There are places where the past features remain and the history is conveyed.
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The first one is "Reigan Island". Although it is the current Shinkawa, the historical old town name from Edo disappeared in 1971 (1971), when the house labeling system was revised.
However, it still exists. The name is engraved on the "Regishijima Intersection" (photo: taken in May 2009). It is an intersection just east of Shin-Kameshima Bridge on the Kamejima River.
The history of Reiganjima begins with the reclaimed the eastern sea at Hatchobori in the early Edo period, and the honorary Reigan Jojin built Reiganji Temple. It is said that Reigishi Bridge is also derived from this, and there was also a village name called "Konjac Island". After the great fire of the Meiryaku era, Reiganji moved to Fukagawa, but the place names of Rei Kishijima were inherited not only as Rei Kishijima but also as Rei Kishijima Shiomachi and Rei Kishijima Yokkaichimachi, where sake wholesalers and sake brewery gatheredyoung sake.
After the Great Kanto Earthquake, the area became the name of the former Rei Kishijima due to land readjustment, and it was an area that was familiar with the former Echizen moat and the former Shinkawa.
It is rare that the old place name remains under the name of the intersection in Chuo-ku. Surprisingly, there are cases where the name of the intersection or bus stop is given a nostalgic bridge name.
Next time,
that conveys the name of a bridge that no longer exists.
