Gas Street Light Pillars

There are gas lamp pillars made of cast iron on the east side of Akashi Elementary School and around Kyobashi. In the early Meiji era, in the evening, in the early Meiji era, the ignition hand attached a key and ignition tool to the tip of the long stick, opened the bottom of the lamp, ignited it, and closed the gas valve at dawn and extinguished it. It is said that he walked. The city gas business in Tokyo began in 1874, and at that time, gas streetlights represented the features of exotic Ginza or foreign settlements.