Tokyo 2007 Mystery

Tokyo 2007 Mystery

When we see scenes like this in Shinjuku, the neon, the billboards, neon that’s now u led. This is what we think of when we think of Tokyo. I think all of us sort of collectively, this is the collective world consciousness of what Tokyo actually is. Omoy uh Yoko, this old area where you can get Yakuri, uh beer, all kinds of nice fried food and good times. A lot of the businessmen after work they go here as you can see uh to the west side of Shinjuku Station. You know this is kind of what people think of you know here we have her doing the cooking. What hard work that must be right to do that with the heat. But I love the lights. I love that old window. You know the history of this area. But I’ve alluded to it in some of my other videos. Manami Sanju. This is Neck Chop Jizo. He oversaw the execution of about 250,000 people. There were two execution grounds in Ado, one here and one in Shinagawa. And this was the first thing I saw really when I got off the train from the airport back in 2006 when I went my first time in May. And it made quite an impression. Uh underneath there are the bones. That’s one of the the monuments or the bones of the people. They’re still there underneath. They actually built you see that’s Tokyo Metro. The other was the Joan line of JR which actually goes up to the Fukushima area to the Daiishi. It was closed for a while. That’s the job line going towards Nepori station. So they built these things to kind of get rid of every trace of what was once there. It’s it’s kind of an odd thing. It’s very Japanese. It’s a very very old uh shrine and sect, but uh I found this fascinating when I first came here. This area coming up was a site of civil unrest in the ’60s. This originally was where that’s street car boulevard where the cars are going. That’s the 7-Eleven that all the day laborers used to kind of come to. The men would line up along the street here and they’d go to work, you know, 5:00 in the morning. They’d live in the host, you know, 6:00 in a room sometimes and in double bunk beds, triples. This place was a Chinese restaurant and sort of a brothel on top. There’s some old buildings on the left. This scene is very, very long gone since I did this. This was the pachinko parlor on one of the main streets. I miss this place so much. The original hostel, the Hotel New Azuma, where I originally went, was right across the street from this. So, I had quite an affinity for that very old style sign. Long ago, people were found dead. There were murders because it was the Yakuza was there and the day laborers would fight. That’s a bolt shop in the middle. All of those buildings are gone. The one with the pink is still there, but now they’re these modern condos. I’m kind of I’m kind of sad to see that. But, uh, interesting area, amazing history. I’m glad that at least I could see some of it while it was still extent. Uh we’re coming over to this was near Makawashima. That’s also the JR job line. They had the Makawashima incident where there was a bad accident. And this is why you’ll notice on the trains that the U drivers point sometimes. This is a very old style uh neighborhood near the Toten Arakawa tram. They did the metal like that to try to prevent the uh the copper from the fires from spreading. So, I love seeing old buildings like that. I’ve got to check on this trip to see if it’s still there. But that’s very old style. Probably I mean it might even be from the 20s. It could be after World War II. So many of the places burned that it’s uh it’s sad and it’s hard to tell. I’m not sure that’s there anymore. There’s the fire station. So if that burned, this is typical of the Shidamachi areas where you had businesses, you know, industries. It could be tanneries, it could be bolts, it could be automotive things. So you have that there. And then on the right is, you know, those are houses that were along with it. They sometimes, this is very industrial looking, sort of a factory. But you see on the right, that was probably, I could be wrong, correct me if I’m wrong, but that might have been some kind of, I don’t know, restaurant or something. Or maybe it was just a house all along. You see the privacy screen there. You also see Omar on the left. Uh, but I like I love seeing that. And then all the plants there, too. There’s another one that’s typical kind of single story that’s probably postwar, but it’s a style that was before World War II as well. You can see why it would have burned very quickly. So, it probably did go down in the fires of World War II, but this is this is in the Makawashima Hagashi Neapori area. Anyway, if you want more like this, let me know. I can do more and I can do more specific areas. I want to do Akihabara and talk about sort of the made scene as well as the electronic scene and some of the history there. I also want to do more with Shinjuku. Uh I also want to do more with Eastern Tokyo. So let me know. This is kind of a teaser. See you later.

November 2007 footage of Tokyo.
I discuss some of the history of Minami-Senju.
This is a teaser of some discussions I can do of vintage 2007-2010 footage.
I could discuss Akihabara, Shinjuku, Eastern Tokyo, and other areas.
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