[Music]
it is nearly one o'clock in the morning
here in tokyo
for the most part everything's pretty
quiet and i figured we'd
do a little exploring tonight it's been
a while since we've gone out in tokyo
and since lately i only really go out
into the city
at night i thought i would bring you
guys along today
[Music]
it's so green in here on the camera it
doesn't look this green in
real life it's more of a it's more of a
pale yellow right now we
are in ueno and this
is the ameyoko market at night without
any people
[Music]
it's been a long time since i've been
out here tonight it's considerably
cleaner than i remember and
much much quieter than i remember
usually there's
at least some people walking through but
tonight it's just been me and the
inebriated zombies
i've always loved the ueno and amayoko
area for everything that it has to
explore and discover find and do i
actually started my night in this area
up on a rooftop that has a beautiful
view
of the train tracks one of my favorite
photos i've ever taken was taken up
there
you know i'm actually i'm wondering what
the park looks like in the pond looks
like
at night especially on this camera so
let's go check it out
[Music]
it's really nice out here at night i
just can't believe that i can actually
capture it all on
this a7s3 is incredible you can see
stars like you see that you can actually
see
stars up in the sky the other night i
sat down by a river to shoot a video
and when i was done i realized that i
could kind of see some stars but the
camera
could really see it like this pond here
for example right now
this is what i see but the camera picks
it up
like this which is just absolutely
mind-blowing it's 1 31 in the morning
and there's a guy with a leaf blower
he's got a leaf blower
at 1 31 in the morning i don't know if
i'm more excited or more grateful for
how far technology has come like even a
year ago if i wanted to shoot
a video this late at night there's no
way in the world it would have looked
this good just wouldn't have been
possible even the video that i shot in
asakusa a few weeks back where i just
walked around with
this camera it just wouldn't have been
possible this
[Music]
i know it's just a camera i'm probably
far too excited but it opens up the
ability to
show you things in in a way that i've
never
like like the okay one of my favorite
spots has always been this
bench right here simply because let me
show you because of
this right here the way these buildings
and their light reflect off of the water
when you're sitting on this bench
this just makes it one of the most
beautiful places to just sit
and relax especially on a spring or
summer's night and then just walking
through here especially because during
the spring
this entire area is cherry blossoms
like i'm already super excited about
spring it is the end of
january right now and i've already got
the cherry blossoms
on the brain i can't wait i can't wait
you know what also come to think of it
yes
it is quiet right now but it's almost a
little
too quiet like where where is everybody
i could understand if it was
three or maybe four o'clock in the
morning there was no people whatsoever
but it's only like 1
30 in the morning at best right now like
keeping in mind that we are
in the middle of tokyo right now so if
it wasn't for the cars passing on this
road right here
it'd almost be like i was the only one
left
[Music]
i remember when pokemon go first came
out this entire
area here was just flooded with people
at two o'clock in the morning it's just
so weird to think of it now
and ueno park itself is right up those
stairs so
i this absolutely no people around thing
was
kind of funny at first but now it's
actually starting to get a little bit
creepy i'm
usually i'm really happy to have no
people around but i feel like we're
taking it just a touch too far this time
can we take just one second and
appreciate how nice that looks
[Music]
i have a weird void of people aside
are you starting to see what i mean
about the ueno
area at night there's just something
about the way the colors come together
in this area and the mix of the city and
the park and everything i just i love it
it is one of the
many many reasons why i've always said
if you're coming to japan especially
tokyo that ueno is a great
place to stay because it opens up so
much to see
do and explore at night especially if
you're jet lagged like if you're jet
lagged this is the place to be at least
the first couple nights in tokyo
come spend the minute very very worth it
so i have been in the park shooting
pictures for probably the better
part of 40 maybe 45 minutes now
at least at least we're we're well past
two o'clock in the morning
not a single i'm where is everybody
every so often i can hear somebody off
in the distance but just
far enough that you can't actually see
why is this like
did the people evaporate
this this is not making things any
better we're getting out of the park
whenever i do q and a's on the channel
one of the most common questions
i get is is tokyo safe to explore at
night especially for example if you are
a
solo traveler and i don't want to give a
resounding yes tokyo is definitely
safe despite it always feeling safer for
me because i've said it a billion times
before it doesn't matter where you go
people are people so there's always
going to be some form of risk so i would
say
if it's an option explore with somebody
and maybe avoid some of the more narrow
back streets like these
stick to the main streets stick to the
well-lit areas you're more likely to
have police boxes there if you do run
into oh
that's getting heavy you're more likely
to have police boxes there if you do run
into trouble
convenience stores and everything that
you can go into so
i i would say if you're a first time
explorer if you don't know the city or
the language that well
stick to the main streets but again it's
always
felt fairly safe to me and it is it is
late right now but
again a lot of places in japan like like
this park here
tend to be fairly well lit also so
kind of kind of adds to it and
now that we're getting back into the
city there's there's more construction
workers and i see people off in the
distance so we now know
officially that i am not the last man
standing on earth so
that's an odd comfort but speaking of q
and a's it has been such a long time
since we've done one that why don't we
do another one
i'll link a playlist of them at the end
and if you don't find the answer to
whatever question you have
drop it down below and maybe it'll make
it into the next video
and honestly for as much as i love this
camera
this camera and this lens combo
are incredibly incredibly heavy
this has been it's been a workout and
i've still got like a
30 40 minute bike ride ahead of me
tonight so
you