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The Meiji Maru was seen from the Chuo-ku side across the canal. The three yellow masts that can be seen from Ishikawajima Park and Shinkawa Park are Meiji Maru.

Tokyo University of Marine Science and Technology was established in 2003 by the integration of Tokyo University of Marine Science and Technology and Tokyo University of Fisheries in Shinagawa. Tokyo University of Commerce was founded in 1875 by Yataro Iwasaki at the request of the Minister of the Interior, Toshimichi Okubo at the time. The sailing ship called Narumimaru was moored on the Sumida River in Shinkawa, Chuo-ku, just downstream of Eitai Bridge. Later, it was renamed the Government Tokyo Shosen School, and a school building was built, and seafarer education was provided at the Shinkawa school building until it was relocated to Ecchu Island in 1901. To commemorate this, a monument of "the birthplace of seafarer education" stands on Eitai Bridge Nishizume. Meiji Maru became a training ship for a merchant ship school in 1897, so I think Meiji Maru was also moored around Shinkawa at that time.

Up to this point, it is written in various things, but about the site after the relocation of the merchant ship school. The site school building is the Central Commercial School, which opened here in 1900 (later the Central Commercial High School and the Central Commercial Junior College). It was handed down to the present Chuo Gakuin University. (Relocated in 2001) Condominiums are now built, and there is no one that survives the time, but there is a monument of "the birthplace of the Chuo Commercial School" along the Sumida River Terrace.

Meiji Maru refurbished at the Ishikawajima Shipyard, which was located at the current Okawabata River City 21, when it became a training ship for a merchant ship school. It seems that it took a lot of time to dredge the riverbed of the Sumida River to pass through Meiji Maru.

Ishikawajima Shipyard is the first Western shipyard in Japan that the Shogunate ordered Nariaki Tokugawa of Mito to build on the arrival of Perry in 1853. In the Meiji era, it was paid to the private sector and became Ishikawajima Harima Heavy Industries (currently IHI). The image is an illustration in a book called "Tokyo Famous Places" at that time, and is just a picture when Meiji Maru is in the dock. The dock seems to have been opening toward the main stream of the Sumida River, Shinkawa.

It is a monument of "Japan's first privately run Western-style shipyard" in Ishikawajima Park. What is depicted on the monument is a ship called "Chiyoda-shaped" and a warship of the Shogunate. In Boshin war, led by Takeaki Enomoto, he escaped from Edo and turned to Hakodate. (Because it is a warship made at the time of the shipyard of the Shogunate, it feels a little incompatible with the title of the monument.)

The plant continued until it was closed and sold in 1979. When I was a child, I knew the time with the factory siren ringing at noon and evening. For the Ishikawajima Shipyard, materials such as models are displayed at the "Ishikawajima Museum" of the Machikado Exhibition Hall in Chuo-ku, where you can see the face of Chuo-ku, which was also an industrial area.

With the transition of the times, the relationship between Chuo-ku and the sea is gradually becoming thinner, but it was said that Sea Day and Chuo-ku were also connected.

Meiji Maru

　Ecchujima Campus, Faculty of Marine Engineering, Tokyo University of Marine Science and Technology

　2-1-6, Ecchujima, Koutou-ku, Tokyo

　Open days Tuesday, Thursday, and the 1st and 3rd Saturday (Closed on holidays *University festival and sea day seem to be open)

　From April to September 10:00 to 16:00 October to March 10:00 to 15:00　

Ishikawajima Museum

　1-11-8 Tsukuda, Chuo-ku Pier West Square 1F

　Water / Saturday from 10:00 to 12:00 from 13:00 to 17:00 (until 16:30)