is one of the 16 wards of the city of

Nagoya is the largest city in the Chūbu region of Japan. It is the list of cities in Japan, fourth-most populous city in Japan, with a population of 2.3million in 2020, and the principal city of the Chūkyō metropolitan area, which is the List of ...

Aichi Prefecture is a Prefectures of Japan, prefecture of Japan located in the Chūbu region of Honshū. Aichi Prefecture has a population of 7,461,111 () and a geographic area of with a population density of . Aichi Prefecture borders Mie Prefecture to the ...

, Japan. , the ward had an estimated population of 164,522, and a population density of 7,624 persons per km². The total area was .

Geography

Tempaku Ward is located in eastern Nagoya city.

Surrounding municipalities

* Shōwa Ward * Chikusa Ward * Mizuho Ward * Meitō Ward * Midori Ward *

Minami Ward Minami (kanji 南, hiragana みなみ) is a Japanese word meaning "south". Places Japan There are several Minami wards in Japan, most of them appropriately in the south part of a city: * Minami, Tokushima, a village in Tokushima Prefectu ...

* Nisshin

History

The area of present Tempaku District has strong connections with the

Oda clan The is a Japanese samurai family who were daimyo and an important political force in the unification of Japan in the mid-16th century. Though they reached the peak of their power under Oda Nobunaga and fell soon after, several branches of the ...

and was a frequently battlefield in the

Sengoku period The was the period in History of Japan, Japanese history in which civil wars and social upheavals took place almost continuously in the 15th and 16th centuries. The Kyōtoku incident (1454), Ōnin War (1467), or (1493) are generally chosen as th ...

. During the

Edo period The , also known as the , is the period between 1600 or 1603 and 1868 in the history of Japan, when the country was under the rule of the Tokugawa shogunate and some 300 regional ''daimyo'', or feudal lords. Emerging from the chaos of the Sengok ...

, it was largely part of

Owari Domain The Owari-Han, also known as the Owari Domain, was a significant feudal domain in Tokugawa shogunate, Japan during the Edo period. Situated in the western region of what is now Aichi Prefecture, it covered portions of Owari Province, Owari, Mino ...

under the

Tokugawa shogunate The Tokugawa shogunate, also known as the was the military government of Japan during the Edo period from 1603 to 1868. The Tokugawa shogunate was established by Tokugawa Ieyasu after victory at the Battle of Sekigahara, ending the civil wars ...

. The modern village of Tempaku was established in 1906 within Aichi District. It was annexed by the city of Nagoya in 1955, becoming part of Showa District. In 1975, Showa District was divided into the new Showa District and Tempaku District.

Education

Meijo University is a private university in Japan. Its main campus is in Tempaku-ku, Nagoya, Aichi Prefecture, and it has two other campuses in Nagoya, Aichi Prefecture. It had two faculty members who were Nobel laureates as of 2021. History The name Meij� ...

Tokai Gakuen University , abbreviated as TGU, is a Japanese private university located in Miyoshi, Aichi within the Chubu of Japan. It has a campus in Tempaku-ku, Nagoya. History The predecessor of the school dates back to the Meiji era (1888) when it started as ...

– Nagoya campus *

Toyota Technological Institute The (commonly referred to as TTI) is a university located in Nagoya, Japan. Founded in 1981 by a large endowment from Toyota Motor Corporation, it originally only accepted students with some industrial work experience. Programs TTI has a Scho ...

Nagoya Women's University is a private women's university in Nagoya, Aichi, Japan Japan is an island country in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean off the northeast coast of the Asia, Asian mainland, it is bordered on the west by the Sea of Japan and extends ...

– Tempaku campus, which was closed in 2015 and integrated into Shioji Campus at Mizuho-ku (See Nagoya Women's University#History ).

Transportation

Railway

Nagoya Municipal Subway The , also referred to as simply the Nagoya Subway, is a rapid transit system serving Nagoya, the capital of Aichi Prefecture in Japan. It consists of six lines that cover of route and serve 87 stations. Approximately 90% of the subway's total t ...

- Tsurumai Line ** - - - *

Sakura-dōri Line The is a Rapid transit, subway line in Nagoya, Aichi, Nagoya, Japan, part of the Nagoya Municipal Subway system. It runs from Taiko-dori Station, Taiko-dori in Nakamura-ku, Nagoya, Nakamura Ward to in Midori-ku, Nagoya, Midori Ward, all with ...

** -

Highways

* Mei-Nikan Expressway * National Route 153 * National Route 302

Local attractions

*Harina Shrine ( 針名神社) *Shimada Castle ( 島田城) *Jigen Temple ( 慈眼寺)SOTOZEN Navi
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