they just made a setting looks like they were in US..that's it....
ayuwas having her concert tour when she made this video, i guess...

They definitely would not go to Alabama just to shoot something. That makes no sense that they would go there. And yes, there are such a thing as "prop" liscense plates - plus those cars were being pushed, not driven. If they are going for an American feel to the video, of course they are going to get the liscense plates to go with it. I used to work on the TV show American Dreams, which takes place in the 1960s and every tiny detail, even down to the liscense plates on the cars were recreated to look like 60s America.

Another thing is old fashioned Texaco stations like that really don't exist anymore(at least not in great shape like that.)

There are tons of Americans that live in Japan just to work on videos like this.

If this was indeed filmed in Japan, they did a good job of making it look American. Although it wouldn't suprise me if there were an old fashioned American cafe somewhere in Japan already.

The scene with them practicing the dance in the warehouse was def. Japan - it's got the Japanese exit sign over one of the doors.

Also the scene with all the cars and billboards and stuff was also Japan - they simply filmed on a strip of highway.

It does seem like it's rather in Japan... Maybe there is indeed a restaurant like that in Japan or maybe they have a small studio-city with various sets. It is possible.

And I believe the car scenes were just in some open space with a piece of road, outside an airport, old parking lot or smth.

I know it's blurry, but the area I circled on the building; There's no way that's the english language. It's very square, like kanji (or korean?). But since it's so blurry, it might also have kana that we can't see. We'll have to wait for credits or until a better quality version comes out.
http://img224.imageshack.us/img224/6527/bf1dt.jpg
(I circled it, it's in the top left corner.)

Also take note of the mailbox. U.S. mail usually has the eagle on it, which is not visible in this photo.

I never saw the Avex casting call for this PV but it was apparently within Japan. The PV is intentionally decorated so that it looks American. I agree with SunshineSlayer and think it was filmed in Japan.

yup. i think that its filmed in Japan. those american stuffs are just props. they are made to be that way. its not the first time that ayu uses caucasians in her PVs. we have seen tonnes! and whats more. there wasnt any news of ayu going overseas to film a PV or whatever. so i think its in japan.

Yeah, somebody pointed the kanjis out.
But there wasn't any news of Ayumi going to Guam to film BB PV either, was there?...

^ ayu said it herself in Music Station.

this was shot in ayabe-shi
somewhere in it cos my friend was in the video where they opent he gates to ran for ayu.bleh.. i hate her.....

and everything in it was just props.. its all object that are placed in the land and then they shoot the video to make it look like in america.

there's no texaco in japan but there is SHAKEY's yay! lol

edit:
e... ano.. what is texaco? it sound sliek a gasu eki!! wahaha!

Your guess is correct, a Texaco is a gas station. :yes

edit: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texaco

So the mystery is solved ;-). That's what I thought - it was Japan. I must say, that Ayu & her stuff have put a big effort to make all the places look like in USA. Congrats to them :]

Didn't see the post.

But not before she went there to film the PV -- which was what I meant, that before the filming we didn't have any info that she's going to Guam.

No problem. :)

a! honto? o.o ou......subarashii..... -_-'

anyway what was it doing in the restaurant? o.o

^ A common trend in American restaurants (particularly the new hip bistro type places) is to decorate the walls with different sorts of vintage memorabilia and signs and photos and stuff. There seems to be lots of vintage signs and such in the video. The Orange Crush sign, for example.

The fact that you can see the kanjis makes me belive it was definately shot in Japan, they made a good job making it look like the US though.