Chuo-ku Tourism Association correspondent blog

　In the latter half of November, the street corners of Ginza were gorgeous illuminations and windows and displays of each shop, and it was a season when the heart was excited.

Santa is coming to the city.　A song that comes on a sleigh led by a reindeer strokes his ears.

Currently, Ginza is holding a fun project for 2018WinterSeason.

One of them is Window Display, which each store develops with elaborate tastes.　

Kotoshi enjoys a walk in Ginza with a feeling of healing by the animals talking to at the large windows of each store. We enjoyed strolling around the street corner of Ginza 5-chome.

TOKYU PLAZA GINZA ３rd Floor

HERMES in Ginza 5-chome

COACH

GINZA CORE BLDG.

I wanted to dance.

WAKO GINZA

Please enjoy Christmas in Ginza.

Lantana, which is planted in the planting space on the settlement Chuo-dori, the street between Catholic Tsukiji Church and Akashi Elementary School, has been blooming beautifully and for a long time this year.

Lantana is originally a tropical plant, and its origin is tropical United States, Brazil, and Uruguay.

Various horticultural varieties are produced based on this ancestor.

Horticultural varieties are characterized by relatively enduring the cold and having a long flowering period.

If you look closely, while the flowers are blooming, the same plant has already been fruited, and you can feel the length of the flowering season.

Click here for a blog that introduced the same street Rantana last September.　⇒

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　The season has come when the trees in the Hamarikyu Onshi Garden are colored. In particular, the autumn leaves of Hasenoki, which is called the seasonal word Tomonari "Hazemomiji", stand out.

Rosewood is a deciduous Odaka tree of the family Urushi.

It is said that it came from the continent through Ryukyu and Satsuma in the 16th and 17th centuries, and it is also called Kouro by reading Ryukyuhaze, Satsuma goby, and Chinese name Hurou.

According to one theory, before the arrival, the native autumn leaves of yamaurushi and yamahaze, which were made of candles, were regarded as the color of clay (crani) suitable for the production of Haniwa and Haji ware.

The bright red color of the feather compound leaves that can be seen through the sunlight and gather at the tip of the branch, is also wonderful, but `` scattered Haji autumn leaves '' scattered at the foot of Mt. Has a vivid contrast with the surrounding greenery and has a taste.

　November 28 is "Good Garden (1128) Day".

In Japanese gardens in Tokyo, such as Tokyo Metropolitan Government, national public, and private sectors, entitled "Autumn Tokyo Good Garden Campaign", before and after "Good Garden Day", including initiatives related to the 150th anniversary of Tokyo, various events are being held to disseminate the charm of each garden. (November 10-December 2)

In nine Tokyo gardens (Hamarikyu Garden, Former Shiba Rikyu Garden, Koishikawa Korakuen Garden, Rikugien Garden, Former Iwasaki House Garden, Mukaijima Hyakuen Garden, Kiyosumi Garden, Former Furukawa Garden, Tonoga Tando Garden), the first 10,000 visitors on the day of the "Good Garden Day" will receive an original goods Tenugui Garden.

In the nine metropolitan gardens, "Tokyo Metropolitan Garden Autumn Leaves Tour stamp rally" is also being held (November 3-December 9).

It is a chance to enjoy a tour of the garden dyed in autumn colors.

　I found pretty flowers on the planting under the Kyobashi highway.　

The petals resemble Taiwan grayheaded cuckoo, and the leaves are exactly the same, so I thought it was a flower called "White grayheaded cuckoo".　When I went to an exhibition of botanical art held at Hibiya Park and asked a teacher familiar with flowers, it was said that a flower called "Shirohototogis" appeared in a horticultural species.

　When I looked at the photo, I was glad that he told me that it was probably "Shirohototogis".

The cherry blossoms are blooming next to it.　Please enjoy it during the walk.

Reply: "Shirohotogis" is a plant belonging to the grayheaded cuckoo family Lilyaceae.

Tori-no-ichi Fair, a feature of November, had up to the third rooster this year, and the city was also opened at Tsukiji's Namiki Shrine. It is said in a popular belief that there are many fires in the year with the third rooster, but this is said from a commandment that not to start a fire because the cold becomes severe and the opportunity to use fire increases. It seems to have come to be said. In prayer for the good luck of the coming year, the blessing of the ribbon and the prosperity of business, people buy kumade's charms.

In this kumade of lucky items, it is called "cool and hakome" with the wish of "squeezing fortune." Until the early days of the Tenpo era in Edo, it was a shame and four-handed item of kumade, which was then put on various lucky items and shaped like it is now.　

I hope that the inside market will move to Toyosu and the outside market that remains in Tsukiji, "Business prosperity" will come true next year.