TOKYO INFRASTRUCTURE 086 Otemachi, Marunouchi and Kasumigaseki
This area has been updated continuously from the center of the Edo shogunate and now it plays the central role […] ...
TOKYO INFRASTRUCTURE 006 Tsukiji
There are many place names “Tsukiji”, meaning “built land”, throughout the country. It […] ...
TOKYO INFRASTRUCTURE 080 Odaiba (Batteries of Shinagawa)
お台場の名前は、幕末、海外列強からの攻撃の脅威にさらされた江戸幕府が、品川沖につくった砲台付きの人工島に由来する。この時期、幕府に限らず、数多くの藩が沿岸に砲台を築き、城下町の防御を図った。ただ、都市の<免疫力>を高めた […] ...
TOKYO INFRASTRUCTURE 024 Kanda sewage
Just like the human body, absorption of nutrition alone can not maintain the city’s “health”. In order to main […] ...
TOKYO INFRASTRUCTURE 022 Nihon-bashi bridge
The centre of the old five national highways in the Edo period. Even today, the seven major national highways […] ...
TOKYO INFRASTRUCTURE 078 Shinagawa
Sorry, this entry is only available in Japanese. 都心を出発した東海道の道路と線路の2本の太い<血管>が、最初に交差する場所。それが品川である。 1872年に初めて鉄道が通 […] ...
TOKYO INFRASTRUCTURE 066 Tokyu Corporation
東京の私鉄は、山手線から外側に拡がっている。山手線はかつて「万里の長城」とも称され、その内側は市電、外側が私鉄、という住み分けができていた。中には「万里の長城」に「侵入」しようとした池上電気鉄道のようなチャレンジングな路 […] ...
TOKYO INFRASTRUCTURE 039 Ueno station
“The night train departing from Ueno …” exists no more, but the façade as a gateway to the n […] ...
TOKYO INFRASTRUCTURE 035 Asakusa Station
This terminal station of Tobu Railway extending to the suburbs was built at the intersection with the subway ( […] ...
TOKYO INFRASTRUCTURE 002 Gyoko-dori Street
A thick “blood vessel” extending from the Tokyo station, Tokyo’s “heart”, to the Imperial Palace, old “b […] ...