Name: Exploring Tokyo at Night - Before it All Changes
Uploaded: 2021-11-15T18:50:35.000Z
Duration: 16 min 54 s
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And I am out in Ikebukuro exploring back streets and rooftops.

Yeah, I like, I like how you got in here.

Mhm Probably just love the light to Ikebukuro.

It was like one of my first love's ever in Tokyo.

It was probably like the very first Tokyo area that I ever truly you live here.

But the first time I came here also like I didn't really know what even it was friends were like Japanese friends.

They gotta go to Ikea because I was like what?

Oh you know like when I was that you just don't want to go to all the time.

I'm looking at this beautiful alleyway with sunshine there And then I look over at Lucas there's there's this giant demon behind him that looks like it's about to devour his head.

So that's the thing you literally step back as you like.

But I love the way this just cuts through right here to sunshine city up there.

This building sunshine city up here actually has one of the best viewpoints of Tokyo.

Pretty much every single time that Lucas and I get together.

It just feels so good to be back out and I've been doing so much stuff in the countryside and out in nature that it's been a long time since I've had the opportunity to get into the city again, you know.

And it's the best time for its nighttime.

We were going to do it on a rainy night but my camera isn't the biggest fan of the rain so I guess I'll have to be.

I think I think I can get a view of the highway over there.

I am already losing track of how many stairs we've done today.

You gotta you gotta find the stairs and climb them.

Well this is one of the oldest ones that I've ever been to and you can.

So when I started doing rooftops in 2014 I came to this one.

This is one of the ones I found because I because I did it started in my neighborhood here in Ikebukuro and this was one of those.

And so it's like there's nothing like there's no like fancy story but it's just got a special place in my heart.

I want to say because it's one of the first when I figure it out.

So let's check those out ducts here and then we got sunshine back there which is kind of the star of the show tonight.

We've we've shot sunshine from like five different views.

You know how you got the, what's the guy's name?

We got like 10 views of Sunshine city but this view is really good right here Lucas has a special love for pipes and ducts.

We actually had to climb something like 12 flights of stairs just to get up here this time.

Not not too bad but it all adds up at the end of the day to get some cardio workout.

Yes, so you got Tokyo tower out there and I have a special little love for all the air conditioner units on top, they're they're messy but they're beautiful in a weird way.

Mhm I'm just, I love the colors of Tokyo at night and Lucas makes a really good point of it with over time everything's changing, everything's disappearing.

And look at this, look at this view, I love this ok back on topic but especially over the past I'd say year, two years, even decades, Tokyo has seen so much change.

So many buildings disappear places that we've known and loved since coming to Japan are just forever gone and so we don't know how long spots like these rooftops that we've collected over the years are going to be around.

So we've kind of committed to hitting as many of them tonight and over the near future as possible.

One of the big tricks are gonna, we're gonna actually head back down one of the really good tricks that I actually picked up from Lucas, I'd say the better part of a decade ago is when you're shooting night photography, you're going for, you're trying to pick up light, your camera is essentially always just there to grab light.

And so if you have an area like this that's really lit up and beautiful in the background, you're likely to get really good photos.

But if it's just a dark alley, maybe a long exposure will yield some nice results.

But chances are you're not gonna get a great photos.

Just I say it every time and I'll continue to say it chase the light.

I'm leaving most of tonight up to Lucas because he's kind of the Ikebukuro expert if you will.

One of the things I've always loved the Tokyo and Japan in general is just like if that's the shape of the land they have to work with that is the shape that the building will be and you can bet that there's gonna be some really strangely shaped building squeezed into there as well as well as just this one parking space for this single truck that's all that'll fit and that's all they need.

It's actually not even that late and I'd say maybe 11 30 at the absolute best.

But it's crazy how the city just just empties out at night every time I do one of these like nighttime in Tokyo videos.

People are surprised at how empty it gets like obviously the main road, there's gonna be cars and people driving around but you get 12 roads into the back street and it's just yeah.

Mhm Lucas has always for years for as long as I've known him has always found the most obscure spots or moments or points in Tokyo if I I've known Lucas here for well over a decade and I'd say at least half of that relationship has just been running into him on random street corners throughout Tokyo but talking about obscurity Lucas, check this out.

It's an entire then I love how it's like do not drink, this is a soup stock.

Never seen this machine, but there are more and more weird vending machines like this like there's like a blue bottle coffee vending machine.

Yeah Cat Street, there's this fancy soda like craft cola.

Craft holds actually getting kind of big in japan right now.

Mostly in the countryside out in Chicago.

I didn't know that you can buy syrup and you put a little bit of syrup and then some soda water and you make your own basically craft cola.

I don't know how to describe it if cola, if there was like a pumpkin spice latte version of cola, that would be it.

It's got the cinnamon and the nutmeg and all those other flavors in it.

It just sounds like the appropriate and you know what?

Let me, they've got like a makeshift version and convenience.

So, I've seen this, but compared to the fancy ones that are like $5 a pop.

Yeah, I was like, yeah, but let's try it kind of like not sponsored.

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