Lots of Tokyo’s older homes and businesses may well be disappearing, but thankfully many still remain, and for as long as they do, they’ll continue to provide fabulously contrasting scenes such as this one.
Photographs from a small group of islands
Lots of Tokyo’s older homes and businesses may well be disappearing, but thankfully many still remain, and for as long as they do, they’ll continue to provide fabulously contrasting scenes such as this one.
Carl says
It’s so cool to see old and new contrasts like this but it looks like the new condo buildings are moving in…….
Lee says
Always nice to such stark differences like this, but yeah, those old buildings are definitely living on borrowed time.
Stephan says
Very cool shot. I love the shredded canopies! 🙂
Lee says
Cheers. Yes, not much of them left. Not much at all!
cdilla says
I so love the contrasts in your photographs like this. And as you know I like to track the areas down for a possible future visit.
This one proved harder than I thought it would be. The reason being that the building I was trying to use as a reference point (the one in front of the Skytree) only went up in the past year and so didn’t appear on the aerial maps. Having found it, It looks as if the shops were already abandoned back in 2010 (when the Skytree was but a stump), through the awning over the red shutters only disappeared last year. Also, the people next door changed their car 2016/17 and have between 3 and 6 bike parked outside.
Across the road there is the tiniest ancient wooden building. I hope you took a photograph or two of that one too 🙂
Lee says
Glad to hear you hard to work a little bit to find it!
That’s funny about the car and bicycles. Those little details make all the difference though eh? Oh, and as for the awning, it could well have been the big typhoon last year that finished it off. I’ve since had it confirmed that the wonderful sign on this tofu shop suffered the same fate: https://www.tokyotimes.org/a-wonderfully-old-tokyo-tofu-shop-and-its-owner
Ah, didn’t notice the ancient wooden building. Must have been too caught up getting this shot. But that’s ok. Makes for a good reason to walk that area again.