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No.99 Yanagibashi (The bridge of the) most (Kanda-gawa lower reaches)
Yanagi-Bridge(Bridge of Kanda-river lowest style)

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Yanagibashi is the bridge which hangs over the most Kanda-gawa lower reaches. It is hung on the spot of the joining with Sumidagawa and it is the 37.9-m steel bridge which was installed in 1929. The history at the bridge is 1698( Genroku in the old days in the fact that the association of the ferry is inconvenient. 11) It was installed in the year and it was the beginning, and after that (Meiji 21), it was made from steel in 1887 and it became a one, but it had fallen in Great Kanto Earthquake and it is the present bridge that of it was complete in 1929 with the revival bureau (Showa 4). It is the bridge which was revived the time which is the same as the bridge group which hangs over Sumidagawa and it gets to be in the value as the engineering works inheritance.
Because the one, the willow that "arrowy Kurahashi" who was put in the Edo period was changed are at the end of in line standing Yanahara bank about Yanagibashi's origin, there are opinions such as one willow's there being in the sleeve at the bridge. Nearby around here has both who was a busy shopping area in the Edo period, and he accompanies in the ferry place to Yoshiwara and says that a red-light district, too, was formed. In the early stages of Showa before the war, the Japanese-style restaurant and the shipping agent and so on can sense the din and bustle of former Edo emotion as the stop of the barge in the row of being built, at present, too.




The willow stands. The sleeve becomes "RIBA" of the barge.


The barge





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