When I guided Nihonbashi earlier this month as a guide, I stopped by Eitaro Sohonbu, a Japanese confectionery, to talk about it.
I used to write a blog about the bridge between the Kanda River and Nihonbashi River that appeared in Keigo Higashino's novel "When the curtain of prayer falls", but I remember that it had been suspended for a while, This time, I will write it as a sequel to the neighborhood of "Nishikawabashi".
This area is currently the address of Nihonbashi Honishi-cho, Muromachi, and Yaesu along the Nihonbashi River, but in the Edo period, the west side of the river was called "Nishikawa Riverside", so it is named "Nishikawa Riverside Bridge".
It is famous as the stage of Kyoka Izumi's masterpiece "Nihonbashi", but it is a very plain bridge with no characteristics in the construction of the bridge itself. Until the middle of the Showa era, a metropolitan bus running from Tokyo Station to Koiwa Station ran across the bridge. When returning from Tokyo Station to the house in Tachibana-cho (now Higashi-Nihonbashi 3-chome), it is not the Nishi-Kashibashi Bridge, but I still remember that children thought, "I want you to go through Nihonbashi anyway."
That's why I don't write much about the bridge, so I write it along the neighborhood.
The Jizo Bodhisattva of "Nipponbashinishi Riverside Bridge Jizoji Church" is said to have been carved by Gyoki. In addition, when Shotaro Hanayagi plays the role of Sensei when performing Kyoka Izumi's "Nihonbashi", the dedicated "Ita-e Colored Sensei's figure" still exists.
On the wall of the Mizuho Trust Bank building at the intersection of Gofuku Bridge on Eidai-dori, a monument to the Minatoya Esogo store opened by Yumeji Takehisa is embedded.
Also, on the other side of Kiyosubashi-dori in Suitengu Shrine, opposite Meijiza in Hamacho, there is still the Minatoya Esoshi Paper Store. Here, we sell a lot of products related to Yumeji Takehisa side by side.
There is a delicious Japanese confectionery near the West Bank Bridge.
According to the explanation I heard at Eitaro Sohonten, during the Ansei period of the Edo period, when I put out a "Kintsuba" stall and sold it to customers coming to the Nihonbashi Fish Bank, it flourished, and it began to set up a store in this area That is.
Even today, Eitaro's Kintsuba is a featured product, and its feature is that it has a round shape like a sword brim.
In addition, there is "Rabbitya Nihonbashi Main Store" nearby (the Chuo-dori store is also located). The main store is closed on Saturdays, Sundays and holidays, but this is open on Saturday.) "Rabbitya" also has shops in Ueno (the birthplace of rabbits and rabbits) and Asagaya.
Dorayaki is famous, but I think it's very delicious here too.
URL: http://www.wagashi.or.jp/tokyo_link/shop/0303.htm
It's a bit from Nihonbashi, but when you come to Mitsukoshi or Takashimaya, why don't you stop by?
