On March 27, 1997, my Tsukishima story began.
This is the 20th anniversary of my residence in Tsukishima, and I will introduce the state of the Tsukishima area at that time based on my memory. I was filled with nostalgia while writing.
Tsukishima Higashinaka-dori
Then, from Tsukishima Daiichi Park. Recently, it has been crowded with cheerful little children, but at that time it was a park like a forest with little children and a tree-grown forest with too active structure that descends on a slide from a small mountain in the center. There was a horse mackerel sun-dried shop nearby, and behind it was a factory for Tsukiji Irifune. As the New Year approached, steam was rising early in the morning.
Irifune was a good friend of my neighborhood.
Tsukishima Nishinaka-dori
In April 1997, 44 stores joined and the Tsukishima Monja Promotion Association was launched, and it was already called Monja Street, but there were still quite a few retail stores such as handicraft shops and toy shops . It was also a daily routine to greet the police officer of the Metropolitan Police Department's oldest active police box. Now it has become the Nishinakadori Community Safety Center and is a base for community safety activities. By the way, Kiyosumi-dori at that time is under construction of Toei Line 12, and the opening of Tsukishima Station on the Oedo Line was on December 12, 2000.
Harumi
Although it closed in 1998, the large seafood restaurant "Pia Harumi" located behind the Tokyo Hotel Urashima was a symbol of the bubble era, and the large aquarium facing the sea was impressive. After that, Harumi transformed into a skyscraper town. Every May, a number of carp streamers are raised at the construction site of Triton Square, and the appearance of swimming in the wind is burned to the eyes.
(Extraditional) Akashicho May 7, 1998
Mr. hide. His farewell ceremony, which was a member of X JAPAN, was held at Tsukiji Honganji on that day. Fans who gathered for goodbye made a long line from Tsukiji along the Sumida River and St. Luke Garden. Last year's red and white, I saw X JAPAN, which exterminated Godzilla with a song, reminded me of what moved many young people at that time.
By the way, what will happen to Tsukishima in the next 20 years? Inuhiko Yomota, the author of Tsukishima Monogatari, an indispensable book for talking about Tsukishima, was worried about the transformation of Tsukishima, which is expected to occur in the next 10 years in the early 1990s, but less than 30 years later, the city of Tsukishima seems to be swallowing the swells of the times. A new large-scale redevelopment has begun on Nishinaka-dori, and in the era when Tokyo itself is about to start moving toward 2020, even if Tsukishima changes its shape in the flow, it will survive forever and attract people I want you to be.
Reference:
Aela 1999.12.20, Nikkei Shimbun, Inuhiko Yomota "Tsukishima Monogatari" Shueisha
"EARTH HOUR" was launched in 2007 as part of the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) Australia's campaign to prevent global warming.
On March 21, the Japan Meteorological Agency reported a declaration of flowering of Yoshino cherry tree in central Tokyo, but at Tsukuda Park, the sunlight blooming ahead of Yoshino cherry tree has attracted attention against the backdrop of Funairi Hori and Tsukuda Kobashi.
"Genpei Momo" planted in front of Aioi Bridge Minamizume, a complex facility "Aioi no Sato" at the southern end of Ishikawajima Park, which was expanded and maintained in 2007, blooms.
