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is a special ward in the Tokyo Metropolis in
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. It is located to the north of the heart of Tokyo. The ward consists of two separate areas: a small strip of land between the Sumida River and Arakawa River and a larger area north of the Arakawa River. The ward is bordered by the cities of Kawaguchi,
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and Yashio in Saitama and Katsushika, Sumida, Arakawa and Kita in Tokyo. The ward is called Adachi City in English. As of May 1, 2015, the ward has an estimated
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of 692,707 and a
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of 13,010 persons per km2. The total area is 53.25 km2. The Adachi Land Transportation Office is located here, and automobiles registered at this office bear Adachi number plates.


History

Under the
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system, the present-day ward was the southern extremity of Adachi District,
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. In 826, during the
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, the Nishiarai Daishi temple was founded. During the
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and into the
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, the Chiba clan held control of the region. The Great Senju Bridge was built in 1594. In the
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, parts were under the direct control of the
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, and parts were under the administration of Kan'ei-ji, a temple in present-day Ueno, Tokyo. Adachi was also home to Senju-shuku was a post station on both the Nikkō Kaidō and the Mito Kaidō. The shogunate maintained the Kozukappara execution grounds in Senju. In 1932, Adachi, formerly known as Minamiadachi District, became a ward of
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. The special ward was founded on March 15, 1947.


Districts and neighborhoods

;Ayase Area * Adachi * Aoi * Ayase * Kōdō * Nishi Ayase ;Fuchie Area * Higashi Hokima * Higashi Rokugatsu-chō * Hodzuka-chō * Hokima * Nishi Hokima * Rokuchō * Rokugatsu * Takenotsuka ;Hanahata Area * Hanahata * Kahei * Kitakaheichō * Minami Hanabatake * Mutsuki * Nishi Kahei * Shinmei * Shinmei Minami * Tatsunuma * Yanaka ;Higashi Fuchie Area * Higashi Ayase * Nakagawa * Ōyata * Sano * Tōwa ;Ikō Area * Higashi Ikō * Ikō * Ikōhon-chō * Nishi Ikō * Nishi Ikōchō * Nishi Takenotsuka ;Kōhoku Area * Horinouchi * Kaga * Kōhoku * Miyagi * Nitta * Odai * Saranuma * Shikahama * Tsubaki * Yazaike ;Nishi Arai Area * Motoki * Motoki Higashi-machi * Motoki Kita-machi * Motoki Minami-machi * Motoki Nishi-machi * Nishi Arai * Nishi Arai Honchō * Ōgi * Okino * Sekihara ;Senju Area * Hinodemachi * Senju * Senju Motomachi * Senju Akebono-chō * Senju Asahi-chō * Senju Azuma * Senju Hashido-chō * Senju Kawahara-chō * Senju Kotobuki-chō * Senju Midori-chō * Senju Miyamoto-chō * Senju Naka-chō * Senju Nakai-chō * Senju Ōkawa-chō * Senju Sakuragi * Senju Sekiya-chō * Senju Tatsuta-chō * Senju Yanagi-chō * Yanagihara ;Toneri Area * Iriya * Iriya-chō * Kojiya * Kojiya Honchō * Toneri * Toneri Kōen * Tonerimachi ;Umejima Area * Chūō Honmachi * Hirano * Hitotsuya * Kurihara * Nishi Arai Sakae-chō * Shimane * Umeda * Umejima


Sights


Nishiarai Daishi

Nishiarai Daishi, located in Nishiarai, is a temple of the Buzan branch of Shingon Buddhism. Its formal name is Gochisan Henjōin Sōji-ji (Sōji-ji Temple). This is one of the Three Great Temples in the
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along with Kawasaki Daishi and Sano Yakuyoke Daishi, and a large number of people annually visit the temple at New Year.


Parks

*Toneri Park: Toneri Park is a metropolitan park located in Toneri. It is divided into east and west sections by Ogubashi Street. The west site has sports facilities such as an athletic stadium, tennis courts and baseball grounds. The east site has a big pond, water park and bird sanctuary. A part of the east site is now under construction. The park can be accessed by arriving at Toneri-kōen Station on the Nippori-Toneri Liner or by bus. *Higashi Ayase Park: Higashi Ayase Park is a metropolitan park that straddles the border between Ayase and Higashi Ayase. It contains Tokyo Budokan. Within the park, there is a
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which has a wide variety of plants. It also has sports facilities such as baseball and gateball grounds. *Urban Agricultural Park: Urban Agricultural Park (Toshi Nōgyō Kōen), located in Shikahama, is run by Adachi Ward. Officially, it is a part of Kōhoku Park. It is located near the meeting of the Shiba and Arakawa Rivers, and its south end faces a green space on the Arakawa river area. There are fields, orchards, greenhouses and other facilities that aim to show farming techniques that have been adopted in the suburbs of Tokyo. There are also facilities for families such as lawns and play equipment. There is a rest house near the entrance on the Arakawa riverbank side. The rest house is at the point where the Arakawa and Shibakawa cycling roads meet. There is no admission fee. It is closed early in the morning and late at night, as well as all day on some days such as the year-end and new-year holidays. The park is far from the train station, but there is a bus running from Nishiarai Station to the park. The park is about a five-minute walk south of the bus stop Shikahama 5 on Kawaguchi Station line (Shikahama-Ryōke) and Akabane Station line (to Nishiarai Station by way of Arakawa Bridge). There is parking for cars and sightseeing buses under the Shuto Expressway Kawaguchi Route, and Shikahamabashi Exit and Higashi Ryōke Exit are nearby. The parking lot is also close to Kan-nana Road. *Adachi Park of Living Things: Adachi Park of Living Things, located within Motofuchie Park in Hokima, is run by Adachi Ward.


Halls and cultural facilities

*Tokyo Budokan: Tokyo Budokan, located within Higashi Ayase Metropolitan Park, is a sports facility run by Tokyo Sport Benefits Corporation. The Tokyo Budokan has an avant-garde building designed by a famous architect Kijō Rokkaku. It includes places for martial arts and Kyūdō, and training rooms. The word ''budokan'' means "martial arts hall", and the same word is part of the name of the more-famous
Nippon Budokan The , often shortened to simply Budokan, is an indoor arena in Chiyoda, Tokyo, Japan. It was originally built for the inaugural Olympic judo competition in the 1964 Summer Olympics. The Budokan was a popular venue for Japanese professional wres ...
. The Tokyo Budokan's address is 3-20-1 Ayase, Adachi, Tokyo. *Galaxy+City: Galaxy+City (Gyarakushitii) is a generic term for series of cultural facilities in Kurihara. It used to be run by Adachi Lifelong Educational Promotion Corporation, but the management was taken over by Youth Centre of Adachi Board of Education on April 1, 2005. It contains two main facilities: Nishiarai Culture Hall (theatre) and Adachi Children's Science Museum. There are also event halls, cafes and others. *Theatre 1010: Theatre 1010 was named as it is because the number 1010 (Senjū) and the name of the theater's location (Senju) are homonyms in Japanese. *Adachi Historical Museum: Adachi Historical Museum, located within Higashifuchie Park in Ōyata, is run by Adachi Ward. * Senju Thermal Power Station


Education

The city's public high schools are operated by the Tokyo Metropolitan Government Board of Education. The city's public elementary and junior high schools are operated by the Adachi City Board of Education (足立区教育委員会). International schools: * - North Korean school() Tokyo Future University is located in the area.


Sister cities

Adachi has sister-city relationships with Belmont,
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. Within Japan, Adachi has similar ties with the city of Uonuma (formerly the town of Koide) in
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, Yamanouchi in
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.


Transportation


Rail

The primary railway station in the city is Kita-Senju Station. ;
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:
Jōban Line The is a railway line in Japan operated by the East Japan Railway Company (JR East). The line officially begins at Nippori Station in Arakawa, Tokyo before the line officially ends at Iwanuma Station in Iwanuma, Miyagi. However, following ...
- - ; Tobu Railway : Skytree Line - - - Kita-Senju - - - - - - : Daishi Line Nishiarai - ; Keisei Electric Railway : Keisei Main Line - - - ; Tokyo Metro : Hibiya Line - Kita-Senju : Chiyoda Line - Kita-Senju - Ayase - ; Metropolitan Intercity Railway Company : Tsukuba Express - Kita-Senju - - - ;
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: Nippori-Toneri Liner - - - - - - - - -


Highways

Shuto Expressway The is a network of Toll road, tolled expressways in the Greater Tokyo Area of Japan. It is operated and maintained by the . Most routes are Grade separation, grade separated and have many sharp curves and multi-lane merges that require cauti ...
*No.6 Misato Route (Kosuge JCT - Misato JCT) *C2 Central Loop (Itabashi JCT - Kasai JCT) *S1 Kawaguchi Route (Kōhoku JCT - Kawaguchi JCT)


Notable people

* Mika Akino, professional wrestler * Atsuko Asano, actress * Back-On, rock band * Tochiazuma Daisuke, sumo wrestler *
Kouta Hirano is a Japanese manga artist born in Adachi, Tokyo, Japan, most famous for his manga ''Hellsing'' and ''Drifters''. Career Hirano said he learned how to be a manga artist from reading Akira Toriyama and Akira Sakuma's '' Hetappi Manga Kenkyūj ...
, manga artist * Susumu Hirasawa, progressive-electronic musician * Itsuki Hirata, mixed martial artist * Kazuki Hirata, professional wrestler *Jo Kamisaku, murderer of Junko Furuta * Kaela Kimura, singer and model *
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, comedian and filmmaker * Daijiro Morohoshi, manga artist *
Nujabes , born , better known by his stage name Nujabes (; ), was a Japanese record producer, audio engineer, DJ, composer and arranger best known for his atmospheric instrumental mixes sampling from Japanese hip hop, hip hop, soul music, soul, and jazz, a ...
, hip hop artist/producer * Mayumi Ogawa, actress * Masatoshi Ono, rock/heavy metal singer * Tetsuya Naito, professional wrestler * Tatsuki Seko, soccer player * Tetsuya Shimizu, professional wrestler * Daiki Sugioka, soccer player * Yoshiko Tanaka, actress * Kyohei Wada, professional wrestling referee * Kenta Yamazaki, soccer player


References


External links


Adachi City Official Website
{{Authority control Wards of Tokyo