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The meeting is in front of the front entrance of Chuo-ku government office. This address is 1-1-1 Tsukiji, Chuo-ku. It is a short walk from Exit 1 of Shintomicho Station on the Tokyo Metro Yurakucho Line. In the Edo period, there were Nakayashiki and Shimoyashiki of the Tosa clan Yamauchi family until the end of the Tokugawa period. The Tosa clan, along with the Satsuma domain and Choshu clan, was at the forefront of the Meiji Restoration.

Hanpeita Takechi, who formed the Tosa King Party and raised the defeat of the Shogunate, established the Satsuma and Choshu Alliance, and Sakamoto Ryoma, who proposed the reign of the great government, went to the swordsmanship dojo while boarding the Tosa clan Tsukiji residence in this area when he was in Edo.

As you walk through Akashicho, there are gas streetlight pillars and part of the brick wall, and the St. Luke Chapel on the premises of St. Luke International Hospital and the founder and missionary doctor Toisla Memorial Hall tell the story of the settlement period. The Luke Chapel is a neo-Gothic church that was set up as a place for prayer for hospitalized and outpatient patients and their families, hospital staff and students. Currently, St. Luke's International Hospital is one of the best general hospitals in Tokyo, and it is said that this hospital escaped the bombing of the Tokyo Air Raid due to the presence of this hospital.

It is a cathedral reminiscent of the days of settlement in Akashicho today. It was built in 1874 (1874) as the second Christian church after Nagasaki and Yokohama. Because it was burned down in the Great Kanto Earthquake, it was built in the Greek temple Parthenon style in 1927, referring to St. Magdalena Cathedral in Paris.

There is a copper bell on the premises. It was a bell cast in Renne, France in 1876 (1876), and was later sent to Japan. It was named "Janne Louise of Edo" by Romanesal, a used missionary in Edo. It has been preserved, avoiding being submitted as metal during the war.

　○Xiaosei Gakuen ○ Rikkyo Jogakuin　

○Rikkyo Gakuin ○ Women's Gakuin ○ Futaba Gakuin

Many Christianity schools have opened in this area. There are monuments of the birthplace of the school everywhere in the city.

Before becoming a foreign settlement, there was a Nakayashiki of the Okudaira family of the Nakatsu clan in Buzen Country (Oita Prefecture) in this area. In 1858 (1858), Yukichi Fukuzawa from the Nakatsu clan received the order of the clan, opened a Dutch school in this area, and later developed to Keio University. The monument was built in 1958 to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the university's founding.

Ryotaku Maeno, a clan doctor and Dutch scholar of the clan, gathered at Nakayashiki with Genpaku Sugita, Junnan Nakagawa, Hoshu Katsuragawa and others, working on the translation of the Dutch medical book "Tarher Anatomia" in 1774. (1774) published "Dismantling Shinsho". The state of the hardship at that time is described in detail in "The beginning of Dutch studies". A monument was built in 1959.

It is a temple under the direct control of Kyoto Nishi Honganji Temple. Initially, the shaven in Yokoyamacho, Asakusa was burned down by the great fire of the Meiryaku era (1657), and the land given by the Shogunate was reclaimed on the sea and built Gobo by the monks of Tsukuda Island. . Since the land was built, it came to be called "Tsukiji", and this building was designed by ITOCHU Ta in 1934 (1934) to imitate the ancient Indian style. It is a nationally designated important cultural property. main deity is a statue of Amida Buddha, with stained glass on the grounds, and the pipe organ has a magnificent atmosphere.

It's guardian angel "Namishi Inari Shrine" in Tsukiji. At the beginning of Edo, the Tsukiji area was a whole sea. Reclaiming was extremely difficult due to the waves, and no matter how many times the dike was built, they were exposed to the waves, but when we built the shrine hall and worshiped the statue of Inari Myojin obtained from underwater, the waves subsided and proceeded with the construction.

There is also the Seven Lucky Gods of the Sea in the precincts. "Scallops, Fugurokuju, Ben Sazaeten, Ebi Ebisu,", the name is also a fun seven god.

There is a lion head of a couple, the largest in Japan, on the grounds. The female large lion is tooth black, and the jewel above the head enshrines the statue of Benzaiten holding the purple crystal as divine spirit. The male lion head can turn from side to back with a bill with a wish written, and hold the bill. I always visit before taking the "Chuo-ku Tourism Certification Test". Please also see the blue dragon that obeys the clouds and the white tiger that obeys the wind.

This year, the "Tsukiji Lion Festival" was held for the first time in four years.

Even after the Central Wholesale Market moved to Toyosu, the Tsukiji Outer Market is full of lively and crowded with many people. It's almost time for lunch and I'm hungry. Take a stroll while watching various shops in the out-of-market market, and break up at the general information center "Platto Tsukiji". After dissolution, please spend a relaxing time shopping and eating at Tsukiji Outer Market.

Reference: ・"Chuo-ku Monoshiri Encyclopedia" that can be seen on foot

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                    ・ Chuo-ku Street Corner Sketch, Chuo-ku

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