Chuo-ku Tourism Association correspondent blog

In the first report of May, I wrote an article saying, "Weeping ginkgo at Namishi Inari Shrine is rare ...", but the other day, I was walking in the Hamarikyu Onshi Garden and a large weeping ginkgo in front of the button garden I found a large weeping ginkgo.

It wasn't an unusual thing. I regret that I have to have the eyes to see the plants accurately.

In the spacious garden surrounded by greenery, there are places in the city where you can feel as if you were in the mountains.

Now the pine "Midori Tsumi" is over and Japanese iris is blooming beautifully.

Pine green buds ... The sprouts are picked, but the gardener decides the appropriate length and picks them with fingertips without using scissors.　It will be held from the middle of May.

In addition, this garden is a valuable garden that has become a nationally designated "special scenic spot and special historic site".

If you enter the park at the same time as the opening of the park at 9 o'clock on weekdays, there are still few visitors and you feel like you are monopolizing a quiet garden.

There is an explanation of free guide volunteers in the garden from 9:00 and 2:00 on weekends and holidays.

　　　　　　　　1-1 Hamarikyu Garden, Chuo-ku (03-3541-0200)

Shochiku Otani Library is a library specializing in theater and movies that opened in July 1958. It was established with the aim of making the materials collected and held by Shochiku Co., Ltd. widely available to the public and contributing to the development of social culture.

The materials include a variety of materials related to theater (Kabuki, Bunraku, New School and Commercial Theater), movies, Nihon Buyo and TV. The number of materials, including the original Joruri 300 years ago, was 350,000.

Admission is free, but it is a closed library so it cannot be entered in the library.

ADK Shochiku Square, where the Shochiku Otani Library is located, emphasizes public nature and open to the public, and the entrance hall on the first floor uses a staircase floor made of natural wood to the third floor. It is also used for small concerts, etc. When there is no event, it is used as a place to meet and talk casually with friends. In the building, there are cafes, dining, popular udon restaurants, Taiwanese restaurants and sushi restaurants. The outside of the building is planted with bamboo and pine trees, and it is located next to Ginza, but the inside of the building is quietly wrapped.　(1-13-1 Tsukiji, Chuo-ku, Tokyo)

We often see weeping cherry tree and weeping willows, but we think weeping ginkgo is rare.

If you stop by on the way back from the correspondent briefing, make sure that young leaves of weeping ginkgo cover the precincts.

I felt very beautiful in the blue sky.

After visiting the weeping ginkgo, you may take a walk around the Tsukiji Outer Market.