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In Musashino City, Tokyo, there are some trees designated by the city as natural monuments. I have to say "some" because it contains a row of zelkova trees at Seikei Gakuen, and I don't know how many zelkova trees there are on the Musashino City page. By the way, among such natural monuments of Musashino City, the only natural monument designated by the Tokyo Metropolitan Government is the zelkova of the former Kichijoji main inn, even though it is located in Musashino City. It is about a 5-minute walk along the north side of the railroad track from the ticket gate of Atre Kichijoji at the eastern end of Kichijoji Station on the JR Chuo Line. If you're looking at Google Maps on your smartphone, you're probably surprised. This is because you are instructed to turn on a dead-end road at the entrance of the apartment rather than on the road. There is no doubt that there is a Sugi drugstore under the guard and a stylish dental clinic ahead. The zelkova of the former Kichijoji main inn grows in a corner of a privately owned parking lot. By the way, Honjuku was a general post station in the Edo period, and the village was either alone or united with a certain number of horses, and it was probably the main inn for Itsukaichi-kaido. .. And in the past, it may have been a stable, not a car, under the zelkova. Now, if you look at it, you can see why this tree is a natural monument. It's huge anyway. The tree that grows next to it is bigger than the roadside trees that you see in the city, but it gets hazy in front of this tree. There is a tall ginkgo tree in the same parking lot, but the thickness of the trunk is an order of magnitude. When you read the hidden signboard by squeezing the branches and leaves of the zelkova itself, it says that the height is 29.0m and the trunk circumference is 5.1m. The zelkova stocked by a company that sells roadside trees is said to have a height of 12 m and a trunk circumference of 0.8 to 0.9 m, so it can be inferred that it has grown so large over an extremely long period of time and has withstood the wind and snow. increase. The road is not very flat, and in September 1966, typhoon No. 24 damaged the branches and the branches were broken, and the inside of the trunk was hollow from around 7m above the ground to the root. It is a thing. It's hard to see because of the entwined ivy, but it's true that the bark has peeled off and there are parts of different colors that look like they're filled or covered. You can also see that the two stanchions support the zelkova. I wonder how long this zelkova will withstand the typhoon that continues to intensify every year, but I think that it will be okay because the owner's parking lot has quite a large number of customers. The parked Wagon R, Move, and Fit 2 hybrids are still affordable to the general public, but the Prius 4 and mini are petitable, and the Benz sedan, Benz SUV, Chevrolet SUV, and the Toyota showroom are the best. The mirai, a hydrogen vehicle that I have only seen in Japan, is parked. In case of emergency, you will earn enough to see a solid tree doctor. Well, I think it would be difficult for zelkova to run on the site with only relatively large number 3 cars, but I liked the fact that the larger the car, the farther it was parked.