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　"Tokyo Onsen" was featured in the correspondent blog, and about this, Saiden Stecker said ("Standing Tokyo").

 

"There is also something called" Tokyo Onsen " here (the land where Sanjusanmabori was reclaimed). He said he had adopted the latest technology from Turkey and Scandinavia, and was able to take a bath with a massage lady at a price of 100 yen (not such a large amount considering inflation at that time). It seems that it was quite shocking in this era. ・... But eventually, it is proved that the company that started this hot spring was actually a good eye. This is a stimulus, and after that there will be one after another, modest and even modest stores such as services here. The boldness of "Tokyo Onsen" may have been what Tokyo needed in this difficult era."

 

　This "Standing Tokyo" (TOKYO RISING, 1990) is the second part of the previous book "Tokyo Shitamachi Yamanote" (LOW CITY, HIGH CITY; 1983), which describes Tokyo from the Great East Japan Earthquake to the mid-1940s. Both books are my favorite books. The author, who is well-versed in Japanese enough to translate The Tale of Genji into English, reads the history of Tokyo's culture and social customs.

 

　Here, it describes how Tokyo City began in 15 wards and eventually became 35 wards, how it became a metropolitan system, and how it became a 23 ward system after the war, and about my history of Tokyo etc. The knowledge is based on these two books.

 

　I knew in this book how the Sanjusanma Horikawa was reclaimed, but when I wanted to see a bird's-eye view of the appearance before it was reclaimed, I found it on the following site .

 

https://wako226.exblog.jp/18850678/

 

　It shows the current appearance of the site of Mihara Bridge, which was one of the bridges built over Sanjusanmabori.