After the fire of 1872 it was rebuilt in brick precisely so that it would never burn again.
After the fire of 1872 the prefecture had the whole street rebuilt in brick (Ginza's ‘brick town’, designed by the British architect Thomas Waters) precisely so that Tokyo would not burn again. It was the first Western-style commercial district in Japan.
The crossing of Chūō-dōri and Harumi-dōri, the centre of Ginza. Shiseido Parlour's Salon de Café, another of the series' places, is about 600 m further south.
🚉 Higashi-Ginza · 3 min walk
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The very first scene of ‘Ordinal Scale’ after the titles: the TV report presenting the Augma interviews a couple, looking along Chūō-dōri towards Ginza 5-chōme, and the augmented reality demonstration is superimposed on the facade of Wakō, with its clock tower.
Sources: tianlang.s601.xrea.com · furaba-animeseichi.blog.jp · ja.wikipedia.org
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