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Visiting present-day Japan as a Meiji era fan is like visiting present-day Germany as a Prussiaboo or visiting present-day Russia as a hardcore tankie. It's just gonna be a lot of mourning and feelings of misery all the way from the beginning of the trip till the end. I remember feeling sad back when I was walking through the ancient ruins of the city of Rome, seeing the deplorable state of the long-forgotten Palatine Hill, the grass-covered Circo Massimo, and unrecognizable Capitoline Hill, and the Colosseum.
When I went to Tokyo back in 2018, I remember I saw a fuckton of Brutalist/modernist architecture and some post-modern style buildings, but very little actual neo-classical architecture. In fact, oddly enough, Turk-infested Berlin, which was bombed to the ground by the RAF and occupied by the Soviets, has more Belle Epoque-style architecture than Tokyo does, and as far as I can recall, really the only famous Neoclassical-style buildings in Tokyo are the Tokyo National Museum and the Meiji Memorial Picture Gallery.
For pre-Meiji stuff, you'll have a safe bet going to any of the shukuba in rural areas all around Japan. It might give a similar air to what you'd expect out of the folk tales recorded by Koizumi Yakumo or any of Akutagawa Ryuunosuke's short stories.
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