Chuo-ku, which has been developed as a cultural and economic center since the Edo period, has various historical sites, including nationally designated important cultural properties. Chuo-ku has been developed mainly as a commercial area, but this time I would like to visit historical sites related to industry. Since the Meiji Industrial Revolution Heritage of Japan was registered in World Heritage in 2015, it has become widely known that industrial facilities are also registered in World Heritage, but in foreign countries (Austria, India, Spain, etc.), active railways and bridges have been registered in World Heritage. In Chuo-ku, there are Eitai Bridge, which is recognized as a civil engineering heritage, and Kachidokibashi, which boasts the uniqueness as the best movable bridge in the East, but this bridge, Harumi Iron Bridge.
From Triton Square in Harumi, take Harumi-dori St. toward the Toyosu district and cross the Harumi Bridge over the Harumi Canal. The Harumi Railway Bridge is hanging to the south side of the Harumi Bridge. In contrast to the new Harumi Bridge and the high-rise condominiums of Toyosu, rusted arches and concrete bridges show impact, but this is made in 1957 as the Harumi Line of the Port and Harumi Line of the Tokyo Metropolitan Government in 1957, and is linked to the Japanese National Railways via the harbor railway network.
[Tokyo Freight Railway Line Network Map] Provided by Tokyo Port and Harbor Promotion Association, Tokyo Minatokan
The Toyosu area, which had already been redeveloped earlier, was originally a shipyard of Ishikawajima Harima Heavy Industries (IHI), but in the Harumi 2-chome area on the opposite bank, the original dedicated lines, sheds and cement factories were gradually removed, and now it is being reborn as a high-rise apartment, Harumi Rinkai Park, etc.
In the first year of 1989 (1989), the Harbor Bureau Harumi Line closed a history of only 32 years due to the conversion of freight transportation to trucks, but the Harumi Railway Bridge still remains due to the cost of removal. I am.
[Tokyo Freight Railway Harumi Railway Bridge] Provided by Tokyo Port and Harbor Promotion Association, Tokyo Minatokan
Of course, this bridge is not used at present because the freight line has been abolished, but from a global perspective, there are many cases where such a historic bridge has been reborn as a tourist attraction, along with the adjacent Harumi Park, It is a historic site that symbolizes the capital city of Chuo-ku and wants to keep it as a heritage that tells the history of Harumi Wharf. At the site of the Ishikawajima Shipyard in Toyosu on the opposite bank, the original shipbuilding crane is lit up in LaLaport, a commercial facility built on the site, making it a tourist attraction (the situation can be seen from Chuo-ku). ). Many cultural properties currently registered in World Heritage have revived their potential value through local efforts, such as the ruins of St Paul Temple in Macao and the Sitho monastery in France.
[Tokyo Freight Railway Harumi Wharf Station] Provided by Tokyo Port and Harbor Promotion Association, Tokyo Minatokan
The photo below shows Harumi Ohashi, which was taken from the boat at the museum. It was a thrilling cruise that passed through the bottom of the girder.
[Harumi Railway Bridge]
〒104-0053 Harumi Bridge Nishizume 2-chome Harumi Bridge, Chuo-ku (Northest station: a 15-minute walk from Tsukishima Station on the Yurakucho Line and Oedo Line).
