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This Carousel Has Had Quite a Ride. Will Anyone in Japan Save It? – The New York Times
The 113-year-old merry-go-round, which arrived in Tokyo after stints in Germany and Coney Island, is now in storage, its fate uncertain in a country that tends to preserve only the very old.
Even if the El Dorado is not yet regarded as old enough to warrant a historic designation in Japan, he added, this will be 500 years old in 400 years.
For now, the Seibu Railway Company, the owner of the land where the carousel stood, has not said where it is stored or whether it will reopen in a new spot. At a closing ceremony for the park, the head of Toshimaen, Tatsuya Yoda, proclaimed that the El Dorado would continue shining forever, but it was not clear whether he meant merely in memory o…
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