立川シネマ発祥の地

The first movie theater in Tachikawa, the former site where Tachikawa Kinema was built. 1925-1969. There are 200 seats on the first floor and 100 seats on the second floor. The Tachikawa Entertainment Center in the south entrance opened almost at the same time.

It is located just north of Cinema Street, so I will overlook it if I do not pay attention. As of the spring of 2019, it is a parking lot called "Times Tachikawa Takamatsucho No. 6", but in the future an apartment or something may be built up. But I want you to leave the memorial plate that the cinema street store built. This was made when Mr. Masao Ueda, the owner of the nearby Tomisato clock shop, served as an official of the shop meeting. First of all, the plate has "title of entertainment 's cinema city / the birthplace of Tachikawa cinema", below which the picture of "cinema", and the following explanatory note are written. "Tamagawa airfield was completed in 1922 and the Fifth Fleet of Flight Battalion (later Fifth regiment later) moved from Gifu Prefecture Kagamigahara./ With that, the population also increased, Taisho 12 Tachikawa village from Tachikawa village. / Because of that soldier, employees, townspeople comfortable place to say that Mr. Nishiki Namiki of Takamatsu Town (then Asahi Town) July 14, 2004 is 200 tsubo of At the time we opened the first movie theater in Tachikawa [Tachikawa Kinema] (later renamed Tachikawa cinema) / At that time it is a modern two-storey building with two hundred seats on the first floor and one hundred seats on the first floor and a hall In the past there was a seat, a movie was referred to as an activity photograph, an activity benshi (abbreviated as live) who talks about the scenario serif according to the progress in a silent movie, and musicians who put in music and imitation are energized./ Showa era In the early days it became a talkie and built a golden age of entertainment./ In the peak period there were ten cinemas in the city but television The movie industry became a slope to be closed in Showa 44 years, but the name of the Cinema Street Shopping Association is living in the street of Tachikawa as its remnants. / February 1993 Tachikawa Cinema Street Shopping Association "

It may be difficult to find because it is a parking lot other than the signboard. The old appearance of the shopping district is gradually disappearing as the number of stores decreases and the number of new houses is changed to just a house. Those who want to feel the Showa era are recommended to visit as soon as possible.