Chuo-ku Tourism Association correspondent blog

This is a new correspondent Harumi Madam.

Today is the retro building "Yamani Shoken".

One day when the sightseeing test approached, I checked with my feet and eyes the armor bridge and the shipping bridge, which are always confused among me (laughs).

I walked around the Kabuto-cho area. I found a retro building

This building, which feels like history, and the logo on the glass is also tasteful.

The building was completed in 1936 by the reconstruction of the earthquake. It seems to be a "Spanish-style office building" by architect Koji Nishimura. The first floor is stone-pasteed, the second floor is tiles, and it is not shown here. 。 。

The roof tiles are made of Spanish tiles.

Yamani Shoken, a securities company that works in such a wonderful company building, is a long-established securities company founded in 1911.

Originally called Kataoka Tatsujiro Shoten, it became the current company name from Yamanikataoka Shoten.

One of the four major securities companies in the past. If you want to grow as large as Yamaichi Securities (established in 1897, closed in 1997), it is a name named after it.

One of the customers of Yamaji, who can be managed firmly, was that great writer Kafu Nagai.

Now that the Heisei era is about to end, one building will connect with various historys. 。

The neighborhoods of Kayabacho and Kabuto-cho are also remarkably redevelopment. However, I would like you to keep such a historic building for a long time.

Hello. This is Harumi Madame.

It's the first time I've written it. 。

A while ago, on a pleasant sunny autumn day, I purchased a one-day bus ticket for the city bus and walked around the city.

From Nihonbashi, the starting point of the highway, take the Chuo-dori (Tokaido) to the west with Brabra. The intersection of Kyobashi in no time while watching the remarkable redevelopment scenery.

Do you want the balustrade with giboshi remaining here?

Kyobashi is the official bridge of Edo shogunate, along with Nihonbashi and Shimbashi. In other words, it was a high-class bridge under the direct control of the Shogunate.

There are various theories about when Kyobashi was created, but it is said that it was created together with Nihonbashi around 1603 (Keicho 8).

The Kyobashi River, which had flowed down now, was reclaimed and the bridge was gone, but the Kyobashi railing with giboshi remains at the intersection.

There is a legend in this giboshi. 。 。

"I'm going to stop coughing." When the cough doesn't stop, if you wrap a rope around this giboshi and make a wish, the cough is strangely relieved. 。 。 It seems that the common people of Edo believed this.

In the past, I had a cold and stopped coughing for more than two months, so I remembered it and came here (laughs).

I didn't tie the rope, but it was a coincidence that the cough stopped strangely two days later ...

The giboshi decoration of Kyobashi survived even if the bridge was replaced, and the remaining main pillar railing giboshi was replaced by Ishibashi in 1875.

It's getting cold. It's a cold season. If your cough doesn't stop, why don't you warm up and wish this giboshi?

The mascot of this cute Shiba Inu. The name is "Tokiwan".

Shiba Inu-kun was born near "Tokiwa Bridge" [Kanaza Ruins].

This cute Shiba Inu seems to be a secret boom, and when I saw elementary school students hanging on school bags, I wanted the author, and when I went to buy it, it sold out!

I waited for more than 2 months before arrival!

I've finally got it at home. My son puts it on his backpack and carries it on his back. I often say, "Oh, cute one-chan!" 。 。

There are also a lot of other items, and this time I tried to buy sticky notes and clear files (^^^)♪

It seems that he is active as an invited dog or shopkeeper at a storefront such as a long-established store as a "Hospitality Dog in Nihonbashi".

It's a long-established store near Nihonbashi, and it's likely that Tokiwan will welcome you.

I will report it again when I find it.

★"Tokiwan" goods handling place

①Tokiwa General Service Shop

Address: 4--1-5 8th floor, Nihonbashi Muromachi, Chuo-ku

②Nihonbashi Tourist Information Center

Address: 1-1 Nihonbashi, Chuo-ku (Hashizume, Nihonbashi)

Nice to meet you. My name is Harumi Madam, who lives in Harumi, Chuo-ku, who has become a correspondent since April this year.

We hope that you can tell us a little about the charm of Chuo-ku, where there are greenery, rivers and seas, history and cutting-edge things and information. Thank you very much.

Well, what's the first introduction? 。 This bell. The name is "The Bell of Josephine." It is located in the garden of "Tokyo Cathedral Catholic Sekiguchi Church" in Sekiguchi, Bunkyo-ku. A little about this bell. 。 。

In 1877, just after Christianity was lifted. The cathedral was completed in Tsukiji, and two bells were transported from France across the sea. One of them is this bell. Donated by Poasode, the father of modern Japanese law, and this name was named. In fact, these two bells played a duo at the Tsukiji Church, but only Josephine was moved to Sekiguchi Church when he moved to the Great Archdiocese of Tokyo in 1920.

The other is a small bell called "Janne Louise in Edo". This is the central ward Tangible Cultural Property, which is still enshrined in the cathedral of the Catholic Tsukiji Church. Speaking of Tsukiji Church, the Greek temple Parthenon-style cathedral, built in 1927, is well worth seeing in Tangible Cultural Property.

After looking at the two bells, I will listen to them, imagining that the sound of the two bells now playing together is echoing in the sky of Tsukiji in Meiji period.