is a neighborhood in
Tokyo
Tokyo (; ja, 東京, , ), officially the Tokyo Metropolis ( ja, 東京都, label=none, ), is the capital and List of cities in Japan, largest city of Japan. Formerly known as Edo, its metropolitan area () is the most populous in the world, ...
,
Japan. It extends from the Yushima section of
Bunkyo-ku to the
Kanda
Kanda may refer to:
People
* Kanda (surname)
*Kanda Bongo Man (born 1955), Congolese soukous musician
Places
* Kanda, Tokyo, an area in Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo, Japan
**Kanda Station (Tokyo), a railway station in Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo
* Kanda River, a ri ...
section of
Chiyoda-ku.
Sundai Preparatory School
is the oldest Yobikō, extracurricular college-preparatory school in Japan. It was founded in 1918 by Toshiharu Yamazaki (:ja:山崎寿春, 山崎 寿春 ''Yamazaki Toshiharu''), a Japanese English Literature scholar and a graduate of Amherst Co ...
,
Meiji University,
Tokyo Medical and Dental University, and
Juntendo University
is a private university in Japan. Its headquarters are on its campus in Bunkyo, Tokyo, for the School of Medicine and in Inzai, Chiba, for the School of Health and Sports Science. The university was established in 1838 for medical and in 1946 ...
all have main campuses in the area.
Ochanomizu Station on the
Chūō Line is the transport hub of the district. Prior to the
Great Kantō earthquake,
Ochanomizu University was also there; after the earthquake, it moved to its present location in the Ōtsuka neighborhood of Bunkyo-ku. Ochanomizu is also the location of the
Holy Resurrection Cathedral (Nicholai-dō).
Ochanomizu is famous for its many musical instrument stores, as well as ski and snowboard shops located a short walk from the station; it is a popular district for bargain-conscious musicians and sportsmen.
''Ocha-no-mizu'' literally means "tea water", after the nearby
Kanda River
The stretches 24.6 km from Inokashira Park in Mitaka to the Sumida River under the Ryōgoku Bridge at the boundary of Taitō, Chūō, and Sumida. Its entire length lies within Tokyo, Japan. It drains an area of 105.0 km². The gov ...
from which water was extracted to make the shōgun's tea during the
Edo period
The or is the period between 1603 and 1867 in the history of Japan, when Japan was under the rule of the Tokugawa shogunate and the country's 300 regional '' daimyo''. Emerging from the chaos of the Sengoku period, the Edo period was characte ...
.
Ochanomizu Station (both JR and Marunouchi lines) is convenient to access
Yushima Seidō
, is a Confucian temple () in Yushima, Bunkyō, Tokyo, Japan. It was established in end of the 17th century during the Genroku era of the Edo period. Towards the late Edo period, one of the most important educational institutions of the sh ...
,
Yushima Tenjin, and
Kanda Myōjin.
External links
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Neighborhoods of Tokyo
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