The former Mitsubishi Warehouse Edobashi Warehouse, built in 1930 (1930), was an urban warehouse with office functions. The new building has an outside view reminiscent of a ship floating on the waterside, and is the Tokyo Metropolitan Government's Historic buildings. (Page 151)
From the outside, it can be seen that the stone structure up to the fifth floor above the ground has a very classical design part. The new building is not on top of the old building, but inside the old building, and it seems that only the outer part, such as 70% of the outer wall, is left.
It was in 1876 that Yataro Iwasaki, the founder of the Mitsubishi Group, set up a warehouse here. Since then, this place has been used as a warehouse for Mitsubishi. It is said that Kabuki actors sometimes took care of art and kimonos, and then went to Kabukiza in Higashiginza after changing clothes here.
The construction began in the basement of an old building. And he pulled out the pine stakes buried underground to solidify the foundation. The number is about 1,500. It is said that the total number of buried is more than 4,000. Since the site area is about 2,900 square meters, more than one pine stake per square meter has been hit. He then reinforced the foundation by hitting a modern stake instead of a pulled pine stake, and then dismantled the parts other than the remaining part and started construction of a new building.
(The above is based on the Orient Economic Online "Exploration of Narige Shin's Technology.")
Nihonbashi Diamond Building Seen from the Nihonbashi River
