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The origin of Ginza Miyuki Street

[Mido] February 15, 2018 14:00

Tokyo will celebrate the Olympics two years later, but at the time of the last Tokyo Olympics (1964), a "Miyuki tribe" was born in Ginza where men wearing eyebrows and women with long skirts walked in large paper bags. . As you can imagine, it is named after "Miyuki-dori (approximately 1.2 km in length)" that connects Hibiya Park near the Imperial Palace through the center of Ginza and connects the vicinity of Tsukiji Market. However, this street said that the original name was "Yamashitabashi Street".

 

A few years before the decision to invite the Tokyo Olympics in 1940, which became a phantom in the war, cultural figures such as painter Tsuguji Fujita and poet Yaso Saijo, who considered Tokyo as a beautiful city that can be used for the world, beautify Ginza. It seems that he planned to make it a city that is not ashamed of the world. As a result, Emperor Meiji named Miyuki-dori when he attended the graduation ceremony of the Naval Academy and Naval University from the Imperial Palace to Tsukiji. Therefore, the kanji of "Miyuki" is "Miyuki".

 

Ginza Miyuki Street is a street that was born from the enthusiasm of these people, loved and rooted.

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