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“Tsubame Sanjo City, Niigata Prefecture: The Non-Existent Municipality That Went Viral”

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The lifestyle information variety program “Gacchiri Monday! ! (TBS), the shoe manufacturer Regal Corporation was introduced as “actually a domestic company”. The location of the company’s factory (Chiyoda Shoes under the company’s umbrella) that appeared there is Kamo City, Niigata Prefecture, but the telop in the program was displayed as “Tsubame Sanjo City, Niigata Prefecture”.

As a result, many people pointed out that such a municipality does not exist. on social media

《Tsubame City and Sanjo City actually exist, but there is no municipality called Tsubame Sanjo City.》

“We’re on bad terms, even though we’re both cities! Absolutely no merger! 》

《It is speculated that he was an idiot who thought that there was a market with that name after eating the “Tsubame Sanjo Backboiled Niboshi Ramen”, which is available at several restaurants in Tokyo.

And so on, “Tsubame Sanjo City” became a Twitter trend.

In Niigata, there are “Tsubame City” and “Sanjo City” located next to each other. Sanjo City has “Tsubame Sanjo Station” as a Shinkansen station, and Tsubame City has “Sanjo Tsubame” as a high-speed interchange. The background is said to be the 300-year history of the two cities.

Broadcast on November 19, 2017, “Hayashi-sensei’s surprising first-time study! ](TBS series) introduces the background. According to it, the two cities of Tsubame and Sanjo have been at odds since the Edo period and are still on bad terms, so much so that Niigata-born Prime Minister Kakuei Tanaka (1918-1993) once had a hard time dealing with them.

When it was decided that the Joetsu Shinkansen would pass through such a place, it was decided to build a station on the border of the city with some space between them, but the two parties tried to maintain face and did not come to an agreement. Kakuei appears there, and the station name is ‘Tsubame Sanjo’ and the location of the station is ‘Sanjo City.’ Instead, the name of the high-speed IC was ‘Sanjo Tsubame’ and the location was ‘Tsubame City’. In this way, it is said that the problem was settled with a compromise plan that balanced the whole.

During the Edo period, Tsubame was a town of craftsmen and Sanjo was a town of merchants. It is also introduced that the two cities became on bad terms because the merchants of Sanjo often bargained for the goods made by the craftsmen of Tsubame.This conflict seems to be still lingering, and SNS

《When I kept calling the international name “Sanjo Tsubame,” a hostess from Tsubame got angry and said, “Because it’s Tsubame Sanjo!

There is also a writing called. It seems that this mistake was not dismissed as “just a mistake” for the local people.

( SmartFLASH
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