Opened Sotetsu and Tokyu Direct Line - "Previous" around the new station -

　The Tokaido Shinkansen and Shin-Yokohama Station were opened in conjunction with the 1964 Tokyo Olympics. Until then, when I talked to those who knew that time, everyone said, "There was only rice fields." It was not a city that many people visit as it is today. The land readjustment project started with the opening of the station, but land use did not progress immediately. Due to the development of the road traffic network, such as the opening of the Daisan Keihin Expressway, many people chose to move by car, and the local residents still rarely used the station. Conversely, with the creation of the core of Shin-Yokohama Station, the number of people visiting Shin-Yokohama from outside the city has increased. Hotels and high-end restaurants will be set up in front of the station, and will serve as a base. There was a parking lot around the station square, and it was also a waiting area for people going to Shonan.

　In 1972, the “Municipal Subway Blue Line” opened. With the opening of the business, we promoted flood control measures, office buildings and hotels began to be built, and it was a turning period when the appearance of the city changed significantly. Municipal Subways have 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 great. As a result, Shin-Yokohama, which had many businessmen, has also become an event city.

　In this way, the area around Shin-Yokohama Station has been developing. With the opening of the Sotetsu / Tokyu direct line, the transportation will be further improved, and the town of Shin-Yokohama will be visible to 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 met here".

　It was in the 1600s that my ancestors came to this land. The current house was built in 1857 and has been inhabited for generations for 160 years.
　In this area, agriculture using the fertile water of the Tsurumi River was actively carried out, but it has been flooded by the Tsurumi River almost every year. My great-grandfather Ikenoyamichi Taro (Ikenoya Michitaro) is a fruit tree cultivation that does not submerge even with some floods, and focused on "peaches" suitable for the soil of Tsunashima, starting in 1907. After that, peach making began in Tsunashima, and at the beginning of the Showa era, the peak of peach production reached its peak, with overruning the production volume of Okayama, which was famous as a peach production area at the time.

　At the same time, when radium hot spring was discovered in 1914, Tsunashima Onizumi Station (now 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 the war and the development of transportation networks.

　Sun Moon peaches also declined due to the war, the great floods caused by the Tsurumi River, and the entry of foreign fruits, and all have been extinguished for a while. However, in the Heisei era, my father participated in town revitalization using peaches, and the logs of Sun Moon peach were located at the Orchard Art Experimental Station (named at that time) of the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries in Tsukuba City, Ibaraki Prefecture. I found that. During the harvest season, I visited the site and found that it was definitely a log. We had you divide the branches, grafted them, and succeeded in reviving the Sun Moon peach. In this way, cultivation can be continued, albeit in small quantities.

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