Night train

Historic buildings in the vicinity of Kyobashi Park
"Onoya Sohonten, Suzuki Building, Sushi Ishijima"

This time, we will follow the historical architecture of the neighborhood of Kyobashi Park (1-25-2 Ginza, Chuo-ku).

In this neighborhood, historical buildings built from the end of the Taisho era to the early Showa era after the Great Kanto Earthquake (1923) can be seen in some places.

 Historic buildings in the vicinity of Kyobashi Park
"Onoya Sohonten, Suzuki Building, Sushi Ishijima"

On the corner of the Shintomibashi intersection across Shintomibashi from Kyobashi Park, Onoya Sohonten is a long-established tabi store that was founded during the Yasunaga period and moved to Shintomicho as of 1849 (1849).

The current building is a two-story wooden machiya building built immediately after the Great Kanto Earthquake (1923).

The building features high eaves, girders on the second floor (the eaves protrudes deeply into the front), gabled roofs, tile roofing roofs, and clapboard exterior walls.

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The first floor is a store, and the second floor is a tabi.

(2-6-13 Shintomi)

 

 Historic buildings in the vicinity of Kyobashi Park
"Onoya Sohonten, Suzuki Building, Sushi Ishijima"

As soon as you head south from Kyobashi Park in front of Shintomibashi, you will see "Suzuki Building" (Ginza 1-28-15) on the left side.

This building was built in 1929 (1929) and was once called the Kinoeya Club and rented it as a performance or rehearsal hall.

The building is characterized by a wide variety of exteriors such as horseshoe-shaped windows, round windows, vertical bay windows, and geometric reliefs with the cylindrical entrance on the first floor. <Historic buildings selected by Tokyo Metropolitan Government>

On the first floor, there is a "Morioka Shoten Ginza store", known as a "bookstore selling one book".

 

 Historic buildings in the vicinity of Kyobashi Park
"Onoya Sohonten, Suzuki Building, Sushi Ishijima"

On the south side of the road from Kyobashi Park, there is a restaurant called "Sushi Ishijima". (Ginza 1-24-3)

This building is a "signboard building" (a combined house with a flat appearance) built from the end of the Taisho era to the early Showa era after the Great Kanto Earthquake, and is a stunning copper-plated wooden building.

Currently, it is the popular "Sushi Ishijima" main store, and at lunch time when you can enjoy delicious food at an affordable price, you are waiting for a line.

In this neighborhood, there is little damage from the war, and many historical buildings such as "signboard architecture" in the early Showa era remain.