How were the previous Tokyo Olympics held in 1964? Here are some of the best moments we captured last time.
File photo taken at Tokyo station shows a Shinkansen bullet train getting ready to begin commercial operations on Oct. 1, 1964 -- nine days before the start of the Tokyo Olympics. (Kyodo)
Chief priestess Aleca Katselli holds the Tokyo Olympics torch at the flame-lighting ceremony at the site of the ancient Olympics in Olympia, Greece, on Aug. 20, 1964. (Kyodo)
File photo taken in August 1964 shows the interior of the "City of Tokyo," a specially prepared Japan Airlines plane used to transport the Olympic flame for the 1964 Summer Games in the Japanese capital. (Kyodo)
File photo taken Sept. 7, 1964, shows the "City of Tokyo," a specially prepared Japan Airlines plane used to transport the Olympic flame for the 1964 Summer Games, arriving at Naha airport in Okinawa which was at the time still under U.S. occupation. The torch relay for the Tokyo Olympics, which started in Okinawa, converged on Tokyo from Kagoshima and Miyazaki prefectures in the southwest and Hokkaido in the north. (Kyodo)
File photo shows the Tokyo Summer Olympics torch relay held in September 1964. (Kyodo)
File photo taken in September 1964 shows the Tokyo Summer Olympics torch relay held on the deck of a Japanese ship while crossing the Tsugaru Strait between Aomori Prefecture and Hokkaido in northern Japan. (Kyodo)
File photo taken Oct. 10, 1964, shows the Olympic rings drawn by the Japanese Air Self-Defense Force's acrobatic flight team Blue Impulse during the opening ceremony of the Tokyo Olympics. (Kyodo)
Photo taken on Oct. 10, 1964, shows Japanese athletes marching during the opening ceremony of the Tokyo Olympics. (Kyodo)
United Team of Germany athletes march during the opening ceremony of the Tokyo Olympics at National Stadium on Oct. 10, 1964. (Kyodo)
Yoshinori Sakai, the final runner in the torch relay. (Kyodo)
Yoshinori Sakai, the final runner in the torch relay, lights the Olympic cauldron during the opening ceremony of the Tokyo Olympics on Oct. 10, 1964. (Kyodo)
File photo taken in October 1964 shows Japanese Emperor Hirohito declaring open the Tokyo Olympics at National Stadium. (Kyodo)
U.S. swimmer Nina Harmer (Lane 3) touches first in a heat of the women's 100-meter backstroke at the Tokyo Olympics on Oct. 13, 1964. Satoko Tanaka (Lane 6) placed second, followed by Helga Neuber of the United Team of Germany (Lane 4). (Kyodo)
Yojiro Uetake (L) of Japan competes against Aidyn Ibragimov of the Soviet Union during a men's bantamweight freestyle wrestling bout at the Tokyo Olympics on Oct. 14, 1964. (Kyodo)
Bob Hayes (702) of the United States wins the men's 100 meters final at the Tokyo Olympics on Oct. 15, 1964. (Kyodo)
File photo taken on Oct. 16, 1964, shows Koji Sakurai of Japan competing in the men's triple jump event at the National Stadium in Tokyo during the Tokyo Olympics. (Kyodo)
Japan's Heizaburo Okawa (L) competes in a men's fencing team foil match against Hungary at the Tokyo Olympics on Oct. 16, 1964. (Kyodo)
Japan's Takao Sakurai (R) throws a punch en route to defeating Chung Shin Cho of South Korea in the men's bantamweight boxing final at the Tokyo Olympics in October 1964. (Kyodo)
Abebe Bikila of Ethiopia crosses the finish line first in the 1964 Tokyo Olympic marathon on Oct. 21 at the National Stadium. (Kyodo)
File photo shows Anton Geesink (2nd from L) of the Netherlands standing on the podium after winning the gold at the 1964 Tokyo Olympics in the open weight class by defeating Japan's Akio Kaminaga (L). (Kyodo)
File photo taken in October 1964 shows Czech gymnast Vera Caslavska performing on the balance beam at the Tokyo Olympic Games. (Kyodo)
Bulgarian athletes -- Nikolai Prodanov (L) and Diana Yorgova -- get married in the 1964 Tokyo Olympic Games' Athletes' Village of Yoyogi Park on Oct. 23 of the same year. The world's first wedding inside an Athletes' Village was conducted in front of the Olympic flag in the traditional Japanese style by a Shinto priest. (Kyodo)
Bulgarian athletes -- Nikolai Prodanov (L) and Diana Yorgova -- get married inside the 1964 Tokyo Olympic Games' Athletes' Village of Yoyogi Park on Oct. 23 of the same year. The world's first wedding inside an Athletes' Village was conducted in the traditional Japanese style by a Shinto priest. (Kyodo)
Photo taken in April 2018 in Sofia, the Bulgarian capital, shows Nikolai Prodanov (L) and his wife Diana holding a framed photo of their wedding ceremony held inside the 1964 Tokyo Olympic Games' Athletes' Village of Yoyogi Park on Oct. 23 of the same year. The former Bulgarian athletes got married in the world's first wedding held inside an Athletes' Village. (Kyodo)
Kinuko Idogawa (R) is pictured in a file photo at the 1964 Tokyo Olympics during Japan's match against Poland. (Kyodo)
File photo shows Japanese women's gymnast Kiyoko Ono performing on the balance beam at the 1964 Tokyo Olympics. (Kyodo)
Athletes of various countries enter National Stadium for the closing ceremony of the 1964 Tokyo Olympics. (Kyodo)
New Zealand team members jump with joy during the closing ceremony of the 1964 Tokyo Olympics. (Kyodo)
A neon sign spells out "Sayonara" (goodbye) during the closing ceremony of the 1964 Tokyo Olympics on Oct. 24, 1964. (Kyodo)
Combination photo shows the National Stadium in Tokyo on Oct. 10, 1964, where the opening ceremony of the 1964 Tokyo Olympics was held (top), and the same area showing the new National Stadium under construction on July 6, 2017 (below). (Kyodo)
