The Historian · Hana · Tokyo
Tokyo Station Marunouchi Building
The 2012 restoration was a political act as much as a preservation act. Japan decided to rebuild its symbolic national gateway exactly as it was.
Built 1914 by Tatsuno Kingo, partially destroyed in 1945, restored to original specifications in 2012. The dome ceiling paintings inside the north and south domes were recreated from archive photographs.
— Hana, The Historian
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