Chuo-ku Tourism Association correspondent blog

Soon we took a walk around Tsukuda Island, where the Reitaisai festival of Sumiyoshi-jinja Shirine is located.

As you may know this time, I would like to introduce Tsukuda Tendai guardian of children and travelers.

The entrance is a narrow alley, where you may pass by inadvertently.

Yes, there is. It is famous for its ginkgo tree that runs through the roof.

It was well-cleaned, protected by the beliefs of the locals.

Nearby, there is also a museum decorated with mikoshi, where you can study the history of Tsukuda Island.

By the way, Reitaisai festival began on July 31, followed by a lion head shrine on August 1 and a boat imperial procession on August 2.

Will be done.

On Sunday, July 26, Nihonbashi Bridge washing, a summer tradition of Nihonbashi, was performed. This event is held by the famous bridge "Nihonbashi" preservation society every July, and the roads are blocked for the purpose of preserving and preserving Nihonbashi, and the bridge is washed throughout the city, including local people and people working for nearby companies. Was.

Nihonbashi is the starting point of the five highways in the Edo period, and has washed the road surface, including the "Japan Road Mark" and counts 45 times this year.

An open ceremony was held from 11:00, followed by a “Famous Water Together” in which famous waters from all over Japan were poured into the “Japan Road Original Mark” buried in the center of the bridge roadway.

First of all, three water sprinklers from the Tokyo National Land Office lined up and watered the bridge road, and participants began washing the Nihonbashi Bridge.

The signboard of "Nihonbashi" on the Metropolitan Expressway and elevated above the bridge was polished by elementary school students in a ladder truck of the Tokyo Fire Department, and finally, at the same time, both Kitazume and Minamizume were dynamically discharged with high water pressure. Was washed away.

Then the watering mill drained water and finished it.

This time, a large number of people (about 1,800 people) participated, and for about two hours, they manually removed the dirt on the bridge for one year using deck brushes and sardines.

The 68th Tsukiji Honganji Noryo Bon Dance Festival will be held on the following schedule.

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１．Date July 29 (Wednesday)-August 1 (Sat), 2015
２．Time July 29-31 from 19:00 to 21:00
・・August 1　　  　　From 18:00 to 20:30

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In addition to Bon Odori, there are stalls at Tsukiji Outer Market and nearby restaurants, where you can enjoy delicious food.

It has been selected as one of the Eight Best Night Views in Chuo-ku.

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The festival of Sumiyoshi Tsukuda-jinja Shirine

The portable shrine cruise will begin on August 1 next month.　

The people of Tsukuda who came to Edo after being asked by Ieyasu Tokugawa.

Sumiyoshi-jinja Shirine, the hometown of those people's hearts.

The festival of Sumiyoshi Tsukuda, which is held only once every three years.

A real Edo festival that lasts for hundreds of years.

It's all the locals who dig out the pillars of the banner in the water, raise the pillars of the banner, and build the torii.

Old and young, men and women always pass each other somewhere.

I'm carrying a portable shrine over there and here.

All portable shrine in each town of the octagonal portable shrine Hon-portable shrine cruises.

Why don't you become a bearer of portable shrine and participate in the festival?

For more information, please ask each neighborhood association.

　　I walked around Triton Square in the morning when it rained.

　I usually walk on something fast,

　I can't see the flowers at my feet.

　But this morning, perhaps because I had a hard time yesterday.

　I wanted to see the flowers of Triton Square for a little bit.

　The colorful flowers that are slightly wet in the rain

　　　　I'm looking toward the sky.　

Purple, lavender?　Red and white ... Petunia ... The bright red canna ...

　Looking far away

A boat enters the Asashio Canal from the Tsukishima River, heads to the Tsukuda Suimon and opens the engine fully ...

　The rainy season may continue a little longer. But my heart is hale.

　Why don't you walk Triton Square after a little rain when it rains?

The colorful flowers are waiting for you.