Chuo-ku Tourism Association correspondent blog

 

"Cafe YOU" (Ginza 4-13-17 Takano Building 1F and 2F) is a long-established coffee shop located near Kabukiza Theater for over 40 years.

 

There are many Kabuki actors, and they often appear on TV and magazines.

 

The chairs and tables in the store have a retro feeling, creating a calm space.

Cafe YOU is famous for its thick omelet rice, but the omelet sandwich is also really delicious.

This is a fluffy egg sandwich baked like an omelet.

 

Also, the blended coffee here is delicious, and a slightly sour coffee goes well with the omelet sandwich.

There are times when there is a line outside the shop, but it is not always the case, so please try omelet sandwich and blended coffee once by all means.

 

Click here for the cafe YOU's website.　⇒

http://www.kissa-you.com/

 

 

 

　One afternoon of one day, for dinner, around 3 o'clock early.

We stopped by the Tsukishima Monja Promotion Association Cooperative to purchase information. Unfortunately, Monjayaki shops are not open at this time!

　

Then, at the meat Takasago, I bought a "baked pork" as a souvenir, and bought it.

Next, we bought and ate lever fly at the original Tsukishima lever fly Hisagoya Abe, which was relocated in front of Aioi Bridge.

　

Turn right at "Aioi no Sato" in front of Aioi Bridge and follow the path protected by the embankment.

In Tokyo, there was a rare "susuki".　　Flowers don't bloom, kasuki~

　

The space facing dike was neatly separated, like a garden of individual homes, not a home garden.

　There is always a table where flower pots are placed in the section.

If you ask someone who cares for flowers and bonsai, you will be able to talk about it.

"In the past, I was very in trouble because I was throwing away oversized garbage such as beds. In the ward, they set up a table to place flowerpots, etc., so everyone started to take care of the plants, and with the good effect, it was no longer possible to throw away garbage. "

In order to prevent garbage from coming out, installing a tree stand in the space with dike and greening it eliminates illegal dumping of garbage, and the town was beautified, and I thought it was a really good policy.

　

　After hearing a good story, I returned to Nishinakadori on Tsukishima.　The beer of the jokki that leans alone was delicious.

If you walk around Tsukishima until mid-November, you will be able to see the chrysanthemum flowers that have been carefully cared for.

Click here for shopping at Tsukishima and "Meat Takasago".

http://www.chuo-kanko.or.jp/search/index.php/show/shop/12-24?t=1446030700

 

 

　On November 7th, the last day of the event called "Oedo Tokyo Manman Festival", we have served as a guide to guide you from Nihonbashi to Kanda.

　

　Nishihei Tateyama, who worked on the course design, was born in Kanda and raised in Kanda from his grandparents' generation. Last month I participated in a pre-training tour by Mr. Tateyama for location hunting. Looking at the old map, taking into account the situation before and after Ieyasu entered Edo, a fairly high-level “incandescent classroom” was shaken by the correspondent soul and was impressed.

　

Click the map to enlarge it in a separate window.

　I am not an Edo kid of Chakichaki, but born in Hokkaido, which is cold and swirling. Balibari Yubari! It is Dosanko who grew up close to her. Can I guide you in the middle of Tokyo, the capital city? I thought myself, but there was a lot of labor shortage, how a white arrow hit me as one of the newcomer guides. I haven't hiding it so far, but I don't have any guide experience in Nihonbashi.

This is the debut game!

　

　

　I don't think we can have a wonderful guide like Mr. Tateyama, a literally Edo kid, but the unique and valuable local story of native secrets living in the area are major tourist information nationwide (History of Ieyasu Tokugawa Gami)・ I would like to show you along with cultural content). 　

　

　After all, I passed the "Chuo-ku Tourism Test" with excellent results (laughs), so the standard poop is relatively stocked in the brain database.

　However, it does not mean that you can guide because you know it, including the points given in "Monoshiri Encyclopedia".

　

　Conversely, it would be better if you could tell customers about half of what you know in production.

　In addition, there are many customers who participate in recent town walking tours more familiar here. There is something quite shiny to treat such a strong person properly with the knowledge of the tsukeyaki blade (>_<).

　

　I tried my best to make a tour with high customer satisfaction with an idea of hospitality because I am immature in experience and skills.

　

　That's why I'm in the opening. We have prepared a handmade "Tamate Box".

　

　The meeting place and departure are from Otohime Square in Nihonbashi. After talking about the Gokaido, the original sign of the Japan Road, and the birthplace of the fish market, we will introduce Kawayanagi called "Ryugujo Nihonbashi Port".

　

　And he said, "This bronze statue is the image of Otohime," Nantoka, and I shouted deliberately, "Now, what about Ryugu Castle?" This "Tamate box" comes down.

　

　

"Ah!　What is it? What's this?　Maybe a duck..."

　

　That's right!　Speaking of Ryugu Castle in Urashima Taro, it is still a "Tamate Box".

　

　It's not a "tamo hand box"

　

　Actually, this is what I asked the staff in advance, and in the wake of the keyword "Ryugu Castle", the arrangement was made to have a Tamate box presented from behind the customer.

　

　In the box, there was a "window" with the theme of this town walk.

　

（...That's why I put in what I made myself.)

　

　Open the tamate box, spread the scroll and read it out.

"Is the key to the ward border?"

　On this tour, we walk around Kodemmacho from Nihonbashi to Kanda and walk around the border between Chuo-ku and Chiyoda-ku, but the Ryuka River, which has now been reclaimed, is the border of the river, which is now reclaimed, and finally walk here to Kanda Station.

　

　A while after leaving Nihonbashi, at some point from Showa-dori to Takarada Ebisu Shrine to Kodemmacho, I will talk about the reclaiming of the Hibiya cove, the Nihonbashi River, and the living irrigation canal (digging) of the common people of Edo. I will keep it. Near the finale, when walking along a narrow road from the site of Imagawa Bridge to Ryukan Bridge (Imagawa Koji), he commented that this is the boundary between the Ryukangawa River, that is, Chiyoda-ku and Chuo-ku.

　Usually, when sightseeing or walking around the town, I don't think the concept of bordering is very noticeable. As a keyword, I thought that incorporating the modern border and the origin of the digging into my head would deepen my understanding of walking around the town. The flow of the digging river was also linked to the flow of history from Edo to Tokyo.

　

　By the way, was there any consistency between the title of "windows" and this town walk?
Uh, I wonder what it was like.

　

　By the way, it was not the turtle but "Centa-kun" who carried the Tamate box.
　　(I'm going to attach the center's panel first, and I'm going to do that.)

　

　That's why NHK has no Ushi Lome Thai place at all (>_<)

　

　However, those who did not know "bra Tamori" had the risk of becoming "what is it?" When I actually asked the staff for this preparation, she did not know the program and took it with a mysterious face such as "I don't know the meaning?" (Young people these days don't watch this show.)

　

It's interesting and helpful.

　On air on the 7th of this week is set in my hometown, Hokkaido!

　

　Fortunately, most of the 14 participants on this day seemed to be Bratamo fans, barely understood, and it seemed to be a bit shy and laughing....　I feel like it. Kamogawa, which was cold or bitter, was Kamogawa ~ (>_<)

　

　The tour took two hours in a short time, and there was no particular trouble and somehow ended safely.

　

　Finally, from the historical sites and spots introduced in today's course, we copied and distributed the issues that were also included in this year's "7th Chuo-ku Tourism Test" test.
　For example, there is such a question.
　Sugibun, the heroine of NHK Taiga drama series's Hanamo Yu, is the younger sister of Yoshida Shoin, a late Tokugawa shogunate priest. Shoin was imprisoned in Ansei's prison and executed in Kodemmacho prison. At Jisshi Park in Nihonbashikodenmacho, there is a monument of Matsukage engraved with the phrase of resignation, "I will keep it in Nobe of Tatohi () and keep it as it does not decay." Which of the following place names apply to blanks?

　

　　A. Nagato A. Hagi U. Shimoda e. Musashi

　

　I look at the monument of Yoshida Shoin at Jisshi Park and introduce this phrase of resignation. Other items are also explained on the course, so if you are a participant today, you should be able to answer all questions excerpted questions correctly.

　

　I'm too tired, so don't dare to answer each other, please purchase "Monoshiri Encyclopedia" for details, renew and launch! I'll give you a guide.

　

　

　That's a lie, and we distributed answers with comments together, so I think it was a good souvenir. To the bottom, "For more information, see" Monoshiri Encyclopedia "."　

I put the captions, ri, ge, na, and captions.
　　　　↑　Where is it?

　

　Everything was ready, and it was motivated, but what was actually?

　

　Did you enjoy it? （>_<）（>_<）？

　

　I'm sorry if it's a tour with unknown meaning m(__) m...　（>_<）（>_<）（>_<）

　

　To be honest, like Mr. Nishihira Tateyama, who supervised the tour, I would like to aim for a guide that attracts only with "beshari (= speaking skills)" without using any props, but such skillful art is like me.

　

Because it's impossible (>_<)

　

　As a still immature guide, I was able to do my best to make tea with a choppy production and props. However, since the storytelling of the secret story of Nishihira Tateyama and the DNA of Edokko were also installed in my brain memory in this experience, I would like to use it for future guidance. Thank you very much for meeting Mr. Tateyama. (Mr. Tateyama, let me call you a master of the heart!)

　

　I would like to express my sincere gratitude to the customers who participated and the staff of Yomiuri Advertising Inc. and Pomato Pro for their follow-up with their poor guide. Thank you very much.

　

　

[List of past articles I wrote]

　

I went to Betara City! (October 23, 2015)

　

Photo Gallery of Urban Landscape in Ginza (September 30, 2015)

　

Sightseeing certification quiz tournament in Hamacho Park (August 24, 2015)

　

To comfortably walk around the city (July 22, 2015)

　

Leader guide course (participation report) (June 17, 2015)

　

New-era hospitality facility "Yon Liao-kan" (May 6, 2015)

　

　

　

　

 

 

　Monday (November 2) is rainy, but Sunday, November 1 it was fine.

　

　I have experienced the "Nihonbashi Tour Route" from the Nihonbashi Pier.

　

Nihonbashi Pier

Nihonbashi as seen from the ship

　The Mitsukoshi Main Store looked up from the boat.

Edobashi seen from the boat. Nihonbashi Diamond Building (formerly Mitsubishi Warehouse Edobashi Warehouse Building)

　The Tokyo Stock Exchange Building, Armor Bridge, as seen from the ship.

　Tokiwa Bridge, the head office of the Bank of Japan as seen from the boat.

　Nihonbashi Stop (in front of the Showa-dori and Nittetsu Nihonbashi Building under renovation)

 

 

 

　If you look downstream from Kamakura Bridge over the Nihonbashi River, you can see a sluice gate on the left bank.
This is the trace of Kawaguchi, where the former Ryuka River flows into the Nihonbashi River.

　

　
　However, the Ryuka River was the Horikawa River, which was excavated by townspeople at their own expense as a fire protection zone after the great fire of the Meiryaku era (1657), until it was reclaimed in 1950 for post-war waste disposal .

　Hongo, Koishikawa, and Kojimachi are said to be the source of the great fire in the Meiryaku era, but the fire momentum from Koishikawa burns the densely populated towns such as Nihonbashi, and the dead are said to be more than a quarter of the population of Edo. It is said that more than 100,000.

　When Kanda became the source of fire, it was prone to a large fire due to the dry northwest wind in winter, and in fact, Kandasakumacho was a place where the fire was so large that it was called "Akuma-cho". It must have been inevitable that the river was dug.

　The digging for fire prevention has been the boundary between Kanda Ward and Nihonbashi Ward since 1878, and has been the boundary between Chiyoda-ku and Chuo-ku even after being reclaimed after the war.

 　

　The surface of the sluice gate is a facility of the Waterworks Bureau, and the balustrade of the former Ryukan Bridge is preserved across Sotobori-dori St.
Yes.　This bridge was replaced in 1926 (1926) and is the first reinforced concrete truss bridge in Japan.

 

　

　The name of Ryukanbashi and the river was derived from the fact that there was a house of Ryuka Inoue, a tea priest of the Shogunate, in a town on the west side of this river.

　The alley just behind the railing of Ryukanbashi was the Ryukangawa (moor), and this alley is still the ward of Chiyoda-ku and Chuo-ku.

　Follow this alley for several hundred meters and pass through the guard of the JR Line. Above is the viaducts of the Taisho era, Showa and Heisei, as well as the Tohoku and Joetsu Shinkansen lines.
　Located on the south side of Kanda Station, under the guard called Imagawa Koji, there are more than a dozen bars.

 

　It is Imagawa Bridge where this alley, Ryukagawa River ruins intersect with Chuo-dori. (It is slightly different from the Imagawa Bridge intersection.)
Near this bridge, they sold baked confectionery made by putting flour dissolved in water in a mold. In other words, Imagawa Bridge is the birthplace of Imagawa-yaki.

 

　After crossing Chuo-dori, there is a small park in front of Showa-dori, and there is a monument buried in the Ryukagawa River. Showa-dori has to cross the pedestrian crossing bridge, but the alleys continue.

 

 

　After crossing Ningyocho Street, you will find a park after Kodemmacho, and the ruins of the former Ryukagawa River end here.

　This park, like the ward of Chiyoda-ku and Chuo-ku, has a different name from "Ryukan Children's Amusement Park" on the Chuo-ku side, and "Ryukan Children's Park" on the Chiyoda-ku side (laughs).

 

 

　The alley continues from behind this park, but it is not the trace of the Ryuka River, but is the evidence? Both sides of the road are Higashi-Kamida, Chiyoda-ku.　The road on the southeast side of this alley (a relatively wide one-way road) becomes the ward boundary.　The Chuo-ku side is Bakurocho 1-chome.

 

　Eventually, I went to Yasukuni Dori and thought that Watari Saemonbashi-dori was the ward, and for some reason, Chuo-ku was to the west side of one block.

 

　The Kanda River's Saemon Bridge, Asakusabashi, and Yanagibashi become the ward border with Taito Ward, go out to the Sumida River, become the ward border with Sumida-ku at Ryogokubashi, and the walk around the ward ends.　It was a small one hour walk.

  

 

 

 

　After that, from the downstream of the Sumida River, the Harumi Canal and Tokyo Bay will form a ward border with Koto-ku.

 

 

On November 1st (Sun), when the "Chuo-ku Marugoto Museum 2015" was held, the Kyobashi Library held a screening of a 16mm movie with the theme of "Tokyo in the Showa 30s".

 

There were two times from 11:00 and from 15:00, about 60 minutes each time, I saw the time from 11:00.

The contents were "Tokyo's waterside", "Tokyo's kitchen", and "Tokyo's road" from the 20s to the 1930s, showing valuable images of rivers, moats, fruit and vegetable markets, fish markets, and road networks at that time. It was very interesting.

 

In addition, in commemoration of the 105th anniversary of the museum's opening, gallery space exhibited rare materials such as Nishiki-e and old maps from the local archives, as well as books by Junichirou Tanizaki, a writer from Chuo-ku.

 

At the Sankun Garden in front of the library, a lawn was laid out, and a "Ohanashi-kai" was also held.

 

Click here for the website of Chuo City Library　⇒

https://www.library.city.chuo.tokyo.jp/index?2