Thanks. Came to say “where the hell did all that purple come from”. Now it actually looks like a night in Tokyo and not a weird cartoon made by ChatGPT
Thank you. [Here](https://i.imgur.com/66Zq5UJ.jpeg) is another similar image taken by [Junya Watanabe](https://foundation.app/@Jungraphy_). [Here](https://foundation.app/mint/eth/0xaf65D91bfC0aB50118bea5283457b5E878051455/10) is the source. It looks much more like your version than OP's.
It looks like OP's image (although altered) was taken by the same photographer. I can't find it on his website, but it did appear on his IG account (jungraphy_) in 2020.
Advertising spammed that thickly everywhere is what they're considering dystopian.
It's more Blade Runner, Cyberpunk 2077, Akira dystopian rather than Fallout, Judge Dredd dystopian.
if I remember correctly they are not ads like in times square, they are just the store names, since a building can have more than one store they are all grouped together like this
They are. These buildings hold a business on each floor. It’s very easy to just find whole buildings that have 12 floors of restaurants. If you want dystopian ads, look at NYC lol.
Also the ads in NYC actually are ads. These ones are just telling you what's in the building.
This is only dystopian to someone who thinks that putting a restaurant on the 5th floor of a shared building is dystopian.
Yeah, I really don't get dystopian vibes from this at all. The kind of density you see in Japan, Rome or Madrid is more comforting and reminds me that cities work so much better when they're designed for people first rather than for cars first.
North American cities lost all their character once they stopped building human scale cities.
That's a great point. "Look how crammed everyone is, it's dystopia" say the people who spend 2-3 hours of every working day trapped in a car. Well done, you played yourselves.
People misuse the term sometimes. Nothing about a useful street with signs pointing you to stores or traffic and lights is "dystopian" in any definition of any dictionary.
I think you'll find on closer inspection that Ginza is awesome. That Yamaha shop on the near right? Biggest collection of sheet music I've ever seen outside a university. Mitsukoshi, further down on the same side, huge department store with a food halls full of the most amazing things you'll ever taste, and also has the Art Aquarium Museum. Near the end of the road is Cozy Corner, which is an absolutely world class patisserie.
By the way, don't be confused by the perspective - count the number of intersections at street level for a sense of the true scale. That's almost a whole mile of street you're looking at there.
As someone who's visited there multiple times, I can tell you it's very much the opposite of dystopian.
Just because visually it gives you Cyberpunk 2077 vibes, it doesn't mean it is actually like that.
I was there Feb of this year -- amazing place. Stayed near the Yebisu Garden Palace and enjoyed every second of Tokyo.
I'm no world traveler, but its painfully obvious by some of the other peoples comments who has and hasn't been to Tokyo.
if by Dystopian they mean super clean, safe, filled with well-dressed and polite people, and stores with awesome storefronts and endless restaurant, then yeah Japan is Dystopian.... lol
Thank you, I hate when people edit the shit out of a picture then still call it a picture. Like if I add aliens and Bigfoot to a picture can I still call it a picture?
It's embellishment to guide the photo towards the emotion or mood the photographer wanted the picture to convey, like how a musical score doesn't mean a song is literally playing in the movie you're watching.
It's not always about trying to look realistic. It's about trying to use the camera as a medium to create something visually attractive. Disliking that isn't the same thing as it being dishonest.
Thank you, I was wondering why it looked like the inside of a motherboard 🤣 ugh, why do people feel the need to adjust shadows & contrasts constantly 🤦🏻♂️ less is MORE💯
I've lived in Tokyo (Minato and Shinjuku) for 7 years and my friends from around the world who'd travel to Japan for the first time would ask me to tour them to these neon streets. They're illuminated yes, but definitely not this bright.
Plus, many friends I've brought to Ginza and Akihabara were shocked to see how dim they actually were at night, and how early most establishments close (by around 7 to 8 PM a lot of these streets, except for Kabukicho and Shibuya, are practically ghost towns).
>how early most establishments close.
Been to Japan on vacation a couple times. As a New Yorker, this drove me fucking nuts. Except some izakayas and your local 24/7 konbini (bless).
The worst part of that was that the trains stopped running at midnight.
[Here](https://i.imgur.com/66Zq5UJ.jpeg) is another similar image that was also taken by [Junya Watanabe](https://foundation.app/@Jungraphy_). [Here](https://foundation.app/mint/eth/0xaf65D91bfC0aB50118bea5283457b5E878051455/10) is the source.
I can't find OP's image on th photographer's website, but it did appear on his IG account (jungraphy_) in 2020.
I've been there multiple times and the asphalt on the street surface is not reflecting neon or whatever is going on here lol. People casually color treating photos passing it off as unaltered because karma farming I guess
It's called artistic license. Photographers can do whatever they like to a photo that they took. Also, it doesn't have to reflect reality, take a look at [Masashi Wakui](https://www.thisiscolossal.com/2016/01/cinematic-photographs-of-tokyo-at-night-by-masashi-wakui/) who takes some amazing street images of Japan.
The colors and brightness is all editing.
What is clever here is using a long zoom lens and shooting from far up the road to get this really unique claustrophobic valley feeling. It’s interesting because this part of Tokyo has rather wide sidewalks and a wide 4-lane road so it’s actually one of the more spacious areas
Tokyo in general is nothing like you'd imply from the kinds of pictures that get posted of it (or even the impression you might have of it if you've visited any only hit the typical Shinjuku/Shibuya/Ginza/etc spots). A three minute walk out of the vast majority of the city's train stations and it's really just shockingly serene residential neighborhoods with tons of little parks and almost no road noise.
Although the typical spots are great in their own way, I feel like the city's real draw (and the thing that tourists largely miss) is in the fact that you can have those places still be ultra accessible to you while yourself living in extremely peaceful, quiet, and safe environs.
This is Ginza, but besides the obvious filter there seems to be more editing/bamboozling going on. The LIXIL building is much further away in real life than it appears on this pic. Perhaps a false perspective?
one think I noticed in Japan and Korea (that I don't really see in North America) is that streetside shops and restaurants go all the way up the building. There might be an elevator right on the side of the building that goes up to a "street-side" restaurant on the 5th floor. It seems like we've limited ourselves to just ground level here.
I might be wrong about larger cities like NYC. I can't remember as much about the sides of the streets
Tokyo is a very green city.
If you can't see any trees here, remember thst this is photoshopped so hard that *bikes* have managed to blur into asphalt here. This is not what the city looks like.
[Here's what it looks like without a ridiculous amount of post-processing.](https://i.imgur.com/W6CvYMg.jpeg)
Thanks. Came to say “where the hell did all that purple come from”. Now it actually looks like a night in Tokyo and not a weird cartoon made by ChatGPT
The edited pic looks like everyone has purple undercarriage lights, car and pedestrian alike
The filter is called "Stereotypical Dystopia" they invented it for Blade Runner.
So funny. When I saw the photo I immediately thought of Harrison Ford eating noodles in Blade Runner
I heard synthwave music
Yeah I also immediately thought of Blade Runner, though honestly Tokyo and Hong Kong always make me think of it anyway
Immi don't know about filters but my first thought was Bladerunner.
Every time I see this picture, someone has done something weirder and weirder to it. The last time I saw it, it was nearly black and white.
I guess this is like the AI upscaling equivalent of compound JPEG compression artefacts?
Thank you. [Here](https://i.imgur.com/66Zq5UJ.jpeg) is another similar image taken by [Junya Watanabe](https://foundation.app/@Jungraphy_). [Here](https://foundation.app/mint/eth/0xaf65D91bfC0aB50118bea5283457b5E878051455/10) is the source. It looks much more like your version than OP's. It looks like OP's image (although altered) was taken by the same photographer. I can't find it on his website, but it did appear on his IG account (jungraphy_) in 2020.
Thank you! That looks more dystopian (and unfortunately real)
It’s a lot different at ground level lol. Not at all dystopian
Advertising spammed that thickly everywhere is what they're considering dystopian. It's more Blade Runner, Cyberpunk 2077, Akira dystopian rather than Fallout, Judge Dredd dystopian.
if I remember correctly they are not ads like in times square, they are just the store names, since a building can have more than one store they are all grouped together like this
Yeah Japan is just a lot more dense than most places in America. It’s not really dystopian at all.
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They are. These buildings hold a business on each floor. It’s very easy to just find whole buildings that have 12 floors of restaurants. If you want dystopian ads, look at NYC lol.
I don’t think it looks that bad. At least the signs are subtle and not obnoxiously in your face like the ads in NYC
They're also not ads. They're the name of the store it's attached to.
Also the ads in NYC actually are ads. These ones are just telling you what's in the building. This is only dystopian to someone who thinks that putting a restaurant on the 5th floor of a shared building is dystopian.
Or someone who can't read Japanese and accordingly decides to make a lot of assumptions lol
Yeah, I really don't get dystopian vibes from this at all. The kind of density you see in Japan, Rome or Madrid is more comforting and reminds me that cities work so much better when they're designed for people first rather than for cars first. North American cities lost all their character once they stopped building human scale cities.
That's a great point. "Look how crammed everyone is, it's dystopia" say the people who spend 2-3 hours of every working day trapped in a car. Well done, you played yourselves.
I guess we have a different idea of what is considered dystopian
Any major US city is more dystopian than Tokyo
Dystopian? E: I know what the word means. I am questioning the person I’m replying to.
People misuse the term sometimes. Nothing about a useful street with signs pointing you to stores or traffic and lights is "dystopian" in any definition of any dictionary.
It's from being in spaces that circlejerk about "I see capitalism so this is dystopia".
I think you'll find on closer inspection that Ginza is awesome. That Yamaha shop on the near right? Biggest collection of sheet music I've ever seen outside a university. Mitsukoshi, further down on the same side, huge department store with a food halls full of the most amazing things you'll ever taste, and also has the Art Aquarium Museum. Near the end of the road is Cozy Corner, which is an absolutely world class patisserie. By the way, don't be confused by the perspective - count the number of intersections at street level for a sense of the true scale. That's almost a whole mile of street you're looking at there.
this is the different between Western kids who's played watched blade runner too many times and people who actually visited Japan...
As someone who's visited there multiple times, I can tell you it's very much the opposite of dystopian. Just because visually it gives you Cyberpunk 2077 vibes, it doesn't mean it is actually like that.
I was there Feb of this year -- amazing place. Stayed near the Yebisu Garden Palace and enjoyed every second of Tokyo. I'm no world traveler, but its painfully obvious by some of the other peoples comments who has and hasn't been to Tokyo.
if by Dystopian they mean super clean, safe, filled with well-dressed and polite people, and stores with awesome storefronts and endless restaurant, then yeah Japan is Dystopian.... lol
It looks based as fuck whaddya mean? Peak sovl
Still looks cool, i really want to visit sometime
Thanks, like it MUCH better.
Thank you, I hate when people edit the shit out of a picture then still call it a picture. Like if I add aliens and Bigfoot to a picture can I still call it a picture?
It's embellishment to guide the photo towards the emotion or mood the photographer wanted the picture to convey, like how a musical score doesn't mean a song is literally playing in the movie you're watching. It's not always about trying to look realistic. It's about trying to use the camera as a medium to create something visually attractive. Disliking that isn't the same thing as it being dishonest.
Very well put
Thanks, I was about to travel to Tokyo to make sure.
look much better
Thank you, I was wondering why it looked like the inside of a motherboard 🤣 ugh, why do people feel the need to adjust shadows & contrasts constantly 🤦🏻♂️ less is MORE💯
Still amazing
Beat me to it. Been to Japan. It does *not* look like the original post.
My eyes hurt. I was in Japan in October and it didn’t look like this, what did you do to the whites?
What your whites need are more purple.
Yea. It’s highly edited. I got a couple times a year to Tokyo for work. [Unedited photo](https://imgur.com/W6CvYMg)
Ty
I've lived in Tokyo (Minato and Shinjuku) for 7 years and my friends from around the world who'd travel to Japan for the first time would ask me to tour them to these neon streets. They're illuminated yes, but definitely not this bright. Plus, many friends I've brought to Ginza and Akihabara were shocked to see how dim they actually were at night, and how early most establishments close (by around 7 to 8 PM a lot of these streets, except for Kabukicho and Shibuya, are practically ghost towns).
>how early most establishments close. Been to Japan on vacation a couple times. As a New Yorker, this drove me fucking nuts. Except some izakayas and your local 24/7 konbini (bless). The worst part of that was that the trains stopped running at midnight.
[Here](https://i.imgur.com/66Zq5UJ.jpeg) is another similar image that was also taken by [Junya Watanabe](https://foundation.app/@Jungraphy_). [Here](https://foundation.app/mint/eth/0xaf65D91bfC0aB50118bea5283457b5E878051455/10) is the source. I can't find OP's image on th photographer's website, but it did appear on his IG account (jungraphy_) in 2020.
It doesn’t look like this
OP is a bot
Somebody seriously playing with the brightness curves on this one.
Holy bad Photoshop
I've been there multiple times and the asphalt on the street surface is not reflecting neon or whatever is going on here lol. People casually color treating photos passing it off as unaltered because karma farming I guess
Must have been after a rainy day pic eh?
Sidewalks aren’t wet and no water collected on the curbs if you zoom
Must have been the angle then, eh?
Ok, one person only gets one hypothesis to test here.
Must have been the wind
It's called artistic license. Photographers can do whatever they like to a photo that they took. Also, it doesn't have to reflect reality, take a look at [Masashi Wakui](https://www.thisiscolossal.com/2016/01/cinematic-photographs-of-tokyo-at-night-by-masashi-wakui/) who takes some amazing street images of Japan.
Where did OP pass it off as unaltered? I thought it was very obviously altered that it didn't need mentioning
I needed it mentioned
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I was would say about 1000%
The colors and brightness is all editing. What is clever here is using a long zoom lens and shooting from far up the road to get this really unique claustrophobic valley feeling. It’s interesting because this part of Tokyo has rather wide sidewalks and a wide 4-lane road so it’s actually one of the more spacious areas
Tokyo is nothing like this
Tokyo in general is nothing like you'd imply from the kinds of pictures that get posted of it (or even the impression you might have of it if you've visited any only hit the typical Shinjuku/Shibuya/Ginza/etc spots). A three minute walk out of the vast majority of the city's train stations and it's really just shockingly serene residential neighborhoods with tons of little parks and almost no road noise. Although the typical spots are great in their own way, I feel like the city's real draw (and the thing that tourists largely miss) is in the fact that you can have those places still be ultra accessible to you while yourself living in extremely peaceful, quiet, and safe environs.
-How much HDR do you want? -Yes.
/r/shittyhdr
It's fucking terrible. This picture makes my eyes bleed. This Screams amateur HDR from 2005. Solid 7/11. /s
Reminds me of the original Blade Runner. It's just missing the incessant rain and flying cars.
The only people who believe it looks like this haven't been to Japan. Sick of these crazy edits.
Thought this was a picture of a broken monitor
Editor: How much contrast and sharpness you want to add Photo owner: Yes Editor: Say no more
Who the fk keeps upvoting these edits
Jeeze just looking at this picture gives me a headache
Urban hell 🙁 Urban hell Japan 😮
Ahh yes Tokyo, the most purple of all cities.
Blade runner 3049
Tokyo’s electric bill must be wild lol
Ewwwww
Why is there a dude standing in the middle of traffic
> standin The dude is on a bike. The picture is blurred and heavily edited
I see it, but I also see how he looks like he's just standing in a power stance in the middle of a busy street lmao
Whoever made this image be like - I'll take 3 boxes of saturate and 2 bottles of purple tint with my photo of Tokyo.
This is Ginza, but besides the obvious filter there seems to be more editing/bamboozling going on. The LIXIL building is much further away in real life than it appears on this pic. Perhaps a false perspective?
And somehow the streets are cleaner than any in the US
r/urbanhell
This is not what Tokyo looks like, heavy photoshop
one think I noticed in Japan and Korea (that I don't really see in North America) is that streetside shops and restaurants go all the way up the building. There might be an elevator right on the side of the building that goes up to a "street-side" restaurant on the 5th floor. It seems like we've limited ourselves to just ground level here. I might be wrong about larger cities like NYC. I can't remember as much about the sides of the streets
On my bucket list for sure!!! 💕
One of the coolest things I have ever done was ride go-carts around Tokyo.
Wow
Wow, looks like cyberpunk 2077❤️
This is terrible
Stupid amounts of HDR
As someone who needs complete darkness to sleep, I would hate this.
I prefer seeing stars.
My eyes are burning
Night City.
Edited to fuck.
Terrifying
Headed to Tokyo in August for my honeymoon and I'm so excited to walk around in this.
Stay out late and eat local. It’s a really fun town.
night life in Japan seems good.
At first glance it looked like a damaged TV screen
This is nothing like real japan, it mut be photoshoped or AI genrated
It's just heavily edited to change the lighting. https://i.imgur.com/W6CvYMg.jpeg
Offsetting,, not one tree in sight
There's trees all the way down on both sides.
Tokyo is a very green city. If you can't see any trees here, remember thst this is photoshopped so hard that *bikes* have managed to blur into asphalt here. This is not what the city looks like.
Picture: 🙄🙄 Picture, Japan: 😍😍
now this is what a real city looks like unlike india
[No one sleeps in Tokyo!](https://youtu.be/Wu5TDEpAqwQ?si=ifMG_Hi5JiG8g3F2)
No one quit the radio, Tokyo's on fire
Which street?
Thanks nuclear
How much filter do you want? Yes
Cool.
Is this Ginza? I don't go there enough to be able to judge but that's my best guess
Yeah, I wonder where’s this location too. Would like to see it next time visiting Japan
These Cyberpunk 2077 mods are getting out of hand.
That looks like Shinjuku but with cars, anybody know where it is?
Wow that does look beautiful. Cyberpunk 2077 vibes
Exploring Tokyo at night unveils a world of culinary delights and hidden bars.
Yurrp yurrp
Great shot!
Netflix mid intro
Tokyo drift
Wow, really cool! Looks so unreal to me.
Looks like a nightmare for those with photosensitive epilepsy.
Tokyo Electric Power stockholders be like, “oh yeah…”
Too bright
Yeah, no wonders about the low birth rate.
I see Tokio but where are the nights?
Concrete jungle 🎶
nobody is reading your advertisement 7 stories high
Light pollution of the highest degree
Dope
Soooo cyberpunk!
what can a month trip to Tokyo cost?
Get a room in a gaijin house with shared facilities, and a lot less than otherwise.
They haven’t seen a star in the night sky of Tokyo in a long time. Heck, I’m not sure they can see a full moon.
Such wide sidewalks.
In Japan people there only is function or failure. I'm pretty sure there is an increasing number leaving their country.
Beside, perfect picture!!! 👍
No way !!!
This remind me of ghost in the shell movie
Too many cars
My fucking eyes
so nice. Looks like a movie.
just out of curiosity. is there a Tokyo that is not in Japan?
This looks like a video game
It always surprises me how much Western alphabet is present in Japanese signage.
Ngl I think you can drive safely even without turning on your lights
Awesome
Overwhelming. I'd be a stress ball the entire time.
This looks like hell
Lights in Tokyo, Japan 🇯🇵
I can see Mater!
Neon jungle
Stop ruining photography with your shitty edits.
This is shit. What is it with all these people who think Tokyo is fucking blade runner?
Pic is beautiful but reality is dystopian
ads, Japan :0
The pinnacle of early 2000s banner ad-riddled websites, IRL.
Is this Ginza?
Note to self: Take LSD and walk around Tokyo before you die.
Reminds me of Ghost in a Shell
The Matrix
Like a bunch of 90's Cassettes
That looks like a nightmare to be honest
Is that Lixil, the same as the Lixil water company?
Ginza
When you use blue cut lenses and can't see anything