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They don’t particularly like old things, and so a building built in the 1980s would be considered an old house. As a result new buildings get built all the tim
by chrischen 9y ago
They don’t particularly like old things, and so a building built in the 1980s would be considered an old house.
As a result new buildings get built all the time and everything is nice and newly renovated everywhere you go, including the subways.
One great example is stepping into the Ginza subway line, which is the first subway line in Tokyo (circa maybe 1920s or 1930s), and comparing it to the dungeons of some older NYC metro stations or London’s tubes.
- sunstone 9y agoJapan is fond of its old temples though.
- brazzy 9y agoOld temples yes, old temple buildings - not necessarily. The country's most holy Shinto shrine at Ise is ceremonially torn down and rebuilt every 20 years. Most other temples need parts of the building (like the roof) replaced every now and then, and have burned down a few times over the centuries. There's really only a handful of temple buildings that have parts that are more than 500 years old.