Chuo-ku Tourism Association correspondent blog

I went to Itamae cuisine and Sun Moonfire in Ginza ZOE, a building next to the plantan.
It's a private room with a welcome drink.
I was surprised at 3000 yen with this content!

 
1-no-zen, small bowl three dishes made with a variety of seasonal steamed rice bowl
Ninozen's specialty, thick and freshly made bean Tomi

 
Seasonal stewed food, seasonal fried food, seasonal cooked rice
Today's dessert, black bean tea

 
You can choose a meal from cooked rice, white rice, or cold soba.
You can also choose coffee or black bean tea.

 
The service was good, the store was also luxurious, and this price is nice even on Saturday (* ^^ *)

 
All of them were delicious, but they were served with aoi and sesame sauce.

Fresh tofu is warm and delicious~♪

The crab tempura also fits white wine, and it was a very satisfying lunch with full stomach.

Sunset Fire Website

Regarding the Mitsukoshi Nihonbashi Main Store, the Monoshiri Encyclopedia has introduced the “Monoshiri Encyclopedia”.

＞In 1904 (1904), he made a "Department Declaration" to realize one-stop shopping as the first department store in Japan and proposed modernization of lifestyle culture.

　(page 31).

I would like to introduce 　Mitsukoshi's "Department Declaration" as follows in the Nikkei Shimbun morning column "Spring and Autumn" today (December 20, 2015).

＞The way we have done so far must be fundamentally changed. If you take on the management, you will renew your face and make it a modern management. It seems that Ousuke Hibi, an executive of Mitsui Kimono Store (later Mitsukoshi), spoke like this in the mid-1930s (Masao Yamaguchi, "The spiritual history of the loser").
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▼It was just 111 years ago. Hibi, who took full control of management while title as Senior Managing Director, started reforming immediately. A well-known one is a one-page advertisement published on the main paper early in the following year. "We will realize a part of the department store stoore that goes to the United States." It was the first department store declaration in Japan's retail business.

 Current Mitsukoshi Department Store Nihonbashi Main Store

The Chuo-ku Community Cycle (CCC) has been taking care of every day except on rainy days since its start in October. It is very active not only in commuting but also in shopping and sightseeing in the city (Blog article "Chuo-ku version Vélib (community cycle)-Part 2-" /archive / 2015/10/velib-1.html)

Such a CCC has announced that it will start mutual use in four wards (Chuo-ku, Chiyoda-ku, Minato-ku, Koto-ku) that have introduced a community cycle in Tokyo in February next year (the end of April There is a possibility of extension depending on experiments and usage results for a limited time). This is good news! Even now, if you use CCC, you will be able to travel in the wide ward from Ginza / Tsukiji in the south and Harumi Wharf to Higashinihombashi in the north, and traveling within the ward has become very convenient, but there are still many ports in the ward (Ginza, Hakozaki TCAT, southern Tsukiji, southern part of Tsuchiji, etc.) Tokyo International Forum Port in front of JR and Yurakucho Subway Station

On the other hand, if you go to Plantan Ginza in the west area of Ginza, it is closer to stopping at the Tokyo International Forum (Marunouchi 3-chome, Chiyoda-ku) port of the Chiyoda-ku Community Cycle ("Chiyori") than Tokyo Square Garden (B02) on Kyobashi / Yanagi-dori St., which is a port in the ward, and it is more convenient to use the Marunouchi 1 port in the Chiyoda-ku.

The other day, there was an errand to go to Jimbo-cho, so I recently registered a new one (currently, I can't use it if I can register with CCC, and separate registration is required) I borrowed it from the port of Maru Building . After February, it will be possible to go directly from the port in the city to the Jimbocho Mitsui Building (Chiyoda-ku) without the hassle of double registration and transfer. Furthermore, as a sightseeing correspondent in Chuo-ku, people outside the ward, such as Koto-ku, Minato-ku, and Chiyoda-ku, look at the Chuo-ku sightseeing correspondent blog and visit Chuo-ku for sightseeing and shopping. I think it will increase, so I'm looking forward to starting mutual entry in February!

[Bicycle for use] ⇒The color is the same red, but it was a bit tighter than CCC.

Furthermore, in the future, not only these four wards, but also Chuo-ku has a deep connection from the viewpoint of sightseeing and the history of Edo, and I hope that the introduction of community cycles will be promoted in neighboring Taito Ward and Sumida-ku. Docomo Bikeshare Co., Ltd., a business operator, please do your best!

[Chuo-ku community cycle, Chiyoru, Minato-ku bicycle sharing, Koto-ku coastal area community cycle homepage]

CCC: http://docomo-cycle.jp/chuo/

I'm afraid: http://docomo-cycle.jp/chiyoda/

Minato-ku Bicycle Sharing: http://docomo-cycle.jp/minato/

Coastal area of Koto-ku CC: http://docomo-cycle.jp/koto/sitemap/

Docomo Bike Share Co., Ltd.: http://www.d-bikeshare.com/

One day, when I walked from Shinkawa's Sumitomo Twin Building to Minami Takahashi, I saw a sign saying "Shoepapaku". I was worried about the dirt on my shoes when I walked around the dusty place the day before, so I thought it was just right and asked, "Can you ask me?"

"It's okay!" A bright voice comes back.

There were no customers, so I would like a "quick course" immediately on a chair. When I listened to the story while brushing my shoes, it's been another year and a half since I opened the store here. I don't usually walk around here during the daytime on weekdays, so I didn't notice it until now. It was just called "quick", so I had you do it skillfully, but it was a solid finish.

In the past, shoe polishers often saw in front of stations and in front of department stores, but since it was originally a business that started as a means of life for war orphans after the war, only one generation is allowed, and such shoe polishers are aging It was a story that the number was decreasing due to the aging of. Recently, there are shoe polishers with fixed stores in Yaesu basement, etc., but compared to shoe polishers on the roadside, the threshold is slightly higher, and the rent and the fee are slightly higher, so it is absolutely easy. not. This is done at the entrance of a place like a warehouse facing the road, and it also combines the ease of an old-fashioned shoe polisher.

On the way home after polishing my shoes, Mr. Matsuda was issued by Guinness when he participated as one of the 800 challengers at the "Shoe Prushing Guinness World Record Challenge" held in Asakusa two years ago. I was shown you. On November 22, 2013, the challenge held at Asahi Shopping Street in Taito Ward, where shoe-related companies are concentrated, was a successful success, far exceeding the record of 451 people in the UAE (United Arab Emirates) in 2011. It seems to have achieved.

By the way, Chuo-ku actually has a deep connection with shoes, and in 1870, Katsuzo Nishimura from the Sakura Domain (currently Chiba Prefecture) started the first leather shoe manufacturing factory in Japan at Irifune 3-chome, which is not far from here. There is a history of starting, and a monument to the birthplace of the shoe industry is built beside the Irifunebashi intersection. Mr. Matsuda seems to go to Shinkawa (Echizenbori) from Chiba Prefecture, the same place as the hometown of Katsuzo Nishimura, and feels something related. 

Caring for shoes that have been worn by walking around the city in the city! 。 。 。 The business hours are only in the morning on weekdays, but how about sitting down a little when passing nearby?

[Shoe Shine Craftsmasn] Naomi Matsuda

Business hours From 9:00 to 13:00 (Mon, water, gold). However, holidays are closed.

Location 2-28-11, Shinkawa, Chuo-ku, 104-0033, Japan (next to the south of FamilyMart Shinkawa Chuo-ohashi Bridge)

[Monument of the birthplace of the shoe business]

Location 3-2-10 Irifune, Chuo-ku, 104-0042, 〒104-2-10 (Shin-ohashi-dori St. Irifune Funabashi Intersection. In front of Itoki Showroom

We visited Mie Terrace, an antenna shop in Mie Prefecture, which is located in the YUITO ANNEX building at 2-chome Nihonbashi Muromachi.

The decoration inside the store is already in New Year's mode.

In Mie Prefecture, there are many specialty products such as Matsusaka beef, but there was a product made from Japanese spiny lobster at the center of the product display that makes you feel the New Year.

Japanese spiny lobster is used as a New Year's decoration by putting it on the New Year's kagami mochi.

In the first place, the etymology of the name Japanese spiny lobster is based on the fact that Ise (the name of the former country including the middle and northern part of Mie Prefecture and part of Aichi Prefecture) was one of the main production areas of Japanese spiny lobster.

By the way, Japanese spiny lobster is designated as a fish in Mie Prefecture.

I bought a long-lived rice cracker

The name "longevity" is derived from the fact that Japanese spiny lobster's long beard and bent waist resemble an old man, so lucky items's delight.

Longevity rice crackers have a very fragrant shrimp flavor and are perfect for everyone to eat while watching TV on New Year's Day.

　Nihonbashi Takashimaya hears the sound of jingle bells.

 This building has been designated as an Important Cultural Property for the first time as a department store in 2009.

　I love walking around Nihonbashi because it has an atmosphere that reminds me of Paris somewhere. In the past, I have taken tourists from France to the store.

I came with my sister and wife today.

As a Christmas event, the slogan "Time to laugh together is the best gift."

Small items related to the French writer San Tegjuperi's "Prince of the Star" that everyone longed for were sold.

I also bought a clear holder with a cute prince's illustration.

　Currently, "Christmas X Little Prince stamp rally" is being held in the store until December 25th.

　Why don't parents and children, grandpa and grandma take their grandchildren and enjoy shopping and stamp rally?

Once again, I was concerned about reading the prince of the stars.　I also learned this time that Santegjuperi's life is full of turbulence.

Please enjoy a good Christmas!