Tokyo of the 1950s in color images

I've never been to Tokyo, although I was going to. The city does not shine with its architecture, but it is still one of the world's capitals, in which there is a lot of interesting things for avid travelers. Our blog already had Tokyo pictures from the 1860s. Especially clearly, the "authentic" view of the city before the beginning of Westernization is represented by the panorama of Edo in 1865 by Felice Beato. Almost 100 years have passed since then…

Tokyo 1953 The wounds of the war are already healed, a year ago the American occupation formally ended. Most of the cars are still American. I wonder if it's a police officer or a postman on a bicycle.

one thousand nine hundred fifty three A very strange and unexpected monument for the defeated country is the Oka jet-shell, on which kamikazes crashed into American ships. The chassis, by the way, was not provided for as unnecessary.

1953. The area of the famous Ginza shopping street. For the Japanese, the bicycle then was still a mass means of transportation.

1953. Railway station

He was born in 1952.

1952. Imperial Hotel

1953. Sakura Day

The same thing

1952. Equestrian statue of General Kusunoki Masashige

1952. "The Three Graces" in Tokyo

1952–53. Tokyo neighborhood, rice drying

1953. Nara

1955. Ginza

1955. General view Tokyo:

Tokyo towards the end of the 50s

Tokyo Khrushchevki