Abstract
The purpose of this paper is to examine how changed people,s consciousness or concept of time and space from edo era to Meiji,the period of westernization by making use of modern traffic media-Jinrikisha,carriage,train-or gazing at modern houses, especially train stations. In this regard, Jinrikisha had a great role to produce the consciousness of modern quantitative-linear time by feeling of quickness and connecting to trains which have the time of departure on clock time. Because of this, as the range of Tokyo city was narrow in that time, it is assumed that when we focused on the short sightseeing in westernizing Tokyo, there existed various kinds of sightseeing plans using these modern traffic media,whereas people still enjoyed sightseeing on foot which had retained the natural feeling of time and space continuing from Edo era. In addition, the guide books of Tokyo city played an important part about acceptance and domestication of modern quantitative-linear time and functional space to many people by closely linking with the expansion of the railway network and the national industrial exhibition held by the Meiji government. However, the acceptance and modification to the consciousness or concept of modern time and space was not only based on the sightseeing but also extensively pervaded to people,s daily life in the 30s Meiji period.
