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is a colloquial name for a neighborhood of
Chiyoda Ward is a special ward located in central Tokyo, Japan. It is known as Chiyoda City in English.Profile ...
in Tokyo. The area along Hibiya Street ( National Route 1) from Yūrakuchō to Uchisaiwaichō is generally considered Hibiya district. Administratively, it is part of the Yūrakuchō district. There is no actual administrative district in Chiyoda called "Hibiya" but the name is used in some local place names such as Hibiya Park and Hibiya Station (administratively in Yūrakuchō). Hibiya was part of the old Kōjimachi ward in Tokyo City, before it was transformed into a metropolis.


Etymology

The outskirts of this district are reclaimed from the ocean, and the "hibi" of Hibiya is derived from the facility for the laver of nori made of bamboo, whose name is also "hibi". This effectively makes the word an ateji, kanji characters used to phonetically represent native Japanese words.


History

In the era of Tokugawa shogunate, the Tokugawa bakufu worked out of
Edo castle is a flatland castle that was built in 1457 by Ōta Dōkan in Edo, Toshima District, Musashi Province. In modern times it is part of the Tokyo Imperial Palace in Chiyoda, Tokyo and is therefore also known as . Tokugawa Ieyasu established the ...
and the area surrounding Edo castle was developed and landfilled. The fishing village then became an urban area where many Daimyō lived. On September 5, 1905, Hibiya Park was the initial site of the
Hibiya riots The , also known as the Hibiya riots, was a major riot that occurred in Tokyo, Japan, from 5 to 7 September 1905. Protests by residents of Tokyo in Hibiya Park against the terms of the Treaty of Portsmouth ending the Russo-Japanese War escalated i ...
, which expanded into a citywide riot, triggered by the terms of the
Treaty of Portsmouth A treaty is a formal, legally binding written agreement between actors in international law. It is usually made by and between sovereign states, but can include international organizations, individuals, business entities, and other legal perso ...
which ended the Russo-Japanese War (1904−1905). After the end of the Meiji Restoration Hibiya, the city of Tokyo had become a modern city for there were many buildings including the Imperial Hotel (Tokyo's first western hotel),
Rokumeikan The was a large two-story building in Tokyo, completed in 1883, which became a controversial symbol of Westernisation in the Meiji period. Commissioned for the housing of foreign guests by the Foreign Minister Inoue Kaoru, it was designed by Brit ...
, Tokyo city hall and the Tokyo Club. In the 1930s, the first electric traffic light in Japan appeared at a Hibiya crossing point. The once fashionable district has changed into a business street.


See also

* Hibiya Station, a railway station * Tokyo Metro Hibiya Line, a Tokyo Metro subway line that runs through the area * Tokyo Midtown Hibiya, a mixed use building overlooking Hibiya Park * Yurakucho, an administrative district covering the entire Hibiya area *


References


External links

Neighborhoods of Tokyo Chiyoda, Tokyo {{Tokyo-geo-stub