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♪ Shop at Jan Jooss Ten Yaesu Underground Shopping Center

The street name Yaesu, in fact, comes from the Dutch navigator Jan Jooss Ten. In 1600 (1600), the Dutch merchant ship Leafde drifted ashore in Bungo no Kuni (now Oita Prefecture). With the trust of Ieyasu, Jan Jooss Ten worked as a diplomatic adviser and interpreter, and worshiped the mansion around Yaesu now. There is a bust of Jan Joossten in the Yaesu underground shopping mall. When shopping, please remember it.

♪ The person who created the postal system was Takashi Maejima

Takashi Maejima, a portrait of a 1-yen stamp, is the person who established the current postal system. In 1871 (1871), postal services using post offices, post boxes, and stamps were started between Tokyo and Osaka. At that time, Ekiteishi and the Tokyo Post Office were located at the current location of the Nihonbashi Post Office under Edobashi, where there was a monument to the birthplace of mail and a bust of Maejima Mitsu. There is.

♪ Armor Bridge Maison Konosu Bread Association

In 1910 (1910), when Maison Konosu, the first cafe in Tokyo, opened a store under it, the armor bridge was a steel-framed truss bridge. Mokutaro Kinoshita, Kitahara Hakushu, Isamu Yoshii and Junichirou Tanizaki of the Bread Society, who laid the foundations of modern literature, as well as many writers of Shirakaba, Shinshicho, and Mita's literature. It superimposed the wind blowing from the shore of armor, the night lights swaying on the Nihonbashi River, Western cuisine and sake, and the authentic art breeze touched in a distant foreign land.

♪Everyone, please print it out and play it!

‐ References ‐
"Chuo-ku Monoshiri Encyclopedia" published by Chuo-ku Tourism Association 2019
Kyobashi Library Regional Archives Homepage

Correspondent Minato kid, Chuo-ku Tourism Association
No. 113 December 2, 2020