Edo Castle Ruins of Kajibashi

It seems that there used to be the outer moat of Edo Castle.

From JR Tokyo Station Yaesu Exit, at the intersection along the Ginza direction. The long-distance bus station is next door. The explanatory text of Edo Ibaraki Outer Moat is posted. I wanted to leave the ruins a little more.

This is an intersection, but there is once the outer moat of Edo Castle and the bridge called Blacksmith Bridge. When I think so, I am deeply moved.

There was once the outer moat of Edo Castle between this intersection and the JR line, and the blacksmith bridge hung there. It comes from the blacksmith town on the east side of this hand.

Close to Yurakucho, Otemachi, and Kyobashi is the site of the gate that gave the name of the high-speed bus stop, which is convenient and quiet.

Since it is located at the southern end of Tokyo Station, you cannot feel the atmosphere of Edo, but in the Edo period, there was a blacksmith bridge gate facing the Sotobori of Edo Castle. The origin of the name of Kajibashi Gate comes from the fact that the town name outside the gate of Edo Castle Sotobori was Minamikajimachi (currently around 2-chome Yaesu, Chuo-ku, 2-chome Kyobashi). The blacksmith bridge gate was built in 1629, but was removed in 1873 after the Meiji Restoration, which is one of the best coups in Japan, leaving behind a Masugata stone wall. The blacksmith bridge over Sotobori was rebuilt as an arch bridge in 1876. If it still remains, you may have felt the atmosphere of Edo, but after World War II, the bridge was also removed when the Sotobori of Edo Castle was reclaimed by the rubble disposal by the war.

The ruins of the blacksmith bridge used to be the outer moat of Edo Castle between this intersection and the JR line, and the blacksmith bridge was bridged. Before the blacksmith bridge, there was the blacksmith bridge gate, one of the outer gates of Edo Castle. The name of the gate is "Edo Kimon", which says "The gate to the blacksmith town is a helicopter", and it is thought that it is derived from the blacksmith town on the other side of the intersection. The gate is equipped with 10 guns, 5 bows, 10 long handles, 2 bows, and a pair of bows. .. The north-south town magistrate's office was repeatedly relocated inside the gate, and the Nakamachi magistrate's office was also established for a while. In front of the gate, Kano Tanyu, who is famous as a painter of the Edo Shogunate, worshiped the mansion and has lived there for generations, so this house was called the Blacksmith Bridge Kano family. Even after the gate was abolished after the Meiji Restoration, which destroyed the historical culture of Edo one after another, a blacksmith bridge was still built on Sotobori, but in the 1945's, Sotobori was reclaimed by rubble after the Pacific War. In the meantime, the old blacksmith bridge has finished its role. From the board derived from the town name of Chiyoda Ward (Ansei 3 (1856)) This bridge was called Tokiwa Bridge, and until the time of the third shogunate, Iemitsu, it was also called Ohashi or Asakusaguchi Bridge. However, the name is not good, so I was ordered by the old town, Naraya Ichiemon, to change the name. Ichiemon asked the Ronin who was boarding at his house to come up with the name of the bridge and offered the name Joban. The song of Daio Nori Samurai in "Kinyoshu" says "Fujinami on the Tokiwa chopsticks on the eastern road to the other side of the pine tree", and it is a name that makes the heart of the song go to Matsudaira's surname. There is a difference between Tokiwa and Tokiwa characters. There was also the Kitamachi Governor's Office in Hashizume. The Tokiwa Bridge was built downstream after the Great Kanto Earthquake. The current stone bridge is the most precious Western-style stone bridge in Tokyo, which was rebuilt in 1877 using the stone used for the box shape. There is Tokiwa Bridge on the name plate of the bridge, and a part of the box shape of the castle gate still exists. The stone wall remains. Please forgive me for any misunderstandings. Honjo Kamezawa Town 6th grandson