Old Photos of Japan rescues rare images of daily life in old Japan
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Nara 1934
Rural Houses

Typical rural houses near Nara. It is late April or early May as can be seen from the Koinobori streamers fluttering in the wind in celebration of Boy’s Day on May 5.

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Tokyo 1920s
Asakusa Nakamise

The Nakamise souvenir shops at the Buddhist temple Senso-ji in Asakusa, Tokyo. In the back the huge Niomon (仁王門) entrance gate can be seen.

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Tokyo 1910s
Asakusa Nakamise

The Nakamise souvenir shops at the Buddhist temple Senso-ji in Asakusa, Tokyo.

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Yokohama 1930
Bentendori

Yokohama’s Bentendori was a popular shopping street that lost most of its charm when it was destroyed during the Great Kanto Earthquake of 1923.

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1930
Washing Clothes

Women in traditional clothing are washing clothes in small tubs at public washing place in Kamakura.

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Tokyo 1934
Traffic in Nihonbashi

Cars and street cars on Chuodori in Nihonbashi in May 1934. The photographer took this photo from the intersection of Chuodori and Eitai-dori (永代道り).