Ebigawabashi (ebigawa-bridge)

Ebigawa-bridge is over ebigawa(ebi-river) which flows in funabashi city.
The bridge is on one of main street in central funabashi.
We pass through the bridge when we go to Funabashi shrine from funabashi railroad station.

Ebigawa-bridge has design of ship at both side.
The ship is Godairikibune that had sailing in tokyo bay since edo period to early modern times.


Godairikibune is one of symbol of funabashi city.
Please check my article Man hole cover I wrote in this blog before.

By the way, "funabashi" is "船橋" in kanji symbol.
"船 (fune)" means ship or boat.
"橋 (hashi)" means bridge.

Long, long ago, the river was aorund three times wider than the present time.
They connected small boats insted of bridge.
They say that it is origin of the name of funabashi.

Manhole cover

I took this photo in front of Funabashi station.
This is a manhole cover.
It is designed by ships and sasanqua.
The ships are "Godairikibune", had been sailing in tokyo bay ( edo bay ) since edo period to early modern times.
Sasanqua is symbol tree of funabashi city.