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No.243 Joyful Minowa (The metropolitan streetcar Minowa-bashi neighborhood)

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Joyful Minowa (The Minowa-bashi shopping district)


Only in Tokyo left metropolitan streetcar Arakawa line, the left terminal are Minowa-bashi. It is downtown emotion much Minowa-bashi, and a Minowa-bashi stop of the metropolitan streetcar floods to the hilt in the town at the Minowa-bashi shopping district (joyful Minowa), it is crowded, seems to exist and there is it. It becomes the scenery which this terminal invites nostalgis to again.

In the track of the metropolitan streetcar and the parallel of joyful Minowa shopping district
It continues for about 520 m at the road with the entering of one.
(To the Arakawa 1 Nakamae stop lying next)

The bakery to make think of the Showa times
The showcase is glum again.

Great victory hot water (the public bath) and the laundromat
The public bath decreased but Minowa is still well.
Always, there is a laundromat next to the public bath.

The person gathers to the shop which sells evening "DOKI", a dish.

"Shop to sell steadily inexpensively by arranging for the best article at Arakawa"
The yellow signboard came out but the shutter was closed.

Anyway, there is much amount of traffic of the bicycle.
There is a family who runs at the shopping district at Takeshi speed, too.


This is a metropolitan streetcar Minowa-bashi stop.
It is authorized by "the station hundred pieces in Kanto".

Minowa-bashi is one by the name of the bridge which spanned Otonase river which was formerly.
Because it was a tip part on the plateau which was left to Tokyo-wan formerly with Minowa
It says that the one which was called "seeing "NOHANA" (the nose of water)" became Minowa.

The stop melts into the shopping district and exists.
The back is train tinckling with the metropolitan streetcar stop.

About 5 minutes of walking which is near to Minowa station in subway Hibiya line, too

At this coffee shop (that it is possible to knit "MIYA"), it is selling metropolitan streetcar sable warmly.

An alley is dotted with the place to drink at the downtown where the aka-chochin burns.

The terminal and Minowa-bashi at the downtown


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