"Akidate Chinu" is a work from 1960, but the area around Tsukiji River is a location (the work can be seen on You tube).
It is a summer story of a boy who came to Tokyo with his mother (Nobuko Otowa) after his father died. At the beginning, the mother and child cross the Ginza street and Showa-dori from the Ginza 4-chome intersection, and head toward Tsukiji. The traffic is quite good now. The two pass through Kyobashi Elementary School at the time and cross the Shintomi Bridge over the Tsukiji River. This Kyobashi Elementary School was integrated into Tsukiji Elementary School in 1992, and the site of the school building is now Kyobashi Plaza.
One day in summer, a boy (6th grade elementary school student) goes to Ginza with a girl he gets acquainted with and climbs to the roof of Matsuzakaya. At that time, I was able to see Tokyo Bay from the rooftop. After a while, they take a taxi to see the sea through Kachidokibashi to Harumi's landfill.
In the movie, you can see the Tsukiji River before landfill, but you can see in children's conversation that water pollution was quite advanced. Ginza was a short time after the war, and it was an "island" surrounded by rivers on all sides, including the Tsukiji River and Sanjuma Horikawa to the east, the Sotobori River to the west, the Shiodome River (Shin-Hashikawa) to the south, and the Kyobashi River to the north. After the war, the Sanuma Horikawa was reclaimed by the rubble of the war in 1949, and was reclaimed one after another, and all except Sanumabori were turned into expressways. The Tsukiji River remained until the end, but it was reclaimed before the Tokyo Olympics.
The marriage of His Imperial Highness the Crown Prince (now His Majesty Ima) at that time was in 1959, and television has spread rapidly since that time. It's not good to see the Miset (three-wheeled vehicle) running. The Japanese economy has entered a period of full-scale high growth since this time, and Tokyo's infrastructure will be greatly modified (at least partially severely deteriorated) toward the 1964 Olympic Games.
At that time, I was in Chuo-ku, Osaka City (then Minami-ku, integrated with Higashi-ku in 1989), but a considerable part of the city, including the river surrounding Semba and Shimanouchi, were reclaimed. Was It started around 1960.
