High-tech neon orgy that is Tokyo at night [high bandwidth]

kojikun · Post by **kojikun** » 2004-03-07 02:39am

I stumbled across this website while looking for photographs of Tokyo. Great pictures of the city at night, with stunningly beautiful photos of the hightech neon wonderland orgy that is this seemingly endless metropolis. Check out some of the pics:

Shinova · Post by **Shinova** » 2004-03-07 02:46am

LOL

Manhattan's NOTHING compared to this!

Makes me want more to at least visit Japan once in my life.

kojikun · Post by **kojikun** » 2004-03-07 02:47am

Oh, BTW, if you're not quick enough to look at the picture addresses, and since I completely forgot to link:

http://tokyoyakei.cool.ne.jp/

kojikun · Post by **kojikun** » 2004-03-07 02:49am

Sunbeams in the mist

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kojikun · Post by **kojikun** » 2004-03-07 03:01am

Neon technolust in Osaka, http://osakanight.xrea.jp/

[pics not working, it seems]

Ace Pace · Post by **Ace Pace** » 2004-03-07 03:57am

Ack, I KNEW I should have learned japanese. can't understand a word.

Tsyroc · Post by **Tsyroc** » 2004-03-07 04:42am

kojikun wrote:http://tokyoyakei.cool.ne.jp/tokyo/ginza/ginza-6.jpg

The adverstisement on the building to the right...isn't that the brand of whiskey that Bill Murray's character was making a commercial for in Lost In Translation?

Post by **Dalton** » 2004-03-07 09:16am

Shinova wrote:Manhattan's NOTHING compared to this!

Are you looking for a beatdown?

Post by **Mr Bean** » 2004-03-07 09:58am

Rarley has the word orgey been used in decent conversiation so well outside the monkey pit

kojikun · Post by **kojikun** » 2004-03-07 02:20pm

Tsyroc: Close. This says Suntory, and in Lost in Translation it had "Times" tacked onto the end, which could have been just part of the advert campaign.

Dalton: I'm from the Island as well, and even I have to agree. Manhattan looks quite tame in comparison.

DPDarkPrimus · Post by **DPDarkPrimus** » 2004-03-07 09:33pm

There's a reason you sleep with the curtains closed in Tokyo hostels.

Shinova · Post by **Shinova** » 2004-03-07 09:52pm

DPDarkPrimus wrote:There's a reason you sleep with the curtains closed in Tokyo hostels.

Aye, I can imagine that.

Another note: The fourth pic, the downtown one, looks a lot like the one used as a background in the original Tsukihime game (this only has significance for die-hard Tsukihime fans, all else, just turn your brains off and scroll past this post

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Hamel · Post by **Hamel** » 2004-03-07 10:30pm

I set one of the osaka photos as my wallpapar~!

There's something about lit up cities at night that make me go fantastic

SPOOFE · Post by **SPOOFE** » 2004-03-08 03:11am

I'm from the Island as well, and even I have to agree. Manhattan looks quite tame in comparison.

Manhattan when viewed through normal aperture with standard exposure vs. Tokyo with small aperture and a long exposure? Seems kinda one-sided to me...

kojikun · Post by **kojikun** » 2004-03-08 10:58am

SPOOFE wrote:Manhattan when viewed through normal aperture with standard exposure vs. Tokyo with small aperture and a long exposure? Seems kinda one-sided to me...

Hush you.

I've actually seen both with normal exposure. Manhattan doesn't come close. Ginza and Akihabara make their NYC equivalents look empty.

Spanky The Dolphin · Post by **Spanky The Dolphin** » 2004-03-08 11:00am

Well, even from space, the entire island of Japan seems to shine compared to the East coast of the US.

kojikun · Post by **kojikun** » 2004-03-08 11:08am

Islands, maybe?

Tokyo is ridiculous. IT's this semi-organic city with twisting, winding streets with places 10 times as neon-filled as Times Square every few blocks. The city spreads for more miles than NYC, and it's live-in population is larger. And for the total number of people working in the city, it's the largest on the planet with around 31,000,000. The two are close, but Tokyo tops NYC and goes beyond it with it's technolust.

Spanky The Dolphin · Post by **Spanky The Dolphin** » 2004-03-08 11:12am

It's not "technolust", whatever the fuck that is.

It's called a "higher standard of living."

HemlockGrey · Post by **HemlockGrey** » 2004-03-08 11:48am

You have over 12 million people crammed into one city (with, as Kojikun pointed out, a working population more than double that), and over 125 million people crammed into an area smaller than California. Of course its going to be bright and shiny.

Of course, they pay for their high standards of living with absolutely insane prices on everything that truly boggle the mind.

I'm going to be living in Japan next year. Though I'll be making forays into Tokyo and the mainland I'll actually be living on the island of Okinawa, which makes my heart glad because aside from the climate its much less expensive than the mainland. Tokyo's a great place to visit but too expensive to live there.

SyntaxVorlon · Post by **SyntaxVorlon** » 2004-03-08 01:16pm

kojikun wrote:Sunbeams in the mist :

http://tokyoyakei2.cool.ne.jp/fuji/fuji-21.jpg

To quote einy:
Spooj!
That is one beautiful picture.

As for the Tokyo skyline:
Looks like they're planning on destroying the universe with battalions of deadly white robots and evil, white, heavily beweaponed ships.

Spyder · Post by **Spyder** » 2004-03-08 05:48pm

This is what happens when you let case modders do the city planning.

Comosicus · Post by **Comosicus** » 2004-03-08 06:11pm

kojikun wrote:Sunbeams in the mist :

http://tokyoyakei2.cool.ne.jp/fuji/fuji-21.jpg

Now that's one cool pic.

kojikun · Post by **kojikun** » 2004-03-08 07:20pm

Spanky The Dolphin wrote:It's not "technolust", whatever the fuck that is.

Absolutely insatiable lust for hightech everything.

It's called a "higher standard of living."

Not quite. Japan is the home of computerized toilets and small market computer products whose run is well under 1/10th the American standards, solely because the Japanese are willing to buy relatively useless but novel pieces of technology simply because theyre cutting edge. Things like Sony's ridiculously tiny VAIO's that have been out for years in Japan. Such as Sharp's 3D LCD laptops which havent even hit american markets but whose technology is rumored to already be on some small-run PDAs.

The Japanese have an absurd lust for the newest hightech gear, and along with that comes a ubiquity of flashy ways to advertise the products as well as shops. It's a fucking technological and media orgy, and thats what creates this neon wonderland.

Shinova · Post by **Shinova** » 2004-03-08 07:32pm

I would also like to point out that this neon wonderland was created in a relatively short 50 or so years.

Comosicus · Post by **Comosicus** » 2004-03-08 07:38pm

Shinova wrote:I would also like to point out that this neon wonderland was created in a relatively short 50 or so years.

And require skills that should be usefull to any people.