The 20 years between 1970 and 1990 must've been a wild time to live in Tokyo. Excellent videos and criminally underrated channel, you have a new subscriber
That's what happens when you have a long period of huge economic freedom and Capitalism. The period of quick modernization of Japan and the post war period until the late 80's where the fastest periods of Tokyo's growth.
Edo experienced many big fires, and each time the city was burned down and the population fell sharply. And every time it was reconstructed, it became a bigger city than before and its population increased.
In the final scene of Makoto Shinkai's , I remember the main character's conversation with an old woman. She said that the flooded Tokyo was close to what it used to be, and that people and nature have changed Tokyo little by little. Tokyo's Tsukiji Market, as its name suggests, means a market built on landfills. Most of today's Koto city in Tokyo is said to be reclaimed land. I found that quite interesting. This comment was made using a translator, so it may not be accurate. But it doesn't matter. This video is very helpful to realize something that only Japanese people can relate to, which was not told in the movie. This is a video that I want to show to students who teach Japanese along with the movie .
Sounds very interesting for me, as a Japanese student, thank you! Also I'd say Makoto Shinkai's works are incredible as they are. 僕は日本語の学生です！よろしく、ありがとうございます！
Tokyo's waterways were developed after the Tokugawa Shogunate was established in the 17th century, so I was concerned that they existed on maps from before that time. In particular, the Arakawa and Nakagawa rivers on the right side of the map underwent large-scale reconstruction work from the Edo period to the Showa era, so it is unnatural that they have not changed. I think it would be a better map if more attention was paid to mapping waterways and coastlines.
I'm actually surprised that Tokyo as a settlement is pretty recent for a major city in the old world. I was thinking that it's pretty old like around 800 years old. Not ancient like Kyoto but still pretty old.
@@scipioafricanus2212 both statements can be true. there are many economic, political or cultural centers in the world that have a history that's way older than Tokyo's, so in that regard it's comparatively "young". It then developed at a great speed.
Kansai area(Kyoto, Nara, Osaka) was the center of Japan and Tokyo(Edo) was just a country side for a long time. In 1603, Tokugawa made the government in Tokyo to govern whole of Japan for the first time. After that, Tokyo grew up little by little.
Tokyo has located in the Kanto Plain(関東平野) of 15,000㎢. But this place developed only 500 years compared to the venerable & reputable capital' Kyoto(京都)'. The Kanto Plain were filled with muddy field & marsh before reclamation by who Tokugawa clan. They occupied the initiative of ruling japan and have enforced the business of reclamation with a massive workforce forcibly requisitioned from the local daimyo to build the capitals 'Edo(江戶)'. If the Tokugawa clan wasn't reunited the japan, the official capital must have been Osaka or Kyoto.
河川の変遷も描くともっとよいと思う。 It would be better if you illustrate change of rivers around Tokyo city area. 0:03 Flow of rivers, Shmida-gawa, Ara-kawa and Naka-gawa is exactly same as those of now-a-days. Artificial modification of flow of these rivers is also important improvement of Tokyo city.
I'm Polish .The Japanese are polite. Poland always helps Ukrainians.Japan saved 765 Polish orphans in 1920 and 1922. The orphan was in Siberia. Japanese continued to rescue Polish orphans in Siberia. The smallest orphan that Japan saved was a two-year-old child. Polish orphans were sent to Japan for treatment. Japan fed the Polish orphans a hot meal every day. All Polish orphans have recovered. Japan continued to love Polish orphans very much. All Japanese donated money to save Polish orphans. Polish orphans were always smiling. Japan has successfully returned 765 Polish orphans to Poland. Thanks to Japan. God bless Japan.
I’m afraid some prefectures’ names are wrong. Gunma in this video should be Tochigi and Nagano should be Gunma. This video is very good to know how Tokyo have developed for many year. I really appreciate your uploading.
Population The early Edo, the early Meiji and after war in Showa is the significant point to increase the population. It is because of regime changes. Land development After Ieyasu, the first Tokugawa Shogun, was designated as the Shogun by the emperor, he established the Edo Shogunate. This is the first period to develop Edo. Main logistics is relied on water transportation so that many waterways were built around this time. After the Shogunate was ended and the offial authority was restored to the emperor in Meiji, the government started to develop the new capital, Tokyo. Since the government aimed to catch up with the west, many land infrastructures is shifted to the western style owing to the European architects and engineers. This also helps Japanese to study the modern techniques. Next big changes are found after the Great Kanto Earthquake in the late Taisho. Almost all traditional wooden houses were destroyed. Many stone construction were built and some of these are now existing. The last term of land development is seen after the war in the Showa. Because allmost all infrastructures were destroyed(Someone said this is "NUKE" , but it's wrong.), people started reconstuction. This is the city of Tokyo that is connected to the present.
The map of the Edo period is partially incorrect. The green areas shown as urbanized in the Meiji period are already urban areas of Edo from the Edo period. Those areas were samurai residences and temples and shrines. It is strange and incorrect that the yellow and orange areas shown as urbanized in this video are only areas where common people lived during the Edo period and do not include areas of samurai and temples and shrines.
This leads to a very interesting thought : since we had view major wars since ww2 and simultaneously huge urbanization there was never even a attempt to sack a city with over 5 million people. So we basically have no idea how a major land war would play out today...
Edo/Tokyo is not built on a wasteland. There have always been settlements all over the Kanto area. It's just that the OP misleadingly depicts them as growing off of Edo/Tokyo only over the last 50 years which isn't true at all.
@@thenorthstarsamurai I'm not sure if you worded this properly but Kyoto and Tokyo are two different cities. They didn't just start calling it Tokyo all of a sudden. Also the capital was switched since the real rulers rules from the Tokyo anyway so it truly is the capital.
@@tirptirp he actually worded it right. Japan’s old capital was in Kyoto, which is in kyoto prefecture, Kansai region. The capital was moved from kyoto to Edo which is in Tokyo Prefecture, Kansai Region during the meiji restoration. At that time, edo was renamed to tokyo by the emperor. So yeah, he’s technically right
The railroad was built in Japan in 1872, but as a digression, it seems that some people took off their shoes and had trouble with their destination when they got on the railroad. I'm not good at English and I wrote it by automatic translation, so I hope it can be communicated well.
3:43 There is a bit of confusion here. The prefecture labelled Gunma is Tochigi. The one labelled Nagano is Gunma. Actual Nagano prefecture is further West and not visible on this map
How do you get sources for this in order to then map this out? It's really impressive but there is hardly this much accurate documentation of some of the cities you make videos on. I'm really interested in how much time it takes to make such a video
> hardly this much accurate documentation It's not accurate. Later constructions like the Edo castle moats, particularly the Kanda river that was diverted through Ochanomizu and especially the modern manmade Edo River, is shown as preexisting in the 15th century. Also the original 6 islands of the odaiba (battery islands) built after Perry's first visit isn't depicted at all.
The 20 years between 1970 and 1990 must've been a wild time to live in Tokyo.
Excellent videos and criminally underrated channel, you have a new subscriber
it's insane to see how much Tokyo has grown
Because of the insane amount of migration
@@salvadorhenriquez4091 ?
Kinda counts when rural country folk try making their lives in the capital throughout the post-war booms
And how quick a lot of that growth was
That's what happens when you have a long period of huge economic freedom and Capitalism.
The period of quick modernization of Japan and the post war period until the late 80's where the fastest periods of Tokyo's growth.
Edo experienced many big fires, and each time the city was burned down and the population fell sharply. And every time it was reconstructed, it became a bigger city than before and its population increased.
Based japanese
江戸っ子の根性は無尽蔵であるッ
帝都復興エーゾエーゾ。
as it happened in Hiroshima and Nagasaki
近い未来、少子化ので増加を止めるようになる？
@@indlek lol😅😄
In the final scene of Makoto Shinkai's , I remember the main character's conversation with an old woman. She said that the flooded Tokyo was close to what it used to be, and that people and nature have changed Tokyo little by little.
Tokyo's Tsukiji Market, as its name suggests, means a market built on landfills. Most of today's Koto city in Tokyo is said to be reclaimed land. I found that quite interesting.
This comment was made using a translator, so it may not be accurate. But it doesn't matter. This video is very helpful to realize something that only Japanese people can relate to, which was not told in the movie.
This is a video that I want to show to students who teach Japanese along with the movie .
Sounds very interesting for me, as a Japanese student, thank you! Also I'd say Makoto Shinkai's works are incredible as they are.
僕は日本語の学生です！よろしく、ありがとうございます！
I also remember that final scene from Weathering with you. It made me go to Google to confirm but I didn't find anything
江戸・東京の発展には川の付け替えや変遷が大きな鍵だと思うんだが、
そこまで再現はできんかったか。
確かにｗｗｗ
河川が今のままやないけｗ
全く同じこと思った。荒川、利根川、入間川の変化を動画で観たかったな
江戸東京の発展は千葉茨城の湖沼川の推移がもろに直結してるのに
東京だけ見せられてもなあとは思いますが
そこまで再現する事は考えてないんでしょう。
Tokyo's waterways were developed after the Tokugawa Shogunate was established in the 17th century, so I was concerned that they existed on maps from before that time.
In particular, the Arakawa and Nakagawa rivers on the right side of the map underwent large-scale reconstruction work from the Edo period to the Showa era, so it is unnatural that they have not changed.
I think it would be a better map if more attention was paid to mapping waterways and coastlines.
Idk dragon historian is the most amazing amongst other mappers.
Dude, how did your comment written in 6 six days ago while this video was posted in 4 days ago?
It's inaccurate though. Edogawa didn't exist in the 15th century.
栃木県が群馬県、群馬県が長野県表記になってますw
❌GUNMAprefecture
⭕️TOCHIGI prefecture
❌NAGANOprefecture
⭕️GUNMAprefecture
一瞬おかしくなったのかと思った
@@農筋 太田道灌しらないのですか？
群馬県と書いてある場所が栃木県で長野県は場所が群馬県です。
이분은 진짜다.. 영상마다 진정성과 정성이 느껴지네..
Tokyo started as a little town, and now it's a city you can see from outer space
動画の「NAGANO」と書かれている場所は実際には「GUMMA」であり、
動画で「GUMMA」と書かれている場所は実際には「TOCHIGI」です。
また、時代とともに江戸や東京を中心に首都圏が発達したのは事実ですが、江戸の発展以前から発達した町はいくつもあったはずです。
I'm actually surprised that Tokyo as a settlement is pretty recent for a major city in the old world. I was thinking that it's pretty old like around 800 years old. Not ancient like Kyoto but still pretty old.
I disagree. It became rather big, even by the standards of the time, as early as 1650.
@@scipioafricanus2212 both statements can be true. there are many economic, political or cultural centers in the world that have a history that's way older than Tokyo's, so in that regard it's comparatively "young". It then developed at a great speed.
So you say "as a settlement", but Tokyo was populated for a long time before the Shogunate dropped their capital down there.
Kansai area(Kyoto, Nara, Osaka) was the center of Japan and Tokyo(Edo) was just a country side for a long time. In 1603, Tokugawa made the government in Tokyo to govern whole of Japan for the first time. After that, Tokyo grew up little by little.
Tokyo has a short history, but Nagano is long. Don't forget that Nagano is a popular prefecture for soba noodles.
Tokyo has located in the Kanto Plain(関東平野) of 15,000㎢. But this place developed only 500 years compared to the venerable & reputable capital' Kyoto(京都)'. The Kanto Plain were filled with muddy field & marsh before reclamation by who Tokugawa clan. They occupied the initiative of ruling japan and have enforced the business of reclamation with a massive workforce forcibly requisitioned from the local daimyo to build the capitals 'Edo(江戶)'. If the Tokugawa clan wasn't reunited the japan, the official capital must have been Osaka or Kyoto.
地形を見て
東 京都 east Kyoto
京都は狭い
だべ
これみると郊外が最近出来たような錯覚に陥るけど違います。
河川の変遷が反映されていれば、もっと良かった
同様のコメントを記載していたのですが、コメントを投稿した後に気がつきました。違和感を覚えたのは私だけではなかったですね。
this is the channel we never asked but we all secretly wanted
3:58 "Nagano" prefecture should be "Gumma" prefecture and "Gumma" prefecture in northern Tokyo should be "Tochigi" prefecture, respectively.
河川の変遷も描くともっとよいと思う。
It would be better if you illustrate change of rivers around Tokyo city area.
0:03 Flow of rivers, Shmida-gawa, Ara-kawa and Naka-gawa is exactly same as those of now-a-days. Artificial modification of flow of these rivers is also important improvement of Tokyo city.
1457年の地図に既に荒川方水路があるけど・・・
1913年～1930年に作った人工河川だよ。
日本人でも人工河川だと知っている人の方が少ないからしょうがない。
利根川も関東平野の河川を集めて江戸湾に流れてたけど、江戸時代の東遷工事で銚子方面の太平洋へと流れを人工的に替えている。
後は地図上の江戸城北側にある神田川も江戸時代に流れを東側へ替えている。
The prefecture on the North West part of the map should be Gunma and the central North one should be Tochigi. Nagano is on the further west
I'm Polish .The Japanese are polite. Poland always helps Ukrainians.Japan saved 765 Polish orphans in 1920 and 1922. The orphan was in Siberia. Japanese continued to rescue Polish orphans in Siberia. The smallest orphan that Japan saved was a two-year-old child. Polish orphans were sent to Japan for treatment. Japan fed the Polish orphans a hot meal every day. All Polish orphans have recovered. Japan continued to love Polish orphans very much. All Japanese donated money to save Polish orphans. Polish orphans were always smiling. Japan has successfully returned 765 Polish orphans to Poland.
Thanks to Japan. God bless Japan.
ok, but what it gotta do with this
And meanwhile killed millions in almost every east and south Asian countries
@@SobaYataiIn 1938, Stalin ordered the liquidation of all poles living throughout the Soviet Union including children.
Tokyo is very big that when i see Tokyo in google earth i can see it had already stretched from the outside!
That’s amazing!
私は東京在住の者です。この地図は根本的に間違っています。1400年代～1700年代は川が氾濫や治水工事によりかなり流れが変わっています。動画の地図に最初から記載されている荒川放水路は20世紀に入ってから着工した水路ですので、15世紀の地図に荒川放水路があるのは間違っています。また現在の中川は古利根川（古い利根川）と呼ばれており、１７世紀の江戸幕府による利根川の東遷事業以前は今とは比較にならないほどの大河でした。北関東に降った大量の雨水を江戸湾に流さず、太平洋に直接流すために流れを変えたのが利根川の東遷事業です。この事業のおかげで、武蔵の地域は格段に水害の被害を減らすことに成功しました。これらの事を深く調べると江戸の町の治水と物流の発展、そして江戸の発展を時系列に知る事ができます。
日本語で失礼しました。
埋立地はだんだん形成された過程がわかるけど、江戸時代から荒川放水路があることに違和感w
あと千住宿は南千住だけじゃなく今の北千住あたりもあったはずだけど。。。
Tokyo definitely showed a lot of growth since then, embodiment of development and dedication.
Despite fires, earthquakes and the legendary godzilla.
Dragon historian is so underrated tbh
ちょっと違う気がするがここまでの編集努力は称賛に値します✨
Finally, I've been waiting for this video
Such an interesting city ! Wish I could visit it one day ^^
I recommend going to Nagano prefecture instead of Tokyo. The countryside of Nagano is beautiful.
You know this man started working off really hardly after 1972 due to how complex the city expansions are.
4:00
The prefecture in the upper left is Gunma Prefecture, not Nagano Prefecture. Also, right to it is Tochigi Prefecture.
Your works are gorgeous.
X: "Hey Tokyo, how much land area di you want to cover?"
Tokyo: "Yes."
Brilliant.😂
Great job !
It would be interesting to do on European cities, for example Marseille or Avignon, ancient cities
あんな沼地を世界有数の都市に成し遂げた江戸時代の皆さんすげぇ
日本の都市は大抵もともと沼地を平地にしている。土木工事から銀座や日本橋も今はもう内陸だがそこも埋立地
I live close to Imperial Palace
My family moved from Kyoto in 1598
Thank you for your nice video
So you definitely have noble blood and roots!
This is awesome! Thank you for your hard work!
Amazing work
Cool video! 😄
利根川の変遷、湿地や沼の埋立て等がこのマップにはありません。「武蔵」は水(厶)が交差する(サス)事からついた地名との話もあります。関東平野にはたくさんの貝塚があり、海岸線はもっと奥にありました。
良い動画ですが、少し足りないです。
Please do Manila! I think it’s interesting that different colonizers has different street layout and how it was influenced by American suburbs.
Correction
Gunma Pref. → Tochigi Pref.
Nagano Pref.→ Gunma Pref.
The way it zoomed out caught me completely off guard. Just massive growth
3:58
Nagano 🙅♂️→ Gunma 🙆♂️
Gunma 🙅♀️→ Tochigi 🙆♀️
Nice video and very informative 👍
This is one of the maps ever made
3:47 There is a mistake
❌Nagano Prefecture →⭕️Gunma Prefecture
❌Gunma Prefecture →⭕️Tochigi Prefecture
But good video!
I’m afraid some prefectures’ names are wrong. Gunma in this video should be Tochigi and Nagano should be Gunma.
This video is very good to know how Tokyo have developed for many year. I really appreciate your uploading.
群馬はもっと秘境だったはず
群馬県は長野の領地です
グンマー帝国は独立国だよ？
Population
The early Edo, the early Meiji and after war in Showa is the significant point to increase the population. It is because of regime changes.
Land development
After Ieyasu, the first Tokugawa Shogun, was designated as the Shogun by the emperor, he established the Edo Shogunate. This is the first period to develop Edo. Main logistics is relied on water transportation so that many waterways were built around this time. After the Shogunate was ended and the offial authority was restored to the emperor in Meiji, the government started to develop the new capital, Tokyo. Since the government aimed to catch up with the west, many land infrastructures is shifted to the western style owing to the European architects and engineers. This also helps Japanese to study the modern techniques. Next big changes are found after the Great Kanto Earthquake in the late Taisho. Almost all traditional wooden houses were destroyed. Many stone construction were built and some of these are now existing. The last term of land development is seen after the war in the Showa. Because allmost all infrastructures were destroyed(Someone said this is "NUKE" , but it's wrong.), people started reconstuction. This is the city of Tokyo that is connected to the present.
Respect to cameraman-san for filming for 565 years straight.
県の位置が少し違うけどよくここまでまとめたなぁ…凄い。
グンマー帝国が長野に、栃木がグンマー帝国になっててワロタ
利根川の事が全く反映されてない...
History of Bangkok next
Whoops, at the final part of your project, you seem to mislabel Tochigi pref as “Gunma” and Gunma pref as “Nagano”.
Well it seem that someone beat me to correct the mistakes
interesting, my hometown Krung Thep is also recommend for your next video.
When cities grow naturally they naturally follow the lay of the land and the needs of the people.
Very interesting thank you for this timelapse
I can't wait to see a video like this about Boston
The map of the Edo period is partially incorrect. The green areas shown as urbanized in the Meiji period are already urban areas of Edo from the Edo period. Those areas were samurai residences and temples and shrines. It is strange and incorrect that the yellow and orange areas shown as urbanized in this video are only areas where common people lived during the Edo period and do not include areas of samurai and temples and shrines.
EXponential growth, amazing.
Wow, didn't know the Edogawa River existed back in the 15th century!
I was there and Japan is fantastic, citizens are a example to follow.
*An** example.
If it's before a vowel it's an
For example "A university" because it's pronounced with a yoo.
amazing
thank you Orochi History Channel
Thanks 💙
03:47 Correct
×Gunma Prefecture → ⚪︎Tochigi Prefecture ×Nagano Prefecture → ⚪︎Gunma Prefecture
Imagine fighting an urban battle in the world's largest city, that would be so fucked up in many ways
This leads to a very interesting thought : since we had view major wars since ww2 and simultaneously huge urbanization there was never even a attempt to sack a city with over 5 million people. So we basically have no idea how a major land war would play out today...
Looking at the final shot of the metropolitan area, knowing that all of that came from a castle.....
whitch came from an old village od Edo,,,
Zoom out farther because Izu and Ogasawara Islands are part of Tokyo Metropolitan government.
Edo/Tokyo is not built on a wasteland. There have always been settlements all over the Kanto area. It's just that the OP misleadingly depicts them as growing off of Edo/Tokyo only over the last 50 years which isn't true at all.
Damn so Tokyo is actually a pretty recent city, I would never have guessed
The previous capital was actually Kyoto until you know some shenanigans happened that made Edo or people now call it Tokyo the capital of Japan
@@thenorthstarsamurai I'm not sure if you worded this properly but Kyoto and Tokyo are two different cities. They didn't just start calling it Tokyo all of a sudden. Also the capital was switched since the real rulers rules from the Tokyo anyway so it truly is the capital.
@@tirptirp No I meant Kyoto as in a city was the former capital of Japan and it changed to Tokyo due to some changes in power
@@tirptirp he actually worded it right. Japan’s old capital was in Kyoto, which is in kyoto prefecture, Kansai region. The capital was moved from kyoto to Edo which is in Tokyo Prefecture, Kansai Region during the meiji restoration. At that time, edo was renamed to tokyo by the emperor. So yeah, he’s technically right
My belove country my belove capital my belove culture love you for ever i'm so proud myself i'm cambodian chinese japanese
I love it!🥰
The railroad was built in Japan in 1872, but as a digression, it seems that some people took off their shoes and had trouble with their destination when they got on the railroad. I'm not good at English and I wrote it by automatic translation, so I hope it can be communicated well.
Everything changed in 1932 💀
Showa period was indeed the golden age of Japan😎
Oh i only knew it cause of kaiju movies
To be precise, Heisei 7, or 1995, was Japan's peak year in the eyes of the world.
@@cecilehonda2234 yeah Japan economy increased rapidly from 1950s to 1980s but reached the peak in Heisei period
Edo Bakufu is the golden age of Japan.
Economy ain't everything
This is very good history with report
Man, exponential growth
＞"Japanese Music" by Dar Golan
これは Japanese Music なのか… 🤔🤔🤔
これは難しい哲学だ… 🤔
3:43 There is a bit of confusion here. The prefecture labelled Gunma is Tochigi. The one labelled Nagano is Gunma. Actual Nagano prefecture is further West and not visible on this map
素晴らしい動画をありがとうございます。 showa eraでGunmaになっている部分はTochigi
Naganoになっている部分がGunmaです。
This has inspired me im going to try to do new york
에도만의 기적. 그것은 주어진 조건에서 수단 방법 가리지 않고 경제를 일으킨 토쿠가와 가문의 수완이 아니었을까, 하고 생각해 봅니다.
좋은 영상입니다
I like how everyone in the comments is an expert on Tokyo's history for some reason
LMAO true af on all videos like this
少し細かい話かもしれないけど、厳密に言えば荒川（←赤羽より下流の放水路）は大正時代に完成したので江戸時代にはないはず。ただ、あくまでも東京湾の変遷を伝える動画なのと当時の資料を入手してそこまで厳密に動画を作成するのは厳しいですよね・・・。動画は楽しかったです。(^-^)
このシリーズすこだからもっと作ってほしい
『こちら葛飾区亀有公園前派出所』という漫画の比較的初期の回に「新葛飾橋」が舞台になっていた話があった。東京と千葉の境になっている江戸川に架かっている橋のひとつなのだが、その橋を渡ると都会からド田舎へと別世界になってしまうという話だ。漫画なので誇張して描かれているのだがしかし実際に行ってみると本当に橋ひとつで別世界になっていて驚いた。
今の新葛飾橋はすっかり巨大な橋に架け替えられていて、あのマンガ的な別世界感がなくなってしまったのが残念。
Tokyo is huge!
How do you get sources for this in order to then map this out? It's really impressive but there is hardly this much accurate documentation of some of the cities you make videos on. I'm really interested in how much time it takes to make such a video
> hardly this much accurate documentation
It's not accurate. Later constructions like the Edo castle moats, particularly the Kanda river that was diverted through Ochanomizu and especially the modern manmade Edo River, is shown as preexisting in the 15th century. Also the original 6 islands of the odaiba (battery islands) built after Perry's first visit isn't depicted at all.
@@mfaizsyahmi This guys got Gunma labeled as "Nagano" and Tochigi labeled as "Gunma". I don't think there was much fact checking being done.
In the last 3 years the Tokio population number is actually dropping slowly
東京住んでます
栃木県「解せぬ」
A wide river on the right side of the screen, Arakawa Hosuiro, was built between 1911 and 1930. So this river didn't exist before that.
Nice
これ、東京以外の主要都市でもやって欲しい！
i love that town sm
i would love to visit Tokyo 🗼
also it's story is very long wow
i want to see this Osaka-Kyoto-Kobe version (Kansai urban area).
History of Tokyo: well that escalated quickly…
日本人もあの広さには驚く😂