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History of the Navy from the Warship Training Center Tsukiji Walk: (Looking encyclopedia)

　According to the "Chuo-ku Monoshiri Encyclopedia", supervised by the Chuo-ku Tourism Certification Committee,

The warship training center is the first full-fledged naval education institution by Edo shogunate.　There is an explanatory monument at Harumi-dori St. 6-20 Tsukiji.　In 1857 (1857), the Shogunate established a warship professor's office for flagships and family members in the Kobusho in Tsukiji, and later renamed it a warship training center.

　The facility was burned down in the first year of Genji (1864), and was temporarily relocated to the adjacent residence of Matsudaira Akimori, and was renamed the Navy Office in 1866 (1866).　In the same year, it was burned again and moved to the current Hamarikyu Garden.

Established Naval Training Center in 1869 ➡Renamed Naval Military Dormitory

Established Naval Training Center in 1869 ➡Renamed Naval Military Dormitory History of the Navy from the Warship Training Center Tsukiji Walk: (Looking encyclopedia)

　In 1869 (1869), the government established a Naval Training Center in Tsukiji.　The following year, in 1870, it was renamed the Naval Army Dormitory, renamed the Naval Academy in 1876, and moved to Etajima, Hiroshima Prefecture in 1888.

　Completed in 1871, the school building attracted the attention of people with a Western-style architectural style with clay roof tile on a sea rat wall.

(At this time, a light balloon launch test was held, and the scene at that time was drawn in Nishiki-e. The picture is shown in the permanent exhibition on the second floor of the Tsukiji Kyoueikai Building, owned by the Michikan from Tsukiji. As of July 31, 2021)

　Later, it was used as a school building for Naval University, but was burned down in the Great Kanto Earthquake.

In 1934 (1934), there is a monument near the northern entrance of the National Cancer Center (near the Metropolitan Ginza Tollgate), with the aim of conveying to future generations that the Naval Dormitory was located here.

Monument to the birthplace of the Navy in 1872

Monument to the birthplace of the Navy in 1872 History of the Navy from the Warship Training Center Tsukiji Walk: (Looking encyclopedia)

　In 1872 (1872), the government established the Navy Ministry in Tsukiji. Originally, at the place where the old man Sadanobu Matsudaira's lower house "Yuonen" was located, the "Navy Sir Flag" was displayed on the artificial hill in the park, so people called this mountain "Kizan Hatayama". It is said.

There was a stone monument commemorating the birthplace of the Navy in the former Tsukiji Market, but you cannot see the stone monument because entry into the site is currently prohibited.　　(Photo taken in January 2018)

Explanation of the Uogawagishimizu Shrine Haruka worship place and “Hagiyama” by the Fish Bank Association

Explanation of Uogawagishimizu Shrine Haruka worship place and "Hagiyama" by Fish Bank Association History of Navy from Warship Training Center Tsukiji Stroll: (Looking encyclopedia)

　When there was Tsukiji Market, there was also a fish riverbank water shrine.　At the end of this explanation, it is written as follows.

"This place is the site of Sadanobu Matsudaira Garden in the Edo period, and after the Meiji Restoration, it became a naval site, and the monument of "Hagiyama" on the precincts is a valuable historical site that describes the connection to the birthplace of the Japanese Navy. (This photo was taken in January 2018 before the closing of Tsukiji Market. The bamboo leaves of the upper shrine are living for the New Year.)