Photos by Tokyo Times
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Month: January 2011
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Suidobashi
Suidobashi is one of the historic bridges in Japan that is still preserved nowadays. Suidobashi bridge crosses the river Kanda in downtown Tokyo; in the past it was used by merchants, travelers, warriors and samurai that followed the Tokaido route (that linked the present cities of Tokyo and Kyoto).
This is how Suidobashi bridge and some areas of downtown Tokyo looked 200 or 300 years ago as represented by ukiyo-e artists:
Kanda river and Suidobashi bridge.
Suidobashi bridge and mount Fuji on the horizon.
And this is how Suidobashi bridge and its surroundings look nowadays:
A roller coaster passing through a building!
Google Maps view. The white thing is Tokyo Dome stadium
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More thin buildings
Lately I haven’t updated my collection of pictures of thin buildings but I’ve found this post in weburbanist with some pictures of extremely thin buildings in Japan. It is not rare to spot one of these buildings in Japan; I’m not sure but I think that the laws to partition the land are somehow special and that’s why sometimes you can find four buildings occupying the space that could be used for a single normal building.
More photos and information in Weburbanist.