haruka no yume【はるかのゆめ】
@haruka_no_yume
♀️ office worker from japan 🇯🇵
🏙️ showcasing the aesthetic of japan
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🇯🇵 Tokyo from the mid 80s almost looks a dream but this is actually real. It's not AI but instead from Wim Wenders' "Tokyo-Ga" from 1985.
🇯🇵 On an empty elevator in the 2000s in Tokyo at the Shinjuku Prince Hotel. Something about this looks and sounds very liminal.
🇯🇵 A video shot in 1985 shows the area around Ginza 4-chome.
You can really feel the pre-bubble energy when Tokyo was stepping into its global prime. Only a year later everything would completely change.
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"Last Summer Whisper" by Anri is one of the best city pop songs ever.
It's a wonderful summer song which captures the melancholy of a fleeting summer fling. The song is quite positive and the lyrics encourage us to find closure when things go wrong.
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🇯🇵 Hokokuji Temple, which was founded in 1344 AD, is famous for its towering bamboo grove. If you go there on a weekday morning, it's quiet and peaceful.
🇯🇵 Nightlife in Japan in the 1980s looked like it was so much fun. It was a much simpler time compared to now.
🇯🇵 Shibuya looked pretty amazing in the 1990s (early Heisei). I love the different fashion styles and interesting advertisements.
🇯🇵 I'm sometimes amazed by how popular city pop got outside of Japan.
Growing up, I never heard much about it but even in Japan there's been a resurgence of it.
🇯🇵 Just a quiet stroll through the Tokyo suburbs in the early summer. How perfectly peaceful this type of life can be.
🇯🇵 Sometimes, I really miss seeing old video game commercials. They played all the time after school when I was growing up.
This one for Chrono Trigger definitely brings back memories because this game was so heavily advertised even a decade later.
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🇯🇵 Despite being so crowded, Kabukicho (located in Shinjuku in Tokyo) still has a timeless charm to it.
(source: 95.2if)
🇯🇵 Japanese actress Yu Aoi was pretty much everywhere when I was growing up in the 2010s and she's still one of my all-time favorites.
🇯🇵 Real estate in Japan was incredibly expensive during the Japanese Bubble Era.
Tokyo real estate could sell for as much as US$139000 per square foot, making it roughly 350 times more expensive than comparable space in Manhattan.
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🇯🇵 I love standing next to the water and watching the water hit the shore. I can't imagine anything more peaceful than this.
(source: hakka2025)
🇯🇵🏔️ The Tateyama Mountains in Toyama Prefecture look stunning as always.
🇯🇵 A walk through Hoshoji Temple at 2:00 AM with almost no one else around. It's a lovely atmosphere.
🇯🇵🗻 Beautiful Mt. Fuji looks as majestic as always.
🇯🇵 Summer in the Japanese countryside really is the best thing ever.
🇯🇵 Arashiyama Harbor at night. I love the color of the sky and the distant lights.
🇯🇵 Some very interesting looking shoots of Shinjuku during the early 2000s. I used to love walking around these types of concrete buildings on my break.
