明治23年4月9日の琵琶湖疏水竣工式はこの夷川船溜で行われました。また南禅寺船溜等と並んで、京都有数の水泳場として長らく親しまれました。明治35（1902）年には北垣国道像が、大正3（1914）年には夷川発電所がそれぞれ完成しています。両岸の桜回廊が美しく、毎年春に運航する岡崎さくら・わかば回廊十石舟めぐりの折り返し地点。

Ebisu-Gawa Boat Reservoir

It is exactly at this Ebisu-gawa ship reservoir that the ceremony to celebrate the completion of Biwa lake canal was held on April 9, 1890. Ranked with other ship reservoirs such as Nanzenji’s one, this place was known as one of the few swimming-places in Kyoto. The statue of Kunimichi Kitagaki and power plant completed these construction in 1902 and 1914 repeatedly. We can appreciate the corridors of cherry blossoms on both banks and this place is chosen as the turning point of Jukkoku-fune boat on which we can travel around the corridor of cherry blossoms and young leaves in Okazaki every spring.