Tokyo Story
Innumerable lights of the high-rise office buildings are winking as dusk gathers in the heart of Tokyo. Marunouchi area is Tokyo's major commercial district whose avenues are lined with headquarter buildings of Japan's major banks and corporations. The illuminated three-story building of red brick is Tokyo Station which is 335 meters deep. Historic architecture which was inaugurated in 1914 was designated as a national important cultural property. I could enjoy this beautiful cityscape for the first time since construction work of the new square in front of the station was finally completed in December 2017 and maintenance of the observatory deck was finished in February 2018. Heavy machineries and materials for construction work do not disturb the night view anymore.
It is really hard to believe that Marunouchi area once was an inlet some 400 years ago when Ieyasu Tokugawa (1543 -1616) settled the government in Edo, his own territory, after taking office as shogun (literally, "great general who subdues the barbarians").
Edo which is called Tokyo today was just a sleepy fishing village in those days. Retainers of Ieyasu made a proposal to abandon this place and return to his former stronghold, but he did not give up his urban planning and ordered to continue filling up the inlet to build a city which became the very foundation of today's Tokyo. One of its reasons is that he knew the geopolitical advantage of this land very well, however, what will he say if he saw this cityscape of Marunouchi which is located in front of his castle?
Tokyo Story
Innumerable lights of the high-rise office buildings are winking as dusk gathers in the heart of Tokyo. Marunouchi area is Tokyo's major commercial district whose avenues are lined with headquarter buildings of Japan's major banks and corporations. The illuminated three-story building of red brick is Tokyo Station which is 335 meters deep. Historic architecture which was inaugurated in 1914 was designated as a national important cultural property. I could enjoy this beautiful cityscape for the first time since construction work of the new square in front of the station was finally completed in December 2017 and maintenance of the observatory deck was finished in February 2018. Heavy machineries and materials for construction work do not disturb the night view anymore.
It is really hard to believe that Marunouchi area once was an inlet some 400 years ago when Ieyasu Tokugawa (1543 -1616) settled the government in Edo, his own territory, after taking office as shogun (literally, "great general who subdues the barbarians").
Edo which is called Tokyo today was just a sleepy fishing village in those days. Retainers of Ieyasu made a proposal to abandon this place and return to his former stronghold, but he did not give up his urban planning and ordered to continue filling up the inlet to build a city which became the very foundation of today's Tokyo. One of its reasons is that he knew the geopolitical advantage of this land very well, however, what will he say if he saw this cityscape of Marunouchi which is located in front of his castle?