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Famous places of Tokyo: Shimbashi

 

Compiled by Ted Bestor, Harvard University

 

 

trolley at Shimbashi bridge, ca. 1900

 

view facing north from old Shimbashi station toward the Ginza

 

(note sign in front of red brick building on the far left, which advertises “tabako” – tobacco.)