What is the charm of "Adachi-ku Senju" which Senju's resident editor talks about?

"39th fireworks of Adachi" which closed the curtain in a great success.
This year we also launched at the Arakawa Riverbed (Senju area).
This time, Akiko Yoshimitsu (Representative Director of Senju Publishing Co., Ltd.) who loves Senju loves the charm of "Senju area" where "Adachi fireworks" is hosted.
Mr. Yoshimitsu picks up "icha" of Senju's "Iroha" from among many attractions and introduces it ♪
Not only on the day of the fireworks display, but also the city of Senju who wants to visit many times.
First of all, please walk down to the fireworks launch site while touching Senju's charm.

Town which you want to spend a lot · Senju

Nice to meet you.
In 2015, Senju publishing company representative Kichimane who launched a publishing company in Senju, Adachi-ku at the Adachi-ku, and opened a book cafe of six tatami mats at one corner of the office.

In this time we borrow some time for those who read,
I think that I will tell from the standpoint of residents (even 11 years old, they are chicks of the 11th year) the charm of this town.

There are five main attractions of Senju. Actually, there are many other things I want to say, but this time about the first "I" of Iroha,
While it is difficult to choose, I will tell you the important features of the town for the moment.

Hospitality is from lantern lantern to French where you can see the night view

It is well known that there are many eating and drinking establishments in Senju.
It is also characterized by a large number of local shops not a chain shop, but we will introduce a little about when the bustle of this restaurant district started.

Actually, the chance that Senju's town became lively is going back to the time when the general Shogun, Tokugawa Ieyasu entered Edo.

Something about 1625 after the Senju Ohashi bridge was built in the Sumida River in 1594, the highway from Edo to Oshu and Nikko was developed, among which Senju became the first lodging town.

The history that people have gathered from the backgrounds of inns and tea houses to heal the tiredness of travelers to the present is also one of the big reasons leading to the large number of restaurants.

Looking at the current Senju, it is grainy, including the Waigaya bar of red lantern that can be drunk from the morning, even the authentic French restaurant which can also enjoy the view from the 20th floor of a skyscraper and 80 meters high.

Well, who do you enjoy with us today?
Senju's city is a strong side of your smile.

If you get off the usual transfer station you will find a new encounter

"Kitasenju station" that passes through Senju's town.
Kita Senju has five lines of Toyota Sky Tree Line, JR Joban Line, Tokyo Metro Hibiya Line, Chiyoda Line and Tsukuba Express, and five passengers on board each day, so that the number of passengers on the day is surely ranked higher every year It is getting.

With these trains, it is possible to arrive at Kitasenju in a single line from Yokohama, Tokyo, Shibuya, Ueno, Ginza, Roppongi etc. without any direct transfer. Besides, from Haneda airport there is also a direct limousine bus to Kitasenju station.

Even though it is such a good station with good traffic access, there are not many people who never actually descended while using it for transfer. Actually, there are many customers who come to my shop "I got off at Kita Senju for the first time".
There are few people who are surprised by the appearance of shopping districts and the number of eating and drinking stations as they walk from the station and enjoy shopping and meals on their way back and forth.

Please get off this station that you just passed by, and please walk a little town.
Surely there are new encounters waiting for you.

Pleasure to buy one point from craftsmen

Senju is a variety of variations from its commercial facility in a station building to a store in a shopping district, and it is also one of its attractions that all things are enough for shopping in the town without having to go out all the way to go far.

Among them, recently, young craftsmen who have handed down polite things have appeared recently.
I would like to recommend that the workshop of the producer and the atelier are united.
There, you can purchase one point product including facial expressions, hands, conversations etc of the making person.

The Senju area is known for many manufacturers of leather products such as bags, shoes, leather accessories,
Recently, the atelier of natural solid woodworking products, atelier of pottery, brewing to produce homemade beer, etc. are all becoming familiar cities.
Please try to check each one with your hands, with the story that the work was made.

If you go for a walk, you will feel the time and the building and the streets lost in time

There are many old buildings in Senju.
First of all, "Yokoyama family residence" along the post office street, which is like an icon on talking about the history of Senju.
The old house where I was working as a paper wholesaler of the ground, the wooden building built in 1855 is a two-storey fine lattice.
It is designated as a tangible cultural property of Adachi-ku.

Also, Katsushika Hokusai, Mori Ogai and Natsume Soseki wrote in their work, the next doctor, "Nura clinic".
Before the doctor's office there was a row of patients undergoing medical treatment and there were many inn for patients in the vicinity.
The clinic, which has been used from 1848 to around 1985, is also a tangible cultural property of Adachi-ku.

In addition to that, it was rebuilt in 1982 to take over the image of the Western-style clinic in the building built in 1917, and still the active Ohashi Ophthalmologist's clinic will also be photographed at SNS.

In addition, cafes and offices renovated old houses, hair salons, standing drinkers, guesthouses etc are scattered.

In the scenery of the town which is often destroyed when being noticed or being rebuilt, the building which absorbed such a long time surely feels "now" in the extension of time I will think like a signposted person.

And, it is thin slender alley that will drive me to such a building.

Because the tax was imposed on the frontage of the merchant house during the Edo period,
By narrowing the frontage and making it long and thin in the back, a lot of narrow alleys were born.
When walking behind this alley, I often encounter a cat lying on a stone pavement.
Please also enjoy the reverse of the alley like the air pocket in everyday life.

The gentleness of the Arakawa bank on which the fireworks of the large wheels coloring the summer also rises

And Senju must have the scenery that Arakawa flows.
Sitting on the bank, looking at the marathoners, the children who follow the ball, and the slowly walking old couple,
The strength of the shoulder comes out to feel comfortable like being wrapped in a big presence.
I do not know how many times I had sad or frustrating sheds in this trend.

The Arakawa downstream section flowing through the Senju area is an artificial river called Arakawa River drainage route completed in 1930, a river born of flood control measures to prevent repeated flooding damage.
The bridge over this bridge is Senju Shimbashi. Commemorating the completion in 1924 and celebrating the opening on June 20 the following year, the fireworks display "Senju no Firework Festival" started to raise fireworks every August.

This fireworks display is the predecessor of the current "Adachi fireworks". At present "Adachi fireworks" is held at the fireworks festival in Tokyo near the summer in July, the biggest fireworks echoed in that chest is about 12,000 fireworks blossoming brightly in the night sky, It will color the summer's visit.

Such fireworks festival is already next week. Please be sure to enjoy the city of Senju before, after and behind fireworks.

(Sentence / picture: Akiko Yoshimitsu President, Senju Publishing Co., Ltd.)

Akiko Yoshimitsu (Akiko Yoshimitsu)

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