An art manhole is at your feet!
As you walk around the city, you will see many manholes on the road. We will also discover highly designed items with symbols and famous places of the city. A collector with a manhole cover as a card There is also a card called a manhole card that ticks the soul. Unfortunately, there is no manhole card with the Chuo-ku emblem, but if you visit the facilities of the Tokyo Metropolitan Sewerage Bureau, you can get the following manhole card for Tokyo's 23 wards free of charge.
By the way, this card is "Kuramae Water House" (2-1-8 Kuramae, Taito-ku, Northern Sewerage Office TEL:： 03-3241-0944) It will be distributed free of charge to facility visitors. You need to make a reservation at least one week in advance.
There are various manholes such as water and sewage, telephone, electricity, fire department, etc., so why not walk down thinking of a "manhole cover" and walking down?
1. Manhole cover
There are currently two types of manhole materials: "FC" (cast iron) and FCD (FCD contains ductile or spherical black lead cast iron). FC200 is used for manholes under 14 tons, and FCD500 is often used for 20 tons of on-site manholes. In the groundman hall for roads, the lid is FCD700 and the frame is FCD600.
Before cast iron or spherical graphite cast iron manhole cover, the lid was concrete and the formwork was FC. The number is small, but it is still seen.
2. Manhole with Tokyo Chapter
I walked around Nihonbashi, Ginza, and Tsukiji, but more than 90% had a Tokyo chapter, and the design was a manhole for sewerage based on cherry blossoms. The Tokyo flower "Yoshino cherry tree", the tree "Ginkgo", and the bird "Yurikamome" are designed. Yoshino cherry tree is large in the center, with ginkgo leaves between the petals, 13 white gulls surrounding them.
You can also see a fire hydrant manhole (with a capital emblem) designed with a fire engine, and a manhole of the Tokyo Metropolitan Bureau of Transportation near the intersection where the signal control mechanism is located.
3. Manhole cover that decorates trees and flowers in Chuo-ku:
To commemorate the 40th anniversary of the central ward system, "Yanagi" and "Azalea" were enacted in 1987 as trees and flowers of the ward. To commemorate this, the colorful manhole cover installed in Chuo-ku is particularly noticeable. This manhole is on a downward trend, and it was said that it was about 2-3 years ago in Ginza 4-chome Wakoura and 5-chome Hatoido, but as far as I saw the other day, this manhole has been removed . I found this manhole cover near the Bank of Japan (2-1-1 Nihonbashi Honishicho). A willow is entangled in the azalea. It's precious. Since there is the word "light", it is a manhole where streetlight wires are placed.
The photo of the sidewalk looks toward Kanda and the left is the Bank of Japan.
Although it is not colorful, I found a manhole (human hole) with the Chuo-ku emblem near Fukutoku Shrine (Nihonbashimuromachi).
The cherry blossoms have fallen, but the manholes do not disappear. Have fun.
