Young Clock Tower

Ginza & Tsukiji


Okamoto Tarō created this sculptural clock tower four years before his famed Tower of the Sun for the 1970 expo in Osaka. It stands in Sukiyabashi-kōen, a pocket park that provides a splash of greenery and a place to rest in otherwise concrete Ginza.


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