I will continue uploading free background music to this channel, but I will also start adding other kinds of videos. Here is a travel video about a short trip to Tokyo during the summer of 2018.
Video, photos and music by longzijun, except for the music recorded incidentally at the teamLab exhibition (that music was part of their show).
The background music is Chillvolution and is the 23rd song in my free background music series. Like other songs in this royalty-free music series, you can use it for free for non-commercial purposes (as well as in monetized YouTube videos that are otherwise non-commercial in nature).
You can download the song at my website ( You can refer to the detailed terms of use here:
The girl in the video, my daughter, is ‘Jadie Jade’ and she has her own lifestyle and travel channel (her videos are in Cantonese):
For this trip, we didn’t do a lot of activities because Tokyo was in the midst of a record-setting heatwave.
We live in Asia and travel to Japan fairly regularly, so in this trip, we didn’t go to any of Tokyo’s must-see tourist spots, we just went to places that we felt like going to.
Yuigahama Beach
This beach at Sagami Bay is about an hour by train from central Tokyo. It is not a spectacularly beautiful beach, but you can rent surfboards there and get away from the city for while.
teamLab Planets
For me this was the highlight of the trip. teamLab is a collective of artists, musicians, computer programmers and engineers who specialize in creating immersive and interactive light and sound shows. They now have a permanent museum in Tokyo, teamlab Borderless ( but we went to their recent exhibition at Toyosu: teamLab Planets ( Both exhibitions require advance booking. I have a longer video of the teamLab Planets show here:
I couple of years ago, I stumbled across another of their installations in Kyoto. I have a photo gallery and article about that here:
Nekobukuro
This was an unplanned visit. While visiting the Tokyu Hands Department store to buy souvenirs, we noticed that there was a cat playground there, so we decided to check it out.
Ueno Park
We went on a Sunday and they had a little flea market there. We also visited one of the temples there (Shinobazunoike Bentendo) but did not stay long because of the heat.
Senso-ji in Asakusa
After visiting Ueno park we went to this large temple complex. That evening was the Sumida Fireworks festival, so a lot of people had taken the opportunity to get dressed up in traditional Japanese attire.
The restaurants
These were chosen by my daughter. A few of them were Ikebukuro–which is a fairly popular shopping district–because our hotel was close by.
The CDs
Whenever I visit Japan, I will stop by an record store and pick up some CDs. Here are some videos of the artists whose CDs I got on this trip:
Lucie, Too (cheerful indie rock):
Hitsujibungaku (dreamy indie pop):
Nulbarich (funky jazzy pop, like Jamiroquai):
Suchmos (funky jazzy pop, but with a bit of rock mixed in):
Technical Info
We shot the video using a Fujifilm X100T, a Sony Nex-7 and an iPhone.
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#Tokyo, #travel, #longzijun
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