In the third episode of the fifth season of "The Lonely Foodie", Goro returns to the vicinity of the Chuo Line in Tokyo, and he has been to the Sugi ward several times, but the place to get off the bus is estimated that most Chinese viewers will feel strange after watching it, a station called Nishi-Ogiwa.
Seeing the name Nishihagiwa, Abu Travel Notes were also difficult, whether to write or not to write.
Near Nishi-Hagiwa Station / Lonely 5 screenshot
It's not because it's remote or not worth talking about, but its location makes people want to be lazy - along the central line, West Hagiwa is another stop to the west, that is, the famous Kichijoji Temple, to the east, past Ogiwa Station, to the Azo Valley we wrote about before (specific click: Girls love to visit Azo Valley).
Such a location, whether you go to Kichijoji Temple or go to Asagaya, as long as you want to wander around and get a little closer in the direction, you will enter its "sphere of influence" more or less, because it is too close. Thinking about it later, because it is too close, it is easier to be ignored by tourists, so it is indeed an interesting place to write this piece.
Japanese culture chose Ogiwa
As mentioned earlier, the reason why people want to be lazy is the position of Hagiwa on the central line, and the line that recognizes it is also the central line.
On the central line map, it reaches Shinjuku, passes through Okubo in the north, turns west to East Nakano and Nakano, and further west, it is a place that is too familiar to be familiar, Takagi-ji Temple; the next stop of Takagi-ji Temple, Asagaya, further west, is Ogiwa and Nishi-Ogiwa, and then to Kichijo-ji Temple.
From the perspective of tourism geography, this central line is a route that can give people a very smooth feeling, because everyone is familiar with most of the station names, and foreign tourists who go to Tokyo, even if they don't get off the bus, these stations have to pass by, after all, they are in Tokyo, which is close to the center of the capital.
But that wasn't the case nearly a hundred years ago.
The so-called city is raised, shanghai is so, Tokyo is even more so. When it comes to the westward expansion of Tokyo, it is impossible to avoid the Chuo Line and the Great Kanto Earthquake of 1923.
Due to the severe damage to the core urban area, after the Great Kanto Earthquake, many of the population of the flat area began to migrate along the Chuo Line to the higher mountainous area west of Tokyo, which was also the era when the Chuo Line was developed to the west. Similar to Asagaya, Ogiwa was also a residential area that gradually emerged after the Great Kanto Earthquake.
Cherry blossoms in Zenfukuji Park near Nishi-Ogiwa Station / naka803
Hagiwa is famous in Tokyo, but it is inseparable from its other characteristics, that is, it is not a place where Tokyo cultural people choose to live, such as the Japanese classical poet and Seiko Xie, who loves to travel and now has poems in many parts of Japan, and in 1927, four years after the Great Kanto Earthquake, she and her husband moved to Nan-Ogiwa.
A memorial park converted from the former residence of Mr. and Mrs. Saeno / Minami Ogiwa official announcement
Of course, the Japanese literati who chose to live in the Hagiwa area also had a long list of Inofushi Trout, Dazai Osamu, and so on, and even the World War II Class A war criminal, Konoe Fumimaro, who served as the Prime Minister of Japan three times, and there was also a residence called "Hagiwaisho" in Ogiwa.
Night view of autumn leaves in Daejeon Black Park / Official Announcement
Cultural celebrities have chosen places to live, which in itself shows that the living environment in Hagiwa is good and quiet. Not only before World War II, but also in Tokyo's high-end residential area like Minami Hagiwa, but also in Oda Kuro Park (the former residence of Japanese music critic Motoo Oda) and Kadokawa Garden, a small area where you can see the remains of the old Japanese literati.
New Japanese-style house in the Minami Hagiwa neighborhood / "Ishikawa Suki Architectural Design" official announcement
Before Abu travel notes wrote Gunma Akina Yama Ikho (specific click: no car god Akinayama), which mentioned with Xie Ya Jingzi, earlier, we lived in a 400-year-old hotel in Shikoku Koto (specific click: 400 year old hotel), also mentioned with Xie Ya Jingzi, these two places, there is a common feature, that is, there are good natural hot springs to soak.
So does Hagiwa, the place where Tsukasa and Xie Ye Jingzi live, also have natural hot springs?
Of course, there must be, out of Hagiwa Station, 1 minute walk there is a very famous natural hot spring restaurant, なごみの soup, and from Ogiwa to Minami Hagiwa, there are some bathhouses in Tokyo. There is no way, on the enjoyment of life, cultural people just want to enjoy more.
Tourist fun
In addition to natural hot springs, Tokyo's high-end residential areas and Ogiwa are also very interesting to tourists.
Sake Street at Nishi-Hagiwa Station / Lonely 5 screenshot
For example, in this episode, Goro, who appears in Nishi-hagiwa, first goes to his senior, who sits there drinking, and it looks like a drinking street outside, a place for drinking and pastime, and Ogiwa also has one.
The shop where The elder Lingoro went was a hand-knitted Persian wool blanket shop, and the exotic style of Ogiwa appeared. Later, the restaurant that Goro went to eat was a North African cuisine from Morocco, which was just right.
Hand-woven wool carpet shop in the play / "Lonely" 5 screenshots
Previously, Abu Travel Notes wrote that as an international metropolis, there are many authentic foreign cuisines in Tokyo (specific click: Tokyo food will lose a lot of Japanese food), and this North African Moroccan cuisine "tam tamu" is also of this type.
The store layout of "tam tamu" / "Lonely" 5 screenshots
Not only from the storefront to the interior, the style is particularly exotic, the waiter is also a real person, and it is indeed the daughter of the shopkeeper.
In the middle is the "live-action" shopkeeper's daughter / "Lonely" 5 screenshots in the play
In Morocco, there are indeed many small family shops, such as the mother's shop, the daughter as a waiter, and the cuisine of this shop is indeed quite Moroccan, such as Moroccan local drink mint tea, made of cooked wheat flour, called "Kuscus" staple food.
5 screenshots of "Lonely"
Moroccan mint tea, and China still have a little relationship, that is, a certain war period, the British sold green tea from China, there is no way to enter the port in Europe, the result is sold to North Africa, Moroccans and local mint mixed, and add some sugar, is mint tea. Many Chinese tourists, when they come to Morocco, will also find mint tea particularly good, perhaps not accidentally.
Chinese also liked North African mint tea /"Lonely" 5 screenshots
Goro went to eat this shop, you can also see the Persian style silver pot, mint tea is put in such a pot, and then poured into the same Persian style cup, look at the details, really let people feel that this Japanese Moroccan degree of restoration is still quite high.
As for now, maybe this shop was too popular later, the original 12-seat small shop, moved closer to the station, the storefront is also larger, we also looked at its new storefront, found that the style is still there, but compared with the strong Persian style of the play, it is still inferior.
In addition to Moroccan-style restaurants, if you look closely at the map from Hagiwa to Nishi-Hagiwa, you can also find that a little south of Nishi-Hagiwa, there are Italian-style restaurants, as well as dessert shops that feel foreign by looking at the name, and cafés with strange storefront styles, which are also tourists' dishes.
Photo by Nishi ogiwa Dochi Cafe /chuo-besthome
In addition, Hagiwa also has a special dish for Chinese taste, ramen. Near Hagiwa Station, you can find many old ramen shops, and Hagiwa ramen is also a famous thing in the minds of Tokyoites.
Nishi-Ogiwa shop façade / machiteku official announcement
As for what you said about shopping, Hagiwa Station and West Hagiwa Station come out, there are various shopping streets, since the past is a place for cultural people, the grade of the shopping street is not bad, this aspect will not be elaborated, it should be mentioned that another feature of the shopping street shops here is mainly based on personal shops.
Nishiogi Chen Showa 熾甜
One of the advantages of the personal shop is that from the inside of the store to the appearance, the style is more diverse, and when it is gathered together, it is a diversified shopping street.
Ogiwa Coffee Shop Evil Sect Gate Interior View / Enjoytokyo Official Announcement Picture
As for the items in the shopping street, the radish cabbage has its own love, and anyone who has a little interest in life believes that they can find something for their own appetite, and shopping is a sense of novelty. In particular, it should be pointed out here that near Nishi-Ogiwa Station, there are many antique shops, spring and autumn every year, as well as the Nishi-Ogiwa Antique Festival, this place, especially if you are interested in Western antiques, is also a very suitable place to visit.
Finally, let's talk about the Shimonaki-ku Animation Museum.
Official photo of the Sugi Ward Animation Museum
Earlier, when Abu Travel Notes talked about Azo Valley, some readers left a message saying that it seems that the Sugiwa-ku Animation Museum is also nearby, and in fact, this museum is closer to Nishi-Ogiwa. The history of this museum is not long, it is more than ten years, initially just an animation library, the scale of the expansion is not large, the feature is that you can experience the animation production process, which is quite suitable as a popular science or parent-child place.
Thinking of this animation museum punch card, you may wish to skewer Azo Valley and Nishi-Hagiwa, hang out in various shopping streets, shop for Western antiques, eat a dessert when hungry, bowl ramen, and finally soak in a hot spring, it is a quite relaxing tokyo fun tour.