Chuo-ku Tourism Association correspondent blog

Among the 50th anniversary commemorative projects of the Chuo-ku Tourism Association, the “Town Walking Culture Course” (for details, on the Tourism Association website) has finally started on August 2 (Sun). It was planned to spread the word while walking through the city of Chuo-ku, which has history, culture, and tradition, and let them know the charm.

On this day, the first day, we were worried about what would happen in the afternoon due to considerable rain in the morning, but the blessings of the heavens or the cloudy sky at the time of gathering, the rain was a break, the sultry but the sunshine was saved.

About 20 participants gathered in front of the police box on the east side of Nihonbashi Minamizume, where the meeting place was held, and several children joined after the summer vacation. This guide was handled by four members of the "Chuo-ku Cultural Property Supporters Association". At 2:00 pm, the course explanation, precautions, etc. are completed, and they are divided into two sets and go to the course. (The photo shows the snapshot.)

The Nihonbashi course is a popular place for general town walks. Visit the footsteps that showed the busiestness in Edo. Walk from the south side of Edobashi Hirokoji, walk through the ruins of the famous water Shirakiya well, the former Shirakiya (Cored Nihonbashi), the west bank guardian of children and travelers, the land related to Yumeji Takehisa and Minatoya, and the stone mark of the news of Ichiishibashi lost child, head to the site of Tokiwa Hashikado.

In 1877 (1878), an old Ishibashi Tokiwa Bridge (not Tokiwa Bridge), you can hear exclamation in front of you at the cracks that entered here and there. In front of the main building of the main building of the Bank of Japan, 2016. Take a short tour and take a break at the Money Museum.

From Mitsui Main Building, Nihonbashi Mitsukoshi, former Mitsui Echigo-ya, to Muromachi Koji. There are many shops in this area, but there are many places that are closed on Sunday. For this reason, the crowded places are vacant on weekdays and it is easy to walk. After passing through the ruins of Anjin Miura Yashiki, go to the ruins of the Nihonbashi Fish Bank. Since the fish market, which has prospered since the early Edo period, has moved to Tsukiji Temple in Chuo-ku, an important historical and tourist spot for Chuo-ku. Knowing its history is an important part of tradition. It began to light rain from near the end. At Nihonbashi Hashigami, a nationally designated important cultural property, you will finish a two-hour walk while watching the road signs that were the starting point of the Gokaido and the decorations of Nihonbashi, which will soon be 100 years old.

A large number of participants this time Chuo-ku Everyone who lives. I've seen the main street, but it seems that there are few opportunities to learn slowly, such as side streets and historical sites, and some people said that they walked for the first time and knew it. One of the most impressive was elementary school children, who wrote down hard in notebooks and saw some ukiyo-e paintings drawn on store shutters, and said, "Why are Mount Fuji drawn on every picture?" And I am surprised at the sharp observation power of the children, and I am glad that I was curious.