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The underground concourse of Mitsukoshi-mae Station on the Tokyo Metro, depicts the Nihonbashi area around 1805 (1805) in emakimono.

A copy of "Kidai Shoran" is on display.

In this emakimono, there are shops on the main street (now Chuo-dori) from Kanda Imagawa Bridge to Nihonbashi, as well as people who come and go.

It is depicted, but on the left end (south side), you can see Nihonbashi, which is crowded with many people.

The bronze lion statue attached to the main pillar at the four corners of the bridge is based on the guardian dog of Hachimangu Shrine, Nara Temuyama.

It was produced by Mr. Nagao Watanabe.

The lion statue, which holds the Tokyo emblem at the time of completion and makes the glimpse, represents Tokyo's "protection."

At the center of the east and west of the bridge is a bronze kirin statue.

The Kirin statue with a dragon with a head, a deer with a torso, and a back fin shaped like a feather is also produced by Nagao Watanabe.

This statue, which is still flying, expresses the "prosperity" of Tokyo City at the time of completion.

In the Edo period, Nihonbashi was a prestigious bridge that was allowed to attach "giboshi" to the pillars of the balustrade as the official bridge of the Shogunate.

Today Nihonbashi has become a stone bridge, but at the top of a small sleeve pillar at the end of the bridge, there is a design that shows the giboshi.

Nihonbashi Hashizume is undergoing landscape improvement, and on the east side of Kitazume, there is "Otohime Square", a statue of Otohime commemorating the former fish shore and a monument to the birthplace of Nihonbashi Fish Market.

In the past, the fish shore was located on the northern shore between Nihonbashi and Edobashi, and was crowded with many shoppers from the early morning of the Edo period, along with a playhouse in the morning and Yoshiwara at night, `` Senryo in a day '' Place to fall. "

Since then, the fish market has been relocated to Tsukiji due to the burning of the market due to the Great Kanto Earthquake, and has now moved to Toyosu.

The west side of Kitazume of the bridge is maintained as a "open space for the original mark".

In the Meiji era, the center of Nihonbashi was designated as the starting point of the national highway, and in 1911 (1911), the "Tokyo City Road Original Mark" (center of the photo) was built, but after that, with the abolition of Toden, it was relocated to this square. Was.

At present, the plate of the "Japan Road Mark" is embedded in the center of the bridge, and you can see the replica in the square of the original mark.

The west side of the bridge, Minamizume, is named "Flower Square" and is decorated with planting.

This is the place where there was a high billboard (the law of the Shogunate was written on a wooden board) during the Edo period, and the monument of "Nihonbashi Originki" established by the former Nihonbashi Ward in 1936 (1936) is placed. I am.

Also, in 2017 (2017), the Nihonbashi Tourist Information Center was opened.

On the east side of Minamizume of the bridge, water flows down the wall and is named "Taki no Hiroba".

In 2011 (2011), the Nihonbashi Pier was established, with cruise ships arriving and departing from the Nihonbashi River, Kanda River, Sumida River, etc.

In the Edo period, a bleaching area was set up here, and it was a place where people who had attempted suicide and had attempted suicide showed them.