Opened Sotetsu / Tokyu Direct Line - "To date" around the new station -

　In conjunction with the Tokyo Olympics in 1964, the Tokaido Shinkansen and Shin-Yokohama Station opened. Until then, when I heard the story to those who knew the time, everyone said, "There was only paddy field." It was not a town where many people visited as it is now. The land readjustment project started along with the opening of the station, but land use did not immediately advance. With the development of the road traffic network, such as the opening of the Daisan Keihin Expressway soon, many people chose to move by car, and local residents still rarely use the station. Conversely, due to the creation of the core of Shin-Yokohama Station, the number of people visiting Shin-Yokohama from outside the city increased. There will be hotels and luxury restaurants in front of the station, and it will play a role as a base. There was a parking lot in the area in front of the station, and it was also a waiting place for people going to Shonan.

　In 1972, the “Municipal Subway Blue Line” opened. With the opening of the business, we promoted flood control measures, and office buildings and hotels began to be built, creating a period of transformation that greatly changed the appearance of the city. Municipal Subway has become a transportation network that improves the convenience of living when traveling around the city, and many people have come to use the station. In addition, I think that the Yokohama Arena was established as a facility commemorating the 100th anniversary of municipal administration was also great. As a result, Shin-Yokohama, where there were many businessmen, came to have the aspect of an event city.

　In this way, the area around Shin-Yokohama Station has been developed. With the opening of the Sotetsu-Tokyu Direct Line, the convenience of transportation will be further improved, and the town of Shin-Yokohama will be seen by various people. In order to be selected and achieve further development, I feel that it is necessary to make it a "real-oriented town that can only be found here."

　My ancestors came to this land in the 1600s. The current house was built in 1857 and has been living for generations for 160 years.
　In this area, while agriculture using the fertile water of the Tsurumi River was actively carried out, it has been flooded by the Tsurumi River almost every year. My great-grandfather Ikenoyamichi Taro is a fruit tree cultivation that is not flooded even with a slight flood, and focused on peaches suitable for the soil of Tsunashima, and began cultivation of Hitsugetsuto in 1907. After that, peach making began at a stretch in Tsunashima, and at the beginning of the Showa era, the production of Okayama, which was famous as a peach production area at the time, reached the peak of peach making.

　At the same time, when radium hot springs were discovered in 1914, Tsunashima On Izumi Station (currently Tsunashima Station), the current Toukyu Toyoko Line, Tokyo Yokohama Electric Railway Kanagawa Line, opened in 1926, and Tsunashima developed as a hot spring town. However, it subsequently declined due to war and the development of transportation networks.

　Hizuki peaches also declined due to the war, the great floods caused by the Tsurumi River, and the arrival of foreign fruits, and were all extinct for a while. However, in the Heisei era, when my father participated in town revitalization using peaches, the log of Hizuki peach is located at the Orchard Art Experiment Station (named at that time) of the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries in Tsukuba City, Ibaraki Prefecture. I found that. I visited the site during the harvest season and found that it was definitely a log. We had the branches separate, grafted them, and succeeded in reviving Nikko peaches. In this way, it is still possible to continue cultivation, albeit in small quantities.

　I think that the inhabitant of a ward cultural center, which is maintained in a part of the redevelopment building, will have a major impact on this town. We hope that the history and culture of Tsunashima will take root, and that a new movement will take place as a base for transmitting new cultures.