Photo taken in 1947 by USAF
Date : 9 July, 1947
Course : M371 Photo #87
This photo was taken 15 days before the photo of northern part of Kugahara was taken.
The area between current "Lilac Kugahara Shopping Avenue" and the south of Chidoricho Station is covered.
The wooden building of Kugahara Elementary School still remains.
The site of Jikei Medical College was a vacant land and Omori 7th Junior High School was built on this site a year later.
The land of current "Hills Kugahara" was a thicket.
This aerial photo has been copied from aerial photos taken by Geographical Survey Institute (GSI), Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport, Japan and US military under an approval of the Director General of GSI.
(Approval Number Hei14SouFuku #508)[Letter of Approval (PDF file)]