Because Tsurumi Ward was well known
as a low wetland zone from the old days, sluiceways were well developed.
Other than the Neya and Rokugo Rivers, there were several important
sluiceways running in a criss-cross pattern.
Until shortly after the Second World War, boats made of three boards,
about 1 meter wide, were going back and forth, delivering people
and materials on the sluiceways in this area.
At that time, the water was so clear that people on bridges could
see the bottom sand in the river. There were eels and loaches that
people caught. Over the rivers, fireflies were seen. It was an ideal
place for children to play in the beautiful water in summer.
Since the latter half of the 1960s, the old sluiceways were filled
in one after another. Now, most of them have become roads, but one
still can find some of the old atmosphere in part of Hama, Yasuda
and Matsutaomiya area. Looking down the sluiceway on the bridge
in Yasudanaka, it seems as if we could see leisurely scenes of the
riverside districts in the good old days. |
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