"Tokyo is a particularly unique city," says Fosta, "Pedestrians are treated like traffic, with pedestrian 'roads' on floating skyways, and one way systems. It's truly odd."

Link. The video's great, but what I want to know -- who's that soundtrack? Update: wasabi_pz says,

The song is "Beef or Chicken", done by the Teriyaki Boyz, a Japanese rap/hip-hop group (obviously). The band is composed of members of Rip Slyme and m-flo. Here's the wikipedia article on them. They have a song on the soundtrack for "The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift."

Ron Fricke has a similar segment in his art-house documentary, "Baraka." Definitely worth checking out. Also, the first part of that clip was of the six-way intersection in Shibuya. My girlfriend and I made a video of the same interesection from street level. (We're standing beneath the ginormous video screen). It's here. Oh, and some flickr photos: 1, 2, 3, 4.

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