"Kachidokibashi" celebrated its 75th anniversary on June 14. An Edo bus passes through such a historic bridge. What? What about that?
This is the Edo bus for the advertisement of "Higashine".
Speaking of Higashine, "Cherry."
This year, the "Higashine Season" has come.
Higashine City, Yamagata Prefecture is a friendship city in Chuo-ku. Because it is a fruit tree kingdom, it holds a "Cherry Festival" in Chuo-ku every year in the cherry season.
At the Cherry Festival, the "Cherry Seed Flying Tournament" is the most important thing. This year's event will be held at Tsukiji Honganji and Tsukishima Nishinaka-dori. It's this weekend.
●Outline of this year
http://www.city.chuo.lg.jp/kusei/kohokotyo/koho/h27/270601/06_10/index.html
Last year, I went there, but it was already full when I arrived because I was late.
It seems that the record of seed skipping so far is 17m83cm.
About how much this distance is, the distance between baseball batteries and the distance of bowling throwing (18m chot). It's quite long.
Looking at the blog in the middle of last year's mistake, it seems that there are some tips for flying seeds.
●Last year's middle blog
http://chuo-kanko.or.jp/miss/2014/07/01/
Will the flight distance that will be updated from Chuo-ku really come out?
Can you see the splendid seed skipping scenery in the center of Miss this year?
It's interesting.
Higashine City is also an important partner for Chuo-ku, which has been actively involved in exchanges, such as selling special products at the Oedo Festival Bon Dance Festival in summer and providing snow at the Snow Festival in winter. is.
(Photo: At the Snow Festival in February this year.)
In fact, the place called Higashine is a place to remember for me. Since my parents' countryside is each neighboring town of Higashine, when I was a child, I returned to Yamagata almost every year to return home during summer vacation.
Speaking of memories, as for Higashine, there is only a memory that my grandmother took me to a delicious dumpling shop ...
When did you go? I don't remember which dumpling shop I went to. Maybe more than 35 years ago. The taste of "Zuda" I ate for the first time was shocking.
I visited such Higashine City for the first time in a long time this spring, so I will introduce it.
Higashine City is located in the center of Yamagata Prefecture, slightly east, and the Mogami River flows to the west side of the town, and is a town with nostalgic scenery surrounded by mountains.
Nevertheless, many beautiful roads have been developed recently, and it can be said that Yamagata Prefecture is still developing.
(Photo: Scenery from early May from the summit of Omoriyama near the city center. The snow-covered mountain on the left side is "Tsukiyama".)
There is Yamagata Airport in the city, and there are flights from Haneda.
Also, from Tokyo, the expressway is connected, so you can go by car, and the Shinkansen stops at "Cherry Higashine Station".
There are more options than in the past, and it is closer to Tokyo.
When the Shinkansen enters the city, the scenery of the orchard sometimes jumps in from the train window, so I realize that Higashine City is a "fruit kingdom".
June is the season of cherry blossoms. In addition to being full of cherry hunting, the head family's seed skipping tournament is held, and even the marathon event is held.
In autumn, there is no shortage of fruits such as apples and La France. The juice squeezed them is also very delicious and recommended.
Another specialty in Higashine is that the “Muda district” fu (fu) between Cherry Higashine Station and Higashine Station.
This Muda area is located along the Dewa Kaido, and in the past it was a wheat cultivation area and was a beautiful place with water, so fu has been manufactured since the Edo period, which was the post town.
Even now, there are several shops in the Muda area that manufacture and sell fu. Some shops were able to eat dishes using fu and sweets of raw fu, and sold sweets such as fu buns and rusk and karinto, so it was quite lively.
There is also a hot spring in Higashine. The name is "Cherry Higashine Onsen". There is also a footbath, so you can take a break.
To the edge of the hot-spring town...
There was a dumpling shop.
The atmosphere of the store is completely different from the memories of the past, but I was convinced that the taste was "no doubt here."
I think that Higashine City will be able to sell various products again at various future events in Chuo-ku. I don't think there are any dumplings, but maybe there are some specialty products introduced this time.
If there is a booth in Higashine City at a future event, please take a look.
