I remember the heavy snowfall in Tokyo. At that time I was living in Matsumoto, Nagano, about to move to Ofuna (near Kamakura) and was going to look for a room. I remember the Chuo Line was completely stopped so I went north once from Suwa to Nagano and reached Kamakura via Nagano Shinkansen. It took like 5 or 6 hours and when I got to Ofuna, all business was stopped and there was nothing to do except stay at a manga cafe..
To talk about eastern/western Tokyo, you need to know that the regional center or center of the urban center of Tokyo is Imperial Palace, former Edo-jo (Edo castle). At the beginning of the Edo era, Ieyasu TOKUGAWA (the first Shogun of the Edo era) did lots of reclamation work near Edo-jo. At that time, Hibiya, Marunouchi, and Yurakucho area was a cove called Hibiya-Irie, and Asakusa, Shinagawa was the port. The Shiba area was called Shiba-Hama, which means Shiba coast, now it is the Shibaura area. (the name of the shrimp Shiba-Ebi originated from Shiba) He level down a hill called Kanda-Yama located in Kanda (which has a peak near Ochanomizu station today) and bring it to the cove of the Edo bay (Tokyo Bay) to make land. At the beginning of Edo, there are so many coves and seawater around the center of Tokyo today. Ieyasu TOKUGAWA made them land and water channel, which made Edo from a small village near the sea to a metro area which has a million people live in the 18th century. So Tokyo as a city itself starts from the eastern side and spread towards the west. Shinjuku is now one of the most urban areas in Tokyo, but it was the post town called Naitoh-Shinjuku on the road toward Kohshu (today's Yamanashi). You can find these kinds of city history of Tokyo (Edo) around the eastern area of Tokyo, especially near Hibiya, Kanda, Nihonbashi, Monzen-Nakacho (Fukagawa), Asakusa, Ryogoku (Higashi-Nihonbashi), Ningyocho and so on. One last thing that you might be interested in: The name of the place "Tsukiji" (the known place for the ex-fish market), originally means "reclaimed land", which is reclaimed by the people (mainly fishermen and their families) lived in Tsukuda-Jima (it is called Tsukuda in Chuo ward today, the place Tsukuda-ni originated from) to rebuild the Nishi-Hongwanji (destroyed by fire) near Asakusa (now located in Tsukiji and called Tsukiji-Hongwanji). And also, people from Tsukuda-Jima originally came from Tsukuda-Mura in Osaka.
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I remember the heavy snowfall in Tokyo. At that time I was living in Matsumoto, Nagano, about to move to Ofuna (near Kamakura) and was going to look for a room. I remember the Chuo Line was completely stopped so I went north once from Suwa to Nagano and reached Kamakura via Nagano Shinkansen. It took like 5 or 6 hours and when I got to Ofuna, all business was stopped and there was nothing to do except stay at a manga cafe..
Thanks for interesting conversation. Yonago locates in Tottori prefecture, west part of Honsyu, Japan. Nageire-do is a place you should go!!👍
To talk about eastern/western Tokyo, you need to know that the regional center or center of the urban center of Tokyo is Imperial Palace, former Edo-jo (Edo castle).
At the beginning of the Edo era, Ieyasu TOKUGAWA (the first Shogun of the Edo era) did lots of reclamation work near Edo-jo.
At that time, Hibiya, Marunouchi, and Yurakucho area was a cove called Hibiya-Irie, and Asakusa, Shinagawa was the port. The Shiba area was called Shiba-Hama, which means Shiba coast, now it is the Shibaura area. (the name of the shrimp Shiba-Ebi originated from Shiba)
He level down a hill called Kanda-Yama located in Kanda (which has a peak near Ochanomizu station today) and bring it to the cove of the Edo bay (Tokyo Bay) to make land.
At the beginning of Edo, there are so many coves and seawater around the center of Tokyo today.
Ieyasu TOKUGAWA made them land and water channel, which made Edo from a small village near the sea to a metro area which has a million people live in the 18th century.
So Tokyo as a city itself starts from the eastern side and spread towards the west.
Shinjuku is now one of the most urban areas in Tokyo, but it was the post town called Naitoh-Shinjuku on the road toward Kohshu (today's Yamanashi).
You can find these kinds of city history of Tokyo (Edo) around the eastern area of Tokyo, especially near Hibiya, Kanda, Nihonbashi, Monzen-Nakacho (Fukagawa), Asakusa, Ryogoku (Higashi-Nihonbashi), Ningyocho and so on.
One last thing that you might be interested in:
The name of the place "Tsukiji" (the known place for the ex-fish market), originally means "reclaimed land", which is reclaimed by the people (mainly fishermen and their families) lived in Tsukuda-Jima (it is called Tsukuda in Chuo ward today, the place Tsukuda-ni originated from) to rebuild the Nishi-Hongwanji (destroyed by fire) near Asakusa (now located in Tsukiji and called Tsukiji-Hongwanji). And also, people from Tsukuda-Jima originally came from Tsukuda-Mura in Osaka.
サイコパス笑った😂北海道人として、私も雪は見るの好き。朝起きてカーテンを開けたら一面真っ白な銀世界は特に。
だけど実際雪って迷惑だよねｗ解けてくるとビショビショになって気持ち悪し雪かき面倒くさいし。