The center of commerce
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.
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◎Correspondent Visit to Shopping Street (20th)◎
Downtown in business district / Kayabacho store association
In 270 years of Edo Taihei, facing the Nihonbashi River and the Kamejima River, Shinohashi / Heisei-dori and Eitai-dori St. run vertically and horizontally, and the Tozai Line and Hibiya Line of Tokyo Metro intersect at 10 o'clock. Kayabacho, where the atmosphere of the history and downtown remains dark.
Chairman Shinzo Tamura is an elegant five-story building.
・・What! In the outer corner of the second floor, a statue of Japanese racoon dog (Shigaraki ware) near 3m lowering the Tokuri is staring at me! ・・・
Daily necessities and cigarettes on the 1st and 2nd floors of the building (one side case with all kinds is amazing!) Handle
He is the owner of "Akasatsuya Tamura Shoten".
He is a lively and lively chairman who is unlikely to be after a major illness.
A wife who has been married for over 50 years,
The president's son greeted me with a smile.
This area is a meadow overgrown with kaya at the time of the construction of Edo Castle, and it is said that the name of the town was moved here to open up the town. It has been thriving until the 1930s as a town with many liquor stores, public baths, restaurants, especially craftsmen (carpenters, tatami shops, tin shops, Ishiya, Komaiya = plastering shops, etc.).
The store association was established around 1965 (at the time of the Tokyo Olympics), but from that time, the form of living has changed significantly due to the conversion of buildings, the development of transportation networks (roads and subways), and the closing of stock sales venues (reduction of 50,000).
Currently, shops and companies along the 2-3-chome town and Sakura-dori St. are members, but the biggest problem is the sluggish growth of participating members. Aiming to increase the number of members while gaining the understanding and support of young people and wards and cities in the future, cherishing this blessed land and environment for more than 400 years of tradition, next to the three houses next to each other, greetings from children to the elderly He also talked passionately with his son that he wanted to work on creating a "people"-centered city where everyone, from the elderly, can safely and easily.
The health method of the chairman (80 years old) learned from Dr. Hinohara (100 years old) at the International St. Luke's Hospital, who took a walk in the early morning and spent his life, and said, "The dream of realizing a healthy longevity of 100 years is a dream." It is an ale.
(By the way, Yonezo Kishigami, a 100-year-old, who began the migration of three generations of three couples at the Nihonbashi Bridge Centennial Festival, was born in Kayabacho.)
Near the Kayabacho Shopping Association, there are also the birthplace of the bank, the Kamejima River and Kameshima Bridge, Sakura-dori St., a tunnel of cherry blossoms in spring, and auxiliary shrine Hie-jinja Shrine, which became resting place of portable shrines during the Sanno Festival and Shinko Festival. Please go out.
