Restored Tokyo Station building prepares for gala opening

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TOKYO —

 

East Japan Railway Company (JR East) is holding its Tokyo Station Vision event this weekend ahead of the reopening of the restored Tokyo Station building and Tokyo Station Hotel in early October.

 

According to JR East, cutting edge technology will be used to map images from hundreds of highly accurate projectors onto the building’s facade, transforming its outward appearance to give a sense of the history and future of the station. The images were projected on the building on Saturday night and will be projected again on Sunday at 8 p.m., 8:20 p.m. and 8:40 p.m.

 

Tokyo Station was damaged in the Great Kanto Earthquake in 1923, but remained standing. However, the building was later burned and gutted in 1945 firebombings. Postwar reconstruction altered the terminal’s picturesque silhouette, resulting in the removal of the third floor and the replacement of the station’s original ornate cupolas with more octagonal domes, modelled on the Pantheon in Rome.

 

In 2006, a reconstruction project began that was designed to restore the Tokyo Station Marunouchi Building to its original 1914 charm and splendor. The building will open on Oct 1 and the Tokyo Station Hotel is scheduled to open on Oct 3.

 

Japan Today::http://www.japantoday.com/category/national/view/restored-tokyo-station-building-prepares-for-gala-opening

[bikkuri bahn]

Looking forward to seeing the reborn building in person.  It's great the original third story was restored.

 

light show:

 

JR East TV commercial:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nn1e1nwoFUU

 

Link to the full 1 min. version (scroll down):

http://www.advertimes.com/adobata/article/9954/www.mif-design.com/blog/2012/09/23-104114.php/