Tokyo of the 1950s in color images

Tokyo of the 1950s in color images

Categories: Asia

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 of the 1950s in color images

Tokyo of the 1950s in color images

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.

Tokyo of the 1950s in color images

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.

Tokyo of the 1950s in color images

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

Tokyo of the 1950s in color images

1953. Railway station

Tokyo of the 1950s in color images

He was born in 1952.

Tokyo of the 1950s in color images

1952. Imperial Hotel

Tokyo of the 1950s in color images

1953. Sakura Day

Tokyo of the 1950s in color images

The same thing

Tokyo of the 1950s in color images

1952. Equestrian statue of General Kusunoki Masashige

Tokyo of the 1950s in color images

1952. "The Three Graces" in Tokyo

Tokyo of the 1950s in color images

1952–53. Tokyo neighborhood, rice drying

Tokyo of the 1950s in color images

1953. Nara

Tokyo of the 1950s in color images

1955. Ginza

Tokyo of the 1950s in color images

1955. General view Tokyo:

Tokyo of the 1950s in color images

Tokyo towards the end of the 50s

Tokyo Khrushchevki

Keywords: Asia | Japan | Archive | Tokyo | 50s | Color slides | Color photos

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