Tokyo Station

This guide to Tokyo Station turns on the evening of November 4, 1921, when Prime Minister Hara Takashi was stabbed near the south entrance by a railway switchman named Nakaoka Kon'ichi, and on a second assassination attempt against Prime Minister Hamaguchi Osachi at the same spot nine years later. It traces what became of both men, and what the station itself endured in the firebombing of 1945. Look up at the red brick and twin domes above you, standing where two prime ministers once fell.