Welcome to Tokyo: An Old Fishing Neighborhood Near Haneda Airport

A small fishing port with Haneda Airport’s international terminal visible in the background. (© Hatsuzawa Ari)

Haneda Shrine’s yearly summer festival. Planes crisscross the sky above the colorful fishing boat banners. (© Hatsuzawa Ari)

A swing bridge on the Metropolitan Expressway’s Haneda Route. Installed in 1990 to allow the passage of large vessels, it has been out of service since 1998. (© Hatsuzawa Ari)

This huge neon sign advertising orange juice, erected in 1975, is visible on the left from the monorail leaving the airport. (© Hatsuzawa Ari)

A multitude of brightly colored torii gates at Anamori Inari Shrine. (© Hatsuzawa Ari)

The kitsunezuka (fox hill) at the shrine contains dozens of fox statues, believed to be messengers of the shrine’s deity. (© Hatsuzawa Ari)

The small shrine on the left in the photo was erected in memory of victims of drowning in the Tama River and fatalities in the 1923 Great Kantō Earthquake and the Tokyo firebombings of 1945 who had drifted near Haneda. (© Hatsuzawa Ari)