Chuo-ku Tourism Association correspondent blog

There is a Sukiyabashi police box facing the Sukiyabashi intersection where Sotobori-dori St. and Harumi-dori St. intersect.

The outer wall is made of bricks associated with Ginza Brick Street in Meiji period. It was difficult to decide on this police box with an impressive pointed roof and the design of the roof, and when I was stuck with a waiting needle on the model of the police box, it was adopted as the design of the police box roof as it was.

Next to this police box, there is "Hagure Sakura" and a statue of a squatting girl at the base (author: Yuzo Iwata) at the base.

Is "Hagurekko" related to the police box, or from "Hagure Sakura" standing as if only one was peeled off, did you build a statue of "Hagurekko" according to its name? I don't know if the cherry blossoms were named "Hagure Sakura" because "Hagurekko" was built at the base, so I don't know how many of the cherry blossoms were named "Hagure Sakura". It may be a product of imagination.

In this same space, beautiful plants of Christmas rose are blooming. It is strange that Christmas rose blooms during the cherry blossom season, but unlike the name, Christmas rose has many varieties that bloom in spring. Also, the petals look like sepals, the so-called flowering season is quite long.

That's why it was the Sukiyabashi intersection, spring scenery.

By the way, "Hagure Sakura" was still blooming for a minute (as of the afternoon of March 28).

 

 

In the past, a second-class river called Tsukiji River flowed around Tsukiji and poured into Tokyo Bay. Is it better to say that it came to be called the Tsukiji River.)

Most of them are now reclaimed, highways, parking lots, and culverts.

On the other hand, the bridge over the Tsukiji River has its name, but the adjacent small space is a park.

　(weeping cherry tree in Tsukiji River Park, March 28)

　(Yoshino cherry tree of Tsukiji River Saijobashi Park, March 28)

Finally, the season is spring production, so the park from 1 to 5 on the map below I walked and saw the highlights of the cherry blossoms planted in the park that leaves the name of the Tsukiji River and the bridge.

By the way, all the photos on the left are taken on the afternoon of March 21, and the right is taken on the afternoon of March 28.

Comments are also as of March 28.

１．Tsukiji River Park (10-2 Akashicho)

About 30 bottles such as Yoshino cherry tree. It varies from bloom to full bloom. The weeping cherry tree is in full bloom.

２．Tsukiji River Kamei Bridge Park (1-6-1 Tsukiji)

About 10 such as Yoshino cherry tree in a park near Chuo-ku government office. It blooms five minutes

３．Tsukiji River Shukubashi Park (1-11-13 Tsukiji)

About 10 such as Yoshino cherry tree. It seems that the flowering is the most delayed here because it blooms in two minutes.

４．Tsukiji River Saijobashi Park (Ginza 6-18-1)

At the back of Shimbashi Enbujo, less than 10 such as Yoshino cherry tree. It blooms for seven minutes

５．Tsukiji River Sendai Bridge Park (5-1-1 Tsukiji)

kawazu-zakura, Fugenzo and weeping cherry tree are small parks adjacent to Ginza Junior High School. kawazu-zakura has finished blooming and leaves. Hugen elephants are still buds. weeping cherry tree blooms five minutes

I felt that there was a variation in the flowering situation for each park and the cherry tree.

However, by the time this blog appears, Sakura will be more beautiful in each park and will be in full bloom.

　(weeping cherry tree of Tsukiji River Sendai Bridge Park, March 28)

 

 

[After first refuses to be maniac.]

Do you know this red triangle place in Chuo-ku?

If you expand it, it will be like this.

The red triangle place is the only place in Chuo-ku "inside" of the Yamanote Line, if you use the expressions "inside" and "outside" of the Yamanote Line. It's 4-chome Nihonbashi Honishicho. By the way, one side of this red triangle is the trace of the Ryuka River, which once flowed into the Nihonbashi River (it became the border between Chuo-ku and Chiyoda-ku).

The part surrounded by greenery is Chuo-ku, the only place where trains run on the ground.

Here, the JR Yamanote Line, Keihin Tohoku Line, Chuo Main Line, Tohoku / Joetsu Shinkansen run side by side. By station name, it's between JR Tokyo Station and Kanda Station.

And when I take a picture of this triangular place from the window of the running train, it looks like this.

The road is Sotobori-dori St., and the high speed at the left end is the Kanda Bridge Junction, where the Metropolitan Expressway Toshin Beltway and the Metropolitan Expressway Yaesu Line meet, and the Nihonbashi River flows below it.

Conversely, when you take a Yamanote line from a triangular location, it looks like this.

The place where I took the picture above is here.

Of course, there is no train station on the ground in Chuo-ku (although there are many stations under the ground).

That doesn't mean you don't have to be fooled.

In Chuo Ward, there are Nihonbashikodenmacho and Nihonbashiodenmacho, which have been the center of land transportation since the Edo period, leaving the name of the traditional Japanese transportation system and the Ekiden horse system (no very persuasive).

 

 

　　　　　Thank you, Daishi still knows the rocky shadow of the mountains of Takano.

At Nihonbashi Takashimaya, from March 5th, an exhibition of art works dedicated to Mt. Koya-san since the Meiji era, entitled "The Beauty of Prayer at Mt. Koya-san commemorating the 1200th anniversary of its founding" has been held. I stopped by on my way home from work.

This year, 2015 marks the 1200th anniversary of Kobo Daishi Kukai opened a dojo in Esoteric Buddhism on Mt. Koya-san.

At the venue, works dedicated by famous artists such as Tashi Moriya, Tatsuo Takayama, Buzan Kimura, Tessai Tomioka, and Denchu Hirakushi were exhibited, and many works of art given by the Imperial Family were also exhibited.

This is the "Statue of Kobo Daishi" by Shotetsu Takaya. The real thing is very big.

In this exhibition, for the first time, 12 faces of paintings on sliding-door panel from okudono Kongomine-ji Temple, which was created by Chinami Nakajima of Japanese painting in 1200, were exhibited.

At the venue, four paintings on sliding-door panel sides were arranged to surround the viewer from three sides, and "invention to show" was made.

This is the "Sakurama shohekiga" (part).

The event will be held from Thursday, March 5 to 16 (Mon).

The venue is the 8th floor hall of Nihonbashi Takashimaya.

Admission time is from 10:00 am to 7:30 pm, but the last day is 5:30 pm

When I went out of Nihonbashi Takashimaya, headed north along Chuo-dori, crossed Nihonbashi, and came to the Mitsukoshi Main Store, and saw the cherry blossoms paintings on sliding-door panel, where the building was lit up with cherry blossoms.

I didn't expect anything at all, so I felt like I had gained something.

In this season when the cold began to calm down, the evening's sightseeing without purpose is also good.

 Click here for the website of Nihonbashi Takashimaya

　⇒　http://www.takashimaya.co.jp/tokyo/event/syousai.html?id=4144