KANNANA 1985 🚚 Japanese City Pop | A Point on the Ring That Finally Closed

KANNANA 1985. One night on the ring road the year it was finally completed, told in ten original Japanese city pop songs — from the depot at dusk to a single point travelling the circle. 🚚 Tonight's story: He is twenty-eight and drives a route delivery van. In the spring of 1985 Ring Road 7 was finished end to end, and for the first time the circle closed. He takes the whole ring in one night: the conversation at the filling station, the mercury lamps, the names of the big crossings, twenty shops in the back — and the same garage to come home to. 🎧 Ten original songs, male vocal, about an hour. Best with the lights low. A note on this scene: every detail belongs to 1985 — Ring Road 7 was completed along its whole length that year, which is what this episode is about. It runs through the outer wards, well away from the centre, so the horizon here is an even spread of ordinary apartment blocks and shopfronts rather than landmarks. The tall mercury lamps, the overpasses and underpasses, and the cab-over panel van are all the everyday equipment of that road at that time. We name no real companies. 00:00:00 Kannana 1985 (環七1985) 00:03:24 Onto the Ring Road (環に乗る) 00:06:00 Midnight Gas Stand (深夜のスタンド) 00:08:17 Mercury Lamps All the Way (水銀灯の列) 00:11:22 Fifty-Two Kilometers Round (五十二キロの環) 00:14:18 Names of the Crossings (交差点の名前たち) 00:16:05 Twenty Doors on My Route (荷室の二十軒) 00:19:25 Ring Road, Where Do You End (環はどこで終わる) 00:22:27 The Men Who Closed the Ring (環を閉じた男たち) 00:25:47 A Point on the Circle (環の上の点) 00:28:03 Kannana 1985 (環七1985) 00:31:27 Onto the Ring Road (環に乗る) 00:34:03 Midnight Gas Stand (深夜のスタンド) 00:36:20 Mercury Lamps All the Way (水銀灯の列) 00:39:25 Fifty-Two Kilometers Round (五十二キロの環) 00:42:22 Names of the Crossings (交差点の名前たち) 00:44:08 Twenty Doors on My Route (荷室の二十軒) 00:47:28 Ring Road, Where Do You End (環はどこで終わる) 00:50:30 The Men Who Closed the Ring (環を閉じた男たち) 00:53:50 A Point on the Circle (環の上の点) (total 56m06s) All songs are original works — our own stories, lyrics and music, created with the help of AI, inspired by the Japanese city pop of the 1980s. Japanese lyrics with English subtitles (auto-translate available for more languages). Tokyo Night Mix — original Japanese city pop for night drives, late work and quiet hours. Subscribe for a new period-checked drive through 1980s Japan:    / @tokyonightmix