Chuo-ku Tourism Association correspondent blog

I walked around Ginza using the recently released sightseeing map application "Tokyo Chuo-ku Town Walking Map". Even if you don't have a guidebook or a large map, it's a convenient free app that allows you to get information at hand and expand the range of use if you use a smartphone or tablet device.

Choose Ginza for the area. Follow the picture map of Mie Takahashi's fun illustration, and tap the camera mark icon where you want to see it to display photos and commentary (the photo shows the screen at Ginza 4-chome intersection). It is marked with a lot of history, sightseeing, shopping, and gourmet spots. "Matsuzakaya" in the pictorial map also has a kind comment saying, "It will be reopened in 2017 for redevelopment."

This time, when you touch the "old map", it switches to Edo Kirie map. Since it is the Owariya Seishichi version of 1849 (1849), the color is good and easy to see. If you select a normal map (standard map), you can also check the current location with location information.

If you choose the "Recommended Route" menu, "Hanagata" Ginza dance with instrumental accompaniment dance with instrumental accompaniment course", "Good luck in Ginza! ?　There are three kinds of courses, "Hachicho Shrine Tour". When you touch the course you want to walk, the route will be displayed with an arrow from the start mark and will tell you to the goal. If you try various things, it will be interesting to walk around Chuo-ku.

This time, I used an Android OS tablet terminal, which was connected to the Ginza-free Wi-Fi "G-FREE", which extended to Harumi-dori St. @ Akira Makibuchi

◇For details of this app, please visit the Tourism Association website.　>>Click here. In addition, TV public information of Chuo-ku HP "Konichichi is Chuo-ku" No.293 (broadcast on January 12-17, 2014)　>>It's also introduced here.

The community bus "Edo Bus" in Chuo-ku is a cute bus with a comical cat.

Starting from the ward office, there are two routes: the north circulation that returns around Tokyo Station, Nihonbashi, and Hamacho, and the south circulation that returns around St. Luke International Hospital, Shinkawa, Tsukuda, Harumi, and Kachidoki. There is.

The fare is 100 yen, and the service is about 1 every 20 minutes.

It is very convenient because it goes to related facilities in the ward, such as the inhabitant of a ward center and senior center, and a place slightly away from the station.

"Edo bus map" which published service route and stop, timetable of this Edo bus is distributed at ward offices, etc., but this is a little Chuo-ku guide.

In addition, the content changes every season, and during the cherry blossom season, the highlights of the cherry blossoms along the line are posted, and the one published in September last year is a stage walk map of movies, dramas, and novels. The Mitsui Main Building in Nihonbashi, which was the location of the headquarters of the Tokyo Central Bank, which appeared in Naoki Hanzawa, was also posted.

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There are many such famous places, so if you purchase a one-day ticket of 300 yen, you can easily visit Chuo-ku.

The season is the coldest time of the year, but how about going around Chuo-ku using the Edo bus instead of just staying at home?