Name: Exploring Japan's AKIHABARA at Night - While We Still Can
Uploaded: 2021-11-15T19:20:25.000Z
Duration: 11 min 47 s
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mm Yeah, I'm out in Akihabara tonight or as some people call it, Akihabara don't call it that puts them fastest on the first syllable and we're going to do some exploring.

The superlative

Akihabara is one of Tokyo's biggest anime and gaming and electronic districts.

And this area right here is actually called Electric Town.

Tokyo has been undergoing a lot of changes over the past couple of years.

So I've been on a little bit of a personal mission to document or capture as many of my personal favorites as I can.

Oh I understand you see Japan is different from a lot of other countries in the sense that while land value will likely appreciate over time, real estate or the buildings themselves will gradually depreciate in value and more often than not need to be torn down or rebuilt once every couple of decades then since like yeah, but I was obviously not immune to this.

I've been wanting to come out and explore it at night for for some time now.

Mm mhm I don't know about you but I have, it has always been one of my favorite areas just to walk and explore.

There's so many things just tucked and hidden around every single little corner of this.

Can you see the excitement for example, back there near the station, right underneath the tracks.

There's this whole set of electronic shops that's just hidden there.

It's got multiple floors and it's, it's just the coolest little space and that truck is really noisy but actually right over here.

There's an area that I once was trying to get as my office or my studio right down this super narrow little corridor here.

This is perfect little space just tucked in the back of Akihabara and it's got a sign that says they're looking for tenants and it has been like this for as long as I can remember.

So a year or two ago I reach out to them and inquired into renting the space and they said that it's simply too old and that they need to take down the sign and and here we are, the sign is still there.

They haven't taken it down, but how cool would have that been to have an office right in the center of Akihabara.

And in retrospect it is probably a good thing.

I have my home office which is larger, has a way better commute.

And I don't know if you've noticed, but the locks back, they just do not seem secure.

I would not want to be leaving my gear there.

But you know, a couple years back, I did a video on a capital where we went to this tiny little shrine hidden in the gap between buildings and I'm kind of wondering if it's still there so much has changed.

We should be able to access it down this super narrow alleyway.

This brings back memories and it should be just right through here.

I am just so happy that this is still here and probably equally excited that the camera can actually pick all of this up because this area looks really cool at night.

This little shrine here actually has its own address.

Like this says she had a cool photo, candy yang yang, no go!

So that has its own address and apparently there's a secret society of super villain artists also just for good measure that there is not the accurate date and time which probably didn't need to be said but you know internet and right around the corner here there are some moderately interesting vending machines that sell cards like this one here has Pokemon cards.

This one here sells photos of idols and he's ones here have figurines, you can actually buy figurines from a vending machine so that's a thing and that runs me of another spot that I want to pay a 12th visit to regular viewers.

You'll know exactly where we're headed right now.

This space here is the habit of strange vending machine corner, there's popcorn vending machine but you'll find some of the strangest vending machines in all of Japan here, like all these ones here have boxes with really creepy stuff written on them.

I came with my friend charlotte couple years back, We did a video that I'll link up above and I can barely barely squeezed through here but I'm actually surprised that this is still standing.

This building is, this can't last much longer.

This is not a structurally secure building.

Look at this, This is an absolutely terrible condition.

I wouldn't be surprised if this entire thing got torn down in the next year or two.

Well, it can be sad to know that so many of the places that we've grown to love will change or get torn down.

For someone like me, it kind of helps to combat the complacency that comes with living somewhere so long.

You actually have to get out and enjoy places while they're still around because they won't be forever like this Lawson right here.

This used to be a dragon quest themed Lawson and now now it's not Japan does this a lot with products as well.

I can't count how many young and they are limited edition products that I have fallen in love with over the years, just for them to disappear.

Weeks later, they don't stick around for long.

So if you find a product that you really like get it and get a lot of it, like a few weeks ago, I did this video on Japan's most famous game center closing down and although that was the very first game center that I ever had the chance to go to in Japan.

It just becomes all too easy to kind of fall into falling into a comfortable pattern.

Just assume that everything is gonna be there forever.

But there's one more place that I've always wanted to check out at night in Akihabara and to do that, we're gonna need to head into some of the backstreets.

So the area was still a little bit busy when I got here but it's well past midnight now and there's just, there's no one left.

I'm actually what, I've never tried to go to this place at night.

So I'm a little bit curious as to whether or not it's, it's even gonna be open accessible.

Okay, so it should be just down this way and then around the corner of it.

Seriously, you see what I mean about all the construction always with the stairs though, if you know Akihabara, you know the area, you should have a pretty good idea of where we're heading right now.

This right here, this is why you don't buy a big car in Tokyo.

Mhm And this right here, his conduct Myojin shrine tucked right behind Akihabara and that, that is terrifying.

This shrine is actually a really beautiful shrine and I've always thought it would be a great place to explore at night.

The way the shrine itself is juxtaposed against the city and it is just extrapolated at night.

I really, I really love this space And amazingly you can actually see we're in the core of Tokyo right now and you can actually see some stars tonight.

This building right here is actually a multi floored performance.

This entire place is just stunning at night.

This is 100% made it very close to the top of my list of things that you have to do if you come out to explore Akihabara during the nighttime.

Seriously look at how much Akihabara empties out at night.

There's just nothing, there's nobody, it is just completely empty.

But there was a lot of steps that goes around the corner and everything.

Oh, this right here is actually one of my favorite Akihabara spots.

It's not really Akihabara, it's more near luciano Mizzou but you get to see the trains go by.

It's 2:00 AM and I am absolutely famished.

This is the main entrance to the museum by the way, I need to get some food And I gotta get up early tomorrow to also to the trifecta squad.

To those of you who watch early and all the way to the end and leave me comments, let me know how, how have you been?

I'm so glad that we got to do this today.