Chuo-ku Tourism Association correspondent blog

In the first report of May, I wrote an article saying, "Weeping ginkgo at Namishi Inari Shrine is rare ...", but the other day, I was walking in the Hamarikyu Onshi Garden and a large weeping ginkgo in front of the button garden I found a large weeping ginkgo.

It wasn't an unusual thing. I regret that I have to have the eyes to see the plants accurately.

In the spacious garden surrounded by greenery, there are places in the city where you can feel as if you were in the mountains.

Now the pine "Midori Tsumi" is over and Japanese iris is blooming beautifully.

Pine green buds ... The sprouts are picked, but the gardener decides the appropriate length and picks them with fingertips without using scissors.　It will be held from the middle of May.

In addition, this garden is a valuable garden that has become a nationally designated "special scenic spot and special historic site".

If you enter the park at the same time as the opening of the park at 9 o'clock on weekdays, there are still few visitors and you feel like you are monopolizing a quiet garden.

There is an explanation of free guide volunteers in the garden from 9:00 and 2:00 on weekends and holidays.

　　　　　　　　1-1 Hamarikyu Garden, Chuo-ku (03-3541-0200)

 

 

 

　

 

 

 Chuo-ku is elongated from north to south, and looks like a pattern of clothes when you look at the outline.

I would like to introduce the city north of this neck to the shoulder.

　The Sumida River to the east, the Kanda River to the north, the Kanda River is the northern end, and the right end that flows into the Sumida River of this river is the northernmost end of Chuo-ku, and now Higashi Nihonbashi 2-chome.

The bridge over the mouth of the Kanda River is Yanagibashi, and the opposite bridge is Taito Ward.

 In addition, Ryogoku Bridge is a large bridge on the Sumida River side near the tip, and this name is said to be a bridge connecting Musashi no Kuni (here side) and Shimousa no Kuni (there side, now Sumida-ku). It is said that it was given.

　The west side of Hashizume (this side) is the so-called Nihonbashi Ryogoku, and it is also the place where Ryogoku Hirokoji was established as a fire protection area after the great fire of the Meiryaku era. It seems that it has been very popular as a prime place since the middle of the Edo period, but now buildings are lined up as a business district and condominium district.

　It is a minor place where many people do not visit, but I would like to walk slowly from the next time.

 

 

 

 

 

In the evening of late May, when the scent of early summer began to spread, a "survey to respect Japanese" was held on the grounds of Tsukiji Honganji Temple.

The five members of the opera unit "LEGEND" told us beautiful harmony.

It is a time to forget the hustle and bustle of the city, with famous Japanese and Western songs echoing in the precincts.

Since ancient times, shrines and temples have been a field of cultural transmission, but it is nice that many people gather in this way even today.

There are many other historical shrines and temples in Chuo-ku, so I would like to visit various places for a stroll.

I pray for the happiness and development of the inhabitants of the ward.

 

 

Shochiku Otani Library is a library specializing in theater and movies that opened in July 1958. It was established with the aim of making the materials collected and held by Shochiku Co., Ltd. widely available to the public and contributing to the development of social culture.

The materials include a variety of materials related to theater (Kabuki, Bunraku, New School and Commercial Theater), movies, Nihon Buyo and TV. The number of materials, including the original Joruri 300 years ago, was 350,000.

Admission is free, but it is a closed library so it cannot be entered in the library.

ADK Shochiku Square, where the Shochiku Otani Library is located, emphasizes public nature and open to the public, and the entrance hall on the first floor uses a staircase floor made of natural wood to the third floor. It is also used for small concerts, etc. When there is no event, it is used as a place to meet and talk casually with friends. In the building, there are cafes, dining, popular udon restaurants, Taiwanese restaurants and sushi restaurants. The outside of the building is planted with bamboo and pine trees, and it is located next to Ginza, but the inside of the building is quietly wrapped.　(1-13-1 Tsukiji, Chuo-ku, Tokyo)

 

 

 

 

 

On May 9th and 10th, there was the Kanda Festival once every two years.

Kanda festival is one of Japan's three major festivals, and Nihonbashi is the shrine parishioner town council of Kanda Myojin, along with Kanda, Otemachi, Marunouchi and Akihabara. There are about 200 portable shrines from 108 shrine parishioner Town Association, so on the 9th and 10th, many people come to see the festival with lively shouts of music and mikoshi and the voices of cheerful children who draw floats all day.

In the Shinko Festival cruise that connects the traditions of Edo to the present, people dressed in costumes, horses and cows pass in front of them, and sometimes chief priest purifies visitors.

Kanda festival, which makes you feel like a time trip during the Edo period while staying in the city center, is especially recommended for those who love history. The next time will be two years later, so why not come by all means?

 
















 

 

There are places where the past features remain and the history is conveyed.   I would like to introduce these in a series that I found while walking in Chuo-ku. They may be unknown footprints that will never appear on the front stage. However, he had a clear story of history.

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The first one is "Reigan Island". Although it is the current Shinkawa, the historical old town name from Edo disappeared in 1971 (1971), when the house labeling system was revised.

However, it still exists. The name is engraved on the "Regishijima Intersection" (photo: taken in May 2009). It is an intersection just east of Shin-Kameshima Bridge on the Kamejima River.

The history of Reiganjima begins with the reclaimed the eastern sea at Hatchobori in the early Edo period, and the honorary Reigan Jojin built Reiganji Temple. It is said that Reigishi Bridge is also derived from this, and there was also a village name called "Konjac Island". After the great fire of the Meiryaku era, Reiganji moved to Fukagawa, but the place names of Rei Kishijima were inherited not only as Rei Kishijima but also as Rei Kishijima Shiomachi and Rei Kishijima Yokkaichimachi, where sake wholesalers and sake brewery gatheredyoung sake. After the Great Kanto Earthquake, the area became the name of the former Rei Kishijima due to land readjustment, and it was an area that was familiar with the former Echizen moat and the former Shinkawa.

It is rare that the old place name remains under the name of the intersection in Chuo-ku. Surprisingly, there are cases where the name of the intersection or bus stop is given a nostalgic bridge name.

Next time, In Chuo-ku, I would like to take up an intersection that conveys the name of a bridge that no longer exists.