On the last Saturday morning of February, I ate rice in Tsukiji.
This is "Umiyuki Hashikado" at Tsukiji Market, next to Namiki Inari Shrine. This is where there is a new building of Tsukiji Fish Bank / Kaisaibashi Building in the out-of-office market.
Tsukiji is near the mouth of the Sumida River, but in the vicinity there were once three ferry boats: Kachidoki, Tsukishima and Tsukuda. There is no wind today. I had time, so I decided to take a walk while looking for the features of the ferryboat. First, go to the nearby Kachidokibashi.
About a 4-minute walk, there is a large "Kachidoki Pass Monument" at the foot of Kachidokibashi. Looking at the explanation board, it is written that there was a ferryboat around "Namishi Inari Shrine" earlier.
The name of "Umiyuki Hashikado" next to the shrine is, of course, derived from "Umiyuki Bridge". It is an inland place away from the Sumida River, but in the past there was a river connected to the Sumida River, there was a ferryboat around Kaiyuki Bridge, and a boat appeared on the Sumida River.
In recent years, rivers have been reclaimed, bridges have been lost, and only the main pillar of the bridge and the name "Umiyuki Hashikado" in the Tsukiji market have remained. Now that the market is scheduled to be relocated to Toyosu, I think that the name of "Umiyuki Hashikado" will disappear, but the name of "Tsukiji Fish Bank / Kaiyuki Bridge Building" built on the site of the river I decided to connect a little memory of Kaiyuki Bridge.
I crossed Kachidokibashi. It is the scenery of the Sumida River and Tsukiji area seen from "Kachidoki" on the opposite bank.
The town name Kachidoki and the name Kachidokibashi are derived from "Kachidoki-no-Hari". The name of the ferry is often given by the name of the land, but the name of the ferry was earlier.
In commemoration of the capture of Port Arthur fortress in the Russo-Japanese War in New Year 1905, volunteers from Kyobashi Ward set up a ferryboat and named it "Kachidoki no Ferry". Tsukiji has a history that there were many naval-related facilities in the past, but is that also related?
In 1940, when Kachidokibashi was established, the ferryboat ended its role.
The former ferryboat on the Kachidoki side is the Sumida River Terrace, which is currently under construction, just on the left side. The remnants of the ferryboat could not be found now.
From Kachidoki, head to "Tsukishima Pass Ruins" in Tsukishima.
If you walk along the road closest to the Sumida River in Tsukishima, you will find a park called "I Children's Amusement Park", where you will find an explanation board called "Tsukishima Passover". Is the remnants of the ferryboat about this explanation board and the name of the park?
Tsukishima and Kachidoki are landfills. After this area was reclaimed, a ferry was made shortly afterwards. The ferryboat has come over time with the beginning of the land on Tsukishima, but it has also been abolished due to the construction of Kachidokibashi nearby.
Here, there was a common information board on the banks of the Sumida River, so I will explain where I walked today. A red line walked. It is a route from Tsukishima up the river to Tsukuda, and finally crosses Tsukuda-ohashi Bridge to Minato Park in Tepposu.
From "I Children's Amusement Park", you can go to the Sumida River Terrace, but now you can't go out under construction and you can't see the opposite bank.
Therefore, from "Tsukishima 3-chome Children's Amusement Park" slightly upstream, I photographed the direction where the ferry port on the opposite bank was located. It seems that there was a ferryboat around the long-established restaurant "Jisaku". The white building behind it is a pump station.
There is also an explanation board for "Tsukishima's ferry" on the opposite bank. This is roughly written on the explanatory board.
・Tsukishima's ferry was started in 1892 in Meiji 25 (1892) by a civil engineering contractor Yusaburo Suzuki sailed from Minami-Iida-cho (currently Tsukiji 7-18) in Hashizume, Akashibashi to Tsukishima (currently Tsukishima 3-chome 24) by boat. It begins with the start of a private toll ferry.
・In 1901, Tokyo City, taking into account the importance of transportation to Tsukishima, decided to municipalize the ferry, and in 1935, relocated the ferryboat to Akashicho (currently Akashicho No. 14) and started alternating operation with two steamship Hikifunes.
I took a picture at a later date. One corner with the explanation board is Tsukiji 7-chome, and the building at the back of the left is Akashicho's "Jsaku", and the Sumida River flows behind it. The strange thing is that this explanation board is located quite far from the banks of the Sumida River.
The ferryboat is written on the explanation board as "Minami-Iida-cho, Akashibashi Hashizume", but I do not know where it is.
Here, we open smartphone application "Chuo-ku town walk map" of Chuo-ku tourist association. What is noteworthy of this app is where you can see old maps of Chuo-ku during the Edo, Meiji, and Showa eras, and where you are now is also shown on the old map with GPS.
In the past, there was a waterside that was diagonally connected to the Sumida River, the pumping station was the site of the waterside, and the road before the restoration was the place where the Akashi Bridge was built. Hashizume of Akashibashi is now a place with an explanation board, and there was a ferryboat here. The area around the work is Akashicho No. 14, so it seems that the ferryboat moved later.
I forcibly painted the old waterside in light blue. Today's "Akatsuki Park" was a large waterside space called "Akashibori". From here, the "Tegunsu River" flowed near today's goal point.
Is the fun place to walk looking at the old map so that you can feel like looking for a treasure by looking at the "treasure map"?
I came to Tsukuda, where the "Monument of Tsukuda Island Ferry" is located. It is the history of Tsukuda Island that existed since the early Edo period, but the history of Tsukuda's ferryboat also begins around the same time. It seems that there were various changes in the ferryboat, but the opening of Tsukuda-ohashi Bridge in 1964, when the Olympics were held, ended its long history.
When I was taking a picture of this monument with a bash, an old couple came closer. He said that he would walk from Tsukishima and go to Sumiyoshi-jinja Shirine from now on. A 90-year-old grandfather. He told me a lot of things slowly.
I knew everything when the three ferryboats were moving. The boat of Kachidoki was the smallest, the bridge was built and the boat was gone, and there was no landfill in Toyomi yet.
It was just a treasure time. Thank you very much.
Cross the Tsukuda-ohashi Bridge and look upstream. There is a cherry tree at the base of Tsukuda-ohashi Bridge, and there is another monument of Tsukuda Island ferry below it. This is where the ferry port was. It's a little more that the cherry blossoms bloom and you can walk on the terrace.
"Minatocho Daiichi Children's Amusement Park and Shiomi guardian of children and travelers" is located near the mouth of the former Gun Sugawa River. It is said that the river was reclaimed during the Great Kanto Earthquake, but there were times when the ferry port of Tsukuda was near this estuary.
I can't imagine that the river was flowing here at all now, but even if the scenery changes, when I look for the memories of the waterside, it lives in unexpected places, maybe something You may find it.
"Minato Park" at the goal. It is a park where you can go directly to the terrace after the construction of the Sumida River Terrace is completed.
A place with a good view of Chuo-ohashi Bridge upstream. It is said that during the Edo period, many large sailing boats came from far away stopped, and transported them to small boats and transported them to Edo city. It is likely to be a pleasant park to imagine such a scenery and think about it.
