TOKYO - 3D TIMELAPSE - 1457 to 2026 (No AI imagery)

Watch Tokyo grow for 570 years, from a castle on a marsh in 1457 to a megacity of 33 million people. Rebuilt in 3D from real data, it burns and rises again, century after century. No AI-generated imagery. Made with Blender. 0:00 Tokyo today 0:25 1457: A castle on the marsh 1:11 1590: The Tokugawa build Edo 3:03 1657: The Great Fire of Meireki 4:13 1707: Fuji erupts, Edo reaches a million 5:52 1853: Black ships, the end of the shoguns 7:36 1868: Edo becomes Tokyo 9:49 1923: The Great Kanto Earthquake 11:58 1945: Tokyo burns again 12:31 From ashes to the Olympics 14:24 A forest of towers 15:15 2011: The Tohoku earthquake 15:49 Skytree, stadium, Shibuya: Tokyo today 17:34 What is left of Edo? Data: PLATEAU (MLIT, CC BY 4.0) · © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL) · GSI Japan Photos: Phillip Capper, Yoshikazu TAKADA (CC BY 2.0) · Roger Wollstadt (CC BY-SA 2.0) · Rs1421 (CC BY-SA 3.0) · DXR, Kakidai, MaedaAkihiko, Qian2007 (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Supanut Arunoprayote (CC BY 4.0) · other archival images public domain #Tokyo #3DTimelapse #History