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higashinihombashi,chuo,tokyo
The same Monja Street looks quite different if seen from this POV.
High-rise condos line up along the old narrow street mixed up with remaining old wooden houses, which creates a unique cityscape if spoken positively.
It is an outcome of the change in Tokyo's architectural regulation. According to an article on internet, one of its objectives was to revitalise Shitamachi, i.e. the old downtown of Tokyo on the alluvial lowland.
Tokyo had been enforcing strict seismic standards and controlling the construction of high-rise buildings reflecting the huge damages it suffered from the Great Kanto Earthquake in 1923.
The control of high-rise buildings was strategically eased in the Shitamachi area facing Tokyo Bay.