The area around Akashicho, where St. Luke International Hospital is located, was a foreign settlement in the early Meiji era.
Foreign Christianity officials who wanted to make this a foothold for missionary work sent a lot of missionaries, and there were many facilities such as "private schools" by such people in this area.
Eventually, they became "schools", and many of the current mission-based schools have designated Akashicho as the "birthplace."
Around St. Luke's College of Nursing, there are girls' schools and Rikkyo Gakuin, and around Akashi Elementary School, along the way to Kanto Gakuin, Xiaosei Gakuen, Futaba Gakuen, Tsukuda-ohashi Bridge, Meiji Gakuin, Aoyama Gakuin, Women's Seigakuin, etc. There are monuments of "birthplace" such as.
In 2013, an explanation board about the Tsukiji settlement was also built beside Akashi Elementary School.
Under such circumstances, the monument of the birthplace of `` Women's Seigakuin '' near Tsukuda-ohashi Bridge is probably due to the people involved, and in the Christmas season, red, gold and silver Christmas decorations are decorated. I am.
The care that values the place of founding no matter how many years have passed and the cute decoration like a girls' school is very wonderful, and I stop and watch every time I pass.
