Chuo-ku Tourism Association correspondent blog

As you know, the Metropolitan Expressway is built on the river as represented by the vicinity of Nihonbashi.
There are many places that have been reclaimed and constructed like near Ginza.
Against this background, I would like to introduce the place where the river used to flow.

This is where you can see St. Luke Hospital in front. This is the parking lot beside Tsukiji Market.

A river used to flow.

The place that goes toward St. Luke's and becomes Tsukiji River Park would have been planned for the Metropolitan Expressway Ramp before.

It was a road slope. When I was a child, heavy snow fell in Tokyo, and I took out adult skis for a short distance, but I have played.
It's a little memory, but I think it was published in a newspaper with a photo in a heavy snowfall column. (Perhaps daily sports)

Proceed toward Shintomicho, the intersection of Shin-ohashi-dori St. and Tsukuda-ohashi Bridge Street.

There are parks and playgrounds on the side of Irifune Bridge, located underground.

If you go down the stairs and go ahead, it is closed with wire mesh, but you can imagine that it will lead to Tsukiji River Park and Shintomicho Metropolitan Expressway Lamp earlier.

Seeing Irifunebashi from Shintomicho. The road on the left should be followed by Irifune Hashimoto.

In this way, there is a mysterious place around Tsukiji where the road construction plan seems to have been abandoned.

 The annual "Mini Garden Guide Tour" takes a walk around the park with the guidance of a green adviser at the Pocket Plaza "Flowers / Water / Trees" in Harumi Triton Square.

The theme of this month, which will be held on September 3, is "If you feel a cool breeze ..."

If you think that you have been freed from sleeplessness since the heat has passed, you may feel cool in the morning and evening depending on the day.

The slope garden along the Asashio Canal was replanted just a few days ago with a dwarf sunflower "Good Smile" as if to spare summer.

The park is the turning point of the season, where flowers that keep the remnants of summer and flowers that make you feel the sign of autumn are mixed.

On the "Flower Terrace", the Aoiaceae American foli "Luna" attracts attention.

The plant height is dwarf, but the flowers are round.

You can enjoy the gorgeous red, pink and white flowers.

Beside the Triton statue is a lily family kuwansou (also known as Akinoisrelegusa).

I hear that it is one of Okinawa's traditional Shimano vegetables that has long been said to be effective in relaxing and sleeping, and has been roasted with stems and leaves and eaten as dishes and tea. (upper right image)

At this time, the rice plants that create the autumn atmosphere.

That's why I took up the grass book of the family Riceaceae this time.

Among them, the copper leaf ineoriza dochocola has a particularly distinctive feature.

The weather is moderate for a walk. While traveling around the park, this time it was a plant walk that learned how to enjoy flowers reflecting the season of changing from summer to autumn.

From the left, Benicetam Cherry Blossom Parker, Purple Fountain Glass, Ine Oriza Dochocola, Rice (Oedo Farm)

From the left, Itosuki, Bannicam, Stybatenuisshima (ponitail), Ikaruiuchisou

 Flowers bloom from 3:00 to 4:00 pm in the afternoon from summer to autumn, and after 9:00 the next morning, the night-opening Oshiroibana is usually seen on the roadside, but germs in black seeds when young It is a nostalgic flower that revives the memory of playing with powder.

There are no petals in Oshiroibana, those that look like long funnel-shaped petals are actually calyx, and those that look like calyx at the base below them are bracts.

One flower itself is short-lived for one night only, but during the flowering season, new flowers bloom one after another.

Also known as "sunning makeup". In English, "Four O'clock".

Such Oshiroibana is featured this time at Harumi Triton Square "Flower Terrace", a two-stage blooming Oshiroibana "Smile Eshi", which can be enjoyed even during the day.

An unusual variety of "two-stage blooming" in which "bracts" color the same color as "selyx" and appear to be blooming for 24 hours.

The plant height is about 50cm, about half the normal Oshiroibana.

In winter, the above-ground part is withered, and in the early summer it is a perennial plant that grows and blooms more flowers, but horticulture seems to be often treated as spring maki annual plant. 。

Along the street on the right side of Shin-ohashi-dori St. from Tsukiji to Hatchobori, crossing the Irifune Bridge (orange part in the map below), there is a lot of flowers that bloom along the right side of Shin-ohashi-dori St.

It is characterized by a large flower that hangs downward, and is one of the genus of the genus of the genus of the genus of the genus of the genus of the genus of the genus of the genus of the genus of the genus of the genus of the genus of the genus of the genus of the genus.

In the horticultural name, it is called angel trumpet, angel trumpet.

There is also an eggplant plant called Chosen Asagao, but this is an annual plant, and there is a difference that flowers bloom upwards.

By the way, the flower of the Japanese squirrel has a good scent, but it seems that it is better not to touch it with a damaged hands because both the flowers and leaves contain alkaloid poisons.

Speaking of the waterside of Chuo-ku, the existence of the Nihonbashi River is very large.

Now most of them are hidden under the highway, and the atmosphere has faded.

In addition to various Nihonbashi, you can see various bridges such as Ichiishi Bridge and Armor Bridge.

Recently, there is also a tour that goes around the Nihonbashi River by boat.

From now on. You can also enjoy sightseeing by boat while bathing in the cool breeze.

By all means, why don't you go there?

One cannot ignore the Japan Bridge River when talking about the waterside of Chuo City.

Nowadays, most of the River is hiding under the expressway which makes the taste fading away.

Yet different types of bridges such as Japan Bridge, Ikkoku-Bashi Bridge or Yoroi Bridge can be enjoyed.

Recently tour such as boating around the Japan Bridge River is available.

Fall will come soon and it will be cool to have a boating trip in the nice and cool wind.

What about a trip like that, my dear guests?

The water in Central Ward is unavailable in Japan.

Now, all of them are stored under the high-speed public road, the situation half is reduced.

However, there is a spontaneity such as Japan's neck one stone yo yo yo.

Recently, it has been completed in Japan.

Fall. There is a refreshing autumn season in the middle of the season.

Do you have any questions?