Edogawa

This article describes a district in Tokyo. For the river of the same name, see Edo (river) . For the Japanese author and critic, see Edogawa Rampo .

Edogawa-ku 江 戸 川 区
Geographical location in Japan
Region :	Kanto
Prefecture :	Tokyo
Coordinates :	35 ° 42 '  N , 139 ° 52'  E Coordinates: 35 ° 42 '24 "  N , 139 ° 52' 6"  E
Basic data
Surface:	49.86 km²
Residents :	696,014 (October 1, 2019)
Population density :	13,959 inhabitants per km²
Community key :	13123-7
Symbols
Flag / coat of arms:
Tree :	Camphor tree
Flower :	azalea
town hall
Address :	Edogawa City Hall 1 - 4 - 1 , Chūō Edogawa-ku Tōkyō  132-8501
Website URL:	http://www.city.edogawa.tokyo.jp
Location of Edogawa in Tokyo Prefecture

Edogawa ( Japanese 江 戸 川 区 , - ku ) is one of the 23 boroughs of Tokyo , the capital of Japan . The name is derived from the river of the same name, which forms the northeastern border.

history

The Edogawa district of Tokyo was created on October 1, 1932 from the merger of the Machi Komatsugawa ( 小 松川 町 , -machi ), Koiwa ( 小 岩 町 , -machi ) and Mizue ( 瑞 江 町 , -machi ), as well as the Mura Kasai ( 葛西村 , -mura ), Matsue ( 松江 村 , -mura ), Shikamoto ( 鹿 本村 , -mura ) and Shinozaki ( 篠 崎 村 , -mura ) in Minamikatsushika-gun ( 南葛 飾 郡 ).

traffic

Various roads lead through Edogawa, namely the Tokyo city highway, National Road 14 , to Chūō or Chiba and National Road 357, to Chiba or Yokosuka .

Several trains stop in Edogawa, namely Chūō-Sōbu Line of JR , Hirai or Koiwa by Mitaka or Chiba, the Keiyō Line of JR, of Kasairinkai-Kōen to Tokyo or Chiba, the Keisei - main line from Keisei Koiwa or Edogawa to Taitō or Narita Airport , the Shinjuku line of the Toei , from Funabori, Ichinoe, Mizue or Shinozaki to Shinjuku or Ichikawa and the Tōzai line of the Tōkyō Metro , from Nishi-Kasai and Kasai to Nakano or Funabashi .

politics

Political groups in Parliament
(as of May 2019)

        

A total of 44 seats

• LDP : 15
• Kōmeitō : 12
• KPY : 4
• Edogawa Club (with Ishin ): 4
• KDP : 3
• Edogawa Kumin no Kai (with DVP ): 2
• Seikatsusha Network : 2
• Non-attached: 2

Takeshi Saitō has been the mayor of Edogawa since 2019. The former municipal official prevailed in the uniform regional elections in 2019 with the support of LDP and Kōmeitō with a two-thirds majority against two candidates. Predecessor Masami Tada stopped running after 20 years. Also in the uniform regional elections, the 44 members of the district parliament were newly elected. For the first time in the country, a Japanese from India was elected to a local parliament. He ran under his nickname Yogi ( よ ぎ ) for the Constitutional Democratic Party and received the fifth highest number of votes.

Edogawa is a five-seat constituency for the parliament of Tokyo Prefecture; in the 2017 election , two seats went to the Tomin First no Kai of Governor Yuriko Koike , one each to the LDP, Kōmeitō and KPJ .

In elections to the national House of Representatives, the majority of the district forms the constituency of Tokyo 16 , which has been represented by the liberal democrat Hideo Ōnishi since 2012 . Koiwa in the north of Edogawa belongs together with Katsushika to the 17th constituency of the prefecture, which Katsuei Hirasawa won for the eighth time in a row for the LDP in the 2017 election .

sons and daughters of the town

• Ira Ishida , writer
• Kazuya Kamenashi (* 1986), member of the J-pop band KAT-TUN
• Uekusa Kazuhide (* 1960), economist
• Shūto Kōno (* 1993), football player
• Kana Ōyama , volleyball player
• Romi Park (* 1972), voice actor
• Kazuhide Uekusa (* 1960), economist

Town twinning

• Azumino
• Tsuruoka
• Gosford

Neighboring cities and communities

As the easternmost of the Tokyo districts, it borders on the Sumida and Kōtō districts to the west, Katsushika to the north, the cities of Urayasu and Ichikawa in Chiba Prefecture to the east and southeast, and Tokyo Bay to the south .

• Tokyo : Sumida , Katsushika , Kōtō boroughs
• Ichikawa
• Urayasu
• Matsudo

Web links

Commons : Edogawa  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Edogawa City Guide for Foreign Residents (English, Chinese and Korean)

Individual evidence

1. ^ Edogawa district parliament : Members by parliamentary group , accessed on May 30, 2019.
2. ↑ 統一 地方 選 2019 江 戸 川 区長 選 . In: NHK Senkyo Web. April 22, 2019. Retrieved May 30, 2019 (Japanese). 
3. ↑ 統一 地方 選 ２０１９> 東京> 江 戸 川 区 議 選 . In: Tōkyō Shimbun . April 2019, accessed on May 30, 2019 (Japanese). 
4. ↑ イ ン ド 出身 男性 、 江 戸 川 区 議 当選 外国人 社会 と 地域 の 懸 け 橋 に . In: Tōkyō Shimbun . April 23, 2019. Retrieved May 30, 2019 (Japanese). 
5. ^ 41-year-old man becomes first Indian to win an election in Japan . In: India Today . April 23, 2019, accessed May 30, 2019 .