Bunkyō

Bunkyō City Hall
Bunkyō-ku ; 文京区
Geographical location in Japan
Region :	Kanto
Prefecture :	Tokyo
Coordinates :	35 ° 42 ' N , 139 ° 45' E Coordinates: 35 ° 42 '29 " N , 139 ° 45' 8" E
Basic data
Surface:	11.31 km²
Residents :	235,026 ; (October 1, 2019)
Population density :	20,780 inhabitants per km²
Community key :	13105-9
Symbols
Flag / coat of arms:
Tree :	ginkgo
Flower :	azalea
town hall
Address :	Bunkyō City Hall ; 1 - 16 - 21 , Kasuga; Bunkyō-ku ; Tōkyō 112-8555
Website URL:	http://www.city.bunkyo.lg.jp/
Location Bunkyōs in Tokyo Prefecture

Bunkyō ( Japanese 文京区 , - ku ) is one of the 23 ("special / special -") districts of the Japanese prefecture of Tokyo . Bunkyō is located in the middle of Tokyo and is a residential area and location of many important educational institutions. Beginning with the Meiji period , writers like Natsume Sōseki , scholars and politicians lived here.

geography

Bunkyō is divided into the following neighborhoods:

Hakusan
Hongō
Hon-komagome
Kasuga
Kohinata
Koishikawa
Kōraku
Mejirodai
Mukōgaoka
Nezu
Nishikata
Otowa
Ōtsuka
Sekiguchi
Sendagi
Sengoku
Suidō
Yayoi
Yushima

history

The municipality was created on March 15, 1947 from the old districts Hongō and Koishikawa of the city of Tōkyō . The name alludes to the phrase bunkyō no fu ( 文教の府 ) for "source of education", where instead of the character 教 the same for capital 京 , which also occurs in the name of Tokyo, was used.

Sights and important institutions

St. Mary's Cathedral

traffic

Bunkyō is connected to the Shuto Highway No. 5 (Ikebukuro Line) of the Tokyo City Highway, National Road 17 to Chūō or Niigata and National Road 254 to Matsumoto .

With the Tōkyō Metro there is a connection to several lines. With the Marunouchi line from Shin-Ōtsuka, Myōgadani, Kōrakuen, Hongō-Sanchōme or Ochanomizu to Suginami or Ikebukuro , with the Namboku line from Kōrakuen, Tōdai-mae or Honkomagome to Meguro or Kita , with the Yūrakokoku line from Edogawabashi to Wakō or Kōtō and with the Chiyoda line from Sendagi, Nezu or Yushima to Shibuya or Adachi .

You can also take the Mita line of the Toei from Sengoku, Hakusan, Kasuga or Suidōbashi to Meguro or Itabashi and the -edo line from Iidabashi, Kasuga, or Hongō Sanchōme to Shinjuku or Nerima .

economy

The publishing and printing industries as well as leading healthcare institutions are important economic drivers in Bunkyo. There are several large hospitals in Bunkyo. The Tokyo Dome , the Kōdōkan and the University of Tokyo are also located here . In recent times, the IT sector has also gained in importance.

Universities and colleges

Public

Akamon is the famous gateway to Tokyo University

Private

Hosuinomori in Toyo University

politics

Political groups in Parliament
(as of 23 May 2019)

A total of 34 seats

LDP・ Independent: Nov.
KPY : 6
Kōmeitō : 4
Shimin no Hiroba ・ Bunkyō ("Citizens' Square"; with SDP ): 3
Bunkyō Mirai ("Bunkyō Future"; with KDP ): 3
創［sow］ sō / sow (with KDP ): 3
Bunkyō eikyū no kai ("union of eternity"; with DVP ): 3
Bunkyō kosodate.net (" Kinderaufzüge.net "): 1

Bunkyō Civic Center

The district mayor and parliament are both elected in unified regional elections. In the last elections in 2019 , the mayor of Bunkyō Hironobu Narisawa was re-elected for a fourth term against a communist candidate. Before his first election in 2007, Narisawa was a Democratic MP in the 34-member local parliament. Only 44 candidates applied for the 34 seats in parliament in 2019.

Bunkyō forms a two-mandate constituency for the prefectural parliament . In the last election in 2017 , the two seats went to Tomin First no Kai and LDP.

For the lower house of the national parliament , Bunkyō - after the lower house election in 1892 the political home of the Hatoyama family for over a century - is part of the 2nd constituency of Tokyo together with Chūō and parts of Taitō and Minato ; Kunio Hatoyama , then still a Democrat, initially won the constituency after the electoral reform of the 1990s, but did not return to Bunkyō after his failed candidacy in the 1999 Tokyo gubernatorial election. The Liberal Democrat Kiyoto Tsuji has been representing the constituency since 2012 . In the 2017 election , he was re-elected with 45.9% of the vote against two candidates from KDP and Kibō no Tō .