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Traffic lights
When I got on the elevator with an information message on August 20, it was shown on the screen as "Today's Traffic Sign Installation Anniversary".
I didn't know at all, so when I checked it on a smartphone, on August 20, 1931 (Showa 6), three-color light traffic lights were installed at 34 locations, including the Kyobashi intersection and the Owaricho intersection in Ginza. It was said that it was an anniversary of the installation of traffic lights.
It seems to be said to be a traffic light day.
In the Taisho era, a traffic signal that police officers manually manipulate a board with "stop" and "summe" at Uenohirokoji Temple was likely to be tested. However, traffic control by police officers has a better reputation and seems to have repeated trial and error.
The first automatic signal installation was placed at the Hibiya intersection in March 1930. It is made in the United States called the central pillar type, which is placed in the middle of the intersection. Some people will use this traffic light for the first time in Japan. Unlike the current one, it seems that the yellow color was lit at the same time after red and green. At this time when only characters and traffic control are familiar, drivers and pedestrians may have been scared.
And a three-color light traffic light near the current traffic light will be installed on August 20, 1931, and this day will be the anniversary. Speaking of the gorgeous place among the 34 intersections, it is Ginza 4-chome intersection. The Owaricho intersection is the intersection between Ginza 4-chome and Owaricho at that time, and is the Ginza 4-chome intersection where Harumi-dori St. and Chuo-dori intersect. The street name of Owaricho was abolished the year before the traffic light was installed and became Ginza 5-chome. The intersection seems to have been called the Owaricho intersection.
Some say that the later Miyuki-dori (Miyuki-dori) was the main street of the Meiji Taisho era, when Emperor Meiji went to attend the graduation ceremony of the Naval Academy and Naval University in Tsukiji, but the pictures and photographs of Ginza drawn during the Taisho era capture the current Harumi-dori St. and Chuo-dori. There is no doubt that it was a gorgeous place where clothes shops such as Takashi Yamazaki, which decorated courtesy and swallowtail clothes on the clock tower and show window of the Hattori Clock Store, faced each other. However, due to the Great Kanto Earthquake, the clock tower became diagonally and was demolished. Western-style shops such as Takashi Yamazaki were burned down and never rebuilt. Hattori Clock Store was rebuilt in June 1932, and Western-style shops such as Takashi Yamazaki became Ginza Mitsukoshi and opened in April of this year. The traffic light was placed first.
Every time the color of the signal changed, the bell sounded and notified even the sound was heard.
The color of the signal is red, blue, and yellow. The progress is green anyway. In English, it is RED, GREEN, YELLOW.
According to one theory, a newspaper that wrote about the installation of a traffic light was expressed as blue and established. Some people say that the primary color is red and blue. Certainly, the ink cartridge on the printer is magenta (red), cyan (blue), yellow (yellow). Also, Japanese tend to describe green as blue. Goro Noguchi's first hit song is "Blue Apple", but it's actually light green. I think the fruit and vegetable market is overwhelmingly rich in green products. Well, it's established, so I feel like I don't know how to do it internationally.
By the way, in U.K., the yellow light is often called AMBER instead of YELLOW. AMBER is amber. It is the color of amber that "Bensan" continues to dig and polish in the morning drama Amachan.
At the end of the traffic light.
Now it has been replaced with LEDs. The pedestrian traffic light in the previous light bulb-type era was a signal with a white humanoid in a red square. After switching to LEDs, the humanoid itself became a glowing signal. It seems that the human form itself was enlarged in order to make the human form stand out. It's much fater than before.
In order to make it stand out, the pedestrian signal is red. On the road, Japan is a left lane, so the right side near the center of the three-color light traffic light is red.
This traffic light is located on the east side of Kameshima Bridge in Shinkawa. It's a traffic light with a very long eaves. When it was introduced on NHK's program, the details are written on the "Hachiman" blog.
https://tokuhain.chuo-kanko.or.jp/detail.php?id=4056
I often went through this intersection for work. I don't know if it's best in Japan, but I thought the length was amazing. The reason seems to be that the straight car does not misidentify the signal from the diagonal. If you look closely, you will feel the length.
And one more thing.
This is the railroad crossing in front of Hamarikyu, which has a plate written as "the only railway crossing signal left in Ginza." My address is Ginza 8-chome.
It is a railroad crossing on the Tokyo Market Line from Shiodome Freight Station of Japan National Railways to Tsukiji Market. It is written in the explanatory version that it was used from 1931 (Showa 6) to 1987 (Showa 62). At its peak, as many as 150 cargoes passed a day. With the abolition of Shiodome Station, the service line will be removed, but it seems that it was preserved at the request of local people as a rare railway crossing signal in Ginza.
When I was in elementary school, my homework was to check the station in Chuo-ku. At that time, there were no Hatchobori, Bakurocho, or Higashinihombashi. When I thought that the Japanese National Railways had only Tokyo Station (correctly Chiyoda-ku), my father who looked sideways said that there was Tsukiji Market Station. If you don't know, you remember saying that you often go through railroad crossings at work.