1920s Japan Tokyo Central Railway Station Marunouchi Vintage Cars Taxis Postcard

1920s Japan Tokyo Central Railway Station Marunouchi Vintage Cars Taxis Postcard

Front description:

A colour (hand-tinted collotype) postcard giving a wide elevated panorama of Tokyo Central Railway Station (Tokyo Station, Tōkyō-eki), the Marunouchi terminus, Tokyo, Japan. The station, designed by Tatsuno Kingo and completed in 1914, is shown in its original three-storey red-brick form with white stone banding: the two great domed pavilions rise at the left (north) and right (south) ends with their slate cupolas, and the long central range with its many hipped roofs, dormers, and turrets extends across the whole width of the view. Before the station lies the vast open station plaza (Ekimae Hiroba), which in this view is a bare, dusty expanse crowded with numerous vintage motor cars — dozens of 1910s–1920s automobiles (open touring cars and taxis) are drawn up in ranks and clusters across the foreground and middle ground, together with small figures of pedestrians. A broad roadway crosses the plaza, and a green motor-bus is visible at centre. A blue sky with cumulus clouds fills the upper portion.

Back description:

The back is an undivided-style postcard back printed in orange/yellow ink, with a plain square stamp box at upper right.

Printed at top: POST CARD

Japanese characters (郵便はがき, “yūbin hagaki” — post card) are printed vertically at right.

Printed vertically along the left edge:

The Tokyo Central Railway Station.
Japanese Government Railways, Tokyo, Japan

Printed along the centre line: MADE IN JAPAN

The card is unused. No stamp, postmark, or message.

Estimated era: Circa 1920s (Taishō to early Shōwa period). The card shows Tokyo Station in its original 1914 form with both end domes intact (before their 1945 destruction). The plaza filled with 1910s–1920s automobiles and taxis — rather than the rickshaws and carriages of the earliest views — indicates a somewhat later date than the immediate post-opening cards, pointing to the 1920s. The official “Japanese Government Railways” imprint and the “Made in Japan” marking are consistent with an official railway-issued souvenir card of that decade.

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