Tokyo photo resources

As my interests tend to be historical, many/most of the items listed below contain historical photographs of the Tokyo area across many decades.

Best resource:

• A section of Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Realty’s website, Town Archives, has an incredible array of before-and-after photographs (including a reference map)

Japanese newspaper archives:

• Asahi Photo Archives
• Mainichi Photo Bank 「毎日フォトバンク」
• Yomiuri Photo Archive

Historic and street photo resources:

• 「郷愁小路」 “Nostalgia alley”
• amanaimages.com
• National Diet Library Online Collection
• 東京WEB写真館 昭和２０年代から Tokyo WEB photo gallery From the Showa 20’s
• Japanese Studies: Special Collection: Posters of Taishō-Early Shōwa Japan (USC library)
• Meiji Showa: historical images of Japan between the 1860s and 1930s
• Database of Japanese old photographs in Bakumatsu-Meiji Period (Nagasaki University Library)
• Old Tokyo
• “City of Tokyo of memory -Tokyo Archive” 「都市・東京の記憶－Tokyo Archive」
• Go Tokyo: Time Trip Tokyo (1950s to the present)

Specific Tokyo neighborhoods:

• Kita-ku
• Shibuya Photo Museum「渋谷フォトミュージアム」
• Shibuya
• Shinagawa-ku
• Shinjuku Historical Museum 新宿歴史博物館 has a database of over 500 images of (mostly) postwar, pre-1970s Shinjuku. See their website for photos.
• Shinjuku:

Specific photographers:

• Shōji Ueda 植田正治 (1913-2000)
• Daidō Moriyama 森山大道

Other:

• Yokohama historical postcards