Chuo-ku Tourism Association correspondent blog

Discover "Anpo persimmon" at Nihonbashi Fukushimakan MIDETTE, an antenna shop in Fukushima Prefecture facing Chuo-dori, a 1-minute walk from JR Shin-Nihonbashi Station.

I purchased it for New Year's Day

"Anpo persimmon" is a bit different from a persimmon that has just been dried.

The origin of the name "Anpo persimmon" is that the persimmon is dried in the sun was called "Amaboshi persimmon", and it has come to be called "Anpo persimmon". It seems that

It seems that by performing "sulphur fumigation" in the production process, the contents are finished half-life.

It's really soft, the pulp is juicy and sweet.

I don't know why the astringent persimmon gets so sweet, but it's delicious anyway.

It seems good for your health and I recommend it.

The website of Nihonbashi Fukushimakan MIDETTE is available.　⇒

http://midette.com/

During this time, Western Europe is a beautiful season with decorations to celebrate Christmas and New Year. I think that there are many people who usually visit Paris at the end of the year, but this year I am a little worried about terrorism. This is a story about searching for France in Chuo-ku. In Chuo-ku, there are few shops and facilities related to France, including Plantan Ginza, but today, one of them is MMM (Maison des Musées du Monde (Maison de Musées du Monde) in Ginza. I visited.

This is a cultural facility that DNP (Dainippon Printing) has been conducting as a cultural activity since 2003, providing information on museums (art galleries and museums) and displaying and selling official museum goods. Since 2013, we have been expanding our activities not only in France but also in Europe and the world, based on the concept of "living art and design around the world."

The location is near Suzuran Street on the west side of Chuo-dori and Kojunsha Street. Nearby is Kojunsha, which was established in 1880 by Keio founder Yukichi Fukuzawa as Japan's oldest social club, and has many restaurants. "Hamasaku" from Kansai Kappo cuisine, introduced by correspondent CAM in the Snow Series (7) (/archive/2015/12/post-2972.html) on December 26, is also next to it.

[Kojun Building] ⇒The facade of Kojunsha remains as part of the building.

At the entrance of the glass-walled building, Akachi has a stylish design with a signature of the three letters of MMM. I'll go inside. The first and second floors are museum shops, providing information on museums in Europe, mainly in Louvre and France, as well as exhibiting and selling museum goods. It's not a very large space, but there are French museums such as Louvre (Paris), Orsée (Paris), Versailles (Paris), Luxembourg Museum (Paris), Carvee Museum (Avignon), as well as the Clai Centre (Bern), the British Museum (London), the Tate Gallery (London), and the Vienna Museum of Fine Arts and Museum of Fine Arts in Vienna in the European Centre (Venna.

When you climb up to the third floor by elevator, you will be separated from the museum because of the art space, and there will be a special exhibition on the theme of graphic art and design. We were just holding the "Christmas Table Goods Special" (until December 25). I couldn't take photos, so I'm sorry that I couldn't tell the blog readers about it, but it was a relaxing exhibition that reflected the seasonal atmosphere.

Next, I will go to the MMM library on the first basement floor.

[MMM Library (1st basement floor)] ⇒This shooting has been approved by MMM.

While other spaces are exhibited and sold, this is a space where you can view exhibition catalogs of museums around the world and art-related materials stored by MMM. It seems to be useful to look at local art information before actually going to Paris or Europe, such as slowly looking at materials at the table or browsing multimedia software using a personal computer.

There is Ginza Graphic Gallery (ggg) along the adjacent Kojunsha Street, but it is currently closed for renovation and is scheduled to open on April 15. This is not limited to Europe such as France, but it is a place to disseminate graphic design, but it seems that activities in cooperation with MMM will also be carried out when reopening.

【MMM（Maison des Musées du Monde）】

Location 7-7-4 Ginza, Chuo-ku, 104-0061, Japan (DNP Ginza Annex)

Phone: 03-3574-2380

Business hours From 11:00 to 19:00 (Sunday holiday)

Admission fee: Free of charge

Located in Ginza 3-chome, one street from Chuo-dori, facing Matsuya Ginza, "Nonohanaji" is a specialty store of wild grass and tea flowers.

The location is on the map below, red circle.

As I mentioned in this blog before, this shop sells flowers that are not grown in fields and greenhouses, but are blooming in fields and mountains.

At this time, we asked what kind of flowers could be sold for the New Year, and were told that they were many kinds of pine trees and "mochihana" placed at the entrance of the shop.

"Mochihana" is a small red and white rice cake cut on a willow branch (Is it attached?) Sir.

There were also red and yellow "Senryo" and pheasant's eye, like New Year's Day.

For the year-end and New Year holidays, the end of the year will be open until December 30, and the beginning of the year will begin on January 4.

In addition, we received your consent regarding photography at the store.

Click here for the website of "Hanaji Nono"　⇒

http://www.nonohana-tsukasa.com/

We visited Mie Terrace, an antenna shop in Mie Prefecture, which is located in the YUITO ANNEX building at 2-chome Nihonbashi Muromachi.

The decoration inside the store is already in New Year's mode.

In Mie Prefecture, there are many specialty products such as Matsusaka beef, but there was a product made from Japanese spiny lobster at the center of the product display that makes you feel the New Year.

Japanese spiny lobster is used as a New Year's decoration by putting it on the New Year's kagami mochi.

In the first place, the etymology of the name Japanese spiny lobster is based on the fact that Ise (the name of the former country including the middle and northern part of Mie Prefecture and part of Aichi Prefecture) was one of the main production areas of Japanese spiny lobster.

By the way, Japanese spiny lobster is designated as a fish in Mie Prefecture.

I bought a long-lived rice cracker

The name "longevity" is derived from the fact that Japanese spiny lobster's long beard and bent waist resemble an old man, so lucky items's delight.

Longevity rice crackers have a very fragrant shrimp flavor and are perfect for everyone to eat while watching TV on New Year's Day.

The shocking news ran through Ginza in Shiwasu. 。 。 "Plantan Ginza closed at the end of 2016!"

Speaking of Plantan Ginza, it is the face of Ginza that rises along Nishi-Ginza Street, celebrating its 30th anniversary last year (2014). The history of Plantan Ginza began in 1984. As a starting point for the department store business, Daiei, a supermarket chain, invited Japan as a partner of a major French department store, Au Printemps. Starting with the Kobe Sannomiya Ekimae store in 1981, the company opened stores in Sapporo and Osaka at its peak. 【Plantan Main Store (Source: wikipedia) in Osman Boulevard, Paris (64 boulevard Haussmann, 75009 Paris)】

Plantan, as its name (Le Printemps = Spring), is a department store that symbolizes the brightness of spring and the elegance of France, and the French home was founded in Paris in 1865 and this year marks the 150th anniversary of its founding. In the mid-1980s, just after the opening of Plantan Ginza, I was in the midst of youth, and ashamed, I was very helpful as one of the date courses, saying, "Let's go see a stylish France in Ginza!"

[Cafe Angelina on the 2nd floor of Plantan Ginza, which is crowded before Christmas]

In particular, on the second floor, there is the Ginza store of the long-established cafe "Salon de Thé Angelina" on the Rivoli street in Paris (226 rue de Rivoli, 75001 Paris), which is full of French scents such as Mont Blanc made with the same recipe as the Paris store. [Cafe Angelina Mont Blanc menu]

It is a bit disappointing that the fashionable "French culture" disappears from Ginza along with the French flag fluttering in the front is just a matter of closing a department store. However, the head family, which celebrated its 150th anniversary, has continued its department store as before, but has been managed by Gucci's parent company PPR (currently Kering) since the 1990s, and is now owned by an investment fund in Qatar in the Middle East. Similarly, Plantan Ginza is now owned by Yomiuri Shimbun / Mitsukoshi Isetan. In recent years, shrine office at Tepposhu Inari Shrine (/archive/2015/12/post-2910.html) in the blog post dated December 3, 2015/post-2910.html). In the future, some sales floors will be closed from October 2016, and the store will be closed at the end of 2016. It seems that all stores will be renovated from March 2017 and restarted with a new store name. The name of the new store is currently undecided, but it is said that it aims to be a casual store that is different from the conventional "France".

[Plantan Ginza]

Location 3-2-1 Ginza, Chuo-ku, 104-0061, Japan

Business hours From 11:00 to 20:00 (Friday, Saturday from 21:00)

Phone: 03-3567-0077

　Tsukiji Outer Market has entered December and is crowded with people seeking delicious ingredients to prepare the festival.

"Tsukiji Nippon Fishing Port Market" was established to spread fresh seafood caught at fishing ports in various places, and those who come to the off-site market always shop here.

One of the shops in such fishing port market is the shop in JF Nagasaki.

Currently, until December 25, we are discounting 300 yen for every 1,000 yen, which exceeds 1,000 yen for shopping.

I bought whale bacon, whale ghosts, and Nagasaki sashimi soy sauce, and the bill was more than 4,000 yen, but the discount was less than 3,000 yen.

When shopping at Tsukiji, please also stop by JF Nagasaki shop at Tsukiji Nippon Fishing Port Market.

Unusual fish are also sold, and they are handled for sashimi, boiled, and grilled fish. I've added one more recommendation for silver.