"Nakano, Koenji, Sugamo, Hamamatsucho, Tamachi, Shinbashi, Ginza, Etc. (12/09/10)"

This batch of around 80 clips were all taken on September 10th, 2012 - starting with early morning train scenes, and then the morning rush of people walking to work from Shinjuku Station.  After that, I visited Nakano, Koenji, Sugamo, Ginza, Hamamatsucho, Tamachi, Shinbashi, and Ginza again.  (I had work to do in Ginza in the afternoon and by getting up very early was able to go around to several places.)  Incidentally, the first part of the batch below was taken in full-size HD.

Shinjuku - Looking West Down Koshu-kaido 新宿の甲州街道ビュー (120910)
http://youtu.be/bZbmEf92RdI

Shinjuku Army of People Marching to Work (120910)
http://youtu.be/g2Wr7tTshdk

White Collar Army Marches to Work (Shinjuku) 120910
http://youtu.be/VGsMnTH16CU

Morning Nakano Sun Mall (120910)
http://youtu.be/vyEkW2eZw4s

Yurakucho Platform View (120910)
http://youtu.be/3iPP9M806gE

Ginza 3-Chome 銀座三丁目 (120910)
http://youtu.be/BqrkZeTcuPs

Ginza Chuo-Dori 銀座中央通 (120910)
http://youtu.be/ApCcfgF4_54

Hamamatsucho-360 浜松町見回る (120910)
http://youtu.be/0UYXaVm-wno

Hamamatsucho Evening Long View 浜松町夕方帰る人々 (120910)
http://youtu.be/Tsw3-_j22l4

Homeward Bound Hamamatsucho People 浜松町夕方帰る時間 (120910)
http://youtu.be/xZhrfy7mcPQ

Hamamatsucho (Heading for Home) 120910
http://youtu.be/sD34zQ6syCM

Tamachi-360 田町見回る (120910)
http://youtu.be/oCBWnAFn5gU

Trains Passing Hamamatsucho 浜松町電車 (120910)
http://youtu.be/G351MLJ8jk4

Early Morning Outbound Chuo Line (120910)
http://youtu.be/L_auzzjgxXQ

Arriving in Shinjuku via Morning Chuo Line (120910)
http://youtu.be/16W_kKutawQ

Shinjuku Morning South Exit (120910)
http://youtu.be/nX1FmwYSulQ

Morning Shinjuku (A) South Side (120910)
http://youtu.be/qPNCkhw0Cs4

Marching to Work (Morning Shinjuku) 120910
http://youtu.be/7nleoOJzGVE

Morning Shinjuku (B) Walking Against the Flow (120910)
http://youtu.be/FFzY8zf3Ga0

Morning Shinjuku (C) Bridge Shadows (120910)
http://youtu.be/fmbO2BAO2Kg

South Exit to Platform 3-4 (Shinjuku Morning) 120910
http://youtu.be/MLGae4V6RIA

Platform 3-4 to South Exit (Shinjuku Morning) 120910
http://youtu.be/QcbHaVwlhd4

Arriving at Nakano Station via Chuo Line (120910)
http://youtu.be/RcQMibr7FhE

Koenji Narrow Walkways (120910)
http://youtu.be/z2A4hcaovJQ

Ticket Gate Error - Retry at Different Gate OK (120910)
http://youtu.be/Z4EBr_cn970

Nearly everyone is using IC type cards to ride the train system, so there are fewer and fewer of the ticket gates that take magnetic tickets.  I was using a magnetic ticket this day, so I had to use the older type machines.  For some reason, the first machine I tired didn't like my ticket, but when I tried again with another machine, it worked okay.

Walking Under Rail Bridge in Nakano (120910)
http://youtu.be/nWrFWRguXzg

Man on Crutches Boards Bus in Nakano (120910)
http://youtu.be/ESoKDdSy-DM

Ah... this one.  I got a comment complaining about the theme and I realized the title could be read as one of those (unfortunately) popular videos that poke fun of someone attempting to do something.  Actually I began taking the video just to show the bus, and then a man on crutches came up and - with just the first low step - got on board, so I thought "Ah!  Here we go!  This is the whole point of the low-rider buses - that they are easy to board for people who would have had trouble with the steps!".  So - to avoid confusion, I changed the name at YouTube to: "Low-Rider Bus Easy to Board with Crutches (120910)".

Speaking of this type of bus - which is low to the ground and doesn't have any steps in the front section - is the same type design being used for buses in other countries as well?

Mysterious Old Building (120910)
http://youtu.be/nf1yMKumYz0

Tree Shadows on Sidewalk (120910)
http://youtu.be/XcoE0npbJ8U

Morning Side Street in Nakano (120910)
http://youtu.be/VZzzWn4muy0

Walking Towards Nakano Station (120910)
http://youtu.be/uPnP4WYkVzg

Nakano to Koenji (Chuo Line) 120910
http://youtu.be/RMKc3kivyYY

Koenji Morning Walkabout (A) 120910
http://youtu.be/FgVwgaPCe0M

Koenji Morning Walkabout (B) 120910
http://youtu.be/loWlSvPdgHg

Koenji Morning Walkabout (C) 120910
http://youtu.be/7yzkRzsn45s

Koenji Temple Area (120910)
http://youtu.be/TRwb4gONXOk

Koenji Temple 高円寺 (120910)
http://youtu.be/wi8LxmhY4SE

Sun Through Green Branches (Koenji) 120910
http://youtu.be/d0M-5by2ze8

Hot Summer Street (Koenji) 120910
http://youtu.be/FJaSpApjhPg

Lonely Streets (Koenji) 120910
http://youtu.be/Kv535zLrbMM

Koenji Station 高円寺駅 (120910)
http://youtu.be/15Cd4z6-Flo

Shinjuku Yamanote Line Platform (120910)
http://youtu.be/i1jVgo7HKow

Shinjuku to Sugamo (Yamanote Line Left Side) 120910g
http://youtu.be/MJUXQoZoIfY

Kaneko Nao 金子奈緒展 Exhibition at Gallery Ginza Forest (120910)
http://youtu.be/ZirY4wgwX4E

LHS Sketch at G-403 (120910)
http://youtu.be/ITRO3mlSRl8

Tamachi Back Street (A) 田町 120910
http://youtu.be/UOHYILpQ8X0

Tamachi Back Street (B) 田町 120910
http://youtu.be/FzrPMLlzEuY

Ginza Evening Side Streets (120910)
http://youtu.be/nLzZmQxtTaQ

Beams Group Exhibition-V4 at Key Gallery (120910)
http://youtu.be/BAioHQP8TVE

Looking around during the opening party for this exhibition.

Looking Through Old Glass (120910)
http://youtu.be/WMUgphJvXUs

Looking through old glass towards an exhibition room.

Exiting Old Building (Looking Down) 120910
http://youtu.be/8J8YdcyEXPA

While walking down the stairs from an exhibition, it occurred to me that the old steps looked kind of cool, so I recorded the lower part of the staircase while walking down.

Entering Nighttime Yurakucho Plaza (120910)
http://youtu.be/Y6S-vho0wR8

Singer Playing in the Distance (120910)
http://youtu.be/8dGAqVUTTUY

Hamamatsucho to Tamachi (120910)
http://youtu.be/ZvnZ6GWcxk8

Exiting Tamachi Station (120910)
http://youtu.be/MGSfU81hGb8

Tamachi Station (Both Sides) 田町駅 (120910)
http://youtu.be/1BNoEZoSzeM

Entering Tamachi Station 田町駅 (120910)
http://youtu.be/FrZXnWorT3Q

Tamachi to Shinbashi - Keihin-Tohoku Line (120910)
http://youtu.be/i3StMLg4AzQ

Shinbashi SL-Plaza (120910)
http://youtu.be/k1EcK8siW-Y

Shinbashi SL-Plaza Smokers Area, Etc. (120910)
http://youtu.be/ucJoTRoJbnQ

Shinbashi Izakaya Basement (120910)
http://youtu.be/aLzOFVnUmsM

New-Shinbashi-Building 1F (ニュー新橋ビル １F) 120910
http://youtu.be/46Oqba4gkqE

Yurakucho Station Platform Walk (120910)
http://youtu.be/A1n5dyeFdbI

Yurakucho to Tokyo (120910)
http://youtu.be/x7zbEc2be7E

Tokyo to Kanda (Chuo Line) 120910
http://youtu.be/xWxH6WtIp1w

Sugamo Station 巣鴨駅 - Exiting into the Summer Heat (120910)
http://youtu.be/KsW7mKiCQSw

Sugamo Main Shotengai Street 巣鴨 (120910)
http://youtu.be/1u6rBGbooWo

Shops in Sugamo (120910)
http://youtu.be/WApKGMH3yus

Near Sugamo Station 巣鴨駅の近く (120910)
http://youtu.be/tDnumOjaEvw

Sugamo Station 巣鴨駅 (120910)
http://youtu.be/cHMiuzZERDc

Yurakucho Plaza 360 - Helicopter Day (120910)
http://youtu.be/EI-MOeC5RlM

They were publicizing the helicopter (medical) rescue service and they actually brought a helicopter to the plaza for the event.  I asked a guard at the site later that night if they had actually flown it there, and he told me no, it had been brought there by truck.

Shinkansen Passing Helicopter - Yurakucho Plaza (120910)
http://youtu.be/ntCnyEmOoRI

Helicopter in Yurakucho Plaza (120910g)
http://youtu.be/DGqBvfgzHOs

Trains Passing by Yurakucho Station (120910g)
http://youtu.be/xE_mhCL7J5w

Ginza Lunchtime Side Street (120910)
http://youtu.be/_0CFE5TS_nQ

Front Exterior of Okuno Building (120910)
http://youtu.be/kbdgvYbi0Oc

Ginza Shadows - Side Street View (120910)
http://youtu.be/4fxM1jq5KyU

Walking into Yurakucho from Ginza (120910)
http://youtu.be/XDBMsa7oo1k

Yurakucho to Hamamatsucho (Yamanote Line) 120910
http://youtu.be/9Tjd0zLmLYs

Hamamatsucho Station 浜松町駅 (and Restaurants Etc) 120910
http://youtu.be/7ofMiqXJ60Y

Beside Hamamatsucho Station 浜松町 (120910)
http://youtu.be/u5toyTb62kA

Hamamatsucho Station Walkabout 浜松町駅 (120910)
http://youtu.be/iaWLA8OxTgs

Trains, Etc. Near Hamamatsucho Station (120910)
http://youtu.be/r9Wif_dLfnM

Entering Hamamatsucho Station (120910)
http://youtu.be/ttPxbKVeXNI

Lyle (Hiroshi) Saxon
http://www5d.biglobe.ne.jp/~LLLtrs/
http://youtube.com/lylehsaxon
http://tokyoartmusic.blogspot.com/

"Shinjuku Station" (August 2012)

"Shinjuku Station" (August 2012)

Copyright 2012 by Lyle H Saxon

Lyle (Hiroshi) Saxon
http://www5d.biglobe.ne.jp/~LLLtrs/
http://youtube.com/lylehsaxon
http://tokyoartmusic.blogspot.com/

"1990 Ueno, Ginza Line, Etc; 1991 East-Shinagawa; 2012 Kamata, Akabane, Ueno, Etc."

This batch of clips begins with a couple of trips back to 1990; one showing a ride on the Ginza Line and the other a look at a few of some very popular (at the time) pachinko parlors.  Then there are a a few views from 1991, all taken in the East-Shinagawa area - one featuring a walk down an overgrown sidewalk that seemed to be almost completely unused; another a look at a shipping container-handling monster machine that I found very interesting at the time (and still think is fascinating, but only if you like machines I guess).  The third clip is a (nearly) hour-long video of my wanderings in East-Shinagawa on that August 24th, 1991 summer day (including the overgrown street and the shipping container footage).

From this year - 2012 - feeling a bit nostalgic about it as I walked around - I did what I used to do back in my 1990-93 video days: I went to places specifically to record the moving sights and sounds of the area as I walked around.  I spent most of the time in Kamata and in Akabane, but also spent some time in Ueno - in and around Ueno Station.  Both Kamata Station and Akabane Station have changed radically (been almost completely rebuilt basically) - the rail platforms haven't changed much, but now the upper part of Kamata (and the lower part of elevated Akabane) are basically shopping malls.

1990 Old Type Ginza Line Train 1990年昔の銀座線 (900723)
http://youtu.be/jl9oE6akz0A

In 1990, they had mostly replaced the old fully orange trains on the Ginza Line (maybe the 2000 Series?) with the newer aluminum type (with an orange stripe), but there were still a few of the old trains on the rails.  For some reason, in spite of their rarity, I didn't feel a particular need to document them as I went about Tokyo taking video.  Nonetheless, I did get some video footage of the old type - one example being this clip.

Pachinko Mania 1990 パチンコ フィーバー1990年 (900723)
http://youtu.be/jeMeYb_dsow

I had gotten the impression that the number of pachinko parlors in Japan had been decreasing since 1990, but according to a statistics site I checked on-line, they went on increasing until 2000 and have been decreasing since then.  Looking at a graph, it looks as though the total number is about the same now as when this video was taken.  However, I don't seem to see them as often - maybe the ones that remain are in more out-of-the-way places than before?

1991 Shipping Container Handling Machine in Shinagawa (910824)
http://youtu.be/71lDm4CjwxA

1991 East Shinagawa Jungle Walk 東品川ジャンゲル散歩 (910824)
http://youtu.be/Hl90SZlERqE

1991 East Shinagawa Walkabout 東品川散歩１９９１年 (910824)
http://youtu.be/BZQEqGGw0Xs

Kamata_BR-SB (A) 蒲田バーボンロード (120905)
http://youtu.be/65_YblzbiQU

Kamata_BR-SB (B) 蒲田バーボンロード (120905)
http://youtu.be/9xrnCTfjQUY

Kamata_BR-SB (C) 蒲田バーボンロード (120905)
http://youtu.be/GSdEKw1NWwc

Kamata Bourbon Road (A) 蒲田バーボンロード (120905)
http://youtu.be/5dEIIbiFYps

Kamata Bourbon Road (B) 蒲田バーボンロード (120905)
http://youtu.be/OyESjTVnWRY

Kamata Tokyu Trackside 120905
http://youtu.be/Loxu3YJy4s0

Kamata Rooftop Amusement Park (A) 120905 (For Children)
http://youtu.be/44AMalaQEnA

Kamata Rooftop Amusement Park (B) 120905 (For Children)
http://youtu.be/PZx6Mmw8YG4

Kamata (A) East Side Walkabout (120905)
http://youtu.be/ZvRLgkJQo98

Kamata (B) East Side Walkabout (120905)
http://youtu.be/cHzOt_V0y6Y

Kamata (C) East Side Walkabout (120905)
http://youtu.be/jOvfBOstl64

Kamata Station Platform 蒲田駅ホーム 120905
http://youtu.be/IiKS8Uk2j1k

Old Type Platform Seats (Kamata Station) 120905
http://youtu.be/POK1-aadKjk

As these get old and are replaced with a new type, this old type is getting rare at most of the stations I use in Tokyo.

Kamata Station 蒲田駅 120905
http://youtu.be/V_kdgtLHCCo

Kamata In-Station Shopping Mall (120905)
http://youtu.be/b5iOWxG8iAs

Old Photographs of Kamata Station Area (120905)
http://youtu.be/VbmoP5YnR5w

Exiting Kamata Station (120905)
http://youtu.be/M2CL53EvbSQ

Kamata West Side Plaza and Shotengai (120905)
http://youtu.be/g77qYFiNTjs

Kamata Back Streets (120905)
http://youtu.be/RJgO2GvHS_8

Ochanomizu to Tokyo (Chuo Line) 御茶ノ水東京中央線 (120905)
http://youtu.be/L4dickDF_LI

Escalator and Concourse (Tokyo Station) 120905
http://youtu.be/FVPKrNn5APk

Tokyo Station Platform (Daytime Yamanote) 120905
http://youtu.be/yWQdf1AkgHo

Tokyo to Tamachi (Daytime Keihin-Tohoku Line) 東京田町京浜東北線 (120905)
http://youtu.be/-ZJ5TwQrhkk

Tamachi to Kamata (Keihin-Tohoku Line) 田町蒲田京浜東北線 (120905)
http://youtu.be/gHOZ5oL8SgE

Akabane Station 赤羽駅 (120905)
http://youtu.be/EgKvMSOZooY

Akabane Walkabout - Mostly East Side (120905)
http://youtu.be/N1V2JT8riXg

Akabane - Large Empty Lot on East Side (120905)
http://youtu.be/FqvvalyTzMc

Akabane Quiet Back Streets (East Side) 120905
http://youtu.be/ubAOjpFUyxA

Kamata (D) East Side Walkabout (120905)
http://youtu.be/fxgU4aFeK-M

Akabane Ticket Gates to Train - Evening Inbound (120905)
http://youtu.be/pEOBugWLj6Q

Train Passes by in the Night 120905
http://youtu.be/iXFLzwPg23U

Between Ueno Park and Ueno Station at Night (120905)
http://youtu.be/YaSUpDsp-UE

Ueno Walkabout 120905
http://youtu.be/AZYDrYx5sUg

Ameyokocho Night Stroll 120905
http://youtu.be/3njVmc7mPAI

Approaching Ueno Station (120905)
http://youtu.be/SVVWO5BnwVM

Ueno Lower Level Ticket Gates (120905)
http://youtu.be/9QNL32nWQwU

Ueno Yamanote Line Platform (120905)
http://youtu.be/2Bb8HjDKKl4

Boarding Keihin-Tohoku Line at Ueno (120905)
http://youtu.be/tlD9NxptWqg

Ueno Platform Walk - New Train (120905)
http://youtu.be/i_jhihOHG2E

New Train Departs Ueno Station (120905)
http://youtu.be/3Wj9FDB8cIw

Ueno Station Platform Walk, Etc. (120905)
http://youtu.be/iz7GHGituY0

Ueno Station Retail Area (120905)
http://youtu.be/_dRKoAsF5qs

Ueno Train Watch (B) 120905
http://youtu.be/T8HcN6frX7A

Trains in the Night (Ueno) 120905
http://youtu.be/sgRiGlBU84o

Lonely Street at Night (120905)
http://youtu.be/d8EA5CnmwfY

Ueno Train Watch (A) 120905g
http://youtu.be/Spso3CafrFM

Akabane to Ueno - Evening New Train (120905g)
http://youtu.be/U0-a4cWwWPw

Kamata Station Plaza - East Side Evening (120905g)
http://youtu.be/g3U-3lSYcs0

Ueno Night Walkabout 120905g
http://youtu.be/7k2CamUHLOw

Lyle (Hiroshi) Saxon
http://www5d.biglobe.ne.jp/~LLLtrs/
http://youtube.com/lylehsaxon
http://tokyoartmusic.blogspot.com/

"Shinjuku Bound" (August 2012)

"Shinjuku Bound" (August 2012)

Copyright 2012 by Lyle H Saxon

Lyle (Hiroshi) Saxon
http://www5d.biglobe.ne.jp/~LLLtrs/
http://youtube.com/lylehsaxon
http://tokyoartmusic.blogspot.com/

"Shin-Okubo, Takadanobaba, Mejiro, Ikebukuro, Otsuka, Yurakucho, Shinjuku, Etc."

I've been venturing off my usual beaten paths and visiting a few places I haven't been to in awhile.  The biggest surprises have been how radically some train stations have been changed/rebuilt.  Someone recently told me that the JR railway company makes most of its money from renting out retail space - not from running its trains (which I didn't believe at first, but I do now!), so it stands to reason that former utilitarian train stations (with a shop or two in a few of them) have been converted into retail shopping malls that also have ("What's that noise?") trains running through them ("Oh yeah!  This is actually a train station!").

Shin-Okubo hasn't changed much - and it was reassuring in a way to see it the way I remember it from the early eighties.  The first shock was Otsuka.  I came down the stairs and thought I had gotten off at the wrong station!  Since then (at places not in this batch of video clips) I've had similar feelings of shock/disorientation at a few other stations.  But that's the charm/hazard of living in Tokyo.  If you stay away from any area for awhile that you used to know well, chances are that when you go back, it will have changed.  You get used to gradual change, but the shock comes when the change has come about by eradicating 100% of what was there before and building something entirely different in its place.  (If you don't live in Tokyo, you probably think that's an exaggeration - long-term Tokyo residents know better!)  You would think it couldn't be 100% changed and maybe it isn't actually (there must be *something* left from before?!), but I've been to areas and looked around and not discovered anything at all of what was there before.  With some redevelopment, they bulldoze over an area and build the entire area anew, so I think 100% is probably accurate.

Anyway - in addition to typical scenes of Shinjuku, Ginza, Kyobashi, Yurakucho, etc., there are views of Shin-Okubo, Takadanobaba, Mejiro, Ikebukuro, and Otsuka.

Shin-Okubo Main Street Stroll (120831g)
http://youtu.be/42Gtav-LId8

This area is home to the most well-know "Koreatown" (or "Little Korea") in Tokyo.  According to a Wikipedia page regarding Koreatowns in the world:

"Unlike other Japanese Koreatowns, the Korean-oriented commercial district around Shin-Okubo Station in Shinjuku Ward developed after World War II, and is dominated by "new-comers" - recent immigrants from South Korea who have retained their ethnic and cultural identity, as can be seen from the ubiquitous signs written in Hangul. Other immigrants from China, Taiwan, Southeast Asia, and various other nationalities makes this one of the most colorful and multicultural areas in Tokyo."

What I remember about Shin-Okubo is the multicultural (from various countries in Southeast Asia) aspect to it, but when I went there last week, it seemed like it was overwhelmingly Korean.  I didn't really think of it as "Koreatown" before, but after walking around on both sides of the main street there on August 31st, I do now!

Takadanobaba Sanpo (120831g)
http://youtu.be/HLmhIvE9JCU

Takadanobaba hasn't changed much - come to think of it.  Naturally, the tenants and (especially restaurants) in buildings have changed a bit, but there hasn't been much construction there and it feels pretty much as I remember it from the past few decades.

Ikebukuro Sanpo (D) Summer Late Afternoon Crowds (120831g)
http://youtu.be/OAt9d6FTcMo

Maybe I just didn't appreciate it because I passed though it nearly every day, but Ikebukuro seems like it's become a more popular place with the young crowd than I remember.  But... I suspect that memory is wrong.  When I was in my twenties and walking around with other people in their twenties, I didn't think about it - it was just... Ikebukuro.  Now that I'm three decades past my twenties, the crowds of young people really stand out to me?  I'm not sure.  In any case, my perception of Ikebukuro is that it's become a more hip place, but it was probably just as hip - for its time - in the early eighties as now?

Zebra CW (A) 120831g
http://youtu.be/Og58tvcC0Co

The zebra crosswalks have always seemed visually interesting to me (CW = Cross Walk).

Evening Ikebukuro East Side (120831g)
http://youtu.be/3ywm2XNTf7U

The east side of Ikebukuro Station has movie theaters (or had - I noticed a large empty lot where a couple of movie theaters were before), restaurants, shopping, the Sunshine City complex, etc.  The west side has Nakayama, clubs, and whatnot.  The east side is where you see all the students and couples.

Ikebukuro Station (Evening Entrance) 120831g
http://youtu.be/wZE7r_08OZY

Minami-Otsuka Sanpo (A) 120831g
http://youtu.be/IAtcSTNmLt4

Flute and Dance Practice for Festival (Minami-Otsuka 南大塚) 120831g
http://youtu.be/hn-1sTeAkdw

There was a large festival scheduled for the next day, so this group - in normal clothing - appeared to be practicing the day before.  The following day (September 1st) there were a lot of short, but heavy rainstorms.  Actually, that's a topic all its own - the rain would suddenly pour down really hard, then there would be no rain, it would pour down hard again, etc.  Naturally I've seen on-again and off-again rain before, but never such heavy rain on and off so suddenly and for such a prolonged period.  Every time it rained, I wondered if this group would get to perform on the festival day or not.  Hopefully they were able to do so between the many sudden downpours.

About the strange way it rained - in talking with various people about that later, everyone told me that they also thought it was very strange and that they didn't remember it ever raining quite like that before....

Tokyo Twilight (120831g)
http://youtu.be/echk4sIey-Y

Looking out over a part of mega-city Tokyo.  The city is so huge, there's no one defining image for the cityscape.  This is just one of an almost infinite variety of views/compositions.

Shinjuku to Shin-Okubo (Yamanote Line) 120831
http://youtu.be/K4_Z2KvyuB4

Shin-Okubo Sanpo (A) 120831
http://youtu.be/qPUBWlUKSYI

Shin-Okubo Sanpo (B) 120831
http://youtu.be/GyXQ_LwBSQY

Waiting at Intersection (Near Shin-Okubo) 120831
http://youtu.be/qrrc_Jf6N_A

Shin-Okubo Sanpo (C) 120831
http://youtu.be/u5LX2OnT1Co

Shin-Okubo Sanpo (D) 120831
http://youtu.be/YxLttwzlhdI

Entering Shin-Okubo Station (120831)
http://youtu.be/W2sk5nm4mS0

This is as it was before, although I don't remember quite so many people standing about in front of the station.  That's either just a timing issue (a large number of people just happened to be waiting to meet someone there) or it's become a popular place to meet.  Different places in Tokyo tend to end up as kind of official meeting spots: Hachiko in Shinjuku, Studio Alta in Shinjuku, etc.

Shin-Okubo to Takadanobaba (120831)
http://youtu.be/EYNRLexhTuo

Entering Takadanobaba Station (120831)
http://youtu.be/Dt2vqWQV4OM

Takadanobaba to Mejiro (Yamanote Line) 120831
http://youtu.be/BPLf7CGNDT0

Mejiro Station Interior (120831)
http://youtu.be/qw-AICtNmvA

Mejiro Station has also changed pretty radically, but it's never been a station I went to often, so I had before, and still have, neutral feelings about it.  Never having gotten used to it, it's not in the least disturbing that it has changed.

In walking around there for bit (on the west side of the station only), I was struck with how high-price the suburbs off of the main street appear to be (see following several clips - most of which are on the main street, but at least one shows a little of an expensive area).

Mejiro Sanpo (A) 120831
http://youtu.be/FlBBPdprZsI

Mejiro Sanpo (B) 120831
http://youtu.be/Z9jF-81935M

Mejiro Sanpo (C) 120831
http://youtu.be/UZEqgAGJmuk

Mejiro Suburb (120831)
http://youtu.be/WYlc0uKytxs

Mejiro Sanpo (D) 120831
http://youtu.be/F8abLNeAKRE

Mejiro Afternoon Platform Walk (120831)
http://youtu.be/UbV_cDPoS7k

Narita Express Train Passing Mejiro (120831)
http://youtu.be/ftDI9r8_tw8

Mejiro to Ikebukuro (Yamanote Line) 120831
http://youtu.be/nVrGrsFY11A

Afternoon Ikebukuro Station (120831)
http://youtu.be/_IQG0BM6gBw

Shinjuku Station now has the largest number of people passing through it every day, but apparently that distinction used to belong to Ikebukuro (probably before they extended the Akabane Line [renamed the Saikyo Line when they did] to Shinjuku, and then on to Ebisu), but Ikebukuro still has a very large number of people using it every day.

Ikebukuro West-Side Stroll (120831)
http://youtu.be/EbG2HiKu0kw

Not extensive at all, but this shows a little of the izakaya area on the west side of Ikebukuro.

Ikebukuro Pedestrian Tunnel (Afternoon) - 120831
http://youtu.be/ni0WxMX6usc

Ikebukuro Sanpo (A) 120831
http://youtu.be/b1-VNJIDzrw

Ikebukuro Sanpo (B) Long Shadow Side Streets (120831)
http://youtu.be/cUhdIUCnB3c

Ikebukuro Sanpo (C) Late Afternoon Crowds (120831)
http://youtu.be/5GoouylUXCg

Ikebukuro - Man Stocking a Toy Machine (120831)
http://youtu.be/22YGizXR9P4

Ikebukuro Sanpo (E) Verbal Advertising (120831)
http://youtu.be/-242oX_1tNA

Zebra CW (B) 120831
http://youtu.be/dwTwz0TaLd4

Ikebukuro Sanpo (F) Evening Side Streets (120831)
http://youtu.be/k9y-32er5H4

Ikebukuro Underground Shopping Mall (A) 120831
http://youtu.be/ljCduxBodms

Evening Ikebukuro Station (120831)
http://youtu.be/zPbfRWsZuJY

Ikebukuro Tunnel to East Side (Evening) 120831
http://youtu.be/EjmMd6Cp0Vs

Ikebukuro to Otsuka (Twilight Yamanote Line) 120831
http://youtu.be/DhVi0cVSFMg

Otsuka Station (Summer 2012 - Twilight) 120831
http://youtu.be/LA7LRl5Tzyw

Kita-Otsuka Sanpo (A) 120831
http://youtu.be/Yk1PLnL1rDQ

Kita-Otsuka Sanpo (B) Lonely Streets (120831)
http://youtu.be/D_hAabcYnt8

Kita-Otsuka Sanpo (C) Shops at Night (120831)
http://youtu.be/fcy5SYXtXqQ

Otsuka Platform Walk, Etc. (120831)
http://youtu.be/m9gknndJ4Tk

Yurakucho Platform (Nighttime-360) 120831
http://youtu.be/M21Utf-0_NA

Yurakucho-SB Sanpo (120831)
http://youtu.be/J7MjLUzrxKI

Yurakucho New Underground Stand-Bar (120831)
http://youtu.be/VFAZUmebgUg

"Stand bars" (also translated as "standing bars") seem to be coming back into favor big time.  The prolonged bad economy means people are cutting back on expenses, and one way to profitably run an izakaya with lower prices is to have everyone stand (more people fit into a small space and tend to linger less since they're standing the whole time).

Maybe "coming back into favor big time" is an overstatement, but I'm seeing more and more of them as the months roll past....

Yurakucho Outside Izakaya Stroll (120831)
http://youtu.be/spotECTrfkU

It's only when the weather is warm that there are so many tables out in the open like this.  Spring is the best time - when visiting one of these izakayas is a kind of celebration of the warming weather.

Yurakucho Night Sanpo (120831)
http://youtu.be/bWv_BYqCsSk

Entering Yurakucho Station (10:30 p.m.) 120831
http://youtu.be/6RamnZi52zw

Yurakucho Station - Waiting for a Train at Night (120831)
http://youtu.be/lgbUFyGZy84

Yurakucho to Tokyo (120831)
http://youtu.be/ZJt-hPfG7jI

Yurakucho Platform Walk (Before Night Rush) 120831g
http://youtu.be/ECLKOgBOCxw

Yurakucho Izakaya Stroll - Summer 2012 (120831g)
http://youtu.be/6qTKQweEH0A

Yurakucho-SB Bound (120831g)
http://youtu.be/6oDOjaueKrg

Night View (Otsuka to Ueno - Yamanote Line) 120831g 山手線 夜ビュー
http://youtu.be/w4Jh9F9g68Y

Night View (Ueno to Yurakucho - Yamanote Line) 120831g 山手線 夜ビュー
http://youtu.be/Rsrn1CkSvjg

Surface train travel in Tokyo is almost never boring - since you get constantly changing scenery, and and since Tokyo is constantly being rebuilt, you look out and kind of idly watch for new things you haven't seen before (either because you didn't notice them, or because they weren't there).

Departing Yurakucho Station (120829)
http://youtu.be/0Prg9jJvHQA

Seibu Line Train Arriving at Station (120829)
http://youtu.be/JsnI0lXPwzk

Summer Ginza Stroll (120829)
http://youtu.be/kRmtsZ-unPs

Clouds in Kyobashi 120904
http://youtu.be/aFUnJeRZTAY

Tokyo Station Escalator Under Construction (Chuo Line) 120904
http://youtu.be/84OmBUJbk-Q

Rolling by East Side of Shinjuku 120904
http://youtu.be/hW9KPHBkQoE

Ota Yumiko 太田喩美子 Exhibition Ginza Ono Gallery-2 小野画廊-2 (A) 120904
http://youtu.be/-C5dfoyQy5Y

Ota Yumiko 太田喩美子 Exhibition Ginza Ono Gallery-2 小野画廊-2 (B) 120904
http://youtu.be/PCzRUQpoUE4

Ota Yumiko 太田喩美子 Exhibition Ginza Ono Gallery-2 小野画廊-2 (C) 120904
http://youtu.be/Csn0BrQjuxk

Project-306 Installation Sept 2012 - 306号室プロジェクト 九月 (120904)
http://youtu.be/nubukXDDOto

Kyobashi to Tokyo Station Night Walk (120904)
http://youtu.be/b5QF_yUIoy0

Speaking of "stand bars", there's one in this clip towards the beginning.  I walk past it, and then look back (vertically) into the open door.  I think this a new one, but I'm not sure.  After passing a couple of asphalt deserts (for the internal combustion machines), I walk into Tokyo Station....

Kanda to Ochanomizu - Outgoing Chuo Line (120904)
http://youtu.be/k_gOFJBkG2I

Evening Shinjuku Station 120904
http://youtu.be/r5ea22DXP88

Shinjuku Southeast Exit 新宿駅東南口 (120904)
http://youtu.be/S55aHpLmhzQ

Shinjuku South Side Night Walk (A) 120904
http://youtu.be/VA4OT5RuW5c

Shinjuku South Side Night Walk (B) 120904
http://youtu.be/e4j_q_oKj3Y

Watching Night Trains on South Side (120904)
http://youtu.be/UYYdmBARK4Y

A good place to contemplate things and feel... a wide range of feelings.

Lyle (Hiroshi) Saxon
http://www5d.biglobe.ne.jp/~LLLtrs/
http://youtube.com/lylehsaxon
http://tokyoartmusic.blogspot.com/

"Waiting for a Train (August 2012)"

"Waiting for a Train (August 2012)"

Copyright 2012 by Lyle H Saxon

Lyle (Hiroshi) Saxon
http://www5d.biglobe.ne.jp/~LLLtrs/
http://youtube.com/lylehsaxon
http://tokyoartmusic.blogspot.com/

"1990 Takadanobaba, Waseda, etc; 1991 Mini-Steam Train, etc; 2012 Yoyogi, Harajuku, etc."

Several trips back to 1990 (Ichigaya, Waseda, Ikebukuro, Takadanobaba, Hibarigaoka Bonodori, etc.) a few back to 1991 (drives to places in the country, a ride on a mini-steam locomotive, etc.), and views from this month - August 2012.  I've written at some length under some of the videos regarding a few things, so scroll down for more text.  Mostly the titles sum up the theme of each video though.

Shibuya Shadows (120828g)
http://youtu.be/ed5G-GmRk-o

People casting long shadows as they come and go from Shibuya Station.

Harajuku to Shibuya (Yamanote Line) 120828g
http://youtu.be/IEShkUkXVxI

Exiting Ebisu Station 120824
http://youtu.be/10hysso_YgA

Shinjuku Platform Scene (Friday Night) 120825
http://youtu.be/tX_My2sEdV4

In this video, just as the Yamanote Line is about to depart from Shinjuku Station, the emergency buzzer goes off.  I don't know what the cause was - someone may have dropped a bag onto the tracks, or maybe it was a prank.  After three people died on Friday, January 26th, 2001 [article] at Shin-Okubo Station, JR installed emergency stop buttons at all the stations (I think *all* - it certainly seems that way) so anyone can stop the trains from the platform now.  For emergencies, this is great, but the problem is that people often press the platform emergency stop buttons for frivolous reasons.  I don't know exactly what happened on this evening, but they got the trains moving quickly enough that I suspect there wasn't an actual emergency.

Platform walls (with a pair of electric doors for each place there's a door on the train) are another thing they're installing for safety reasons, but while making the platforms safer is of course a great thing, I also see that they're not repainting bridges.  If they let the bridges rot to the point where they have to shut down train lines because they spent maintenance money on the very expensive doors, you have to wonder if people are looking properly at the total picture.  If it's doable, it should be done, but if they're sabotaging the long-term viability of the rail system through unbalanced spending....

I don't know.  But think of the energy cost for one thing.  On the trains, the doors are opened and closed pneumatically, so you don't need electricity beyond the power used for the air compressors.  Now imagine the situation for one ten-car train.  (Many trains are 15 cars, but let's use 10 for the sake of simplicity.)  Each train car has four doors per side, so that's 40 doors x2 (while there are a few trains that use a single large door, the vast majority use two halves that slide together and close in the middle).  So you have 80 doors per side.  For platform walls with matching doors, this is matched by 80 electric motor powered doors per track (generally on both sides of a platform).  For a simple station, with one train line stopping on both sides of the platform, you then need 160 electric motor powered doors.  Many stations have multiple platforms, so for a four-platform station (eight tracks), you would need 640 electric motor powered doors.  One article I read indicated that there is a push to install platform walls at approximately 2,800 stations.  Again, many have more than one platform, but even if there were only one platform (with two tracks) per station, that would be 448,000 electric motor powered doors.

Aside from the huge power requirements for that many motors, there's the cost of installing them and maintaining them.  There are some branch lines that are barely holding on already, since rural Japan has become very much a car culture.  Being forced to shoulder this much expense would probably lead to several lines just being shut down.  I like safety, but I also like rail transport.  If you shut down much of the rail system in the quest for "zero railway deaths" (of course shutting down a railway is one way to eliminate any deaths that could happen in a rare accident!), and people then take to the road because there are no trains in their area, there will be many more deaths due to traffic accidents.  So here's a question - is exchanging a rare railway death now and then for scores of people killed in the carnage that is the internal combustion engine free-for-all of the open road really a good idea?  Kill 2,000 people to save 15?  Why don't people look at the whole picture?

Shinjuku Yamanote Line Arrival 120825
http://youtu.be/1jXRhxZNueg

Yurakucho Plaza Escalator 120824
http://youtu.be/vZ9XRXmMgNI

Yurakucho to Shinbashi (Yamanote Line) 120824
http://youtu.be/g2znTkUN2Wk

Evening Shinagawa to Ebisu (Yamanote Line) 120824
http://youtu.be/EqZ8BG5Y72E

Yurakucho Afternoon Shadows 120824
http://youtu.be/reszjnZWRo0

Yurakucho Evening Trains 120824
http://youtu.be/BNQqn0YFR2o

Twilight Shinbashi to Shinagawa (Yamanote Line) 120824g
http://youtu.be/jIrK6XoF4cY

1990 Ichigaya to Waseda Walk (900824) 市ヶ谷から早稲田まで散歩
http://youtu.be/KHepCbfii7w

This is a fairly long walk I took across one of those parts of central Tokyo that you usually don't think about and seldom see.  Starting with two points on a map and simply aiming towards one from the other, I found myself in a residential neighborhood that you might expect to be on the edge of the city somewhere, but it's right in central Tokyo, within the Yamanote loop line.  I took this back in 1990, back when I was wandering around discovering the different areas of Tokyo, but I don't think I would go there now.  There's nothing amazing about the content, but it is a view of a part of central Tokyo you may well not have imagined.

1990 Ikebukuro Station (900824) 池袋駅
http://youtu.be/zcrCDZlNFYs

1990 Nighttime Hibarigaoka Station (900824) 夜のひばりヶ丘駅
http://youtu.be/twxrqTmkSCc

1990 Takadanobaba JR Station (900824) 高田馬場JR駅
http://youtu.be/pzlkEK-gikM

1990 Takadanobaba Tozai (900824) 高田馬場駅東西線
http://youtu.be/dIxe6bcwO0w

1990 Tozai Evening Rush (Waseda to Takadanobaba) 900824 東西線夕方ラッシュ
http://youtu.be/OqNLuw6tmZY

It's hard to pin down exactly what has changed, but when I watch this clip, I remember the feeling of the trains back then and the urgency of the daily commute.  Superficially, nothing much (except hair styles and clothes) has changed, and yet the old intensity seems dulled now.  The stress of commuting during peak hours is just the same, but there seems to be a less intense focus on getting to somewhere in the fastest possible time, and so it ends up feeling a little different.  Another component of this is that the train that roars into the station in this clip is manually controlled, whereas nearly all trains are at least partially computer controlled now.  With the manually controlled trains, you get a feeling of human beings at work, with a very real connection between the operator and the machine, but with the computer controlled trains, it feels something like an elevator.  Someone pushes a button, but other than that, the machine runs itself.

1990 Hibarigaoka Bonodori (900824) ひばりが丘盆踊り
http://youtu.be/_DlNTtEqxqw

View from Mt Takao (120827)
http://youtu.be/9baVT-MWNjA

Mt Takao Cable Car (Ascending) 120827
http://youtu.be/MOM5gDfnqY4

Mt Takao - View From Top (120728)
http://youtu.be/k2pHL8OWQhE

In the beginning of this clip I'm just looking at the foreground, but towards the middle I focus on the sky and background - which is much more interesting than the first part of the clip.

Dancing to Live Music in Nakano (120828)
http://youtu.be/yI1g5bj4-tg

Musical Fun in Nakano (120828g)
http://youtu.be/EY3eFjnDDq8

Small Park in Ebisu 120828
http://youtu.be/XHRlA-5A4S0

I began this clip in a small park in Ebisu by looking through a fence at the street the park is next to - and then panning to the right to take in a view of the park itself.

Shibuya Nighttime Stroll (A) 120828
http://youtu.be/tC1QcGKlOnI

Shibuya Nighttime Stroll (B) Streets to Station 120828
http://youtu.be/OhW3KwYfnFI

Shinjuku to Nakano (Night Window View) 120828
http://youtu.be/vKLHzAb0mCE

Waiting for a Train in Nakano 120828
http://youtu.be/GWskOIQZ4I8

Chuo Line Midnight Interior 120829
http://youtu.be/JSAlJMwxh74

Kokubunji Platform Look-around 120828
http://youtu.be/WKosHVNAY3g

Chuo Line Departing Shinjuku 120828
http://youtu.be/3MNKAhjDuno

Shinjuku Platform-5 Look-around (120828)
http://youtu.be/7NWc0FrXp-U

Temporary Passageways in Shinjuku Station 120828
http://youtu.be/Y4n5Gb5cpMs

This area near the Southern Terrace has been under construction for years now.  Eventually it will look radically different from the temporary white walled temporary corridors that are there now.

Entering Shinjuku Station via Southern Terrace Entrance 120828
http://youtu.be/q1AkjBYvRkY

Walk to Platform (Shinjuku Yamanote Line) 120828
http://youtu.be/vN36OSDE7mQ

Shinjuku Platform Walk (Yamanote Line) 120828
http://youtu.be/7DyVdMfpSOQ

Shinjuku to Yoyogi (Yamanote Line) 120828
http://youtu.be/B5ljT8Gpcwo

Shibuya to Ebisu (Ebisu Platform Walk) 120828
http://youtu.be/XCA10wnkXQI

Shibuya Vertical Shadows 120828
http://youtu.be/JbEEXfoqGHs

A time of year and a time of day when people were casting very long shadows as they walked to and from Shibuya Station in the evening one hot summer day.

Shibuya Stroll (C) Crossing and Station 120828
http://youtu.be/Vj2Vc6Mw6p8

Shibuya Stroll (B) 120828
http://youtu.be/KFknBri_ynw

Shibuya Stroll (A) Crossing Etc 120828
http://youtu.be/uwU7BDHBrmk

Platform to Ticket Gates (Shibuya) 120828
http://youtu.be/JlxOvtC9hPg

Entering Takeshita-Dori (Harajuku) 120828
http://youtu.be/1URwZN_dAeo

Takeshita-Dori Stroll (Harajuku) 120828
http://youtu.be/XunIV5wrvS0

It's been a while since I've walked down Takeshita-dori in Harajuku.  It seemed about the same as I remember, although back when I first went down the street in the eighties, it wasn't a specific tourist destination.  Now the street has always got a lot of tourists there to see the street itself rather than to go to its shops.  Over the years, I've noticed more and more of this.  The Ameyokocho area in Ueno at New Years is pretty close to full-out insane!  A couple of years back (or was it three?) I went there and it seemed like easily 90% of the people there were there just to experience the event of being on the crowded street.

I suppose YouTube and the Internet have a lot to do with this kind of progression.  In the old days, you would get information about tourist things to check out in a city by reading guide books, magazines, and whatnot, or having a friend show you around.  A friend would know some non-touristy things/places to show you and a back streets place could maintain its status as an area for locals, visited only rarely by foreign tourists.  Now everyone is falling over themselves to find (and publish stories about) interesting places "off the beaten track" and - lo-and-behold - once they post text, photos, and videos on-line, the places become the beaten track in a remarkably short time.

Of course, Takeshita-dori was never an unknown off-the-beaten-track place, but it didn't used to be a "must see!" tourist destination.  As for changes, I saw a fairly large section that's been torn down and appears to be in the foundation stages of some new construction.  Probably another steel and glass box with a sealed air system.  (I wonder how long it will be before people rediscover how to properly ventilate buildings?)

Harajuku Stroll 120828
http://youtu.be/lVLBfsJGLAU

Harajuku Summer Light and Shadows 120828
http://youtu.be/4BR_ou1IgmE

Noisy Crow in Harajuku 120828
http://youtu.be/OeIBgfka8rw

That Tokyo crows are noisy is just a given, but what was strange about this one, is how it was down low at people-level, with people all around.  I cautiously walked up to it and recorded this video.  It seemed to be about as nervous of me as I was of it, and after continuing to to make its racket for me and my camera while eying me suspiciously from time-to-time, it flew off a few feet - I followed - and it flew off a few more feet, at which point I decided to leave it alone.  I'm still pondering what it was doing down so low like that.  Hoping someone would give it food?  At least one young woman was frightened by it and ran off.

Crows are famous for being clever birds, and they have tended to appear clever to me from a distance, so I was mildly surprised to notice how the bird looked primitive and not very cleaver when observed at close range.  Maybe it was just a stupid (or crazy?) crow, and others look different?  Still, the "primitive beast" appearance of it was grotesquely fascinating to observe at close range.

Harajuku August Sidewalk Near Station 120828
http://youtu.be/Uln1WxMeXz8

[From] Harajuku Ticket Gates to Platform 120828
http://youtu.be/o9RNTSSj66Q

Ebisu Mall Stroll and Escalator 120828
http://youtu.be/c48lWeSJJLw

1991: Driving Through Medium-Sized Town (910818)
http://youtu.be/ygJAgpCuGwA

1991 Mini-Steam Train Ride ミニSLを乗る1991年 - (910818)
http://youtu.be/b9_2K0MEVFc

This miniature steam powered train was surprisingly fun to ride!  I'm not sure what the exact reason for it is, but there's something fun and fascinating about steam engines - maybe it's the basic simplicity of the technology.  You can imagine the whole process pretty well, unlike with a computer-controlled electrically powered machine.  Or maybe there's something about the basic elements of water, fire, and steam.  In any case, it was a lot of fun and the steam whistle sure sounded good!

1991 Mountain Lakeside Rest Area (910812)
http://youtu.be/b26mtWSPYjU

1991 Mountain Town [Narai 奈良井] (910812)  [Part Two]
http://youtu.be/qvcuM6y3K0g

This is actually a continuation (on a different tape) of a video I posted in June of a festival I stumbled upon while driving around in the countryside in 1991 in a 1991 Honda Beat.  Here is the first part of the video (with the same explanatory text I posted before):

1991 Kisokaido Narai-juku Natsu-Matsuri (910812)  [Part One]
http://youtu.be/uA_1hhm9gpw

A look at Narai 奈良井 (or Naraijuku 奈良井宿) on August 12th, 1991.  Narai is a traditional town on the old Kisokaido 木曽街道 (or Nakasendo 中山道) road.  This is the 34th (or 35th, there seems to be some dispute about this) stage of the 69 Stages of the Nakasendo series of woodblock prints (中山道六十九次).

1991 Train Ride in Saitama Countryside (910818)
http://youtu.be/NSheUQIbBpA

Yoyogi Station Walkabout (JR) 120828
http://youtu.be/U8f7M-671fw

Yoyogi Station Walk-through (JR) 120828
http://youtu.be/RMqixDApHh8

Yoyogi Afternoon Stroll 120828
http://youtu.be/d4Asz5JqZxQ

Yoyogi Railway Bridge and RR Crossing 120828
http://youtu.be/JKmDTkVxReE

Yoyogi to Harajuku 120828
http://youtu.be/sO2hSRukXZU

Lyle (Hiroshi) Saxon
http://www5d.biglobe.ne.jp/~LLLtrs/
http://youtube.com/lylehsaxon
http://tokyoartmusic.blogspot.com/

"Ginza 1-Chome (August 2012)"

Ginza 1-Chome (August 2012)

Copyright 2012 by Lyle H Saxon

A rare open lot in Ginza - soon to be filled with high-rise.

Lyle (Hiroshi) Saxon
http://www5d.biglobe.ne.jp/~LLLtrs/
http://youtube.com/lylehsaxon
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"1990 Koenji Matsuri, Hibarigaoka, Tanashi, Etc.; 2012 Nakano, Keio Line, Etc."

Another batch mixing current Tokyo views with trips back to 1990.  Going back to 1990, there are walkabout views of Hibarigaoka (north side of Hibarigaoka Station) and Tanashi, a 30-minute visit to the natsu-matsuri in Koenji and a few other things.

In 2012, I visit Nakano and walk around on back streets and through the Broadway building with its many small shops (books, movie memorabilia, etc.).  There is also a walk-around view of a whole section of former drinking places that have mostly been torn down to (most probably) make way for yet another high-rise.  The old wooden back-street areas of Tokyo disappear year-by-year - in the future, one hopes at least a few rustic areas will be preserved.  The contrasts of Tokyo are a large part of its attraction.  When everything is new, you lose that element.

There are also views of art exhibitions and train views from various lines - including some long clips from the Keio and Chuo Lines.

Evening Trains in Nakano (120821)
http://youtu.be/cvzdyFr7lyw

1990 Koenji Natsu Matsuri (900827) 高円寺阿波おどり夏祭り
http://youtu.be/ZiBZ0LbeRqU

1990 Tamachi と Nihonbashi (900827)
http://youtu.be/6rMLLQgEZTI

Nakano Demolition (Old Wooden Buildings R.I.P.) (120821)
http://youtu.be/LYmFvb7s8NM

Shinjuku to Kanda (Afternoon Chuo Line) 120820
http://youtu.be/AgHXxiTHjoM

Tachikawa to Hachioji (Chuo Line) 120820
http://youtu.be/tLFoVEwFddU

Hachioji to Takao (Chuo Line) 120820
http://youtu.be/87eU5R0B0lk

Kokubunji Sanpo 120819
http://youtu.be/guYLPlQWbP8

1990 Shibuya to Ikebukuro (Yamanote Line) 900820
http://youtu.be/9cnU_DwmY-0

1990 Ikebukuro (Yamanote to Seibu Transfer) 900820
http://youtu.be/F-IzJs-fY_I

Kokubunji to Tachikawa (Chuo Line) 120820
http://youtu.be/u0opn8iC-y8

Mitaka to Kokubunji (Chuo Line Window View) 120819
http://youtu.be/224JMYBco78

Group Exhibition at Ai Gallery 藍ギャラリー (August 2012) 120820
http://youtu.be/mfDSELcMFiI

Nakano Hotel World Kaikan Building (Stairs and Hallways) 120821
http://youtu.be/CqgICaB6OwU

Nakano Hotel World Kaikan Building (Exterior) 120821
http://youtu.be/o8z9FMe9vOY

Heading for Train at Ogikubo Station 120819
http://youtu.be/p22z5hUe8Gs

Summer Park Sounds 120819
http://youtu.be/SpSBQDZC-DA

Nakano Broadway Walkabout (A) 120821
http://youtu.be/BbT9D39-F10

Nakano Broadway Walkabout (B) 120821
http://youtu.be/61DzCtpYhTQ

Nakano Broadway Walkabout (C) 120821
http://youtu.be/TEr5AG_K7Jg

Nakano Back Streets (A) August 2012 (120821)
http://youtu.be/2NQKB7xYL5Q

Nakano Back Streets (B) August 2012 (120821)
http://youtu.be/SY10k9i8kXA

Nakano Back Streets (C) August 2012 (120821)
http://youtu.be/QJeMtWU7atU

Nakano Back Streets (D) August 2012 (120821)
http://youtu.be/9CfxKvoReTk

Nakano Back Streets (E) August 2012 (120821)
http://youtu.be/tRF0Wd-U2aY

Nakano Back Streets (F) August 2012 (120821)
http://youtu.be/-CkhOT-OIBI

Keio Line Train Arriving at Station 120820
http://youtu.be/ZwZx9EWpOQI

Kanda to Yurakucho (Yamanote Line) 120820
http://youtu.be/Pct2mZkB7hc

Ogikubo to Nakano (Chuo Line) 120821
http://youtu.be/3EonkhQazEI

Kanda (Chuo to Yamanote) 120820
http://youtu.be/wLVbmi5VwyE

Kanda - Chuo Line Arriving (Construction) 120820
http://youtu.be/stm8XBgH5H8

Nighttime Yurakucho Station Bound (Summer 2012) 120820
http://youtu.be/VKpZ3GE8CTA

Old Type Express Train Arriving at Shinjuku 120820
http://youtu.be/xzLdVjpTXj8

Yaesu-Guchi Construction Cranes (Tokyo Station) 120820
http://youtu.be/ilPqaCPxXG8

Yurakucho Station (Hot August Day) 120820
http://youtu.be/gAFFB4bNCQY

Entering Nakano Broadway 120821
http://youtu.be/mVkuYQUPc-M

Nakano Game Center 120821
http://youtu.be/O-YW6ETpceI

Nakano Narrow Walkways (Edge of Izakaya Area) 120821
http://youtu.be/xnk-qpZi-eU

Nakano Station (Platform to Exit and New Pedestrian Bridge) 120821
http://youtu.be/-Bec-AscDZg

Nakano Sun Mall Stroll 中野サンモール (A) 120821
http://youtu.be/7q8NWg-WtJM

Nakano Sun Mall Stroll 中野サンモール (B) 120821
http://youtu.be/GASg-CsGYcA

1990 Hanzomon Line to Shibuya (900820)
http://youtu.be/ZafN87xdS7c

1990 Hachiko Square and Beer Garden (Shibuya) 900820
http://youtu.be/OAFdPwueE3Y

Nakano Evening (Station North Side) 120821
http://youtu.be/RwMsmv5iSrM

Evening Nakano Back Street 120821
http://youtu.be/a7ENQem5WOM

Evening Nakano Station 120821
http://youtu.be/clW6SjisnGw

Boarding Keio Line at Takao Station 120820
http://youtu.be/wr1U-hhfAFQ

Exiting Keio Line in Shinjuku 120820
http://youtu.be/ZnuuzL5W4rk

Inbound Keio Line Front Cab View (A) 120820
http://youtu.be/P3lLszQ4bxE

Inbound Keio Line Front Cab View (B) 120820
http://youtu.be/23DsC6IDCNA

JR Takao View From Keio Line Train 120820
http://youtu.be/px4DjfTgmag

1990 Bus (Hibarigaoka to Tanashi) 900821
http://youtu.be/rBUs8pPWGhg

1990 Hibarigaoka (Kita-Guchi Side) 900821
http://youtu.be/hE3Ol9SXHN8

1990 Nishi-Shinjuku Night Sanpo (900821)
http://youtu.be/R3h1H-UJw8Y

Inaba Hirono 稲葉寛乃展 Installation at Gallery-58 (August 2012) 120820
http://youtu.be/mSC7sj6Urb8

Eric Pelletier Exhibition at Art Space Rondo (August 2012) (A) 120820
http://youtu.be/Ra6ni_9D3MM

Eric Pelletier Exhibition at Art Space Rondo (August 2012) (B) 120820
http://youtu.be/HP6nARg03q4

1990 Shinjuku Afternoon Sanpo (900821)
http://youtu.be/Yh-Bn3bOfJ4

1990 Tanashi Station (900821)
http://youtu.be/d-x3RC1_XL0

1990 Tanashi to Shinjuku (900821)
http://youtu.be/Vq8cibKQcfc

1990 Tanashi-shi Summer Walkabout (900821)
http://youtu.be/PfQ6Zb1RGwQ

1990: Here と There (Day と Night) 900823
http://youtu.be/7dXVcUgfDsI

1990 Late Night Stores (900827)
http://youtu.be/oCFyZyqrkYM

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"New Kabukiza Construction - August 2012"

"New Kabukiza Construction - August 2012"

Copyright 2012 by Lyle H Saxon

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"1990 Tabata, Shinjuku, Etc; 2012 Yamanote Line, Ginza, Etc."

This batch jumps back and forth between 1990 and 2012 (with one video from 1993, which references a video from 1991).  The opening scene is of a 1990 rooftop beer garden in Shinjuku, then a 1990 udon shop in a train station, followed by a 1993 look at an archaeological dig where the Shiodome office towers now stand.  There are also art exhibition views, a couple of long Yamanote Line rides, and glimpses of other train lines in Tokyo.

I'll comment after some of the video titles and links below.

1990 Shinjuku Rooftop Beer Garden - (900816)
http://youtu.be/wYe0RtMzKOo

There are still rooftop beer gardens in Tokyo, but not nearly as many as there used to be.  Regarding a difference between then and now (to a degree anyway), as a viewer commented, just about all the men are wearing white shirts.  It was in the bubble years (of which this is the tail end, when things were just beginning to slide), that some people began to wear colored shirts, but even now, probably there are more people wearing white shirts here than in many countries.

1990 Udon と Soba Ticket Machine (900806)
http://youtu.be/pGxpsfQOt74

1993 Shiodome Archaeological Dig - (930624)
http://youtu.be/HS-lX8-PyS4

Before the many office towers went up in Shiodome, this was undeveloped land.  It used to be a rail freight yard, after which the rails were ripped out and it was used for model homes, a circus, a small amusement park, etc.  I visited it during this time period in 1991:

Shiodome Before the Highrises Were Built - March 9th, 1991
http://youtu.be/7jAZrHdm1F0

But going back to the 1993 view - this is what it looked like just prior to beginning construction of the office towers, when they were carefully digging out old ruins.  Presumably they carted the rocks and whatnot off and reconstructed them somewhere else, but I don't know where.

1990 Tamachi to Shinjuku - (900802)
http://youtu.be/PATR9vwPMR4

1990 Shinjuku Night, Etc. - (900802)
http://youtu.be/6rUzpFwYYDk

A bit on the long side maybe, but it captures some of the 1990 atmosphere of Shinjuku, which is a little different from 2012.

Inside Bookstore (120814)
http://youtu.be/Acy9iG1hIMk

Shinjuku - Entering Book Store Building (120814)
http://youtu.be/2hB993vKzVI

Group Exhibition at GGICM (A) 120814
http://youtu.be/yjZnOO3rD58

Group Exhibition at GGICM (B) 120814
http://youtu.be/56sARASV7WE

The above two clips show an August 2012 group exhibition at Gallery Ginza 1-Chome.

Empty Space by Hibiya Park (New Construction Soon) 120814
http://youtu.be/rp46AtgqC80

Looking over where the Sanshin Building used to be - and where they are (apparently) planning to build a gargantuan office tower.

Sasaki Hisae 佐々木久枝 Calligraphy と Ikebana Exhibit (A) 120814
http://youtu.be/ir67uLhRj8k

Sasaki Hisae 佐々木久枝 Calligraphy と Ikebana Exhibit (B) 120814
http://youtu.be/ffNphwy7fzQ

Sasaki Hisae 佐々木久枝 Calligraphy と Ikebana Exhibit (C) 120814
http://youtu.be/5fWZY0iurjE

Takadanobaba - Seibu to Tozai - (120814)
http://youtu.be/Jy-mw0EUe1k

Southern Terrace Trees (120814)
http://youtu.be/ATAEfQmpaHU

Shinjuku Station - South Exit Area (120814)
http://youtu.be/1w4FscWfA68

Yurakucho to Shinagawa - Evening Yamanote Line (120814)
http://youtu.be/9LrfdkXYObk

Just looking out the window of the Yamanote Line - but even after all these years, I never find the ride boring.  There is so much activity and things to see while making the trip.

Otemachi to Kyobashi (Tozai and Ginza Lines) - (120814)
http://youtu.be/eqPU8YPLn2M

1990 Nighttime Tabata Area, Etc. - (900806)
http://youtu.be/F9IDPdUKA1g

Shinagawa to Shinjuku - Evening Yamanote Line (120814)
http://youtu.be/YRMVhQpyigk

Another fairly long Yamanote Line ride.

Yurakucho Station - Hibiya Exit (120814)
http://youtu.be/7N5ZpyVzifA

Ginza 4-Chome and Harumi Dori 銀座四丁目と晴海通り (120814)
http://youtu.be/bguIBq6o5Rk

Harumi-Dori Stroll - (120814)
http://youtu.be/MuPcbW6QF18

Streetside Aquarium (A) - Ginza Sony Building (120814)
http://youtu.be/7k5URlSd_Tk

Streetside Aquarium (B) - Ginza Sony Building (120814)
http://youtu.be/GJW-ELZUwJQ

The concept is certainly interesting - live tropical fish near a busy Ginza intersection - but when I tried taking some photos and videos, they didn't turn out very well.

Yurakucho Evening Stroll 120814
http://youtu.be/EuG36MS3Ii8

Yurakucho Station Entrance and Platform 120814
http://youtu.be/L5vO5oXHwGc

Shinjuku Evening Street - South to East (120814)
http://youtu.be/VPBMvkyyb-s

1990 Tamachi Lunchtime People (900806)
http://youtu.be/y_nNQso8NGg

Fashions and hairstyles have changed a bit in the last 22 years....

Shinjuku East Side Stroll (Evening) 120814
http://youtu.be/t3640EnVf7g

1990 Tabata Station at Night - (900806)
http://youtu.be/9Bm3i2M7HZk

Evening Street by Shinjuku Station South Exit (120814)
http://youtu.be/A_HgPbF4uQA

Shinjuku Platform Walk - Yamanote Line (120814)
http://youtu.be/gLC0s18d1M8

Evening Southern Terrace to Bridge - (120814g)
http://youtu.be/UGlcDMDid_4

I didn't have high expectations when I began recording this clip, but it turned out to have some decent scenes.  I like the twilight views from the middle of the pedestrian bridge.

Insect and Car Noises 120817
http://youtu.be/-JQhHM39Yd4

Waving Construction Sign 120816
http://youtu.be/FX8TqSLjaBE

Seto Tadashi 瀬戸但し Installation at Gallery Camellia ギャラリーカメリア (A) 120816
http://youtu.be/zwMNSMjX4hk

Seto Tadashi 瀬戸但し Installation at Gallery Camellia ギャラリーカメリア (B) 120816
http://youtu.be/pfYD-VMboxY

Billboard (and Music) Advertising Truck in Ginza (120816)
http://youtu.be/vZ1FRItptBA

Ginza Evening Side Streets 120816
http://youtu.be/zuFUekZaMYk

Nihonbashi Old Restaurant 120816
http://youtu.be/Q7EgKtouDfo

The everything-old-must-be-destroyed Godzilla monster is busy tearing down old buildings in Kyobashi and Nihonbashi, but a few old buildings are still left.  This two-story old wooden building is the type of structure the city used to be full of.

Yurakucho Evening Plaza 120816
http://youtu.be/mr0zAhyTvHY

Yurakucho Zebra Crosswalks 120816
http://youtu.be/pH38OH3BnuE

1990 Old Wooden Apartment Bldg in Tabata (900807)
http://youtu.be/LesqD74-OKM

This type of old wooden building probably really isn't very safe from a fire (and probably earthquake) perspective, but wooden buildings like this have so much more character than concrete ones!

1990 Tabata Hot Afternoon Walkabout 田畑 (900807)
http://youtu.be/UI2DFAnTD5E

1990 Nihonbashi Evening - (900820)
http://youtu.be/0TKWOD_iG0g

1990 Shinjuku Department Store Restaurants - (900816)
http://youtu.be/5nHf3qBLNao

1990 Shinjuku Elevator Operator - (900816)
http://youtu.be/DEf_dknM9Bs

1990 Shinjuku Indoor Scenes, Etc. - (900816)
http://youtu.be/xgnx-xZqjcc

1990 Shinjuku Station Area Stores - (900816)
http://youtu.be/vFU1_rHaR0Q

1990 Tamachi Lunchtime, Etc. - (900820)
http://youtu.be/1VQvBjUSWwc

1990 Tamachi to Tokyo - Keihin-Tohoku Line - (900820)
http://youtu.be/Pqva9V32dSM

A quick warning about the next two video clips - I've not had very good luck with playing them, so be forewarned.  Hopefully they'll play for you if you try the links.  The original files are fine - it's just the uploaded versions I'm having trouble getting to play - I think it's just congested network conditions or something, but thought I should mention it nevertheless (if it's happened repeatedly to me, presumably it could happen to someone else as well).

Takadanobaba Walkabout (A) 120816
https://vimeo.com/47712802

Takadanobaba Walkabout (B) 120816
http://vimeo.com/47712803

Lyle (Hiroshi) Saxon
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"Summer Festival" と "Fireworks Over Water" - (August 2012)

"Fireworks Over Water"

Copyright 2012 by Lyle H Saxon

"Summer Festival" - (August 2012)

Copyright 2012 by Lyle H Saxon

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"Trying to Conceptualize Time..."

I'm still reading (bit by bit, as I have time) "A Naturalist's Voyage Round the World" by Charles Darwin, M.A., F.R.S. (relating his 1831-36 voyage around the world on the Beagle).  The following paragraph brings to mind a scale not usually contemplated.  And to think how quickly bipeds are damaging the planet....

"It required little geological practice to interpret the marvellous story which this scene at once unfolded; though I confess I was at first so much astonished that I could scarcely believe the plainest evidence. I saw the spot where a cluster of fine trees once waved their branches on the shores of the Atlantic, when that ocean (now driven back 700 miles) came to the foot of the Andes. I saw that they had sprung from a volcanic soil which had been raised above the level of the sea, and that subsequently this dry land, with its upright trees, had been let down into the depths of the ocean. In these depths, the formerly dry land was covered by sedimentary beds, and these again by enormous streams of submarine lava—one such mass attaining the thickness of a thousand feet; and these deluges of molten stone and aqueous deposits five times alternately had been spread out. The ocean which received such thick masses must have been profoundly deep; but again the subterranean forces exerted themselves, and I now beheld the bed of that ocean, forming a chain of mountains more than seven thousand feet in height. Nor had those antagonistic forces been dormant, which are always at work wearing down the surface of the land; the great piles of strata had been intersected by many wide valleys, and the trees, now changed into silex, were exposed projecting from the volcanic soil, now changed into rock, whence formerly, in a green and budding state, they had raised their lofty heads. Now, all is utterly irreclaimable and desert; even the lichen cannot adhere to the stony casts of former trees. Vast, and scarcely comprehensible as such changes must ever appear, yet they have all occurred within a period, recent when compared with the history of the Cordillera; and the Cordillera itself is absolutely modern as compared with many of the fossiliferous strata of Europe and America."

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"Shinjuku Southern Terrace (2012)"

"Shinjuku Southern Terrace (2012)"

Copyright 2012 by Lyle H Saxon

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"1993 Sendai, Ichinoseki, Iwate; 1992 Sydney; 1990 Ebisu, Hiro; 2012 Natsu-Matsuri, Etc."

Lot's of time traveling in this batch of video clips, from 1990 in a few clips taken on August 3rd, 1990, when I walked from Ebisu over to the other side of the Yamanote Line, to 1992 when I visited Sydney Australia, to 1993 when I drove up to Sendai and Ichinoseki, and of course 2012, which consists of modern Tokyo train scenes and visits to art galleries in Kyobashi and Ginza.  There is such a wide range of material this time, I'll skip attempting to say much of anything at the top here and make some comments underneath titles I feel are deserving of some explanation.

1993 Tokyo to Sendai Drive (Route-4) 930805-06
http://youtu.be/UBKXA0fbv_4

Having heard that there is a famous version of the Tanabata Festival in Sendai, I rented a Honda Civic (just a basic model without frills and with something like a 1400cc engine, but a great car!) and drove up from Tokyo.  The drive was interesting.  One thing that really surprised me along the way was discovering (when I got lost) that there were two parallel highways with exactly the same name!!  Route-4, it turns out, splits at one point, and since it rejoins (eventually, after many kilometers), it was apparently thought a great idea to name both versions of the spit with the exact same name!  (I would think something like Route-4a and Route-4b would have been nice...)

In any event, I eventually arrived in Sendai, found somewhere to park the car, and walked around for awhile to see the festival.  They had impressively large displays hanging from the two-story roofs of roofed shopping malls, which is certainly practical, but the combination of being basically inside a building (enclosed except on the ends - like a tunnel) and the fact that there were hordes of other tourists there (for the same reason as I...), made it a bit stressful, so I didn't stay long and headed up further north.  Later in the day, I arrived at Ichinoseki just before evening (see next video).

1993 Ichinoseki Tanabata-Matsuri 一関七夕祭り (930806g)
http://youtu.be/oeXG1Qtcvs8

After not being happy under a roof and in mainly enclosed spaces in Sendai, once I got to Ichinoseki, parked the car, and found myself on an outdoor street which was set up to celebrate the Tanabata Festival, I found myself quite energized and happy to be out in the open, under the sky, in the wind, walking through the hanging decorations suspended from bamboo poles on either side of the street.  It only partly shows in the video, but the total effect of having direct contact with the sky and wind - and walking through the hanging decorations blowing in the wind - was magical.  As it got dark, they announced that there would be a fireworks display nearby, so I went to that (which is contained in the "Ichinoseki Tanabata-Matsuri" video, and also isolated as an individual clip via the following link).

1993 Ichinoseki Hanabi Fireworks 一関花火 - (930806)
http://youtu.be/9z0ls_mvO88

1993 Iwate Drive, Etc - (930807) 岩手ドライブなど
http://youtu.be/DhuW_SoYtwc

After getting a little sleep in Ichinoseki, I headed up north again - further into Iwate Prefecture (岩手県).

Kanda to Tokyo (Chuo and Yamanote Lines) - (120730)
http://youtu.be/eb-55siJUuo

Night Ride (Yurakucho to Kanda) - Yamanote and Chuo Lines - (120730)
http://youtu.be/3OxESD2lgGI

Night Train Arriving -  (120730)
http://youtu.be/JN1t8sf3cho

Chuo Line - Inside View  (120730)
http://youtu.be/sz9SnWhDkq4

1993 Shinjuku Summer Afternoon (930706)
http://youtu.be/UbCE8rc_7Xw

1993 Shinjuku Late Afternoon (930706)
http://youtu.be/XOAwWD3wlaM

1990 Machida, Ebisu and Hiro (August) - (900803)
http://youtu.be/uyXoyqVYtrk

I was glad to find this material, as I had forgotten that I had ever ventured out from the east side exit of Ebisu Station.  I'd see (in old pictures and video material) the old bridge over the tracks and think "I wish I'd gone over there before this area was developed - while that bridge was still there", and so when I looked at one of my old tapes from August 1990, I was quite happy to suddenly see myself walking over the bridge and out the east side exit!  Much more so than with still photographs, old videos really do sometimes feel just like a time machine - especially when it's material that you've taken yourself!  Since you really have been there, but didn't remember - it's about as close to having a time machine as you can get without actually having a time machine I suppose!

1990 Hiro Azabu Hamamatsucho (August) - (900803)
http://youtu.be/Pa8wGgjkAH4

A big surprise for me in (re)watching/visiting the side of HIro closest to Ebisu in this 1990 material, was discovering/remembering that there were old wooden houses with small metalworks factories in them - the last remnants of the postwar economy that supported so many small parts-makers like this.  It was also surprising, as Hiro is now known as an exclusive area, so seeing old wooden houses very similar to the ones in old shitamachi seemed strange when seen in Hiro.  (Well - more to the point, seemed strange under the brand name "Hiro"!)

1990 Shinjuku Camera Crew  (900713)
http://youtu.be/XjQ5VK6lO8k

1992 Jp-Tour: Brisbane, Surfers Paradise (from Sydney) 920416
http://youtu.be/P3yLt5bAV0A

1992 Sydney and Trip to Katoomba - (920415)
http://youtu.be/1r1_7Bx_lwE

1992 Sydney (Trains, Nighttime Ferry) 920413
http://youtu.be/6hGUApyJzOU

1992 Sydney Trains, Etc.  (920414)
http://youtu.be/8oQCcgyQA7E

Art Space Ginza One アートスペース銀座ワン (Hallway) July 30th, 2012 (A) 120730
http://youtu.be/xKAKLKfIxMI

Art Space Ginza One アートスペース銀座ワン (Hallway) July 30th, 2012 (B) 120730
http://youtu.be/x7q7LXSoS5k

Art Space Ginza One アートスペース銀座ワン (Hallway) July 30th, 2012 (C) 120730
http://youtu.be/P_CrQg1mzfc

Nashimoto Youz 梨本柚子 Amore Ginza Gallery アモーレ銀座ギャラリー (A) 120730
http://youtu.be/AcLNsbc1IZk

Nashimoto Youz 梨本柚子 Amore Ginza Gallery アモーレ銀座ギャラリー (B)  120730
http://youtu.be/nsUjjqM2OUE

Sawada Ken 澤田賢 Art Space Rondo アートスペースロンド (120730)
http://youtu.be/0j-EIESe_xw

Tsuboshima Yuki 坪島悠貴 Exhibition at Gallery Ginza Forest - (120731)
http://youtu.be/XDgecKv6UxY

Ginza-One Tokyo-Ten サロンど東京展 2012年8月 August Exhibition  (120731)
http://youtu.be/vgp4kuLagwo

Double Decker Advertisement Bus (in Tokyo)  120731
http://youtu.be/JddFQmQpP4M

Shinjuku Platform Scene - Outbound Chuo Line - (120731)
http://youtu.be/t8Ps2nGtXsY

Tokyo to Shinjuku - Nighttime Chuo Line - (120731)
http://youtu.be/tr4m1JTnDbE

Shinjuku South Exit - July 31st, 2012  (120731)
http://youtu.be/ISlZA_8IMsM

Natsu-Matsuri Hanabi (A) 120804 花火
http://youtu.be/exyw4C1FqiA

Natsu-Matsuri Hanabi (B) 120804 花火
http://youtu.be/EVGWhyIt6Gw

Natsu-Matsuri Hanabi (C) 120804 花火
http://youtu.be/bVyhN4T4qds

Natsu-Matsuri Hanabi (D) 120804 花火
http://youtu.be/Zk0F16ymtWM

Natsu-Matsuri Hanabi (E) 120804 花火
http://youtu.be/6xP3yBj04GE

Natsu-Matsuri Hanabi (F) 120804g 花火
http://youtu.be/hdvFguiHR7A

Natsu-Matsuri Hanabi (G) 120804g 花火
http://youtu.be/77by3jqECWk

Natsu-Matsuri Hanabi (H) 120804 花火
http://youtu.be/8MIMVg-Efb0

Natsu-Matsuri Hanabi (I) 120804 Convenience Store 花火
http://youtu.be/514XpGnCJ70

Natsu-Matsuri Hanabi (J) 120804 花火
http://youtu.be/Uw9KqmUADwA

Nihonbashi to Kyobashi 120807
http://youtu.be/8OEWX-ftxRA

Long Internal-Combustion Engine Vehicle and Summer Clouds (120807)
http://youtu.be/RMA1pkELIzI

Hot Day Air Conditioner Noise in Kyobashi 120807
http://youtu.be/xrn1l_hMJ7c

Kyobashi Side Street Construction Site 120807
http://youtu.be/150z2VJ0SaA

Summer Evening Clouds 120807
http://youtu.be/ARWztVIytmc

Yurakucho Plaza - August 2012 - (120807)
http://youtu.be/AiWuMQZepII

Yurakucho to Tokyo 120807
http://youtu.be/hKIVkpRgQaI

Shinjuku Chuo Line Platform (Night) - 120807
http://youtu.be/KAPI3XLh-dA

Departing Shinjuku (Outbound Night Train) - 120807
http://youtu.be/nNII71gBQOU

Shinjuku Station (South Exit Area) - 120807
http://youtu.be/Em8KiqY0odQ

Watching Trains Pass by at Night (Shinjuku) - 120807
http://youtu.be/_cvljCqzeKk

Tokyo to Shinjuku (Evening Chuo Line) - 120807g
http://youtu.be/_-r3Yk1n6os

Night Coffee Reflections (Shinjuku) - 120807
http://youtu.be/9FhGReEeae8

Lyle (Hiroshi) Saxon
http://www5d.biglobe.ne.jp/~LLLtrs/
http://youtube.com/lylehsaxon
http://tokyoartmusic.blogspot.com/