Chuo-ku Tourism Association correspondent blog

　We walked around Kachidokibashi in winter morning.

At around 7 o'clock in the morning, when there were few traffic, I photographed the buildings seen from the base of the bridge.

This is a photo from Nishizume on the left bank of Sumida River.

　 To the left of Tokyo Tower, Shiodome Shiodome Shiosite right is Conrad Tokyo.

The Shiodome City Center Building looks like a rice cracker twisted.

　On the right side of the riverbank is Tsukiji Market and the parking lot building.

Gun Center Central Hospital.

　Kanji characters of "Kachidokibashi" view from the right bank Nishizume

At the place where you cross it, the hiragana notation of "Kachidokibashi" is written.　

The building on the left is Inuikatchidokivir Crestocitate Residence

　You can also see Tokyo Towers in the distance.

 

 

　I will cross the right bank Higashizume from now on.

The silhouette of Plaza Tower Kachidoki is beautiful.

 

I just looked at the downstream side from the upstream side of the bridge.

　The photo on the right shows the upper stream.

You can see St. Luke Hospital and Sumitomo Life Building.

You can see the distance from Ishikawajima Island on Tsukuda Island.

　You can look upstream from the left bank (around Tsukishima).

Just right to the right of St. Luke Hospital, you can see only the Tokyo Sky Tree spire antenna.

The photo on the left is

From the left bank Higashizume (Tsukishima), I looked at the Ginza area.

The morning sun is beautiful reflecting on the side of the building.

You can see the Tsukishima River Suimon at the left end of the photo on your right.

If you get warmer in the future, it's a great thing to walk around Kachidokibashi.

A lot of flowers begin to bloom in the plums and flower beds.

 

 

 

The Chuo-ku Snow Festival will be held on February 9 and 10 at Akatsuki Park at Tsukiji 7-chome.

This festival, which is held once every two years, is very popular mainly for infants and children in lower grades of elementary school.

About half of Akatsuki Park is covered with snow brought from a friendship city, Higashine City, Yamagata Prefecture, and a slope that is too far enough for children to appear.

You can rent sleds and miniskies for free. The row of skis is long, but the order is fast.

In addition, potato broth by local PTA and father's party is also served.

There is no doubt that you can see the children's bursting smile, please go out.

 

 

I visited temples and shrines full of individuality in Chuo-ku, strolled around the neighborhood, and continued a series to offer a phrase of memories, but this is the last one.

 

In Shikoku pilgrimages, the departure of a prayer trip is called "application" (hotsugan), and the successful completion of a tour is called "kigan". The pilgrimage to Chuo-ku continues, but as a conclusion of this series, we decided on the place of "Ying" at Tsukiji's "Namishi Inari Shrine".

 In the early Edo period, the Shogunate built the current Tsukiji area to expand the city area, but at that time, when the intense waves were extremely difficult, the weather stopped when worshiping Inari found on the sea, It is said that From that history, the precious name of "wab removal" was given.

 

It has long been worshiped as a guardian deity in the Tsukiji area, but since the fish shore moved after the Great Kanto Earthquake, it has become even more bustling. At the festival last summer, many people from the market participated and it was exciting. Will this festival change if Tsukiji Market moves? Or will it leave the same atmosphere? However, the history of this shrine, which has been over 350 years, will surely be passed down.

The symbol of "Namishi Inari Shrine" is a pair of male and female lion heads. In the past, it seems that it was a festival to pray for good luck with the dragon and the tiger, but now only the lion is left and is enshrined carefully. However, at the time of the festival, this lion is also tailored to portable shrine and travels around each town lively. For the people of Tsukiji, they are proud and familiar.

 

There are a number of mounds, namely memorials, such as Tamagozuka and Ebitsuka, on the grounds. It was dedicated by the market participants with gratitude for their lives. It is a monument unique to the area where many people work related to fresh fish and sushi.

 

 

 

I think many people visit Ko Shrine when they visit Tsukiji Market, but please go to the Sumida River because it is a great deal. The view of the river surface from Kachidokibashi is also relaxing. When it gets a little warmer, you can also taste the scenery of "Spring Urara's Sumida River ... ♪", which is declared in Rentaro Taki's "Flowers" on the Sumida River Terrace.

In addition, "Tentake" in front of Tsukiji Market Kachidoki Gate is a famous restaurant where you can taste delicious without hesitation. On the 29th of every month, Fugu Tendon is usually 1,680 yen as a "Fugu Day Service", so it is advantageous because it is just 1,000 yen. Please try it once.

By the way, the event of this season is the Setsubun Festival on February 3. It will also be held here at "Namishi Inari Shrine". (Photo 2 leaves of the Setsubun Festival are quoted from the shrine website.)

On the evening of Setsubun's Day, a ceremony is held in accordance with the ancient ceremony called "Tonna Mitsuya". It shoots three arrows, each of which has the meaning of "turning the disease to health", "turning the pain to fortune", and "turning the shade cheerfully". After that, a scatter a lot of sweets from a special stage. Every time, many worshipers come in search of lucky sweets. I'm going to join this scatter this year too.

At "Namishi Inari Shrine", the shout of "Oni is outside" is not used, and it is exclusively chanted as "Fuku is inside". There is a feeling of praying for the happiness of worshipers in the precincts.

 

In the first place, "Setsubun" means "the turn of the season", and of course it is originally four times a year, but it seems that it began to refer only to the day before "Riharu". Long ago, Ritsuharu was the beginning of the year, so Setsubun was an important day with the meaning of switching from old to new.

The event called "Tsuna" is a Miyanaka event that was once held on New Year's Eve to pay evil demons that destroyed the capital of Kyoto. Eventually, "Oniyarai" became a custom called "bean-throwing ceremony" and spread throughout the country. Since "Setsubun" had the meaning of a year's milestone, I guess it might have come to take place on this day instead of "New Year's Eve".

 

My old aunt, who was already older when I was a child, called "Setsubun" "New Year's Eve." Apparently, there are regions all over the country that call so. In other words, you can see that "Setsubun" was positioned similar to New Year's Eve. In addition, the custom of "Ehomaki", which has recently been advertised in a complex, etc., was originally a region centered on Osaka, and it spread to the Kanto region in no time. It is said that Seven-Eleven launched it around 1990. It's still late, isn't it?

In Osaka, it has been practiced since ancient times, as it invites luck by rolling thick rolls toward Ekata of that year. It is customary that you should not speak at this time. However, this custom in Osaka is not so old, and it has spread at once since the owner of a sushi shop in the Taisho era that the husbands of the Senba originally went to play in the teahouse, after the owner of a sushi shop campaign to develop needs It is a common theory that it spread. In other words, it originated very similar to "Eel of Earth" and "Valentine Day".

 

As such, the desire to do "bean-throwing ceremony" on the day of "Setsubun" and wish for fortune remains unchanged. In most homes, my father may play the role of a demon. It is also an important role to escape by being hit by children with sanzan beans. After the children fall asleep, do you have your mother accompany me with a green liquor? Even in the town of Tsukiji, you can see each other in the night of Setsubun.

 

If you hear "Ritsuharu", your feelings will flutter in spring even if it is still cold. I wish you a bright and happy spring.

 This is the end of this series. Thank you very much for your cooperation.

 

・・・ A bowl of sake with a clear star and a ragged demon　

 

 

 

I can't wait for the Tokyo Marathon in winter, and I'm one of those runners.

I can't run this year after losing the lottery, but last year I was lucky enough to participate in the Tokyo Marathon 2012.

I would like to report mainly on the Chuo-ku section while delaying.

Application will be made in August of the previous year, and lottery results will be announced in October. The magnification of recent lottery seems to be quite severe. There was time since the start was confirmed, so I practiced here and there, mainly around the Sumida River Terrace. In addition, I divided the test run of the course into several times. In the last few months, I also participated in other races and started the race with the ability to run as competitive as distance.

And on the day. Fortunately, I was able to race in an environment where the weather was good and easy to run. There is no problem with your physical condition. At 9:10 in the morning, we started in Shinjuku, Tokyo Metropolitan Government. The race itself went in the same way as his personal best time.

If you pass through the guard of Yurakucho at 21km, you will enter Chuo-ku. Heading to the intersection of Ginza 4-chome and heading to Nihonbashi on Chuo-dori is the most exciting area. An atmosphere that you can't taste in other marathons. Cheering does not stop even if you go from Kayabacho toward Ningyocho. Hamacho is close to my home, so it has family support. Head to Asakusabashi and go to Taito-ku once. When you come back from Asakusa again, it's more than 30 km and it gets harder and harder. Again, cheer for the family. I will do my best for the voice of the people along the road. Take the intersection of Ginza 4-chome toward Higashiginza, pass through Tsukiji, Tsukuda-ohashi Bridge, Asashio Ohashi, and go to Koto-ku. This area is 36 km.

Then it will be my last work. My feet were close to my limit and I couldn't do it, but I managed to hold it to Tokyo Big Sight and scored in 3 hours and 7 minutes. I'm happy to have a new record for the first time in a long time. It was a fun 42.195km. And one day I would like to open the 2-hour range.

The Chuo-ku section is an important section from the middle to the end, and is also a fun section. The pleasure of the scenery and the support of the roadside helped the players quite a bit. Especially when I was running in Ginza, I was impressed. I want to participate in the Tokyo Marathon again, and want to run more in Chuo-ku.

I will support you very hard this year. It's lonely that I can't run.

 

 

If you look at the map of Bunkyu's first year (1861) at hand, there is the "Gunship Training Center" at the base of the current Kachidokibashi. In 1857, a warship professor's office (later becoming a warship training center) was founded in the Tsukiji Kobusho, and became a dedicated land in the first year of Mannobu (1860). After that, it moved to Hamarikyu due to a fire, but it is a historical archeological site of the Navy following the Naval Mission in Nagasaki.

 

 

 

There is a monument to Naval Accounting School under Kachidokibashi, where the warship training center was located. The Navy Accounting School Building, founded in 1874, became a Navy Accounting School in 1907 and was located in Tsukiji from 1932 to the end of the war in 1945. It is said that many accountants created by this school contributed to the reconstruction of Japan after the war.

 

There is a monument of "Hagiyama" in front of "Uokawagishimizu Shrine" in Tsukiji Market. It is a monument commemorating the fact that people called the artificial hill of "Yuonen" where the Ministry of Naval was placed here in 1872 and the Navy flag was displayed. This is the birthplace of the naval in Japan.

 

Heading toward Ginza, in front of Saijobashi, behind the National Cancer Research Center, there are monuments of "Navy Barracy Dormitory" and "Navy Medical School Ruins". The Naval Training Center, founded in Tsukiji in 1869, was renamed the Naval Military Dormitory in the following three years. In 1876, it was renamed the Naval Academy and moved to Etajima, Hiroshima Prefecture in 1889, where naval education took place. After moving to Etajima, this building was used as a Naval University until it was burned down by the Great Kanto Earthquake.

 

The education of naval physicians began in Tsukiji in 1873 as a school building attached to the Naval Hospital. There were many changes, but until the new school building was established in 1929, we raised a number of medical personnel here as a naval medical school.

 

Currently, the National Cancer Center is constructing a new building and usually the entrance is closed and you can not see this monument, but you can visit it by calling a security guard.

 

Now, the front of Tsukiji is the Sumida River, but in the early Meiji era, it is natural that many navy facilities were here. It's also fun to think of the scenery of the past toward the Sumida River.

 

 

We would like to inform you that there will be an event to enjoy walking on the Tokyo Marathon Course again this year.　

In this event, for those who want to run but can't run, or want to walk, but in a very day ..., the course is divided into five and every Saturday from January 26 to February 23 It takes place.　The first day of January 26 is a course from the Tokyo Metropolitan Government Office to Iidabashi Station.　

Chuo-ku will guide you happily while visiting historic sites and famous stores on February 16 and February 23.　(In other words, we will guide you through silverware as a guide.)　

 

Date of implementation and course
① Saturday, January 26

Meeting place and time: Tokyo Metropolitan Government Minami observation deck 12:50, Departure at 13:00.

Co-s: Tokyo Metropolitan Government, under Shinjuku Daiguard, Hanazono-jinja Shrine, Shoin, Ichitani Hachimangu Shrine, Iidabashi Station

② Saturday, February 2
Meeting place and time: JR Iidabashi Station West Exit ticket gate 12:50, Departure at 13:00

Course: In front of Iidabashi Station, Tokyo grand shrine, Showakan, Imperial Palace Garden and Hibiya Park. 

③ Saturday, February 9
Meeting place and time: 12:50 in front of the flower bed at Hibiya Park, departing at 13:00

Co-s: Hibiya Park, Zojoji Temple, Sengakuji Temple, Other Historic Sites, Shinagawa Station

④ Saturday, February 16
Meeting place and time: Ginza 4-chome Mitsukoshi Lion Statue 12:50, Departure 13:00

Course: Visit the monuments of Ginza, historic sites of Kyobashi, famous shops in Nihonbashi, and choredo Nihonbashi, Suitengu, amazake Yokocho, Asakusabashi-Asakusa

⑤ Saturday, February 23: Morning part: Lunch at Tsukishima (own at your favorite store, paid by yourself)
Meeting place and time: Ginza 4-chome Mitsukoshi Lion Statue 10:20, Departure 10:30
Course: Ginza, Tsukiji, Tsukuda, Tsukishima (lunch)

⑥ Feb. 23 (Sat): noon part
Meeting place and time: Exit 3 of Tsukishima on the Oedo Line at 12:50, Departure at 13:00.
Course: Tsukishima, Toyosu, Tokyo Big Sight = Goal in!　

 

Participation is free, but you need to apply in advance.　

TCGC Tokyo Citizen Guide Club Secretariat Phone:　03-6912-1518