Tokyo Buzz is the ninth installment in The Buzz Project's ongoing photo-documentary series.
It was shot in Tokyo, Japan, in 2018 from the windows of public buses.
With 35 million inhabitants - around 25% of the population of Japan - Tokyo metropolitan area is the richest and most populated in the world, representing Japan's most important industrial, commercial and economic hub.
Known until 1868 by the name Edo, since the XVII century is the heart of Japan's political stage, quickly developing from a small fishermen's village into one of the world's largest urban areas. Completely destroyed during World War II and rebuilt with a cutting-edge transportation system, Tokyo is ahead of time and a global model of efficiency, where tradition coexists harmoniously with a voracious appetite for modernity.
Despite being hit by several waves of economic crises during the nineties and in recent years, along with New York and London, Tokyo still represents one of the leading "control rooms" for the global economy.
Tokyo Buzz explores the metropolis beyond its clichés across its thousand souls, showing the human side and the many contradictions of a complex society, suspended between past and future and in constant transformation. It is the portrait of a unique city and its people - from the most proletarian suburbs to the shiny light of Shibuya, Shinjuku, Ginza - a city that can reveal its deepest identity through the texture of its aesthetic surface.
