Official
Chuo-ku Monoshiri Quiz⑩
There is a quiz at the entrance of the Chuo Ward Senior Center.
In May of last year, the "Chuo-ku Monoshiri Quiz" was issued for the first time in commemoration of the 100th anniversary.
This quiz is 10 introductions.
Answers and Commentary
１. The city of Sazaland, which has a sister city tie-up with Chuo-ku, is located in New South Wales, Australia, about 25 km south of central Sydney. It is known as the birthplace of Australia.
２. On the wall of the underground concourse at Tokyo Metro Mitsukoshimae Station, there is a copy of the emakimono made during the Edo period. This emakimono is called Kidai Shoran. The emakimono, which overlooks the main street (now Chuo-dori) from Kanda Imagawa Bridge (now near Kanda Station) to Nihonbashi around 1805, from the east side, and depicts the rich daily life of Oedo in detail.
３. At Sukiyabashi Park in Ginza 4-chome, there is a "Silver Koi Monument" built to commemorate the big hit of the popular song "Ginza Love Story". It was used as an insertion song for Nikkatsu's painful action movie "Tsumuji from Town to Town" (starring Yujiro Ishihara) released on January 14, 1961. In response to this hit, on March 4, 1962, a combination of Yujiro Ishihara and Ruriko Asaoka released the Nikkatsu movie "The Story of Love in Ginza" and Yujiro Ishihara and Junko Makimura's duet song "The Story of Love in Ginza" is used as the theme song.
４. On January 26, 2021, the Metropolitan Expressway Co., Ltd. announced that it would abolish the entrances of Edobashi and Tokiwa Bridge. Date of abolition is May 10. With the abolition of the Tokyo Metropolitan Expressway Nihonbashi area underground project, the underground tunnel will be opened by 2035, the current elevated bridge will be removed by 2040, and the blue sky will be restored to Nihonbashi.
５．The current Ginza 6-chome, formerly Takiyamamachi, Kyobashi-ku, had the company building of the Asahi Shimbun. There is a song monument of Takuboku Ishikawa near the site. Takuboku Ishikawa, who moved to Tokyo from Iwate Prefecture, joined the Asahi Shimbun in 1909 and worked as a proofreader for about three years until he died at the age of 26. Alongside his work, he left many masterpieces such as the songbook "One handful of sand", "Sad toy", a collection of poems "Yokoko and Whistle".
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