Harajuku Station will be demolished after the Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics soranews24.com

After three years of consultations, the fate of Tokyo’s oldest wooden station building has finally been revealed.
▼ The old station and its narrow footpath become heavily congested during events, and passengers are set to increase dramatically during the 2020 Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics.
The wooden building will be torn down after the 2020 Olympics and Paralympics in Tokyo and replaced with a new one currently being built adjacent to it, with the grand opening scheduled for 21 March next year.
And given all the changes that the capital is currently seeing as new buildings pop up all over Shibuya ahead of the Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics, ensuring old Japan continues to thrive with the new is increasingly becoming an important issue.
Source: JinFeatured image: Wikimedia Commons/Chris 73Insert images: Flickr/Dick Thomas Johnson, Pakutaso, Flickr/Pohan Chen, East Japan Railway Company● Want to hear about SoraNews24’s latest articles as soon as they’re published?