This area has been a working class living quarter and several old bridges whose names can be traced back to the Edo era and older, one is the Narihira-bashi Bridge which is named after the Middle Age poet who came down from Old Capital at the time, Kyoto.
Three other bridges crossing the Kita-Jukken-River are not well known but they were occasionally chosen for the scene of Edo era stories written by a popular novelist Ikenami Shotaro.
The Kita-Jukken-River flows into the Sumida-gawa-River and at its mouth there are two high-rise building of Sumida Ward Office and Head office of Asahi Beer (brewery and beverage). I didn’t have a businesswith the former but I couldn’t resist to the allure of the latter and I went up to its saloon on 22nd floor for testing and tasting its product.
The walkway I had walked is accidentally the shortest passage connecting Asakusa temple and SkyTree tower and I spotted many foreign tourists, and some rich Chinese people wearing Japanese kimono were hiring riskshaw services.
