Harajuku - Tokyo - April 2005

Various scenes on and near Harajuku bridge in Tokyo.
The singer is Keiji Kamikawa ... / @keijikamikawa

[@ralteh3390]

The fact that this looks so modern is crazy

[@Comebackherein2050]

modern? Are you sure?

[@ralteh3390]

@@Comebackherein2050 yes

[@2501-yite]

@@ralteh3390 2011 the latest

[@Ameen_AAA]

@@Comebackherein2050 Modern for cosplayers only 😅

[@chloeprice5418]

Thats because tiktok kids shamelessly steal older generations style

[@hidekun_channel369]

この当時、美容師で毎週の様に原宿に行って刺激を受けてました。 泣きそうな位切ないくてでもエネルギー溢れる時代を思い出しました。

[@vinnzouiyt]

It’s been 17 years but felt like it was filmed yesterday

[@Lensman864]

Only seems a moment ago to me but it was indeed 2005.

[@nerolost4347]

you mean 19

[@Ruby-xk8kn]

I first went to Japan in 2005 when i was 13 and Harajuku blew my mind in terms of fashion and honestly inspired my style for the rest of my life.

[@Lensman864]

I first went in 2004 but was a bit older but the country had the same effect on me and thankfully I've never recovered. Lost in Translation is one of my favourite films because it's so evocative of that time and I was in Shinjuku a lot.

[@keijikamikawa]

keiji kamikawa The old video is nostalgic. thank you I'm still singing in Harajuku. 昔の映像　懐かしいです。 ありがとう まだ　原宿で変わらず歌っているよ。

[@Lensman864]

Hello Kamikawa san! REALLY good to hear from you. Watching you play that day in 2005 was SO entertaining; I still play your CD that I purchased that day when we talked. I am very pleased to hear that you are still performing. People like the video so they like your songs too. Wishing you happiness and prosperity from England.

[@keijikamikawa]

@@Lensman864 thank you. If you don't mind, please come to Japan and listen

[@Lensman864]

I wish that I could but the journey from the UK is not possible for me now. Japan is very important to me and I miss being in your country very much.

[@Gnarloo]

I really like the song at 24:32 what is it called?

[@Gnarloo]

And at 40:28

[@curiouscat428]

I typed the url at 24:15 to find out whether the awesome threepiece musicians do well. It seems Keiji. Kamikawa did made it to stage at one point and also produce some CD as well. Maybe not anymore, IDK. I also see some picture of him on small stages and also with family and kid. 2005 was 18 years ago, how it passes in a heartbeat for all these people ☺️❣️ Edit: there's one Pic where an older version of the girl in pink is also present. She's an obasan at that Pic. I wonder if they end up getting married (pardon me I'm just a hopeless romantic, like who would think about what are these passerbys are doing today but me, haha)

[@Lensman864]

youtube.com/@keijikamikawa

[@zinnydin2345]

@@Lensman864 subscribed thx B)

[@DaveHulick]

What a wonderful video. I wonder if anyone in this video remembers this day that we are reliving so vividly through the camera.

[@victor6010]

Bro... I wish I could go back in time and teleport to wherever I want... I would love to live these stuff...

[@Koyuse]

飛行船、ガラケー、カメラ、ファッション いい時代だ

[@YURIKOTIGERjp]

No one with iPhone. I would live there at that time… It was so free and natural…

[@Bibimbapski]

No but people had their flip phones and digital cameras to take pictures

[@koppii2]

@@Bibimbapski still though, this was the era of lack of social media, most people was not wasting their time looking at the internet

[@Bibimbapski]

@@koppii2 Debatable because this is JAPAN and at the time their technology and interest in anything online was ahead of its time spearheaded the internet culture that we have today. How do you think these people met up and became friends? Vodaphone was really popular back then and so was Docomo etc.

[@koppii2]

@@Bibimbapski dude you literally can't read can you?

[@Bibimbapski]

@@koppii2 Of course I can read, how else would I be able to reply? Do you understand the meaning of "literally?" I don't think you do and I don't know why you're so defensive.

[@Genny-Zee]

More gaijin then than I thought! 2005 was the first time my Australian dad went to Japan, or overseas, ever. He cried on the night before he got on the plane. I, may I suggest, was not born yet 😭

[@budrager]

I also went to Japan for the first time around this time. It was unheard of to go there, it felt like I made a dream come true just by travelling somewhere. So crazy to think you weren’t born then. Somehow I still assume my fellow internet users are mostly around my age or older.

[@shine-pn5kf]

2000年〜2005年頃の時代が一番好きです。 曲の感じなども含めて。 38分頃の曲も凄く良いです。

[@おおかみさん-t5b]

この時代の原宿は本当良かったなー。皆楽しそうだし、欲しい服がいっぱい売ってたし、個性ある人いっぱいいて勉強になったし。

[@vamotokyo-y1g]

19:17 自分が小さい頃、代々木公園行った時に毎回この方がここで歌っていて、この前久々にここ通ったら歌っていて感動した。

[@Lensman864]

The excellent Keiji Kamikawa. Here is his KZbin channel: youtube.com/@keijikamikawa?si=2SMFMPt7IzIYifFs

[@cosmic-snips]

I love this video so much. I've been watching it on and off for the past 4 days. it's so relaxing to me

[@Lensman864]

Thank you for your reply; very much appreciated.

[@robert2628]

Looks like a place where young people hang out at to see and be seen as well as to meet.

[@わわ-l8w]

2005が18年前なのか。。

[@tigers_kachitainya]

それな 2005年に岡田阪神アレしてからもう18年よ

[@YouTuber-ii9tq]

@@tigers_kachitainya伝説の33-4ね 阪神が33だっけ

[@Picanhadopapaimolusco]

ヤベーな！ ワイ自分の人生になにをしたんだ...

[@eri6970]

This is amazing, in so many ways I wasn’t even born yet but AAA all this alt fashion all in one place?? Also they all look so cool & nice 😭🥺 I love the facts that everyone is taking pictures & so… even when it’s impossible to go back to experience at least one day of this, this (very) high quality video is enough, thank you for all the people that recorded the past

[@Lensman864]

GREAT COMMENT!!! This makes lugging a large camcorder around Japan for 3 weeks very much worthwhile. THANK YOU. 😃

[@_HandlesAreDumb]

​@@Lensman864thank you so much for your effort! This is a really important time capsule!

[@Channel123456]

じきに20年前のハイビジョン映像になる

[@damienb6184]

This is so nostalgic, Im getting emotional. I want to go back to this time…

[@Lensman864]

Me too! 🙂 Have you seen my accompanying video? kzbin.info/www/bejne/l4S0Z5hogqmMkLssi=ZMCZkVg-559x4pY1

[@sergeantisseihyoudou]

In that year, 2005, I was a 7-year-old child and at that time, 2005 was something that marked my childhood, since that year my cousins ​​listened to reggaeton songs, remixes, and DJs at the parties they organized with their friends. since I have memories from those decades of the mid-2000s.

[@cresrey4985]

It brings back my teen days now I'm 36 years old

[@kurisu3000]

Finally, someone who isn't a zoomer in the comments

[@nanashi-andarushia]

2005年4月 自分は上京1年目で 服飾に通ってたので 懐かしい気持ちなりました

[@triplehearts914]

so much fun to watch :) I got into Harajuku style a few years later (2012) and a lot of these styles were in the books that I would rent from my library all those years ago. Was fun to see Lolita fashion too! The old school style (printless) remains one of my favorites to this day. Thank you for sharing and have a good day

[@Lensman864]

And thank you! A very nice comment. 😁

[@Sephira08]

it's kinda sad now that the harajuku bridge area near the shrine , those cosplayers are no more. It was really crowded with cosplayers in the early 2000s.

[@鈴一-b4n]

SNSに翻弄されないいい時代だった

[@Sereny4]

watching this, I can't stop thinking about what are they doing nowadays!.

[@YK-ok3gj]

me too!

[@Lensman864]

Watching the video I hope.

[@grimmerjxcts2206]

Crazy how 2005 was 17 years ago

[@theulmitter5725]

I was thinking the same

[@kcat80]

they would be middle aged now, I'd imagine they would have settled down with a family and be in a simple blue collar or white collar job like most people that age. it's a fact of life ,we mostly all end up that way unless there is a tragedy or miracle!

[@cewlhwip]

most of them look so lively

[@jugandoclasicos]

the half of the last good decade we never going have another like that miss 2000s

[@sugiurakarate]

そんなに昔って感じしないけど(自分二十歳でした）、セシルマクビーは時代を感じます。

[@kyounokuma]

RIP Harajuku. That was my favorite part of Tokyo when I was younger. I made a lot of friends in Harajuku around that time and used to hang out there whenever I visited Japan. They were a group cut from a different cloth then. Those groups moved onto other parts of Tokyo and Harajuku’s vibe just not the same and never will be again. Sad.

[@Lensman864]

I'm pleased that a was able to document a brief moment from the bridge; that was a fun day. Have you seen my related images? Try it at 4K if possible: kzbin.info/www/bejne/l4S0Z5hogqmMkLssi=LFnEO-uMdNPJ_fqT

[@captainspaceboy]

This was made a month before i was born. Its so interesting to see how different the fashion back then was compared to fashion now!

[@サテリコン-l8p]

橋懐かしいな…ここに行けばゴス&ロリやビジュアル系のコスさんが必ずいた。 この時代からで良いからやり直したいな。

[@bigmana]

ギターの兄ちゃんは今はもう40歳ぐらいなんだろうな 平成って素晴らしいな

[@keijikamikawa]

自分だったら　今　52歳ですね まだ　原宿で　毎週歌ってます

[@わわ-l8w]

本人キター。 この38:10からの「果てなき道」という曲良いですね。 名曲だと思いました。

[@keijikamikawa]

@@わわ-l8w さん　ありがとうございます 　精進して　まだまだやっていきます

[@bigmana]

返信ありがとうございます。今度の土曜日に原宿に行くのでもし見つけたら聞きたいです。

[@keijikamikawa]

@@bigmana はい　了解です！！！！

[@requiem165]

2 months later, I was born. The world was a better place before I was here 🥲

[@Lensman864]

Every time has its merit. 🙂

[@sleepmnan22sleepman50]

It is!

[@ninbendoyt3203]

Pretty good quality for 2005 ngl.

[@StyleshStorm]

The Gothic Lolita chick at the start. Truly a faded art form.

[@ホタテ1]

誰も触れないけど画質いいな

[@ロコソラーレメンバー]

ピアニカ＆タンバリンの女の子いいね　華がある

[@user-girlinterrupted]

I’ve always wanted to visit Japan ❤I was a young teen in 2005 and I remember when the world was like this. Was a different time. I really enjoyed this video thank you for sharing 💕 Edit: everyone looks so cool in this vid too! I love the clothing and style 😎🥰

[@Lensman864]

Thanks for your kind and interesting comment! Have you seen my Harajuku images video? kzbin.info/www/bejne/l4S0Z5hogqmMkLssi=EMaJwZP6r7lv3W3a

[@user-girlinterrupted]

@@Lensman864 you’re welcome and thank you so much ☺️ I’ll definitely check it out. 💗😊

[@MinDaN-break]

やっぱり日本人は小物使って装飾するの得意だな 古着やアクセサリーも違和感なく使っている 自分にはないセンスだから羨ましい

[@Beelzebubzwife]

I love all the fashion in this video! Wonder if it was any different buying egl pieces then versus now! Great time capsule!

[@blankjo9113]

Good thing that the camera was as Japanese as the video itself. Clear as crystal.

[@Lensman864]

A good point! SONY made and still make good cameras! In my SONY Tokyo video you can see me surprise the demo staff with my UK HDR-FX1 camera which was new then and on display in the SONY building.

[@kam9137]

i love how so many of them are fans of The Gazette

[@kam9137]

11:52 this person captured uruha's (oneof the band's members) makeup and hair so well im so impressed

[@わわ-l8w]

ボーカルこれ神川圭司さんですね ツイッターもやってますね今。

[@カリカリ梅-s8j]

化粧と髪型が懐かしすぎる

[@Jaxymann]

The most insane thing is that this video looks like it could have been recorded today, and yet all the folks in this are in their 40s now 💀

[@Lensman864]

It would be very welcome to be in my 40s. 😄 (60 in 3 weeks)

[@Cal3000]

The pedestrian bridge is gone and no one hangs out in that location anymore. Unless this was after an event when this was recorded, but every time I go to that area, it's pretty empty compared to this video. Must have been exciting then.

[@Lensman864]

It was a very interesting day; the end of an era after many years of interesting Sundays on that bridge. I'm very pleased that I saw one of them!

[@YouTuber-ii9tq]

2005年まで来ると結構画質が良いな デジタルの力か

[@Lensman864]

SONY HDR-FX1 ... the first consumer HD camcorder; released that year.

[@fukuyamaarab]

これに映っている人の子供が、当時の自分と同じくらいの年齢って人もいるだろうな

[@dokidokiringtone]

i believe in the source of this video, whiling, you could update the date and tell this is been recorded in year x or year y, we will save this date forever. youth and dreams, never felt as strangers and they won't be

[@mau6191]

Omg! I can't say if it is 2005 or 2023 😮

[@fireaza]

What kind of time-travelling space wizard had a video camera capable of shooting in widescreen back in 2005?!

[@Lensman864]

They weren't that unusual but HD really was!

[@soaari]

Their costumes are awesome

[@Strelokos666]

Surreal for 2005

[@_HandlesAreDumb]

Wen't to Harajuku today, I knew it's nothing like it used to be but I was still disappointed it's really bad...

[@Lensman864]

Sad to hear. I've not been there since 2005 although I was in Tokyo in 2008.

[@theulmitter5725]

Feels like I'm looking into the lives of people I don't even know, 18 years into the past, I have no idea where they are now, what they are doing and how they have changed, and I am deathly curious

[@Lensman864]

I've always hoped that one of the then young people in the video might add a comment saying: "THAT WAS ME!!!" But not yet. 😕

[@theulmitter5725]

@@Lensman864 :(

[@memoryhunter2084]

I did talk with Keiji-san, the guitarist. The lady who is playing melodica has stopped playing music, and the percussion man unfortunately passed away 10 years ago :( Keiji-san is playing solo still, so that's good.

[@Lensman864]

Thanks for this information; sad to hear that the percussionist is gone: he was very cool. Keiji Kamikawa is now subscribed to this channel which is gratifying and I am subscribed to his: youtube.com/@keijikamikawa

[@memoryhunter2084]

@@Lensman864 Yes, I brought him here :D I linked him the video

[@raiki7688]

映像綺麗すぎじゃね？

[@ghost-cat420]

may i use as drawing reference? very very beautiful footage very nostalgic

[@Lensman864]

Yes. I would be honoured if you use my video to create art.

[@ghost-cat420]

@@Lensman864 thank you so so much!

[@Sjinzo86]

I miss 2004 😢

[@Lensman864]

Me too! I was in Japan. 😉

[@chavandposh]

i would believe that its 2022, if anyone has some smart phone, it hasnt changed much in Japan

[@Pauleypauley7]

When I watch videos like this I always wonder what those poeple are up to today, I hope they are doing okay.

[@Lensman864]

Indeed! Me too. We know what Keiji Kamikawa is doing, still playing great songs in Tokyo. Sadly the white haired percussionist is no longer with us according to Kamikawa san.

[@justaemptymall]

Back when Japan's economy was way better xD 😢

[@ojyochan]

I was living in Japan then❤

[@贅沢な悩み]

神宮橋(Zingu-Bridge) Harajuku Tokyo.

[@워라벨추구]

당황스러운 알고리즘. 하지만 뭔가 계속 보게 만듦

[@h05sn076]

原宿ではないけど、隣の渋谷にはまだSHIBUYA-AXがあったんだよな。SNSもmixiくらいで。USBメモリも手軽に買える価格が128とか256MB(GBの間違いではない)だった。秋葉原もまだ電気街だった。今とどっちがいいかわからないけど、今よりも落ち着いて過ごせた気がする。リーマンショックもなかった。ニートと言う言葉も生まれたてだった。ブックオフが全盛だった気もする。電子書籍とかなかったし、音楽はまだCDが主で、特典のPVにまだ価値があった。そんな自分はこの頃ハタチ。なりたいものには何にでもなれると思ってた頃。社会に揉まれて、生きるのに精一杯だよ。今の若い人たちは、今の時代を楽しく生きることができてるのかな。今は今のよさがあるのかな。おじさんになった自分には、知る由もない。

[@Lensman864]

We still have value friend! 👌

[@ビバやかおっちゃんギガマダム]

画質が綺麗なせいかあんま昔って感じがしない もう20年近く前の映像なのに

[@ПолинаИгнатова-л6е]

1:46 13:26 the original decora, the best, one and only

[@Lensman864]

Well spotted. 🫡

[@saikenn61]

Japan are really living in future, seems like doesn't change anything past to future. Japan are still same like on this video

[@gracelouise3091]

wow lol this was monthssss before i was born

[@seannam7048]

路上で普通にタバコ吸ってた頃なのに動画の画質が良過ぎて、なんか変な感じです。戻りたい。

[@mipikudon]

r.i.p. youth

[@Lensman864]

Indeed! 🫡

[@TheMichaelkim3]

🇯🇵 Best country in the world!

[@Genny-Zee]

Can I add…Great acoustics 17 mins in ❤

[@agtjdmg]

良い時代

[@BATMAN10N]

I wish to be updated if someone comments" that was me"

[@Lensman864]

Me too! 😉

[@Xrossbot]

18 years old video, all it misses is just smartphones. looks similar to today

[@Lensman864]

🫡

[@海内华人]

我当时15岁，喜欢吹风琴的女孩🥰🥰

[@HatsuneMikuo0001]

I call this the Visual Kei x Death Note year.

[@lil_hotweels6847]

時代を感じる

[@わわ-l8w]

2005年といえば東京で大学生やってたわ でもあんま大学もサボリ気味で家で２ｃｈとかwinmx,winnyばっかやってた気がするわ youtubeもなかったしな。

[@わわ-l8w]

ネトゲやってたな。。。

[@t.macrocosm1831]

Not in the frame, but I could hear right wing ultra nationalist nearby playing Japanese national anthem. Togo shrine is near Harajuku train station, which was named after Adm. Heihachiro Togo who defeated Russian Baltic fleet.

[@addicctt]

私が生まれにも４ヶ月前なの😊

[@ランチタイム-c3j]

2007年aru？

[@riyadhuladha3155]

are they still doing cosplay until now?

[@Lensman864]

Yes and no. They are definitely doing cosplay but a redesign of the Harajuku bridge has reduced or stopped cosplayer's attendance there.

[@typicallymeee]

i was 6 then 😭

[@thelegendarybovice]

How come nobody told me anime was REAL?

[@INTICE200]

That quality in 2005?

[@Lensman864]

Yes! 🙂

[@TobiSaiNakanori]

what camera was this shot on?

[@Lensman864]

A SONY HDR-FX1. The first consumer near HD camcorder. It's 1440 x 1080 but the 1440 is anamorphically stretched to 1920. It's got a superb lens and the low light capability is very good for the time.

[@mohican8860]

20years ago😱

[@Lensman864]

Almost 20 but yeah ... scary! ⏳️

[@Sr.U]

2023に比べて、オープンですよね。 この頃20くらいのこは、いま38歳近くなんだなぁ

[@わわ-l8w]

ちょうど21でした。。秋葉も物凄かったですね。秋葉は2006、2007あたりが。 もうなんかめちゃくちゃでしたね。だから2008年にあんな事件が起きた。

[@bangtan4ami]

if only fashion like this was normalized again, maybe i wouldn’t feel so shamed or embarrassed to wear and buy stuff like this.

[@Lensman864]

Wear what YOU want to and ignore 'fashion'. The people in my video were doing their own thing and not following fashion. Fashion is the death of creativity!

[@ピストルスター-n2n]

ピカチュウパーカー着てチャリで全力疾走してたギャルを思い出したわ 寝坊でもして遅刻したんかな

[@Eremikaluvr]

ليتني هناك

[@StrategySphere]

Honestly, not much has changed :)

[@Lensman864]

🙂

[@gadiel6206]

I don't know to start the Harajuku station dosent even exist today being replaced that beautiful meiji building by a normal moder station

[@StrategySphere]

@@gadiel6206 I should have clarified: in terms of the atmosphere of the place. I used to be there a lot between 2000 and 2010. A nostalgic video.

[@Lensman864]

That's sad; I liked that station.

[@alrn1282]

i was born in 2005

[@Gnarloo]

I wonder what the cameraman is up to these days

[@Lensman864]

Which cameraman? This cameraman is making content for this channel today and mowing the lawn. 😉

[@Gnarloo]

@@Lensman864 you lensman! I travelled to Japan for the first time last year and am really jealous of people who travelled before covid/ before japan became a popular tourist destination. But I was only 8 in 2005 so these videos are nice to watch. The old harajuku station is gone now but when I went back last month I thought of this video when going to meiji jingu. Why haven’t you been back?

[@Lensman864]

I was in Japan in 2008 and in Tokyo but not Harajuku. Since then I've been unable to return which saddens me.

[@あああ-i2s3f]

チェンジ。

[@Ameen_AAA]

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