About a year after taking this photo, this shop – along with some adjacent buildings – was demolished, in order to make way for a fancy new apartment building.

View of the entrance to a vintage games shop and museum in the Nakajuku area of Itabashi Ward in Tokyo, Japan. © 2018 Norbert Woehnl Photography.

Shot with Mamiya 6 and 50mm f/4 lens on Kodak Portra 400 film.
Developed and scanned by
National Photo, Tokyo.

写真の撮影場所:東京都・板橋区・中宿


An alternate photo of this shop is featured in the post below:

Four vanished shops from Itabashi Ward in Tokyo, Japan

Four vanished shops from Itabashi Ward in Tokyo, Japan

Tokyo renews itself at a breathtaking pace. Old buildings get demolished to make way for new condos, and long-established neighborhood shops vanish for good.

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Four vanished shops from Itabashi Ward in Tokyo, Japan