【久留米観光】文化・歴史・まちなみを歩く｜石橋文化センター・久留米城跡・商店街まで散策
Hello everyone, this is Ecotabi. Today I’m in Kurume City, Fukuoka Prefecture. This is the east exit of Nishitetsu Kurume Station. I rode my bike for about 10 minutes to Ishibashi Cultural Center. Like Hakata, Kurume has a shared bicycle service called Chari-Chari. It’s very convenient and helpful. Ishibashi Cultural Center is a comprehensive cultural facility built to commemorate the 25th anniversary of the founding of Bridgestone Tire, which was founded in Kurume City. Admission to the park is free. It’s great! At that time, they were holding the “Spring Rose Fair.” The roses are already in bloom. As soon as you enter the park , there is a large fountain. It’s a Western-style garden. There are roses around the fountain. In addition to the park, there is an art museum, library, hall, etc. It seems that when it first opened, there was also a gymnasium, a pool, and a zoo. This is the Kurume City Museum of Art. It seems that the whole building was the Ishibashi Museum of Art. There is a sundial and roses around it. The Ishibashi Cultural Center was donated to Kurume City in 1956 by Ishibashi Shojiro, the founder of Bridgestone Corporation. Ishibashi Shojiro originally started out in the tabi business, then developed a tire business, and founded Bridgestone by separating the two businesses. It is well known that Bridgestone was named after his surname, “Stonebridge,” which is a literal translation of his name. In addition to founding Bridgestone, Ishibashi Shojiro is also known for investing in Prince Motors, which merged with Nissan Motors. Furthermore, Ishibashi Shojiro’s eldest daughter married politician Hatoyama Iichiro, and is known as the mother of Hatoyama Yukio and Hatoyama Kunio. It seems that the Hatoyama family and Bridgestone had a close relationship. Returning to the park, this is the former studio of Sakamoto Hanjiro, a Western-style painter born in Kurume City. This side is unique in that it has windows on all sides. This is a bamboo forest. This is a rose garden. Roses of various colors and shapes are planted here. It’s beautiful! This time it’s a rose fair and all about roses, but you can enjoy various flowers depending on the season. You can enjoy cherry blossoms from late March to early April, azaleas from early April to late April, spring roses from early to mid-May, irises from early to late June, autumn roses from mid-October to mid-November, and camellias from late December to late March. It’s a tunnel of roses. It was a wonderful rose garden. I went back to the station. This is the west exit side of Nishitetsu Kurume Station. What a magnificent church. This is a facility called Kurume City Plaza. It has a roof, so you can play even in the rain. I also moved a little and came to Sasayama Shrine, which is the ruins of Kurume Castle. This is the ruins of the castle of the Arima clan, who ruled the Kurume domain for about 250 years during the Edo period, and it was once called Sasahara Castle. The buildings were removed in the early Meiji period, and Arima Memorial Museum and Sasayama Shrine are now built in the main enclosure. The impressive stone walls remain to this day. The Ninomaru and Sannomaru areas are now the site of the Bridgestone Kurume Factory, and the outer enclosure is part of the city. The azaleas are blooming. In spring, the Somei-Yoshino and Oikozakura cherry blossoms are beautiful, and in autumn, the autumn leaves are beautiful. It’s May now, so perhaps it’s the season for fresh greenery. Kurume Castle was abandoned in the Meiji period and came under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of the Army, but it was later sold to private citizens and purchased by businessman Ogata Yasuhei. The buyer, Ogata Yasuhei, is actually the grandfather of Ishibashi Shojiro, who founded Bridgestone. The name Bridgestone comes up here again. Kurume really is the city of Bridgestone. Behind the main shrine, you can see the Chikugo River. It’s a large and beautiful river. It would have been even more beautiful if it had been sunny. Leaving Sasayama Shrine, we came across a Bridgestone factory. This is probably where Ninomaru or Sannomaru used to be. We moved a little and arrived in front of JR Kurume Station. The station building is also distinctive, but the big tire is what really stands out! It is said to be one of the largest tires in the world. It is 4m in diameter and weighs 5t. There is a big mechanical clock in front of JR Kurume Station. There are also works by Western-style painters Aoki Tsune and Sakamoto Hanjiro, who are Kurume-funded artists, on display. We went back a little towards Nishitetsu Kurume Station. This is Kurume City Hall. It’s impressive. We went back a little towards Nishitetsu Kurume Station and arrived at Sanbonmatsu Park. This is a famous cherry blossom spot, and in the spring they hold a festival called the Spring Festival. During cherry blossom viewing season, you can also have a barbecue here. There was a shopping street next to the park. Hmm, it’s not very popular. There seem to be a lot of bars, but it’s still before 5pm so they might not be open. I think I’ll go home soon. That’s all for today’s video. Thank you for watching. If you like it, please subscribe to the channel and give it a high rating.
福岡県久留米市を巡りました。
美しい庭園が魅力の「石橋文化センター」、歴史を感じる「久留米城跡」や「篠山神社」、そして商店街をゆっくりと歩いてきました。
〈目次〉
0:00 オープニング
0:51 石橋文化センター
8:22 久留米城跡・篠山神社
11:53 JR久留米駅
12:52 久留米市役所
13:06 三本松公園
13:46 文化街商店街
14:57 一番街商店街
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