Spring has come! Small trips in Kyobashi, Mitsukoshi, and Kobunamachi
"Tokyo Square Garden" is a shop & restaurant building that leads to "Subway Kyobashi Station". The fresh greenery of the 3rd floor "Hope of Hope" is dazzling ... From the ground, cherry blossoms are in full bloom (April 14).
The bright red tulips lined up neatly on the flower bed of Chuo-dori.
"Kyobashi Edgran" directly connected to "Subway Kyobashi Station" / "Meijiya Kyobashi Building" built and decorated in the early Meiji era ... Fist trees grow greatly in the space passages of both buildings to enhance the decoration of the side of the building. Maple trees, egono trees, salsberg, willows ... are planted around Edgran, including Meijiya, and the green leaves are blown in a refreshing breeze. Benchs are placed in the surrounding planting, and there are attractive shops in the B1 Restaurant Street.
B1 has an information center, including foreign tourists, as a tourist base in Chuo-ku.
You will get youthfulness from the cherry blossoms of "Bank of Japan", "Mitsui Main Building" and "Mitsukoshi Main Store" at Sakura-dori St. Remaining cherry blossoms and Mitsukoshi side wall decoration ... It is a scenery that feels history.
Head to the Honmachi Metropolitan Expressway Entrance (Showa-dori) with the statue of Mitsukoshi Lion in the back.
Kobunacho (Kobuecho)
In the Edo period, it was located along the border between Nihonbashi Honmachi and Kobunamachi. A base where shipping goods were transported from all over the country and used greatly. <From the explanation panel of historic sites in Horidome Children's Park>
Crossing Showa-dori, the entrance of Kofune-cho "Iba Senukiyo-e Museum" ... A new flower bed (up to the Horidome intersection) is placed on the left and right sidewalks that have been maintained to entertain people who come and go with colorful azaleas. I am. For planting, kozo and mitsumata ...
Here in Kofune-cho and Nagase Sangyo are building a 14th floor Tokyo head office building (scheduled to be completed in June 2026), walk to Nihonbashi Seven Lucky Gods Sugimori Shrine.
On the opposite road, "Horidome Children's Park" ... It is a new park where children can run around, renewed children's playgrounds, waterways, flower beds ... At the "Kofunecho Tenno Festival", a fine Kariya is built.
Kobunacho Yakumo Shrine Tenno Festival was held for the first time in six years. It was posted on the tile version of the town. I'll show you the way ahead.
The photo shows Kofunemachi O portable shrine, which was kept at the festival in resting place of portable shrines, built at Horidomecho Children's Park six years ago.
The Kobunamachi Tenno Festival, one of the three major festivals in Edo, has been held once every four years as a festival for the enshrined "Kobunamachi Yakumo Shrine" in the precincts of Kanda Myojin. It has been postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
We are preparing to succeed in the festival from the Edo period (from the tile version of Kobunamachi town)
◎Festival schedule: September 12th (Thursday), 13th Shinko Festival, 14th carrying of miniature shrines.