/jp/ - Otaku Culture

>>25567309
I feel bullied with having such a nice photo in the OP.

>>25568549
I thought a bessho spotlight was long overdue

The 7th typhoon of the season showed up yesterday far away from Japan, headed for inland China. Given the last thread was kept alive for two months, we'll have a majority of typhoon season take place while this one is alive.

2019 had 17 total typhoon-class storms most of which occurred between August and November, the most notable of which (for our threads) were Faxai (15) and Hagibis (19). 2020, in comparison, up to this point has been very quiet. There have been no storms that pass directly over mainland Japan yet, only a single tropical storm that crossed through the southern island chain.

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC1kDVgEX2DsE295Bkum_K9Q
I like Shinjuku streams in general but having the little path to the right here is really nice.

I lowered the bitrate on this one in a funny way. Without the water, it went from 3.5mb to 1.1mb

>>25592033
Haha, nice little cheat

>>25592033
I hate it.

Damn. Too bad it is all from one of the RRRs and now I am bound to get more extra copies of this instead of a proper balanced ratio.

>>25603852
Not sure what thread you were going for but appreciate the bump

>>25604337
Different board even.

>>25592033
creepy as hell

>>25613933
But is it really? It's not much different than when a pond is frozen. I had always suspected most of the file bloat was from rippling water, it's good to know I have a workaround for when something just refuses to fit in the 3MB limit

Page 8 already, this will be a tough month vs. the idol threads

Not sure if this is the right place but but is there such a thing as a cafe or even starbucks stream? I feel like that would be comfy even without audio but I also I don't really expect it to exist.

>>25635668
best bet is

https://www.insecam.org/en/bycountry/JP/

don't have time to browse now

>>25592033
This is really cool. It's a handy workaround with a bonus "when you notice it" game that gives it a little otherworldly feeling.

It's just a smoke plume, r-right?

>>25643719
Definitely not what I expected to see.
RIP Japan.

>>25643719
someone call mothra!

>>25643782
Naaaaaah, Sakurajima does this all the time.

>>25592033
saved, thanks anon. mr.duck is so fucking cute.

>>25653589
I don't recall his exact age but he's around 35 now and they have merch in his likeness such as duck stickers and wrapped sweets. The name is Chousuke-kun (チョースケくん)

>>25653731
>Chousuke-kun
dawwwwwwwwwww thanks for the info anon. wish i could visit him and buy merch.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2OPsGG02_6w

While browsing the weather, I found a nice view in Fukuoka.

>>25655027
Can't keep up! There's heavy rainfall on the western coast, rain all over the UCV cameras in Nagano, a thunderstorm rolling through the Tokyo/Sendai rail cam, and I can only record one part of it at a time.

>>25655624
Super disappointed in VLC. It recorded 1 hour of the Fukushima train cam and kept 15 (fifteen) seconds of audio from the whole thing. Missed out on a lot of very loud thunder and relaxing rain that I was going to put on youtube for the thread. I have no choice but to screen record it overnight and try to render it tomorrow

>>25668987

>>25655027
ohori park
I used to go running in that park.

The other thing won't be ready today, but I have these two. First is a quick skim around select UCV cameras, second is the rain at the shrine.

filesize mysteries such as reducing the width to 1200 resulting in a larger file

>>25639480
and sometimes the process is already done

>>25635668
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Em-_svo04A

there's this kombini cam

/jp/ in the wild.

https://ebisu-circuit.tv/cam0000.html

New addition to the website is the multiple cams page, which would let you see the courses without having to tab between their individual stream. No idea if there's anything big in their schedule to use it soon

There's a moderate sized typhoon moving past Okinawa right now but nothing on the cams aside from rain. Winds are just strong enough (>25m/s) that both airport cams are a mess to listen to. I have not seen flooding yet but there are things like this: https://twitter.com/galleryyushibin/status/1297694572840013824 to show that the season has started

>news briefing from ANN yesterday
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_meWn2lg54I
>tracking
https://typhoon.yahoo.co.jp/weather/jp/typhoon/

>>25701285
https://www.jma.go.jp/en/typh/

>>25702697
Thanks, this is more comprehensive

>>25638695
>>25679118
I haven't found one yet, but thank you both, these are nice.

https://photohito.com/photo/9740080/

Aren't the schools closed? I've spotted uniforms

http://cam6284208.miemasu.net/nphMotionJpeg?Resolution=640x480&Quality=Clarity

greets. had some Pc troubles and have not been able to output that video yet, if I remember later I'll render it and cut it down to only the thunder and trains.

>>25728009
>Aren't the schools closed?
Nope. Summer vacation is over man.

>>>/wsg/3597179

Man, that really took a lot longer than it initially said. 15 hours in total for a mere 2.4gb - the first cut which is on the link below and is just the capture of the full scene, and then I'll work on a trimmed version from the same footage that should be less than 8 minutes. It's nothing spectacular, but I like listening to it. You can skim through to the middle for rainfall once it's processed.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6bUXGCIP07E

On an unrelated note, here's a cab view upload that was in my suggestions while uploading.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fIBJH6LOhus

>>25747723
Oh, now I see why. I made a horrible mistake and applied a full velocity envelope to the entire video because Vegas is an unintuitive piece of trash. That'd be why it took so long to render.... and why I probably need to reupload it anyway.

This is a better link to click.. I organized it to have the thunder and rain at the start, then most of the train passes, and ending it with the pretty tune that sounded off in the afternoon. Please enjoy.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QCdX1znCeGk

>>25750677
thanks!

>>25592033
I like how the guy notices the water is temporally glitched but just goes about his day while the goose is determined to save our world.

Hm, I guess I'll toss this a bump in the meantime
and yes, the outline of the volcano is only there during certain hours

http://221.240.76.74:8888/stream.html

I hope this isn't around for long, but it was some unique people watching

fin

fin. Interestingly no safety footwear given the job involves picking things up and maybe dropping them.

>Needs to be 4k so we can see the people clearly.
>Family mart directly below the cam
>Sometimes cool people on the balcony right infront of the cam
>Location is inferior and view is inferior to last cam by a very long way
>We can see the word Game Plaza clearly
>The music is still amazing
>The area is just not as active, not as many drunks or people around in this laneway in general.

>>25669013
>http://221.240.76.74:8888/stream.html
Really? I use to go there with dates or on a Sunday night and mull over killing myself.

How long were you in Fuk?

Nice little youtube with old Japan footage I found.

>>25805912
did you mean to link to Lyle or something

>>25810015
Yeah I am retarded and drunk.

https://www.youtube.com/user/whreimgon

>>25812010
https://www.youtube.com/user/lylehsaxon/playlists

this lad's been uploading for longer than I thought

>>25794014
Unfortunately only between once and twice
a year for 3 to 4 weeks. (since 2012)

When I'm in Fuk I live in Susenji.
Still waiting that Japan open up again.

Friendly reminder.

>>25788769
a bit creepy but neat! they must have high safety standards there with all that stuff they use
>>25849627
I don't get it

>>25849627
I've got trains and foreign dramas

>>25849627
>military
>not problematic
>normal

Please, military otaku are the worst.

>>25857830
I've worked with some and they were ok. Much less cunty than Idol Otaku.

>>25860454
Maybe I just haven't seen the "bad" train otaku, but idol otaku have always struck me as the worst of the bunch

>>25860507
Idol Otaku are trash. Train ones can be pricky but only in specific circumstances. Same with Mil ones. Most of the time Train or Mil are decent enough and you can have a conversation with them.

>>25849627
>eroge more normal and harmless than anime
Really makes you think.

I don't want to create a thread for this, so I'll ask here. Do you guys have any recommendations of documentaries or movies about Japan? It can be either about the Japanese society and cultural festivals or about some specific places or regions. Many years ago I've watched a documentary called A Life in Japan (it's free on YouTube), where a bunch of foreigners living in Japan talked about their perceptions of the Japanese society and culture. It doesn't need to be something made by gaijins though, I'd also like to see some made by Japanese people themselves.

>>25860773
i disregarded the chart entirely as soon as I saw that internet games was a diametric opposite of video games.

>>25860889
Tokyo Ga was recommended a few threads back

>>25860889

https://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/programs/

Japanology Plus
Core Kyoto
Journeys in Japan
Seasoning the Seasons
Document 72 Hours

some of the older episodes could be on youtube

>>25872606
Leddit used to have a big list of mega links to HD versions of Japanology Plus episodes, but the account was deleted and everything was lost.
The torrent folder for the series I have that is mostly standard definition is around 130gb but I don't remember where I got the magnet

I look away for a few days and there's another typhoon spinning past the southern islands.

Here's a list of my bookmarked channels that are on the Okinawa island.
Naha airport
>https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCWzx-v_6kdTKi3oXhWOK1FA
Naha street view
>https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC-jBJkLN89AlQp6eeCNnnWg
"banksy", a cam overlooking a street intersection somewhere
>https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCCpZAU0b2vZv598fDBlTlqw
831okichan, which has a variety of views near the coast
>https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCo_JM-fsLQQLz8hovcKkK0A
and, of course, Cahaya Bulan cafe which seems to have a tiny bit of audio, maybe they forgot to turn it off this week
>https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC-NuZ8QbpIIDK8ZhzsOyEpQ

>>25653731
How long do these kind of ducks usually live? 35 seems like a quite high number.

>>25849627
Were train otaku always that high on the list, or did they shoot to the top after what happened to KyoAni?

>>25888308
Always. It is kind of a meme, kind of not. Because train otaku are seen as some of the most harmless and meak otaku, but combined with how crazy they are about their trains people also often seem them as very creepy and suspicious.

>>25888571
maybe they got associated with those weirdos that take candids shots

>>25889161
Still arguably better than being associated with arson and murder.

>>25889161
Don't think so, but maybe, who knows.
>>25889479
Well, yeah, the anime otaku took that one.

>>25889510
>Well, yeah, the anime otaku took that one.
Nah mate, that one's on train otaku now too, the Kyoani arsonist was a train otaku.

>>25876658
No clue, pal. I am surprised by it too.
Cahaya Bulan took down their camera before the storm's inner part hit the island directly, and repositioned it to look down the beach a bit for an angle they've never used.

Dreary as the day began

>>25893316
I misspoke. They were still fairly far from the eye and it would never have been a direct hit. The strongest winds passed over night with nothing to show for it however.

>>25867995
Thanks anon, I've actually downloaded that when an anon from here made it available.
>>25872606
Thanks for the recommendations, I'll look into them. Japanology is great.

In addition to the NHK site, I've found these sources for Japanology. There are a lot of episodes so I don't know if it's missing some.
https://nyaa.si/view/1039976
https://www.dailymotion.com/japanologyplus/videos
As a bonus pic related is Peter and his wife.

>>25894760
It looks like that nyaa torrent is the one I referred to in >>25872743, but like I said, any better quality versions of what's in there have been lost to time due to some asshole removing his account and it wasn't able to be found on the cached page.

>>25893316

>>25669013
Caught something while mousing over the duration. The camera detected an obstruction (stray cobweb) and tilted back to try wiping it away, then panned to the side of the building and remained there. A dragonfly went up to the camera and brushed the web away, and then the camera later returned to its original position. As it panned, I was able to see a lot of the nearby scenery.

Here's the footage, trimmed: https://streamable.com/67wlex
I'd also be interested to know what that gentle sort of chime/beep sound is. It's also present in the background of the Aomori airport camera, but here I had to boost the audio to notice it.

>page 10

https://soranews24.com/2019/05/31/we-just-wanted-to-see-them-stop-four-train-otaku-arrested-for-throwing-smoke-bombs-at-trains/
>“We just wanted to see them stop!” Four train otaku arrested for throwing smoke bombs at trains

Rare catch.

>>25917779
thanks for the rescue

By the way, the Nyaa torrent here >>25894760 of Japanology includes some episodes about Tokyo's Rail Network, railways and the Shinkansen.

>>25903064
dragonfly is a true bro

Makurazaki cam made it onto Weather News this morning

Beautiful sunset in Daiba.

>>25929960
Stunning.

>>25567309
One day I will make the trip here

Typhoon 10 is now equal in pressure and speed to 9, should see concrete stats on its intensity by tomorrow night.

Towards the end of the old camera's lifespan this autofocus did actually ruin some good images

>>25949327
Authorities say it is the most powerful typhoon that has appeared in the past 50 years and could devastate some Japanese islands and wreak havoc on the Korean peninsula.

>>25949327
https://twitter.com/UN_NERV

They shut down the Dotonbori stream?

>>25953957
Stronger than Hagibis, and stronger than Jebi the year before it? No one would be ready enough

>>25967306
I have no idea which storms you're talking about because Japan only really uses numbers.

>>25974033
I understand.
Hagibis was 2019 台風19号
Jebi was 2018　台風21号

Keeping a close eye on that typhoon and found some supplementary info:
>has dropped to 920mba and become a cat 4, intensifying steadily
>changed course to lean more westwards towards Korean peninsula but will still impact the western prefectures
>will be all but gone from Japan's shores by Sunday evening as it continues north
Okinawa is hit hard o matter what, and I expect the limited selection of cams to be affected within 10 hours. It's almost the 2 year anniversary of posting this image in /aizu/ after the Cahaya Bulan western pathway wall broke.

https://twitter.com/umomousio/status/1300589132415082496

>>25998158
There is something fascinating about the dedication of otakus to their hobby and the zero amounts of shits they give about the stigma from normalfags.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eOER1jzBJdA
Iwato Hotel getting more free advertisement from the weather news.

>>26012577
Alert level 4 issued for Manami Osumi town, which is not very far from that camera. Level 4: prompt evacuation or take higher shelter if you cannot leave

>no one posts the best camera for following typhoons that hit japan
Sad Himawari noises.
https://himawari8.nict.go.jp/

>>26022337
Thanks for the resource. It looks like I will have to go to sleep and miss all of the Kyushu landfall. Okinawa didn't get too much, the storm stayed far enough east and passed by Amami instead.

>>26022546
I don't get it. Why are the heavy rain reports on the opposite side of the landmass than where the typhoon's actually going past?

Here's a band of rain that made its way over the coast of Shizuoka.
Webm coming tomorrow since I missed the first opportunity to cap it rolling in. Clear to dark in 3 minutes flat.

Posting the result of >>26026301 in the absence of any and all discussion. Where are the train folk?
https://streamable.com/ag6rg6

Couldn't even go back to look at the Makurazaki cam for high tide because most of the area (and surrounding prefectures) had a power outage. Stream stopped after 6pm and didn't pick up again until 5am. There are some cam placements in Saga、Nagasaki, and Miyazaki that were too dark to see anything. Also a 3.0 earthquake off the coast of Ibaraki as I typed this blob.

>>26054360
What's the link to the camera, anon? Great view.

>>26057824
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GjemgjZHO1k

>>26057883
Thanks, friend.

rainy morning

>>26061948

>>26057883
Shitty screencap but this is nice.

>>25888308
>>25888571
foamers were always seen as crazy people. Even americans have their own set of trainfan loonies. It's probably more apparent in Japan because of how advanced their train system is

>>26079958
I saw train autism discussed as something with a low barrier of entry because the organization is already in place - compared to birdwatching or other hobbies, nothing in trains is spontaneous and there's no onus on the observer to try and discover things themselves. You simply watch ridid schedules, routine maintenance, etc. because all of it is in a massive organized system. I guess there's gawking over specs and developments in the tech, but that's hardly unique

>>26090839
I don't really know much about the trainfan culture but from what I know about them, they would go ballistic whenever you take a picture of an electric locomotive and not removing the cable wires in photoshop

>>26102497
Well then I'd do it on purpose with a smile.

The zoom on this thing is incredible.

>>26103207
Who controls it?

>>26113842
Not sure. I know it isn't a viewer-controlled cam, and that it must have an auto function build in to clean itself as seen >>25903064, but that action was particularly spontaneous and was followed by being aimed directly at a sunny sky for >14 minutes afterawrds

>>26103207
That's what real cameras have been cable of for a while now. Phones only now are starting to catch up on the zooms.

>>26115556
In the 90s I had a handicam that could zoom to more than 70 feet away without losing much quality.... but this is a few hundred feet, took me by surprise

>>26123160
>>26115556
>>26103207
I have an 800mm prime lens as part of my photog kit, which I think is the equivalent of a 16x zoom. It's crazy how far it reaches. My guess for that cam in maybe 250mm-350mm lens.

>>26124216
Do you do sports with it, wildlife? I know lenses that long need a ton of light coming into them.
>>26115556
Phones will never catch up as long as the lens is the size of a gumdrop. Physically can't, digital zoom only goes so far. That said, my smartphone currently takes better (in certain situations) images than my Rebel XS kit I got ages ago.

Currently watching


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IqMDTw-4GfQ


This was cool

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3E68C8R2fpA&t=15019s


Old but gold
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RQA5RcIZlAM

>>25860961
internet games probably include gacha games and mobas which I do agree is a very autistic community

>>26130667
Far worse thing than gambling addicts spending their salaries on jpegs, imo.
I'll try to bring some content webms later this week

>>26130667
There are far worse things than gambling addicts spending their salaries on jpegs, imo.
I'll try to bring some content webms later this week

>>26124510
Sports mainly, although given the price I paid for it I've tried to use it as much as I can so it's also been out for wildlife, landscape (you'd be amazed how many people ignore long lens for that) and even some deep sky astrophography.

https://twitter.com/mao9821/status/1299624452234248192

Just clearing up some files. Nothing spectacular here.

>>25568549
Why?

>>26069137
nice

A new KABUKICHO with a great view, no music though. Interrupted my workout to come post this.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VMRMtQUgpKc

Many moons ago an ANON emailed me all the ripped music from the original Kabukicho cam and I wanted to say thanks, they're so calming!

Apologies for my Reddit space, bad habit in the interest of being clear. I fucking hate Reddit.

>>26258430
Too late, authorities have been contacted. You're going to the slammer. It is fun to piss people off by purposely dumping line breaks in arguments though

>>26259112
Honestly, you're talking to a guy with 50 reddit accounts just to manipulate and hurl abuse at lefties and virgin cunts. You'd be hard pressed to find anyone in there thread who has dedicated as much time to pissing off those cunts as me. If I started screenshoting all my banned accounts the entire thread would be derailed. I even joined up under 'murderbrackpeople'

>>26262715
Sure, just don't forget your time on this earth is fleeting and all that energy could be spent elsewhere while they self-destruct in misery anyway. Sometimes I like arguing with people but get cognizant of how much of my day has been sucked away by doing it.

>>26258430
>>26262715
trying way too hard

>>26258336
>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VMRMtQUgpKc
Thanks anon. Been down that street a fair few times. Cosy to see it now.

Could some please translate this? Its on a Kimono. Thank you in advance.

>>26273916
ask on Hellotalk or something

bump

Thread needed a bump again, so here are my JP cabview playlists again, haven't posted them in a while:

4K only: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL0ACQ-6KbEaygaJzfO-8NV8esGZlvhaOO

Everything: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL0ACQ-6KbEazVa4zjt8g04YyvKd19WpSu

>>26325822
It's this stupid hololive shit making even more catalog spam than before

New water-facing stream from Hayama, Kanagawa
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCd4bLjkx26G2fWcHoy9ytBQ

In much bigger news, the Kagoshima City cam was re-upped with audio. No idea how long.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WCzHpvAoYRY

cool thread

>>26398531
Thanks for saving us, I was working on a quick render.
Shirahama beach cam is low fps, I got the water looking better by doubling the speed.
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCZBtrisIssVz8n0NbeHvlPA

and page 7 already. I see no way out of this until hiroshimoot finally makes a /3djp/ or something.

bumping only thread I like.

two years ago
I spoke to a Nagano area resident this week. They were puzzled why I wanted to visit this shrine, calling it barely a minor tourist attraction. They wouldn't understand...

>>26448353
What? Why did you speak to an official? Or they approached you after they saw you there? This week?

>>26453958
No, I should have reformed the post to make a bit more sense.
The screenshot is from two years ago and the conversation was over the internet when they asked what I wanted to see eventually.

>>26454046
I actually understood that the picture is old and the conversation not.
But why did you write to them to begin with?

>>26454158
I talk to people for language practice and they happen to live in the prefecture.

>>26454502
Oh. I just realized you said "resident". I don't know why and how I turned that into some local government employee.

>>26455156
I would only attempt to reach the government if it meant the Ikushima Tarushima cam got extra funding so they could go back to the previous quality.

>>26455156
I did the same thing, for some reason read it as "area official". Weird.

if we archive, we archive

>>26477516
Sorry. I should be more mindful of it too. Soon I will get around to finish the updates that I started for the github too.

>>26477848
I'm just patiently waiting for more storm developments to follow. Few more months and I can stay entertained by the Hokkaido airport.
there's an absence of a few regulars to help combat the catalog bs. I wish we could move sites if a board split never comes.

I have a folder of raw footage that up until now I haven't done too much with, and a lot of it is the shrine cam from last year. I have uploaded them as is, to clear some room on my drive.
I can't guarantee any of this is worth skimming through, but it will be populated with 10 or so videos by tomorrow.
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLB_WgseYTXfbhXRSrvKyp_AEsDqUvYsHv..

>>26509921
I accidentally put a period after the URL, sorry aboot that

bumping before going to sleep

>>26273599
Has been my favourite cam running constantly for weeks now. When I posted it was averaging around 13 views and we're now up to about 40-60 people usually now.

It's so cool to watch the entire street space completely change from clubs, partying drinking, hots girls and salaryman into normal work people!

What surprised me is this area is going off every single night!

>>26554521
Especially when I compare it to the only other kabukicho stream I have:
>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kUeDK-f2IMk
you get so much more to look at

>>26554521
The fact one of our regulars is a /soc/fag or something is kind of depressing.

>>26554801
could be a long-haired cat aficionado that was born just before the disco era

>>26554801
Shut up pedo.

>>26554730
I loved the old Kabukicho but that building was apparently demolished. I've posted screenshots of the old locations many times and even screenshoted myself there. This is the cam has been changed since I last went there, looks like he has turned it to face the other way. Tbh it suffers badly as it's too high up, the cam isn't 4k and the view is simply inferior to what it once was.

The most recent Kabukicho I posted is pretty amazing desu, absolutely addicted to it. This and this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jEhIe2SDKso for people watching.

I was spending a lot of time on this one as well: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BQYKarjjWi0

When you blow the above rail cam up on a 55inch TV as I do it looks absolutely amazing, you can get so many small details.

On Sundays you can see the seven stars Kyushu train. It leaves Hakata sometime around 4.20pm and 5.30pm Japan time. This is another great cam.

We are spoilt for choice, things are improving and there is far more variety.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IImsKwGrGFk

>>26557125
Are we talking about the same cam that had the dudes leaning on the railing all the time, just off to the right side?

>>26557125
Oh also, I've uploaded something just for you to the raw footage playlist. It'll probably show up by tonight since it's a fairly large file.
6 hours of people watching from the Shibuya cam on Halloween night last year. If only it had sound!

>>26557660
Periodically yeah there was a guy there...the only half decent view was the pachingo center downstairs I think.
>>26557767
And omg thank you so much, do you have a link? I have most of the cams saved in a playlist but needs a weekly update as things come and go both online. I'd love a link.

Halloween is a big deal in Japan, was lucky enough to participate in one!

Taro Aso is 80 a smoker and still at the highest level of government, moment of respect for /our guy/ #lookathiscommenthistory

>>26560267
Link is here >>26509921
It's 60% processed and will appear as [Deleted video] in the list until that's done.
There were complaints that Shibuya had way too many people last year and was close to a 'crowd crush'

>>26560349
>https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLB_WgseYTXfbhXRSrvKyp_AEsDqUvYsHv

Subscribed, there is actually a lot of interesting stuff in there, awesome, thank you. Should be in the sticky.

For those seeking the music from the Kabukicho cam I can post if needed someone from youtube who probably posts here sent them all to me.

>>26560674
My intent was not only to clear backlog but provide permanent archives of things to stare at. The shrine cam sucks nowadays because it's so hard to see on windy days when the bitrate tanks, so i can just pull up an old video from two summers ago and get the proper experience

Kamikochi Kappabashi Bridge was featured on WN

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6cj8Y2wRgpA
The lack of lanes and cars just sort of moving as they see fit is kind of funny.

>>26600465
Love that video. Some 20 years later the Television was the center of the world as was Japan.

You must of got recommended the same video as I watched that too after I subscribed to that other blokes Youtube playlist :)

So does watching these help anyone or are we all just feeling shit when we watch these because we're not back in Japan.

>>26646119
I've never been there so I'm speaking for myself, but it does bring comfort to my soul when I find a nice summer day to stare at. I'm less into people watching and more into trying to be in another place, observant of its changes.

>>26627166
Dear /jp/ what does it take to make you stop staring into the flame and fiddling around? I can't help but see a lot of gif posting slugs hanitating this in, and it concerns me that your bed clothes all seem a bit more worn out than would seem likely in such an active place? Then there's the smell of all that wasabi, it's all over the place! Thanks for your tweets today, I'll just expect to have your response in about two minutes give or take a full second.

>>26646119
It is just chill man. As the other said, it is not necessary even about people watching even.

>>26658496
Yup. And since I'm always interested in checking out cams during typhoons, I've been adding to my entry knowledge of cyclones in general. Indirectly /aizu/ made my brain the more biggerest.

>>26646119
It's always helped me. I can' be in Kabukicho but I can keep track of the nights shenanigans. I can't be involved in Japanese every day life at the moment but can sure keep track of it.

>>>/wg/7656792

overnight content bump

Based Japanese space cam tracking storms.

>>26705878
Where the hell did this come from?
I was looking last night at talk of a brewing storm in the Phillipines Sea, not even a day has passed and it's already near Kyushu. The shape looks subtropical there

Interesting, this one has a path that skews up the southeastern Honshu into the capital.

>>26708221
The path has been moving more eastward all morning.
Early it was more through Nagoya, so it might end up just swiping southern Honshu. But it doesn't look like too bad a storm.

>>26708646
indeed. no visible eye and winds below 50 m/s still, probably petering out to tropical storm soon.
guess it gives people a bit of a break, unlike the folks in SE Texas that are getting so many storm surges I'd just give up and put all my shit in an upstate house for the next season

>>26057883
This is quickly becoming one of my favourite webcams.

>>26708221
That reminds me, it's going to rain tomorrow
Got to take my clothes off the line

>>26719306
>guess it gives people a bit of a break
Japan has been pretty quiet in terms of typhoons this year.
Sure, we had those two before, but they mostly hit Korea. Most of Japan didn't even get rain from them.

>>26728171
Right. I spoke to a friend in Fukuoka and he said it was pretty much minor by the time it arrived, as usual the southern islands and Kumamoto take a battering.

Moving off east.
There'll be rain, but not much.

The Fab Four at Yunokami-onsen Eki?

>>26743830
Probably some noticeable storm surge in the Tokyo bay area from what I can see on the satellite loops but not much rain.

>>26803614
thanks, forgot all about the thread today

>>26600465
Costa Rica was like this, supposedly its actually safer because people drive slower and more cautiously.

>>26803665
footage i've seen of India, Vietnam, Thailand, etc. shows they don't actually have rules of the road and you just play Frogger every time you want to get across

>>26803724
A guy I know from India told me the same thing.

Not sure if it fits here, but I've found a really good channel of walks around many different japanese locations. Very high quality, well recorded image and stereo, uploads very often. Liked it a lot.

Fireworks.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T5JzYSlRFNU

This one below is stamped to a 車窓 bit he films while riding a train.
https://youtu.be/_0Ce8qNbbc0?t=2657

>>26823812
Rambalac is a favorite here. Happy to see he started making videos again recently.

>>26824143
Same. I like that he just keeps quiet and lets you immerse
I don't have the hardware to view 4K without lag or I'd have organized a bunch of my favorites on local storage.

>>26325822
Yes I remember your cabview playlists from last time, great stuff I'm still watching through them.

>>26833409
I have an unlisted playlist that has an additional 1,100 videos in it that I'm slowly filtering into the public playlists too (there's a mix of Japanese and non-Japanese stuff in it). I was hoping with the 'rona that the level of this content would slow down a bit to let me catch up but that never happened, I guess because they're already used to wearing masks over there that it never really became an issue in the end.

>>26838632
I don't know if you can say that they haven't been affected by corona because JR has been suffering from low demand these past few months, but yeah nips definitely handled it well, unlike other countries with a even lower population density, Japan didn't have to do a total shutdown because wearing masks and the like were already socially enforced.

>>26846787
Japan just couldn't do total shutdowns, because of their laws. Still, people were told to and mostly they listened. If you think a lot of Japan wasn't closed, you are wrong. And it is not just foreign tourists that are missing. Though now that the government is saying "I-It is okay to travel internally now" a lot of people are listening obediently again and jacking off to how great GoTo is.

>>26856307
I honestly don't blame them for trying to start up internal tourism again.
This shit is hard on businesses. Especially tourist businesses. What can they do to pay the bills?
But watching the statistics, even though the number of cases started increasing late June, it peaked about mid August and has been on the decline again since.
Japan isn't going to manage a situation where they've eradicated the virus, but it doesn't seem to be out of control, either.

>>26862401
Yup. Japan has a lot more to lose in regards to small business. Any back street in Toyko has some small shop that couldn't stay open if they were told to take two weeks off yet still pay property tax and utilities.

I'm altogether very surprised in a good way that we're at September and things are still going alright in that regard.

Kanna cam was only on for a brief time this year, regrettably. Here's something from last spring instead

anti hologarbage bump

>>26862401
Fuck why is the IQ so low here. It's Americans of course.

OPEN but not OPEN to tourists, Jesus mate you deserve a fucking slap.

"Japan's borders remain closed to international tourists"
https://www.japan-guide.com/news/alerts.html

>>26929022
How is Olympia 2021 still a thing with
this panic?

>>26929022
What.
What are you even talking about. We're talking about internal tourism here.

>>26943780
obviously someone more concerned with being angry than reading closely

>>25929960
sunsets at Daiba are indeed quite pretty.

Some intense and pretty colours right now

>>26258336
finally stopped raining

https://twitter.com/k14159265/status/1307557794770423809

>>26996692
The camera really doesn't do it justice.

>>26754671
They should be careful. The train could come at any moment.

I knew rail is flexible but nothing like this.

>>27084721
Thank you for keeping the thread bumped.
I have not been able to view streams the past few days

>>25747723
>http://www.shimogo-live.jp/
Thank you for making these.

>>27111641
the links below that are better, I made an 'abridged' version and put it in a playlist.
At this point all that's left in my old render backlog are a few attempts to make a timelapse (sure as shit won't be a 3MB webm) and deal with leftovers. Then I am finally free until the Hokkaido airport starts getting snow again.

Rare, also a parking nightmare I'd imagine.

>>27118442
Means they have a ton of money to pay Japan's retarded vehicle fees. One whammy from emissions and another from displacement, no?

>>25696868
Whoa. Did you get pictures of inside? I'm dying to know what it looks like inside.

I have a mild interest in station jingles. Is it only JR stations that have them or do other stations have them as well? Is there some place to download said jingles?

Furthermore, is there a cam for Matsuyama, it has a soft spot in my heart.

>>26971782
very pretty (from a borrowed Nikon 35mm)

>>27131384
Far as I remember that photo's at least 3 years old, maybe 4

>>27131391
What in the goddamn is that architecture across the water?

>>27134576
I want to say its an optical illusion.

>>27131384
1st 2 minutes of this has some interior footage
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RwcdaecnflQ

>>27134576
You mean this building?
It's a hotel, or two, and restaurants and stuff.

>>27131384
you can also go inside on google maps
just search for Aizu-Wakamatsu Station

>>27134576
Like >>27140167 said, some hotel. There's also the FujiTV station that has the sphere in the middle which looks rad.

>>27140167
Looks mostly normal there. In the pic above it looks like a crooked, sagging lump of glass.

>>27139945
>>27140385
Thanks! I have an overwhelming urge to explore places I can't.

>>27188543
What model is the blue one?

1992

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gugzhkp_UUQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AY5FsE8oPdk

>>27203635
when I see this in part 1, I just think "wow, what a desolate shithole that must be"

>>27205478
Compared to what?

>>27205591
I dunno. Unending walls of identical balconies reminds me of fucking Kowloon or the old USSR commieblocks. It's not nice to look at and not nice to live in, but that's life on a tiny island with over 100m population almost all of which are dumped into two cities.

>>27205623
What are you even doing on /jp/?
Not even full 10 million people live within the "Tokyo City" itself. That's hardly "all in two cities". You should first realize what a city actually is.
Second, houses are way more widespread and preferred in Japan than high apartment buildings. Even most apartment buildings would be like 2-3 stories high. If you think about it I think even you will realize a few of the possible reasons for that.
Third, there is no culture of decorating balconies or even doing things on them other than laundry. Though that has been slowly changing. So they are usually small and just for that, laundry.
And last, same-looking balconies and buildings exist all over the world, including any other first-world city. It is just how buildings usually get made and it makes sense. Plus when you are inside you don't care how much your balcony and general room layout is like your neighbor's.

>>27205796
Just a depressing aesthetic, that's all.
I admit I shoulda looked up the population placement, I knew the Tokyo metropolitan had a ton. But I also know there's places like Warabi where no one has room for a house.

>>27206032
The "metropolitan" area includes many cities and several different prefectures, including parts that are considered "inaka". That is the 37 million number that you see people parroting like mindless idiots.
And the second city you are thinking of is probably Osaka, except this time it is not even in reality the Osaka Metropolitan area, but Keihanshin, which includes Kyoto and Kobe too.
Though in reality the second biggest city in the country is not Osaka, but Yokohama, which is part of the Tokyo Metropolitan Area.

anti-holospam bump

UP!

>>27235539
>>27220269
Goddamn Hiroshimoot please make a /holo/ board or something.

>>27235689
prease understand I can make 7 video game boards but it's too much to ask for anything eceleb related to get quarantined

bump for fuck holoshit

Tried making some winter snow webms but the bitrate... I can't do it.

>When I posted the Kabukicho cam there were 13 viewers, now over 1000 every single night. It's pretty amazing.

>Of the new stuff I really like this one
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PKOEs9WdLTI

>>27268397
I've had it open for almost a week now.

>>27268660
Forgot my image.

The old Kabukicho has the music but the view is just sadly trash...it can't match the vibrancy of the new one.

>Anyone got a working youtube downloader that isn't spyare?

?https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Naon7V8Sx6M&t=3s All these old one's can be ripped and archived for our memories, I've only managed to grab 1 or 2 though.

>>27268693
Very cool.

>>27268397
I just noticed this is not from today. Who is the person circled in red?

>>27268955
Haha just from the other night for a few nights in a row that suspicious black guy most likely a Nigerian pretending to be America arrived and jsut sat there scoping out the situation at about 4am Japan time, he was up to something.

>I am archiving a few of these now. Only in 720p though, using https://www.y2mate.com/convert-youtube/oE0OtKRR_4s as it's all I could find.

>>27268740
http://ytdl-org.github.io/youtube-dl/index.html

>>27269043
I remember him, he stood around for a while talking to some other guy and then later I saw him sitting down. Were I the owner of that sushi place I would have been pissed since he was near the door but then again I've never seen anyone go in there yet.

>>27269202
Are you quoting someone?

>>27269288
It's a sushi place on the corner? Can you circle it? I thought it was late night Ramen or something. And no, formatting issues.

>>27269319
I think I just saw the Nigerian on the stream

Police are up to something, saw 3 more walking that same direction a couple minutes ago.

>>27269777

>>27269427
I didn't know the exact location thanks for posting this. Is he still there, he is up to something shady. I am going to go there and screenshot myself on cam when I can. Japan may open to my country with low covid numbers soon. Also I am pretty sure I've seen the sushi shop owner come out of there one morning at about 7am

>>27270420
I've seen what looked like the owner come out once in late afternoon and I've seen supply vendor's going in during the day. Not sure if its because of the virus or that's just how it normally is. I could have missed something easily though. Its unlikely my country will be allowed entry any time soon unfortunately. I can't think of any way around it other than taking a cargo ship that would be at sea for 14 days. Not sure it is even possible now with covid.

>>27268505
Nice audio for a train cam, I can hear all the bustle.

>>27272274
I'll post photos when I am there hopefully, who knows if or when as I need to do Europe as well and stop spending all my time and money in Japan.

Tokyo Ga:
https://mega.nz/file/jH5B0BzL#MfJsw7LTgcX1hoia4wkgg91VtdeFxRqYjOVHIfCwvwM

台風14号 is upon us. Intensifying in the next few days and on course for Ryukyu/Kyushu.

>>27288269
It was 15 that gave us the most trouble last year, and almost to the day.

>>27276372
There's some new guy there, he keeps saying things to girls who walk by. At first I thought he was asking for directions but it looked like he was the one giving them directions.

>>27294178
When you say "us" do you mean where you are locally? 19号 had far greater impact and economical damages than 15号, which was in September

>>27310946
I could be misremembering which number it was.

>>27312075
You probably were, I was really busy saving shit from twitter on the days of 19. That was the flooding that collapsed the iron bridge in Ueda and swamped all those shinkansen trains.

>>27313026
That sounds like the one. Flooded out Marumori is southern Miyagi, flooded out a town on the coast north of me which the Canadians shoveled out.
Bit of flooding in Ishinomaki, but nothing bad where I am. Just rained a lot and got lots of emergency evacuation alerts.

The last king of Scotland arrived!
I remember this guy. I convinced him I was deaf last time I was over there but instead of hassling me less it made him more forceful. He's lost some weight since.

>>27346213
Is this the Nigerian dude mentioned above?
All of them have a terrible reputation as hustlers to scam tourists (or worse)

>>27348614
This isn't the same one. Skinny is the one who was on here before but he's part of the same group. I find them funny, if you're retarded enough to fall for their gambit you kinda deserve it.

>>27348614
Didn't they pass a law banning this? I remember my friend telling me about these dudes but it was before the law was enacted.

310th post is the kiss of death. I'll make a new one if the other OP doesn't later.
Cancun is in the direct path of a cat 4 hurricane that I'm keeping an eye on while waiting for Chan-hom.

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