The area on the right is all forested now. 100,000 trees were donated from around Japan to create an "eternal forest" in Meiji Jingu after the death of the emperor.
The photo is taken where the current north exit of Harajuku Station is now, looking South. The station didn't exist yet, it opened in 1924.
The second photo is a google maps view of the same rail curve nowadays.
by biwook
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That’s pretty cool, didn’t know it was artificial before.
Was the temple already there or also built along with the forest?
Crazy to think we built all this in 100 years
>100,000 trees
Ok, I understand why It is called 代々木（よよぎ), literally generations and generations of trees if I don’t make a mistake.
This is insane!
A samurai could time travel there in the present and wouldn’t probably look too much out of place. Well so long as they’re just walking and looking around.
So what was the area previously? Farmland?
Looking at this and other photos from this period it is remarkable how few trees there were in Japan at the time.
Can see that the crossing in pic 1 no longer exists.
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