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1 On August 2, 1970, pedestrian paradise started in Ginza, Shinjuku, Ikebukuro, and Asakusa in Tokyo. In 1969, a pedestrian paradise experiment was conducted in Asahikawa City for 12 days.

2 There was strong opposition from Nihonbashi Ward to the merger of Kyobashi Ward and Nihonbashi Ward, and eventually Nihonbashi was added to the name of Nihonbashi Ward. The answer is Chuo-ku.

The Bank of Japan's head office is located in the place where Koza was located. Koza Street passes through the side. It's the current Nihonbashi Honishicho.

4    The fossil of Nauman elephant was discovered during the excavation work on the Toei Shinjuku Line. Nauman elephant is a type of elephant that lived in Japan during the Ice Age and is presumed to have been extinct 28,000 years ago. Speaking of Nauman elephants, Lake Nojiri in Nagano Prefecture is famous, but fossils have been excavated in Chiba and Kanagawa prefectures, and it has been found that they also lived in the Kanto region.

5 There is a large stone monument next to St. Luke's International Hospital of the Historic Site of Asanouchi Takumimori House.

There is an explanation board next to the monument, which says, "From here, more than 8,900 tsubo in the area, including St. Luke International Hospital in the northwest and the riverbank, was the Edo Kamiyashiki with the Asano family of Akaho feudal lord." .

6    This is an excerpt from the description in front of Nihonbashi Elementary School.

"In the beginning of the Meiji era, there was the residence of the former Order of the Meiji Restoration, Saigo Takamori (1827-1877).
It is said that the mansion had about 15 students living in the tenement house, hired seven lower men, and kept several hunting dogs.

After Shimono, Saigo pulls out the mansion in this area and returns to Kagoshima. In Kagoshima, he lived a peaceful life, but in 1877 he caused the Southwest War and committed suicide. "