Chuo-ku Tourism Association correspondent blog

           

 

      

 

 On November 20 (17: 00-19: 00), at "Ginza NAGANO" (Ginza 5), entitled "How to find and enjoy my favorite sake", Kasuga, Saku-shi "Farmhouse Restaurant" "Family Craftsman Museum" Masakazu Kitazawa (1st Culinary Masters Bronze Award winner) and the 33rd National Kishi Sake Brewery Saku Sake Brewery Saku City Sake Brewery Saku City Sake Brewery Sakuho Championship Saku City Championship Saku City Championship Saku City Championship Saku City Sake Brewery Saku City Sake Brewerylocally brewed sake Sake Brewery Championship Saku City

A stand-up style with fresh seasonal ingredients from the mountain village lined up on the table.

　Menu of the day

　　・Hundred flower salad in Saku (blooming) field

　　・The blessings of pesticide-free rice and beans risotto

　　・Sake lees and free-range chicken eggs

　　・Serve the root vegetables of Sakuno in late autumn

　　・Mukago in the mountains and miso in the mountains

　Special dish

　　・Root vegetables and cheese of Sakuno <Laclet*>

　　　　Atsuatsu Torori's "Laclet" also appears in the anime "Alpine Girl Hygie".

　　　　Usually, cheese is heated with fire and melted over potatoes, but this time matching with root vegetables.

　　　　The combination with yamaburdock, red-core carrot, etc. is a novel taste!

　locally brewed sake of Saku

　　・Osawa Sake Brewery “Seki Junmai daiginjo”

　　・Kurosawa Sake Brewery "Junmai Ginjo Foundation Autumn Agari"

　　・Fuyo Sake Brewery “Junmai undiluted sake is good drunk”

　　・Tozuka Sake Brewery “Kantake Junmai Ginjo”

　　・Banno Sake Brewery “Junmai Ginjo SAKU13**”

　　　　Gathering of young managers of 13 stores in the Saku area (11 in Saku City / 1 in Komoro City / 1 in Sakuho Town) (Saku Wakabakai)

　　　　Joint brewing project product (started in 2013. In 2013, Banno Sake Brewery was on duty.

　　+13 brands in each warehouse

Saku is known as one of Japan's leading longevity villages.

We ask Masakazu Kitazawa's theory, "Fujichi", "Everyone meal", and "Unsatural food", and taste the 13 famous sakes while tasting powerful dishes with raw ingredients.

Each one has its own individuality, and a fertile world spreads.

　　　　

 

 

A refreshing autumn day.

I would like to go on such a walk, ask historic sites, enjoy the autumn leaves, and eat delicious lunches.

First of all, from the ruins of Shinkawa.

"Shinkawa is a canal that is said to have been excavated by Zuiken Kawamura in Manji 3 (1660). In the Edo era, it was used for boating and transportation, and both banks were first prosperous as a timber wholesaler and later a liquor store wholesaler. " -Chuo-ku Tourism Association -

Now it has already been reclaimed, and this Shinkawa monument reminds us of those days.

　

It is the birthplace of the Central Commercial School.

Dr. Junjiro Takagusu, a Buddhist scholar, visited Europe and the United States, and was established with the aim of fostering highly educated merchants.

The school building was relocated from Shinkawa, Chuo-ku to Kameido, Koto-ku in 2001.

　

It is a cherry tree on the Sumida River Terrace.

Cherry blossoms are beautiful in spring, but autumn leaves are beautiful in autumn.

　

Cross the Chuo-ohashi Bridge and head for Tsukuda.　

　

Colorful leaves.

　　

You can also enjoy beautiful flowers.

　　

Beautiful ginkgo.

　

Near Tsukuda Kobashi.

It has a taste.

After enjoying the scenery, head to Takasago to buy a lunch box.

　

"Yakibuta croquette curry."

First of all, yakibuta croquettes are very delicious.

It has a kibuta and is very rich.

The curry is very spicy, but the onion is sweet and well-balanced.

　

The contents of the croquette.

There are a lot of fine kibutas.

　

"Yamagata beef yakiniku lunch box".

The meat is very delicious and the sauce is fragrant.

It has volume and is reasonable.

　

It was a nice walk to enjoy a delicious lunch while enjoying the refreshing autumn leaves.

 

 

I went to the commercial facility "KIRARITO GINZA" in Ginza 1-chome, which opened on October 30 (Thursday).

First of all, we had lunch at "WORLD DINER produced by cow master".

Appetizers and drinks are in a buffet style.

The main one comes.

This is a hamburger.

This is a hamburger.

It will be provided in an open state.

The meat is juicy and very delicious.

We stopped by "Kiwa Seisakusho" on the 5th floor.

It is an accessory parts shop where you can easily enjoy handmade.

The inside of the store is quite large.

At the experience corner that even beginners can enjoy, challenge making "UV resin" accessories with my wife.

Beginners are safe because the clerk will teach you kindly.

"UV resin" means "ultraviolet curing resin", and liquid that reacts to ultraviolet rays and hardens can be poured into a mold to create your favorite shape.

This time, I made a hair band and earrings.

I'm clumsy and it took time, but if I immerse myself in the work, it would be a change of mind, and when I can do it, I have a sense of accomplishment.

Next, go to the fruit tart specialty store "Deris tart & Cafe".

You can enjoy tasty tart with a cute French-style interior.

Tart of kuri and matcha.

Strawberry tart.

Both were very elegant.

The gelato also looked delicious.

The inside of the glass-walled building was very bright and open, delicious food was eaten, and valuable experiences were also available.

In the basement, there are still many popular shops such as "My Italian TOKYO".

I'd like to go again.

 

 

The first part of the autumn Chuo-ku History Walk 2014 "Walking in the Reclaimed Land in the Early Edo Period" was held on November 22 (Sat). This historical walk is a series that explores the origins of Chuo-ku, and is the second installment following the spring "Walking on Edo Maejima". A plan to walk a landfill in the early Edo period, which was formed before the Great Fire of the Meiryaku era (1657), looking at an old map. The first one will be Kyobashi, Hatchobori, and Shinkawa, and the second will be held on November 30, Okawabata, Nakasu and Hamacho (application deadline has been completed). The event is the Chuo-ku Cultural Property Supporters Association of Town Walking Volunteer Guide Group. For more information, click here on the November 1 issue of "News of the Ward">>

 

 

 

The first day is a calm Koharu weather. Departing in front of Tokyo Square Garden in Kyobashi, passing through the ruins of Kyobashi and Sanjumabori, which were Edo Maejima, and crossing the ruins of Mitsuhashi, you will enter the area reclaimed in the early Edo period. Land was built along Horiwari's Hatchobori (Sakuragawa after the Meiji era). The place adjacent to the Kamejima River is Hatchobori Funairi, which carries goods throughout Edo City. At present, the ruins of Inari Bridge remain.

 

Crossing Minami Takahashi, Shinkawa. Going out to the Sumida River Terrace, the area where the boat guard station was located was the cutting edge of Edo Minato. During the Meiji period, the water level was measured here, and the standards for altitude were created. Yaesu-dori in front of Chuo-ohashi Bridge has Echizen moat and is also the site of Matsudaira Echizen Moriyashiki. The northern area is the place where Reiganji Temple was founded. After the great fire of the Meiryaku era, Shinkawa was excavated and crowded with sake wholesalers. After passing through Masaru Shinkawa Jingu Shrine (pictured), crossed Reigishi Bridge and broke up in Kayabacho. @ Akira Makibuchi

 

 

 

A bronze statue of a lion lying down.

It's amazing.

This is a lion statue at the entrance of Mitsukoshi Department Store.

Why are you sitting at a meeting spot at Tokyo Station, "Silver Bell"?

I'm going around.

"Rose-chan" from Takashimaya. Daimaru's "Sakura Panda".

Oh, yeah.

In recent years, costumes have appeared everywhere in the Yuru-chara boom.

However, there are not many opportunities for department store characters to gather.

Moreover, it became a "silver bell" in the ticket gate at the Yaesu Exit underground entrance of Tokyo Station.

If you read the manual, it will be an event commemorating the 100th anniversary of the opening of Tokyo Station and the memorial of Yaesuguchi Station Square.

The characters will be gathered until November 30.

Tokyo Station opened on December 20, 1914 (Daisho 3).

As the gateway to the capital Tokyo, as a major transportation hub

It has played an important role as a base for the transmission of Japanese economy and culture.

We endured the Great Kanto Earthquake of 1923.

Some were burned down in the air raid of the war.

The restoration work of the Marunouchi Red Brick Station building was completed in 2012.

Completed the Yaesu Exit Grand Roof in 2013.

There was a time when I was commuting to Marunouchi, and I used the station almost every day.

100 years of change and a period of growth.

I can't say anything.

By the way, "Tokyo Station 100th Anniversary Hospitality Counter" is set up in the green window in the center of Yaesu.

Then he said, "Let's go! Get the map from Tokyo Station to Nihonbashi 100 Years Walk.

This map is attractive.

Fukutoku Shrine in Nihonbashi Muromachi, where shrine hall was rebuilt in October this year, was also depicted.

This is the latest map around Nihonbashi from Tokyo Station Yaesu to 2014.

So that it can be compared with this

It also contains a map of the Taisho 3's 100 years ago and a map of the first year of Mannobu Edo and late Tokugawa shogunate.

If you look at it

The building that remains over time. The flow of rivers and diggings that disappeared.

You can discover such a change.

At the "hospitality counter" mentioned earlier, we received a commemorative replica hard ticket and a red brick station building-shaped mount.

The date of the hard ticket ticket is "14.12.20."

This is quite good.

With the map in hand, Daimaru Tokyo store, Nihonbashi Takashimaya, Nihonbashi Mitsukoshi Main Store, and Choredo Muromachi.

Visit each information center and information, and insert the obtained hard ticket into the mount.

The thrilling feeling of childhood when collecting hard tickets for the Japanese National Railways is revived.

The show window of the department store was completely replaced by a Christmas version, Osechi guide.

It was a tour of Nihonbashi that had a slightly different taste than usual.

 

 

Ginkgo from all over Tokyo is gradually changing color.
So when I took a walk, I went to see how the ginkgo, the sacred tree of Tsukiji's Namiwa Inari Shrine (on the evening of November 22, 2014).

　

Oh, it's going to take a little longer.

　
　

The ginkgo at this shrine is a type called "weeping ginkgo", which is literally weeping ginkgo, but I think it is an unusual type.

　
　
I visited a shrine for the first time last year, and my heart was moved by the branches.
The photo below is a photo of my visit on the night of December 7, last year.

The yellow leaves of the weeping ginkgo, illuminated by streetlights and lanterns, looked like a bell-grown oval.

The way of coloring seems to be different every year, but I hope that this year will be colored like last year.

　
　
On November 22, I went to see this time, "Rooster Market" happened to be held on the precincts.

It was not large, but it was crowded with small crowds.

　
Tsukiji Market will be busy until the end of the year.
When you visit the market, be sure to pay attention to the ginkgo at Namishi Inari Shrine.