This time, even if you say that you walk in the ward world, the ward world is clear on the Harumi Canal and Sumida River, so you just take a walk along the river. Most sections are the ward border with Koto-ku and the ward border with Sumida-ku near Ryogoku Bridge.
However, this course has a wonderful view, and there are many historical interests in the area along the river, so we recommend that you try it at least once.
Even if you walk slowly, you can get away from the hustle and bustle of the car, get off in the sun, have lunch while watching a cruise ship, or go off the course and combine it with a historical walk.
We also recommend a boat cruise that combines the Nihonbashi River, Kanda River, Tokyo Bay, and Odaiba, which departs and arrives at Nihonbashi in a slightly different sense from a walk.
(http://suito.or.jp/) (in Japanese).
You can either go up or down the Sumida River, but we recommend a route to the upstream where you will walk while looking at the Sky Tree.
Originally, it should be starting from the International Passenger Terminal at Harumi Wharf facing Rainbow Bridge, which is the corner of Chuo-ku, but there are almost no sidewalks along the Harumi Canal, and Harumi will be an Olympic Village for the Tokyo Olympic and Paralympic Games, so the starting point will be Tokyo Metro Yurakucho Line and Tozuei Oedo Station.
◎Aioi Bridge Nishizume
◎Tsukuda Island Map
Originally, the current Tsukishima and Harumi districts were reclaimed land, and during the Edo period it was on the sea with only a few Kojima such as shallows, Tsukuda Island, and Ishikawajima. In other words, the Eitai Bridge was the mouth of the Sumida River, the first bridge was Edo Bay, and the Sumida River was to Eitai Bridge.
Minatomachi and Akashicho (because the scenery is similar to Akashi in Hyogo Prefecture) indicate that this area was once the sea.
Tsukuda Island is an area with an old history, such as Sumiyoshi-jinja Shirine and Bon Odori, as Ieyasu Tokugawa brought fishermen from Tsukuda Village in Settsu (Osaka) to live there.
Ishikawajima is now a popular area as a pioneer in waterfront "Okawabata River City 21" high-rise housing group, but it is the site of the Ishikawajima Shipyard (currently IHI), which was once opened by the Mito Domain. In the Edo period, there was a "Hitoshishoro" created by the proposal of Heizo Hasegawa, a pirate.
"Human Ashojo" is a facility that forcibly enforces non-stayers and prisoners, acquires skills such as carpenters, fittings, paints, etc., and works as a general contractor to rehabilitate them, and gives them wages. It seems to have been a facility that also leads to modern criminal policies that combine security measures and rehabilitation facilities, such as getting a regular job after leaving.
When you pass through Ishikawajima Park along the Harumi Canal, you will see the beautiful "Chuo-ohashi Bridge" of Shahari Bridge.
◎Ishikawajima Park
◎Chuo-ohashi Bridge
The opening of the Chuo-ohashi Bridge was not much noise on August 26, 1993, as it was the same day as the Rainbow Bridge.
Since the Sumida River has partnered with Seine, France in 1989, and the design of this "Chuo-ohashi Bridge" is a French design company, Jack Sirak, the mayor of Paris, is located on the upstream side of the central pier. The sculpture named "Messenger" by Osschkin as a sign of friendship is enshrined.
Since the statue is facing the river side, it is easy to see from the boat descending the Sumida River.
When you cross the Chuo-ohashi Bridge, you can go to the Sumida River Terrace.
◎Sumida River Terrace
◎Sumida River Terrace Map
From here, except for crossing the Toyomi Bridge over the Nihonbashi River at the end of the Eitai Bridge, you can walk straight upstream along the Sumida River to Ryogoku Bridge. The sky tree is beautiful.
◎Eitai Bridge
◎Toyomi Bridge
On the other side, you can see the beautiful Kiyosu Bridge, which is said to have imitated the suspension bridge of Cologne, on the Sumida River Ohashi Bridge, and on the other side of the Matsuo Basho, Basho-an, located in narrow road to the interior, the largest bridge on the Onagi River, which transported salt from Gyotoku during the Edo period.
◎Sumida River Ohashi
◎Kiyosu Bridge
◎Onagi River, Mannen Bridge
◎Bashoan Historic Site Observation Garden
Cruise ships on the Sumida River come and go, and ukiyo-e paintings depicting the customs of the Edo period are drawn on the walls of dike in promenade, where modern and past cross.
◎Cruise ship
◎Suitengu Ukiyo-e
After passing Shinohashi, once the sky tree, which had been hidden until now, appears again from the valley of the building, it will arrive at the end of Ryogoku Bridge.
◎Shinohashi
◎Ryogokubashi
