First visit to Shibamata Teishakuten and Yagiri no Watashi

I visited “Katsushika Shibamata,” the hometown of a fellow business manager in Ginza, guided by him.

It has been nearly 50 years since I was a child, when my father took me to see Kiyoshi Atsumi’s “Otoko wa Tsuraiyo” at New Year’s and the Japan’s Best series by Ueki et al. and the Drift movies.

I was moved when I visited Shibamata Teishakuten, the site of the Tora-san movie “Huten no Tora-san,” for the first time in my life!

We also visited “Yagiri no Ferry” by Takashi Hosokawa…

Even now, a rowing boatman rows the oar to ferry us across.

We also visited “Yamamoto-tei,” a typical Shoin garden with a pond, artificial hill, and waterfall, which is a complex of Western-style architecture unique to the early Showa period.

We fully enjoyed eating soba noodles and grass dumplings recommended by a local!

As a souvenir, we were given “Isshii” for “Meidaiong Kusamochi” and enjoyed it. The entire process is done by hand.

It was a happy day to fully enjoy the good old downtown “Showa” era.

Thank you!