Satake Shotengai - Taito City

A good or bad old-fashioned arcade mall. I'm directly connected to Shin-Okachimachi Station, so I'm glad to get wet without getting wet. There are a mix of new shops and old-fashioned shops.

In the Edo mansion of Akita Kubota feudal lord and Utayo Satake, there was an upper mansion, a lower mansion, and an enclosure. Of these, the upper mansion was originally located in front of Satake House in Uchikanda (currently Kanda, Chiyoda-ku), and it is said that there was the “Hikaritsumon Gate”, a gold-carved gorge that was relocated from the Satake Mansion in Kamakura. . However, it was burned down in the great fire in Edo by the arson of the greengrocer Ochichi on December 28, 1682 in 1682. Perhaps because of this, I moved to the current location of Taito Ward in the third year of Tenwa (1683). After the move, there is also a school called "Hichikan" in the Edo domain, and it is said that famous teachers such as Yamamoto Kitayama and Okubo Shibutsu were invited to educate their children. It is recorded that the number of personnel who lived here reached 136 in the second year of Ansei (1855) at the end of the Edo period. The role of the Edo-yashiki is to be the place where each clan and the clan's lord's permanent residence are located. I said that you are from Japan. The Edo-yashiki of each clan is said to have valued the Edo-yashiki rather than the castle of Kunimoto, although it was under the supervision of the Shogunate. The system of change of attendance tends to be disturbed from the middle of the Edo period, and the lords of the lords have almost always lived in Edo in order to save money due to the financial distress of each lord. With the Edo mansion as a base, it is said that he made efforts to absorb the new culture by using it as a basis for the administration of the clan by conducting various political negotiations, interacting with various fields, exchanging and collecting information. Therefore, in each of the clan, let's say that the best talented person was packed into the Edo mansion as a housekeeper of the Edo family. The road from Akita's Kubota Castle (now Akita City) to Edo is one hundred and forty-three ri (536 km), and at that time, it was said that I walked around Kuri (36 km) a day, so it's normal 16 days earlier. It takes twelve and a half days, and it took six to seven days to fly. As mentioned earlier, the Edo mansion is an important political and cultural center for each clan, and it is no wonder that part of its own country was there. It wasn't the ratio of the embassies currently established by foreign countries. That's why the Satake Clan also proudly built a magnificent three-story magnificent building on a vast site, which was quite rare at the time. On the west side of the mansion, there is a large number of concentric condominiums, and the main gate there was called Takemon. It is said that the name "Takemachi" was born here.

It was a long time ago that I went there. A shopping street that lives nearby, goes to university from Okachimachi station, and often detours on the way back. At that time, I received a Satake shopping street stamp according to my shopping, and repeated visits to digest it. Oh nostalgia! And compared to the past, it was a lot of toothlessness.

An unusual shopping street that attracts tourists. You can experience the daily shopping style of local residents

I took a photo walk from Kuramae Station → Side dish Yokocho → Satake Shopping Street → Ameya Yoko → Ueno Station. There are many shops in the Showa era, but it seems to be very difficult because the shutter is down. I wasn't local, so I thought so when I first visited. But it's fun to go around the shopping streets, when I was little ... Showa.

[Shopping Mall] The second oldest shopping street in Japan. You can enjoy the atmosphere of the old-fashioned arcade shopping district.

Because we came a bit late, many shops have already closed at 5:30, but maybe there are really fewer people here, and I think it’s comfortable to walk on the roads with less crowds and large streets.

Showa retro toy store, clothing store that is hard to evaluate. The supermarket is in the middle. At the entrance on the Okachimachi station side, a seafood izakaya with a high cost performance, a flower shop, Chiyoda sushi, a Showa retro coffee shop, and generally run by the elderly. There is also a famous castella shop, but the sense of unity is not good enough. For tourists who like festivals such as Torigoe Shrine and Shitaya Shrine.