English: Tokyo was scorched by air raids. Taken from the sky near Ryogoku Station to the south. The bottom of the photo is Ryogoku Station, the large dome-shaped building on the right of the center is the old Ryogoku Kokugikan (currently Ryogoku City Core, which is different from the location of the new Kokugikan), and running left and right in front of it Keiyo road, at the far right is the Sumida River, visible and a bridge from the front truss bridge of the Shin'ohashi era (some of Meiji-mura stored at) and the suspension bridge of the Kiyosubashi era.
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