I must've watched this 243442423 times so far! I'm absolutely in love with how everything was in Japan back in the 80s. Thanks for the wonderful footage, Nichi!
Japan in the 80s looks like such an interesting place to visit, I love Japans cities now but I feel like they looked cooler back then, the whole style going on in Asia in the 80s (really just in Hong Kong and Japan) really stuns me a time like that should be brought back lol because i want to see it
greg h true but just the lights and what not and the signs, now its cool and futuristic but here its like retro-ish sort of but its not much of a difference either lol it just looks cool
It's the vibe in general. 80s Japan was much happier. People splurged on money and goods, everyone was happy and overjoyed, and it gives the city so much more personality. Tokyo today feels more subdued, like its slowly joining mainstream culture and away from the Japanese vibe that was installed in the 80s
Is it just me or is everyone in Japan back in the 80s and 90s so much better looking and more aesthetic than they are now, like in terms of fashion, body figure, expressions and most importantly HAIR AND MUSIC was so much better looking for both men and women back those days. 80s and 90s Japan is the pinnacle of aesthetic and there's just nothing else quite like it.
It got even crazier by the late 1980s if you thought the early to mid 1980s was amazing. The peak of the era was around 1991; by then Japanese teenagers were riding limos in downtown Tokyo and you had to wave $400 bills in the air to even get a taxi because of how busy it was. Tokyo is actually mostly the same today, just you don’t have to wave $400 bills anymore 😂😂
One of the things that I admire about the Japanese culture is how peaceful everything is. Some people call it conformity but at the end of the day you had everyone working for the greater good of the nation instead of being self-entitled sociopaths like many people in the western culture. Maybe things are changing now due to more outside influences and the economy not being as strong as it once was but there was a time when Japan seemed like it was running like a well-oiled machine and had the wonder, admiration and respect of the world.
Walking in the rain. At night. In Japan. In the 80's. I cannot begin to describe what i wouldn't give to have been able to trade places with you. Just awesome. Nice 80's tracks in the background, by the way.
What I would give for more of this brilliant footage. A happy day in my life, when I discovered the part of You Tube filled with amateur footage of the past. Thank you.
The 80's must have truly been an awesome time in Japan, especially as a foreigner. I'm really glad you had a camera (and an awesome one) at that time and took this! Compared to now, people seem much happier and amiable, but also shier. Also, your lifestyle sounds pretty nice. Going back and forth from America to Japan. Please give me a job =D
It was a great time to grow up - coming of age in the 1980s. It was a time full of promise and energy, with the economy booming, especially after the stagflation of the 1970s. Being in Japan at that time mirrored that as well... That said, everyone tends to recall their youth with rose colored glasses.
My Dad was in the Japanese 1987 and 1990 tours of Starlight Express, and this captures that Japan I remember from childhood so well. It was supercharged! A child's dream come true.
I was 15 in 1987. I had never been to shinjuku until 19. but this video bring me back to 80s. Lights and builidings are beautiful. Especially I am suprised to see Tokyu hands in ikebukuro. I didnt think we had it in 1987... wow...thankyou. I will back here to watch sometimes.
Glad you enjoyed it. Yes, the video quality held up pretty well. The VHS tape sat in a box unplayed for about 20 years until I digitized it to make these videos
These videos are wonderful. Thank you very much for sharing them with us all. I live in Tokyo now but I would pay a large sum of money to be able to experience it in the late 1980's. It is hard to imagine that when you took this video in 1987 the Nikkei 225 was trading as high as 26,000 points.
oh man, they weren't instinctively sticking to one side of the escalator to keep a passing lane open back then yet!! Love these videos, keep em coming!
Wow great video of the 80s. I was a kid back then wearing the ray ban glasses with my robocop figures so got good memories. I love to visit japan one day. You guys if you ever reunite should all go to japan and make a video on the locations you went in the 80 and do a comparison of today.. That would be awesome. Would love to see more 80s videos of japan. Keep up the good work.
***** Japan will always lay in wait for the system to colapse to rise again. Few publicly recognize the still present inner circle of Japan that is for supreme independence in national affairs. The shinto religion of the Japanese elites still revolves around Japanese nationalism and Imperial worship going deep into mythos. Japan will always survive.
Wow bro you and your buddies were kinda cool in the 80s, I was just a kid back then but watchin those 80s movies I guess i wanted to go to japan and be just like you haha
@@user-sb1pl1ln6b youth are mostly struggling, tokyo is damn expensive and salary is not enough... It's will cover up your bills ofc but after that only penny will left for yourself ... End of the month only cup noodles is survival option XD.. And old people in Japan is fukin rich aff, old people are real flexers over there.
I doubt you'll see this comment but I just wanted to say thank you for this. I was born in 1987 and now live in Japan since 2016. I was curious about what the place looked like the year I was born, so I decided to look up some videos on a whim, and without even paying attention to the description I recognised my neighbourhood, Ikebukuro, immediately - the place honestly hardly looks different at all! It kinda blew my mind to see those escalators to the underground part of Sunshine City since I use them every day and the entire setup and Tokyu Hands next door have barely changed at all (save for a lot more LCD advertising screens, lol). The shops and cafes are different (no more Dunkin Donuts in Japan) but aside from the 80s fashions it could have been taken yesterday for me. It was wonderful to watch. Thank you!
It is amazing how some things really haven't changed that much. Just the fashions, and perhaps the general attitudes of the people - more optimistic and upbeat then. Glad you enjoyed the video!
Like the video man!I think you walked around Shinjuku by Studio Alta the big screen, when no other cities had TV screen like Tokyo had.Now everyone is started to chatching up.We can see how Japan was waaaaay ahead of any other countries back then, and they still are!I love Japan! such awsome country!
Ahh, another 'old school' Japan hand. Not many of us around, let alone on RUclips. Your description sums the era up perfectly. What a great and promising time it was to be in Japan! Thanks for watching.
Those were the days. The problem is half the population hopes that these days will return in exactly the same shape and form as the 80s. Cue economic stagnation.
Japan Chris in 1987 Japan was, even if minor compared to the period from the 50s to 1973, in a period of steady growth. It lasted until the bubble exploded in 1992. Then the stagnation began
Look at the US today. Everyone wants things to return back to the 80s, not thinking that back in the 80s, all the 40-something’s wanted to go back to the 50s and were raving about how everything was better then. It’s really blind nostalgia. All the 40-something’s today were too young to remember all the problems of the 1980s, so they look back at the 80s like it was some kind of magical wonderland where everything was awesome, since that’s how they remember it.
nice!! I love Japan back in the 80's!!! I went there when I was little, and Tokyo in the 80's were really cool!! Long Live Japan!! thank you for the video!
this is really interesting to see. the buildings all look almost the same but the number of people walking in the same area these days is far greater - it's much more crowded these days. really neat to see what it looked like before i was even alive
That's basically the life of emperor Hirohito, he saw his country go from an isolationist empire where most people lived an agricultural lifestyle, passing trough the destruction of WW2 to then see it become the second biggest economy in the world and a industrial powerhouse
Thank you for this video! I am sure that 80s in Japan was one of the biggest age! There were so many problems in Japan’s society but also people in the era made many cultures!
That is awesome. I've been looking for more movies about what Japan, specifically Tokyo was like in the boom years in the 80s. All that blade-runner, neuromancer, 8-bit awesomeness. That looks amazing, was there in 2007 and I couldn't recognize Shinjuku clearly from this video! Nice glasses!
Dude, this is so cool! It's like a time capsule. I wish I could've experienced the 80s (born in 81'), and especially the Japanese Economic Miracle. Seems like when we traded with Japan, people were alot happier doesn't it?
Wow, great sights and sounds. I can see how 1980s Japan paved the way for vaporwave music and the cyberpunk aesthetic.
I want great japan again and smash korea again
@@daxzcdsfsas2882 and let the USA win
They did better than vaporwave...they made city pop 😍😍😍
It's the other way around lmao
@@titoubangalito3215 Yea, I was gonna say, vaporwave is basically just recycled 80's Japanese city pop
I must've watched this 243442423 times so far! I'm absolutely in love with how everything was in Japan back in the 80s. Thanks for the wonderful footage, Nichi!
Hey it’s that guy with the cool music
Yeah bubble was great man
Same! I know exactly how you feel! :)
Finding you here didnt surprise me at all!
Delighted and not surprised to see you here... oh my, seven years ago
This was during Japan's golden age I wished I could of experienced it during that time period and if only you can show more of japan in 1987
70's and 80's were the best for the japanese automotive industry.
@@unkono and for japan in general.
@Ale Bob Bullshit. Japan's economy has been more or less stagnant since the early 90s, following the incredible growth in the 70s and 80s.
Japan in the 80s looks like such an interesting place to visit, I love Japans cities now but I feel like they looked cooler back then, the whole style going on in Asia in the 80s (really just in Hong Kong and Japan) really stuns me a time like that should be brought back lol because i want to see it
Seems to me not much has changed except for the hair styles and clothes and a little urban decay.
greg h true but just the lights and what not and the signs, now its cool and futuristic but here its like retro-ish sort of but its not much of a difference either lol it just looks cool
Japan is still cool, i wanna move there...
It's the vibe in general. 80s Japan was much happier. People splurged on money and goods, everyone was happy and overjoyed, and it gives the city so much more personality. Tokyo today feels more subdued, like its slowly joining mainstream culture and away from the Japanese vibe that was installed in the 80s
@@intreoo their economy was doing very well in the 80s
I'm jealous of people who lived these times
Ale Bob ok, drink some water
Same
@@eastmerciatrainspotting4122 and the pop music revolution was made thanks to japanese Roland synthesizers :)
theyre the boomers the internet hates fyi
Yeah bro 😣
This is the most 80's video I've seen in a while.
Wow the 80s in Tokyo must of been something special right ....?
@Ale Bob
Haha
No
Late 80's... best of japan ☝️
Gud vid man, whoever posted this 14y ago lmao
Cool, love seeing the retro footage! I've got some late 80's footage of Japan I should post as well. Wonder if anybody would watch it though?
Did you ever post it?!
Off course!
Yes that is historic footage!
Did you ever post that footage on your channel Eric?
Did You ever post?
That camera has a awesome video quality for a 80s camera.
probably sony beta
@@gregh7457 my dad had the Sony handi cam from 86 it was metal and built so well. It was VHS not beta but the quality was better than his 98 JVC
@@Jeeppeeps yea, sony made the best cameras back then
@@gregh7457 they still do
How I loved it.... Tokyo by night, by day...lived there in the mid 80's and miss it still. Such fun we had....
I hope the videos bring back lots of great memories for you.
Sega nailed down the scenery perfectly
Haha I love how the title was changed to mention Yakuza 0. I'm sure there's been a spike in interest of the Japanese bubble era thanks to that game.
Japan's golden modern era.
Ale Bob ok, drink some water
Ale Bob but japan is in decline now, it was growing quickly back then
Is it just me or is everyone in Japan back in the 80s and 90s so much better looking and more aesthetic than they are now, like in terms of fashion, body figure, expressions and most importantly HAIR AND MUSIC was so much better looking for both men and women back those days. 80s and 90s Japan is the pinnacle of aesthetic and there's just nothing else quite like it.
90s was kinda dead
This video needs to be restored. Insane.
Jesus
It was awesome back then-
Incredible how time flies.
I was born in 1985.
Thx for this.
I was 4 in 1985. 80's kids represent.
Ale Bob ok, drink some water
Wow ur actually older then my dad
I was born in 2006 Really Time flies😂
Dude the music is just BUMPIN in this video!!
No country ever has been, nor ever will be, as freaking cool as Japan was in the 1980s!! Holy SHIT, that place was 1980s America on steroids!!
Bladerunner reality 🤗
My mom was there in '80-'81, & '86-'88. I still have the Minnie Mouse doll that she bought me from Tokyo Disney.
I was in Tokyo back in the early to mid 80s and OMG it was so amazing. Out of every place on earth to experience the 80s, Tokyo was the place.
It got even crazier by the late 1980s if you thought the early to mid 1980s was amazing. The peak of the era was around 1991; by then Japanese teenagers were riding limos in downtown Tokyo and you had to wave $400 bills in the air to even get a taxi because of how busy it was. Tokyo is actually mostly the same today, just you don’t have to wave $400 bills anymore 😂😂
One of the things that I admire about the Japanese culture is how peaceful everything is. Some people call it conformity but at the end of the day you had everyone working for the greater good of the nation instead of being self-entitled sociopaths like many people in the western culture. Maybe things are changing now due to more outside influences and the economy not being as strong as it once was but there was a time when Japan seemed like it was running like a well-oiled machine and had the wonder, admiration and respect of the world.
but its also a dark dictatorship police state tho
Creme de la meme TV Still better than how it is in the U.S.
Creme de la meme TV Don't you want to live in a dark dictatorship police state, Beno ?
GhostBlade yes ghost just as america was once admired +, respected before vietnam +, femanism
Have you ever lived in Japan? Suicide rate is one of the highest among developed countries...
Walking in the rain. At night. In Japan. In the 80's. I cannot begin to describe what i wouldn't give to have been able to trade places with you. Just awesome. Nice 80's tracks in the background, by the way.
Dude.... Yes.
Blade Runner city
What I would give for more of this brilliant footage. A happy day in my life, when I discovered the part of You Tube filled with amateur footage of the past. Thank you.
why am I nostalgic for a time when I wasn't even alive
The 80's must have truly been an awesome time in Japan, especially as a foreigner. I'm really glad you had a camera (and an awesome one) at that time and took this!
Compared to now, people seem much happier and amiable, but also shier.
Also, your lifestyle sounds pretty nice. Going back and forth from America to Japan. Please give me a job =D
You guys captured historic and great moments, also dreams, thank you.
Glad you liked it. It was a great time to be in Japan
they were developing sega and nintendo
Japan didn't change that much today in terms of aesthetic, its a good thing
Yeah nothing has changed except new generation don't have much money 🥲
8:45 People back then showed natural beauty.
Thank you for this video.... I wish i could be in Japan in the 80s...great music taste btw
Glad you liked it. It was a great time to be in Japan
I'm officially jealous af. The soundtrack alone makes me wish I could trade places with you. 80's and 90's were golden.
It was a great time to grow up - coming of age in the 1980s. It was a time full of promise and energy, with the economy booming, especially after the stagflation of the 1970s. Being in Japan at that time mirrored that as well... That said, everyone tends to recall their youth with rose colored glasses.
My Dad was in the Japanese 1987 and 1990 tours of Starlight Express, and this captures that Japan I remember from childhood so well. It was supercharged! A child's dream come true.
Normal people, no phones, no distractions. Beautiful times
I was 9 years old and had a blast living there for a couple of years. This video brings back memories of what it was like. Thank you!
Glad you liked it. I have some other videos posted from that same time
my favourite country and my favourite era.
I was 15 in 1987. I had never been to shinjuku until 19. but this video bring me back to 80s. Lights and builidings are beautiful. Especially I am suprised to see Tokyu hands in ikebukuro. I didnt think we had it in 1987... wow...thankyou. I will back here to watch sometimes.
Awesome video, the quality of the camera was amazing for those years.
Glad you enjoyed it. Yes, the video quality held up pretty well. The VHS tape sat in a box unplayed for about 20 years until I digitized it to make these videos
Hehe you're right! Thank you so much..
The year I was born! Thanks for sharing!
Hey, glad you enjoyed it. It was a good time to be in Japan.
Tokyo in the 1980s, in the heat of the economic bubble--when money grew on trees and all you had to do was reach out and pick it.
Life looked so much happier back in the days. It seems like life today had its energy and happiness drained out.
Everything looks that way when you’re wearing rose tinted glasses
Thanks so much for sharing this, it's a fascinating look at Japan's nightlife in the heyday of the 80's. very cool.
These videos are wonderful. Thank you very much for sharing them with us all. I live in Tokyo now but I would pay a large sum of money to be able to experience it in the late 1980's. It is hard to imagine that when you took this video in 1987 the Nikkei 225 was trading as high as 26,000 points.
oh man, they weren't instinctively sticking to one side of the escalator to keep a passing lane open back then yet!!
Love these videos, keep em coming!
amazing!Old stuff is the best for me to live
Wow great video of the 80s. I was a kid back then wearing the ray ban glasses with my robocop figures so got good memories. I love to visit japan one day. You guys if you ever reunite should all go to japan and make a video on the locations you went in the 80 and do a comparison of today.. That would be awesome.
Would love to see more 80s videos of japan. Keep up the good work.
I'm cry, this is so beautiful
Unreal soundtrack to your clip. I visit Japan quite often and I couldn't capture anything like it in it's bubble era. Such a great video.
I wonder if any of the Japanese featured in this video ever saw this after 28 years.
Would be an amazing feeling I bet.
***** Implying "Western" powers didn't have a hand in popping Japan's bubble economy
***** Japan will always lay in wait for the system to colapse to rise again. Few publicly recognize the still present inner circle of Japan that is for supreme independence in national affairs. The shinto religion of the Japanese elites still revolves around Japanese nationalism and Imperial worship going deep into mythos. Japan will always survive.
AKFGFan. lol... i think you're in the wrong part of the world for that. whew, guess the days they taught geography in school you were playing hooky.
@Ale Bob nothing lasts forever.
I was there as a Fashion model 1987❤ Tokyo
Ah the Bubble era
Feels surreal.
Wow bro you and your buddies were kinda cool in the 80s, I was just a kid back then but watchin those 80s movies I guess i wanted to go to japan and be just like you haha
バブル！看板が素晴らしい!幻想的だ！懐かしい
Life looked so happy back in the day Tokyo looked really cool in the 80s
@Ale Bob I don't think so.. the economy is not what it used to be back then.. and guess what., money is the main source of "happiness"
@@jake40341 now young generation don't have money..
@@user-sb1pl1ln6b youth are mostly struggling, tokyo is damn expensive and salary is not enough...
It's will cover up your bills ofc but after that only penny will left for yourself ...
End of the month only cup noodles is survival option XD..
And old people in Japan is fukin rich aff, old people are real flexers over there.
@@user-sb1pl1ln6b ??
@@user-sb1pl1ln6b shitb... No translator 🤦♂️
Can't read hangul bro 🥲
I doubt you'll see this comment but I just wanted to say thank you for this. I was born in 1987 and now live in Japan since 2016. I was curious about what the place looked like the year I was born, so I decided to look up some videos on a whim, and without even paying attention to the description I recognised my neighbourhood, Ikebukuro, immediately - the place honestly hardly looks different at all!
It kinda blew my mind to see those escalators to the underground part of Sunshine City since I use them every day and the entire setup and Tokyu Hands next door have barely changed at all (save for a lot more LCD advertising screens, lol). The shops and cafes are different (no more Dunkin Donuts in Japan) but aside from the 80s fashions it could have been taken yesterday for me. It was wonderful to watch. Thank you!
It is amazing how some things really haven't changed that much. Just the fashions, and perhaps the general attitudes of the people - more optimistic and upbeat then. Glad you enjoyed the video!
Like the video man!I think you walked around Shinjuku by Studio Alta the big screen, when no other cities had TV screen like Tokyo had.Now everyone is started to chatching up.We can see how Japan was waaaaay ahead of any other countries back then, and they still are!I love Japan! such awsome country!
Ahh, another 'old school' Japan hand. Not many of us around, let alone on RUclips. Your description sums the era up perfectly. What a great and promising time it was to be in Japan! Thanks for watching.
I was just editing my old videos from the late 80s to the early 90s on pc at this very moment until i saw your message.
Glad you still around :-)
Great video! Looks almost identical to the Tokyo today. It would be interesting to watch more videos of Tokyo in the 60's or 70's.
Those were the days. The problem is half the population hopes that these days will return in exactly the same shape and form as the 80s. Cue economic stagnation.
Japan Chris in 1987 Japan was, even if minor compared to the period from the 50s to 1973, in a period of steady growth. It lasted until the bubble exploded in 1992. Then the stagnation began
Look at the US today. Everyone wants things to return back to the 80s, not thinking that back in the 80s, all the 40-something’s wanted to go back to the 50s and were raving about how everything was better then.
It’s really blind nostalgia. All the 40-something’s today were too young to remember all the problems of the 1980s, so they look back at the 80s like it was some kind of magical wonderland where everything was awesome, since that’s how they remember it.
areobatman It was in 1991.
nice!!
I love Japan back in the 80's!!!
I went there when I was little, and Tokyo in the 80's were really cool!!
Long Live Japan!!
thank you for the video!
This is so cool :D thanks for sharing this :)
80's were indeed the best years for Japan. Sometimes I wish I was born 20 years earlier so that I could visit Japan and feel it's vibe.
Ale Bob ok, drink some water
@Ale Bob With the declining birth rate and aging population, Japan is slowly crawling towards a big economic crash.
@Ale Bob ur literally everywhere weeb
I like how these comments are all old and not even replying back :C
@@kaiyu583 haha
thanks for getting this video back so where I could see it!
景気がいいのが伝わってくる！
thanks for the vid
This is awesome! Thanks for the upload. It's a time warp wow!
@MotoscuterZ - The song is Eyes of a Stranger by The Payolas.
this is really interesting to see. the buildings all look almost the same but the number of people walking in the same area these days is far greater - it's much more crowded these days. really neat to see what it looked like before i was even alive
no way! i live right there...crazy to see it that long ago! amazing
It's nice to see the real world of City Hunter 2 years before I was born here in the States
You didn't see anyone in flashy suites beating each other up with bicycles and mopeds did you?
Tokyo in the 80s must’ve been such a magical time. Bubble economies really are great while they last.
imagine being born in Tokyo in 1900 or 1899 and still alive to see how things changed it would look futuristic in there eyes
That's basically the life of emperor Hirohito, he saw his country go from an isolationist empire where most people lived an agricultural lifestyle, passing trough the destruction of WW2 to then see it become the second biggest economy in the world and a industrial powerhouse
Thank you for this video! I am sure that 80s in Japan was one of the biggest age! There were so many problems in Japan’s society but also people in the era made many cultures!
it doesnt even come close to the excellence of western european culture.
It was a great time to be in Japan. People were still very optimistic
@@khav11 💃 💃 Dancers make good money.
Did you run into Mr. Shakedown?
87 is when I arrived there & spent the next 5 years. I've been back a lot since for visits, but that was a fantastic time to be there.
Tokyo in the '80s looks futuristic now, imagine back then
Great video!! Love everything in the 80s. Thank you for sharing this.
Apart from a couple of new skyscrapers, Shinjuku still feels like a 80's futuristic city.
Also Ikebukuro still looks pretty much the same :)
Good to hear. Thanks for taking the time to watch and comment.
Thanks. I'll see what else I can dig up.
I love old generation Japan ❤️ better then new generation
@tokyoguitar thanks for your comment. I'm glad you can enjoy looking back at this time. It is amazing how little the buildings and shops have changed.
素晴らしい動画をありがとう！
vaporwave era
No, City Pop vaporwave is just a cheap copy of that
Japan is still great today, but from what I've heard it's nothing close compared to the 80s
That is awesome. I've been looking for more movies about what Japan, specifically Tokyo was like in the boom years in the 80s. All that blade-runner, neuromancer, 8-bit awesomeness. That looks amazing, was there in 2007 and I couldn't recognize Shinjuku clearly from this video! Nice glasses!
I was waiting for kiryu to appear
Glad you liked it.
really glad you enjoyed it
Dude, this is so cool! It's like a time capsule. I wish I could've experienced the 80s (born in 81'), and especially the Japanese Economic Miracle. Seems like when we traded with Japan, people were alot happier doesn't it?
It was a great time to be in Japan
awesome videos .....Keep them coming...
Nothing changed except clothes and hair.
@Ale Bob Went to Tokyo last summer and the building are more or less the same (except for the newer billboards)..
The economy has change
[Friday Night intensifies]
なんだろう。とても不思議な感覚。
『ブレードランナー』を見たときと同じような感じです。
まるでその時代の街を散策しているような錯覚に陥りましたw
ちょっとまって、10年前からwって使われてたっけ。！？
thanks for the video, i really enjoyed all your videos.
1:50 "I dunno what you're saying, peace."
Love your stuff !!! Subscribed !!!