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.)
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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.
