【Strolling through Nishi-ward 15】Borrowing pit remain on Tenjin-zaka Slope 【Strolling through Nishi-ward 15】Borrowing pit remain on Tenjin-zaka Slope
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Strolling through Nishi-ward: Borrowing pit remain on Tenjin-zaka Slope
On the back of Hinode-cho station of Keikyu line, there is a very quiet block even though the main street is very busy. This is the starting point of stone staircase of Tenjin-zaka slope. It leads to Noge mountain and is the best shortcut to the mountain. It has 94 steps counting from the bottom (I’m sure of it because I counted twice). It is not very steep, but each step has different size. So it might be very hard if you climb up at once.
The stone staircase is located on Tenjin mountain, which is only 45 meters high. In 1659 (Manji 2) 1st Kanb? Yoshida, who made a fortune as timber merchant shaved Omaruyama mountain and Shukanjima in Ishikawanakamura and Tenjin mountain and landfilled in order to develop new fields. Invested in huge money and eight years of time, Noge-shinden was constructed and later re-named as Yoshida-shinden, which is now the center of Yokohama. You can find a monument at the starting point of the stone staircase.
Writing and picture by Tai Hasewaga (Nishi ward Cultural Association/Chairman of Kiko Society)
※This is a sketch and writing published in Yokohama Public Relation Nishi ward edition between November 1997 and April 2004. Please be noted that there’s a possibility that information in the article may be changed.
(Published January in 1999)