Chuo-ku Tourism Association correspondent blog

  Imabari City, Ehime Prefecture is one of the leading producers of towels in Japan.

Recently, cotton has a reputation for being gentle on the skin and being warm.

There is a shop that sells such towel products near Tokyo Metro Higashi Ginza Station.

The name is "Imabari Bath", the reading method, and the English name is imabari yokkin.

 

Towel fabric muffler which is gentle to skin. I'm using it right away.

 

And this is what I thought was good!

When I say "Pie Le Mans Thor" and think it's a bit chilly, I put my hand from my shoulder to my arm and put it on.

That's the price of less than 2,000 yen.

Because it is small when you go out, you can put it in your bag.

I think it will be useful when the air conditioning is too effective on the train.

 

In addition, wonderful towel products such as bathrobes and robes are sold.

The address is Ginza 4-13-8 Sophia Square Ginza 1.

It is located on the first floor of the building in front of the restaurant "Ginnoto" from Higashi-Ginza Station.

Phone: ０３－６２２６－０００６、ＵＲＬ： www.imabariyokkin.jp

 

 

 

　"Edo Bunkamura in Hamarikyu Onshi Garden" was held for the first time and went on April 19, the first day.　

At first, there was congratulatory address from Mayor Yada and other guests. Miss Chuo-ku Tourism Ambassador also adds flowers.

The concept this time is

１．Taste food culture

２．Knowing Edo products

３．It is about to experience Edo performing arts.

 
 

After the opening remarks, wadaiko's performance was powerful and energetic.

 

In the sense of knowing Edo products, I purchased Tabi from Onoya Sohonten.

This small tabi has a very popular reputation for "storeing feet (money)".

 

At Ginza Hiranoen, we purchased delicious Japanese tea and enjoyed it the next day.

 
There is a famous store in Chuo-ku in the "Edo Nikiwai Store Corner".

Well, what would you like to have a fun lunch?

I purchased a sukiyaki lunch box and a Sukeroku lunch box from Ningyocho Imahan.

Sukiyaki was very delicious because large Japanese beef was seasoned elegantly.

Sukeroku puts sukiyakiniku on Inari-san, and roast beef-style nigiri sushi was also delicious.

I look forward to this event going on every year.

 

 

 

　It was in the middle of April, and it was getting warmer.

The Tsukiji River Park is located between daily sports and St. Luke's College of Nursing.

In the warm sunlight, Hananoki attaches red sprouts and flowers.

 

　Cross the pedestrian crossing and move to the south, the flowers of pears are blooming.

 

　The laurel flowers are also in bloom. I saw this tree for the first time.

 

　The flowers and azaleas of Chuo-ku are also blooming colorfully.

 

　Let's go to Akashicho around "Japan's best bunsho Shiose".

Yae-zakura such as Sekiyama and turmeric are blooming.

　Enjoy a walk in Tsukiji and Akashicho.

 

 

　

　

　Today, let's enjoy walking along the Tokaido from Nihonbashi.

Oh, before that, did you buy a souvenir in Nihonbashi?

Have you seen the Bank of Japan, the Currency Museum, and the Heidai Shoran?

Did you enjoy your meal at a famous restaurant?

Then, from Nihonbashi, the starting point of Gokaido, let's head to Shinagawa-juku through Kyobashi and Ginza.

The Tokaido is also called Ginza-dori between Chuo-dori and Kyobashi and Shimbashi while it is in Chuo-ku.

As I was talking like this, I've already come to Cored Nihonbashi.

Choledo is a coined word, and it is said that "Core of Edo", which means "center of Tokyo", was shortened to be called Coredo.

It would be nice if we had time to stop by Mr. Yamamotoyama, a long-established store that discovered Gyokuro, and Mr. Takashimaya, who was designated as an important cultural property for the first time as a department store.

　

　In the middle of Yaesu Street, there is a "bell of peace" commemorating the declaration of peace by Chuo-ku.

http://www.city.chuo.lg.jp/heiwa/monument/kane/index.html

This bell was made in the Netherlands, and in the foreground I boarded the Dutch ship Leafde.

It is also interesting that there is a monument to Jan Jooss Ten, who drifted ashore in Bungo with British William Adams.

Jan Jooss Ten received the trust of Ieyasu Tokugawa as a consultant in trade, diplomacy, defense, etc.

He lived near Edo Castle, and the land was called Yatsushiro Sukawagi. I omit the explanation of the change of place name and place, but the place name "Yaesu" is derived from him.

By the way, we pass through Tokyo Square Garden in front of Kyobashi Senbikiya, which is famous not only for gifts but also for fruit buffets.

On the right hand side of the Metropolitan Expressway, there is a monument to the birthplace of Edo Kabuki, the monument of Kyobashi Daikon Riverside.

Let's go around the police museum and the Kyobashi police box. All of them, such as the "Brick Ginza Monument" built by the great fire of the Meiji era, are guide monuments that give you a sense of history from the Edo era.

Let's compare the stone pillars of Kyobashi in the Taisho era with the Kyobashi police box.　I admire the aesthetic sense of the person who designed the police box. Oh, the gas lamps are also lit.

Soon after, there is a shop for Mr. Tanizawa of the bag. It is said that the kanji called bag, actually, was devised by this predecessor.

It is so famous that the word bag caught in Emperor Meiji's eyes and asked a question.

By the way, in Chinese, it seems that the bag is written as "wrapping".　

　

　In Ginza 2-chome, reading the monument of the birthplace of Ginza, the origin of Ginza is interesting.

http://www.chuo-kanko.or.jp/guide/spot/ginza/ginza_05.html

　

　While exploring the shops introduced in the story for the first time in Chuo-ku, enjoy the Tokaido slowly with the feeling of walking around the city. On Saturdays and Sundays, please enjoy the pedestrian paradise of Ginza, which starts at noon.

Ginza 8-chome, I've already come to Brazil coffee cafe Paulista. Would you like to have a delicious coffee here and get a "Silver Bra Certificate"?

　What's missing?　There are a lot of popular songs that sang Ginza.　If you want to see the "Silver Koi Monument" and sing, go to the planting of Ginza Ins opposite Ginza Church. The lovely memories of love will be revived.

Then, please enjoy Shinagawa-juku and the 52nd after that. Boa viagem !　

 

 

　I visited Wakamatsuya's gallery for the first time in a long time.

There is a wonderful painting in the gallery.

When you go inside a little, you will see a number of really fashionable paintings.

You can hear Jazz and it's the best atmosphere.

　The writer is Soichi Nakao, who lives in the neighborhood.

While listening to Jazz, beside such a wonderful picture

If you tilt your whiskey glass, you will have a blissful time.

The solo exhibition will be held until April 14th. Don't miss it!

　Click here for access to Wakamatsuya.

http://www.g-wakamatsuya.com/

 

 

Speaking of Hamarikyu Onshi Garden, it seems to be a difficult name.

"Onshi" means lowering what was owned by the Imperial Family to the people.

There are Inokashirakoen, Ueno Park, Sarue Park, etc. in Tokyo.

 

This Hamarikyu Onshi Garden was used as a `` garden of the shogun's family '' in the Edo period as a `` garden of the shogun's family '' in the era of the sixth shogun's family, and it was used as a place for entertainment of the shogun's family and a place for guests. It seems that it was used 248 times during his reign.

To come from Edo Castle, you can use a barge (as of today, you can see a Japanese boat called Ataka Maru at Hinode Pier) and fish in the Shioiri-style migratory garden using seawater. That's right.　

In the Meiji era, it became the garden of the Imperial Family.

It is also equipped with a guest house called "Yan Liao Pavilion" to welcome foreign guests, and it is also a place where General Grant, who led the US Civil War to victory, and later the 18th President of the United States of America, visited Japan after his retirement.

　

Speaking of Hamarikyu Onshi Garden, beautiful black pine, including pine of 300 years, teahouses in Akamatsu and Nakajima are famous, but today I would like to introduce you to Yoshimeitei and Matsuno Chaya that you do not know much. think.

 　

I heard that Houmetei is a Japanese-style private house-style building, and is often used at meetings in Haiku.

3,600 yen for each 3 hours from 9:00 to 12:00 and from 13:00 to 16:00, daily use is 7,200 yen (as of March 31, 2014).

At the residents' association meeting, I used it while listening to the story while receiving a beautiful and delicious Makunouchi lunch ordered from Kabukiza.

 

　

As for the pine teahouse, let's first tell you the definition of a teahouse.　(The following is a collection of stories from the garden.)

Unlike the tea room, the teahouse is a place where you can relax and enjoy the scenery of the pond and other places from the perspective of sitting on tatami mats. Did the general rest of his mind by sitting here and looking at the pond and other tea rooms? Restoration is to build it as originally based on the former materials. Based on the materials, the ceiling was made of yakusugi cedar and Kirishima cedar. Restoring costs money and yakusugi cedar and others take 1,000 years to grow, so stock in the market is limited. Yeah.

　I see, it's my first time to enter a pine teahouse, but I can't understand unless I hear a detailed story.

The appearance of the staggering in the ranma swimming and raising waves seems to make ripples.　After all, it's amazing to use natural wood grain.

From now on, when passing in front of the teahouse, I was interested in the construction of the building from outside and wanted to observe it.

Well, in mid-April, you can see the stunning Yae-zakura.　The article is

Please take a look at my blog last year and two years ago.

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Enjoy the luxurious and happy moment of spring in the warm sunshine.

For flowering information, etc., please check the following website and contact the Hamarikyu Garden Office.

https://www.tokyo-park.or.jp/park/format/index028.html