If you look at the map of Bunkyu's first year (1861) at hand, there is the "Gunship Training Center" at the base of the current Kachidokibashi. In 1857, a warship professor's office (later becoming a warship training center) was founded in the Tsukiji Kobusho, and became a dedicated land in the first year of Mannobu (1860). After that, it moved to Hamarikyu due to a fire, but it is a historical archeological site of the Navy following the Naval Mission in Nagasaki.
There is a monument to Naval Accounting School under Kachidokibashi, where the warship training center was located. The Navy Accounting School Building, founded in 1874, became a Navy Accounting School in 1907 and was located in Tsukiji from 1932 to the end of the war in 1945. It is said that many accountants created by this school contributed to the reconstruction of Japan after the war.
There is a monument of "Hagiyama" in front of "Uokawagishimizu Shrine" in Tsukiji Market. It is a monument commemorating the fact that people called the artificial hill of "Yuonen" where the Ministry of Naval was placed here in 1872 and the Navy flag was displayed. This is the birthplace of the naval in Japan.
Heading toward Ginza, in front of Saijobashi, behind the National Cancer Research Center, there are monuments of "Navy Barracy Dormitory" and "Navy Medical School Ruins". The Naval Training Center, founded in Tsukiji in 1869, was renamed the Naval Military Dormitory in the following three years. In 1876, it was renamed the Naval Academy and moved to Etajima, Hiroshima Prefecture in 1889, where naval education took place. After moving to Etajima, this building was used as a Naval University until it was burned down by the Great Kanto Earthquake.
The education of naval physicians began in Tsukiji in 1873 as a school building attached to the Naval Hospital. There were many changes, but until the new school building was established in 1929, we raised a number of medical personnel here as a naval medical school.
Currently, the National Cancer Center is constructing a new building and usually the entrance is closed and you can not see this monument, but you can visit it by calling a security guard.
Now, the front of Tsukiji is the Sumida River, but in the early Meiji era, it is natural that many navy facilities were here. It's also fun to think of the scenery of the past toward the Sumida River.
