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> Having worked around Nihonbashi / 
> Mitsukoshimae for years, I have continually wondered what that place 
> looked like before 1962.

I have always sensed something sinister about that whole east-central 
area of Tokyo. It is as if the ghosts of the past are not amused by the 
modernity. Maybe it is seeing the occasional old run-down building.

This blogger has some insightful observations. 
http://chiyoda-ku.blogspot.com/