is a district in

Chūō, Tokyo is a special ward that forms part of the heart of Tokyo, Japan. The ward refers to itself in English as Chūō City. It was formed in 1947 as a merger of Kyobashi and Nihonbashi wards following Tokyo City's transformation into Tokyo Metrop ...

, Japan, located north of

Ginza Ginza ( ; ja, 銀座 ) is a district of Chūō, Tokyo, located south of Yaesu and Kyōbashi, west of Tsukiji, east of Yūrakuchō and Uchisaiwaichō, and north of Shinbashi. It is a popular upscale shopping area of Tokyo, with numerous i ...

, west of

Nihonbashi is a business district of Chūō, Tokyo, Japan which grew up around the bridge of the same name which has linked two sides of the Nihonbashi River at this site since the 17th century. The first wooden bridge was completed in 1603. The curre ...

and Kyōbashi, and adjacent to the east side of

Tokyo Station Tokyo Station ( ja, 東京駅, ) is a railway station in Chiyoda, Tokyo, Japan. The original station is located in Chiyoda's Marunouchi business district near the Imperial Palace grounds. The newer Eastern extension is not far from the Ginza ...

. The Yaesu exit of this station, which faces

, is recent and primarily provides access to the Shinkansen platforms.

History

The area was named after the 17th century Dutch adventurer Jan Joosten van Lodensteijn, or simply Jan Joosten. For his services to

Tokugawa Ieyasu was the founder and first ''shōgun'' of the Tokugawa Shogunate of Japan, which ruled Japan from 1603 until the Meiji Restoration in 1868. He was one of the three "Great Unifiers" of Japan, along with his former lord Oda Nobunaga and fello ...

he was granted a house in

Edo Edo ( ja, , , "bay-entrance" or "estuary"), also romanized as Jedo, Yedo or Yeddo, is the former name of Tokyo. Edo, formerly a ''jōkamachi'' (castle town) centered on Edo Castle located in Musashi Province, became the ''de facto'' capital of ...

(now Tokyo) in an area that came to be called "Yayosu Quay" after him — his name was pronounced ''yan yōsuten'' in Japanese (short version: Yayōsu (耶楊子)) — the Yaesu side of

is also named for him. Yaesu Avenue has a monument dedicated to Jan Joosten and his life after his arrival in Japan on ''De Liefde'' with his shipmate William Adams.

Ukiyo-e Ukiyo-e is a genre of Japanese art which flourished from the 17th through 19th centuries. Its artists produced woodblock prints and paintings of such subjects as female beauties; kabuki actors and sumo wrestlers; scenes from history and folk ta ...

artist

Andō Hiroshige Utagawa Hiroshige (, also ; ja, 歌川広重 ), born Andō Tokutarō (; 1797 – 12 October 1858), was a Japanese ''ukiyo-e'' artist, considered the last great master of that tradition. Hiroshige is best known for his horizontal-format l ...

was born in the Yayosu barracks in the Yaesu area in 1797.

Places in Yaesu

*Tokyo Station and highway bus platforms * Yaesu underground shopping promenade, which extends eastward from Tokyo Station down Yaesu Avenue.

Companies based in Yaesu

Asahi Mutual Life Insurance Co is a Japanese insurance company, headquartered in Tokyo. The company was founded in 1888 and is, today, one of the oldest and largest insurers in Japan. Asahi Mutual Life Insurance is a member of the Mizuho keiretsu A is a set of comp ...

* J. Front Retailing,Corporate Data
" J. Front Retailing. Retrieved on December 15, 2010. "Office : 1-1, Yaesu 2-chome, Chuo-ku, Tokyo " company that holds the stock in Daimaru and Matsuzakaya department-store chains * The Sumitomo Marine & Fire Insurance Co. * Yaesu, a manufacturer of communications equipment, was formerly located here.

Railway and subway stations

* Kyōbashi Station ( Ginza Line) * Nihombashi Station ( Ginza Line, Tozai Line) *

( Chūō Line, Keihin-Tohoku Line, Keiyo Line, Marunouchi Line, Shinkansen lines,

Yamanote Line The Yamanote Line ( ja, 山手線, Yamanote-sen) is a loop service in Tokyo, Japan, operated by the East Japan Railway Company (JR East). It is one of Tokyo's busiest and most important lines, connecting most of Tokyo's major stations and urban c ...

, Yokosuka Line)

Education

Public elementary and junior high schools are operated by Chuo City Board of Education. All of Yaesu is zoned to Jōtō Elementary School ( 中央区立城東小学校). Yaesu 1-chome is zoned to Nihonbashi Junior High School ( 日本橋中学校), while Yaesu 2-chome is zoned to Ginza Junior High School ( 中央区立銀座中学校)

References

External links

(Yaesu Avenue) {{Chūō, Tokyo Districts of Chūō, Tokyo