Chuo-ku Tourism Association correspondent blog

The cherry blossoms in full bloom came in the rain from a bad morning. When asked, "Is there any restaurant where you can have a casual and delicious lunch?", Two friends from Ningyocho residents recommended me here. CHEZ ANDRE DU SACRE-COEUR。 Arrived a little before 13:00 with the explanation that "I always know it because there is always a line." It's a house on the opposite side of "Tamahide". Because of the heavy rain, there were no people waiting in line. Lucky. In the bright store, you can see some pairs of families with children, giving a homey impression. What shall I do? "Kischelorine Lunch", "Crockmush Salad", "Gratin Lunch", etc. I chose "Today's Lunch" with my fellow friends. "Pork fin roast black pepper sauce" (salad, bread, 1,050 yen).

 

It comes with plenty of mashed potatoes. The dressing of Lome Inlettus is also delicious. A friend of the eating shinbo is thrilled, "I'm glad that this mashed potato is not an accessory, but rather a little." The neatly polished potatoes have a slight sweetness and have a nostalgic taste. What surprised me was the taste of French bread, and when I asked, "Is it homemade?", He said that what he made in Paris was airlifted by frozen and baked at a shop. The contents are sticky and the skin is crisp! It's an ideal style. The shop was a little proud of saying, "I'll give you a lot of praise," but I'd like you to divide it into souvenirs. I left the shop after having a lot of coffee. Next time, I would like to try a gratin lunch (this mashed potato gratin)

Andre, the name of the shop, was named after Madame's father's name, because the shop was near the Sacrekur temple in Montmartre. Founded in 2008.

 

 

Business hours 11:00-20:30 Lunch is closed until 14:30. Dayner is available only at cafes from 17:00.

TEL 6228-1053 2 minutes from the subway Ningyocho Station A2 Exit

 

 

Miharabashi Underground Shopping Center is located on Harumi-dori St., between Higashi-Ginza Station and Ginza Station in Chuo-ku, Tokyo.
There is a place where you can feel the Showa retro in less than 5 minutes from the intersection of Ginza 4-chome.

 
　Although the Horikawa River was reclaimed in December 1952, it is an underground shopping mall built under Harumi-dori St. with the bridge girder of Mihara Bridge remaining, and it has become a popular entertainment facility such as movie theaters, pachinko parlors, eating and drinking areas .
The Tokyo metropolitan government, which is a landowner, has decided to close its doors this month because of concerns about the earthquake resistance, and many stores have evacuated, and two stores that are still operating.
　However, activities to preserve and regenerate as the oldest existing underground shopping mall in Japan spread among experts and students, and architects and researchers who responded to the movement set up a meeting to think about the future of Miharabashi and consider creating a city that preserves the underground shopping mall.
　Kamejo Tsuchiura, a direct apprentice of Frank Lloyd Wright, who designed the Imperial Hotel, designed the underground shopping mall, said, "It is wasteful to be a living witness of the history of the city of water from Edo and the culture of the common people, and forget it as a thing of the past."...That's right.

　There is an entrance to the underground shopping mall tens of meters from Harumi-dori St., and when I got off, there were pink movie signs, a cup of drinkers, adult goods shops, pachinko parlors, ramen shops, etc., and when I was a high school student, I was thrilled and crossed the underground mall without any use.
　In the next few decades, I went nearby and did not stop by, and somehow, "Do you still have a movie theater?...I thought, but it would be strange that such an obscene place still remains just a few minutes from the middle of Ginza in the world where gorgeous buildings and luxury brand shops are gathered.
The modern beautiful building is good and the clean city Ginza is good, but it's fun to see people in an inorganic city that has an old underground shopping mall built near the site of Sanju-ma Horikawa.
　I hope you will keep the Miharabashi Underground Shopping Center.　If you are a fan of Edo novels without leaving the atmosphere that makes you feel the Showa retro, wouldn't it be possible to make you feel the former Edo Sanjuma Horikawa?...。
(Excerpted from the evening edition of the Tokyo Shimbun on March 26, the photo was borrowed from Wikipedia for a public domain image that was abandoned by copyright.)
http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E4%B8%89%E5%8E%9F%E6%A9%8B%E5%9C%B0%E4%B8%8B%E8%A1%97

　Until the beginning of the 1940s, if you pass by the ticket gate on the premises of Kyobashi Station in Ginza Metro, you will find a love ho called Metro Hotel? There was a movie theater called Shimbashi Metro on the premises of Ginza Metro Shimbashi Station (now I don't know it's a wall, but it was on the left after going down the stairs on Ginza 8-chome side), and there were dozens of small shops such as laundry shops, barber shops, and toy shops on the premises leading to Shimbashi Station of JR.

　Ginza is up to eight-chome, but there is Ginza 9.　Here, the Shiodome River was reclaimed, and the lower part was a shopping street through the highway.
Before the landfill, there was a boat shop, a water bus boarding area for Asakusa, and at night there were stalls such as oden shops and ramen shops.

　Yes, "Ginza 9-chome is on the water....The song "song" became popular.　At that time, Ginza was a city where people could feel the breath of people without mistake.

 

 

"Ginza" is lined with top brands from around the world and shops where gourmets gather.

This city has various faces, but did you know that it is actually also a "town of art galleries"?

If you walk a little carefully, you will see a variety of galleries, such as national treasures and artworks with a price of hundreds of millions, as well as solo exhibitions and cafe galleries held in a small part of a multi-story building.

There is also a course called "Ginza Gallery Tour" in the annual town walk guided by correspondents of the tourist association, and we have received many applications.

 

Under such circumstances, "Shaton de Mu" at Ginza 7-chome displays only works on the theme of "cats" all year round.

It opened in September last year, but this place was originally called "Bozar Mu", and it was the first "cat specialty" gallery in Ginza that was done by Mr. Miyu.

When I tried to settle down the history that lasted for about 30 years, the artists who longed for this gallery as their "hometown" missed closing the gallery, and some of them decided to take over and operate. is.

For this reason, the name of the new gallery was named "Shaton de Mu" in the sense of the children of Mu.

 

What has changed a little since the new one is that a part of the backyard has become a shop for cat goods.

Small items and postcards for non-authors who hold solo exhibitions are also sold.

　

 

Other than that, nothing changes.

Not only those who came to the corridor with the writer, but also those who happened to be present, the warm atmosphere of flowers blooming in cat discussions is still the same.

 

From March 31 to April 8 (closed on the 2nd), the "Flower, Cat and Fairy Exhibition" is being held with works depicting cats and fairies playing in the flowers.

 

Then, from April 10th to 19th, a solo exhibition by Shonoro Yamanaka from Chuo-ku, "To the Light."...It will be restarted later.

Mr. Yamanaka did not have a special professional study, but started drawing a domestic cat at home as a model for rehabilitation, and his talent was recognized, and became a professional painter after the age of 40. Person who became.

The cats that appear in his work, including the deceased cat "Motosan", truly heal the hearts of the viewer.

 

Yamanaka, who is one of the volunteers who launched this Chaton de Mu, returned to his beginning 15 years ago and led himself to the world of painting, "In the light."...He seems to be challenging a new work in the series.

 

It is said that Miyu, the owner of "Bozar Mu", also visits me often, so at the reborn "Shaton de Mu", I met many cat lovers again along with Mr. Yamanaka's new work, I'm looking forward to making you feel warm.

 

Shaton de mu

Ginza 7-5-15 Ginza Kamata Building 4F

Telephone (6228) 5667

Shonoro Yamanaka's solo exhibition

"In the light...Again."

Thursday, April 10 - 19 (Sat)

From 12:00 to 18:30 (until 17:00 on the last day)

Closed during the exhibition

 

 

 

　It's a refreshing morning on April 2nd.
I went to see the cherry blossoms on the Edo Bus South Circulation.
The cherry blossoms at Tsukiji River Kameibashi Park and Shukubashi Park in front of Chuo-ku government office are wonderful.

　
Soon, I passed through Kyobashi Tsukiji Elementary School and Tsukiji Honganji next to it.

The cherry blossoms are in full bloom as if to welcome the long-awaited warm spring arrival.

　
It seems that Yoshino cherry tree is smiling in the morning light even in front of St. Luke's International Hospital and in the Gunpow Children's Park.

　
The bus crossed Minami Takahashi, crossed Shinkawa and Chuo-ohashi Bridge, and approached Tsukudajima Elementary School.

　The cherry blossoms around Harutsuki Bridge are also wonderful. We passed Kachidokibashi via Harumi Triton, Kachidoki Station, and Toyomi-cho.

We decided to get off at Kachidokibashi west (in front of the Nichirei headquarters) and enjoy the cherry blossoms on the Sumida River Terrace.

　Visitors from foreign countries also photographed this cherry tree. Ouh! Beautiful !

　

　Edo buses can be used as a foot for residents of the city, and it has been four years as early as possible.
The price is 100 yen including consumption tax and 300 yen per day ticket.

If you get a transfer ticket at the designated transfer place, you can move cheaply for only 100 yen.
　Well, why don't you go out for cherry blossom viewing by Edo bus?
Please refer to the previous report for the cherry blossom viewing of the North Circulation.
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Oops, lunch and meals before and after the walk are at Tsukiji, which is full of delicious food.

 

 

        

 

 The Sumida River diverts east at Tsukuda 2-chome, upstream of Chuo-ohashi Bridge at the mouth of the mouth, flows between Tsukuda 2.3-chome and 1.2-chome, Echinakajima Koto-ku, and is divided into east and west at Toyosu Saving Ground, respectively. Connect to the Toyosu Canal and the Spring (Haru) shipping river.

During the development of Okawabata River City 21, Ishikawajima Park, which was built along the "Sumida River School River" between Chuo-ohashi Bridge and Aioi Bridge, was expanded and maintained to the south of Aioi Bridge in 2007, and is popular as a place for local residents to relax. I have.

The adoption of Super dike ensures hydrophilicity so that it can come into contact with water, and cherry blossoms are planted on the dike, which is crowded with jogging and walking people.

This time, we will take up a variety of Hana peach, a deciduous shrub of the rose family deciduous shrub that has been improved for ornamental use, planted in the plaza in front of Aioi Bridge south at the southern end of Ishikawajima Park, Genpei Momo ".

The origin of the naming is that the color of Genji's flag <white> and the color of the Heike flag <red> are mixed in a single tree with red and white (in addition, light red and middle patch “squeezed”) flowers. It is said that it was parabled in the battle of Genpei.

Depending on the year, it is not specified how red, light red, white, and spot flowers bloom in a mixture, and it is said that the appearance differs every year.

It creates a gorgeous double flower figure with the mystery of nature, and a spring atmosphere.

 

        

 

 

 

It is Edo Tatataro who became a correspondent of the Chuo-ku Tourism Association from April.

We walk in Chuo-ku and want to tell you various sights that we saw. Thank you very much.

　

This time, I would like to introduce five cherry blossoms when I walked from Ginza to Nihonbashi on the afternoon of April 1 (Tuesday).

　

■Shokawa Sakura II (Power Development Head Office 6-15-1 Higashi Ginza, Higashi-Ginza tree planted in 2010)　

I couldn't see the cherry blossoms again this year (please bloom as soon as possible!) 。

　

Shogawa Sakura is two Furuki trees, about 450 years old, in Sokawamachi, Takayama City, Gifu Prefecture.　This cherry tree was destined to die to the bottom of the water for the construction of the Miboro Dam.

The construction of the dam was planned. Tatsunosuke Takasaki, the first governor, regrets the cherry blossoms after the seven-year negotiations with the Miboro Dam Absolute Opposition Alliance Surveillance Association were completed.

I asked Shintaro Sasabe, one of Japan's best cherry blossom researchers, to transplant it.

It weighs 73 tons. Travel distance 600m. The height difference is 50m.

The cherry blossoms with only the transplanted trunk were beaten by local people, plant researchers, and the media, saying, "The fool that cuts the cherry blossoms (cutting the branches unnecessarily wither)"

The old cherry blossoms bloomed again. It was a miracle.

　

About Shokawa Sakura II, it is as follows on the website of power supply development.

On the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the founding of Electric Power Development (Electric Power Development), the Shogawa Sakura II Planting Project has been implemented since 2002. (Omitted) The purpose of this activity is to create the soul left by Tatsunosuke Takasaki, "Development is necessary in order to carry out human activities, but the spirit of considering and cherishing the natural environment as much as possible." I tried to grow up in the hearts of children through Sakura. The specific content is to raise the seedlings that have actually picked up and germinated the seeds of Shogawa Sakura to a seedling of about 1 meter, put them in a pot, and donate them together with a nameplate that spells the name of Shogawa Sakura. In the place where the seedlings are growing, a nameplate is set up, and the Shogawa Sakura is explained.

　

■Akuni Sakura (Kabuki-za 5th floor rooftop garden)

The Kabukiza Theater was completed last year. Akuni cherry blossoms on the rooftop garden on the 5th floor still had many buds.

　

　

■Cherry blossoms at Ginza Sakura-dori St.

Cherry blossoms beside the high speed are in full bloom.

　

　

■Cherry blossoms at Nihonbashi 2-chome Sakura-dori St.

Cherry blossom tunnel in full bloom in the city (splendid!) 。

　

　

■Cherry blossoms in Nihonbashi

Cherry blossoms in Otohime Square and Waterfall Square are in full bloom.

　

　

I hope everyone will enjoy the cherry blossoms in the city.