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♪ Shopping at Takashimaya Chot Kido

Takashimaya Nihonbashi is a historic department store that colors the streets of Nihonbashi. The current building was designed by Sadataro Takahashi in 1933 (1933), and was renovated and renovated by Togo Murano while taking over the design and incorporating modern architecture techniques. It was designated as a national important cultural property for the first time as a department store building as a beautiful work that is inseparable as a whole.

♪ Friendship Messenger with Chuo-ohashi Bridge Paris

Chuo-ohashi Bridge was built in 1994 (1994). In the center of the bridge, the "Messenger Statue" by sculptor Osship Zackin stands up facing the upstream side. This was awarded to commemorate the friendship between the Seine of Paris in France and the Sumida River in Tokyo in Japan. The ship held by the statue of Messenger means a French ship that goes out to the sea in search of rare wood, protecting the safety of the sea.

♪ Dreams of the Tsukuda-ohashi Bridge Olympic Games

Tsukuda-ohashi Bridge was completed in 1964 (1964), the year of the Tokyo Olympics. At the same time, Tsukuda's ferry, which retains the remnants of the Edo atmosphere and has been loved by people, has ended its 300-year history. Tsukuda-ohashi Bridge is a bridge made using the cutting-edge technology of the time, called a three-diameter continuous steel floor slab girder bridge. It was made by Harima Heavy Industries in Ishikawajima. And 2020. Tsukuda-ohashi Bridge has been illuminated and has been illuminating the next Olympics.

♪ Tepposhu Minato Inari has been in the last millennium

Tepposu Inari Shrine has a history of 1000 years, and during the Edo period it was the guardian angel of the sea, overlooking Edo Minato. There is a theory that the name of the gunshot is the area along the Sumida River from Minato to Akashicho, which was reclaimed after the Great Fire of the Meiryaku era (1657), and the terrain is shaped like a gun (matchlock musket), or because it is a place where the gunshot of the Shogunate tried shooting. Every year there is a cold bathing tournament in January, and a performance of Shintomiza Children's Kabuki in May.

♪ The bell of time Kodemmacho

There is a Kanetsuki-do in Jisshi Park in Kodemmacho. Originally, around Muromachi 4-chome, which went straight along Togane-dori to Chuo-dori, a bell was placed throughout Edo City from the time of the second shogun Hidetada Tokugawa. Genchi Tsuji (Tsujigenshichi) played the role of bells. There was a prison nearby, sometimes used as a signal to execution, and each time it was thought of a sinner, and it was also called the "bell of compassion" because the bell rings a little late.

♪Everyone, please print it out and play it!

‐ References ‐
"Chuo-ku Monoshiri Encyclopedia" published by Chuo-ku Tourism Association 2019
"Chuo-ku Street Corner Sketch" is being broadcast every day at Chuo FM 84.0!

Correspondent Minato kid, Chuo-ku Tourism Association
No. 109 October 13, 2020