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Ginza, Tokyo: the clock tower, the department stores and a main street without cars
Ginza is eight blocks of central Tokyo lined with department stores and specialty shops. How the clock tower, the car-free weekends and the Kabukiza theater came about. -
Tokyo Station: the red-brick station at the center of Japan's railways
Tokyo Station opened in 1914 as the capital's central station. Who designed its red-brick building, how it burned in 1945, and how it got its domes back in 2012. -
Ueno Station: Tokyo's gateway to the north
Ueno Station opened in 1883 as the Tokyo terminal of Japan's first private steam railway. Why trains for the north started here, its 1932 building and two levels of tracks, and what changed in 1985 and 2015. -
Under the tracks in Tokyo: the brick arches of Yūrakuchō and Kanda
Why restaurants and shops fill the space under the railway at Yūrakuchō and Kanda: a brick viaduct modeled on Berlin's and completed in 1910, and a station closed in 1943.