Crazy how just filming regular streets and people in 2005 turned into such a nostalgic time capsule. It’s so innovative how you saw the value in capturing something so 'ordinary'-it’s amazing to look back on now!
Thank you! Much appreciated. There was no editing with this sequence other than me pressing stop/start on the night. What you see is what was on the tape with no changes and that's probably unusual. Of all my videos on this channel this is by extremely far the most popular.
@@Lensman864 That’s awesome, and honestly, the unedited style is what makes it feel so real and timeless. It clearly resonated with lots of people. Really appreciate you recording this moment in time!
The economy was going relatively well compared to today (not as well as between the 50s the 80s tho), the gaming industry was booming due to new exciting releases, and the best 21st century anime series were from this time. I suppose that both the 2011 Earthquake and Tsunami that hit the Tohoku (Northeast) area of Japan and COVID had serious impact on the country and originated many economic and logistical issues. There have also been low marriage and birth rates and psychological issues on the youth due to isolation (for a country that was already known for a very comparatively shy and reserved society)
I grew up during that era. The vibe was different back then. Everything felt more chilled out and care free. People's views weren't shaped by social media algorithms.
Nice one! The first time I was there in April 2004 I had no clue and booked a hotel deep in Kabuchichō with zero knowledge that it was the "entertainment" district. Hilarious! 🙂
@@airplanes7204 I'm a hypocrite for typing this on my smartphone but smartphones have been more of a curse than anything else. A symbol of the tipping point in history which began the trend of technology becoming a hindrance to our lives rather than an aid.
I was born in 2008, and I am so interested in watching such videos, to see how people lived then, what was fashion, what the world looks like. I really like the era of the 00s, when there were no touchscreen phones and all that (I said when I addicted to my phone 🥴) p.s. sorry for my bad English
It wasn't much different to now except people used AOL, MSN for messaging, flip phones and nokia were a thing no touch screen phones but there were touch screen pcs or laptops. Cheaper than now. People went out more and met up more rather than sat online day in day out. I started high school in 2005 and life was virtual but simpler.
Thank you for uploading this. In middle schools my school library had these really old textbooks about Japan and it have pictures from the 90s to early 2000 of Japan so I always wanted to see what it was like during those times.
Ah, the 2000s, a mystical era when people still ventured outside to smell the flowers and embraced the world with wide-eyed wonder. Back then, nature wasn’t just an Instagram backdrop; it was the main event. People connected over campfires, not charging cables, and weekends were spent exploring the great outdoors rather than being tethered to glowing rectangles. It was a time when minds were fueled by fresh air rather than endless scrolling, and we communicated face-to-face, not via endless streams of emojis. It seems almost fantastical now, doesn't it?
I was almost a month old yet when this video was posted. I always thought of the 2000s as some retro era but there's something about the footage that's modern yet old at the same time.
I visited Japan for 3 months from Janurary to April this year. Being in Tokyo a lot, it's incredible to see how it's changed over the years. It's the same place - just advanced in a way. I wish I was able to experience it back then, too.
really beautiful shots, and what an amazing footage that takes you back in time. This was really nostalgic to watch too, considering all of this was from before smartphones happened. crazy to see how much things changed in almost 2 decades.
I’m born in 1996 but have such a terrible memory, i don’t remember anything that happened in 2005 - 2018... It’s pretty sad. I only remember i went to school and stuff lol. And, thanks for this video it’s very peaceful! A society without social media or a lot of smartphones. I wish i can go back to these simpler times.
yet Japan is the only country in the world, who is ahead of the world but stuck in time. Let's be honest, Japan is not as good as people make it out to be in the 1990s/2000s
There's something so captivating about 90s and 00s Japan that I can't explain. It's just hard to compare to any other city. Today there's tons of cities like Tokyo but back then it wasn't so. I feel a similar way about NYC.
Always wanted to visited the forgotten or dark era of Japan in the late 90s-2009. I wasnt born for like half of yet. When I did start getting into Japan. It was 2010, learning and seeing pictures from this era made me wanna go
All I see is pure living in the moment from everyone in this video, no distractions, mature and sensible and very positive people, great fashion sense, great colours and vibrant posters, great atmosphere, I'm not saying anxiety wasn't around but people seemed very happy to be in public
@@freddielindus1882 I was born in 2005 as well, and seeing these kinds of videos always fascinates me. I wish I could have been born sooner to experience this.
So fun in major cities when the only lights that took your attention away were the neon ones. Before the glow of smartphones everywhere, there was nothing else to look at. Very much Disneyland-like magic, to stare at them. It always made me feel like I was on a different planet when I got the rare opportunity to see neon city lights.
The first thing that gives it away this isn't modern times are the cars and their designs. If you just look at these clips real quick, it's not like it's noticibily older footage, unlike if it was footage from the 90s, 80s, or older.
Bro you are amazing. It takes guts especially back then to film such everyday things. You see the value of those footage after a couple of years down the line. u inspire me to do the same. 😊
Tokyo in 2005, huh? My mind immediately jumped to Yakuza 1 / Yakuza Kiwami 1, especially after I saw this 2:28. It's cool to see how faithful Kabukicho was recreated in both versions. Also, I didn't know "Pronto" was a real cafe store.
From 2016 to 2020 I was travelling to Japan many times. And I loved to go to Shinjuku I can see it hasn't changed too much since the time the video was recorded🧐🧐
I'm really glad you wanted a while to upload this because RUclips was known for being EXTEREMELY lossy back then. Anyhow, it's nice (and nostalgic) to see what else was going on in the world while I was a newborn.
@@v1ped Well the very first thing caught my attention is that my native language(obviously not japanese) was barely - or nowhere around - in 2005, but I could easily see and hear around even from the airport in 2018, ofc around various places too. That's already a huge difference imo Other obvious things are, maybe, the usual differences between pre-smartphone age & modern times? btw my 2018 visit was in late spring time and 2005 visit was almost during the end of the year.(I even got the fortune to see those 00s-style new year special stuff on hotel TV) I guess seasonal differences count too
Good times. The Internet has not yet become so comprehensive. Smartphones and social networks have not yet replaced reality. The entertainment media has not yet become so politicized. Games were still made by game designers, not PR managers. The music was still real.
althoguh the msuci industry is at full speed (by this i mean its nearly like the fast food insdustry lol) i ts still wonderful, you just have to dig a bit deeper.
@@nat3299 True. If you dig, you can find. But here it's about the diversity of the mainstream and the average level of quality. Previously, there was more variety and completely different genres of music could be heard from a passing car. Now it's rap, pop or something with low bass in the vast majority. And the quality of this is rather mediocre even in comparison with similar genres of previous years. And it's not just with music. Games, movies, TV shows - they all became somehow the same, as if they were made on the same assembly line. Surprisingly, with the advent of the Internet for most of the population, people began to lose their uniqueness and individuality, preferring to simply follow the fast-changing trends.
@@tonylife94 I felt this so much specially in regards to radio music beacuse its literally unlistenable (dont kow if i spelled that right oops) But its truly very hard to listen to the same balnd corporate friendly tiktok song thats on neraly every advert lol
I feel like in the 2000s we could enjoy things much longer, idk how to explain. Nowadays it pass so fast, you can't enjoy something bc another thing is already on display. You can't be calm
I was 6 years old living in Singapore at the time, but seeing those old Toyota Crown and Nissan Cedric taxis brings back a lot of memories since Singapore also used the same kind of taxis at the time.
It's incredible this footage of such a great era for the japanese pop culture and everything around that. It feels weird being born 6 days ago this video was recorded.
This is an incredible video, thank you. I liked it so much you inspired me to make a very similar style video, I hope you don't mind. I wonder 20 or so years in the future now if we will look back on the past the same way we do today, so that is why I did it.
Thank you very much for your kind words; greatly appreciated. It might interest you to know that unlike most of my videos posted here there was no post editing for this one. It's exactly as it left my camera and I remember, particularly with the signage, thinking about the sequence as I recorded that night. You MUST record current events; people WILL be interested in the future by things we think currently very normal. Imagine if we had video of a Tudor or Roman street scene; dynamite!
love ur hardwork , i hope u have time machine and traveling around 80's-90's to take the footage and bringback to us. thx and goodluck for ur traveling andd be carefull to time looping and ur self on the past. Peace~
The 2000s: The last decade when people used to enjoy the simplicities of life, when human connections still mattered more than Facebook, and when 'TikTok' used to be a song and not cringy braincell-destroying videos
This is just shy of a month after I'd gone up to Akita as a high school exchange student. I believe it was on March 18 and 19 that we (about 800 students from around the world) had our orientation before parting ways to go as 4 separate groups via Shinkansen to our respective regions, excepting the students who would be staying in Tokyo and Chiba. For those of us heading elsewhere, the extent of our Tokyo experience would be the view from bus windows, plus one chaperoned walk from the campus to a convenience store. It's interesting seeing a glimpse of Tokyo so close too that time, particularly the more bustling areas. Perhaps the Tokyo we would have seen up close if we'd had a little more time and freedom... But I'm glad shortly after I'd get to see a much smaller metropolis that much fewer foreigners ever experience, that of Sendai during their massive Sansa festival. 🎉 Thanks for sharing! 😊
Really interesting how the 2000s look old but at the same time modern. You still can see the influence of the 80s and 90s everywhere, but fashion, music, videogames and more all got a huge improvement of... Quality I would say? I don't know how to explain what I feel. I was 1 year old by the time this was recorded and now I'm 20, crazy how time flies
An interesting comment; thank you. Subjectively time passes quicker as we age; a summer's day is a month to a child but a month is a day to an 80 year old. I'm 60 now and I can verify it's true. Enjoy every moment of every day; you'll miss them eventually!
@@Lensman864I just want to say that u still interacting with people is really cool to see, and thanks for the advice. Hope everything is ok with you and may God bring you many more years of enjoyment. And happy new year in advance 🙏🏽
Crazy how just filming regular streets and people in 2005 turned into such a nostalgic time capsule. It’s so innovative how you saw the value in capturing something so 'ordinary'-it’s amazing to look back on now!
Thank you! Much appreciated. There was no editing with this sequence other than me pressing stop/start on the night. What you see is what was on the tape with no changes and that's probably unusual. Of all my videos on this channel this is by extremely far the most popular.
@@Lensman864 That’s awesome, and honestly, the unedited style is what makes it feel so real and timeless. It clearly resonated with lots of people. Really appreciate you recording this moment in time!
信じられない、、、、
レンジにデフテック、、、武富士にビクスクはもう無い、、、、帰りたいこの頃に
And I hope that you can make your wish come true 🙏🏻❤️😊
Deftech in the microwave? lmao
@@Aaron-lr1di i think that's a steins gate reference lost in translation lol
外国の人ばかりになった今にはサイバーパンクを謳歌できない
There's something about 2000-2009 Japan that's charming.
2010 Japan was total trash.
lol jk
The economy was going relatively well compared to today (not as well as between the 50s the 80s tho), the gaming industry was booming due to new exciting releases, and the best 21st century anime series were from this time. I suppose that both the 2011 Earthquake and Tsunami that hit the Tohoku (Northeast) area of Japan and COVID had serious impact on the country and originated many economic and logistical issues.
There have also been low marriage and birth rates and psychological issues on the youth due to isolation (for a country that was already known for a very comparatively shy and reserved society)
This was Japan at its international peak at the time,
Similar to modern day korea's success basically
No insufferable Japan vloggers too.
I grew up during that era. The vibe was different back then. Everything felt more chilled out and care free. People's views weren't shaped by social media algorithms.
当時20代でした、懐かしい月日が過ぎるのは早いですね。貴重な映像ありがとうございます。
早いですよね😢
自分は高校生でした。。
@@pgdgawgd 同世代です。懐かしいですよね…戻りたいなぁ…😢
@@名姓-p9m 同世代ですかー。ドラゴン桜とか野豚をプロデュースとかマイボスマイヒーローとか☺️
当時見てたドラマと、なぜかこの新宿の街並みがマッチングして思い出されます
私は二十歳でした。時が経つのは早いですよね
当時生きていらっしゃったんですね。羨ましい
I worked in Shinjuku between 2004 and 2011. This tickles the nostalgia nerve. Thanks for sharing!
Nice one! The first time I was there in April 2004 I had no clue and booked a hotel deep in Kabuchichō with zero knowledge that it was the "entertainment" district. Hilarious! 🙂
Must have been a good time living in Japan in those times
Crazy that this footage will be 20 years old in only 2 years.
crazier to me that i was 0 years old by the time this footage was recorded.
Man I was only 4 months old when this was recorded
@@youravictim38 I was getting developed in the womb when this footage was recorded 💀
@@slevingarganera8375 I was 9
@@youravictim38 same
この時代世代過ぎる😭
中学生時代に東京行ったらまさにこんな感じだった😭
2005年となると当時14歳中学生3年生だったので、色々と懐かしい気持ちになりました。
あれからそろそろ20年近くなんだ…。
does japan getting better compared to 2005? or getting decline than before?
@@applebananacar良くなったとは言い難いけど、色んなものが無くなりつつも新しいものが生まれてそれなりに楽しいと思えるよ個人的に。
当時高校生。いい時代だったなー🥺古き良き。。。
どこかに映ってたりしないかなw
まだシンプルにガラケーの時代か
懐かしい
色んな意味で良き時代だった。
貴重な映像ありがとうございます
この時小2でしたが、2005年はドラマも歌もいいのばっかだし、この頃に青春を過ごしたかったなと思います
個人的には90年代の方が「神曲」と言われるべき曲は多いと思いますが、2005年も沢山あると思います。
feeling nostalgia for a place I’ve never even been to
tokyo during the late 90s/2000s was something else
@@xxpsilocybinxx8878 I don’t even think the US could compete
@@xxpsilocybinxx8878 Can you explain more about why you think so?
@@akira0583 What did you like about Japan during this time?
@@xxpsilocybinxx8878. I totally agree i wish i lived my childhood there around 2000 - 2006
I was still in Japan this time of the year, and i miss being there more than anything.
It must have been incredible 😊
「昔ながら」が通用したギリギリ時代。今と昔の狭間の時代。スマホが生まれるちょっと前。なんだか色々思い起こされるな
この頃が懐かしいと言われる程時間は経ってしまったんですよね😢
@@pgdgawgd
ビックリですよね！
時間本当に残酷なもの2000年初頭まだ若者だった自分が今40代後半で死を待つだけになってしまいました😂
色んな趣味持ってたが現在全く興味わかなくなってしまった。
この時と今、何が違うと言われても「スマホ（→カメラ、携帯音楽系がなくなった）」「地デジ」「電気自動車」くらいしか思い浮かばないｗｗｗSNSもmixiあったしなぁ。
I wish smartphones never existed... But then again we will never had the chance to see this type of things without a computer... The irony...
@@airplanes7204 I'm a hypocrite for typing this on my smartphone but smartphones have been more of a curse than anything else. A symbol of the tipping point in history which began the trend of technology becoming a hindrance to our lives rather than an aid.
10:01 props to this dude - whoever he is and wherever he must be nowadays, made damn sure to be immortalized
I was born in 2008, and I am so interested in watching such videos, to see how people lived then, what was fashion, what the world looks like. I really like the era of the 00s, when there were no touchscreen phones and all that (I said when I addicted to my phone 🥴)
p.s. sorry for my bad English
Thank you. Your English is near perfect! 🫡
It wasn't much different to now except people used AOL, MSN for messaging, flip phones and nokia were a thing no touch screen phones but there were touch screen pcs or laptops. Cheaper than now. People went out more and met up more rather than sat online day in day out. I started high school in 2005 and life was virtual but simpler.
ロマンに満ち溢れてるこの時代は素晴らしい
that Queen banner and Freddy statue at the beginning was sweeeeeeet! then that sweet 1962-67 Prince Gloria at the 2 minute mark!
Popularity and fascination of Shinjyuku are off and indescribable
Shinjyuku is a glittering treasure of Tokyo
カラフルな電光掲示板、原チャリの少年、少し明るい茶髪の彼女。過ごしたことない青春が蘇った。
僕は2005年の人で、やっばり人って子供の頃を忘れなくて、ずっと心の奥に残ってて。その時代の雰囲気も人々も街の光も、懐かしいわ。やっぱり、故郷って、場所じゃない、時です。
Thank you for uploading this. In middle schools my school library had these really old textbooks about Japan and it have pictures from the 90s to early 2000 of Japan so I always wanted to see what it was like during those times.
I listen to this at night to feel less alone. Arigato lensman-san 😢
If my video helps you then I'm very pleased; thank you for your kind words.
貴重な映像をありがとうございます。
懐かしい風景がちらほらと…
Would have loved to go to japan around this time, thanks for sharing
Me too 😢
Ah, the 2000s, a mystical era when people still ventured outside to smell the flowers and embraced the world with wide-eyed wonder. Back then, nature wasn’t just an Instagram backdrop; it was the main event. People connected over campfires, not charging cables, and weekends were spent exploring the great outdoors rather than being tethered to glowing rectangles. It was a time when minds were fueled by fresh air rather than endless scrolling, and we communicated face-to-face, not via endless streams of emojis. It seems almost fantastical now, doesn't it?
Nicely done! 🫡
I was almost a month old yet when this video was posted. I always thought of the 2000s as some retro era but there's something about the footage that's modern yet old at the same time.
no offense but this video was posted in 2018
@李缘杏 The description of the video states it was recorded in April 2005
"Posted" in 2018 but "recorded " in 2005.@@李缘杏
I visited Japan for 3 months from Janurary to April this year. Being in Tokyo a lot, it's incredible to see how it's changed over the years. It's the same place - just advanced in a way. I wish I was able to experience it back then, too.
懐かしさってやっぱ画質に出るのかな、今の映像って言われてもわからない
The vibe of 2000s Japan is something
Aah seems like life back then was way chill and great than today
really beautiful shots, and what an amazing footage that takes you back in time. This was really nostalgic to watch too, considering all of this was from before smartphones happened. crazy to see how much things changed in almost 2 decades.
I’m born in 1996 but have such a terrible memory, i don’t remember anything that happened in 2005 - 2018... It’s pretty sad. I only remember i went to school and stuff lol.
And, thanks for this video it’s very peaceful! A society without social media or a lot of smartphones. I wish i can go back to these simpler times.
The videos of night time Tokyo were amazing. Especially the early 2000’s ones. Gotta love history and early eras.
Japan really has always been so ahead of the world, it's amazing to see.
Idk looking like 1980s a little here too
@@Yuzugumi000 Well you can say 80s Japan was also way ahead of the time...
@@CB-L yeah Even 60's Japan was way ahead of its time
yet Japan is the only country in the world, who is ahead of the world but stuck in time. Let's be honest, Japan is not as good as people make it out to be in the 1990s/2000s
@@braino64 Look at 1960's Japan it was Very Very ahead of its time, until the 90's and 2000's
Most of the young and teen people in this video are in their 35-50s now. Time flies fast and it's sad.
I was younger then too. 😉
細かい変化はあるけど今と変わらないねー
街並みと車に変化なし
ホストの変な髪型、歩きタバコ、若い女性の細身のジーンズが時代を感じさせる
外国人観光客がほとんどいない時代だ
There's something so captivating about 90s and 00s Japan that I can't explain. It's just hard to compare to any other city. Today there's tons of cities like Tokyo but back then it wasn't so. I feel a similar way about NYC.
20年前の20年前（いまから40年前）はまだ携帯電話が普及しておらず、1人1台の時代がくるとは想像つかきませんでした。
20年前はスマホがまだなく、いまの生活が想像できなかった時代。
この先20年後、どんな世の中になってるんだろう。
🌃
I really like 80s and 90s japan it was so cool
Always wanted to visited the forgotten or dark era of Japan in the late 90s-2009. I wasnt born for like half of yet. When I did start getting into Japan. It was 2010, learning and seeing pictures from this era made me wanna go
I'd like to visit during 1992-2001, that was imo the golden age of the "dark era"
@@ricenoodles632 early 90s wouldve still been a nice trip to visit as well
what makes it “dark” 😆
@@38kob Japan went into something like of a recession in the 90s which bled through the 2000s. Its called the "Lost Decades" for Japan
@@jaredf.6532 ah sure. never heard it called the “dark era” before. it’s also not exactly over even now so hey
Good old days without smartphones.
Amazing footage! So nostalgic and the quality is superb from that Sony 👍🏼👍🏼
All I see is pure living in the moment from everyone in this video, no distractions, mature and sensible and very positive people, great fashion sense, great colours and vibrant posters, great atmosphere, I'm not saying anxiety wasn't around but people seemed very happy to be in public
That's how it felt! 🙂
@Lensman864 I was born in 2005 and sadly missed this incredible looking generation
@@freddielindus1882 I was born in 2005 as well, and seeing these kinds of videos always fascinates me. I wish I could have been born sooner to experience this.
The atmosphere was more lively than now
Thanks for sharing this, it brought me so many good memories...
So fun in major cities when the only lights that took your attention away were the neon ones. Before the glow of smartphones everywhere, there was nothing else to look at. Very much Disneyland-like magic, to stare at them. It always made me feel like I was on a different planet when I got the rare opportunity to see neon city lights.
I was born on : 21 - December - 2005. This is nostalgic to me. 😢
Yooo this is so freaking cool man, next year it will mark 20 years
Thanks! It's mildly horrifying that it was 20 years ago nearly. It feels like yesterday. 😵💫 ⏳️
The first thing that gives it away this isn't modern times are the cars and their designs. If you just look at these clips real quick, it's not like it's noticibily older footage, unlike if it was footage from the 90s, 80s, or older.
I was living in Japan that year, in Hiyoshi (Yokohama) but used to go a lot to Shinjuku, Ueno and Akihabara as well as Shibuya. Great memories.
when the world felt real
just before hyperreality
丁度2005に生まれました。正直今と変わんないだろうと思っていましたが、実際見てみると全然違いました。たった19年でここまで変わってしまうんですね。自動車、会話の内容、広告の表現、服装、流れてる曲 等
自動車に関しては未だに見る車結構出てきてるからそこまで昔ではないだろうな。俺もこの頃4歳やったけどクラウンマジェスタやらセドリック営業車なんかは今でも都内普通に走ってるし、ミニバンなんて今の車の売れ筋だから別にそこまで変わらない。服装と流れてる曲が変わるのは認める。
Gracias por mostrar tan buen material , vale oro
Thanks for your lovely sharing 😁 Have a nice weekend 😆
Bro you are amazing. It takes guts especially back then to film such everyday things. You see the value of those footage after a couple of years down the line. u inspire me to do the same. 😊
Thanks for your kind words!
Tokyo in 2005, huh? My mind immediately jumped to Yakuza 1 / Yakuza Kiwami 1, especially after I saw this 2:28.
It's cool to see how faithful Kabukicho was recreated in both versions. Also, I didn't know "Pronto" was a real cafe store.
Glad to know that I'm not the only person who immediately thought about Yakuza while watching the video lol.
The same year and same place where the story of Kiwami 1 happens.
Was about to comment this lol
I was about to comment this too. 2005 in Shinjuku, exactly the time of Yakuza 1 lol
When I heard the Don Quijote song I thought the same so I had a bit of a rethink for a split second
I JUST WANT THE FLIP PHONES BACK😢
they are flipped into history
same
thanks for sharing this
You're very welcome. Thanks for being interested.
From 2016 to 2020 I was travelling to Japan many times. And I loved to go to Shinjuku
I can see it hasn't changed too much since the time the video was recorded🧐🧐
I'm really glad you wanted a while to upload this because RUclips was known for being EXTEREMELY lossy back then.
Anyhow, it's nice (and nostalgic) to see what else was going on in the world while I was a newborn.
Love this video. The FX-1 was a beast when it launched. Still holds up!
物心どころじゃなかった『ちょっと前』でも20年近く経つと、こうも『昔』と感じられるようになるんだなあ、、
I was there for my very first trip to Japan just a month later. Lots of nostalgia!
Same for me - My 2nd trip to Japan was about 13 years later though
The difference between 2005 and 2018 was like, night and day!
@@CB-L care to share the differences?
@@v1ped Well the very first thing caught my attention is that my native language(obviously not japanese) was barely - or nowhere around - in 2005, but I could easily see and hear around even from the airport in 2018, ofc around various places too. That's already a huge difference imo
Other obvious things are, maybe, the usual differences between pre-smartphone age & modern times?
btw my 2018 visit was in late spring time and 2005 visit was almost during the end of the year.(I even got the fortune to see those 00s-style new year special stuff on hotel TV) I guess seasonal differences count too
Good times. The Internet has not yet become so comprehensive. Smartphones and social networks have not yet replaced reality. The entertainment media has not yet become so politicized. Games were still made by game designers, not PR managers. The music was still real.
althoguh the msuci industry is at full speed (by this i mean its nearly like the fast food insdustry lol)
i
ts still wonderful, you just have to dig a bit deeper.
@@nat3299 True. If you dig, you can find. But here it's about the diversity of the mainstream and the average level of quality. Previously, there was more variety and completely different genres of music could be heard from a passing car. Now it's rap, pop or something with low bass in the vast majority. And the quality of this is rather mediocre even in comparison with similar genres of previous years.
And it's not just with music. Games, movies, TV shows - they all became somehow the same, as if they were made on the same assembly line. Surprisingly, with the advent of the Internet for most of the population, people began to lose their uniqueness and individuality, preferring to simply follow the fast-changing trends.
@@tonylife94 I felt this so much specially in regards to radio music beacuse its literally unlistenable (dont kow if i spelled that right oops) But its truly very hard to listen to the same balnd corporate friendly tiktok song thats on neraly every advert lol
The music is still real. You just have to look for it
Thank you Mr robot 🤖
Incredible video quality for the time! Thanks for uploading this time capsule gem :)
Thank you for your kind comment! Appreciated.
むしろ当時はもっと綺麗だった気がするけど
I could watch this for hours. If I had one wish it would be to travel back in time to Tokyo in 2002 and start life over from there.
Say hello to Bob Harris for me. 🫡
I feel like in the 2000s we could enjoy things much longer, idk how to explain. Nowadays it pass so fast, you can't enjoy something bc another thing is already on display. You can't be calm
i dont even born in 2005 and im not japanese. but this video is so nostalgicly deep its hurt me
So nostalgic, so beautiful
I was 6 years old living in Singapore at the time, but seeing those old Toyota Crown and Nissan Cedric taxis brings back a lot of memories since Singapore also used the same kind of taxis at the time.
2005年にもよく通っていた新宿・・・
それにしても2005年でこの高画質・・・「SONY FX-1 HD camcorder」はそんなに凄いのか？と思って調べたら凄かった。
Thanks for the valuable video 🇯🇵❤
It's incredible this footage of such a great era for the japanese pop culture and everything around that. It feels weird being born 6 days ago this video was recorded.
Thanks for your comment. Please watch my Harajuku videos from 2005 to see more Japanese pop culture. 🙂
It's just like now except no smartphones and social media.
日本がかろうじて元気だった頃だね🎉その後にリーマンショックで今に！
What a gift it has been to find this video
Sincere thanks! Greatly appreciated. 🙂
This is an incredible video, thank you. I liked it so much you inspired me to make a very similar style video, I hope you don't mind. I wonder 20 or so years in the future now if we will look back on the past the same way we do today, so that is why I did it.
Thank you very much for your kind words; greatly appreciated.
It might interest you to know that unlike most of my videos posted here there was no post editing for this one. It's exactly as it left my camera and I remember, particularly with the signage, thinking about the sequence as I recorded that night. You MUST record current events; people WILL be interested in the future by things we think currently very normal. Imagine if we had video of a Tudor or Roman street scene; dynamite!
Fantastic footage. So beautiful
Thank you very much! 😀
It looks virtually the same as it does today. But I can’t help but feel nostalgia.
the quality is so nice i would've thought this was taken during 2020s
Thanks.
SONY HDR-FX1 camera.
I wish I could go back in time man
love ur hardwork , i hope u have time machine and traveling around 80's-90's to take the footage and bringback to us. thx and goodluck for ur traveling andd be carefull to time looping and ur self on the past. Peace~
This was recorded the day i was born :o
Can we go back to this time period please?
When i heard the Don Quijote theme, I thought I was playing Yakuza 😅. The devs really made the effort of making an immersive ambience.
Sadly, most of the symbolic running neon signs are gone now. They are much surreal and eye catching than the LED screen today
The 2000s: The last decade when people used to enjoy the simplicities of life, when human connections still mattered more than Facebook, and when 'TikTok' used to be a song and not cringy braincell-destroying videos
Yup. 100%
THIS
You're describing the 2010's not the 2000's.
"2020's bAd 2000's gUd" ahh comment
@@LuffyTheLabrador
It’s the truth, you product of siblings. You’re just another zoomer glued to his little screen.
The lens of technology that you view reality through defines and warps that reality
自分が生まれて1歳経った辺りか...
デジタルサイネージがようやく普及し出した一方で、ネオン広告がまだそこらにあった頃でトヨタのコンフォートに日産のセドリック、クルーとかの小型車とか言われてるのも、仙台とか札幌、福岡の地方に行ってやっと見かけるぐらいになったしこの20年はだいぶ変わったよね
2000s...peak of jappenese technology culture - anime - manga - jpop - jrock...
And fall of Japan economy, rise of declined population.
@@ballsgaming6652 i mean that since end of 80s economic boom but yeah world heard more about it from the 2000s
ネオン看板を見ると都会に来たなと感じていました。とても懐かしい雰囲気ですね😊
公開してくれてありがとう
60's, 70's, and 2000's have the best atmosphere for me❤
This is just shy of a month after I'd gone up to Akita as a high school exchange student. I believe it was on March 18 and 19 that we (about 800 students from around the world) had our orientation before parting ways to go as 4 separate groups via Shinkansen to our respective regions, excepting the students who would be staying in Tokyo and Chiba.
For those of us heading elsewhere, the extent of our Tokyo experience would be the view from bus windows, plus one chaperoned walk from the campus to a convenience store.
It's interesting seeing a glimpse of Tokyo so close too that time, particularly the more bustling areas. Perhaps the Tokyo we would have seen up close if we'd had a little more time and freedom...
But I'm glad shortly after I'd get to see a much smaller metropolis that much fewer foreigners ever experience, that of Sendai during their massive Sansa festival. 🎉
Thanks for sharing! 😊
A very interesting comment indeed; thank you!
Thats so amazing seeing this people living like we was
やっぱり、誰もスマホを持ってないのが1番の違いかな
お店の場所がわかりにくいと地図を印刷して持ってったりしたよなぁ
カフェアヤが懐かしすぎました😢
Really interesting how the 2000s look old but at the same time modern. You still can see the influence of the 80s and 90s everywhere, but fashion, music, videogames and more all got a huge improvement of... Quality I would say? I don't know how to explain what I feel. I was 1 year old by the time this was recorded and now I'm 20, crazy how time flies
An interesting comment; thank you.
Subjectively time passes quicker as we age; a summer's day is a month to a child but a month is a day to an 80 year old. I'm 60 now and I can verify it's true. Enjoy every moment of every day; you'll miss them eventually!
@@Lensman864I just want to say that u still interacting with people is really cool to see, and thanks for the advice. Hope everything is ok with you and may God bring you many more years of enjoyment. And happy new year in advance 🙏🏽
Eu amo essas filmagens a algo muito hipnótico para mim nesse tipo de registro ❤, obrigado por compartilhar