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"Ningyocho Daishoken" closed with a history of 108 years!
● It's a sad news. The main store of Ningyocho Daishoken, which has been introduced several times in this blog, has been closed in February.
● Opened in Ningyocho in 1913 (1913), "China's cuisine Daishoken", along with cinemas, dance halls, restaurants, Meijiza, Yoseki Suehiro, Suitengu, etc. It can be said that it is one of the famous shops that flourished from the Taisho era to the Showa era in this area.
It was a shop that filled the belly of husbands, entertainers, and regulars of smarts. And since the Heisei era, as a coffee shop, we have provided a moment of peace.
● On the day before the last day of February 28, I visited during a busy time, and this time again with Chieko Watanabe (92 years old), the fourth generation of Daishoken Main Store, and Yutaro Watanabe of the fifth generation I have come.
Photographs of Daishoken's store
▲Left: Head office in 1928, right: Asakusa Branch (1933)
● The head office (Ningyocho) at the time of 1928 was not the current location, but on the street of Suehiro Shrine (now next to Kijuji).
▲Left: Daishoken Honten (1986), at the peak of Showa era, right: "Coffee Daishoken" of Heisei and Reiwa (2020)
● From 1988 (1988), it was reopened as "Coffee Daishoken".
What you received when the store is closed.
▲I had a menu (front and back) that I used until I closed the Chinese restaurant.
▲We also had a coffee cup of Gen-emon Kiln used at "Coffee Daishoken".
▲A nostalgic match and a telephone card. The bottom is a great coupon that was used until the store closed.
▲At that time, an article introduced in the Asahi Shimbun's home column that regrets closing a Chinese restaurant.
● A famous restaurant loved by everyone, from regulars of the times to young people, as a Chinese restaurant "Ningyocho Daishoken Main Store" and "Coffee Daishoken".
The curtain is now set down in the history of that 108 years.