Re:My Weird New Hobby: Wandering Around Tokyo on Google Maps
by MrGilbert on Thursday September 24, 2026 @03:19PM
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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.
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Re:My Weird New Hobby: Wandering Around Tokyo on Google Maps
by QuantumNomad_ on Thursday September 24, 2026 @04:15PM
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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.
Re:My Weird New Hobby: Wandering Around Tokyo on Google Maps
by netsharc on Thursday September 24, 2026 @03:59PM
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If we're thinking of the same angle, is it from this channel? 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: https://www.google.com/maps/place//@35.6621727,139.7579444,1...
Re:My Weird New Hobby: Wandering Around Tokyo on Google Maps
by MrGilbert on Friday September 25, 2026 @02:24AM
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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: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GLQhbRGv5qU