Chuo-ku Tourism Association correspondent blog

It is a delicious Nakahanaya located in 1-chome, Nihonbashi Kayabacho, a sword-shaving noodle sakeer Kayabacho store.

Regular holidays are Sunday and public holidays.

Today, we had a dinner at a total of 9 "Chang'an Course" where you can taste authentic Chinese with all-you-can-drink for 2 hours.

Four kinds of appetizers

Stir-fried shrimp and broccoli with salty taste

Broccoli and young corn with large shrimp are also delicious.

Spicy fried chicken and cashew nuts

Chicken and cashew nuts that enjoy the contrast of texture.

Mapo Tofu with Sansho

It's a bit different with spicy Japanese pepper added.

Crunchy vinegar pork

Fried crispy pork is delicious.

Freshly stir-fried green vegetables

Even with a refreshing taste, the seasoning is firm.

Two kinds of dim sum

Today's sword shaving noodles

The sword-shaving noodles and kishimen-like noodles, which are also included in the name of the shop, are delicious with soup.

Apricot tofu

Satisfaction that I enjoyed the "Chang'an Course"

This is a large number of single dishes, so no matter how many times you come, you won't get tired of it.

I recommend it.

 

 

The current Sumida River is downstream of the first-class river Arakawa, and is divided into the Arakawa Floodway at Iwabuchi near Akabane and pours into Tokyo Bay.
However, the flow of the river before the Edo period was completely different from now. The Tone River, which now flows into the Pacific Ocean in Choshi, used to be a river that flows to Tokyo Bay. A part of the flow of the Tone River at that time is the water surface of the "Kosumida River" that currently remains at the border between Adachi-ku and Katsushika-ku.
Since Ieyasu Tokugawa entered Edo in 1590, large-scale river replacement work has been carried out. Due to the eastern transition of the Tone River, the separation of Arakawa and Tone Rivers, and the excavation of the straight waterway of the Ayase River, the "Kosumida River" is no longer the main channel.
　
Many of the waterways stretched around Chuo-ku were reclaimed by the reconstruction of the earthquake, the reconstruction of the war, the Tokyo Olympics, etc., but the water surface of the Ko Sumida River is still preserved as a valuable waterside space in the city. . It is located a few minutes' walk from Tokyo Metro Ayase Station. It is impossible to imagine from the current scenery that this was once a large river, but the thoughts and hardships of many engineers in the past who struggled to rule the river and create a city where people can live easily, I think it should be passed on to future generations.

 

 

This is the rosemary sea, which covers "gifts and I enjoy myself" in high grade.

Shiseido Parlour from all over the country, including the Shiseido Parlour Ginza Main Store Shop, will release a limited edition of "Valentine Collection 2019" from January 15th (Tuesday). (1 item is an online limited product.)

　

This year's theme is "COLLECTION DE BONHEURS".

BONHEURS (Bonnur) is "happy" in French.

With thanks, to important friends, moms and dads, to their boss, and to those who care with love.

And as a reward for yourself.

A variety of items that can be selected according to the recipient and purpose.

We are particular about beautiful taste (= deliciousness), beautiful shape, and packaging, and are tailored in various styles.

The design depicts a gorgeous pattern that resembles a chocolate as a jewel, a lucky charm in an orchard with beautiful blue birds and beautifully colored stone paths.

Why don't you look for a lucky chocolate with the blue bird while thinking of the recipient?

　

This time, we also took care of Kotsugai, a spokesman for Perlor of Shiseido Co., Ltd.

Then I would like to introduce some items.

　

"Shiseido Parlour Valentine Collection 2019"

Sales period: January 15 (Tuesday) - February 14 (Thursday)

"Le Chocolat,"

◇　Delivered to SENTIMENTS SANS DTOUR (this thought, straight!)

Strawberries, apples, peanuts (figs), yuzu, white peaches, and gorgeous chocolates where you can enjoy the sweetness of each fruit and the mariage of sake, and the image of blue birds lost in a beautiful orchard.

☆　2 pieces (Yuzu and 1 apple each) 540 yen (tax included)

☆　5 pieces (citron, apple, flower fruit, white peach, strawberry) 1,350 yen (tax included)

☆　9 pieces (citron, flower fruit, white peach, 2 pieces of strawberries, 1 piece of apple) 2,376 yen (tax included)

　　　Strawberry:　A red diamond-shaped chocolate wrapped in white chocolate with strawberry ganash with strawberry brandy.

　　　Apple:　An apple liquor A heart chocolate wrapped in milk chocolate with apple ganaches seasoned with Calvados.

　　　Flowers:　truffle Chocolat that shines brightly with the flavor of port wine and conac.

　　　Yuzu:　truffle Chocolat wrapped in sweet chocolate with yuzu ganash with rich flavor of sake.

　　　White peach:　truffle chocolate made of white peach ganash with rose wine and gently wrapped in feather-shaped white chocolate.

　

"Chocola Okafe,"

◇　L'AIDE POUR DCIDER (People who get lost)

It is made by grinding and mixing original blended coffee beans from Shiseido Parlour Ginza Main Store, and is a chocolate with three flavors that stand out because it is simple.

Package with the image of a blue bird that rests its wings with the scent of coffee.

☆　8 pieces (70% 4 pieces of cacao, 2 pieces of cacao, 2 pieces of cacao, 2 pieces of bran) 1,080 yen (tax included)

☆　16 pieces (70% 8 pieces of cacao, 44% 4 pieces of cacao, 4 pieces of brac) 2,160 yen (tax included)

　　　Cacao 70%:　Chocolat with bitterness like espresso.

　　　　　　　　　　　One of adults who can enjoy the texture of coffee beans.

　　　Cocao 44%:　Bittery flavor of coffee beans and subtle milk mariage.

　　　　　　　　　　　It is a chocolate with a gentle taste.

　　　Bran:　The presence of coffee beans that rise suddenly. Caféole-like chocolate soaked in mellow sweetness.

　　　　　　　　It is a chocolate suitable for the French "white".

　

"Man Deanne,"

◇　LE CHOIX DES CHOUCHOUTES (Do you like cute things?)

The vivid chocolate, studded with nuts and dried fruits, has a fruity scent when included in the mouth, appears in a package inspired by beautifully colored stone paths at the destination of the blue bird.

☆　5 pieces (2 suites, 2 milk, 1 white) 918 yen (tax included)

☆　10 pieces (4 suites, 3 milk, 3 whites) 1,836 yen (tax included)

　　　Sweet:　Chocolat made with dry lemon and pistachio to spread the refreshing flavor of lemon smoothly.

　　　Milk:　A chocolat with dry mangoes and almonds, tropical and mouthfeeling.

　　　White:　Chocolat studded with dry strawberry and dry framboise that gives off sweet and sour taste.

　

1,620 yen (tax included) for 7 pieces of "Milfeuille"

◇　POUR UN SOUPCON DECOURAGE (I will give you a little courage)

Milfeuille with a deep taste, with a combination of praline cream and pie, which is carefully wrapped in sweet chocolate with a light, crispy and fragrant pie like a blue bird's footstep.

The package is designed with the image of a blue bird holding the leaves of twigs.

　

“Chocollabary 2019 COLLECTION DE BONHEURS” 3,348 yen (tax included)

◇　POUR VOUS FAIRE FONDRE JUSQ'AU COEUR (I can feel relaxed)

Every time you open it gently to the person who wants to deliver his feelings, and also to himself, it seems that secret luck overflows.

A 3-tier box (3-tiered total of 20 pieces) packed luxuriously with expressive chocolate collected by blue birds.

　　　Upper:　Man Deanne

　　　1 sweet, 1 milk and 2 whites

　　　Middle:　Le Chocolat

　　　White peach, apple, citron, and one strawberry each

　　　Lower: Chocola okafe

　　　70% 6 cacao, 44% 3 cacao, 3 brans

　

※　The image is an image.

※　Sales will be from Tuesday, January 15 to February 14 (Thursday), but all products will end as soon as the limited quantity is reached.

　　Please purchase it as soon as possible.

　

Contact

Shiseido Parlour toll-free number

　０１２０－４７１０－０４

From Monday to Saturday 10:00 to 17:00

Excluding holidays and New Year's holidays.

Shiseido Parlour Ginza Main Store Shop

Ginza 8-8-3 1st floor of Tokyo Ginza Shiseido Building

０３－３５７２－２１４７

Business hours 11:00 to 21:00

No holiday

In addition, there are holidays during the year-end and New Year holidays.

Click here for Shiseido Parlour's website.

⇒　https://parlour.shiseido.co.jp/

　

 

 

The story of Kyobashi. It is a continuation from the last time (Click here last time → [Kyobashi Monogatari 1]).

　　

It is the city of Kyobashi seen from Ginza. The Kyobashi River used to flow at the border between these two towns, and Kyobashi was built on it. The main pillar of the bridge built in the Meiji and Taisho eras is left as a historic site, but it is no longer difficult to imagine that era from the current cityscape.

However, the city of Kyobashi seen from Ginza was once known as a picturesque landscape. What kind of city was it? How did the cityscape be created? I would like to introduce it in several times using postcards.

　

I'm going to start talking with a single photo.

Photo provided: Chuo Ward Kyobashi Library

I see "Kyobashi" that spans the Kyobashi River from the Ginza side. At that time, in 1895, the street of Kyobashi was named "Minami Temmacho", and a huge gate temporarily stood on the south Temmacho side of the bridge. This is a triumphal gate built during the Sino-Japanese War. It seems that triumphal gates in various shapes were built all over the country to welcome the soldiers who went on the expedition.

On the other hand, "Kyobashi". The Soseki is said to be in the early Edo period, but the bridge in this era was replaced from wooden to stone by Kangoro Hashimoto, a famous mason in Higo, Kyushu in 1875. The main pillar of this bridge, which drew a stunning arch, had the traditional design of the Kyobashi giboshi.

　

Kyobashi later replaced an iron bridge in Meiji 34 (1901). It is said that the main pillars and balustrades were diverted from the previous Ishibashi, and the side of the arch was covered so that the structure inside could not be seen, and the pattern was applied.

The Japanese-style gate on the left is the Kyobashi Arc de Triomphe, which was built around 1905 during the Russo-Japanese War. The one with the Arc de Triomphe is on the Ginza side. A tram runs on the bridge, and a small boat carrying rice bales floats on the Kyobashi River.

　

This is a postcard. When the postcard was approved in 1900 (Meiji 33), the postcard became popular with the victory mood of the Russo-Japanese War. At this time, there was no radio yet, and postcards played an important role as a means of communicating information to various places. And that information has been delivered to the present at different times in the form of valuable historical materials from the early 20th century.

　

Streetcars are often reflected in postcards on Ginza Street. After replacing Kyobashi with iron, the tram began passing in Meiji 36 (1903), so postcards began at a time similar to the history of iron Kyobashi and Ginza Street tram.

　

This is a view of Ginza Street in the Arc de Triomphe from Minami Temmacho. As the flag flutters, flower trains run, and the people are rushing on the bridge. The appeal of postcards is that you can enjoy the atmosphere of the time, which cannot be learned in history textbooks.

I still have the charm of postcards. Occasionally, interesting things are shown. This is a postcard with a view of Minami Temmacho from Ginza. There is a gas lamp on the right end, and a telephone box is on the lower left.

For the first time, I learned about the phone box in an article previously reported by correspondent Hanes. Please take a look at it.

　　　　It was in Kyobashi! Japan's first street payphone　→ Here

　

By the way, this postcard is called "hand-colored postcard", which is colored by a coloring teacher on each one. I don't know if it was the real color because it's sometimes painted with the person's favorite color.

　

If you look closely at the distance in the upper right corner of the phone box, you will see the clock tower. This is Kobayashi Clock Store in Minami Temmacho. Kobayashi Clock Store is famous for its large clock tower built in Hachikan-cho (now Ginza 8-chome), and a clock tower was also built at this branch in Minami Temmacho. Kintaro Hattori, the founder of the Hattori Clock Store, saw the prosperity of this Kobayashi Clock Store, and decided to become a watch dealer.

　

The picture postcard below is probably the scenery of Minami Temmacho in the late Meiji era. On the other side of the bridge is the beer hall in Minami Temmacho, and on the far right is the main pillar of Kyobashi with the word "Kiyahashi" and something like a gas lamps.

At the current site of Kyobashi, there are two main pillars engraved with "Kiyauhashi" and "Kyobashi", but as you can see, the place where it was actually installed at that time was "Kiyauhashi" was on the right side from the Ginza side, and "Kyobashi" was on the right side just before the Minami Temmacho side.

By the way, when I looked into past photos of the two main pillars, one seemed to be the bridge year of 1901, and the other seemed to have some characters carved, but I could not decipher it.

　

After that, we entered the era of the Taisho era. This photo seems to be around Taisho 2.3 (1913.4). This is a photo of Ginza from Minami Temmacho. The building on the right side is Nissha. The current Yomiuri Shimbun was here.

Nissha had a clock tower at the end of the Meiji era, but it was removed in a few years. The city of Ginza was a place where many Meiji period and newspapers gathered, and it was also a center of information.

　

On the other hand, on the Minami Temmacho side, in 1914, a building of Toyokuni Bank Kyobashi Branch was completed on the diagonal line of the Nissha Bridge. It is around the building where the current LIXIL is built.

The design of the postcard is probably the scenery seen from the tower of the circular dome. Since this building was built in the Taisho era, the city of Minami Temmacho will blossom at a rapid pace.

　

The following year, Kyobashi was built in 1915, but there is a memorial gate on the Minami Temmacho side and a memorial tower on the Ginza side. One of the major bridges, including Kyobashi, was built with some big celebration.

This is a postcard of the Emperor Taisho's great lord (the throne and Great Thanksgiving Ceremony) was held in November. What is drawn on the stamp is the octagonal Takamikura, which is used in the throne of the throne at the time of the succession of the throne. It seems that the current Takamiza was reproduced at the time of the Emperor Taisho, and this will be used again this year.

　

Looking at Minami Temmacho from a different angle, the Toyokuni Bank is shown on the right side of the street, and the construction of a new building has begun opposite it.

This is the building of Daido Life Insurance Tokyo Branch, completed in 1916, the following year. It was called "Daido Life Building" and had a circular dome roof similar to Toyokuni Bank. After this, it will become a building that will be the face of Minami Temmacho, which creates the atmosphere of Taisho Roman. In terms of its current location, it is located on the ground floor of Tokyo Square Garden, above Central FM.

Photo provided: Chuo Ward Kyobashi Library

Is it around 1916? The bridge seen from this Daido Life Building and the cityscape of Ginza.

Minami Temmacho, where tall buildings began to be built. You will be able to get a bird's-eye view of the city of Ginza from a high place, and this kind of photo will appear in the future. In the Taisho era, Minami Temmacho began this way.

Followed.

　

 

 

We have taken the 11th "Chuo-ku Tourism Test" held on 2/3. Is the difficulty level generally as usual? From this theme "Heisei no Chuo-ku", the road of 1989, the latest information center, the ruins of the Sony Building, the structure of a national important cultural property that is not Heisei, the bridge created in Heisei, and the Tsukiji opened in 2016 The ridge of the fish shore was asked.

　

Also, from the photo problem, it was such a problem. (The actual problem is 4 choices and there is a little more detailed hint.) The answer will be posted in the lower section.

　

　Q6: What was the name of the previous event name "Promenade Ginza" from 2010?

　Q11: What is the venue for this Bon Odori, which is popular for disguise competitions?

　Reitaisai festival Shrine where the head office portable shrine walks through the towns of shrine parishioner?

　 Q42: What is the name of Sakura-dori St., which leads from Nihonbashi Honishi-cho to Nihonbashi-Honmachi?

　Q58: What performance will be performed by Shimbashi Geisha at Shimbashi Enbujo?

　Q84: What is this bridge that uses a part of the former Ryogoku Bridge on the railway bridge over the Kamejima River?

　

　

　

Answer 6: AUTUMN GINZA

Answer 11: Tsukiji Honganji

A 24: Teppozu Inari Shrine

A 42: Edo Sakura-dori St.

A 58: Go east

Answer 84: Minami Takahashi

　

Until now, the official text "Chuo-ku Monoshiri Encyclopedia" and the past problem collection have been sold for certification tests, but the problem collection will disappear in the future.

I think it would be nice to use the "Chuo-ku Tourism Certification de Time Attack" (http://www.chuo-kanko.or.jp/#we-page-quiz), which allows you to solve past questions on the WEB. .

　

　

 

 

　On February 3, the annual “Mame Maki” was held at Suitengu after the Setsubun Festival.

This year, "Winter! bean-throwing ceremony! The mini-live consists of one and two parts, consisting of a special guest bean-throwing ceremony, in addition to attendees and general participants.

This year's special guests are Isao Bito and Shinichi Ishihara of the main cast members of the musical "Happy Time" scheduled to be performed from February 28 to March 5 at Honda Theater in Shimokitazawa, and a mini-concert on the day Satoko Yamano, an anime and nursery rhyme singer.

When Fukuzu and sweets are scattered in bags from the balcony, your hands grow all at once to give "Fuku".

shrine hall and shrine office were rebuilt in 2016, and the newly dressed grounds are booming with the shouts of many people.