Nihonbashi Area Nihonbashi Area

In the Edo period, it was derived from the Japanese name "Yangko" of the Dutch merchant Jan Jooss Ten, who had a mansion around Marunouchi, Chiyoda-ku today, and was adopted as a town name after becoming Meiji period. The name was changed to Marunouchi in 1929 (1929), and the name of Yaesu disappeared. Later, in 1954 (1954), the town around the Yaesu Exit of Tokyo Station was reorganized and named Yaesu.

The name of Kyobashi was born because it was the first bridge on the Tokaido that climbed to Kyoto starting from Nihonbashi, and that became the name of the town. In the Edo period, the riverbank of the Kyobashi River was a market for unloading vegetables, mainly radish. Even after the Meiji era, until the Great Kanto Earthquake, there was a green market here.

Honishi-cho is the opposite area of Muromachi across Chuo-dori. It is derived from the fact that many United States grain merchants once lived around here. In the early Edo period, it was called Kokumachi, but later a new Kokumachi (currently Chiyoda-ku) was established in Kanda, so the word "book" was added.

There is a theory that it was followed by Muromachi in Kyoto, and that many merchants gathered and the storehouses (rooms) were lined up. Since the Edo period, there were many financial companies and large merchants, and there were also "Ninben", a bonito wholesaler, "Nagasakiya", a Dutch inn in Edo Sanfu, and "Mitsui Echigoya", a large kimono dealer.

In the early Edo period, Ieyasu Tokugawa first divided the town, and was born from being the central area of Edo or Nihonbashi. The building rush after the war is the most intense, and the daytime population is extremely large. "Bettara City" at Takarada Ebisu Shrine in Honmachi 3-chome is one of Tokyo's specialties.

The name of the bridge has become the name of the town. The bridge is literally one of Japan's leading bridges and is the starting point of the Gokaido. The Nihonbashi area has been a first-class shopping street since the Edo period, and today there are still many prominent buildings.

The legend that Yoshiie Minamotono, a warlord in the Heian era, sank his armor in the sea during the conquest of Oshu and prayed to the god of water, and the storm stopped. It is said to be derived from. In the past, it was a samurai area, but since the first Kunitachi Bank was established here in 1873, and after the war, the Tokyo Stock Exchange was established, it has been called Wall Street in Japan and has continued to this day.

At the time of the Edo Castle expansion, the name of the town was moved here from outside Kanda Bridge to open the town. It was a town of sake wholesalers during the Edo period. Because it is adjacent to Kabuto-cho, there are many securities-related buildings, and the office area around Nihonbashi and Kyobashi is expanding.