Chuo-ku Tourism Association correspondent blog

On New Year's Day, I went around Nihonbashi "Seven Lucky Gods". Perhaps the nature of the land, the gods of performing arts, business, fortune, and school work are in line. The biggest crowd is Suitengu. January 1 The Dog's Day and the birth rush overlap, and it seems to be very crowded. We visited the four companies that prefer elderly people.

On the left ↓ The photo shows Koami Shrine, which was enshrined about 550 years ago at the headquarters of protection against misfortune for good luck, and on the right ↓ The Chanogi Shrine, which is said to be the god of fire because there was no fire in nearby towns.

The left ↓ is "Suehiro Shrine", which has been worshiped for 400 years as a god who gives luck and avoids disasters, and the right ↓ is "Kasama Inari Shrine" Tokyo Bessha, longevity (Kotobuki Oigami), guidance, good luck God.

Last year 2018 was the year when a catastrophe struck, but what about this year? On New Year's Day, we met Yurikamome on the calm Sumida River, and at Tsukiji Honganji Temple, light was shining under the blue sky. According to the temple's manners, I visited the shrine for the first time and received a card of New Year's book [Hikari], General Manager Yasunaga.

Head to "Namishi Inari Shrine" outside Tsukiji. A god that protects the Tsukiji area as a wave-removal Inari, founded about 350 years ago, which was difficult to reclaim the entire Tsukiji area. It was a long line. It is a 15-minute walk from the Sumida River Terrace from here, founded in the Heian period, and is the god of the Kyobashi district, Gunsu Shrine. At the Asama Shrine subsidiary shrine in Fujizuka, which was said to have been a place of worship for Fuji in Edo (right ↓).

 

 

　In the New Year, the New Year's Day 3 is lit at Tokyo Tower from 20:00 to 22:00 on New Year's Day, and the annual limited light-up "Diamond Vere Ribbon Gold" is lit.

From 16:00 to 24:00, "2019" is displayed on the south side of the main deck (Shinagawa area).

This is a limited light-up that directs the arrival of the New Year with a message of hope and celebration on the yellow ribbon gold seen from the Sumida River Terrace in Kachidoki.

Sunset-20:00, 22:00-At dawn, landmark lights are lit.

New Year's Day will be open from 6:00 to enjoy the divine "first sunrise" seen from Tokyo Bay. The first 2019 visitors from observation deck will receive a commemorative medal with the "2019.1.1" stamp.

The new year worshipping of Tower grand shrine, which has been temporarily transferred to the 3rd floor of Foottown due to the construction of the main deck (originally located in the highest place in the 23 wards), is also exciting.

 

 

　2018 is finally getting stuck, and today is New Year's Eve.

At Tsukiji Honganji Temple, from 23:00 on December 31st, the annual Buddhist memorial service "Nighting Party" was held in main hall, reflecting on the passing years, thinking about the new year, and looking at the last Buddha's virtue of the year.

The main hall is lit up, with candle art mimicking the Tsukiji Honganji logo, a amazake entertainment table, and a tent selling soba and oden.

From 22:00, a "bell of night removal" contradiction ticket will be distributed only for 350 people, and will be guided after worshiping the night removal party.

In addition, a special "bell of peace" on the precincts will be hit without a numbered ticket after worshiping at night. In the multi-purpose hall of the information center, "Buddha de Daikiri-Let's ask the monk-" is planned to think about the moyamoya of people's questions and worries with the monk.

 

 

Tsukiji Sushi Shinso Honten is located on the first floor of Aloa Tsukiji Building, facing Heisei-dori, Tsukiji 1-chome.

It is also famous for its tuna dismantling show

It is open from 11:00 noon to 5:00 at midnight (before dawn).

Sunday sales are also nice here.

Today, I will come to lunchtime and order a seafood bowl set with lunch menu.

Salad and steamed tea bowl

Thank you for the salad. The steamed tea bowl is also delicious.

It's a seafood bowl.

I forgot to take a picture and started eating it.

Each of the stories is fresh.

It's in the lunch rotation.

Click here for the website of this shop.　⇒

https://sakanaya-group.com/01sushisen/01sohonten/main.html

 

 

Happy New Year
It's Hanes, a new correspondent!
Everyone, did you eat New Year's Eve soba at the end of the year? And did you go to new year worshipping on New Year's Day?
This time, we will introduce the traditions and culture of the Edo period related to the year-end and New Year holidays.
I would like to deliver a New Year's scenery in Chuo-ku.


(Left: Ginza Mitsukoshi, right: Ginza Ukaitei)

■A story near the Edo period
It is now a soba that has become established as a food to eat at the end of the year.
Did you know that soba was actually popular in the Edo period?
It is said that night stalls called "Yataka Soba" flourished, and at its peak, nearly 4,000 soba shops lined up in Edo City!

At first, I was soaked in soba juice, but during the Genroku era (1688-1704), a way to eat juice was devised.
From this time, "Kake" (with hot juice) and "Mori" (with conventional juice) have been distinguished.
Since the Meiji era, "Zaru" (dispersed glue on "Mori") appeared.
And late Tokugawa shogunate came out of "Okame soba" (a few kinds of ingredients arranged on the side like a kame mask).

I'm worried about the differences between each soba shop lined up in Edo city.

■The story of the fish market in the Edo period
On the New Year's Day of the Edo period, it was customary to rest both the shopping street and the fish market.
It is said that the fish market clerks celebrated the adult day on New Year's Day, ate zoni, and spent sleeping.
However, some young people seemed to have gone to Eho-san (the prototype of new year worshipping) or to see the play.

At night, the Japanese lantern was hung without gaps so brightly that it was said to "blow the daytime."
We arranged seafood on a board boat and prepared for the first sale starting at 0 o'clock on the 2nd.
The first sale was so crowded that it was difficult to walk, but it seems that a lion dance called Ichibun lion that excites the mood sometimes entered.

Just listening to the story, it seems that the excitement of not pushing and pushing is floating in my mind.

■Kabuki
At Kabukiza, the first day will be celebrated on the 2nd.





The birthplace of Edo Kabuki is also located in Chuo-ku.
It would be nice to try the traditional performing arts early in the New Year.

■<Aside> The story of a building in Chuo-ku in 2019
Chuo-ku, a construction rush, including Olympic athlete villages (later HARUMI FLAG) and numerous hotels and condominiums.
The environment for accepting foreign visitors to Japan will be enhanced, and the number of residents is expected to increase.
On the other hand, the preparation and construction of cultural facilities that are good for existing residents seems to be progressing one after another.

In July 2019, a high-rise building called Museum Tower Kyobashi (MUSEUM TOWER KYOBASHI) is scheduled to be completed on the site of the former Bridgestone Headquarters Building.
The Bridgestone Museum of Art later changed its name and entered the lower floors as the Artizon Museum (ARTIZON MUSEUM).
This will be a new base for cultural arts, and a lively atmosphere will be created in the (tentative name) Art Square, a plaza that will be maintained on the ground.



Also, in Shintomi, a complex facility such as a library (tentative name) Honnomori Chuou is scheduled to start construction in July 2019 (scheduled to open in 2022).
Please come and visit Chuo-ku, where the topic is constantly growing and every day this year.
Chuo City will never cease to amaze us :)

 

 

It is the Hamarikyu Garden at the end of the year.

The park is closed from the end of the year and the beginning of the year, from December 29 to January 1.

The opening hours are from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.

We were preparing to welcome New Year's visitors.

Every year on New Year's Day, an event suitable for the New Year is held in this garden.

Demonstration of hawk surgery, feathering and spinning at the fun square, commemorative photo at "Tsubame no Ochiya", garden guide, special guide of "Matsuno Ochiya", provision of matcha at Ochiya in Nakajima, etc.

All of them will be held on January 2nd and 3rd.

It is a venue where demonstrations of hawk surgery are performed.

It is a winter tradition, "Yukizuri".

Frost protection

As expected, there are few flowers during this season.

Japanese allspice

Squirrel

Camellia

Narcissus

The bright red fruit of Manryo

Some canola flower, which was protected by the net, was beginning to bloom.

I think I come here every time, but even if there is such a quiet and relaxing space in Chuo-ku, it is very close to Tokyo Bay.