A special exhibition at Chuo-ku Folk Tenmonkan (Time Dome Akashi) "Rediscover the charm of Kyobashi, Nihonbashi, Tsukishima!" -Foreign culture that came to Chuo-ku-" is being held at the Kumin Gallery. Admission is free until July 6. For more information:>>
During the Edo period, the Korean correspondent and Dutch trading post chief Edo Sanfu, the opening of foreign settlements in the Meiji period, and the expo plan, which became a phantom before the war, paintings and photographic panels depicting connections with foreign countries in the history of Chuo-ku.
Photographs taken from balloons launched at the Tsukiji Naval Training Center in 1904 (1904) are attracting attention. The view from above an altitude of about 200m is the "Tokyo Panorama Photographs" taken from Shinagawa to Hamarikyu, Imperial Palace, Ginza, and Nihonbashi. From the bird's-eye view of the sepia color, the streets of the past are revived. @ Akira Makibuchi
