In Chuo-ku, there are 98 routes that are familiar to the local community and have nicknames. There are stories on every path, and they tell us with various expressions. And in fact, roads without nicknames are packed with many charms. Today, I would like to spotlight on such a casual road.
♪ A retro road under high speed
This is the road ahead of Ginza 1-17, "Kibikicho Nakadori" begins. I don't have a nickname. If you dare to say it, Special Metropolitan Route 451. There is a Ginza 1-chome parking lot at the Metropolitan Expressway, and next to it is the Kyobashi fire department. It is a quiet road just one from Showa-dori, but there are many cars and traffic, making it an indispensable road for daily life.
The Kyobashi River is an approximately 600m waterway excavated from outer moat to Kaede River during the Keicho era of the Edo period. As part of the post-war reconstruction project, landfill began in 1954 (1954), and disappeared in 1959 (1959). There must have been a white fish bridge around here. Now the highway crosses overhead to create a shade.
This Ginza 1-chome parking lot is entirely bricked. It has a somewhat nostalgic atmosphere. There is a resident, and there is a place where eyes meet unintentionally through a large window, and there is something humanity. There is a small planting beside the sidewalk, and flowers are blooming. Surrounded by the noise of concrete and cars, the small flowers convey the season well.
The next Kyobashi fire truck has a different address and will be Kyobashi 3-chome 14. If you look into the gap between the Ginza 1-chome parking lot, the other side of the street has a steeply subducted terrain, and you can see cars going through the former Kaede River at a high speed. There were cute flowers in the planting of the entrance. And Kuta-kun is posing. In addition, there is also a mini curve mirror for Cuta, which is cute.
♪ Automatic telephone exchange launch site
On the other side of the Ginza 1-chome parking lot is already Kibikicho Nakadori. I meet a big building in Seiko Watch. When I turned around the corner and turned toward Shinkinbashi, I found a monument to "Automatic Telephone Exchange Shonochi" in the planting on the premises. There is this in the monument. 
― The automatic telephone exchange system in Japan originated on January 20, 1926, when the exchange service of the former Kyobashi telephone office began. In the 50th anniversary of the start of automatic telephone exchange, a monument was built in this area, the site of the Kyobashi telephone station, and unveiled on January 20, 1975. The monument is a stylized part of the circuit diagram of the automatic telephone exchange machine at that time, and the "automatic telephone exchange launch site" is written by Dr. Shigeru Yonezawa.―
(1-26-1 Ginza, Chuo-ku, Tokyo)
In 1975 (1975), when this monument was unveiled, the building called Hotel Ginza Laffinate (formerly Kyobashi Kaikan) was built here. At that time, I saw a larger schematic on the outer wall of the entrance. The Seiko Watch building was built in May 2016 (May 2016). I think this monument was also newly rebuilt in line with it. Right now, the NTT East Kyobashi Building is located in Ginza 2-chome. If you look at it in this way, there is an irreplaceable "Ayumi" on the unnamed road. That's why the sidewalk in Chuo-ku is interesting! I think so.
Chuo-ku Tourism correspondent Minatokko-chan
No. 11 May 20, 2018
