2024.04.16
The charm of the Yaesu, Nihonbashi, and Kyobashi area is that you can find delicious food from both Japan and abroad, and you can choose a restaurant according to your purpose and mood. GOKINJYO, a community of women workers in this area, introduces their favorite dishes in this relay series.
My favorite of the four seasons is…spring! !
Luckily, I have never had hay fever, and I like a good amount of warmth, so I absolutely love spring. And I especially love cherry blossom viewing, I love it too much.
With this in mind, we went to Nihonbashi’s “Sakura Festival” and had the best cherry blossom viewing with GOKINJYO, a community of female workers from Yaesu, Nihonbashi, and Kyobashi!
Oh no! Kotatsu are lined up in the middle of the road in Nihonbashi, where the cherry blossoms are in full bloom.
There’s no way I wouldn’t go in, because it’s strange not to go in even though there’s a kotatsu! !
So, we sit in the kotatsu and have a toast!!
At the Nihonbashi Sakura Festival, chef from the Yaesu, Nihonbashi, and Kyobashi areas set up stalls.
The chef of Yoshino Sushi and Kappo Shimamura, which GOKINJYO members have visited before, poured us drinks and toasted with us, which made us fall in love with this town even more. Many of these chefs love alcohol!
And Nihonbashi Philly’s “cheesesteak”, which I had eaten before and was incredibly delicious, was also being served at the food stall!!
Since we eat and drink a lot, of course we ordered the largest size.
They were gone in no time.
Eating Philly’s famous cheesesteak while viewing the cherry blossoms is something special. The reason why it’s special is because it makes us feel so happy.
I want to go to the store again… Looking at the photos to write this article is making me hungry. What a problem, it’s the middle of the night.
…And this time! I made scarves with original embroidery to give to everyone at GOKINJYO. First machine embroidery in my life. All of them, really all of them, were so happy that I cried.
We asked Akari, the child of a GOKINJY member, to model the scarf. How suits her.
Over the two days, over 20 GOKINJYO members joined us, and as the number of participants increased, we made toasts and I was completely drunk. We look like we’re having fun in this photo, but I don’t remember anything other than the feeling, “GOKINJYO is the best! Cherry blossom viewing is the best! Let’s definitely get together again!”
The next day, while suffering from a hangover, I saw a LINE message from a GOKINJYO member that said, “It’s been 10 years since I came to Tokyo, but this was the first time I’ve had such a wonderful cherry blossom viewing! I’m really glad I mustered up the courage to join in by myself!” and it brought me to tears. Lately, I’m easily moved to tears.
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