1950s Japan Tokyo Station Marunouchi Post-War Reduced Roofline Plaza Postcard

1950s Japan Tokyo Station Marunouchi Post-War Reduced Roofline Plaza Trees Postcard

Front description:

A colour photographic postcard giving an elevated panorama of Tokyo Station (Tōkyō-eki), the Marunouchi terminus, Tokyo, Japan, in its post-war form. The station is shown across the tree-lined station plaza: the long red-brick building with white banding still stands, but in its reduced post-war state — the great end pavilions and central block are now capped with lower, simplified hipped and angular roofs rather than the tall slate domes of the original 1914 design (which were destroyed in the 1945 air raids and only rebuilt in 2012). Behind and beyond, the rebuilt post-war Marunouchi/central Tokyo skyline of pale multi-storey office blocks stretches across the horizon. In front, the spacious station-front plaza (Ekimae Hiroba) is laid out with rows of neatly planted young trees, paved walkways, and a rectangular reflecting pool/ornamental water feature in the foreground, with small figures, buses, and cars. A pale blue sky is above.

Handwritten in blue ink across the sky (by a former owner): “Nov. 27 to 29 and Dec. 6 to 7 and 8 to 9, 1950.”

Also handwritten in blue across the lower caption band: “Tokyo, Japan.”

Printed caption at lower left, Japanese characters: 東京驛 (“Tokyo Station”)

Printed caption at lower right: TŌKYŌ STATION

Back description:

The back is a white postcard back with the printing rendered in blind/colourless embossed (or very pale) lettering: “POST CARD,” “CORRESPONDENCE,” “ADDRESS,” a central dividing line, and a “PLACE STAMP HERE” box at upper right. Faint Japanese characters (郵便はがき) appear vertically at right.

The card is unused (apart from the owner’s manuscript notes on the front). No stamp, postmark, or message on the back.

Estimated era: Circa 1950 (dated by the owner’s manuscript note). The image shows Tokyo Station in its reduced post-war form (after the loss of its domes in 1945 and before the 2012 restoration), with the redeveloped plaza and its reflecting pool and young replanted trees, and a rebuilding post-war skyline behind. The handwritten dates “1950” on the front confirm the card was in use around 1950, consistent with an early-1950s post-war/Occupation-era view.

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