Click here for the movie- but beware, it's quite large

Yes, that is one very long line, had to stop watching the movie a quarter of the way in, I got the idea pretty quickly.

We counted-ish. After the first thousand, there's about another thousand people in line....

in the rain...

standing up...

I would have brought chairs. =)

what are they waiting for?

They are waiting to get in the Apple Store

thats it? whats the big deal? i guess thats what I'm really wondering

*Nods in deference to Spyder's sig*

ah yes, i forgot about that piece of wisdom. cheers

You have to give them credit. The Japanese have a passion for technology.

That has to be the best quote ever Keldyn.

can pretty much replace any product and company in that quote and it'd pretty much be true. obviously if you're a fan of the product, you're going to support the company .

that's one damn ass long line though. i would have gone home instead of waiting in that monster.

I'm still watching it now. WOAH it's a big line..! right up to the end of the road with the crossing, and across the road - the line starts again..!

I wish I was there (but near the front ), actually I wish they'd have a big Apple Store like that in the UK - somewhere near, say - Swansea/Cardiff...then I'd be happy.

I can only imagine how small the line would be if it were a new MS store (no seriously, not 'as' many people would queue up).

Instead of watching it via stream, I downloaded the .mov file and fast forwarded it and WOAH..!!!!!!!! that's a long one.

From the store, they line up down the road - nice little junction/crossing, so, a new line starts - and I counted like 10 pavements full and 2 minutes through the video it was announced the 1000th person. Another 10 minutes in the video to go, so we're talking a few thousand.

They didn't just queue down the long road - there was a junction on the other side of the street so they're queuing all around the blocks. I am truly impressed with the sheer length of this queue.

thast why i bought mine on apple.com, gotta love the internet

unreal.... did they have episode 3 playing inside though? i've never seen such a big line in my life

pffft..i've seen longer lines at six flags

What's: '6 flags'..?

Some kind of sports thingy? (I'm not into any sports so I couldn't tell ya)

I heard of Six Flags, isn't it a theme park? Anyway I watched the video and that's one long line!

I love when people feel the need to jump in threads and just spout out negative comments.

What's the big deal? There probably isn't any to you, but for the person who posted it, he thought it was cool. Give him a break.

If you don't have something positive to say, why even post? What is the motivation to spend the time typing something totally negative and off topic?

And from mods too, shame

can someone post a link to the direct .mov file? thanks

omg over 1000, atleast 2000!??! omg just to get into apple store!

There was some article that said 5500 people were waiting....

what exactly did keldyn and I say that was negative?

2 of my posts were asking why so many people were lined up outside of the store. I still don't even know. Was it an event?

the other was Keldyn dropping a joke, and the last was was me acknowledging a joke.

That is a lot of people. Just shows you how much people like Macs.

It was the grand opening of the first Apple retail store outside of the states, and its gotta be Apple's largest store so far. There has been line up's for every store so far, but obviously none as big as this.

Pictures of the actual store can be found here:
http://www.apple.com/retail/jp/ginza/gallery1.html

Direct Link (44.5MB)

ohhh now THAT makes sense. thanks!

thank you

sadatkarim - no probs

tRr - OMG OMG OMG, now they are the kind of pictures I wanna' see. Damn I wish we had one of those stores over here.

6 Flags is a theme park (or a chain of theme parks I think) in the states.

Also, 2k-5k people q-ing for the new Apple store.
That's gotta be one for the Guinness books surely.

I wonder if people went because:
a) they wanted to buy an Apple/accessory
b) they wanted to have a look around
c) they wanted to stay out the rain
d) they thought it was the new craze/fab thing, only to get to the front and find out they weren't interested in Apple

I gotcha, I never heard of the 6 Flags - but I have now

If it were me then I'd go to that store for options a/b (primarily for 'b').

WOOOOOW!!!!!!!!! that was a long line I wonder if they all got in that day