Chuo-ku Tourism Association correspondent blog

The cherry blossoms have passed, and the cold season has finally ended.

And he said...It is the opening of the Edo boating tour season, "Touring around the water city, Tokyo by boat"!

Edo is a water city and a prosperous town based on logistics by waterways. Currently, there are many major roads in Tokyo that were originally waterways. And in Chuo-ku, there are a number of active waterways, led by the Sumida River and Nihonbashi River. Let's go around there by boat! That's a boating tour. It's not just a boat play, but a journey through the Balibari arterial road where trade boats come and go until a little more than 100 years ago, the waterway that was the gateway. In addition to the remnants of Edo, there are many remains where the gorgeous Meiji Taisho era remains. You can see Are and Chore, which can not be seen from the ground, along with the guide's explanation.

Is there anyone who knows where it is here?...！？ (The hint is the site of a certain subway.)

Of course, I also go around the hot places now.

In Tsukiji Market...

Toyosu planned site!

There are various types of tours, so you can choose what place, how much time, and how deep you want to see according to your preference. Each tour has a professional guide, so it's very interesting.

You can also see landfills under construction in Tokyo Bay.

The boating tour is not held in winter, so the next few months will be the on-season. At that time, a wide variety of tours are held. For more information, please visit our website.

→The Association for the Creation of Water City Tokyo

When you look at Tokyo in Heisei from a spacious waterway, you can see a completely different figure. I think you can also experience the people and things from Edo to the pre-war period, the flow of culture, and how to connect with neighboring areas such as Asakusa.

It is a very fulfilling event, so please come and visit Chuo-ku from the waterway in the coming warm season.

By the way...

This is for those who say, "I like bridges rather than rivers!"

"Bridge Pocket Map" edited by the Tokyo Metropolitan Bureau of Construction. It is a wonderful book that covers major rivers and bridges in Tokyo.

It's like this when you open the inside.

Each one is pocket-sized, 5 books in total. The price of the box set that contains all is 800 yen. It is also sold at the Kachidokibashi Museum, located at the base of Kachidokibashi. I don't really recommend these maps.

Was there a child, grandchild, or great-grandchild near me? Or I wonder if he was a grandson.

I've been sitting for a long time~ How long should I sit?

But I can't get old at all, how many have I become?

I'm a lion statue of Mitsukoshi.

The photo shows the front entrance of Ginza Mitsukoshi. The statue was born in 1914 when it was set up in front of Nihonbashi Mitsukoshi Main Store.

The lion statue was ordered by U.K. when the manager of the time, Ousuke Hibi, visited Europe and the United States to open a department store.

It took 3 years to complete. It seems that there is a wish that Mitsukoshi will reign in the department store industry like the King Lion of Beasts.

The lion statue at the head office is 102 years old. This is a lion statue of Ginza Mitsukoshi. I was born in 1972 and is 45 years old. I think it's probably a child or a grandchild who is beside him.

I'll welcome you to Mitsukoshi.

Please come by all means. I'll be waiting for you.

Tsukiji River Kamei Bridge Park is located next to Kamei Bridge, which spans Tsukiji 1-chome, the Metropolitan Expressway Toshin Beltway.

Fuji of the wisteria trellis in this park is currently blooming mauve flowers.

Here, the flowers of perennial plant in Pele Near Garden will entertain us all year round, but after the cherry blossom season is over, the wisteria trellis in the same park will bloom.

By the way, there are two types of wisteria: a right winding (clockwise clockwise from the top) and a left winding. The standard Japanese name of Fuji in the right winding is "Fuji" or "Noda Fuji", and the standard Japanese name of the left winding is "Yamafuji" or "Nofuji".

Fuji in this park was labeled as Noda Fuji.

Fuji's Hanabusa sways in the refreshing breeze, and it's a really good season.

　　On April 19, the Tokyo Regional Meteorological Observatory announced one of the biological seasonal observation information "Noda Fuji Flowering". (Kitanomaru-koen Park)

Two days earlier than normal and one day earlier than last year.

The wisteria trellis set up on each of the "Small-shaped islands" in the middle of the "Oden Bridge" in front of the "Yon Liaokan Ruins" in the "Tide Pond" in the Hamarikyu Onshi Garden, "Oden Bridge" It began to be colored with light purple flowers.

Fuji is a vine deciduous leaf Kimoto of the legume family.

The fragrance is fragrant, the flower with the spikes hanging down is splendid, and the swaying in the wind has the taste of being described as "Fujinami".

There are Nodafuji and Yamafuji in endemic species, Japan. Generally, Fuji seems to refer to Nodafuji, but I hear that most of the park is Yamafuji.

On the wisteria trellis at the northern end of the "Oden Bridge", a rare Noda Fuji series "Yaeguro Ryuto" is planted.

Also known as "Peony Fuji".

Most of the stamens are dialectized, and it is a unique flower shape of the so-called "peony bloom".

You can enjoy it until the end of Golden Week.

Marronnier, a street tree on Ginza Marronnier Street, is blooming.

Since the color of the blooming flowers is beautiful red and red, I think it is Benibana Tochinoki.

This benibana horse chestnut is said to have been made by a combination of two species, marronnier native to Western Europe and American acabana horse chestnut native to North America. It seems that it came to Japan around the end of the Taisho era.

It seems that it is more widespread in Japan than Marronnier and is a well-grown tree.

The shape of the leaves is characteristic, with a length of 10cm to 15cm, and 5 to 7 leaflets form a palm-shaped leaf. It's called a palm-shaped compound leaf.

The flowering season is just right now.

Red and red flowers at the tip of the branch bloom together to form a round spike.

It has a lot of spikes, so it stands out from a distance.

By the way, Marronnier seems to be one of the "four major street trees in the world", and the other three trees are Platanus, leek, and bodige.

Eitai Bridge was about 150 meters upstream from the location as of the Edo period. It is said to have been around 1698. At that time, it was painted in Ukiyo-e as a famous place with a good view on a large wooden bridge.

It is Japan's first road bridge made of steel. A tram was laid in 1904.

It was bridged with the 50-year-old celebration of the 5th Shogun Tsunayoshi. On August 19, 1807, the bridge collapsed due to congestion toward the festival of Fukagawa Hachiman, and more than 1,000 people drowning. There are so many stories about this accident. It is also known as a bridge that Ako Gishi crossed when he lifted from Kira's residence to Sengakuji Temple.

Both the upper photo and the lower picture want the direction of Tsukuda Island.

The upper photo was taken from Eitai Bridge.