Grant Heights Housing Area photo overlay

A Google Earth view of Hikarigaoka with a 1947 aerial photo overlay of Grant Heights Dependent Housing Area with building and housing quarters numbered by the original U.S. Army designation. (The numbers were redesignated after administration was transferred to the Air Force.)

Located in northwest Tokyo, Grant Heights opened in 1946 two years after the end of World War II. Built atop a former Japanese kamikaze air base, Narimasu Army Airfield, it served as a housing annex for nearly three decades under both U.S. Army and Air Force commands. Grant Heights and the adjacent MAAG Mutsumi-Dai Housiing Annex occupied 413 acres and 823 housing quarters. At the conclusion of the Vietnam War, the sprawling complex closed in 1973 and reverted to the Japanese under the Kanto Base Consolidation Plan. In 1977, it was redeveloped as a master-planned community Hikarigaoka ("New Town") and Tokyo's largest municipal park, Hikarigaoka-koen.

BGM: "Come Saturday Morning" by Susan Anders (vocals), Terry McKowan (guitar solo) and Lex DeAzevedo Orchestra (instrumental).

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