I lived in tachikawa 1994 - 2001, and walked these same streets many times, often at night. From Google maps I can see that the area around the station has changed a lot. So thank you for these minutes of time travel.
being a new generation local resident, I can barely recognize the locations in this video. Would have doubted that this was filmed in Tachikawa if I didnt see the iconic art work on the wall by the gates. btw Amazing video!
@lylehsaxon10 жыл бұрын
Tokyo can really be disorienting that way! I briefly worked in Shinagawa in 1984, and then didn't go back for many years. When I revisited the east exit a couple of decades later, I thought I must be Rip Van Winkle! it was shocking. There wasn't a trace of anything that had been there before! (You can see some of that in one of my older (1990 or 1991) videos of Shinagawa.) Regarding Tachikawa, 1991 was before they built the Tama Monorail, which is when they put in all those elevated plazas I think, so when you left the station back then, you just went down to street level. Parts of the station were new already though, so if this had been taken about five or six years earlier, it might have been completely unrecognizable! Back to Shinagawa, I found one video that shows the east side before the office towers were built: "1991 East Shinagawa Walkabout 東品川散歩1991年 (910824)" - It's a long clip (55 minutes) but just over two minutes into it, I arrive at Shinagawa Station and walk through the (former) tunnel to the (former) east exit and then look around on the (former) east side.
@lylehsaxon10 жыл бұрын
One more comment - I looked for and actually found the video I was hoping I could refer you to regarding Shinagawa (better than the one I previously mentioned). It's called: "Shinagawa to Yurakucho - August 1991 - 品川-有楽町" and it starts off in a bus that goes to the east entrance of Shinagawa Station. Check it out, because it's 100% different than the current east entrance of Shinagawa Station - in fact it looks like it's out in some small town somewhere! Listen to the bus announcement though, it very clears announces the stop as the 東口 of 品川駅. This clip also shows the former access tunnel to the station. // KZbin didn't used to allow links in comments... have they changed that? Let me putting the link here and see what happens: kzbin.info/www/bejne/b5OvoKyGrqmLpKc