Chuo-ku Tourism Association correspondent blog

At the Hamarikyu Garden, Kibana cosmos is currently blooming orange flowers.

The plant height is lower than the cosmos that bloom in autumn, and blooms early. At the end of Kibana Cosmos, the flower garden is dyed with pink cosmos.

There is also a bright red red spider lily here and there in the garden.

Originally native to southern China, it seems to be a historical naturalized plant that came from China in the old age.

Hagi is also one of the seven herbs in autumn during flowering and is a flower familiar to Japanese people.

This is also the autumn seven herbs, golden lace

At the start of Silver Week, the garden was crowded with people who came to see the autumn flowers.

　Blessed with good weather for the first time in a long time, I participated in a tour of "Chuo-ku's boat cruise and Nihonbashi Long-established Tour" from Nihonbashi Pier.

The lion of Nihonbashi is the guardian of the capital Tokyo. There are four north-south corners and pillars in the middle of the two arches, a lion head of 4 × 6 and a bridge, respectively.

So how many lions are there?　Lion = 16!　

The correct answer is 32.　　　And in the center of the balustrade of the bridge, Kirin has two wings and two branched corners. He said he hoped for a great leap in Tokyo. It's a wonderful figure.

The cruise has begun. Scent of river wind and tide in pleasant ship shaking.

Well, what is the illusion of the eyes?

Large giraffes in Tsukishima's warehouses

 It seems to be a cafe that uses a warehouse. Let's go out next time by train with a little child.

 It doesn't work, but it's as big as the real thing. 2 corners

　When I looked at the real giraffe at the zoo, I remembered that there were two or three corners and the stripes were different one by one. They actually have five horns

　The trace of the fun cruising goes around the long-established store, after tasting and shopping, and says, "Today the distance is long but I do not walk 10,000 steps a day."

　Well, at the corner of Yaesu Street

This is the crown giraffe as you all know. The crown shines at night.

　The number of steps taken at home today is 10,506 steps.

　There was a single corner of Kirin in the refrigerator.

It was a fun day.

 During shopping in Ginza, I sometimes encounter various objects.

　The angelic statue of Tenshodo is famous, but it is famous

Recently, I think the picture of a girl peeking into the Washington shoe store in Ginza 5-chome is excellent.

What does the girl think and what does she see?

　"A nice high heel. I also want it, but is it a little too early?" Are you looking into the store?

　And "Ginza Koi Colin" is located on both sides of the San-Ai Building.

May you have a good relationship!　So as not to make a mistake in the male and female

　uniqlo Bldg. shining brightly at night  A mannequin doll.　

It is also popular among people from all over the world because it rotates in the same way.

In the corner of Ginza, there are still many sculptures and small windows on the walls of Wako, Shiseido, and Tiffany are also fun.

Please enjoy these exhibits before and after shopping and meals.

　Kizo Kumoto appeared in the Nikkei Shimbun "Leader's Bookshelf" today (September 20, 2015), and has listed several works by Kafu Nagai as a favorite book. Even if you say Mr. Kumoto, you will not be well known in Tokyo, but you are the former mayor of Kambe, a former self-government bureaucrat. I had a little edge, and I had spoken a little bit, so I read it interestingly. It seems that Mr. Kumoto was contacted by a university friend about 20 years ago that he was in contact with the Kafu "Shokutei Nijo", but I have been this year.

　It has been half a century since I first came to Tokyo after entering university, but I did not disgust in the terms of "Tokyo" and "Edo" and the Kanto dialect, but suddenly I started to feel interested in Edo culture. It was only this year, and I came to the Chuo-ku Tourism Test. Actually, even though I have lived near Tsukishima Station for more than a dozen years, I ate something called "monjayaki" when I invited a friend from college at the Sumiyoshi-jinja Shirine main festival the other day. It was the first time.

　Then, lately, I read the works of Kafu Nagai and Junichirou Tanizaki, and finally obtained the complete collection of both individuals. The complete personal collection is currently traded at an amazing low price in the second-hand market, thank you for what you buy. However, at the Nihonbashi Library in Chuo-ku, it is no better to say that Tanizaki's complete collection is treated as valuables.

　Kafu Nagai's "Shokutei Nijo" is also an abstract of the Iwanami Bunko version, and a complete collection is required to read the full text.

　Finally, the heat has gone, and it will be a great season for a walk for a while. As a poor old man, I would like to take a walk again in Chuo-ku, Tokyo, feeling a bit like a cargo wind while placing the Kafu `` Shokutei Nijo '' `` Hiyori Geta '' and Tanizaki's `` childhood '' on the right. I am thinking.

As you know, the Metropolitan Expressway is built on the river as represented by the vicinity of Nihonbashi.
There are many places that have been reclaimed and constructed like near Ginza.
Against this background, I would like to introduce the place where the river used to flow.

This is where you can see St. Luke Hospital in front. This is the parking lot beside Tsukiji Market.

A river used to flow.

The place that goes toward St. Luke's and becomes Tsukiji River Park would have been planned for the Metropolitan Expressway Ramp before.

It was a road slope. When I was a child, heavy snow fell in Tokyo, and I took out adult skis for a short distance, but I have played.
It's a little memory, but I think it was published in a newspaper with a photo in a heavy snowfall column. (Perhaps daily sports)

Proceed toward Shintomicho, the intersection of Shin-ohashi-dori St. and Tsukuda-ohashi Bridge Street.

There are parks and playgrounds on the side of Irifune Bridge, located underground.

If you go down the stairs and go ahead, it is closed with wire mesh, but you can imagine that it will lead to Tsukiji River Park and Shintomicho Metropolitan Expressway Lamp earlier.

Seeing Irifunebashi from Shintomicho. The road on the left should be followed by Irifune Hashimoto.

In this way, there is a mysterious place around Tsukiji where the road construction plan seems to have been abandoned.

Hello, this is Minori.

I went to the birthplace of the Nihonbashi Fish Market, where the statue of Otohime is located.

On the other side of the river is the Nihonbashi Pier, Sojuro Riverside. There is a pleasure boat sailing on the Nihonbashi River.

It was a very nice day and a very hot day, but the dock was crowded.

The location is 1-8 Nihonbashi Muromachi, Chuo-ku.

Next to the statue of Otohime, there is a stone monument of the opening of Nihonbashi Fish Market.

"Nihonbashi" is built over the river.

The current bridge is a two-story stone arch bridge, which was completed in 1911 (1911).

The decoration was in charge of the architect Yorinaka Tsumaki.

Fish shore

In 1590 (1590), after Ieyasu Tokugawa entered Edo, more than 30 fishermen from Tsukuda-mura, Nishinari-gun, Settsu-kuni (now Nishiyodogawa-ku, Osaka-shi) went to Edo to create Tsukuda Island, and fishery near Edo. With the permission of running the project, he offered seafood to the Tokugawa family. In the sea at that time, the seafood was so good that it was interesting that it would be too good to pay. So, with the permission of the Shogunate, fishermen began selling seafood on a sales board, also known as a board boat, on the banks of Nihonbashi, where water transportation is good. This is the origin of the Nihonbashi Fish Bank.

The fish shore is located on the north bank between Nihonbashi and Edobashi, and ships loaded with fish went back to the Nihonbashi River and landed on the riverbank. It is crowded with many shoppers from the early morning, and the fish shore in the morning is the daytime playhouse "Nakamura-za in Sakaimachi (Ningyocho) and Ichimura-za in Fukiya-cho (Ningyocho) and Morita-za in Higashiginza in Higashiginza in Higashiginza) Along with Yoshiwara at night, it has prospered so that it is said that "a thousand cars fall in a day." (The vigorous trade of the Edo kids was about to jump.)

After the Great Kanto Earthquake of 1923 (September 1), the fish shore was decided to relocate to the current Tsukiji Temple, and the 300-year history of the Nihonbashi Fish Bank finally ended.

[Source] Chuo-ku Monoshiri Encyclopedia (Supervised Chuo-ku Tourism Certification Committee)

　　　　Collection of past problems in Chuo-ku Tourism Certification (supervised Chuo-ku Tourism Certification Committee)

　　　　Edo Cultural History Certification Official Text [Beginner Edition] Oedo Observation Record (Edo Cultural History Certification Association Editorial Issue, Shogakukan Inc.)