Built at the end of the 19th century on reclaimed land, the Tsukishima Island is one of the few Tokyo districts that preserves a part of the old time atmosphere, because Tsukishima remained largely unaffected by the Great Kanto Earthquake, and also survived to the WWII bombings.

At the beginning of the 1990s, a large modernization project took place here, but only on the northern side, where several high-rise buildings where erected. Today, Tsukishima presents an architectural combination of old and new, an image illustrative for many Japanese cities, conservative and modern at the same time…

Tsukishima street, Tokyo

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