Kuniyoshi Utagawa, High Noon at Kasumigaseki

Kasumigaseki (霞が関, 霞ヶ関 or 霞ケ関) is a district in Chiyoda Ward in

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, Japan. It is the location of most of Japan's

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ministry offices. The name is often used as a

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for the Japanese government bureaucracy, while

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refers to the elected government or the legislative branch. Kasumigaseki Station was one of the stations affected during the

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Notable sites

Government offices

* 2nd Bldg. of the Central Common Government Office ** Japan Transport Safety Board ** National Public Safety Commission * Fair Trade Commission *

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* Patent Office *

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* Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare * Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology *

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* National Police Agency *

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* Board of Audit of Japan * Tokyo Metropolitan Police HQ *

Tokyo High Court is a high court in Kasumigaseki, Chiyoda, Tokyo, Japan. The is a special branch of Tokyo High Court. Japan has eight high courts: Tokyo, Osaka, Nagoya, Hiroshima, Fukuoka, Sendai, Sapporo, and Takamatsu. Each court has jurisdiction over one o ...

and Intellectual Property High Court * Tokyo District Court, Summary Court and Family Court

Other buildings

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headquarters *

Kasumigaseki Building The is a 36-story skyscraper located in Kasumigaseki, Chiyoda, Tokyo. History The building is owned by the ''Kasumi Kaikan'' (霞会館), an association of the former '' kazoku'' high nobility. The plot was once owned by the ''Kazoku Kaikan' ...

- Tokyo's first high-rise office building **The Asian Development Bank Institute has its head office on the 8th floor of the Kasumigaseki Building. On the same floor, the

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has its Japan offices. * Kasumigaseki Common Gate - Twin tower buildings adjacent to the Kasumigaseki Building. *New Kasumigaseki Building *Nipponkoa Insurance Building

Subway stations

* Kasumigaseki Station ( Chiyoda Line, Hibiya Line, Marunouchi Line) * Sakuradamon Station ( Yurakucho Line) * Toranomon Station ( Ginza Line)

Economy

Japan Post Holdings is a Japanese publicly traded conglomerate headquartered in Kasumigaseki, Chiyoda, Tokyo. It is mainly engaged in postal and logistics business, financial window business, banking business and life insurance business. The company offers letter ...

has its headquarters in Kasumigaseki.

Tokuyama Corporation is a Japanese, Tokyo-based chemical company and the world's fourth largest silicon manufacturer. The company was founded as Nihon Soda Kogyo Co., Ltd., a producer of soda ash in 1918 by Katsujiro Iwai. It changed name in 1936 to Tokuyama Soda C ...

has its headquarters in Kasumigaseki Common Gate West Tower and

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has offices on the 15th floor of the

. Also in the Kasumigaseki Building has its headquarters the Lixil Group Corporation. At different points of time

All Nippon Airways , also known as ANA (''Ē-enu-ē'') or is an airline in Japan. Its headquarters are located in Shiodome City Center in the Shiodome area of Minato ward of Tokyo. It operates services to both domestic and international destinations and had m ...

and

Mitsui Chemicals is a Japanese chemicals company listed on the Nikkei with business interests in Japan, Europe, China, Southeast Asia and the USA. It is one of the leading chemical companies in Japan and is part of the Mitsui conglomerate. The company mainly ...

had their headquarters in the Kasumigaseki Building. In July 1978, when Nippon Cargo Airlines first began, it operated within a single room inside

's space in the Kasumigaseki Building. At one time

Cantor Fitzgerald Cantor Fitzgerald, L.P. is an American financial services firm that was founded in 1945. It specializes in institutional equity, fixed income sales and trading, and serving the middle market with investment banking services, prime brokerage, an ...

had an office in the Toranomon Mitsui Building in Kasumigaseki.

Education

operates public elementary and junior high schools. Kōjimachi Elementary School (千代田区立麹町小学校) is the zoned elementary of Kasumigaseki 1-3

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. There is a freedom of choice system for junior high schools in Chiyoda Ward, and so there are no specific junior high school zones.

References

External links

History of Kasumigaseki
{{Chiyoda, Tokyo Districts of Chiyoda, Tokyo