Chuo-ku Tourism Association correspondent blog

If you become a correspondent of the tourist association, you can experience a variety of thrills that you can't see in your daily life.

　

"Guide to areas in Chuo-ku"

This is also very rare for the general public to do this unless they are involved in the work of guide and guidance as a profession.

While walking to those who meet for the first time, convey the charm of the area.

The activity of speaking through a small mobile microphone is extraordinary for me, my chest is tightened, my heart is pounding, my head is pure white, my mouth is thirsty and I can't speak, I'm wrapped in a sense of excitement, smiles are raised in words of thanks, and makes me feel soft and warm.

Professional guides have guidance manuals, and we are taking into account the number of places where we can respond flexibly.

We correspondents also attend guide training sponsored by the tourist association and hold the flag of the lead, but extraordinary information activities are repeatedly stuck in unexpected pitfalls and collided with walls. You.

　

Last Saturday, I visited a specialty store in Tsukiji Outer Market and guided me to St. Luke Garden.

I've been listening to the story for a long time, so I had time to prepare carefully.

Where is the place where the charm of Chuo-ku can be conveyed in this area?

How do you take a route to reach your destination within the specified time?

Safe and efficient way of walking and crossing the sidewalk.

Check locations that take into account the weather, such as places that create shade, places that are hard to get wet in the rain, and buildings that are air-conditioned.

What is a trivia unique to the consumer's point of view?

What are the topics that the participants are likely to eat?

In addition to collecting information from the website, brochures of each facility were collected.

Tsukiji has been featured on TV and magazines only in the area that is now the center of various topics, and has been featured on the stage of drama.

I'll look through such things.

　

And the most important thing is to actually put yourself in the place.

Let's walk along the assumed route while measuring time.

What kind of store arrangement, what kind of clerks, selling well, what is the situation of customer line?

You can see the scenery, smell, overlapping sounds, and the feeling of touching the skin that you can see when you visit.

If you know the real sense, you can also narrow down the information you convey.

When you convert it into words, the landscape begins to emit another glow.

　

The stockbook swelled into panpans in materials.

But I was able to tell you very little.

However, it is necessary not to try to pack that, but to cut down the information you have more and more.

As you move, narrowing down to the things you see in front of you leads to an easy-to-understand guide.

Observe the participants in a good manner (including intuition) and provide the most suitable story while exchanging words.

Explore age, where you live, the number of visits to the information area, and what is appropriate for its composition ratio.

If it can be done smartly, it's a professional.

　

Arrived at the destination by time, despite being seen by an accident.

Something was interesting. I'd like to visit you again.

I would be happy if I could help you with such an encounter.

I had a good time myself.

Thank you very much.

　

 

 

How many kinds of cicadas live in Tokyo?

When the sunlight returns after the rain, the streets covered with concrete

It springs out into the trees and squeals.

Once you are concerned about it, your ears follow the sound.

　

Minminminmin

Jigie

Shashashashashasha

The sound coming down from a tall branch of a tree is a sound that represents summer.

Minminzemi, Abrazemi, bear seminar.

Ji, tsukutsukuhoshi, tsukutsukuhoshi

This cicada's squeal can be used to determine the type without mistake.

Cicada time rain is the seasonal word of summer.

Both the fall and the tray have already passed, but now is the best.

　

I went to St. Luke International Hospital in Akashicho.

The street from Tokyo Metro Tsukiji Station to St. Luke's Tower is located.

It is nicknamed "St. Luke Street".

Walk along the tree-lined road on the north side, avoiding sunlight.

Just across the Akashi Time Dome and the road is the height of the tree.

In addition, I feel like the squeals go through the sky.

Does the wall of the hospital resonate exquisitely?

There are two benches on the path.

An old aunt who avoided sunlight during a walk

I'm sitting down a little bit.

Slowly, the white hair was shaking.

If you are wrapped in trees, your heart will be shaken by the boat.

The voice of the noisy cicada seems to have changed to a survey that draws into the dream world.

　

In the early Meiji era, this neighborhood brought various artifacts as foreign settlements.

It can be said that it is a point of contact for culture.

Therefore, you can see a lot of monuments and commentary boards.

The roots of mission schools in Tokyo were also concentrated in this area.

I've been praying at Toysler Hall in St. Luke Hospital.

It is a place of prayer for patients and a hospital chapel where many lectures are held.

If you sit quietly on a chair, you will feel calm.

Can anyone enter the room?

It's okay if you don't have time for worship.

I myself am a plain Buddhist.

 

 

In the large main hall, the voice of prayer overlaps and resonates high and low.

The sound that springs up shakes the air and enhances the feeling.

"Nanmaidabu, Nanmaidabu, Minamimu Amida Buddha,"

　

On July 7, the 25th Specialist of the Jodo Shinshu Honganji school will visit Tsukiji Honganji.

I knew that there was the ceremony in a newspaper advertisement, and I wanted to visit.

In the game set in the Warring States period, the play character was set to "Honanji" and often confronted the powerful Nobunaga army, which was somewhat familiar.

The trigger was Ryotaro Shiba's "Shigie Sonichi".

One of the leaders of the Saiga Shu, a gun skill group in Sengoku.

It is the main unit of the Battle of Ishiyama that suffered Nobunaga the most.

Attracted by the turbulent warload of the Warring States period, I visited the footprints of Magoichi Saiga and walked through Waka Yamanomachi with a paperback book.

Because there was only such a relationship, Honganji had a strong impression that it was a distant historical existence.

　

The head of Honganji. See you.

It's going on now.

The law that has been passed down from time to time.

I wanted to be present at the venue so that I could be brought back from virtual to real.

　

"Yeah. I would like to visit, can I come in?"

In front of the front door of the main hall, he spoke to Buddhist monk, standing in a defensive manner.

"Please come in."

He gave a smile and urged him to enter the hall.

"There's still a seat in front of you."

At the announcement, I was dressed in casual clothes, but I went to the front row with a puzzle.

　

The hall is lit up brightly.

It seems that the golden glow conveys the remnants of Momoyama culture.

The movements of the Buddhist monk were as if they were watching the Noh stage.

Slid and splendid foot handling that keeps your posture dignified.

The practice of training included in every step.

A prayer that has been passed down for several centuries.

　

Near the end of the ceremony, there was a chorus accompanied by a pipe organ.

I was surprised by the hymn of the Christian church.

The soft voices of the people in main hall overlapped with the sound of 2,000 large and small pipes.

　

Tsukiji Honganji Temple was designated as a National Important Cultural Property in 2014 (26).

Rather than being limited to cultural property tours, I felt respectful of working every day and conducting traditional events, and felt closer than ever.

　

There was a morning market in the square in front of main hall, where I bought fresh cucumbers and cherries.

　

 

 

When I find a wooden Machiya architecture in the valley of a building, it seems that only the port and its surroundings are reminiscent of the scent of the times, so I feel nostalgic.

On the day I found such a building in the tsuji corner of Ginza and Nihonbashi, I was impressed that I often survived many trials and stayed in my figure.

　

The storm of ground-raising during the period of earthquake, war, and high economic growth.

For buildings that have no means to move, there is no choice but to endure.

What remains in this way is surely a proof that the extraordinary thoughts of the owners are poured in.

　

A panel exhibition of modern buildings remaining in Chuo-ku will be held until Sunday, July 3 at the inhabitant gallery of Chuo-ku Folk Tenmonkan <Time Dome Akashi>.

I was waiting for this project.

Certainly, a building that I had seen somewhere, but did not know the clear location.

It's an opportunity to meet again.

There are 23 panels on display.

From Machiya architecture to building architecture. From the Meiji period to around 1965.

Buildings with a variety of building materials, structures, and designs have been built in the ward.

It is a variety of unique to "the middle of Tokyo in Hana" and pays tribute to the existence of it.

　

If you look only at the photos of the panel, you can go around the venue in one minute.

But it was something I was looking forward to, so I took a closer look.

Mainly photos of the building itself.

1. Characteristics of the building

2. Episodes related to buildings

3. Building information (location, year of foundation, structure / scale, use, carpenter, etc.)

4. Photographs (internal photographs of buildings, detailed designs, status of use, etc.)

But it's included in one piece.

In the episode, attention points when facing the building are summarized, and the parts that had been overlooked without notice until then seem to spread clearly in front of you.

　

A print of "Glossary" was prepared on the desk in the venue.

An easy-to-understand explanation of the building terms and people related to the building described on the panel are described.

If you look at the panel together with the print, even if you are a beginner of architecture, you can fully understand the highlights.

And I'm happy with the pamphlet that is also available.

There are 23 building photos, and there is also a map showing the location of each building.

It seems that you can get to the target building without hesitation.

　

On the wall of the passage in front of the gallery at the venue, a panorama picture scroll depicting Ginza Street after the earthquake was posted.

Each of the finely drawn buildings looked lively.

 

 

It's still in May, but a series of summer days. When you walk around the city, you get sweaty.

Get off at Shin-Koshinzuka Station on the Toden Arakawa Line and cross the Hakusan-dori St. along the track to the north.

When you see the letters "Oiwadori Shopping Association" (Nishi-Sugamo, Toshima-ku) on the sign that you saw casually

"Really!　I wonder if there is this in my heart.

Speaking of Iwa-sama, the main character of the summer classic "Tokaido Yotsuya Kaidan" that cannot be pushed or pushed.

Making full use of the skills polished by the hands of successive masters, the powerful spiritual power will be displayed vertically and horizontally on the stage and on the screen. Japan horror is booming, but it is undoubtedly reigned at the top of Japan as an entity associated with "Kaidan".

If possible, I don't want to be involved personally.

However, the local people have a deep connection and are revered as a place of heart, so the funky naming in such a good sense continues.

It's just the border of rock.

　

The fact that there is "Oiwa Inari Tamiya Shrine" at Shinkawa 2-chome, Chuo-ku has been mentioned in the correspondent blog before.

On this occasion, I went around Yotsuya, Shinjuku-ku, Shinkawa, Chuo-ku, and Nishi-Sugamo, Toshima-ku, to visit related shrines and temples.

In the early Edo period, there was a family Tamiya family in the Kumiyashiki in Yotsuya Samoncho.

Speaking of the family at that time, he was forced to live a very poor life, as shown in the umbrella-covered inner work.

Under such circumstances, the wise woman who prospered the Tamiya family is Iwasama.

The Yashikigami, which the rock worshiped, was later called "Iwaine-ri" and became the guardian angel of the wives of the family and other unfortunate women.

Based on such tradition, the fourth generation Nanboku Tsuruya creates a masterpiece. When Kabuki was performed during the Bunka and Bunsei era (1825), it gained explosive popularity, and visitors came up.

　

Yotsuya Oiwa Inari Tamiya Shrine.

The approach from Yotsuya Sanchome Station on the Tokyo Metro will be the closest.

The red flag fluttered, and the strange atmosphere of the original was softened.

Those who come in groups, those who come alone, those who come together.

Oh, two.　I have an image of an edge cut, is it okay?

Prosperity of business, safety of the house, improvement of entertainment, and marriage. etc。

Somehow, all-mighty merits and benefits are brought to you.

Do you feel like it's a spiritual test Arata?

　

On the opposite side of the road of Yotsuya Samoncho, there is a temple in Nichiren sect called Choshozan Younji.

It is a temple founded in the early Showa era, but a wooden statue of a rock is enshrined in the main hall.

There is also a well related to rocks in the precincts.

On the first day of every month except January and August, "Oiwasama Good luck prayer festival" is held, and you can refresh your mind and body through meditation.

　

Around 1879, Oiwa Inari Tamiya Shrine in Shinkawa, Chuo-ku was transferred to Echizen digging, which is said to be the property of the first Sadanji Ichikawa.

At that time, it was close to the playhouse, and it was said that it was crowded with visitors from the Hanayanagi world and performing arts.

"Baiduishi", a registered cultural property of Chuo-ku, was dedicated by the fourth generation Udanji Ichikawa.

Sadanji Ichikawa and Udanji Ichikawa tend to be confused. This is an arrangement point for sightseeing certification.

　

There is a grave of Iwasama at Chotokuyama Myogyoji Temple in Nishisugamo.

It was founded in 1624 and moved from Yotsuya in 1909.

　

Temples and shrines related to the story also visited directly and unraveled the origins, and the transition came to be seen.

Behind this, I felt the wishes and thoughts of the people, supported by the popular “Yotsuya Kaidan” boom and the deep religion.

In the precincts of Oiwa Inari, when a girl with a family suddenly clung to her mother's feet saying "mother", a cold thing flowed through her back.

I must have seen it with a spider. A spider.

　

 

 

"Okay,"

Yeah. That's all?

Where are you now and what kind of situation are you?

Are you at work? Are you on your way home? Did you return to the hotel?

Water, food, electricity, gas?

There's a shortage of information just because it's okay!

 

On April 14, a series of Kumamoto-Kyushu earthquakes from night.

I thought my eldest son was in Hakata, and when I emailed worried, I was on a business trip to Kumamoto.

If you send an email again to let us know the situation, there is no response.

Only one word was finally returned.

"Really ... I only knew it was a situation where I could send e-mails.'

 

The next day, I purchased the disaster prevention book "Tokyo Disaster Prevention" at a bookstore.

Edited and published by the Disaster Prevention Management Division, General Disaster Prevention Department, Tokyo Metropolitan Government.

There are a variety of cooperation and sources, including the Tokyo Fire Department.

I knew the existence of the book.

Black letters on yellow ground.

"Let's do it now. Everything to protect yourself from disasters. Tokyo Disaster Prevention

In the past, even when I picked it up, I returned it to the original shelf saying "I almost know what I knew."

Now, I was driven by the impulse to read back and turned the page at once.

The summary is summarized in an easy-to-understand manner.

In the "Review Quiz", knowledge is devised so that the body can be further penetrated.

Price, 130 yen plus consumption tax.

The content that is so valuable is compactly woven, and it is excellent.

Sticky notes were attached to the life reconstruction support system and disaster response yellow pages.

 

From Yurakucho Station, head toward Ginza and head to Sukiyabashi intersection.

"KOBAN" made of pointed roof and brick is Tsukiji Police Station Sukiyabashi police box.

At the end of the sidewalk, there is a statue "Lighthouse" by Seibo Kitamura.

It is a work filled with the power of a young man wearing a helmet and raising a torch to obey the lion.

It was installed as a memorial tower 10 years after the Great Kanto Earthquake of 1923.

On the pedestal, the slogan "Preparation for unexpected earthquakes" is written.

 

It leads to the words of Torahiko Terada, "Natural disasters come when you forget them."

At that time, I want to make full use of my knowledge and be prepared to move my body.