In September last year, as the first step to walk on the bridge at the time of the prayer curtain descends, I wrote about the area near "Yanagibashi" written on the January calendar in the novel, but this time in February of the calendar I would like to write along "Asakusabashi" that was written down in March and "Saemonbashi" in March.
The town in Chuo-ku, which borders Asakusabashi, is now called "Higashibashi 2-chome", but before the house indication was changed, it was "Nihonbashi Ryogoku". From the image of JR. Ryogoku Station and Ryogoku Kokugikan, the place name Ryogoku is often considered to be Sumida-ku, but the original place name "Ryogoku" was in Chuo-ku. Even now, the name of the post office remains as "Ryogoku Post Office". By the way, the Sumida-ku side was once the place name "Higashi Ryogoku".
In addition, on the side of Taito Ward side of Asakusabashi, there is a monument of "Asakusa Mitsuke Ruins". Mitsuke was set up in the Edo period to crack down on people heading to Asakusa Kannon and Oshu.
In the vicinity of Asakusa Mitsuke, Seizaemon Akamatsu took Taiheiki in the Edo Genroku era and became the birthplace of Edo-lecture, but a monument commemorating this was built in the immovable style of Yakken digging.
In addition, there is a county mansion on the Chuo-ku side of Asakusabashi in the Edo period, and an explanatory version is built next to the police box, but there is currently Nihonbashi Jogakukan where the site of the county mansion was located. Although it is a women's junior and senior high school integrated school, a new school building was completed in 2009, and this year's entrance examination will be co-educated and the school name will be changed to "Kaichi Nihonbashi Gakuen".
It's Saemon Bridge.
There is also a boarding house between Asakusabashi and Saemonbashi, and a houseboat is moored.
(I just saw Saemon Bridge from Asakusabashi. The building on the left is Nihonbashi Jogakukan.)
Saemon Bridge is bordered by Taito-ku on the north side, Bakuro-cho on the south side, and Chiyoda-ku on the west side.
