From "Snow Snow", I will continue to quote the part mentioned about Tokyo.
・・--but Sachiko did not know Tokyo so well. Long ago, I was brought to Tokyo by my father when I was a daughter of 1778, and I stayed at a ryokan in Tsukiji Seijo-cho for a while. However, before the 1923 Great Earthquake, I was only 23 nights at the Imperial Hotel on my way back to Hakone for a honeymoon after reconstruction. ・・・・・・・・・・
But to be honest, she didn't like Tokyo so much. The charm of Chiyoda Castle, which is drawn by Zuiun Tanagura, is in awe, but what is the charm of Tokyo? The area around Marunouchi, centered on the pine of the castle, and the magnificent building town where the scale of the castle was built in the Edo period is as it is. It is full of magnificent views, Mitsuke and moat edges. Indeed, this is not the only one in Kyoto or Osaka, and I can't get tired of seeing it again, but there is nothing else that can be attracted so much. The street streets from Ginza to Nihonbashi are fine, but some air seemed to be dry and dry, so I didn't think it was a livable place for her and others. In other words, she hated the murder of the city at the end of Tokyo, but as she went on Aoyama street toward Shibuya, even though it was a summer evening, I felt somewhat cold, and felt like I had come to a distant stranger country. ・・ ・ ・ ・ ・ ・ ・ ・ ・ ・ ・ ・ ・ Tokyo is a land where there is no connection or connection to me whenever I come. And Sachiko is a genuine Osaka kid in such an urban area, and it seems impossible to believe that the person who is my sister who is not confused is actually living now ... Even so, I thought that my sister could live in such a city, and I felt that it was not true until I actually got there. （377）
The above is a recollection when Sachiko (second sister) visited his older sister who was transferred to Tokyo, but "The street streets from Ginza to Nihonbashi are fine, but some air seems to be dry and dry, and I didn't think it was a livable land for her and others." It's also interesting to say that Shibuya and Aoyama areas are called "the end of the place."
10 years ago when I first moved to Tokyo from Osaka City (now Chuo-ku), where I entered university and spent my childhood, Kichijoji, Shimokitazawa, and even Shibuya, I could understand these descriptions well because I could only feel that they were just "the end of the place."
"In Osaka, recently, Midosuji and other areas have been expanded, and modern buildings have been rising one after another from Nakanoshima Island to Semba, and if you look down from the 10th floor of the Asahi Building and around the dining room in Alaska, it is truly spectacular, but it is not far from Tokyo," said, however, that the height of the buildings in Midosuji, Osaka, which used to be restricted. In Tokyo, the height of buildings was once limited around the Imperial Palace, etc., and it was an excellent scenic view, but in recent years, high-rise buildings have been lined up unconditionally, and it has deteriorated in terms of landscape. I think. Regarding Ginza, I think that considerable harmony is still maintained, but this is also likely to be discussed in terms of economic efficiency.
"Ginza Blocks and Buildings" is explained on the "Ginza City Planning Conference" site.
