
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.
true. We live in the worst timeline ever. Being born into World War 2 would've been much better, at least war is interesting
@@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.
@@Hallo81398 Wait 5 more years
This is Tokyo as I'll always remember it (I lived in Japan on and off from '96 -'15). Thanks for the post.
この頃２０歳でした😅
あの頃に戻りたい。
私が今その頃ですｗ
電車のアナウンスの声がいつ経っても変わんないですよね。
僕が30です
今14
私も
私は当時23歳でした。とても懐かしいですね。
Windows98で回線もISDNが主流でしたが、64k速度でネットしている人もかなり多かった。PCの普及自体もまだまだといった感じだったので情報量は現在と比べて少なかったが、今思い返すととても楽しい時代でした。
現在と昔の街の違いは明るさや活気ですかね。昔は街が生き生きとしていました。
人からもらったものですが、99年の自作PC本持っています。
「K6-2を投入した98年のAMDの躍進ぶりは衝撃的で、近い将来、AMDが
Intelを抜くとまで噂された。」と書いてあったりします。
当時のアキバの街並みや各PCショップの写真と地図付き。
なお、当時は小 学6年・・・。
懐かしくて泣ける
Things from this era just seem more lively no matter where in the world the footage is from..
This is so interesting to me as I've been going to Japan since 2011.
Would be nice to see a now and then video to see what has changed
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 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.
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.
are they still together?
@@lkoyumil the pencils? i imagine they mustve all rolled in their separate ways eventually...
街に音楽が流れていた時代
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.
The nostalgia is overwhelming.
便利さも不便さもちょうどいい時代。大人になるのが楽しみでならなかった。
その感覚すごいわかります！ギリギリ不便と便利が混ざってるくらいが1番ワクワクするのかもですね(*´-ω-)便利すぎもなぁ
めっちゃわかる！
年齢詐称ばっかだな
今は便利になり過ぎて、不便な楽しみが減りましたよね。
@@gulugulu80
知ったかすんな
One thing that has noticeably improved is the sound of cars. They're much less noisy. And the air is probably better now.
この時代を生きたのに、映像で見るとものすごい遥か昔の映像資料みたいに見えてしまう。
たった24年前なのになぁ
24年をたったという君の時代の止まり方も凄いけどね
@@Suy576 10年20年生きていたら、あっという間だと大概の人間は感じるのだと思いますよ
２４年が「たった」という感覚に衝撃。充分大昔ですよ。
何一つ代わり映えしない退屈で惰性な毎日を送ってれば時間の経過が早く感じ、そんな風に感じるかも知れませんが。
一年が滅茶苦茶長く感じる自分には想像だにできません。
@@Suy576 激同。
まだ俺14年しか生きてないけど24年は膨大に感じる
なんなら1年でもようやく年越しかって思う
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.
I first visited Japan around this time I fell in love with the people the food and the country and later lived there and teach students japanese now
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.
after 2010, japan became too much internationalized... its losing its cultural identity and power
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.
Retro does not describe feeling of reminiscence. It alludes to a stylistic que of a particular era. In Japan also.
Notice how few of them are wearing masks. They haven't been brainwashed to be scared of oxygen yet by Cov media fearmongers.
my dude this was only 1999, not that long ago. Barely retro.
@@cssplayer91 24 years ago bro
当時、フラフラした大学生だったわ。ミレニアムとか言ってた時代か。
こんなにもレトロに感じてしまうのは画質のせいか…。
19:05～ACの電光公告がコワいｗ 当時街中でよく見た。記憶の確証がとれてスッキリ。
Life looked so simple back then, wow
was in tokyo recently and am surprised at how much looks the same. Recognised many spots. Even the voices in the JR train sound the same.
I was there from 2014 to 2018 and the whole vibe felt like Japan had kinda plateaued in the 90s.
@@clearlisted Dude chill, I just meant it felt like the 90s when I was there. Not trying to sound smart.
Sweet! Love it there! Thank you for sharing!
こういった普段の何気ない風景でも、後で懐かしむ為に撮っておくものですねぇ…😌
man i wish i could go back to this time and just have some fun.
当時21歳で、人生で一番楽しかったな😂
今は家族に恵まれ幸せになりました😂
当時1歳何も考えてなかった
サクラ大戦のアニメに今ハマっていますが、この時代の作品が出た頃には、自分は生まれたてホヤホヤ。感慨深いです。
当時マイナス10歳
まだ親も出会ってすらない
この年代はもちろん、2004年頃までは娯楽関連の法律や条例がガバガバだったから、現実でもネットでもグレーゾーンの楽しみがたくさん転がってた
今は無理なく働きながら健全に暮らすだけの時代になって、これから先も変わることはない
むしろどんどん安全で締め付けの厳しい世の中になっていくんだろうな
自由が無さすぎる
gosh how I hate being a teenager at this time... I really wish I lived earlier or experienced the late 90s teenage life. I can't help but get jealous of my parents !!!
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
Yes there were net cafes.
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 ?
Never been to Japan before but this is somehow so nostalgic
What nostalgia are you talking about? And you haven't gone to Japan yet.
1999 was the greatest year of all time
平成は良かった。押し入れの奥には今でも平成がいっぱいある。
I was there last month in 2024. The vibe is different but honestly it's nothing drastic. I think that's probably a good thing.
1990’s-2000’s was peak human history imo enough tech to do great things without everybody and their mother glued to their screens
まだ日本が元気だったころだなー。街も活気があった。これがずっと続くものだと思ってた。
一番元気がなかった時代ですよ。リストラが相次いで修学旅行に行けない友人や家を売って転校する人たちが多くいました。
@@kipakipaそれでもまだ勘違いできてた時代。家電業界も韓国にヤラれる前だし、中国も下に見れた時代。失われた10年とか言われてたけど、それが失われた30年になるとも思わず、いずれ上向くと思い込んでた時代。錯覚だったとしても、まだ若者が未来に希望を持てる時代だった。
自殺率最多で親が子を子が親を56す素敵な時代だったよな。
@@とも-q9e7d少なくとも今よりはよっぽどいい時代だよな
97年に山一證券が倒産して就職氷河期に突入して、ここから30年間の経済停滞が始まったので、一番日本が沈んだ時代です。この頃、活気があったのは、ガングロコギャルくらいか？😂社会人の自殺率が大幅に増えた時代でもある。山手線なんて、ほぼ毎日どこかで人身事故で遅れてた。
私も99年大卒で就職氷河期世代なので、この頃の苦境は今でもトラウマになってます。2003年にアメリカに単身移住してアメリカ人になったので、日本頑張れ！としか言いようがないけど。就職氷河期世代でなかったら、多分今でも日本人で日本で生きてたと思います。
このくらいの時代がバランス良かったな
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.
ちょうどこのころ渋谷で働いていました。その頃を思い出しました。ありがとう。
まだ日本が元気だった頃だ！
楽しかった
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.
本当にありがとうございました。
1999年は若者が元気だった時代。
多分スマホがないせい、スマホは悪魔の機械
普通に校則無視してたし
団塊Jr.が若者だった頃だから人口ボリュームに合わせて流行の中心も自然と若者だった時代だな。
今も若者元気だよ。自分の若い頃への憧れで言ってるように見える。
@@Suy576元気じゃないんだなあそれが
Excellent footage. If you have anything else, please upload it.
60年代からこの手の動画見てきたけどここまで来るとスマホとかのデバイス以外現代と変わらないように見える髪型とかも80年代は古臭く見えるけど99年だとあまり変わってないようだし
Я помню в это время продавались одноразовые фотоаппараты (может и сейчас есть), когда уезжала, я понимала, что больше не увижу Японию, если только случайно по телевизору и фотографировала всё...Как хорошо, что появился интернет и можно поймать это ощущения.😊
貴重な映像をありがとうございます。
汐留はまだ開発中のときですね。
このスマホがまだ登場していないネット黎明期がたまらなく恋しい
1:07:25
J-Friends 懐かしいですね この頃はジャニーさんも元気いっぱいだったんでしょうね
youも一緒に頑張ろうよ！
この頃に戻りたい…
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.
For me the 90s were always magical, even when I experienced it as a child. Technology made us disconnected from the real world. TK was right.
10:46 I remember getting off my flight in the middle of the night, taking the train into Shinjuku where I had a room waiting in a cheap hotel, and going to that McDonalds
1999年はパレットタウンがオープンした年でした。今のお台場に当時の賑わいは全くないです。
懐かしいタイムスリップ
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
I was 11 years old this years
活気ある学生時代でした。街には音楽、厚底ブーツ、プリクラ🎉⤴️
渋谷のウェンディーズによく行ったなあ。
よく見る90年頃の映像と違って、バブル期に建設が始まった建物が一通り完成してるから今の東京にかなり近づいたね
渋谷もQFRONTがあるだけで一気に今っぽく見える
If this is where we peaked technologically as humans, I’d honestly be perfectly ok with that
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.
@@JesusChrist2000BCExactly this. Screenshots made our lives worse.
Just add some LED TVs in to save our sight and yeah I'd agree. The CRT technology fucked so many people's vision it's unreal.
i miss life before smartphone
やっぱ平成の建築かっこいいな
スマホが存在しなかった時代か。誰もが現実を生きていた時代に見えます。
俺も俺の周りも今も現実生きて楽しいけどね
君が今ネットに依存してるからそう思うのでは？
自分の状況と世の中の状況をごっちゃにしてない？
@@Suy576お前キモいコメントばっかり残してんな
最近の子供はメールばっかりで対面コミュニケーションができず、ゲームばっかりしてて現実と虚構の区別がつかないからすぐに人を56すとか一生懸命騒いでたよな。
この頃、当然PHSもスマホも持ってなかったけど全然「現実」を生きてなかったけどな(+_+)
まだ生まれる前の70年代の映像や本ばっかり読んでｗ
１９歳の頃入った会社でも「君は若者っぽくないねぇ^_^」と言われたくらいで、、、
Wow! Bellissimo video storico! Tanta nostalgia a ripensare agli anni '90. Grazie per questo video. 🙏🏻
The year I arrived in Japan. 21 years almost now
Are you still living there?
Andrew Gonzalo yes.
@@TheLostBoy1974 Is hard to live there tho
Andrew Gonzalo you’ve lived here? For me, it’s the same as any other place. The up side is that it’s really safe.
@@TheLostBoy1974 oh, sorry for my comment