Useful links

Places Nihonbashi Site (google map) http://goo.gl/maps/O1D19 guidemap of Tokyo for those interested in the city http://goo.gl/maps/6k9R1 Edo Tokyo Outdoor Architecture Museum http://www.japan-guide.com/e/e3032.html http://tatemonoen.jp/english/index.html

Books Edo culture daily life and diversions in urban japan http://bit.ly/VXGVzE The Making of Urban Japan: Cities and Planning from Edo to the Twenty-First Century http://bit.ly/XhbPOv Modern Japan: A Social and Political History http://bit.ly/XhckrQ

Other Tokyo 10 year plan http://www.mediatinker.com/blog/archives/010176.html Photographic archive of damage from 1923 Kanto Earthqauke (which destroyed Tokyo entirely) http://dl.lib.brown.edu/repository2/repoman.php Old Tokyo (historical photograph archive) http://www.oldtokyo.com/index.php Meijo and Taisho era photographs of Tokyo http://www.ndl.go.jp/scenery/e/map/map_n/index.html