On October 1st, a new commercial facility "Okura House" (Shin-Okura Main Building) opened at the Ginza 2-chome intersection.
Cartier's flagship store "Cartier Ginza Boutique" opens on the 1st to 3rd basement floors, Japanese cuisine "Ginza Kicho" on the 4th floor, all-day casual dining "bills" on the 12th floor, beauty salons and other clinics and beauty salons on the 5th to 7th floors, and office zones on the 8th to 11st floors.
At the same time, the "Ark Light Memorial Light" has been rebuilt and has been lit again since September 26.
This place is said to have been lit for demonstrations by Kihachiro Okura, one of the founders of Tokyo Lighting Company, using a rice generator in 1882. A place that is said to have been lit for demonstrations.
In 1956, as a commemorative light for "Japan's first electric streetlight place", "Arc Light" was reprinted by the hands of related parties, and a Nishiki-e "Tokyo Ginza Tsutsumi Electric Lighting Lighting" depicting the former situation A bronze plate "Electrical Light Pillar Monument" with the cast of the figure was attached to the side wall.
The light of the arc lamps, which is called 2,000 candlelight, is far brighter than gas lamps and oil lamps, and is parable as "1, Tenmichi-sama, 2nd Moon, and 3rd Arc lamps in Ginza". It is reported that many visitors came to the crowd.
It was rebuilt as the second generation in 1972 and the third generation in 1986, and was once removed in 2012 after Great East Japan Earthquake.
The fourth-generation monument has the same design as at the time of installation. At a height of about 12m, I heard that the former mercury lamp was changed to LED, and the firehouse made of glass was changed to resin.
