just in time for halloween....  :-o  a spooky super spectacular tokyo apocalypse! :evil: i put some views of the real neighborhoods up along with them.

 

Hisaharu Motoda’s “Neo-Ruins” series of lithographs depict the cityscape of a post-apocalyptic Tokyo, where familiar streets lie deserted, the buildings are crumbling and weeds grow from the broken pavement. The antique look of the lithographic medium effectively amps up the eeriness of the futuristic setting. “In Neo-Ruins I wanted to capture both a sense of the world’s past and of the world’s future,” says Motoda on his website.

 

 

Shibuya Center Town

 

 

Ameyoko

 

 

Kabukicho

 

 

Ginza Chuo Dori

 

 

Ginza 4-chome Intersection

 

a few more:

 

 

 

http://www.pinktentacle.com/2007/05/neo-ruins-lithographs-of-post-apocalyptic-tokyo/

chilling

Gawd ... I want to visit Tokyo soooooooo bad.

 

http://tokyoyakei.cool.ne.jp/other/shibuya/shibuya-9.jpg

 

I wanna visit Japan, but not Tokyo. It looks like a massive Times Square.

 

Those photos are interesting. What's with all this post-apocalyptic stuff in pop culture lately??

I wanna visit Japan, but not Tokyo. It looks like a massive Times Square.

 

Those photos are interesting. What's with all this post-apocalyptic stuff in pop culture lately??

 

I've got a friend that goes about twice a year and I'm a tech guru ...

Ginza 4-chome looked liked that after the US firebombing of Tokyo.

 

no doubt. here is the ginza in the 1930's:

 

 

tokyo before & after the 1945 war firebombing

 

but don't forget, even worse the great kanto earthquake devastated the whole city in 1923.

 

 

hang on -- even before that the old traditional wood machiya homes and buildings of tokyo used to burn out whole neighborhoods all the time. the constant fires used to be called 'the flowers of edo:'

 

1657—Great Edo Fire

Edo's many wooden buildings and narrow alleys made it prone to fire, and the city's many blazes were called the "flowers of Edo." The most destructive was the Meirike fire of 1657. Beginning in a small temple in Edo's northern section, the blaze was carried by flying sparks across moats and canals, demolishing dozens of daimyo estates near Edo castle. As winds shifted, the flames spread to the merchant quarters along the Sumida River; elsewhere, a cooking fire from a samurai residence fed the inferno. Before the blaze was contained, most of Edo Castle had burned and 100,000 souls perished.

 

with all that and the a-bombings and godzilla and the more recent subway sarin attack too maybe that's where all this tokyo apocalypse stuff comes out of?  :wtf:

 

 

Konichiwaaaaaaaaaa

 

http://http://www.pinktentacle.com/images/neo_ruins_2.jpg

 

Damn that's unfortunate.

with all that and the a-bombings and godzilla and the more recent subway sarin attack too maybe that's where all this tokyo apocalypse stuff comes out of?

 

I've been noticing it in American pop culture, too. Especially movies.

Fake!  Those were models made in google skechup.  Some of the debris can be downloaded on google warehouse.

 

:-D

 

In all seriousness, very cool.  I'd like to see these made for other cities.

but don't forget, even worse the great kanto earthquake devastated the whole city in 1923

 

I was in a 7.2  visiting family in Tokyo last spring.  It literally shook us out of our futons while we were sleeping ..Yikes!! All cabinets are secured by chains to the wall so you aren't crushed. It is frightening experience knowing that the BIG ONE will occur again.

Wow, those pics remind me of Dresden after WWII.  :cry:

with all that and the a-bombings and godzilla and the more recent subway sarin attack too maybe that's where all this tokyo apocalypse stuff comes out of?

 

I've been noticing it in American pop culture, too. Especially movies.

 

Probably a byproduct of terrorism.

 

If you think about it, probably no one would put a pic up of a  "post-apocalyptic" world trade center site. I bet the Japanese are really sensitive when it comes to these photos, particularly the older generation.

edit: wrong thread