Chuo-ku Tourism Association correspondent blog

　Everyone, do you know where the Nihonbashi River flows from?

To visit such questions and romance, I walked from a certain point upstream to the mouth via Kanda and Ryukanbashi.

　This is an explanation of the history and origin of Ryukanbashi.

　After Ryukan Bridge, go to Tokiwa Bridge in front of the Bank of Japan, a nationally designated important cultural property.

 Tokiwa Bridge. It is said that he went from Edo Castle to Nikko Kaido and Oshu Kaido via here.　

　Next to Tokiwa Bridge is one stone bridge with Goto and Goto. It's famous for the signs of a lost child.

　Look at the West Bank Bridge on your right and arrive at Nihonbashi. It took about two and a half hours so far.

　Where is the water of the Nihonbashi River?

　Mitsubishi Warehouse Edobashi Warehouse Building in Historic buildings, Tokyo.

　A ship relief is designed on the balustrade of Minato Bridge.

　Takao Inari Shrine with a sad history.　What's your history?

　There was also a wooden explanation board.

　The spirit of a woman, not the money.　It's Date!

　The last bridge of the Nihonbashi River, Toyomi Bridge.　Behind it, you can see Eitai Bridge.

　The water of the Nihonbashi River flows into the Sumida River and flows into Tokyo Bay and the ocean.

The Nihonbashi River has been flowing with humanity since the Edo period.

　Why don't you walk while exploring the history around you?　

 

 

 

Last time, in the secret of Mitsukoshi, I mentioned the "Mitsukoshi character" mark of the department store "Mitsukoshi", which was the first in Japan to declare a department store in 1937.

This time, it is the secret about Mitsukoshi's symbol "Lion Statue".

Manager of time, who laid the foundation for becoming a department store called Mitsukoshi from Mitsui Kimono Store: Mr. Ousuke Hibi loved lions. In 1914, when it became a new five-story reinforcing bar with a Renaissance reinforcing bar, it seems that two lion statues were set up in the hope that "Mitsukoshi" would become the king in the department store world.

From here, this is the main subject of this time ...

There are few people who know that Ousuke Hibi's son's name was "Lion" ...

By the way, the kanji is "Lion".

Now, the "Lion Statue", which is popular as a mecca for meeting in Ginza, Nihonbashi, also had such an episode.

This information can also be found in the materials of Mitsui Public Relations Committee.

The Nihonbashi Main Store is already dressed as Christmas.

If you are going out for Christmas, New Year's gifts, New Year's holidays, and New Year's holidays, and if you have the opportunity to see "Lion Statues", please remember this a little.

In addition,...

Among the "Mitsukoshi Main Store", what I like most is this stained glass sign.