6.06.2012

New New is the Old New


I have a fascination with the New Shimbashi building. First of all, it's hardly new, although it was at one time when it was built in the late 1960s. Then it's name, when translated literally, ends up reading as New New Bridge Building, because Shin means new in Japanese.

The old Shimbashi Station building has been preserved as a museum to the railroad, although the line no longer runs through it. But when they built a new Shimbashi Station, they didn't bother calling it the New Shimbashi Station.