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Jingūmae
is a district of Shibuya, Tokyo, Japan. As of October 2020, the population of this district is 12,446. The postal code for JingÅ«mae is 150–0001. Places of interest Cultural Shrines * TÅgÅ Shrine * Aoyama Kumano Shrine (é’山熊野神社) (JingÅ«mae 2-2-22) Temples * MyÅenji (JingÅ«mae 3-8-9) * ChÅanji (JingÅ«mae 3-8-4) Churches * Tenrikyo Higashi Chuo Kyokai (JingÅ«mae 5-14-2) * First Church of Christ, Scientist, Tokyo (JingÅ«mae 5-6-3) * Tokyo Union Church (JingÅ«mae 5-7-7) Museums * Ukiyo-e ÅŒta Memorial Museum of Art * Watari Museum of Contemporary Art * Design Festa Gallery Embassies * Embassy of Turkey (JingÅ«mae 2-33-6) * Embassy of Estonia (JingÅ«mae 2-6-15) Other * Harajuku Station * Headquarters of Secom (JingÅ«mae 1-5-1) * Takeshita Street * Laforet Harajuku (JingÅ«mae 1-11-6) * Harajuku Alta (JingÅ«mae 1-16-4) * Omotesando Hills * Tokyu Plaza Omotesando Harajuku (JingÅ«mae 4-30-4) * YM Square Harajuku (JingÅ«mae 4-31) * Headquarters of United Nati ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shibuya
Shibuya ( 渋谷 区 ''Shibuya-ku'') is a special ward in Tokyo, Japan. As a major commercial and finance center, it houses two of the busiest railway stations in the world, Shinjuku Station (southern half) and Shibuya Station. As of April 1, 2022, it has an estimated population of 228,906 and a population density of 15,149.30 people per km2 (39,263.4/sq mi). The total area is 15.11 km2 (5.83 sq mi). The name "Shibuya" is also used to refer to the shopping district which surrounds Shibuya Station. This area is known as one of the fashion centers of Japan, particularly for young people, and as a major nightlife area. History Heian to Edo period Shibuya was historically the site of a castle in which the Shibuya family resided from the 11th century through the Edo period. Following the opening of the Yamanote Line in 1885, Shibuya began to emerge as a railway terminal for southwestern Tokyo and eventually as a major commercial and entertainment center. Meiji to Showa peri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Harajuku Station
is a railway station in Shibuya, Tokyo, Japan, operated by East Japan Railway Company (JR East). The station takes its name from the area on its eastern side, Harajuku. Lines This station is served by the circular Yamanote Line. It is also adjacent to Meiji-Jingumae Station on the Tokyo Metro Chiyoda and Fukutoshin Lines, and is marked as an interchange on most route maps, although there is no physical connection between the two stations. Station layout The station consists of a two side platforms serving two tracks. The station was initially an island platform with an additional temporary platform for the Shinjuku direction during major events only. The temporary platform was made permanent during the 2020 renovations, and the two platforms now serve different directions. The main entrance is at the southern end of the station. A smaller entrance leading to the centre of the platform is convenient for Takeshita Street, a famous area in Harajuku. To the north of the sta ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tokyo Metropolitan Board Of Education
The Tokyo Metropolitan Government Board of Education (æ±äº¬éƒ½æ•™è‚²å§”員会 ''TÅkyÅ-to KyÅiku Iinkai'') is the board of education in Tokyo, Japan. The board directly manages all of the Public school (government funded), public secondary school, high schools in all 23 Special wards of Tokyo, special wards, the Western Tokyo, and all islands under Tokyo's jurisdiction. In 2019, policies requiring students who do not naturally have black hair to dye it as such were struck down. In 2017, as stated by survey results, 57% of the state-operated schools in the metropolis required students who did not have hair naturally colored black to submit documents proving so. The Japanese Communist Party criticized measures requiring parents to prove hair color. Special wards of Tokyo, The 23 Wards Adachi, Tokyo, Adachi High schools * Aoi High School]* Adachi High School]* Adachi East High School]* Adachi West High School]* Adachi Shinden High School]* Adachi Technical High School]* Arakaw ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
ChÅme
The Japanese addressing system is used to identify a specific location in Japan. When written in Japanese characters, addresses start with the largest geographical entity and proceed to the most specific one. When written in Latin characters, addresses follow the convention used by most Western addresses and start with the smallest geographic entity (typically a house number) and proceed to the largest. The Japanese system is complex and idiosyncratic, the product of the natural growth of urban areas, as opposed to the systems used in cities that are laid out as grids and divided into quadrants or districts. Address parts Japanese addresses begin with the largest division of the country, the prefecture. Most of these are called ''ken'' (県), but there are also three other special prefecture designations: ''to'' (都) for Tokyo, ''dÅ'' (é“) for ''HokkaidÅ'' and ''fu'' (府) for the two urban prefectures of Osaka and Kyoto. Following the prefecture is the municipality. For ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tokyo Metropolitan Aoyama High School
Tokyo (; ja, æ±äº¬, , ), officially the Tokyo Metropolis ( ja, æ±äº¬éƒ½, 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 KantÅ 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 devastat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
United Nations University
The (UNU) is the think tank and academic arm of the United Nations. Headquartered in Shibuya, Tokyo, Japan, with diplomatic status as a UN institution, its mission is to help resolve global issues related to human development and welfare through collaborative research and education. In 1969, UN Secretary-General U Thant proposed "the establishment of a United Nations university, truly international and devoted to the Charter objectives of peace and progress". Following three annual sessions discussing the matter, the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) approved the founding of the United Nations University in December 1972. Tokyo was chosen as the main location due to the Japanese government's commitment to provide facilities and $100 million to the UNU endowment fund. The United Nations University was formally inaugurated in January 1975 as the world's first international university. Since 2010, UNU has been authorized by the UNGA to grant postgraduate degrees, offering ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Omotesando Hills
is a shopping complex in central Tokyo built in 2005, in a series of urban developments by Mori Building. It occupies a two hundred and fifty meter stretch of OmotesandÅ, a shopping and (previously) residential road in Aoyama. It was designed by Tadao Ando, and contains over 130 shops and 38 apartments. The construction of Omotesando Hills, built at a cost of $330 million, has been marked by controversy. The building replaced the Bauhaus-inspired DÅjunkai DÅjunkai (''shinjitai'': , ''kyÅ«jitai'': ) was a corporation set up a year after the 1923 KantÅ earthquake to provide reinforced concrete (and thus earthquake- and fire-resistant) collective housing in the Tokyo area. Its formal name was ''Za ... Aoyama Apartments, which had been built in 1927 after the 1923 KantÅ earthquake. The destruction of the apartments again raised questions about Japan's interest in preserving historic buildings. A small section of the old apartments is reconstructed in the South-East part o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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