Chuo-ku Tourism Association correspondent blog

This year, cherry blossoms were in full bloom in various parts of Tokyo earlier than usual.

Around Tsukuda Island, where the Sumida River branches off from the Harumi Canal, there are many cherry blossom viewing spots in parks on the super embankment.

At night, in addition to the illuminated cherry blossoms, you can enjoy the waterside scenery of the lights of buildings, ships passing through the Sumida River, and shining bridges.

The monument at the site of the Ishikawajima Lighthouse in Tsukuda Park is also lit.

It imitates a nightlight built in 1886 by Junji Shimizu, a magistrate of Hitoshishoba.

You can see the Sky Tree in the upper reaches of the Sumida River.

At this time, "Sakura Special Lighting" was held, and it was colored with two types of light-ups, "Saki" and "Mai", which were switched every 15 minutes.

Every year, the cherry blossoms, which welcome people who start a new life in Tokyo in April, will fall off the people who leave Tokyo in March this year?

 

 

Toyomi Bridge is the area where the Nihonbashi River and the Sumida River merge, connecting Shinkawa, Chuo-ku and Hakozaki-cho.
It's a rather short bridge, but the design that looks like a ladder is impressive.

In spring, this area is also colored with cherry blossoms.
On this day, I was able to see the flowers that bloomed earlier than the cherry blossoms nearby.

In the daytime, the white steel frame shines in the blue sky is beautiful.
However, the Toyomi Bridge at night is lit up and turns into a very fantastic appearance.

Nearby is the Eitai Bridge.

Both today's Toyomi Bridge and Eitai Bridge were erected as reconstruction bridges after the Great Kanto Earthquake.
I felt that the powerful modeling and beautiful brilliance of the bridge contained the thoughts of people for reconstruction at that time.


 

 

[Sine Patos]
Ginza's only masterpiece theater will close at the end of March this year.
I've never been to a famous painting seat.
It's a good opportunity, so I decided to go to see "The Story of Love in Ginza".
It is also close to the glittering Ginza 4-chome intersection.

The name of the movie theater is "Sine Patos".
Seen from the outside, is it half underground? A pedestrian passage? It's like that.

[Miharabashi Underground Shopping Center]
In fact, there is a movie theater in an old underground shopping mall called Miharabashi Underground Shopping Center.
The underground shopping mall crosses under Harumi-dori St., and the Tokyo Metro Hibiya Line runs below.


[Sanjuma Horikawa]
Originally, this was the place where Horikawa was thirty.
It is a river from the Kyobashi River (now near Shinkyobashi Exit) to the Shiodome River, and was named because it was about 30 spaces (about 55m).

Sanjuma Horikawa was reclaimed in 1952, but one of the bridges over the river, the space under Mihara Bridge, was left as an underground shopping mall.
( Later, the Tokyo Metro Hibiya Line will pass further down the underground shopping mall.)