Yokoamicho Park was built and opened by the Tokyo Metropolitan government in 1930. The Great Kanto Earthquake struck on September 1st, 1923, and many

---

Admiral Matthew Perry appeared in Tokyo Bay in 1853 during the closing days of the Tokugawa shogunate. The shogun didn't have large ships to defend itself from an attack by the foreign warships. So it divised batteries off the coast of Shinagawa Tokyo. In the end, they went unused and were neglected. They were known as Shinagawa Daiba. The batteries lasted until the Showa period,though only the two best preserved remain. They were designated national historic sites and was opened to the public as Daiba Park.

---

Size: 4160px × 6240px
Location: Tokyo
Photo credit: © John Lander / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No

Keywords: air, bomb, cracked, damage, damaged, destroyed, destruction, devastation, earthquake, effects, fire, great, hall, harmed, kanto, melted, memorial, park, raid, reconstructed, reconstruction, relic, relics, results, ruin, ruined, ruins, tokyo, war, ww2, wwii, yokoamicho