2012年10月6日、ドームの復元工事が行われ67年ぶりに創建当時の姿を取り戻した東京駅。多くの方が立ち止まり記念撮影をしていました。長野県に住んでいる祖父(93歳)いわく、昭和9年(1934年)に祖父が日本橋の問屋に小僧に出た際に東京駅に訪れたそうです。地下街はなかったけれども、当時から大変賑わっていたようです。祖父が働いていた問屋では当時からショールやレインコートを売っていたそうです。お得意様は東北地方の服屋で、直接商品の発送をしていたとのこと。なんだか戦前がそんなに遠い世界ではない気がしてきます。 10/7/2012, At Tokyo station. Its dome was restored to its original state for the first time in 67 years. There were many people stopping by and taking pictures. My grandfather in Nagano, Japan, who is 93 years, told me that he had been there in 1934(Showa 9) when he was working in a wholesaler in Nihon-bashi. Though there wasn’t the basement floor in the station, there were crowded back then too. He said he was selling shawls and raincoats to stores in Touhoku area, using distribution networks like we do now. Every time I listened to his old stories I forget they were more than 60 years old.

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