Chuo-ku Tourism Association correspondent blog

Just a short distance from the station in Kodemmacho, there is a cafe called Harritz. It is a shop where you can enjoy freshly baked additive-free doughnuts, sandwiches, and coffee, and is originally a popular shop in Yoyogiuehara. The Kodemmacho store opened last year. What I recommend at this shop anyway?

Limited drink for each season!

The image is a mint chocolate from the previous series, and it was a healing drink where you can slowly see the colors mixed together as well as refreshing and delicious. Right now↓

It's rose chocolate. It has a strong rose flavor and is not too sweet and gentle to remind you of spring.

There are many fans in the beautiful, original and healthy limited drinks, and I'm really looking forward to what the next series will be.

There are a wide variety of donuts, rice-based sandwiches are also substantial, and the price is reasonable. The inside of the store is calm and the toilet is spacious and beautiful (important!) 。

There is a free paper called Harritsu, which is also a very interesting content.

Click here for the official website. →　haritts donuts & coffee

[Tue-Saturday] 9:30-17:30 (for the time being)　
[Closed holiday] Sunday and Monday
9-2, Nihonbashi-Daidenmacho, Chuo-ku Blanton University Temmacho 1st floor

 

 

It is a topic that has just changed the year and is too early, but it is an introduction of the end-of-year purchase at Tsukiji Outer Market. It seems that there are many people who want to go but do not understand well, so it is easy, but we will deliver the situation of the site and how to enjoy it.

The date is 12/30. There are plenty of items on sale, from seafood, meat, seaweed, roast beef, kejan and chestnut kinton, a restaurant purveyor to daily necessities. Each store opens around 5 o'clock in the morning, so you can move quickly if you go out of the hall just before and grab the intuition of each street while wandering around. The actual outside is not so big. There are a lot of shops there.

It is very crowded after the sun rises, so we recommend the time from early morning to sunrise. You don't have to worry about selling out. Also, there is a mysterious uplift that a large number of people are on the market during this time. It's fun to come to Yokai's night market. There is a parking lot, but it's congested, so it might be better to leave to get there early or ask a driver.

In addition to the purchase, there are also pleasures of eat-in. There are a wide variety of things such as Kuansu sushi and ramen at dawn. The complex Tsukiji Fish Bank Restaurant Floor is open at 7:00 in the morning. There is also a delicious shop here!

Every egg-yaki shop is a large line of prosperity, but there are shops that can be bought early in the morning even if you don't make a reservation. It takes about 10 to 20 minutes to line up. As expected, the shop is also quick! The 100 yen egg skewers are sold normally.

At present, the hall is completely closed and cannot be entered. Until last year, I was free to enter and exit, and I was able to see the sunrise rising to Tokyo Bay from the hall.

It is not recommended for those who are not good at crowded places because there are many crowds, but if you go early, you can enjoy watching around without stress. After shopping, I think it would be refreshing to go home after watching the sunrise rising at Namiki Inari Shrine, Kachidokibashi, Tsukiji Honganji, etc.

As mentioned above, it was a simple and rush, but it was an introduction of the year-end purchase at Tsukiji Outer Market. Please come and visit us at the end of 2019. It's fun!

The official website of Tsukiji Outer Market is available. → Here。

　

 

 

This spring, a large pedestrian-only bridge connecting Otemachi, Chiyoda-ku and Nihonbashi, Chuo-ku, was newly built. The name is "Ryukan Sakura Bridge". The location is between Shin-Tokiwa Bridge and Kamakura Bridge, just a short walk to the main building of the Bank of Japan.

I wish there was a bridge that quickly connects Otemachi to Nihonbashi....That was a common thought of people who work and live in this area, but finally! It was completed over a period of two and a half years.

In the early Edo period, there was a digging called Ryukagawa, which was made for fire prevention measures. The Ryukan River was also an indispensable part of water transportation, with a bypass scheme that runs from the Nihonbashi River to the Hamacho River and Sumida River. After reclaiming and re-digging, it was reclaimed for debris disposal after the war and completely disappeared.

Even today, traces of the Ryukan River can be seen. There are also parks and places that are named Ryukan. For this reason, the name of this "Ryukan Sakura Bridge" was decided by open call for participants.

This place, where the JR viaduct and the Metropolitan Taka Yaesu Line overlap, is very difficult to construct, and many latest technologies were used when starting construction. As a result! It became a Miracle bridge where you can see the mysterious sight of the old and new Nihonbashi River below, the vehicles passing through the entrances and viaducts of the Metropolitan Expressway, the pre-war makeup brick arch Ryukagawagishi Bridge Takahashi Bridge, and of course.

And at night, the sense of different worlds appears.

Because it is a business district, people are sparse at night, you can only hear the sound of the river and the sound of the train in your ears, and you can feel the liveliness of nearby Nihonbashi and Ginza, and you can touch the foundation of a dynamic city of Tokyo.

By the way, Ryukan Sakura Bridge does not have any special lights or events during Christmas or New Year holidays. I'm sorry!

The light-up near Nihonbashi Mitsukoshi, which is nearby, has somehow a magical color.

If you like a world view that mixes the near future Tokyo and the mysterious prewar Tokyo, why not take a stroll through the "Ryukan Sakura Bridge-Nihonbashi" area in winter? It has a deeper depth that is different from the beautiful Ginza and the gorgeous summer.

 

 

The New Year was approaching, and it was the season of Tori-no-ichi Fair. This year there is up to the third rooster.

There are several famous shrines in Tori-no-ichi Fair in Tokyo, but in fact there is a wonderful Tori-no-ichi Fair in Nihonbashi, the city center!

It is Matsushima Shrine in Ningyocho.

Click here for the night.

Matsushima Shrine is a corner of Nihonbashi Seven Lucky Gods and enshrines Okuninushi. >

It was founded in the Kamakura period. At that time, this area was a cove and there was Kojima, and when the sun went down, ships and people were coming and going relying on the lights lit on Matsushima Inari. In the Edo period, many engineers moved from all over the country to reclaim land and build samurai residences, enshrining the hometown of guardian god, so Matsushima Inari had an unparalleled number of enshrined deity as 14 pillars!

Inari Ogami, Iyo Nagi Oga, Iyonami Okami, Himae Oga (Amaterasu Omikami), Kitano Oga (Sugawara no Michizane), Teoki Honaijin, Hikosa Tomojin, Awashima Oga, Hachiman Okami, Saru Tabiko, Kotohira Okami, Sunnyuri Okami (Okuninushi Otori) and Omiya No.
That's right. I think I can meet many gods at once....。

By the way, the famous Matsushima Shrine is "Ryomufuda". Draw the dream you want to fulfill on your bill, put it under the pillow, and sleep, and if you can dream it, your dream will come true! That's what it is. Everyone, please try it.

At Matsushima Shrine Tori-no-ichi Fair, there is Kanzashi kumade because Ningyocho was once a stylish city where geisha and actors came and went. A little rare kumade with a turtle and very cute. There is also a vermilion seal stamp limited to Tori-no-ichi Fair. And above all, it is vacant compared to the large-scale, inevitable Tori-no-ichi Fair in Tokyo! It is highly recommended because you can visit quickly and comfortably without stress. There are many delicious shops and famous shops around the area, so you can enjoy shopping on the way home.

Matsushima Shrine has recently been a location for the drama "dele" starring Takayuki Yamada and Masaki Sugata, so it is definitely recommended for those who want to enjoy the atmosphere of the drama.

Next is the third rooster, November 25th.

2-15, Nihonbashiningyocho, Chuo-ku, Tokyo

It is about a 2-minute walk from Ningyocho Station and Suitengumae Station.

 

 

Kiyokazuken, a long-established Japanese confectionery shop located in Nihonbashi Horidome-cho. Founded in 1861, Takasugi Shinsaku and Sakamoto Ryoma ran around in the middle of late Tokugawa shogunate!

Dorayaki and chestnut buns are very popular. It is also a sight of every morning that a line in suits is formed to purchase as a souvenir for business partners. How delicious is it? Speaking of which, I think it fits with the "most delicious dorayaki taste" that you think of!

Kiyokazuken sells it once a year around the day of physical education.

Chestnut steamed yokan.

The reason for once a year is that all the processes are handmade by two craftsmen, so only a small amount can be made with a complete reservation. Reservations begin around September.

And this chestnut steamed yokan is here!

It's the presence of this chestnut.

The density of the sauce is thick, but the mouth is smooth and the chestnuts are fluffy.

Because it is soft, if you do not handle it carefully, the shape will collapse.

This is "Kurimushi Yokan"...I'm going to eat it silently. If you like sweet food, please try it by all means....！！ You can have time to think about the coming autumn while drinking tea slowly.

■Click here for the website of "Nihonbashi Wagashiya Kiyokazuken"

■Click here for the annual "Chestnut steamed Yokan".

And in the neighborhood of Hirudome-cho, "Nihonbashi Ebisu Kobetara City" will be held soon.

We are currently preparing.

It's two days, October nineteenth and twentyth. It is a lively city festival that even those who are not interested in pickling can enjoy very much. By making good use of the narrow alleys running vertically and horizontally, the sun goes down and creates a mysterious sight.

Autumn Chuo-ku is full of festivals and events.

Please come and play.

 

 

The new building of Nihonbashi Takashimaya, which has been attracting attention for a long time, opened today on September 25. Restaurant areas that open at 7:30 in the morning and specialty stores that offer highly sensitive lifestyles are attracting attention....

The most wonderful thing I actually went and saw!

It's a toilet!

I'm sorry that I couldn't put an image, but it's a toilet with a different concept for each floor. There are several toilets on every floor, with a spacious and calm color, with sofas, dresser rooms, and many outlets. There is also a decoration like a waiting room in the restaurant, so you can take a break.

The nursing room is spacious and beautiful like a hotel room, and there is also a plan of Pikachu, so you can relax.

A toilet...Some people may think that it is important first in commercial facilities! Until now, in the toilets of commercial facilities in Chuo-ku, the taste was Nihonbashi Mitsukoshi and the practicality was Ginza Marronnier Gate, but today the Nihonbashi Takashimaya New Building has jumped to the top.

The shopping area was also very good.

Personally, isn't it the best commercial building made in the last few years? I felt it. First of all, the colors inside the building are unified with ivory and brown, the decoration is made of tactile and eye-friendly colors and materials such as wood, bricks, and flowers, and the lighting is soft and not too bright. The aisle is also large and has a simple structure that makes it easy to go around the floor, so you don't get tired of walking.

Even if you go shopping with the latest large commercial facilities, "I'm tired, so let's go home now."...Often, I didn't feel such visual fatigue here.

However, there are not many places to sit in the shopping aria, so if you want to take a break, we recommend going to a restaurant or a nice toilet. There is also a healing rest area surrounded by vegetation near the entrance on the first floor.

The shops in the store also handle products such as "It's fun to see and healed" rather than "stimulating and sharp", just like the color inside the store, so the wallet's string seems to be loose.

Also, there is a bellworm in the rooftop aerial garden! I can hear a cool squeal from Japanese pampas grass, so I recommend that too. There are no benches, so it is not suitable for a break, but you can overlook Nihonbashi.

Last but not least,

The road leading to the Pokemon Center on the south side of the main building.

This is a row of cherry blossom trees, and in the spring you can enjoy one of the most scenic views in the Nihonbashi area. It is very recommended for those who like the cherry blossoms in the city.

Let's have a wonderful toilet at the new Nihonbashi Takashimaya New Building! I hope everyone will experience it.