Tsukiji Foreign Reservation Site

According to the Kanagawa Convention (1854), the Meiji government made the Tsukiji Akashicho area a foreign settlement in 1868 and freed trade. Since then, this area has become a base for importing Western culture, schools and hospitals built by Western architecture, and historical sites of Civilization and enlightenment are everywhere. The reservation was a kind of extraterritorial right, illegal acts by foreigners were successive, and the revision of the unequal treaty was a longing of the people. The reservation was finally abolished in 1899. The situation at that time can be remembered in Kiyokata Kaburaki's masterpiece "Tsukiji Akashicho". A part of the brick wall preserved at Akashi Elementary School is the precious remain of the time.