The waterfront district of Harumi has quite a fascinating history. It started out as one of Tokyo’s many reclamation projects, and in 1940, an international exposition was slated to be held here but the ongoing war forced it to be postponed indefinitely. In the end, it was Osaka that hosted the world’s-fair project, which had become Expo ’70 by then. Located in the area adjacent to the Port of Tokyo, the district was in dire need of a good infrastructure of cargo transportation. But it was not until 1957 that the…
