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Cleaning and care of flower beds in Kyobashi
The other morning, people wearing red vests on the streets of Kyobashi were cleaning and caring for the flowerbed. I was refreshed to see the locals loving and working on a clean and flowering city. The photo was taken again at a later date. If you look at the vest, you will see the Japanese "Daiichi Life" on your chest and the English logo on your back. And the building where the first life comes near. But why is it cleaning and care?
Employees work in turn once a week
On the day of taking the picture, we asked Yukari Yamaguchi, who was in charge. It seems that the activity started in earnest around January this year. As a general rule, once a week from 10:00 am to 20-30 minutes on Friday, about 150 Dai-ichi Life employees of this building form a group of 10-20 people and clean and care in order. The activities are mainly around the Kyobashi Daikon Bank Hospitality Garden, which has a monument to the birthplace of Edo Kabuki, and around the Tsukiji Police Station Ginza 1-chome police box. The flowerbeds are replanted and watered, and watered about three times a week. After finishing, we finish with a group photo of everyone.
Contribution of local 100-year companies
But why do you clean and care for flower beds? The building southeast of the intersection of Kajibashi-dori and Chuo-dori, where Yamaguchi works, was built in 1921 by Kingo Tatsuno (designed Tokyo Station and the Bank of Japan) and others. It has been more than 100 years since then. The photo shows a model of this first building installed on the wall side on the north side of the building. The current building is the third generation and has changed to the name "Koukokan 110 Tower", but "As a company here for many years, I wondered if something could be useful to the local community." Therefore, he started applying for "Machikado Clean Day" and "Flowering Street Corner Volunteer" promoted by Chuo-ku.
By the way, when you look at "Machikado Clean Day" on the homepage of Chuo-ku, "From July 2005 to expand the circle of voluntary cleaning activities such as homes and offices and realize a clean and comfortable town (abbreviated) We are promoting cleaning activities ", and it seems that many people are participating in the city. In addition, the homepage stated, "In April 1989, the City of Flowers Chuo-ku Declaration was enacted, and we are working to realize a beautiful town and a clean town surrounded by flowers and greenery." . There is also an approach from the administrative side of Chuo-ku, and it is no wonder that there are many postings of flowers and trees on correspondent blogs.