Chuo-ku Tourism Association correspondent blog

Chuo-ku changed its city phase from the mid-1930s.
On the occasion of the Tokyo Olympics held in October 1964.
This is because the river was reclaimed for the construction of the Metropolitan Expressway.
The Tsukiji River was also reclaimed in 1962.

However, Yukio Mishima (1914-1945) announced it at the end of 1956.
With the honorable mention "Hashizukushi", you can see the atmosphere of this area around the past.
In this short story, Chuo-ku government office (before rebuilding), St. Luke hospital, etc.
Buildings such as Tsukiji Honganji are depicted.
Other landscapes, customs, and customs are completely different from the present.

The story tells the story of seven bridges over the Tsukiji River, where four women wish.
It is said that if you can cross safely without any problems, your wish will come true.
It has a suspense structure.
There are seven bridges that need to be crossed, but in fact they are.
Miyoshi Bridge, Tsukijibashi, Irifune Bridge, Akatsuki Bridge, Sakae Bridge (this bridge is not currently available),
It's 6 of Bizen Bridge.
However, since Miyoshi Bridge is a three-way bridge, you can change the course and cross it twice.
I'm supposed to have crossed two bridges.

 

In front of Irifune Bridge, one person could not proceed further due to abdominal pain.
The second person was called out by an acquaintance on Akatsuki Bridge.
And the third person may commit suicide at the last Bizen Bridge.
You will be stopped by a misidentified police officer and will be forced to speak.
The three of them will not be able to fulfill their wishes according to old rules.
The last remaining one successfully crosses the seven bridges and succeeds in making a wish.
Each of the three who have fallen has a concrete and earnest wish.
But what was the only woman, wish, a woman who fulfilled her prayer?
It will not be revealed during the work.
In addition, the unexpectedness of the woman is unexpected, and it is the taste of the work.

By the way, the setting of the four people is from the Katsura family in Ginza Itajindo.
2 geishas (42 years old Koumi, 22 years old Kanako),
A boxed girl (22 years old) of Shimbashi's restaurant Yonei,
And one month ago, I was a woman who came from Tohoku.

In addition, one of the films that faithfully reflect the background of this era.
It is "Flowing" (Toho's work in 1956) by the master craftsman Mikio Naruse.
The stage is around Yanagibashi, but it is the human pattern of the Hanayanagi world at that time.
The atmosphere is captured with a calm and relaxed camerawork.

 

 

 

There was Ryukangawa on the border with Kanda. In the past, Kanda Ward and Nihonbashi Ward were present With Chiyoda-ku The border of Chuo-ku is the former Ryukagawa River. It was reclaimed immediately after the war, but the site has an alley-like terrain so you can walk.

The area adjacent to the Hamacho River is "Ryukan Children's Amusement Park" (19-4 Nihonbashi Kodenmacho). Here, there is a scene that makes you feel nostalgic, perhaps like a bridge that spans the ward border, Ryukagawa River (above photo). The left side is across the bridge in the photo. Chuo-ku, right side The former Ryukan River was flowing in the center of Chiyoda-ku.

The bridge over this area was "Tamade Bridge" in the Meiji era, but there was also a "Ghost Bridge" in the Edo era picture, so was it a place that seemed scared? At present, the location of this amusement park is With Chuo-ku Chiyoda-ku coexists. "Takemori Inari Shrine" is adjacent to the Chuo-ku side. On the Chiyoda-ku side, there are Japanese-style public toilets and playground equipment.

The Ryukan River is a Horikawa that connects the Nihonbashi River (former outer moat) and Hamacho River. After the great fire in 1657 (1657), eight banks (approximately 870m) of banks were built for fire prevention, and around 1691 (1691), the moat was excavated at the expense of the townspeople, and commonly known as "Kanda Hatchobori" Was called. Initially, it was also called Shirogane moat, but it was later named Ryukangawa. Ryukan is said to be because the monk "Inoue Ryukan" lived in a town on the west side of the river.

Kanda Hatchobori was founded in 1965 (1765) to 1831 (1831). The tombstone of Toyo-in is known as the stage of a humorous book, where Yaji (Yajirobei) lived in a small rented house on this new road at Tokaido Naka-Kurige. .

Ryukanbashi (Ryukanbashi) was built at the western end of the Nihonbashi River (4-chome, Nihonbashi Honishicho). 1926 (1926) The main pillars of the bridge and part of the bridge girder remain today (lower photo). At that time, the bridge length was 10.5m and the width was 27.0m, and it was Japan's first reinforced concrete truss girder structure. To the east of Ryukan Bridge, Shirahata Bridge, Nishinakano Bridge, Imagawa Bridge (National Route 17), Higashinakano Bridge, Jizo Bridge (Showa-dori), Firebreak Bridge, Kudo Bridge, Jinbei Bridge, Tamade Bridge. There was. Monuments and explanation boards are installed at the site of Imagawa Bridge and Jizo Bridge.

 

 

Last time, I walked along the river from Kanda River Kawaguchi to Yanagibashi and Asakusabashi.　Today, I will walk "Saemonbashi", the border between Chuo-ku and Chiyoda-ku. (Saemon Bridge is also the border of Taito Ward.)                                   This is a photo from Asakusabashi Bridge.

The main street running left and right is Yasukuni Dori. If you cross the Ryogoku Bridge on the left, your name will change to Keiyo Road.

The front is Edo-dori St. It is a highway that runs from Asakusa Gomon to Oshu Kaido during the Edo period.

The area along the Kanda River on the right side was the place where the Edo period Gundai mansion was located, and an explanation board stands beside the police box.

 

                                                                  At present, you can see Yanagihara-dori on the Kanda River side and Ma 2 Naka-dori on the Yasukuni Dori side. Nihonbashi Jogakukan Junior and Senior High Schools, which are undergoing rebuilding, occupy this corner, but it seems that the Baba in Hatsune, where Hatsune Mori Shrine, which was introduced last time, was located, was also around the Edo period.

 

                                                                                                                                             This is the current Yanagihara street. The right is the building of Nihonbashi Jogakukan, which is under construction.

Willows are planted on both sides to remind you of the row of willow trees on the bank of Yanagihara in the Edo period.

The border between the center and Chiyoda is thought to be Saemonbashi Street, and along the Kanda River west side of the bridge is Chiyoda-ku, and about two blocks south of Chuo-ku penetrates Chiyoda-ku.

 

　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　The right side of the photo is Higashi-Kamida 2-chome, Chiyoda-ku, and the left side is Bakurocho 2-chome, Chuo-ku.

If you look closely at the trees of the street trees, you can see that this is the boundary.

　It is said that the Yanagihara embankment was a street where many used clothes shops gathered in the Edo period, but now a clothing wholesale district is formed at Bakurocho 1-chome.

Today, I noticed a sticker of KAMISM SUMMER SALE (Washi) from Kawashima Planning and Sales Co., Ltd., a kimono and obi recycling shop called Warakuan.