There is a parking lot 
for sightseeing buses at the corner 
of the Ichiba Bridge intersection in front of Tsukiji Market, which is full of tourists from Tsukiji Market every day.
Behind it is a small "Ichiba Bridge Park", and there is a monument in the planting that says "the birthplace of Tokyo blind school, the place where Japanese Braille was established" (map below, red) Place).
This is to commemorate the opening of the predecessor of the University of Tsukuba Special Needs School for the Visually Impaired (School for the Blind) and the Hearing Special Needs School (School for the Deaf) in 1880 (Meiji 13) as the Rakuzenkai Kuminin School.
It is said that Kunnuiin soon became Kunnunblind, became a school under the direct control of the Ministry of Education, and was renamed Tokyo School for the Blind in 1887 (Meiji 20).
Kuraji Ishikawa of the Tokyo School for the Blind, in 1890 (Meiji 23), invented six-point Braille, which was enacted as "Japanese Braille" and became widely used in Japan.
The stone monument is easy to understand for the visually impaired, and it seems that it is created with attention to the size and shape that is comfortable to touch.
The bronze
fitted in the stone monument has relief in the shape of the school and has a chronology of Braille and print.
The Tsukiji / Akashicho area is famous as the birthplace of naval-related and mission schools, but I would like you to stop by such a monument.
