Chuo-ku Tourism Association correspondent blog

  

 

　To learn about the history of Tokyo since the Meiji era, especially Chuo-ku (Nihonbashi-ku and Kyobashi-ku), I think that Saiden Stecker's "Tokyo Shitamachi Yamanote (LOW CITY, HIGH CITY)" and "Starting Tokyo (TOKYO RISING)" are good literature (In English, both are combined and published in "Tokyo from Edo to Showa 1867 Paper" is a book.　"I like it" is not just a tasteless and dry history book, but a book full of clear subjects and love for the authors of Edo and Tokyo.

 

              

 　

   In particular, "Tokyo Shimomachi Yamanote" is a book filled with Saiden Stecker's love for "Shitamachi" (mainly Nihonbashi Ward and Former Kyobashi Ward). Only the authors who translated the works of The Tale of Genji and Tanizaki in English have a deep and concise description that is far beyond ordinary Japanese. Regarding the previous work, the author himself stated as follows in the brush of "Standing Tokyo".

 

＞(The previous book) It was a kind of honka to the flow of downtown, which used to be the center of Edo culture, eventually ceased to be the center in any sense.　(03)

 

The book is elegiac, its emphasis on the part of the city which was ceasing to be any sort of center at all.

 

　And in the previous book, it is as follows.

 

＞Of course, the death of the old one is deeply intertwined with the emergence of the new one, and is not so clearly separated. However, the fate that the tradition of Edo followed is solely related to downtown, so things that are not related to downtown must naturally appear in this book. ・... I guess the history of Tokyo can distinguish between what happened because it was the capital and what it experienced as a city. And what I wanted to write was the history that Tokyo had gone through as a town.　　（07）

 

The departure of the old and the emergence of the new are inextricably entwined, of course.　Yet, because the story of what happened to Edo is so much the story of the Low City, matters in which it was not interested do not figure much. ・・・・・

A distinction may be made between what occurred in the city because it was the capital, and what occurred because it was a city.

 　

 

 

G.Itoya, a new main store in Itoya, Ginza 2-chome, which was reopened in June.

The 11th floor of the 12-story building was "FARM (Farm)" and I wondered what it was, and when I went up by elevator, vegetables were exactly grown.

Safe vegetables are grown indoors by hydroponic cultivation that does not use soil.

You can see the growth of vegetables from the window using the window frame of Itoya's former stainless steel building.

The fresh vegetables harvested every day here are served at the restaurant on the 12th floor.

Indeed, local consumption products tasted in Ginza

 

 

The opposite side of the Nihonbashi Mitsukoshi Main Store, which is slightly off Showa-dori Street.
A small coffee shop "Café Melami" in the shop.
It is said that it opened in 1974, so it is a shop full of Showa retro feeling.
Inside the store, furnishings that seem to be layered with annual rings, dark brown color
The interior and other items create an even more atmosphere.
Furthermore, the middle-aged husband is wearing a butterfly tie, and for a moment, Showa.
It looks like you had slipped back in time to that time.
The space in the store is 5 counter seats, 3 tables for 4 people, and 1 table for 2 people.
I can't say it's a big compliment, but personally, this much.
I think it's good.　

　

Signboard menu means "red spa set" and red spaghetti.
Like that, Napolitan appeared. Enoki, onion, wiener
Bacon and literally red spaghetti.
(No green vegetables such as peppers or komatsuna are contained.)
Set with grilled rice balls, salad, coffee or tea.
800 yen is resonable.
By the way, this "Akaspa Set" is popular when it was founded in 1974.
It seems that it was on the menu, but it was temporarily stopped and revived in 2004.
That's right.　

　

And the other recommendation is "Hotcake Set".
It's cheap at 500 yen, even though it is limited to 14:00 to 18:00 on weekdays.
Moreover, it's hand-baked. It's slightly sweet and has a crisp surface
It was delicious.♪
The location may be a bit difficult to understand, but you are coming to your neighborhood.
Please drop in at the time.　

　

☆★☆ Cafe melami ☆★☆
1-1-6, Nihonbashihoncho, Chuo-ku
Business hours 7:00 to 18:00 Saturdays, Sundays, and holidays
Phone: 03-3241-6767

 

　

 

　

 

　

 

 

 

It's been a long time since m(__)m

This time, the nursing room at COREDO Nihonbashi

 

Including Ginza Mitsukoshi, commercial facilities in Chuo-ku are full of facilities with children! I think this is especially easy to use and recommended.

 

I think it's going to be mistaken for Coredo Muromachi (in front of Mitsukoshi)....

Colled Nihonbashi is directly connected to Nihombashi Station.

 

One of the underground entrances. It's connected to the subway concourse.

By the way, in this photo, it is a staircase, but if you turn the left corner, you can enter without stairs.◎

Baby carriage OK

 

 

On the ground. It's at the Nihonbashi intersection of Chuo-dori x Eitai-dori St.

 

The nursing room is on the third floor and is very spacious.

I can't see this size easily. And it's not too crowded!

 

 

Full of equipment! Moreover, it is safe because it is beautiful.

 

Other than here, restrooms in Coredo Nihonbashi usually have children's chairs, so every floor is easy to use.

Thank you very much, Mr. m(_ _)m

 

The passage inside the store is large, and there are a lot of wonderful shops.

Some shops could go with children, and in fact, I took a one-year-old child and used it several times.

 

I think there will be more opportunities to go out for summer, but if you remember one, it will surely be useful ~ ^^

◆Coredo Nihonbashi

Address: 1-4-1, Nihonbashi, Chuo-ku, Tokyo

ＨＰ： http: //31urban.jp/institution.php?iid=0009

　

 

 

"Come here, come here, and turn this way."

With his father's hand, the boy walks through the "Chinowa" on the approach to the shrine.

I really liked the tattata and the movement around the figure 8.

Make bamboo and hang a ring that bundles chigaya.

A circle set like an entrance to a different world and a ∞ character that shows infinity.

I feel that the power is drawn out, which cannot be expressed in words.

 

There is a song about the effect of Chinowa.

"The person who exorcises Natsukoshi in Minazuki is going to extend the life of Chitose."

It is a prayer for longevity.

There is also a practice of passing through the circle while singing this waka.

 

In the bulletin board of the Neighborhood Association, there was a sentence of the reception of Katashiro.

On the eve of June, he transfers his injuries to a paper doll, flows it to the river, and cleans it.

Is it a ritual of regeneration?

 

This yeny Chinowa. Actually, there is a theory that it is the prototype of the New Year's "Shinto straw festoon".

If you loosen the ring, it will be a single rope.

A rope that shows a clean place.

The figure that turns round, turns into a line, and is illusionless, is a blue general due to its thickness and color.

It is a relatively familiar "Nebi-kun" that lives widely in wilderness in Japan.

It is not uncommon for Japanese gods to borrow snakes.

The guardian angel of rivers and swamps, the Lord, the rain, the thirst, and the rich fruit.

It seems to be compatible with oval and treasure ball.

After all, the appearance of regenerating and growing while molting is very mysterious.

I feel the power that can't be measured.

The power to cross the field, cross the river, move over the rough seas, and repeat regeneration.

Old people have repeated "women's emotions" like "Anchin Kiyohime".

 

It's a rainy season.

On a sunny day, choose a new power at the nearby shrine, Chinowa Gourmet.

Let's come.

Are you on my way?

It's Tsukiji's Namishi Inari Shrine!

 

 

　A book written by a landlady (Kie Shiga), who opened a small restaurant on his own from a place where he had no experience in water sales and developed it to be called a famous restaurant ("Ningyocho Saketei Kikuya Prosperity Report" Soshisha; 2001).　

 

   Shiga initially wanted to open a store along the Metro Hibiya Line (around 1975), and considered several station squares, but said, `` If the flow of people is in a certain direction, it is difficult to welcome the second turn customer. It's difficult to meet, and the town is perfect to return from the station, where the puppets come out at the station, where the puppets come out at once. It would have been a good point of view for an amateur.

 

　However, Ningyocho used to be one of the best places in Tokyo, but now it is a little difficult to classify it as a "platter".

 

   Saiden Stecker stated in "Rising Tokyo (Rising Tokyo)" (original book 1990) as follows (translated by Tetsuo Anzai).

 

＞The Taisho era was a period of great change anyway. The venue will also change significantly. There is a record of investigating the prime location of Tokyo in 1929, but ...

　The names listed in this survey are Ginza, Shinjuku, Ueno, Asakusa, Shibuya, Ningyocho and Kagurazaka, but now there are no people who list Ningyocho and Kagurazaka as representative places in Tokyo.

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Ningyo-cho was very lively during the Meiji era, but has continued to decline after the earthquake. Most of the old Nihonbashi Ward was once the center of Edo townspeople's culture that both themselves and others recognized, but they all followed the same fate. Even in Ningyocho, it is a great place to explore the features of the old downtown, but in terms of gathering people, it is not comparable to that of Shinjuku. （40）

 

　Ningyocho was lively in Meiji and has been in decline since the earthquake. So has most of the old Nihombashi Ward, the recognized center of mercantile Edo. Ningyocho is as good a place as any to go in search of the mood and flavor of the old Low City, but it is not the smallest competition with a place like Shinjyuku in the matter of drawing crowds.    (41)

 

＞The most popular vaudeville in Tokyo was Suehirotei, which was located in Ningyocho, Nihonbashi, but the number of customers gradually decreased, and it will be closed in 1970. Ningyocho still retains some of the remnants of Nihonbashi in the past, but it is no longer a prime place for the past. Unlike the nearby Meijiza, Suehirotei escaped the war. Immediately after the war, it looked as if it was trying to bring back the bustle of the past by beckon the town of Nihonbashi over the entire burning field.　　（153）

 

　The most popular Yose theater in the city was for a time near the Sumida River in the Ningyocho district of Nihombashi. It closed, for want of a clientele, in 1970.  Ningyocho, in which something of old Nihombashi yet survives, is not the bustling place it once was.

It escaped the bombings, though the Meijiza, to the east, did not. In the years just after the war it seemed to beckon across the waters to western Nihombashi, where big business and finance resided, as if asking it to come home again.

 

　In addition, Shiga says about the neighborhood of Ningyocho, `` As a place name, if you look at the old map, the names of former Osakacho, Sakaimachi, and the Kansai area are listed, and there is a textile wholesaler in Horidome. Considering that, it is the center of Edo, but I feel that the smell of Kansai is strong. "　I agree with you. I felt that way shortly after walking through Nihonbashi.