Chuo-ku Tourism Association correspondent blog

Breakfast at Tsukiji on the last Saturday of February. I ate too much because I was a little nervous.

There is no wind today.

After visiting Namiwa Inari Shrine, I decided to cross the Sumida River and walk around Tsukishima to try walking a little to eliminate the feeling of fullness. First, go to the nearby Kachidokibashi.

　

　

Shortly after I arrived at the base of Kachidokibashi.

There is also a kachidoki monument and a bridge museum here, and there are many tourists visiting.

But if you try to take a picture of Kachidokibashi from here on the Tsukiji side in the morning, it will inevitably get backlight. So I cross Kachidokibashi and go to the other side.

　

Kachidokibashi is a jumping bridge that once opened like the shape of a c. The middle part sways unexpectedly.

Walk along the 246m bridge to the Kachidoki side and descend to the Sumida River Terrace to get close to the waterside. I took a picture here.

There is almost no wind today and the water surface is calm. The Sumida River reflects blue color than the sky.

The Sumida River of Nagi, which can be rarely seen in the morning when the ship is not operating yet. It's a very relaxing time.

　

If you turn your eyes toward Tsukiji Market on the opposite bank, you can still see Tokyo Tower. I remembered it with Tsukiji Ohashi.

　

　

Turn left at Harumi-dori St., cross the Tsukishima River, and walk along the road near the river. Then, "I Children's Amusement Park" which leads to the Sumida River Terrace appears. This is a small park near the Sumida River, where there was once a ferryboat on Tsukishima. The flowers in the flowerbed are also in bloom, and they are very beautiful.

　

The Sumida River Terrace is under construction and unfortunately it could not come out. In this park, there was a common information board on the banks of the Sumida River, so I will explain where I walked today.

A red line walked. From here Tsukishima, I stopped by Tsukuda, upstream of the river, crossed the Sumida River at Tsukuda-ohashi Bridge, and walked to the newly built Minato Park.

The land on Tsukishima and Kachidoki on this side, which crossed the river from Tsukiji, is a landfill that was created after the Meiji era.

The name of the town is divided into Tsukishima, Kachidoki, Tsukuda, and Toyomi, but it is confusing because it is sometimes called "Tsukishima" roughly.

　

The shape of the island of Tsukishima looks like a crescent moon with an arc, so I thought it was the origin of the name Tsukishima, but that was not the case. It seems like "It was a place where the moon looked beautiful" or "Tsukishima because it was a built island."

　

　

I wanted to see the river, so I went up the stairs of "Tsukishima 3-chome Children's Amusement Park" a little upstream. From here, you can enjoy the open view of the Sumida River and go down to the terrace.

　

On the other side, there is a row of cherry blossom trees in Akashicho, where you can enjoy the mood of spring, and the changes in the colors of the sky and the surface at dusk are wonderful. It is a great place to look forward to spring when the terrace construction is completed.

(Spring 2015)

　

I came to the terrace here for the first time in the summer three and a half years ago, after I came to Tsukishima to eat monjayaki.

I was so happy about the blue Tokyo Tower seen between the buildings, and I took pictures with my smartphone many times, but I couldn't take it at all, and I remember that I was disappointed.

　

From the Sumida River Terrace around here, you can see Tokyo Tower and the Sky Tree. After buying a camera, I often came to visit the Sumida River at night.

　

　

It is at night that the surface of the Sumida River begins to calm down.

The water surface gradually changes like a music box of light.

　

　

　

On a windless night, when the ship's operation is over and the tide stops, the sign of water disappears, and each memory of the river appears on the table, mixes, and has never seen an expression that I have never seen.

　

　
Tsukishima is shaped like a crescent moon, so this is outside the curve where the river line curves, and you can take pictures as if you were in the middle of the river.

　

The Sumida River has a landscape unique to the city, full of light even at night.

　

　

A wave of light like Niagara's HANABI, created by the historic Kachidokibashi and Tsukiji Market lights.

　

　

It is a dreamy Sumida River fireworks created by a wave suddenly appearing on the Sumida River in calm.

　

　

　

This is on the stairs behind the monument of Tsukuda Island ferry, Tsukuda. The Sumida River terrace near Tsukuda Island is already accessible.

In the anime of NHK's "Lion in March", which I introduced earlier, Hina-chan cried in the Bon Festival in July is this place.

I knew the story for the first time in this anime, but it fits very well with the atmosphere of Tsukuda Island, and it's a warm story with Honwaka. And honestly, I was happy to draw the Sumida River at night very beautifully with a geito that can only be done in anime.

　

The scenery from Tsukuda-ohashi Bridge, surrounded by the giant gods of the building surrounding the old streets of Tsukuda Island. You can see a long-established store of Tsukudaniya in front of it.

　

The model of Mikazuki-do, a Japanese confectionery shop that appears around Tsukudani-ya in March of the anime, is Judo, famous for its golden potatoes in Ningyocho, Chuo-ku.

At the first intersection from the intersection in front of Suitengu to the Ningyocho intersection, there was also a poster for the live-action movie "Lion in March" starring Ryunosuke Kamiki, which will be released this spring.

If you are making a pilgrimage, please check it out. I hope you will feel the warm atmosphere of the store.

　

　

I crossed Tsukuda-ohashi Bridge. The cherry blossom tree at the base of the bridge is a rare cherry tree in Chuo-ku. You can see the Chuo-ohashi Bridge in the distance. This bridge looks very nice to take pictures with cherry blossoms. Below this cherry tree, there is an old stone monument of Tsukuda Island ferry, which can also be tasteful.

(Spring 2015)

　

We arrive at Minato Park, the goal. I'm hungry.

The terrace is still under construction, but when you walk along the Sumida River terrace around here, Missil's "HANABI" becomes a nasty.

Missil's HANABI PV (Music Video) begins with Kazuhisa Sakurai standing up the bench and walking on the Sumida River Terrace from this place before the park was built.

At that time there was a concrete dike in front of me, separated from the Sumida River. Recently, I was reborn as a new Shinsui-Koen Park, not only on the terrace, but also on the beautiful scenery.

　

He also prepared a bench properly. This bench is a special seat where you can enjoy the waterside. If you imagine the cherry blossoms of Tsukuda blooming on the opposite bank from now on, it will be a very fun place.

　

 

 

　

　The 72nd weather "Momokumeba Eizuru".

The steadily growing warm sunlight pours on the earth, and small green onion-colored life will soon begin to sprout from the ground and tree branches.

One of the pleasures of walking around the green space and park in early spring is the observation of winter buds, buds, and "leaf scars".

The shape of winter buds varies from tree to tree, and the traces of the deciduous leaf pattern "leaf scars" are unique, and the Omojiro faces of plagiarized people and animals are found, and interest is not exhausted.

The first thing that attracts attention at Harumi Triton Square's "Flower Terrace" is the winter buds of hydrangea and "leaf scars".

Dark purple winter buds and candle-shaped crowns stand out from all over the light brown branches.

"Leaf scars" are in which traces of the vascular bundle consisting of the wood part of the water passage absorbed from the roots and the teacher part of the nutrient passage remain like spots. In the case of hydrangea, there are three traces of vascular bundles, It is shaped to V-shaped, expressive, and can be parable in various ways from grandfather to baby face.

Winter buds of horse chestnuts, which have a strong presence, are covered with glossy mucus.

Compared to oshima cherry, the winter buds of Someisino have a hairy impression.

American zaifuriboku has a slightly open bud scale and white hairs.

The winter buds of Tamushiba and Shidekobushi are covered with fluffy fluff and feel warm.

The signs of spring are changing to a certain sign.

　

From the left, horse chestnut tree, maple

From the left, Yoshino cherry tree, oshima cherry, U.S.A.S.A.

 

 

On the last Saturday morning of February, I ate rice in Tsukiji.

This is "Umiyuki Hashikado" at Tsukiji Market, next to Namiki Inari Shrine. This is where there is a new building of Tsukiji Fish Bank / Kaisaibashi Building in the out-of-office market.

Tsukiji is near the mouth of the Sumida River, but in the vicinity there were once three ferry boats: Kachidoki, Tsukishima and Tsukuda. There is no wind today. I had time, so I decided to take a walk while looking for the features of the ferryboat. First, go to the nearby Kachidokibashi.

　

　

About a 4-minute walk, there is a large "Kachidoki Pass Monument" at the foot of Kachidokibashi. Looking at the explanation board, it is written that there was a ferryboat around "Namishi Inari Shrine" earlier.

The name of "Umiyuki Hashikado" next to the shrine is, of course, derived from "Umiyuki Bridge". It is an inland place away from the Sumida River, but in the past there was a river connected to the Sumida River, there was a ferryboat around Kaiyuki Bridge, and a boat appeared on the Sumida River.

　

In recent years, rivers have been reclaimed, bridges have been lost, and only the main pillar of the bridge and the name "Umiyuki Hashikado" in the Tsukiji market have remained. Now that the market is scheduled to be relocated to Toyosu, I think that the name of "Umiyuki Hashikado" will disappear, but the name of "Tsukiji Fish Bank / Kaiyuki Bridge Building" built on the site of the river I decided to connect a little memory of Kaiyuki Bridge.

　

　

I crossed Kachidokibashi. It is the scenery of the Sumida River and Tsukiji area seen from "Kachidoki" on the opposite bank.

The town name Kachidoki and the name Kachidokibashi are derived from "Kachidoki-no-Hari". The name of the ferry is often given by the name of the land, but the name of the ferry was earlier.

In commemoration of the capture of Port Arthur fortress in the Russo-Japanese War in New Year 1905, volunteers from Kyobashi Ward set up a ferryboat and named it "Kachidoki no Ferry". Tsukiji has a history that there were many naval-related facilities in the past, but is that also related?

　

In 1940, when Kachidokibashi was established, the ferryboat ended its role.

　

The former ferryboat on the Kachidoki side is the Sumida River Terrace, which is currently under construction, just on the left side. The remnants of the ferryboat could not be found now.

From Kachidoki, head to "Tsukishima Pass Ruins" in Tsukishima.

　

　

　

If you walk along the road closest to the Sumida River in Tsukishima, you will find a park called "I Children's Amusement Park", where you will find an explanation board called "Tsukishima Passover". Is the remnants of the ferryboat about this explanation board and the name of the park?

Tsukishima and Kachidoki are landfills. After this area was reclaimed, a ferry was made shortly afterwards. The ferryboat has come over time with the beginning of the land on Tsukishima, but it has also been abolished due to the construction of Kachidokibashi nearby.

　

Here, there was a common information board on the banks of the Sumida River, so I will explain where I walked today. A red line walked. It is a route from Tsukishima up the river to Tsukuda, and finally crosses Tsukuda-ohashi Bridge to Minato Park in Tepposu.

　

From "I Children's Amusement Park", you can go to the Sumida River Terrace, but now you can't go out under construction and you can't see the opposite bank.

Therefore, from "Tsukishima 3-chome Children's Amusement Park" slightly upstream, I photographed the direction where the ferry port on the opposite bank was located. It seems that there was a ferryboat around the long-established restaurant "Jisaku". The white building behind it is a pump station.

There is also an explanation board for "Tsukishima's ferry" on the opposite bank. This is roughly written on the explanatory board.

　

・Tsukishima's ferry was started in 1892 in Meiji 25 (1892) by a civil engineering contractor Yusaburo Suzuki sailed from Minami-Iida-cho (currently Tsukiji 7-18) in Hashizume, Akashibashi to Tsukishima (currently Tsukishima 3-chome 24) by boat. It begins with the start of a private toll ferry.

・In 1901, Tokyo City, taking into account the importance of transportation to Tsukishima, decided to municipalize the ferry, and in 1935, relocated the ferryboat to Akashicho (currently Akashicho No. 14) and started alternating operation with two steamship Hikifunes.

　

I took a picture at a later date. One corner with the explanation board is Tsukiji 7-chome, and the building at the back of the left is Akashicho's "Jsaku", and the Sumida River flows behind it. The strange thing is that this explanation board is located quite far from the banks of the Sumida River.

The ferryboat is written on the explanation board as "Minami-Iida-cho, Akashibashi Hashizume", but I do not know where it is.

Here, we open smartphone application "Chuo-ku town walk map" of Chuo-ku tourist association. What is noteworthy of this app is where you can see old maps of Chuo-ku during the Edo, Meiji, and Showa eras, and where you are now is also shown on the old map with GPS.

　

In the past, there was a waterside that was diagonally connected to the Sumida River, the pumping station was the site of the waterside, and the road before the restoration was the place where the Akashi Bridge was built. Hashizume of Akashibashi is now a place with an explanation board, and there was a ferryboat here. The area around the work is Akashicho No. 14, so it seems that the ferryboat moved later.

I forcibly painted the old waterside in light blue. Today's "Akatsuki Park" was a large waterside space called "Akashibori". From here, the "Tegunsu River" flowed near today's goal point.

Is the fun place to walk looking at the old map so that you can feel like looking for a treasure by looking at the "treasure map"?

　　

　　

　

I came to Tsukuda, where the "Monument of Tsukuda Island Ferry" is located. It is the history of Tsukuda Island that existed since the early Edo period, but the history of Tsukuda's ferryboat also begins around the same time. It seems that there were various changes in the ferryboat, but the opening of Tsukuda-ohashi Bridge in 1964, when the Olympics were held, ended its long history.

When I was taking a picture of this monument with a bash, an old couple came closer. He said that he would walk from Tsukishima and go to Sumiyoshi-jinja Shirine from now on. A 90-year-old grandfather. He told me a lot of things slowly.

　　

I knew everything when the three ferryboats were moving. The boat of Kachidoki was the smallest, the bridge was built and the boat was gone, and there was no landfill in Toyomi yet.

　

It was just a treasure time. Thank you very much.

　　

Cross the Tsukuda-ohashi Bridge and look upstream. There is a cherry tree at the base of Tsukuda-ohashi Bridge, and there is another monument of Tsukuda Island ferry below it. This is where the ferry port was. It's a little more that the cherry blossoms bloom and you can walk on the terrace.

　　

"Minatocho Daiichi Children's Amusement Park and Shiomi guardian of children and travelers" is located near the mouth of the former Gun Sugawa River. It is said that the river was reclaimed during the Great Kanto Earthquake, but there were times when the ferry port of Tsukuda was near this estuary.

I can't imagine that the river was flowing here at all now, but even if the scenery changes, when I look for the memories of the waterside, it lives in unexpected places, maybe something You may find it.

　

　

"Minato Park" at the goal. It is a park where you can go directly to the terrace after the construction of the Sumida River Terrace is completed.

A place with a good view of Chuo-ohashi Bridge upstream. It is said that during the Edo period, many large sailing boats came from far away stopped, and transported them to small boats and transported them to Edo city. It is likely to be a pleasant park to imagine such a scenery and think about it.

　

 

 

April is the season when a new semester begins.

For those who want to start something from such spring, an event will be held at the Social Education Center in Chuo-ku where you can experience and observe the active circles.

This "Spring Circle Experience Week" will be held at Tsukiji Social Education Center from Monday, March 20 to 26 (Sun).

The activities are open to the public, with Japanese calligraphy, flower arrangement, embroidery, kanji, cooking, yoga, karaoke, gospel, dance, etc.

A flyer is available at the hall, so if you are interested, please check the schedule and experience it or visit it.

Please note that some applications require advance application.

In addition, for three days from Friday, March 24 to 26 (Sun), the 68th Chuo Ward cultural festival Exhibition will be held at the Art Harumi Gallery in Harumi 1-chome, Harumi. Exhibition will be held.

This is where circles working at the three social education halls, Tsukishima, Tsukiji, and Nihonbashi, present their respective works.

There are also Japanese calligraphy, Monochrome ink painting, Haiku, watercolors, photographs, wood grain dolls, embroidery, metal art, etc.

If you want to find new hobbies and fun, please take advantage of this opportunity.

Click here for the website of Chuo Ward Social Education Center　⇒

http://chuo-shakyo.shopro.co.jp/