What Rich Neighbourhoods in Tokyo are Like

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[michaelandrenio]

Every family has that one person who will break the family's financial struggle, I hope you become the one 😊

[PinkPixie]

I traveled to Tokyo with a college friend years ago. When we got there I found out her family was not just "Well off" like she had told me. They owned multiple floors in multiple skyscrapers around Tokyo. They had property in other countries with the big houses on them. So from what I gathered in my very culture shocked 19 year old self was the Rich of Japan don't keep their land assets in Japan, probably to the taxes. But you hit the nail on the head about the skyscrapers, they are Japan's gated communities. Many of them have grocery stores, shopping, and spas. There were days we didn't leave the building.

[deathblade]

As an architect, i find that japanese architecture modern and traidtional is really amazing. The homes might be cookie cutter, but they are far and beyond more design oriented than anything in any other country.

[ProXXy]

these narrow japanese streets always look soooo peacefull. Love it.

[Max_]

I truely hope there will be a third video, showing the "poor" areas of tokio.

[srbh]

About the coin parking lots - they appear for a reason, not just 'because people have to park somewhere'. The basic driver is that land that is unused is taxed higher than land that is used. So, once a property owner begins the process of rebuilding, they can't leave the land with nothing happening, so a coin parking lot becomes the 'something happening' and it gets taxed at the "being used" rate. I gather there are infinite dramas that occur within families that own property that can take years or more to get resolved.

[tintinchang]

As an architect, this style is considered “Japanese Minimalism”, which is a school of modernism. Tado Ando (安藤忠雄）is the master of such style, as you could see in his work, “ Church of Light” in Osaka, as well as many others. The concrete material is called “fair-faced concrete”, or “打放しコンクリート “ in Japanese. This concrete material is the key to bring a sense of wabi-sabi into the architectural style. However, the process of making perfect fair-faced concrete is expensive.

[intreoo]

Fun Fact: The wealth of the Tokyo Imperial Palace is not an overstatement. During the 1980s, the Imperial Palace was worth more than the entire state of California despite being 184, 445 times smaller. The 1980s were a crazy time in Japan.

[PortlyPete]

so you're telling me with the money it takes to buy a small two bedroom apartment an hour outside vancouver i could buy a giant mansion in denenchoufu?

[nomzhlf]

I like that Japan gives more flexibility for people to express themselves through their homes. It’s fun seeing a variety of architectural styles, and differently shaped houses.

[everythingisiconicifyoumakeit]

Japanese person living in Japan here. The houses showcased here are maybe mildly wealthy at most… a senior at my school is the son of a very wealthy businessman who’s pretty famous for founding one of the biggest companies in Japan. They have several penthouses in Tokyo, with a few mansions here and there spread out in the kanto region. I’ve visited one of their penthouses there(ultra-modern penthouse easily worth million dollars, probably 4 times the size of my relatively large house.) and my senior said that it’s one of the smallest places he’s lived in😂

[daveh]

Japan as a whole is such a calm feeling place. I was in Fukuoka for a few nights and it was almost eerie how quiet it was late at night. If I stood on a rooftop on a tall building and yelled at the top of my lungs at 2am, the majority of the city would hear me.

[ahnafj]

I always wondered why Japan has this cute, mystical, mysteriously small but large at the same time look and I realized, it's mostly because they don't have on street parking. It's all to a human size and scale

[SonnyO]

Some of the Sailor Moon characters lived in these neighborhoods (like Usagi and Ami), so yea, they were loaded.

[ciganyweaverandherperiwink]

I've been watching your videos since your first started this channel and I just wanted to comment and let you know that you just keep knocking it out of the park with your hard work, creative and educational approach. The visuals, the post-production editing, sound, graphics-- all of it. good dude. Much appreciated.

[edwardchester]

Fascinating to see the Den'Enchofu area. You get so used to the idea of small plots and houses in Japan/Tokyo that just seeing fairly large western-style homes really makes it feel like you're somewhere else.

[LifeWhereImFrom]

Like most projects, this started simple. Go out for a day and film some of Tokyo's rich areas. It turned out in multiple days of filming and many, many days of research about wealth and properties in Tokyo. I'm working on a video about Christmas and New Year's in Japan. I'm really behind, but hope to get it out before the year is over! Happy Holidays Everyone!

[nereidsprite]

My family lived across the street from Nabeshima Shoto Park, which you show in the video, in the early 1970s. It was very exciting and fun for a 7 year old boy and I treasure the memories. Thank you for including the area in this video. I still love Japan and studied the language for a few years.

[rodrigoccruz]

Thanks for the great video! It puzzles me that in a city where the crime rates are so low that there are so many high walls surrounding buildings. Privacy seems to be extremely important in contrast to Belgium where I live or the Netherlands.

[tenonee]

Architecture student here! the concrete buildings you see are definitely brutalist and modernist inspired. many buildings in japan take inspiration from multiple styles as a result of the freedom when it comes to custom housing. It's all very subjective, but the first building you showed and called a bunker is the most brutalist type I saw. Beautiful buildings and neighborhoods by the way, and very insightful and cool video!