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
