The “national-flag decoration” on the south side of the Palaceside Building (organized by The Mainichi Newspapers), marking 1,000 days to Tokyo 2020 on October 28, is adding flags day by day toward the start on the 28th.
The hanging is done at night. It began on the night of the 23rd: 50 flags by the morning of the 24th, 105 by the 25th, and by the morning of the 26th 155 countries and territories on floors 3–7. On this clear day they stood out against the blue sky — quite beautiful.
In the end, flags of all 206 IOC member countries and territories will fly from the second through seventh floors.
They stay up through November 5.
In the atrium of the central concourse on the first floor and first basement, an “Olympic news-photo exhibition” will also run from October 28 through November 11. About 50 works will be shown, including the large photo “Even Bolt was astonished,” which won the 2017 Japan Newspaper Publishers & Editors Association Award.
