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Saemonbashi also comes to the three wards of Kukai Bakurocho and Yokoyamacho!

　Saemon Bridge spans the Kanda River, upstream of Izumi Bridge near Akihabara, and downstream of Mikurahashi, one upstream of downstream of Asakusabashi downstream.

　"The center of this bridge is the border between Taito Ward, Chiyoda-ku, and Chuo-ku, and there is a point indicating that it is a ward boundary in Chuo Ward," but in fact no signs such as studs were found .

The address display of Chuo-ku is Nihonbashi Bakurocho 2-chome, and the street of the bridge is named "Saemonbashi".

In the picture of the Edo period

According to the Edo period picture, Saemonbashi also came to the three wards of Kukai Bakurocho and Yokoyamacho!

　According to the pictorial map of 1856 (1856), which was installed at the base of the bridge, this bridge was not in the Edo era, and the northernmost part of the current bridge was the Shimoyashiki of Captain Sakai Saemon of the Dewa Tsuruoka Domain. It was.　In the old map at my hand, it is written as "Satozoku, Saemon Kawagishi Toso". From this, it seems that this bridge was named.

In the explanation board on the Taito Ward side,

According to the explanation board on the Taito Ward side, Saemon Bridge will also come to the three wards of Kukai Bakurocho and Yokoyamacho!

Panels set up by Taito Ward

"Asakusa Saemon-cho stood up in 1890 in Meiji 23 (1890), and during the Edo period there was a residence of Tokugawa Fudaidai Daimyo and Captain Saemon Sakai.

　The bridge itself was built with private funds in 1875 and was severely damaged by the Taisho Earthquake, so the current bridge was built as part of the earthquake reconstruction project in 1830. It seems that it was done.　

Nearby Bakurocho and the wholesale districts of Yokoyamacho are also full of fun shops. Please go out.