So, here is the “Edo-Tokyo Open-Air Architectural Museum” with LUMIX G99 and Pana-Leica lenses.
First, let’s take a tour of the downtown Nakadori Avenue, which you saw briefly in the previous article. Here is the public bath “Kodakara-yu” located right in front of the street.
This is a public bathhouse that actually existed in Adachi ward, Tokyo (or rather, everything in this park has been preserved and restored from some kind of real building. ) The downtown Nakadori Avenue, including Kodakara-yu, is a collection of stores and other stores from the early Showa period.
Not only is the exterior of the building magnificent, but the interior has also been completely restored, and as soon as you enter, you will be astonished.
A view of the (presumably) men’s changing room and bathroom from the side of the entrance guard stand.
The high ceiling construction is gorgeous. Although I did not experience a public bathhouse of this era in real time, I somehow feel a pseudo-nostalgia for what public bathhouses were like in the Showa period.
Mt. Fuji in the bathhouse.
What about the modern faucet? I was wondering, but the note said “Be careful, water may flow from the calan,” so I guess it was necessary to use modern plumbing components to keep some faucets alive for cleaning purposes, etc.?
The interior of the meticulously restored Hardware store. This was a store in Kanda.
The selection of products on display, and even the way in which they are displayed, is astonishingly reproduced without any corners being cut.
The narrow staircase from the faithfully restored storefront to the second floor is realistic.
In this kind of environment, the ultra wide angle Leica DG8-18mm is in its element. I am glad I brought it.
This is a dry goods store in Shirokane, Minato ward, Tokyo, at the same time. They also sold cigarettes at the storefront.
And the amazing faithful reproduction of this assortment of dry goods.
Come to think of it, I may be just about the last generation to remember, even vaguely, the sight of eggs being sold like this. The items lined up in the back of the store are dried bonito flakes, but younger people may not know what dried bonito flakes are before they are shaved (suddenly mounting up with a mysterious elderly gesture).
There is no end to the number of pictures I took unintentionally. I could go on and on, but I guess this is the end of the story.
