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)

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.