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My weird new hobby: Wandering around Tokyo on Google Maps

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rambambram · 1790275177 · focus · HN ↗
I had to click this title!
For some months now I do basically the same, but without the clicking in Streetview. There are some channels on Youtube where someone walks through neighborhoods in Tokyo, I found I really enjoy these. The streets are so clean and the houses so beautiful. Indeed, once in a while a Japanese sports car pops up around a corner, just standing there on somebody's driveway.
I also enjoy the walk-throughs of neighborhoods in New York (edit: now that I think about it, this started with following ari@home, a streamer who makes electronic music on the fly while walking and having an open mic). I tried Dallas once, I guess, but it was all way too big and bulky (but it was down town I guess, so that's to be expected of a lot of cities on this planet).
Does anybody have ideas for other nice spots on this beautiful planet!? I think I know Tokyo by now. ;)
1. MrGilbert · 1790277543 · focus · HN ↗
  For a long time, there was a livestream on Youtube that showed a part of Tokyo. Not sure which part, but there was a highway and railroad. And it was somehow soothing to me, because if it was night here, the sun would rise there. I always imagined myself there. I miss this stream.
  1. netsharc · 1790279942 · focus · HN ↗
    If we're thinking of the same angle, is it from this channel? <a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCbTLJi8lXWIt_d1AtRv4Nmw" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCbTLJi8lXWIt_d1AtRv4Nmw
    Looks like it's not streaming live any more, but there are a few short recordings of that livestream on it.
    As for the location: <a href="https://www.google.com/maps/place//@35.6621727,139.7579444,161a,35y,160.13h,67.04t" rel="nofollow">https://www.google.com/maps/place//@35.6621727,139.7579444,1...
    MrGilbert · 1790317487 · focus · HN ↗
    Yeah, that's the channel! Thank you for the location. There are now some more channel that stream live, but what I liked about this channel the most is that it also transmitted live audio.[0] I always thought about repurposing an old Raspi and a picture-frame style hdmi monitor to let it run on, like a window to another world.
    [0]: This one is doing it, too: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GLQhbRGv5qU" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GLQhbRGv5qU
  2. QuantumNomad_ · 1790280912 · focus · HN ↗
    Many years ago I stumbled across a webcam from an outdoor go cart track somewhere in Japan, and I was watching it a little bit. It was an internet connected webcam, rather than YouTube or anything like that. I still think about that place sometimes but I have no idea where in Japan it was, and no clear details about it to find it again.

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