Koizumi Kishio 小泉癸巳男 (1893-1945)
Tokyo Station and Central Post Office (Tōkyō eki to chūō yūbinkyoku 東京駅と中央郵便局)
Series: One hundred pictures of Great Tokyo in the Shōwa era (Shōwa dai Tōkyō hyakuzue hanga 昭和大東京百図絵版画)
Date: November 1936 (Shōwa 11, 11th month)
Signature: Izumi; Koizumi Kishio
Publisher: Self-published
Tokyo Station was designed by Tatsuno Kingo (1854-1919), a student of Josiah Conder (1852-1920) and one of Japan's first great modern architects. It was the new terminus of the Tōkaidō railway, connecting Tokyo with Kyoto and Osaka. The building is a mixture of classic European styles, and its main inspiration was said to have been Amsterdam Central Station. This is the view out of the west entrance, which gives way to Marunouchi, the Kōjimachi business district.