24 May, 2009
Fantastic visions of futuristic Japan in ruins
Posted by: brb In: Art| Japan| architecture ()
If apocalyptic future will come through nuclear weapons, then only Japan (brought to its knees with two atomic bombs in the closing stages of World War II) has a first-hand experience of what it will look like.
Here Tokyo Genso (Tokyo Fantasy) gives us his images of Japan in a catastrophic future, with buildings in ruins and overgrown with vegetation.
Part of the fascination with these images of post-apocalyptic future is our familiarity with the places and structures that are suddenly devoid of people, crumbling and overtaken by weeds.
The Greater Tokyo Area is a concrete jungle of more than 35 million people, the most populous urban area in the world. In these images, Tokyo is eerily empty and silent, devastated by catastrophic climate change or laid to waste by a cataclysmic war.
Cocoon Tower, Shinjuku, Tokyo
Nakano Station, Nakano, Tokyo
Moyai Sculpture, Shibuya, Tokyo
Sofmap Building, Akihabara, Tokyo
Tokyo Big Sight, Odaiba, Tokyo
Wako Clock Tower Building, Ginza, Tokyo
And finally, the site of the first atomic bomb explosion:
Atomic Bomb Dome, Hiroshima
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