Chuo-ku Tourism Association correspondent blog

The travel style that has become a secret boom now is "a day trip around the local assembly on foot to dissolve the local assembly."

A professional guide and an exclusive lecturer will accompany you to tell you special stories and back stories from historic sites to the latest spots.

A variety of courses are set according to the theme, such as city walks, building tours, social studies tours, and history walks.

The ease of participation by hand is preferred, and major travel agencies are also planning many courses.

　

Chuo-ku is a convenient area for local gatherings because of its wide transportation network.

There are many shopping areas representing Tokyo, buildings designated as important cultural properties, and places that tell historical events within walking distance.

It is also attractive that there are long-established stores and famous stores that convey the taste of Edo.

It will satisfy the eyes and mouth of the participants, so you can have a fun tour.

　

The other day, I participated in the Nihonbashi Ningyocho course tour set up by a travel agency.

The main street walk is the local specialty meal and the story of a professional guide.

You're walking a good distance.

"Well, do you see such a view from this position?"

"Is the explanation board that I couldn't find easily here?"

Veteran guides will spotlight places where you usually pass by from a unique perspective.

He showed interesting views, from the cityscape, buildings, behind alleys, the activities of the residents, and blueprints of future development.

The next day, there's a lot of topics that I want to talk to someone.

If you know that some of the participants are interested in the old building, they will show you exquisite shooting points.

Since it was a tour of more than a dozen people, I was paying attention to the progress of all the participants and guided while choosing a place where the talk could pass.

　

When you become a sightseeing correspondent, you will also have the opportunity to guide you in Chuo-ku.

At that time, we will collect information in advance and conduct a preliminary survey of the site, and provide guidance on the actual production.

Seeing a professional guide right near is also an effective preparation.

If there is a method that you can use in professional technology, let's get it.

Thank you very much.

　

 

 

"What is the image of a woman who drinks sake?"

Yes, a woman who looks good in Japanese clothes. It's cool around your eyes.

And a career woman who can work.

It's like you can use a lot of things.

All of them have a clear, dry impression.

At the end of work, such a person would never be Cassis orange.

When I see daiginjo doing "clearly", I get rid of it.

In the past, sake was once a tool for drunkenness that dispels the worries of work.

That's why sake is now transformed into a woman's item that can be made.

Certainly, Japanese sake in recent years has become much more delicious.

Light in the mouth. Rich scent.

It makes a woman who enjoys sake more gorgeous.

It is even said that women are ahead of the trend of sake.

　

Then, "Which sake is good?"

Let's say this first.

The one you are drinking now is the best.

If you have one hundred sake, you have one hundred tastes.

If there is a thousand appetizers, it will be a thousand spread.

If there are ten people, there will be ten ways of life.

Even when you are alone, sake can be delicious, spicy, and bitter.

　

The gold prize of the "National young sake Appraisal Fair" will serve as a guide to encounter good sake.

This year, Fukushima Prefecture has become the best in Japan for the fifth consecutive year in terms of the number of gold medals by prefecture.

Sake is supported by good rice, good water, and good climate, and is produced by the dedication of the brewery and the brewer.

Big names are not necessarily exhibited at the fair.

However, it can be said that it is a region that has sincerely and stubbornly faced sake brewing.

Fukushima Prefecture has won 22 gold prizes.

Even if you drink it from one end, you will need a lot of effort.

　

Nihonbashi Fukushimakan MIDETTE, located at 4-3-16 Nihonbashi Muromachi.

The sake corner here is substantial.

It has a large storage room, and each one is carefully waiting for the turn.

This week's drink comparison set is offered for 500 yen.

There are three brands on glass sake ware, but it is perfect to enjoy the difference in taste.

It's also interesting to pick up the eat-in Fukushima food.

　

Fukushima Prefecture has released a map of restaurants in the 23 wards, which handles sake from the prefecture, as Japan's best Fukushima sake "Fuku no Sake".

It is a great achievement for Fukushima, which is not good at advertising activities.

It has been used as a first-class in-flight liquor or as a liquor at various international conferences, and its ability has been firmly established.

　

I am keenly aware of the sake of fortune.

When I first visited my wife's parents,

"Greetings are good. You must drink first."

My father-in-law, a kendo teacher, went on drinking.

I also lived in an athletic meet and lived in an unreasonable workplace culture that says, "If you can work, you can drink."

He rectified his house and received a cup, with the fear of being defeated by such a father.

It was the best time to drink in my life.

At the tempo of "Oh," "I have you," "Please," and "Oh,"

I poured into my throat as if swimming in the front.

Tokuri turned into a bottle and Inoguchi turned into a glass.

The difference between heavyweights and flyweights came out every time the bottle was empty.

My stomach turned upside down and began to rampage.

　

At the end of the Warring States, Tahee Mori of the Kuroda family retainer compared the sake with Masanori Fukushima.

It is said that he took the famous spear "Japan-go".

I was also in a buzzy figure, but I got engaged with my father-in-law's words, "I ask my daughter."

All of the empty sake bottles were labeled with Aizu in Fukushima.

It was a warm hospitality.

It became my "sake of fortune".

 

 

I'm now at Nishinaka-dori shopping street in Tsukishima, Chuo-ku.

Speaking of Tsukishima, it's a monja.

This area is named "Monja Street".

　

"Tsukishima Kusaichi" is being held for two days on Saturdays and Sundays on July 8 and 9.

I came out to the ground from Exit 7 of the Tokyo Metro Yurakucho Line.

First of all, get a map at the Tsukishima Monja Promotion Association on the left side of the street.

The arcade with a triangular roof is Nishinaka-dori.

Stalls are lined up on both sides today, and they continue to be invisible.

This bustle makes me feel excited.

Well, let's go into the street.

　

It's hot.　It seems that the heat is swirling.

Heat emitted from the iron plate of fried noodles on the right. The thermal power of baking yakitori on the left.

The older brother of the baker also wipes his sweat with a towel.

　

You're baking anything.

Yakisoba, yakitori, steak, chicken.

Ikamaru, squid geso, takoyaki, sausage.

There's still more.

Put fried egg on horseshoeyaki, oversized scallops, Isobe-yaki, baked corn.

　

I'm skewering everything.

Cooled cucumber, cut pine, chocolate banana.

Beef skewers, salted skewers, fried skewers.

Sweet potato stek, kushiham cutlet, jumbo frank.

　

I can catch anything.

Goldfish, yo-yo, super bowl.

　

"Oh, take a look."

The boy opened his mouth wide and looked good at his blue tongue.

Is it a blue Hawaiian shaved ice syrup?

"I'm red."

They pose powerfully like a monster spitting fire.

There are also new kinds of drinks and sweets shops.

　

"Hey, dad," there is a child entangled with my feet.

"Is there a daddy?"

I noticed it and flew to the real dad.

　

A young sister is walking with her little hand holding her sister's little hand.

The determination to protect is manifested in the strength of the hand I hold.

　

Tsukishima's grass market has been continuing as a city to buy tray supplies, but what is the important tray supplies ...

Oh, there was.

There was a flower shop and a general store in front of the store.

Ogara, horoku, hozuki, Japanese lantern, cow and horse decoration.

The TV camera reflects the corner of the tray decoration.

In terms of programs, I would like to hold down the origin of Kusaichi.

But now, Tsukishima Kusa City is a sparkling entertainment for children.

　

An elementary school girl is sitting on the bench in a yukata.

The hair is up, a ribbon is attached, and the belt is tied neatly.

The boys passing by were noissed.

The appearance of a classmate different from usual seems dazzling.

The girl just glanced at her eyes, not against her.

The difference in growth between men and women was clearly glimpsed.

　

It is not only children who enjoy the city's gorgeousness.

You can also see mom friends walking with canned beer in hand.

　

When you pass through fourth street, you will see high-rise apartments.

Is it the home of today's leading children?

It is an area that greatly contributes to population growth in Chuo-ku.

　

The river breeze gently strokes the skin lit by the intense sunlight during the day.

It was a report from the site of Tsukishima Kusa City.

　

 

 

Well, Shashasha chan, Shashasha chan, Shashasha chan, Shasha chan.

When a single tightening is performed according to the clap of the head.

Pean and tension wrap around.

It's finally a great lion.

　

The Tsukiji Lion Festival, the summer festival of Tsukiji Nami Inari Shrine.

The lion's head imperial procession took place on Sunday, June 11.

The lion head descending under the torii gate against the backdrop of the lush weeping ginkgo is the heroic itself.

You can also see the flowers.

The banner of "Dynasty with the plague" also flutters high.

　

The head is Takahari lantern from Motomiya.

At the Momotaro Doll's Hayashi stand with dogs, monkeys, and pheasant curtains on three sides, the Tsukiji Hayashi is played.

Benzaiten's tooth black lion is a woman.

Sore Sore Sore Sore. Let's go according to your clapping.

A girl dressed in Tenugui headbands, happi coat, underground tabi and a bearer fashion is jumping.

10 years later, she will surely clung to the head of the carrying stick and jump.

　

And it is the progress of the great lion.

Oissa, Yoisa, Oissa, Yoisa.

With the momentum of the flute and clapping, the weight of nearly 2 tons moves, including the carrying stick.

The weight can be felt on the shoulders of the spectators.

The large lion, who always sits in the lion hall on the right hand toward the shrine's worship hall, sways the street on the swells of men in a matching festival half-wear.

When you shake back and forth, left and right, up and down, the cheers will boil up.

　

Chuo-ku is located in the middle of Tokyo.

Surprisingly, many festivals and annual events are transmitted seasonally.

Above all, the Tsukiji Lion Festival is one of the events that the residents of the city are proud of and look forward to the event.

Let me give you some reasons.

Being a festival of Tsukiji and Namiki Shrines enshrined in the city.

The virtues of disaster relief, business prosperity, construction safety, etc. are renewed.

The lion festival is an event that has continued since the Edo period.

Carry a huge lion head and travel around the Tsukiji area.

Combined with the enthusiasm of local Tsukiji and other bearers, the lion's dignity will be further increased, and it will be transmitted to the spectators and the mood will be uplifted.

　

During the festival, the portable shrine warehouse on the grounds of the shrine was opened, and we could see the Sennuki portable shrine, the highest peak of Edo portable shrine.

Foreign tourists who were shopping and eating outside Tsukiji were also enjoying foreign festivals with their cameras turned their cameras at the end.

There were a number of foreigners, even the bearers.

It was a sight full of momentum that pierced the rain clouds in Tokyo that entered the rainy season and brought in sunlight.

 

 

Helmets, uniforms and rider boots of traffic riot police.

All of them shine brightly.

If you change your clothes and straddle a white motorcycle, you will feel a good child member.

I feel like I'm almost hanging on the handle.

With the sound of the engine, with the sound of the bullring.

I'll be dispatched urgently.

　

Both dads and moms repeat the series on their smartphones, saying, "Our child's best."

There are other uniforms for women and police officers.

It is fully equipped with changing clothes, so you can transform comfortably.

　

　

On April 29 this year, the Polys Museum (Police Museum) was reopened.

The location is 3-5-1 Kyobashi.

Facing Chuo-dori, opposite Tokyo Square Garden. In front of the highway.

　

On the exterior of the building, the word POLICE MUSEUM and the Asahi Sunsho, the symbol of the police, appear.

I was interested in how the contents of the exhibition changed.

The exhibition floor from the first floor to the fifth floor has become very bright.

　

On the first floor, police vehicles that were actually used are displayed.

There was also a children's uniform try-on corner on this floor, and it was named "Pipo-kun Hall".

　

There is a diorama of the city on the second floor, where you can experience crime prevention.

You can participate like a game and get hooked.

　

If you go around the 3rd, 4th, and 5th floors, you can learn from the history of police to activities that look forward to the future.

In the fingerprint collection section, you can experience the work of a criminal drama inspector.

The appearance of working carefully using equipment is like a chemical experiment.

　

In the police walk corner on the 5th floor, materials related to Toshiyoshi Kawaji, who built a modern police system and called the "Father of the Japanese Police", were displayed.

It is only known through novels by Ryotaro Shiba and Futaro Yamada, but various materials convey the breath of the early Meiji era.

　

　

By the way, I thought Pepo-kun was just a loose character, but I have a job properly.

On the 5th floor, there is a "Music BOX", a collection of songs related to the Metropolitan Police Department, and I heard "Pipo-kun's song" with headphones.

"Pepo, Pepo, Pepo, Pepo--kun, police officer,"

？ ？！　I'm afraid.

　

 

 

The feeling of the head (bringing part) that hits the gums is comfortable.

Is this the hair of the horse's tail?

Speaking of the tail, it's supple strength to hit the noisy flies.

It is a delicate softness that overturns that image.

Animal hair is used for brushes and clothes brushes.

Anything that touches the skin is hairdressing brushes and makeup brushes.

It has never been familiar as a material for toothbrushes to put in the mouth.

When I use it, I feel that it has been polished and the surface of my teeth has become smooth.

※　This is a personal impression.

　

At 2-16 Nihonbashi Daidenmacho, there is Edoya, a specialty store for brushes and brushes.

Looking forward to visiting the Chuo-ku Machikado Exhibition Hall, we visited the Edoya Collection Brush Exhibition Hall on the opening weekday.

Even if you look closely at the exterior of the store facing Otemmacho Street, it looks like a brush.

This building is designated as the registered Tangible Cultural Property of the country.

　

When entering the store, on the left and right showcases, Edo brushes, which are traditional crafts designated by the Tokyo Metropolitan Government, and materials related to brushes and brushes were displayed.

When I called out to the store, I took some of the cases and touched it.

"The oldest of these is this lacquer brush.

It is a necessity for applying lacquer to wood in the process of making lacquerware.

It's made of women's hair."

In historical dramas, etc., the figure of a rugged wife who sells her own black hair and manages her household finances is depicted, but the black hair was used not only as a wig material but also as a brush material.

"Brushes are a method of planting hair bundles on the handle, and have spread since the Meiji era.

The brush is made of hair sandwiched between boards."

When I looked at the real thing while receiving the explanation, I really understood the difference.

　

Edoya seems to have been founded in Kyoho 3 (1716).

The name of the shop was given by the ancestor who was a brush master of the Shogun family.

Speaking of the Kyoho era, isn't it the time of the 8th Shogun Yoshimune Tokugawa?

It is a long-established store that has been around for 300 years since its establishment.

Edo brushes are created from the careful handwork of craftsmen using natural materials.

The luxury that you can use the work on a daily basis in your daily life.

　

There were several bundles of hair hanging on the ceiling, which used as materials for brushes and brushes.

Surely, there are some rare materials that you can't imagine.

I'll come with my wife next time, so please let me know again.