The rainy season in Chuo-ku is at once along with the consecutive holidays of the sea day! It's finally the long-awaited summer, but it
's tremendous heat even if you walk around the city. Chuo Ward also has rich greenery such as the Hamarikyu Garden and the Hamacho Green Road, but the commercial district from Ginza to Nihonbashi has few greenery, probably because there are many buildings.
By the way, we will have a late lunch at Nihonbashi and return to Chuo-dori toward Kyobashi. Chuo-dori is the Hana Kaido
, which has flower beds near the sidewalk.
(There is also a blog post on May 14, 2011 (/archive / 2011/05/post-793.html) by correspondent ○ Umbrellas, and it is a wonderful place where you can enjoy seasonal flowers, but unfortunately there is almost no shade of the street trees, and when you suddenly wipe off the sweat while thinking that it is a bit hard to walk in front of you, there is a rich space. 。 。 Yes, it's the hill of Kyobashi! 
Not only the sidewalk along Chuo-dori and Kajibashi-dori, but also the veranda from the first basement floor to the fifth floor of the building is covered with green trees and flowers, so it feels like a resort (on the first floor there is also a specialty store for outdoor goods, so it seems that you can go out for mountain climbing as it is (laughs).
By the way, many correspondents have already written blog posts, so I would like you to see them for details, but this wonderful space is a 24-story (124 meters high) skyscraper called Tokyo Square Garden. The former Katakura Industries headquarters building, which was originally built in the Taisho era, was built in this place, but it was rebuilt and opened in 2013. Central FM 84.0MHz program "I love you! Chuo-ku is recorded in the studio on the first basement floor, and there is also the Kyobashi Environmental Station (Chuo Ward Environmental Information Center) on the sixth floor of the building.
"Kyobashi Environmental Station" is located on the lush "Kyobashi Hill". 。 。
In the past, I wrote a blog entitled "Transforming Kyobashi District: Marriott and Meijiya-(April 11, 2014)" to introduce our efforts to improve the attractiveness and value of the region by taking advantage of the Historic buildings (/archive/2014/04/post-1962.html), and Kyobashi is also taking the lead in improving the local environment in Japan.
In Chuo-ku, in June 2012, the “Chuo-ku Eco Town Initiative (http://www.city.chuo.lg.jp/kankyo/seisaku/kankyotopikkusu/ecotownkousou.html)” was launched in June 2012.
The Tokyo station square area has been designated as a business model area as one of the two model districts for formulating and specifically promoting the concept.
The Kyobashi Environmental Station is one of the important projects for creating an eco-town in the Tokyo station square area, with the specific role of providing "information and dissemination of cutting-edge environmental technologies". In addition to exhibiting and introducing by companies that are actively involved in initiatives related to environmental technologies, there are also a wide range of lectures and events for residents of the city who are interested in the environment. With the move to eco-town centering on the Kyobashi Environmental Station, I returned to work in the afternoon, hoping that Chuo-ku will become a green and livable city, not just Tokyo Square Garden.
