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Hanaokachō, Tokyo
, or officially , is a district of Chiyoda, Tokyo, Chiyoda, Tokyo, Japan. As of April 1, 2007, the population of this district is 0. Kanda-Hanaokachō is located on the northeastern part of the Chiyoda ward. It borders Aioichō, Tokyo, Kanda-Aioichō and Matsunagachō, Tokyo, Kanda-Matsunagachō to the north, Sakumachō, Tokyo, Kanda-Sakumachō to the east and south, and Soto-Kanda 1-chōme to the west. This district houses the Japan Railways Group, JR Line Akihabara Station, the bus traffic circle in front of the station, the Tsukuba Express Akihabara Station, ''atré vie'' (the department store adjacent to the Akihabara Station and owned by the East Japan Railway Company, JR East), and the Yodobashi-Akiba commercial complex. Note that Yodobashi-Akiba's site is partly located on Kanda-Matsunagachō, too. Education operates public elementary and junior high schools. Izumi Elementary School (和泉小学校) is the zoned elementary school for Kanda-Hanaokachō. There is a freedom ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chiyoda, Tokyo
is a special ward located in central Tokyo, Japan. It is known as Chiyoda City in English.Profile ." ''City of Chiyoda''. Retrieved on December 28, 2008. It was formed in 1947 as a merger of and wards following 's transformation into Tokyo Metropolis. The modern Chiyoda ward exhibits contrasting |
Tokyo
Tokyo (; ja, 東京, , ), officially the Tokyo Metropolis ( ja, 東京都, label=none, ), is the capital and largest city of Japan. Formerly known as Edo, its metropolitan area () is the most populous in the world, with an estimated 37.468 million residents ; the city proper has a population of 13.99 million people. Located at the head of Tokyo Bay, the prefecture forms part of the Kantō region on the central coast of Honshu, Japan's largest island. Tokyo serves as Japan's economic center and is the seat of both the Japanese government and the Emperor of Japan. Originally a fishing village named Edo, the city became politically prominent in 1603, when it became the seat of the Tokugawa shogunate. By the mid-18th century, Edo was one of the most populous cities in the world with a population of over one million people. Following the Meiji Restoration of 1868, the imperial capital in Kyoto was moved to Edo, which was renamed "Tokyo" (). Tokyo was devastate ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Japan
Japan ( ja, 日本, or , and formally , ''Nihonkoku'') is an island country in East Asia. It is situated in the northwest Pacific Ocean, and is bordered on the west by the Sea of Japan, while extending from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north toward the East China Sea, Philippine Sea, and Taiwan in the south. Japan is a part of the Ring of Fire, and spans Japanese archipelago, an archipelago of List of islands of Japan, 6852 islands covering ; the five main islands are Hokkaido, Honshu (the "mainland"), Shikoku, Kyushu, and Okinawa Island, Okinawa. Tokyo is the Capital of Japan, nation's capital and largest city, followed by Yokohama, Osaka, Nagoya, Sapporo, Fukuoka, Kobe, and Kyoto. Japan is the List of countries and dependencies by population, eleventh most populous country in the world, as well as one of the List of countries and dependencies by population density, most densely populated and Urbanization by country, urbanized. About three-fourths of Geography of Japan, the c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aioichō, Tokyo
, or officially is a district of Chiyoda, Tokyo, Japan. The closest station is Hibiya Line Akihabara Station, which is located in Kanda-Matsunagachō, Kanda-Hanaokachō and Kanda-Neribeichō. While Yamanote Line and Keihin-Tōhoku Line run in the district, JR Akihabara Station is located in Kanda-Hanaokachō. Adjacent Districts * Kanda-Neribeichō - North * Kanda-Matsunagachō - East * Kanda-Hanaokachō - South *Soto-Kanda is a common name for the area around Akihabara Station in the Chiyoda, Tokyo, Chiyoda ward of Tokyo, Japan. Administratively, the area called Akihabara mainly belongs to the and Sakumachō, Tokyo, Kanda-Sakumachō districts in Chiyoda. There ex ... - West Education operates public elementary and junior high schools. Izumi Elementary School (和泉小学校) is the zoned elementary of Kanda-Aoicho. There is a freedom of choice system for junior high schools in Chiyoda Ward, and so there are no specific junior high school zones. References {{DEFAU ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Matsunagachō, Tokyo
, officially , is a district of Chiyoda, Tokyo, Japan. As of April 1, 2007, its population is 80. Its postal code is 101-0023. Kanda-Matsunagachō is located on the northeastern part of Chiyoda. It borders Akihabara, Taitō to the north; Taitō, Taitō and Kanda-Izumichō, Chiyoda to the east; Kanda-Sakumachō to the south; Kanda-Hanaokachō to the southwest; and Kanda-Aioichō and Kanda-Neribeichō to the west. While no station is located within Matsunagachō, the Akihabara Station is a railway station in Tokyo's Chiyoda ward. It is at the center of the Akihabara shopping district specializing in electronic goods. Lines Akihabara Station is served by the following lines. JR East: * Tōhoku Main Line ** Keihin-Tohoku Li ... is located to the south of the district. Education operates public elementary and junior high schools. Izumi Elementary School (和泉小学校) is the zoned elementary school for Kanda-Matsunagachō. There is a freedom of choice system for junior ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sakumachō, Tokyo
, officially , is a district of Chiyoda, Tokyo, Japan, consisting of 1- to 4-''chōme''. As of April 1, 2007, its population is 963. Its postal code is 101–0025. This district is located on the northeastern part on Chiyoda Ward. Kanda-Sakumachō 1-chōme borders Kanda-Hanaokachō and Kanda-Matsunagachō, and the district's 2 - to 4-chōme border Kanda-Izumichō on the north. The district borders Asakusabashi, Taitō, and Higashi-Kanda, Chiyoda on the east. The district's 1-chōme borders (across Kanda River) Kanda-Sudachō and Kanda-Iwamotochō, and its 2- to 4-chōme border Kanda-Sakumagashi on the south. The district borders Soto-Kanda on the west. Kanda-Hirakawachō is located between Kanda-Sakumachō 1-chōme and 2-chōme. Akihabara Station is a railway station in Tokyo's Chiyoda ward. It is at the center of the Akihabara shopping district specializing in electronic goods. Lines Akihabara Station is served by the following lines. JR East: * Tōhoku Main Line ** ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Soto-Kanda
is a common name for the area around Akihabara Station in the Chiyoda, Tokyo, Chiyoda ward of Tokyo, Japan. Administratively, the area called Akihabara mainly belongs to the and Sakumachō, Tokyo, Kanda-Sakumachō districts in Chiyoda. There exists an administrative district called Akihabara in the Taitō ward further north of Akihabara Station, but it is not the place people generally refer to as Akihabara. The name Akihabara is a shortening of , which ultimately comes from , named after a fire-controlling deity of a firefighting shrine built after the area was destroyed by a fire in 1869.Cybriwsky, Roman. ''Historical dictionary of Tokyo.''Scarecrow Press, 2011. Akihabara gained the nickname shortly after Pacific War, World War II for being a major shopping center for household electronic goods and the post-war black market.Nobuoka, Jakob. "User innovation and creative consumption in Japanese culture industries: The case of Akihabara, Tokyo." ''Geografiska Annaler: Series B, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Japan Railways Group
The Japan Railways Group, more commonly known as the or simply JR, consists of seven for-profit stock companies that took over most of the assets and operations of the government-owned Japanese National Railways (JNR) on April 1, 1987. Most of the liability of the JNR was assumed by the JNR Settlement Corporation. The JR Group lies at the heart of Japan's railway network, operating a large proportion of intercity rail service (including the Shinkansen high-speed rail lines) and commuter rail service. JR Hokkaido, JR Shikoku, and JR Freight (JRF) are governed by the , also known as the ''JR Companies Act'', and are under the control of the public Japan Railway Construction, Transport and Technology Agency (JRTT), while JR East, JR Central, JR West, and JR Kyushu have full private ownership. Because the railways used to be owned by the government, Japanese people generally make a distinction between JR railways (including former JR lines that are now third sector) and ot ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Akihabara Station
is a railway station in Tokyo's Chiyoda ward. It is at the center of the Akihabara shopping district specializing in electronic goods. Lines Akihabara Station is served by the following lines. JR East: * Tōhoku Main Line ** Keihin-Tohoku Line ** Yamanote Line * Sōbu Main Line ** Chūō-Sōbu Line Tokyo Metro: * Tokyo Metro Hibiya Line Metropolitan Intercity Railway Company: *Tsukuba Express The above-ground section of the station is cross-shaped, with the Chūō-Sōbu Line tracks running from east to west, and the Yamanote and Keihin-Tohoku Line (and Tohoku Shinkansen and Ueno–Tokyo Line, which do not stop at Akihabara) from north to south. Station layout JR East There are two island platforms serving four tracks for the Yamanote Line and the Keihin-Tohoku Line on the 2nd level, and two side platforms serving two tracks for the Sobu Line Local service on the 4th level. Chest-high platform edge doors were installed on the Yamanote Line platforms in May 20 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tsukuba Express
The , or TX, is a Japanese railway line operated by the third-sector company Metropolitan Intercity Railway Company, which links Akihabara Station in Chiyoda, Tokyo and Tsukuba Station in Tsukuba, Ibaraki. The route was inaugurated on 24 August 2005. History The was founded on 15 March 1991 to construct the Tsukuba Express, which was then provisionally called the . The new line was planned to relieve crowding on the Jōban Line operated by East Japan Railway Company (JR East), which had reached the limit of its capacity. However, with the economic downturn in Japan, the goal shifted to development along the line. This was facilitated by the enactment of the Special Measures Law in September 1989 which allowed the expedition of large housing projects as well as the expansion and construction of new and existing railway lines. During the early stages of construction, the construction company (Japan Railway Construction, Transport and Technology Agency, or JRTT) as well as ass ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
East Japan Railway Company
The is a major passenger railway company in Japan and is the largest of the seven Japan Railways Group companies. The company name is officially abbreviated as JR-EAST or JR East in English, and as in Japanese. The company's headquarters are in Yoyogi, Shibuya, Tokyo, and next to the Shinjuku Station. It is listed in the Tokyo Stock Exchange (it formerly had secondary listings in the Nagoya Stock Exchange, Nagoya and Osaka Exchange, Osaka stock exchanges), is a constituent of the TOPIX Large70 index, and is also one of the three only Japan Railways Group constituents of the Nikkei 225 index, the other being Central Japan Railway Company, JR Central and West Japan Railway Company, JR West. History JR East was incorporated on 1 April 1987 after being spun off from the government-run Japanese National Railways (JNR). The spin-off was nominally "privatization", as the company was actually a wholly owned subsidiary of the government-owned Japanese National Railway Settlement ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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