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From brand name designers to high-end restaurant owners, to merchants of trinkets, to fast food joint operators, if anybody wants to stay in business in Harajuku, they have to be a trend-setter.  After all, this is a fashion capital of Japan where people, especially the young, come from all over the country to see what's in style.  Thus things can change quickly as "in with the new, out with the old" seems to be the rule.

But there's something that's never changed for almost 90 years and that's what I painted today.  This white-walled, half-timbered building is Harajuku Railway Station.  Original building was constructed in 1906.  And the current one was built in 1924 after the Great Kanto Earthquake devastated Tokyo in 1923, making it the oldest wooden railroad station building in Tokyo.  Just behind this station is the Meiji Shrine.


Harajuku, Tokyo, Japan II

A larger digital file available on request.
Media: Original watercolor on paper
Image Size: 8.25 x 11.5 inches (21 x 29 cm)
Mat/Frame: No
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