This neighborhood of the Mansei-bashi bridge was a hustle and bustle area in the 17th-19th century, with wholesalers and retailers of greenstuffs, rice, fuel and carpenter's tools, being blessed with water transport of the Kanda River. In the Meiji period in the second half of the 19th century, when Western culture flowed into Japan at once, movie theaters, vaudeville halls, restaurants, etc. opened here one after another, and this became the busiest district in Tokyo. Against this background, JR Mansei-bashi Station was built in 1912. Being designed by Tatsuno Kingo, a famous architect whose most well-known masterpiece is Tokyo Station Building in brick, it was equipped with waiting rooms, a restaurant, bar, conference room and elevator. A square ,where streetcars were coming and going, was built in front of this station. However, with the opening of Tokyo Station and Kanda Station followed by Akihabara Station in the immediate vicinity, the number of the passengers decreased, and the luxurious station building was destroyed by fire in the Great Kanto Earthquake in 1923. And the station building was effectively shut down in 1943. As an aside, the police box that stood in front of this station building has been relocated to Mitaka's Edo-Tokyo Tatemono-en open-air museum. In addition, the Railway Museum, which is now in Omiya City, originally stood here till 2006, utilizing the old station building. Mansei-bashi Station, which suffered such a fate, has been transformed into a somewhat stylish shopping mall with retail stores and coffee shops. The coffee shop on the top floor is designed utilizing the former platform, so trains pass right next to it, and it is gaining popularity as a sacred place for train buffs.
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Mji huu wa daraja la Mansei-Bashi ulikuwa eneo la shughuli nyingi katika karne ya 17-19, na wauzaji wa jumla na wauzaji wa mboga, mchele, mafuta na zana za usoni, wakibarikiwa na usafirishaji wa maji wa Mto Kanda. Katika kipindi cha Meiji, wakati wa karne ya 19, utamaduni wa Magharibi ulikuja Japani mara moja, sinema, majumba ya vaudeville, mikahawa, na kadhalika. Mji huu ulifunguliwa mara kwa mara na kuwa eneo lenye shughuli nyingi zaidi mjini Tokyo. JR Mansei-Bashi Station ilijengwa mnamo 1912. Jengo hilo lilibuniwa na Tatsuno Kingo, ambaye ni msanifu maarufu wa majengo ya Tokyo Station Building, na lilikuwa na vyumba vya kusubiri, mgahawa, baa, chumba cha mikutano na lifti. Mraba, ambapo tramu zilikuwa zikija na kwenda, ulijengwa mbele ya kituo hiki. Hata hivyo, baada ya kufunguliwa kwa Kituo cha Tokyo na Kituo cha Kanda, na baada ya hapo Kituo cha Akihabara, idadi ya abiria ilipungua, na jengo la kituo hicho la kifahari liliharibiwa na moto katika Tetemeko Kuu la Kanto mnamo 1923. Kituo cha reli kilikuwa kimefungwa mwaka 1943. Kwa upande mwingine, sanduku la polisi lililokuwa mbele ya jengo hili la kituo limehamishwa hadi jumba la makumbusho la wazi la Edo-Tokyo Tatemono-en la Mitaka. Jumba la kumbukumbu la reli, ambalo sasa liko katika mji wa Omiya, awali lilisimama hapa hadi 2006, kwa kutumia jengo la zamani la kituo. Kituo cha Mansei-bashi, ambacho kilipatwa na hatima kama hiyo, kimegeuzwa kuwa kituo cha ununuzi chenye mtindo na maduka ya rejareja na maduka ya kahawa. Kahawa ya juu zaidi ya ghorofa ya juu imebuniwa kwa kutumia jukwaa la zamani, kwa hivyo treni hupita karibu nayo, na inapata umaarufu kama mahali patakatifu kwa wapenzi wa treni. Mwongozo wa ziara wa leseni ya usafiri