Tokyo’s Nihonbashi Decorated during the Olympics

hi everybody welcome to nihombashi there you see in the middle the olympic rings and this is one of the spots where you're going to see a little bit of olympic spirit here in the city of tokyo and looking around there is kind of a crowd here it's kind of neat they're all taking pictures in front of the rings this is a lot less crowded than in front of the stadium that's for sure and there's a russian tv crew over there doing a broadcast how cool is that how you doing everybody i'm in the shade and in this live stream it is a hot one i'm gonna take you down nihombashi where they have several olympic exhibitions going on a lot of them are free i have a ticket for one to see if i can get in there and i don't know this is a lot of the events in the city of tokyo because of the pandemic have been canceled so we're going to get a chance to uh see the ones that are are still available and they're here a lot of them anyways so first we're going to start here at the nihombashi and this is a very historic area so i'm kind of glad to see the olympic rings here there's a little sign down here we can take a look nihombashi bridge nihonbashi is a bridge over the nihonbashi river in tokyo's chua war that's where i live my neighborhood the first new hamashi bridge was built in 1603 when shogun tokugawa yes you set up the shogunate in edo and was designed as a starting point of the 805 routes the main routes in japan that's pretty cool and it's nice to see this place getting some love here so i could tell they're russian because they have the big microphone there with acrylic on there so in the center of nihonbashi there is a marker that designates this is the start of all the five highways going from that point in the center of the bridge there but we're gonna go this way hey behave yourselves olympic birds fencing off we go on the other side um in one of the buildings there's a 10 meter high olympic gold medal that i want to show you first before we go into the behind the buildings it's quite a windy day the tennis matches have been chaos some sometimes the ball will be spinning to the left to the right good luck to the tennis players sadly uh naomi osaka lost today i heard this is a lot of buzz in the city of tokyo just in people's houses is not that many are out and about it's a really old market town but since the great kanto earthquake of i believe 1923 it's been rebuilt uh mostly in the western style a lot of these are stone buildings here and a lot of big department stores moved in here so there's a lot of money and a lot of foreign businesses are also here many of them are finance financial based companies all around because the bank of japan is just over there congratulations the philippines andy how you doing first olympic gold medal in like a hundred years or something it was quite a long time there's the nigata building hey i see wx w wrx turbo is here at that kimono store beautiful i think for window shopping nihombashi might be better than ginza in many ways 97 years right's enjoy since the last gold medal i'm so happy for the philippines after after we take a look at this 10 meter high metal we're gonna go into the back streets there take a look at some of the designs that artists have come up with to make this uh oh there's the building up there it's a it's a tall building and inside there is that 10 meter high metal artists have captured the olympic spirits in their designs in the back over there that's where we're heading next who's who's watching the olympics at home right now i have to be honest i haven't turned it on too much at home not as interested as i used to be i don't know why i just feel i just feel a little bit exhausted with this whole thing on the building across the street i think this is pretty interesting you see some of the logos from the past olympics there's 2016 there's the rio logo there's beijing 2008 um there's athens 2004 well i remember that the sydney one i was in sydney just before the olympics i was living on bondi beach in sydney back in 1999 2000 saw the millennium come in in front of the bridge at downtown sydney harbor that's pretty cool here's the other mitsukoshi lion and a very fancy department store this is mitsukoshi the doors are open look at that beautiful inside there nice cool wind coming out too here's the rest of the olympic banners on the corridor building across the street see if we can see that before we go in for the medal atlanta 1996 representing awesome does anybody remember these logos these uh designs i like that barcelona 92 i was there um backpacking about four years after barcelona when the atlanta olympics was going on i was in barcelona which is pretty weird and there's the 88 seoul olympics i did go to the um seoul olympic grounds 12 years after and it looked like a ghost town not a lot of people were were visiting the special olympic village there 84 was los angeles 1980 was moscow that those games were boycotted goodwill games were going on at the same time 1976 montreal whoa bruce jenner remember the decathlon i was two years old just have faint memories and then 72 it's munich and that is a motorcycle cop and that's just also really cool mario writes in here i remember the seoul olympics the taekwondo was quite intense all right this event and i have a ticket to go in here a digital ticket is going on between um july 1st to august 15th and i'm gonna see if we can get inside i have a ticket from 1 to 2 pm i can go in there after we take a look at some of the exhibitions but because of the pandemic you need to go online and make a reservation and i did that so i'll see if i can take you in there so i want to go in there and see if we can hear high olympic medal so let's go in and see if it's inside this building the nihonbashi mitsui tower do it there it is this way oh this is awesome wow look at how big this is that's 10 meters high now the ribbon starts it's massive hey matthew norris welcome look at that it's gonna pan down again i don't think i can bite it it's the girth of it is too wide i don't think anyone can wear it this is like a godzilla sized wow all right i guess we can take a look around there let's take a look from the side large scale reproduction of the tokyo 2020 metal large scale reproduction uh the olympic agora which i have a ticket to go into this event um the design of the summer medals comply with strict rules from 1928 to 2000 the medals barely changed nikkei the greed greek goddess of victory was always represented on one side of the medal holding a palm in her left hand and the winner's crown in her right hand since 2004 this figure shown on the front of the ancient stadium in athens has been depicted with wings the medals must also show the olympic emblem the full name of the games in question the names of the sports or discipline and the emblem of the organizing committee additionally they should reflect the visual look on the culture of the aesthetics elements selected by the oco og and there's something about the 2020 olympic design interesting okay i didn't know that nike whoa check out how wide that is i don't know can i bite that i think i could bite it in japanese nike is pronounced nikkei although it's probably nike because of branding but in japanese we would say it's pretty cool to be behind it just like nikon is nikon in japanese the camera company king kong's pachinko coin what plinko oh plinko yeah from the price is right wow that's pretty cool all right let's go see some of these other events outside before we come in uh to the museum there this agora has all of the olympic torches from so many years and we i have a ticket to go in this event the ticket is started now so i have to do this really quickly and then there's some other events that we can go including this baton pass which i believe is on the other side check it out this looks really cool so let's go see this first and then we'll come back around japanese pronunciation is consistent they never change the a oh that's it if you can say all the vowels are pronounced the same way it never changes so i think it's on the other side of this um how do i cross the street right here all right we can run and do this quickly come on i thought i'd drop something nice umbrella okay did it that's the olympic sport i've been watching the uh the olympics uh the news broadcast from the united states and every time all of the news every time they say tokyo the japanese cringe a little bit there's only two syllables in tok in tokyo so japanese kind of cringe when they hear tokyo but it's not a big deal i don't cringe because sometimes i say it too you kind of just say the way everybody else says and then after a while things get lost in translation but [Music] today in tokyo it's like oh really today in tokyo my friend teddy wilson who's the narrator for mighty trains which peter and i and tabby eats and kanai were on that just broadcasted yesterday on the smithsonian channel it was an awesome episode except me and peter were really kind of cringing with the pronunciation just some of the words teddy just call us teddy hey where's the exhibition i thought it was around here guess not what okay here's the olympic agora again walking around this street where olympic all the art stuff is across the street well guess what you got a little tour of this area this is one of my favorite places i love between the correiro buildings here uh chochin you see these lanterns up here called chochin to olympic chochin and now we have uh lanterns japanese lanterns that have an olympic symbol on and they're kind of i don't know have the olympic colors on there which is kind of cool right japanese sake is pronounced sake not saki and you know i got foreign friends who'll say saki and i know what they're saying so don't you don't want to be that person who corrects everybody all the time for their mistakes nobody likes that person all right i don't like that person so i don't want to be that person so i won't correct you if you say asakusa or kagoshima or oita it's okay we're cool japan it's all good i guess it's on the back side maybe just i think one of the things that anybody can do before they come to japan oh we can make this light sounds like applause my flip-flops one of the things that you can do before coming to japan is make some flash cards and study the hiragana in katakana alphabets by the time you land in japan you'll be able to read signs and understand the pronunciation seriously it's so simple same with hangul in korea if you study han gold the alphabet hit the ground in seoul running be able to read menus and stuff oh there's the exhibition across the street okay one of two this is the mandarin hotel side that i'm on we're going to cross over to the other side of koredo and then i have some postcards to send from here to be pretty cool wow so this first exhibition this first art exhibit let's see here i have some notes again you won't be able to see this because you can't come here so i'm here for you this is the audience it's called the audience and um it's made by xavier valhan from france and was commissioned by the olympic foundation for culture and heritage it's a colorful creation that shows five people of different generations each one in the color of the olympic rings so these are different generations in time i am definitely not the young one or the old one i'm kind of in between this is maybe the generation that's in charge these dudes here i'm probably the green generation maybe that's gen x these are millennials here i don't know they're supposed to be generational what generation is she i can't tell he looks like he's in his uh oh she's in her it's hard to because they're all one color she's looks like she's in her um late 50s maybe and this gentleman here is in his 60s or late 60s maybe i don't know and she's in her 30s or 40s i don't i don't know it's hard it's just you know art is about interpretation so you can interpret it any way you like and that's what's really cool with uh i would agree with gen x being the best since i am part of that generation i think 1974. grew up through the 80s i like this i like i like the colors of the olympic rings but generations it's very um like i'm having generational problems right now with some of the things i say i'm just out of touch with this whole all the movements going on in the united states if you don't live in the u.s you really don't know a lot of how the culture has changed same with japan japan has has changed not not so drastically but [Music] just the other day i said uh in a post i said i was in a horror truck and i screamed like a girl and somebody got upset i can understand but i said that not because i'm being uh looking down on on girls i said it because my pitch was quite high and it sounded like a girl i don't don't know how else you'd describe it but i changed it to kids i scream like a kid just be understanding this here this design is called podium memories by digital art group moment factory it consists of three screens arranged like an olympic podium do you see it now showing clips of victorious moments from the games i don't i don't know if these moments i remember seeing these particular moments i don't know have you what's been going on what's been going on on the broadcast here if you stand in front of the artwork and move your legs the screens will start showing dynamic figures of your movements okay if i stand here and move my legs it'll do something all right let's see ah the olympic podium absorbs dreams explore the podium's memories by stepping on the rings oh yeah look check it out go back to the center oh wow london 19 1908. all right i'm gonna do i step on the ring and step on the circle again oh this is pretty neat hey david kimoda moderators are doing a good job i would agree with that let's step on the next one here sydney 2000 oh looks like a runner is that michael johnson i like michael johnson all right i stepped on another one let's see what they got here whoa nude guy stockholm 1912. i guess they didn't have any cameras back then i stepped on it again let's see let's see what we see stuck home 1956. so stockholm had it twice too very cool all right i'm gonna go this little one here all right you know what this is kind of slow that looks like fencing there that's 1996 atlanta gold medal uh winner um oh was that flojo i think wasn't it stepped again fencing 2012 that looked like a fencing event fencing's a cool sport a pictograph should i make the same same movements as the pictograph i just did it again i stepped on it this looks like well the first olympic poster from 1896. check it out that's the first olympic poster that's pretty cool i never saw that before so it says here this summer visitors are invited to step on the podium so i did that for you and trigger visions from the past pretty cool so this is a pretty digital art exhibition here in uh in this nihonbashi michael cesano you're very welcome did you see any themed olympic street food not yet a lot of the food vendors are not here hey my oh that's cool he was from sri lanka can you speak japanese better than me all right let's get inside here safe a 37.5 is considered to be a fever so you have to check your temperature so follow the floor and he said go down the escalator i hope the signal stays strong everybody if there's any uh disconnections then 4g will connect connect on so just be a little patient hit that like button if you want to see more exhibitions i have gotten my vaccination shot and i get the second one tomorrow morning so this tomorrow i might not be doing a live stream based on on that and then definitely the day after i'll be taking a look all right we've connected on to 4g i'm in the mitsukoshi my subway station now and i'm looking now for the exhibition seemed to have lost my way kanai is texting me sent me a picture of leo all right here's something let's go check this out dun dun dun dun dun dun where is the joy of future i like that dun dun dun dun dun oh you're not supposed to touch it just look at the images i don't just go to the end of this here i think there might might be at the end i guess there's no crowds right now because a lot of people are are either working or watching the olympics at home all right i guess we took a mist hey dim sum ah kaizen 2013 v john's greetings from canada buy something refreshing on us from mj hey thanks mj and chan's in the house did the torch runners get to keep their torches i don't think so i think they they get taken away i don't think they made 10 000 torches there are posters as i walk along all over the place with um showing some of the history of it this is really sad because a lot of people are just not going to be seeing this stuff the state of emergency runs through until august 22nd so this exhibition will be gone so i guess this is sort of a historical exhibition right for only in japan go because once it's gone it's gone right i guess it's this way i made a mistake i and my ticket expires at two so i have to get into the x exhibition [Music] uh current figures thirty percent off that um foreign all right i got in so we're in guys um how do you do everybody welcome i'm not allowed to talk too loudly so but there's nobody here actually all the tickets are available there are only about six people who came here today which is a shame uh this exhibition is open to the public there's our friend thomas bach or baja and we have learned one important lesson from this crisis we need more solidarity more solidary within societies and more solidarity among societies this is also true for all of us in the olympic community all right so let's take a look at this uh pretty cool museum here going over olympic history that is in the city of tokyo right now i guess the olympics started i didn't research the history of this but just from um memory 1896 was the first event in athens bummy goats got got my number so this is the first first stadium which looked more like a race track but they had raises here that is pretty cool that's the first olympic stadium what that looks like ohio stadium like a horseshoe design go box this is something i'm i'm so looking forward to the olympic spirit i haven't felt it being an olympic host city from one edition of the games to the next there are champions there are moments of extraordinary success and even of disappointment carrying athletes and spectators through it all is the constant of the olympic spirit olympism is more than just a series of sport competitions its roots reach back to the sacred festivals of ancient greece reimagined at the end of the 19th century by frenchman pierre de coberton it draws on tradition yet it has built its own meaning and symbolism over more than a century of the modern games i guess it has and you see some uh lovely grecian ladies i had a sake that was very much similar to this in kanazawa it's pretty good they burned the sake with fire you can see that on the main channel alright let's take a look deeper into the olympic museum here are all the posters the olympic posters going back in time there's 1896 that's the one i showed you before in athens oh this is so cool and this is paris 1900 turn of the century that's the original poster maybe not the original but you're not allowed to touch it so i figure um here's saint louis had the olympics what 1904 was saint louis i didn't know that in the united states the first american olympics was saint louis what this is the um 1908 uh london olympics hey antwerpen 1920 and harpin had the olympics in in uh belgium what that's so cool i had no idea and then stockholm one of many olympics paris again and 24. i guess antwerpen would have been like the um um summer and winter games maybe i don't know yeah the winter olympics looks on the bottom there um amsterdam had the olympics in 28. wow 32 was in los angeles that the beach volleyball outfit and in the winter games lake placid in new york 1932. i've been to the lake placid olympic village a couple of times since my family's from up there hey garmish uh we had a drink there check out only in japan go from two years ago at the christmas markets we my friend tom and kanai and i had drinks and garmish that was awesome to see the alps i didn't know they had the winter games there berlin 1936. this is the uh poster for the berlin games um right before world war ii it's the brandenburg gate london 1948. bad goat thank you i'm gonna get a drink right out of right as soon as i get out of here find a vending machine i'll take you with me saint maurits again oslo 1952 helsinki now just take notice that the 1940 games are missing tokyo had the 1940 games but um not because of world war ii but because japan wanted to put the money into other things that's why they pulled out of the olympic games it's a kind of misconception in a book that i'm reading about those 1940 lost games and then 1944 was also canceled because of world war ii and the next games was in were in london 1948 and they were very significant um kind of bringing the world together i like on the parliament building big ben right up there symbolizing the 1948 games and then 52 in helsinki melbourne melbourne stockholm that's must be an interesting story so australia had the games in 1956. they did i didn't know that so was it split does anybody know the story it's interesting wow this is valley rome 1960. i remember this was uh i don't remember but i remember stories that this was so hot uh this these games it in it impacted the 1964 olympic games where the athletes didn't want to have to go through the same heat so they scheduled this in october instead of july they were pretty smart in 1964 and i love the design of the olympics 1964 olympic poster just simple mexico city in 1968 has a beautiful design look at this i love this it kind of makes you think i'm gonna stand if i can stand back you can see it clear it's like a 5d like 5d art looking at the mexico city logo from 1968. muhandon 19 munich in 1972 and montreal and 76 are up there this is where japan had um um the second olympics sapporo in 1972 this is the winter olympics from there it's very cool innsbruck kanai and i was here we're here on the same trip uh you can see us at the christmas market in innsbruck which is so beautiful um in 2019 right before the pandemic montreal in 1976. psychedelic wow moscow olympic logo looks like atari well moscow olympics looks like the atari logo that's so cool look at that doesn't it sanzo's laughing but i think it does lake placid sarajevo i remember that in 1984. los angeles this is my childhood seoul in 1988 uh barcelona calgary albertville canada sure gets a lot of winter sport the winter olympics atlanta we saw these outside earlier but it's just it's kind of cool because every time you see these names and you see the dates it takes you back in time to when you were alive when you were a kid looking at this for the first time i love the nagano one it's really beautiful athens and beijing london rio and guess what that is welcome to the present that's uh tokyo 2020. all right i don't know i don't know if i can live stream here but i'm just gonna go in and out really quickly i'm sure i'm gonna lose a signal in here oh these are the olympic torches through the years i don't know if we're like in a locked-in room so i don't know if the signal's gonna go out but if it does i'm gonna come back uh to see you all right i'm gonna start from this end oh there's the one what's inside my friends dan and lincoln cut this one open on their channel the what's inside channel they cut this torch open and showed you what's inside so if you want to see that check out that the technology and it's pretty crazy [Music] wow this is the first torch berlin 1936. check out this torch it's so basic they ran it from olympia right there that's amazing [Music] here's from the next olympics in london 1948 because 1940 and 1944 were canceled uh tokyo and helsinki and the 1948 olympic torch check this out it looks like a you could drink from this i bet you they had like real gasoline or something in there i don't know what was the fuel that looks like the holy grail george lopez you got it right all right let's keep on moving here because we're gonna have to go a little faster i think the earlier torches are fascinating because i wonder how they kept it they didn't have the same technology that we have today kerosene maybe this is helsinki 1952. this is a beautiful cup look at this and they this is the design of the olympic torch that they used and ran with through uh you know to helsinki it was melbourne stockholm i don't know how they did melbourne stockholm especially this design this looks like the same design as the london olympics doesn't it wow very cool oh the signals holding in there this is rome 1960 and i'm going to be really emotional when i see the 1964 uh tokyo torch because i know there's a lot of people here in japan that remember this here's the 1964 torch from the tokyo games that looks like a lightsaber [Music] that is the tallest one of them all 64. wow they should totally light these up like once an hour light them up here's mexico city it's very ast like very aztec looking i don't know what aztec looking means but it seems like it like it seems like there's a consistent theme to the designs of the torches here's this one looks very similar to the 1964 torch and this is the 1972 munich torch which is very similar to this the one in japan this design comes from sapporo hold on yes sapporo 1972 the winter olympics had a torch and this one kind of worked on the design of of the 1964 one it gets a little bit creative in the 70s because the 70s are pretty cool disco and all that this torch is red and it looks more like something that you put in your backyard this isn't right look at that that's pretty cool moscow 1980 looks very very tough very strong design there's the top of it here los angeles 84. does anybody remember the 84 torch design [Music] i'm sure when we get to atlanta we'll have more people remember that one seoul in 1988 right here i like the korean design there's a very um nice look to this one here i love the dragons barcelona spain representing right here this is 1992 1992 i just finished high school i remember watching these games right after right before i went to college and here's atlanta 1996. atlanta representing here in tokyo i love the way i i just want to grab it look at the handle to it it's beautiful wow here's nagano 1998 i like that looks like a sake cup i don't remember this at all this is the year that i came 1998 was the year that i came to japan so i came right after the uh nagano olympics because they they take place in the beginning of the year january february i came in july but the nagano olympic one is awesome it's so simple looks like it's made of bamboo tied with rope and then on the top of it this glorious large sake cup i wonder if they used sake as the fuel that would be pretty wicked and then the sydney olympics i remember this it has a very didgeridoo look to it a king times three longtime fan from singapore do they sell the replicas for them i i don't know i wonder here's a sydney torch i love the design of this one i remember when they were talking about it on the news when i was in in sydney on bondi beach watching tv there getting ready for the olympics many sydney sydnonians the people of sydney wanted to leave the city for the games because they didn't want all the noise and those that left later told me they regretted it a lot of my friends that i made in sydney uh here's athens 2004 very simple design i like that and then they kind of get more elaborate again once we get to 2008 new materials start to make make an appearance here sydney cider writes in reinik the design of the 2008 um beijing torch i remember this and it's so elaborate it really doesn't do it justice because of the low light but the design and the patterns of it inside on the side of the metal here is just it's really beautiful with my own eyes i'm looking at it right now and the flame would come off at the top here wow i love this the london one looks like something that was raided from the crown jewels stolen from the queen's vault maybe this is london 2012 here knight going back at the people of sydney marty didn't go what marty wow this looks like chain mail from armor knights of the round table made this in gold [Music] and then the the rio olympics it's a beautiful torch too i love the real one the white with the color design in there again cut open by my friends what's inside they got a hold of one and you can see the tech inside of it a lot of the tech was recycled um for this torch i believe but tokyo 2020 they're using a lot of recycled um materials in the torches here we got a chance to see this in a live stream about uh five days ago right before the opening ceremony a little bit before then somebody had a torch and was holding it on the street i mean peter had a chance to hold it he said it was pretty light but the top of it has a cherry blossom pattern if you look from the top down i don't think i'm gonna be able to make it there [Music] it's not made of cardboard who wrote that but the torch exhibition is beautiful look at that just gonna absorb it for a second [Music] all right let's get out of here wow wow i'm starting to feel a little of the olympics now now each each olympic game people have their own um kind of traditional dress that they wear so they made an exhibition here on this is mexico city in 1968 you can see the dresses here are very representative of the culture this one is los angeles 1984. [Music] atlanta 1996 athens 2004 i like that looks like a princess [Music] wow these are beautiful this is this must be beijing yeah beijing look at the detail uh china being a very ancient city with a lot of history to it a lot of beauty in that city you can see it uh represented in the just the designs of these dresses here this is the uh again beijing 2008 some more of the costumes this is london 2012. this one looks like uh it could be from london tower one of the uh yalemen beefeater this looks pretty funky this is kind of austin powers what's going on here 1970s costume from london 2012. this looks like austin powers what doesn't it this is so funny approve some more london uh 2012 this is the mary poppins costume from london 2012. this is a very dark mary poppins dress uh and these are from rio from the last olympics very elaborate kind of carnival looking wow look at that green one a spoonful of sugar right in sanzo well said eye sugar all right i like this and i like the exhibition that they put you can kind of see the olympics uh opening ceremony some of the dresses they're outstanding a lot of work goes into this so it feels good to see this oh wow so these are the olympic medals these are the olympic medals for um athens 1896. there's just two of them so you didn't have a bronze medal you had gold and like silver and bronze i think there was no doesn't look like there was a gold medal in the 1996 olympics but that is uh that's pretty neat to see the first olympic medals from so long ago and then paris medals were square extraordinary saint louis medals had um uh they're a lot smaller they look about the size of a of a uh uh half dollar united states half dollar with john f kennedy on it that's about the same size same as the 1908 olympic medals have our half dollar sized yeah uh stockholm 1912. so the olympics medals didn't get bigger until you get to antwerp in 1920 and twerpin and paris 1924 is the gold medal could be budget it could be amsterdam 1928 los angeles 1932 very cool design berlin 1936 jesse owens from ohio state university had a bunch of these gold medals i believe so this is the gold medal that jesse owens would have from the berlin olympics 1936 as a buckeye i am so proud of when i see the old footage of jesse owens schooling the entire world on running a lot of stuff on ohio state's campus is named after jesse owens uh 1940 and 1944 olympics were skipped because the war and 1948 olympics the medals are more vivid more golden yeah helsinki 1952 melbourne the aussies representing marty did you go to this one they're getting bigger and bigger that's right the males are getting bigger stockholm 56 rome well the roman one's got like a border around it rome had started to change a little bit marty's like now what here's the 1964 olympics very elaborate you're starting to see the the colors are more vivid too mexico city not as much but between 1968 and 1972 the olympic medals did get bigger and then from 72 starting in sapporo we start to see more it looks like part of the metal the gold was in the ribbon holder there for the 1972 sapporo olympics that's the winter games montreal um again it's even bigger moscow 1980 if you didn't get the gold you got the one with the atari symbol on it which is pretty cool los angeles 1984. these are about the same size seoul 88 barcelona's are bigger 1992 they're really starting to get bigger here atlanta 1996 these have kind of a little uh handle on the top of it for the ribbon nagano 98 they're much much bigger it's sticky jimbo this oh hi hi can you watch that hi all right i have to take it out of gimbal i don't know why all right okay all right it doesn't matter if it's handheld it's actually not a selfie stick it's a gimbal but it's okay um nagano has pretty cool olympic medals here check it out the colors on it are really nice they have a manhole cover in uh in nagano city in front of the station that has the colors of it it's still there i like that kind of brings me back to the to the year that i arrived in japan sydney's medals are a little bit smaller than nagano's but you can see that they all have uh they they put the ribbon holders in metal here there's athens in 2004 in beijing 2008 a really elaborate design for the ribbon holder and then london the metals got the metals got way bigger in london check it out that is really big that's the 2012 and then rio and then you see the metals for today the gold one as nash abroad said earlier are is made of recycled gold from electrical appliances um everything every electrical appliance somewhere in there has some sort of gold i believe and they've taken millions and millions of them taken the gold out and recycled it but the design is really beautiful so that this is the metal that everybody is getting right now um the gold medal the design is not too different that's nike or nikkei on the front of it and that design hasn't really changed much and then the gold and the silver and the bronzer pretty similar just different types of material [Music] all right i'll put it back on the gimbal in a second there are some artifacts here uh from ethiopia you can see he's got an award for cast of legend marathon runner from 1960 1964. pretty cool all right let's go i want to see the torch relay the baton you can get a photo in front of this dun dun dun dun all right i'll put it back on the gimbal hold on a second all right interesting so they have all these smartphones showing the social media um like tick tock tyco type of stuff here the impact of smartphones has been pretty huge on on everything just the way it brings attention to things you see the olympics represented through social media here you can see some of the images in this movie here brings you the feeling of the olympic games there's so many different sports so many things that are necessary all these skills that these athletes learn in order to compete at such a high level different disciplines you know one of the things i like about the olympic games is when you do see that opening ceremony you remember where you were you remember who the people you were with at that time where your your family when you were a kid watching the olympics with your parents or when you get older watching the olympics with your son or daughter you you remember these things so let's move on here all right that seems to be the end of the exhibition i have to take off my sticker and put it here so they know that i left all right there's one more there's one more thing here i believe the baton exhibition i want to see this here where is this one the tojiki makoto exhibition oh there's some flyers uh okay i'll take one of these i don't know if that's copyrighted music i get a feeling that it probably was but it's all good these live streams are supported by you supported by you all the wonderful super chats we got we're okay all right let's get in the outside here uh i want to see that the torch i can't how do i get out of here i'm trapped in a bookstore japan's got a lot of bookstores still i'm glad that that exhibition was was very camera friendly um you're allowed to take pictures in there there's certain areas where you're not allowed to speak so i tried to use a very quiet voice uh but just be mindful of the people around you i picked the time where there was almost nobody here as well you have to get a ticket for that event it's a digital ticket to hold in there they want to control the numbers of people that come here but right now that's not much of a problem but the but these exhibitions exhibits are open so this is a state of emergency but it's not a lockdown um oh very cool you got we have some olympic merch here so t-shirt is 30 for a basic t-shirt that's kind of kind of pricey hey kanai what did you want can i send me online let me know where did that olympic torch thing go hold on a second i'm not done hey rob germans here thanks for the live content you're welcome rob thanks so much for joining us and brought dania's in the house thanks so much for being a part of this again i bring you here live um because i love to share and i want to i want to make sure that you get a feeling of what tokyo is like during the olympics it's quiet again like there would be so many more people here if it was not for the for the olympic for the pandemic here where's that exhibition there's one last thing i want to show you maybe it's out this way maybe it's this way i'm seriously lost no i'm back where i started what okay hold on a second i want to see this makoto tojiki solidarity solidarity dirty and collaboration exhibition but it doesn't say exactly where it is it's in the orange zone oh that's not even in this area okay this is back where that's across the street all right so i guess you're gonna i'm gonna take you a little bit further extended live stream because i should have i thought it was over there but i didn't see it the last time moderators a little bit longer sorry about that um i do have two postcards postcard club thanks so much for joining i'm gonna put these in the next mailbox that i see this is going for anastasia in in the united kingdom and dean in canada thanks guys there's a mailbox across the street so i'm going to put that in there for you from nihombashi um i do have the the pikachu stamps here check it out so these are your stamps pikachu coming right at you and pikachu in the rain it's kind of cool so if you want to get one of these postcards join us on joining up on patreon and i will send it to you today go in the mail and be on its way get to you maybe a little bit after august i think so this is nihombashi this place has a lot of history i love to come here and walk around too especially at night it kind of comes alive but this is where the old fish market is before tsukiji market before it moved to toyosu before it moved to tsukiji it was here in nihombashi's the old fish market after the great kanto earthquake in 1923 everything was was renovated and you can see it's it's uh looks very western because they set up these uh old marble built whoa that's a rolls a lot of money here you see that rolls royce it's awesome all right dean and anastasia here you go united kingdom in london on the way from this box all right back we go what an ev what an exhibition i want to go back there with my a7s 3 3 and get some shots of the torches and stuff for a video like i want to film it in 8k right beautiful exhibition well done uh tokyo i could go back the exhibition is free the tickets uh have no cost to them the only thing you have to do is make sure you reserve it online i took the microphone with the wind buffer off so you might get some wind noise but um i'm more nimble now so the the um our mission is here behind the shrine all right found it wow how long do you think the exhibitions will be going i won't tell you how long i think how long i know from july 1st until august 15th so um the chance of of everybody coming to see it is very not good so that's why it's important that john does a live stream of it it's important that you subscribe and and encourage me to keep going to these events thank you also to our patreon supporters um i got on discord the recommendation to come here from our supporters so big big thank you for making that a reality because i might have missed this i a lot of these places were were canceled this baton exhibition is stunning at night it's made up of a lot of squares do you see that i'll get a closer look at it in a second japanese artist this was commissioned by the olympic cultural department it's called solidarity and collaboration by makoto tojiki and the japanese artist is known for having light for using light as its primary medium of expression and has created an original illuminated work for the olympic agora standing more than four meters tall the installation was inspired by the four by 100 meter relay race through this representation of shared responsibility and team play the artist also highlights the importance of passing the olympic values to the next generation the sculpture is the largest installation created by the artist to date so he's never made anything as big as this before yesterday i was at the amazing jiro uh studio and he did something for the olympics too making a massive life-size human human body and he makes horror and makeup uh designs for movies and commercials and uh in a studio yesterday that i filmed had that you can see all the little squares that make up this design it's pretty unique and in the back there's a like a skeletal structure of metal that connect that is the the i guess the skeleton what what other way can you say it of for the other um white squares around it and it's pretty stunning at night it lights up and it is really really beautiful so i would come back at night and i might do that if i come back to this area again so the city of tokyo does have some exhibitions it does have some um places where you can kind of feel that olympic spirit and that makes me really happy i'm glad it's in my neighborhood this is my backyard nihombashi about a 10 minute bicycle ride for me and i'll be back so if we can get to if we can get to 650 likes i will take you back to the olympic rings look at that beautiful bamboo stick dripping water here and in the center tokyo if we can get the 650 likes right now i'm going to take you to the olympic rings at nihombashi again and we'll end the live stream there it's up to you click that like button wow it's nice and cool this is behind a shrine here in in the city this is just a public open space that's right this correido department store that opened up a few years ago is just beautiful and inside of there there is a goldfish exhibition where they have all these goldfish in like beautiful tanks making up art and i've been in there a few times and it's it's such a beautiful event i think dassai nihon japanese sake maker was one of the spa sponsors i mean but the the president invited me to go go to that exhibition and i got to drink a lot of sake when i was there that was a lot of fun that was maybe four or five years ago and that exhibition is still going on today all right we're about 30 likes away from 650 can we get there i know we can i love it when we do something together as a as a community get to the next level it's a lot of foreign media too taking uh images for for their uh background news coverage so they just turned the lights on for the chochin land they're in the olympic colors as well and boom we got it 650 see what we can do as a community very cool divorce follow that fedex truck all right off we go we're heading towards the olympic rings right now where we're gonna take one more look at nihombashi which is the historic center it's it's where the five main um paths from the edo period that went from tokyo which was known as edo back then the capital uh branched off from this spot right here nihombashi we're gonna head there right now and the olympic rings are there right so we just have to walk [Music] so the art exhibition art exhibits are here and in the basement here and the metal is inside of here 10 meter high metal which is extraordinary inside of there which is the mitsukoshi uh mitsui building so let's go take a look at the olympic rings about 150 meters this direction if i was michael johnson i'd be able to get there in about 22 seconds i think it's gonna take two minutes yeah apologies for the wind noise it's a super windy day in tokyo [Music] all right there's nihonbashi straight ahead so for the next couple of minutes just enjoy the sights and sounds of this area without yours truly polluting it with a voiceover so oh this is the nigata store so you have a lot of confections and lots of rice from that area and looks like they're not bonsai tree but they're very small trees similar to bonsai trees i think oh check it out it's olympic hello kitty ah tokyo wow look at that grape jen made from grapes they have a lot of dessert craftsmen artisans that make amazing desserts on this street and they're not how do i say a lot of the shops have been there for generations this is nihombashi they are the olympic rings right there so we're going to walk over and check them out this is about a 10 minute walk from tokyo station too by the way we're not that far away from tokyo station so you can get off the shinkansen and walk here pretty quickly there's the toyama prefecture store so if you want to get something from toyama prefecture that you can't find anywhere else in the city of tokyo except right here at the toyama nyumbashi toyama store one of my favorite prefectures beautiful got the japanese alps there such clean water the tateyama pass and the uh kurobe uh dam beautiful area [Music] just north of um kanazawa which is each ichikawa prefecture trucks make that noise when they're turning it's pretty cool sometimes they even talk to you so here we are the olympic rings we're back where we started how cool is that you can take pictures from the other side through the rings and if you do through the rings you get this check it out nihombashi right there and there you have it it's pretty cool i think that was worth worth waiting for thanks everybody i hope that you enjoyed this live stream uh we walked all around the nihumbashi area took out check checked out the olympic venue exhibitions um i thought that was cool got to learn a lot of the history of the olympic games but more importantly for me is anybody around for me i think it was really cool to feel the spirit of the olympic games and i think that's something you can only do when you're around other people you see their faces and um you just you feel their happiness and and for me as a resident of the city of tokyo and someone looking forward to these games since 2007 when i first heard about them running the marathon getting a pin from a a pledge city pin candidates city pin from the governor ishihara himself saying that we want the olympics in 2012. you know i i we finally got it in 20 for 2020 and it's just been really hard to enjoy it but with exhibitions open to the public like this it does make up for it and i can feel some of that spirit that is missing from these games admittedly even from the athletes themselves stay safe everybody i'm getting my second shot tomorrow and i'll be able to travel around the country i've been in tokyo for a long time um due to the state of emergency and just safety reasons to stay in my own prefecture but i'll be traveling again really soon after i get my second shot and vaccination passport from the from japan to be able to get around a little bit easier and i hope that you and your family are doing well i'll have another live stream really soon um peter i did not talk about the opening ceremony the other day is mostly my fault but i will have him back maybe tomorrow after i get my jab and talk about it because he was the voice of the olympic opening and that was awesome and i want to hear his opinion about it thanks everybody have a good day have a good night don't forget to subscribe and i'll see you again in another live stream tomorrow

Channel: ONLY in JAPAN * GO

Views: 26,493

Keywords: Only in Japan, Japan, John Daub, Japanese, Tokyo, Gold medal, 2020, exhibit, Nihonbashi, 日本橋, オリンピック, art, Torch

Id: AUX1tTmmw5E

Length: 83min 32sec (5012 seconds)

Published: Tue Jul 27 2021