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"The Garden of Hospitality,"

[Dimini ☆ Cricket] October 17, 2017 14:00

About half a year has passed since the “Kyobashi Daikon Riverside Hospitality Garden”, which won the “Hospitality GardenGrand Prize in the special project of the “Green Environmental Design Award”, “Hospitality Garden”, was developed, and planting has calmed down .

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The location is at the base of the bridge on the west side of Kitazume in Kyobashi, which used to be over the Kyobashi River.

Located on Chuo-dori, opposite the street is the Police Museum (Police Museum).

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The Kyobashi River was said to have been very busy as a key point of water transportation, but it was reclaimed to develop the Metropolitan Expressway in line with the Tokyo Olympics held in 1964.

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In this corner, there is a monument to "Kyobashi Daikon Riverside Vegetable Market Ruins".

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In the Edo period, the riverbank on the west side of Kyobashi Kitazume was a vegetable landing area centered on radish, and a city that provided fresh vegetables stood, and this riverbank continued until the Great Kanto Earthquake.

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There is also a monument to the birthplace of Edo Kabuki here.

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This was commemorated when Kansaburo Saruwaka of Saruwakaza (later Nakamuraza) raised a tower in Nakahashi Minamichi (currently around Kyobashi 1-chome) in the first year of Kanei (1624). Thing.

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In addition, during the maintenance work, a reclaimed revetment of the Kyobashi River was found, and some of them were maintained and preserved so that people could see it.

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Explanatory boards about Kyobashi and Kyobashi Rivers also face Chuo-dori, and the history is clearly written.

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The climate has become suitable for walking around the city.

You can walk from Ginza, Nihonbashi, and Tokyo Station, so be sure to stop by the Kyobashi Daikon Riverside Hospitality Garden.

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