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In the Meiji era, Yoshijun Matsumoto, the first governor of the Army Medical Service, encourages swimming along with drinking milk and bathing in hot springs. My father, Taizen Sato, is the founder of Juntendo. Persuad fisheries officials, open a beach on the Oiso coast, and explain the medical effects. Sea bathing encouraged by the supreme powers of the medical world is widespread.

The Omori Beach will be opened in Tokyo Bay in 1981 (Meiji 24). Although different from the location at that time, Omori Hometown Beach Park has a sandy beach that reproduces the beach at that time.

The Anamori Beach was opened in 1902 (Meiji 35), and the Haneda Beach was opened in 1909 (Meiji 42).

This photo shows Omori-Kaigan Station and Anamori Inari Station in Keikyu. This is Haneda. Right now there was land far away and there was no sign of a beach around the station.

In 1981 (Meiji 24), Kachidoki's ferry will be installed. It is said that volunteers from Kyobashi district set up and donated to Tokyo City in the current situation where the traffic of the Sumida River is insufficient due to the development of Tsukishima.

The above photo is a photo of the ferryboat on the Tsukishima side next to the stone monument of Kachidokibashi on the Tsukiji side. It's Tsukishima Nishikawashi-dori 9-chome (currently Kachidoki 1-chome).

Since Tokyo Bay was shallow and difficult to land large ships, digging the bottom and reclaimed the excavated soil, and Tsukishima No. 3 was completed in 1913 (Taisho 2). I am surprised that there were such technologies and machines around this time.

In 1917 (Taisho 6), Tsukishima Beach will open in Tsukishima No. 3 (currently Kachidoki 5, 6-chome).

The photo shows near the center of the current Kachidoki 5-6-chome. I think this area was the first beach after landfill.

"Jr Chuo-ku Culture and History" I saw in the Book Forest Chuo

"When Kachidoki 5 and 6th chome was still the sea, Tsukishima Beach was established there. There were many huts like sea houses, several of which were the first women's club in Tokyo, with baths, proper changing rooms, and dining rooms."

　It's said.

In October 1919 (Taisho 8), more than 500 workers at Tsukiji Kaibunsho gathered on the Tsukishima coast to reach a discussion strike.

I saw "Sumida River and both banks" in the book forest. The author is Hiroaki Toshima. I was born in Meiji.

It seems that he often came to Tsukishima Beach using Kachidoki's ferry. "Go to the ferryboat from the side of Tsukiji's Namiki Shrine and go from the Tsukiji River to the Sumida River by rowing boat. On a windy day, he was towed by a steamboat and crossed to the west bank of Tsukishima. " "When I turned right and crossed Niijima Bridge, I saw the enclosure of Yoshizuri and colorful banners at Tsukishima No. 3 and felt like swimming." "While waiting for the ferryboat on the way home after swimming, three friends competed for shaved ice at the store under Niijima Bridge, ate 13 cups, but lost to 14 friends." I think that shaved ice at that time was to drink honey underneath and ice on top, rather than eating. It's a big deal, but I don't think I couldn't win because I had a headache with a second cup of shaved ice.

The Tsukishima Beach, where the women's club was located, was closed in just three years (1917-1919) due to deterioration of water quality, and it is written in "Jr Chuo-ku Culture and History Zukan". .

The photo shows Sumida Kawazoe Ino Park at Tsukishima No. 2, the current Kachidoki 3-chome.

This article was published in the "Chuo-ku Chronology of Taisho era edition" I saw in the book forest Chuo.

July 10, 1921 (Taisho 10) A city swimming pool opened at Tsukishima No. 2. There is a photo of the hut in the newspaper.

On July 24, the city swimming pool was cheap and has various facilities, and more than 18,000 people visited since the opening, complaining that the nearby private swimming pool was deserted.

May 30, 1922 (Taisho 11) A petition was issued by a nearby resident on behalf of a member of the prefectural assembly to permit a swimming pool at the abolished Tsukishima No. 3 site.

June 8 There are 12 or 3 public and private swimming pools in Tsukishima.

July 2 There are more than 20 huts such as the Dainippon Swimming Dojo, Mukai-ryu, Otake Dojo, and more than 20 huts.

　It is written.

On July 29, the results of a river hygiene test conducted by the Tokyo City Sanitary Laboratory were published in an article, warning that swimming near the mouth of the Sumida River was extremely dangerous. It's said.

The rocky place in the photo is the Sumida River side of Kachidoki 5-chome, Tsukishima No. 3. The opposite bank is Hamarikyu. I don't know if this rock was in the Taisho era or early Showa era or was piled up after the war.

In the book forest Chuo's "Talking about the old days of Chuo-ku", various seniors are talking about swimming.

Participants are those born in Meiji, Tsukishima, Toyomi Kachidoki, and Harumi are memories of those born in the Taisho era and Showa era.

The first Tsukishima Beach, which was built, will be closed in 1919 (Taisho 9). It seems to be different from the sandy beach I imagine now, but it was not a rocky place. Landfill is progressing steadily toward Toyomi.

Along the Sumida River at Kachidoki 3-chome and Kachidoki 5-chome is a material storage area, and it seems that large and small iron pipes were piled up. Beyond that, there were people who left the hut and ran a sea house. There are three fishing gear shops and some say that the back was a beach in summer. It seems that he went down the stairs from the quay and entered the sea from the rocky area. Some say that Tsukishima people did the guard, and none of the Tsukishima children could not swim.

According to a person who testified in Harumi's edition, around 1935, he went to Kachidoki and played all day at a sea house made of Yoshizuri at the end of the sewer pipe storage area, and it was 5 or 10 yen .

It is Tsukishima No. 3 as seen from the current Tsukiji Ohashi Bridge. There are large buildings and warehouses. When there was nothing, if you go out the corner along the Sumida River, you should have seen Odaiba in front.

In "Talking about the old days of Chuo-ku," he said that a person born in the end of the Taisho era took a long-distance swim class from 4th to 6th grade in elementary school, and traveled back and forth from Tsukishima No. 3 to Odaiba every year. Some witnesses said there were seven or eight huts named YS or Tengu in this area.

Fumiko Tajima, author of "Tokyo Shimomachi Shintomi Grow," also mentions that his younger brother had a long-distance swim with a white loincloth. In the early Showa era, he seems to be a student at Kyobashi Elementary School.

This is a photo of Harumi's tip, closed Harumi Terminal, passing through Harumi Ryokudo Park, which opened almost in October.

Tsukishima No. 4, where landfill was completed in 1931 (Showa 6), is the current Harumi district. Two years later, the relocation of the Tokyo City Hall was resolved, but it was rejected due to poor location and inconvenience.

It seems that there was nothing for a while after the landfill was completed.

In Harumi's edition of "Talking about the old days of Chuo-ku," people born in Taisho testify that there were three sea houses.

In 1932 (Showa 7), a map of the Daito Kyonotori Bird's Eye View, which was distributed in the appendix of the National Newspaper, depicts a red triangular small flag line representing a beach on the Odaiba side of the newly formed land.

This is a photo of Harumi Flag, a town name created on the site of the Tokyo Olympic and Paralympic Games Village.

Beginning with a high-rise apartment in Tsukuda, the development of Tsukishima, especially the transformation of the Harumi area, is impressive. The means of transportation will be further improved, such as BRT buses, and will develop further. I walked to Harumi Ryokudo Park for the first time this time. It was a sunny day, so I enjoyed Harumi, which was named with hope, "I always want to see the clear sea."

The fact that there was a beach in Chuo-ku.

　And because of hygiene, swimming was prohibited.

Now, when you look at the plums, herons, cormorants and ducks on the Sumida River, you can feel that the river has become a completely different river from your childhood.

One day, I would like to wait for the day when I can swim in Chuo-ku again, and this blog is complete.