Tokyo in 1960, before there were any skyscrapers
Wednesday, 12 Mar 2025
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Tokyo Tower 🗼
Damn, if only I could go back to that era and buy up all the land around there.
Only 15 years after the end of the MASSIVE firebombing raids of WW2.
Anyone else think of Masayoshi Takanaka’s “Can I Sing”?
Godzilla suddenly makes a lot more sense
Wow! The Eiffel radio tower
“Hard to believe this peaceful cityscape would become one of the world’s busiest skylines
Looks like in the anime
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) is a much higher-quality version of this image in the original black and white. [Here](https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/news-photo/the-modern-tokyo-tower-similar-in-design-to-the-eiffel-news-photo/514679632) is the source. Per there:
> The modern Tokyo Tower, similar in design to the Eiffel Tower, stands over a neighborhood of houses with traditional-styled roofs in Tokyo, Japan.
> Date created: December 31, 1959
bro that’s Paris
Looks nicer to me. It feels more cozy and like a real place where people live. I don’t care much for skyscrapers and futuristic architecture. It looks too sterile.
The wooden house in the bottom-left right behind the electricity pole actually survived the Tokyo bombings, and can be seen on even older photo’s. Yet it was eventually demolished along the rest to build the Minato skyscraper district that we see today.
Well, anyone that knows history, knew that they had a bunch, but Godzilla destroyed them all several times. In 54, he broke through a large fence and used his atomic breath to lay waste to most of the skyscrapers.
Looks peaceful
So you mean after Godzilla???
Would’ve liked to visit back then
errmmm excuse me, this is paris
Tokyo? Nah, Asian Paris!
They were probably still to scared to build anything to big… It amazing how a culture that has seen so much misery becomes one of the most advanced and safest countries in the world. I envy their culture and the way they see the world.
Wow!
Beautiful except for that red nail
Damn paris was tokyo
Tokyo was Paris?
Which do you prefer?
Old traditional styled suburbia
Or bright and colorful metropolis?
I think I can see one
Times were good when you could see Paris from your backyard in Tokyo
Ah, I love Stonehenge.
The “Always: Sunset on Third Street” Films are based on life in Tokyo during the construction of Tokyo Tower. Really nice films, and after seeing this pic explains why everything looks like suburbs in the films!
Go back about 15 years and there was even less.