Yamatanibori Park
Yamatani moat is a waterway built in the early Edo period to prevent the flooding of the Sumida River, which was painted...
on the famous view of Utagawa Hiroshige's 100 famous places of Edo. It was built from Minowa at the time to the junction with the Sumida River, but most are now reclaimed. About 700m from Imadobashi Ruins from Nihontsutsu is left as Yamatanibori Park. In the Edo era, it was said that Yamatani-gayoi was the place to go to Yoshiwara because it carried passengers back and forth as a waterway to Shin-Yoshiwara Yukaku. In the neighborhood, boathouses and restaurants are lined up, and customers who use waterways rather than overland were smarter. During the Meiji era, the place of entertainment moved from Yoshiwara to Shinbashi and other, and in Showa it became a reservoir for fertilizer ships and Yoshiwara declined, so it was completely reclaimed by 1975