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In 1932, it became one of the 35 wards of Tokyo City. Tokyo #10-B Prisoner of War Camp. On 1 July 1944, during World War II, the Imperial Japanese Army established the #20-B prisoner-of-war camp on the grounds near Hashiba Bridge, Minami-Senju, at the current day location with the address of 3-41 Minami-Senju, Arakawa. The camp was renamed to ...
Tokyo is the most populated of Japan 's 47 prefectures. [1] As of September 2024, there are over 200 buildings and structures in Tokyo that stand at least 150 metres tall (492 feet), of which 46 are at least 200 metres tall (656 feet). [2][3][4] The tallest structure in the prefecture is Tokyo Skytree, a megatall lattice tower that rises 634 ...
Arata Isozaki. Arata Isozaki: Isozaki was born on July 23, 1931, in Kyushu, Japan. He studied architecture at the University of Tokyo. In 1963 he opened up his own studio and was the leading architect during the postwar period in Japan. Isozaki's first building he worked on was the Ōita Prefectural Library (1966).
Japanese architecture (日本建築, Nihon kenchiku) has been typified by wooden structures, elevated slightly off the ground, with tiled or thatched roofs. Sliding doors (fusuma) and other traditional partitions were used in place of walls, allowing the internal configuration of a space to be customized for different occasions.
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Arakawa. The Arakawa River or Ara River (Japanese: 荒川, Hepburn: Arakawa, "kawa" (川) already means "river") is a 173-kilometre (107 mi) long river that flows through Saitama Prefecture and Tokyo. [1] Its average flow in 2002 was 30 m 3 /s. It originates on Mount Kobushi in Saitama Prefecture, and empties into Tokyo Bay. [2]
Line length. 12.2 km (7.6 mi) Track gauge. 1,372 mm (4 ft 6 in) Electrification. 600 V DC overhead catenary. The Toden Arakawa Line (都電荒川線, Toden Arakawa-sen), branded as the Tokyo Sakura Tram (東京さくらトラム, Tōkyō Sakura Toramu), [1] is a hybrid light rail / tram line in Tokyo, Japan, operated by the Tokyo Metropolitan ...
This is a list of buildings that once held the title of tallest building in Japan. From its completion in 1958 and until the opening of the Tokyo Skytree in 2011, Tokyo Tower retained the title of tallest structure in Japan, aside from various guyed masts that were built in the 1960s and 1970s, later dismantled in the 1990s.