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Oct 12 2020 6 Comments

Crumbling and ultra modern Tokyo in a single 35mm frame

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.

Crumbling and ultra modern Tokyo contrast

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  1. Carl says

    10/12/2020 at 12:01 pm

    It’s so cool to see old and new contrasts like this but it looks like the new condo buildings are moving in…….

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    • Lee says

      10/12/2020 at 9:07 pm

      Always nice to such stark differences like this, but yeah, those old buildings are definitely living on borrowed time.

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  2. Stephan says

    10/12/2020 at 2:06 pm

    Very cool shot. I love the shredded canopies! 🙂

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    • Lee says

      10/12/2020 at 9:08 pm

      Cheers. Yes, not much of them left. Not much at all!

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  3. cdilla says

    10/13/2020 at 4:14 pm

    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 🙂

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    • Lee says

      10/13/2020 at 8:48 pm

      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.

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