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The center of commerce Chuo-ku There are many lively shopping streets in Japan.

Correspondents visit, see, and hear the shopping streets that are loved by the locals, prospered with the residents, and familiar to them. It conveys the lively charm and vitality, special information, etc. Chuo-ku This is the 17th "correspondent's Shopping Street Visit" that introduces the shopping associations and shopping streets.

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◎Correspondent Visit to Shopping Street (17th)◎

amazake Yokocho Store Association, a nostalgic city with new discoveries

 

amazake Yokocho is the street that goes east along the middle of Ningyocho-dori toward Meijiza.

As the name was known throughout Japan in the TV drama "Newcomer" last year.

 On March 9, we asked Mr. amazake Yokocho Store Association at 2-chome Nihonbashi Ningyocho.

Mr. Seiji Sasaki of Sasaki liquor store, chairman of the store association, met happily while he was busy.

Sasaki liquor store has been founded in 1914 for 100 years.

 

Ｑ：　Could you tell me about the history of the store association?

Chairman:　At first, it was for collecting streetlights installed on the street. Then, in 1982, when the streetlights became under the jurisdiction of the ward, we formed the "amazake Yokocho Fellowship". The Federation is the 31or 32nd member of the Association in 2009, so it is a newcomer as a society.

 

 

Ｑ：　Please tell me the area of the store association and the number of members.

Chairman:　In 2009, there were 63 shops on both sides of the street from Ningyocho Dori to Hamachogawa Ryokudo.

Last year, we entered the street from Hamacho Ryokudo to Kiyosubashi-dori (here is Hamacho 2-chome), which is an extension of the street, and became 69 stores.

 

 

Ｑ：　What is the classification of shops?

Chairman:　Is there about half of shops related to food and drinks, and half of miscellaneous goods and clothing? As you can see if you walk, you can meet a shop that is very varied.

 

 

Ｑ：　I think there are a lot of historical shops.

Chairman:　Iwai Tsuzura store is the oldest on this street. It was from the end of the Edo period.

There are many shops from the Meiji era to the Taisho era, including Shino Tasushi (1877).

 

 

Ｑ：　How about the customer's layer?

Chairman:　Ningyocho, Suitengu, and Meijiza customers often visited, so if anything, the elderly were the center, but the effect of last year's TV drama "Newcomer" increased the number of young people . There are many people who come from Hokkaido or Kansai area. In addition, many people from China (homeland), Taiwan and Korea are also visible. The power of TV is amazing.

 

 

Ｑ：　Could you tell me the appeal of the shopping street?

Chairman:　The shops on this street are mainly private shops, so each shop is working hard and demonstrating its individuality to excite the city. As a result, it is loved by everyone as a town where you can feel nostalgic, relax and heal your heart.

 

 

Ｑ：　Please let me know if there are any events that will be held in this shopping street soon.

Chairman:　Every year, the cherry blossom festival is held as a store association.

This year, we are planning to serve you in amazake on March 27.

Also, those who get a fortune ticket at the store association can have a fun fortune.

Please join us.

The place is from 11:00 to 13:00 at the statue of Benkei on the Green Road.

Let's take a look at the poster.

 

By the way, the chairman's cherry blossom forecast information this year seems to be March 25!

 

 

Ｑ：　Finally, please tell us your future aspirations and passions.

Chairman:　First of all, in terms of infrastructure development, Ningyocho-dori and Kiyosubashi-dori have been completely cleaned up, so next is amazake Yokocho-dori. I would like to ask the mayor and related departments.

Regarding the activities of the store association, I would like to take from the current "line" to the activities in the "face" including Ningyocho and Hamacho. The Sky Tree will be completed soon, and Akihabara is near, so I would like to consider an approach to attracting tourists.

In terms of culture and history, Matsutaro Kawaguchi's "Meiji Ichidai Woman" is appealing that this is the main family, and I would like to make monuments related to it on the green path, the site of the Hamacho River. (On the road along the Sumida River from Ryogoku Bridge to Hamacho Park, there is a signpost of "Hamacho Riverside Street", but it is.)

However, for the whole city, I would like to leave the atmosphere of the downtown area.　

 

 Sweeping

A wealth of experience and knowledge, such as the Hamacho River on the day, Rikidoyama Jim, movie theaters, and vaudeville, were presented one after another, and I forgot the passage of time. I'm sorry that I can't introduce you.

I had a good time interacting with Mr. Sasaki's rough personality.

I would like to thank you again for the further development of the amazake Yokocho Store Association.

Thank you very much.

 

 

 

The center of commerce Chuo-ku There are many lively shopping streets in Japan.

Correspondents visit, see, and hear the shopping streets that are loved by the locals, prospered with the residents, and familiar to them. It conveys the lively charm and vitality, special information, etc. Chuo-ku This is the 16th "correspondent's Shopping Street Visit" that introduces the shopping associations and shopping streets.

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◎Correspondent Visit to Shopping Street (16th)◎

This year, [Kan YEAR Year] / Muromachi Odorikai

 

The Nihonbashi area has been bustling and developed as the most popular downtown area since the Edo period.

Located in the Nihonbashi Kitazume area, Nihonbashi Muromachi area is home to long-established and companies from that time.

You have put it together

Muromachi Odori-kai: Yamamoto "Muromachi Odorikai" is a compilation of that: Mr. Yasuto Yamamoto, Executive Vice President of Yamamoto-noriten, Inc. (* The character of the chairman's name "Thailand" is officially the kanji "water" with the head of "self" in the "volume".)

Q： When did you start your business?
Chairman: I guess it's around 1955 ... yes, 1960.

Q： What is the range of "Muromachi Odorikai"?
Chairman: 1-chome (pointing the map) is here, right? 2-chome is this, 3-chome is here, but it is not very active now, but it is up to 4-chome. 1-chome was originally called "Muromachi 1-chome-kai", and the association itself is also a member of "Muromachi Odori-kai".

Q： It's really the center of commerce that has been around since the Edo period.
Chairman: Well, it was also the center of finance. The current Bank of Japan was originally "Koza", and there are still many financial industries in this area.
I wonder if such a flow of finance and the development of commerce are also related.
The Mitsui Kimono Store (now Mitsukoshi) also started from the kimono store, and the financial industry (former Mitsui Bank, former Mitsui Trust Bank) started.
 
Q： Even though I grew up in Kyushu, there are large shops (Odana) with the name of a store that I have been used to since I was a child, but which is the oldest store?
Here, the chairman himself said, "Somewhere ...", [Toto norenkai] = a meeting where 53 long-established stores with a history of more than 100 years, founded in Tokyo from Edo to the early Meiji era = I brought a member list.
Chairman: ・・ ・ For example, "Senbikiya Sohonten", here is 1834 (Tenbo 5), of which ("Yamamoto-noriten") is 1849 (Kaei 2), and "Shigeru" is 1688 (Genroku Gen), and "Kuroeya" beyond that street is 1689 (Genroku 2). "Eitaro" Mr. ... 1857 (Ansei 4), "Haibara" was 1806 (Culture 3). There is a fan called "Ibasen" behind it, but it was during the Tensho era (1573-1592).
"Ninben" is also more than 300 years in 1699 (Genroku 12).
　

　

 

Q： Not only in the 1800s, there are many long-established stores that have been around for a long time.
Chairman: Around Muromachi Odori, there are only shops that belong to the members of the Toto Norenkai, so if you look at it as a whole, there may be older shops. I'll give you this (and I got a list of members of "Toto norenkai").

Q： Not only marine products, but also various things were sold.
Chairman: In the Edo period, there was a fish shore in Kitazume, Nihonbashi, and this area was surrounded by many rivers and moats, where marine products and specialty products from all over the country were gathered. I guess the business has also developed because it is the knee of Edo Castle.

Q： Do you have any unique events or services of "Muromachi Odorikai"?
Chairman: I don't think I'm doing it as a whole.

Q： Nihonbashi is "Nihonbashi Tour" (http://www.ninben.co.jp/meguri/), historic sites and remain tours, "Consortiums" (http://www.edo-tokyo.info/) In the fall, the Chuo-ku Tourism Association's "City Walking Tour" is sponsored by various groups, and all of which seem to be popular.
Chairman: I don't do it in particular, but one of the biggest business involved in the business is the Nihonbashi / Kyobashi Festival, which is held every fall.
A parade walks between Nihonbashi and Kyobashi.
At first, a rickshaw started led by the mayor, and there were brass bands such as elementary schools and girls' halls in the city, Awa Odori ...

Q： Yes, I know!
Chairman: There seems to be a "Korean Communications Envoy", which seems to have been going on since Hideyoshi's era, and it seems that during the Edo era it was also for audiences with Shoguns.
For the past few years, we have received entries from women wearing kimonos, and have them go to a parade or take a commemorative photo in front of the Bank of Japan. Recently, there are few opportunities to wear kimonos, so I would like to offer you a little opportunity to wear them. Nihonbashi is a place where the culture of [Japanese] is strong.
I've been doing this festival about 38 times more, but "Muromachi Odorikai" and "Chuo Odorikai" on the Kyobashi side cooperate. Every other year, the chairman of the executive committee and the vice chairman are replaced. Last year, "Chuo Odorikai" was the chairman of the executive committee, so this year I am "Muromachi Odorikai" chair.
That's why this is the biggest annual business of Muromachi Odorikai http://www.nikkyo.net/hyottoko/index.html (2010 Oedo Kazuki Parade)

Q： Speaking of the event ... It will be celebrating the [100th anniversary of the bridge] after Nihonbashi became Ishibashi on April 3rd.
Chairman: That's right. In April, you can have a [dock] at the end of Nihonbashi.

 Chairman: On April 2, "Nihonbashi boat boarding" was called "Koedo" in Tochigi City, Katori City in Chiba Prefecture, Kawagoe City in Saitama Prefecture, etc., but in the past it was connected by water transportation . From there, there is a [Boat Transportation Festival] that arrives at Nihonbashi's dock by boat and sells special products that have been carried to reproduce [Nihonbashi Fish Bank].
Shimanekan There are antenna shops such as "Nara Mahorobakan" and Yamagata Prefecture ... "locally grown and consumed" or [counter traffic city] that collects things from various places.
The parade on the 3rd starts with a tape cut by a family of three generations of parents and children who have both couples. And the shrine came out. Classic cars will come out, and more than 40 sets of armor corps will come out from Kawagoe.

Q： The mikoshi is still from the Sanno Festival or Kanda festival.
Chairman: Yeah. I'm representative of shrine parishioners of Kanda Myojin.
Q： Is this [100th anniversary of the bridge] event scheduled to be held throughout this year?
Chairman: Yes, I'll do this year as "Year".
It has a great meaning to be able to do this [dock].
There are many requests to "use it." Around Asakusa, it will be possible to tour such as the Sky Tree that can be done next year.
However, because the water depth of the Nihonbashi River is shallow, large boats cannot enter. In the past when there were no highways, there were 60 to 70 docks around here. That's why I went to Asakusa in about 30 minutes. I'd like to revive this kind of thing by boat on the side of Senso-ji Temple.
Q： By all means, I hope you will come back!
Chairman: Every year at the end of July [Bridge Wash], this year we are thinking of a big event for this day (I've heard a little plan, but it seems that it's still secret ... I'm sorry).
April [100th Anniversary of Bridge] Details of events and other events ...
http://www.nihonbashi-meikyou.jp/ (Nonbashi “Nihonbashi” Preservation Society)

Q： [Bridge washing] The Nihonbashi Preservation Society is hosted by the Nihonbashi Preservation Society, but what kind of interaction do you have with Muromachi Odorikai?

Chairman: This [100th anniversary of the bridge] event is mainly held by the Nihonbashi Preservation Society, and there is also the Nihonbashi Renaissance Committee, and I am also a director of both.
Well, there are many businesses that focus on such places.

http://www.nihonbashi-renaissance.com/ (Nihonbashi Renaissance Committee)

Q： Finally, could you tell us about the appeal of "Muromachi Odorikai"?
Chairman: Well ... it's a parade of [Nihonbashi / Kyobashi Festival]! This year, I am the chairman of the executive committee and [100th anniversary of the bridge]!
There are plenty of events in particular this year, so please look forward to it! I guess.
Q： Thank you very much for your precious time during your busy schedule today.

＝Edit postscript =
He served as chairman of "Muromachi Odorikai", director of "Namabashi" Nihonbashi "preservation society" and "Nihonbashi Renaissance Committee", and was involved in the operation of "MetroLink" and cooperated with organizations that organize various tours. Please cooperate with events hosted by Chuo-ku ...
Nihonbashi Muromachi, Nihonbashi district ... No, for Chuo-ku, Chairman Yamamoto himself, of course, felt how great the existence of "Muromachi Odorikai" and each group involved was. Was.

In addition to my lack of study, I also talked about uncoordinated questions that fly here and there, with a gentle glance and carefully one by one (sometimes, go to a separate room to get materials). Was.

I wrote a booklet about the correspondent blog of the previous year. If you bring "Chuo-ku", "Oh, our house is listed! It's Kitty's can." (Mapo ☆'s article) and I was very pleased. In order to convey such a friendly personality, I wrote it in a form that does not overly edit the words as much as possible.

There was no omission in the example, and the time I received was quite over, but 15 minutes later, "Let's guide the store if it's about 5 minutes away!" Although there was a plan, I was guided to the store on the 1st floor.

I was so honored to meet you, but I was filled with gratitude and excitement.

Thank you very much.

(At the end, when I took a picture of the person himself, he said, "Please put it small." I'm going to make it as small as possible while having a desire to introduce it to everyone (pictured at the beginning)! Mr. Yamamoto, please forgive me ...)
At a later date, I will post the information of "Yamamoto-noriten" on "Corresist Blog".