Hayabusachō

View from the southeast of the Supreme Court building, completed in 1974 by architect Shin'ichi Okada .

Entrance to Engei Hall of the National Theater, in the rakugo and - Manzai take place performance will be.

Hayabusachō ( Japanese 隼 町 ) is a district of the Chiyoda district of the Japanese prefecture of Tokyo . It is located in the center of Tokyo immediately west of the imperial residence and north of the Nagatacho government district .

According to the 2015 census, a total of 471 people in 353 households lived in Hayabusachō on 0.11 km². The daily population in 2010 was 1,661.

In the south of Hayabusachō are the Supreme Court and the attached library. To the north of it are the National Theater ( Kokuritsu Gekijō ), whose three halls are spread over two buildings, and a large hotel. In a narrow strip to the west, there are smaller residential and office buildings.

The Tokyo Metro Hanzōmon Line of Tōkyō Metro passes between the stations Nagatacho and Ginza in the west on Hayabusachō. The inner ring of the Tokyo highway and the junction to Shinjuku Line No. 4 ( Miyakezaka Junction ) run in the almost two-kilometer-long Chiyoda Tunnel under the district.

Neighboring districts are Hirakawachō in the west, Kōjimachi in the north, Chiyoda in the east and Nagatachō in the south.

history

The name Hayabusachō, meaning "Peregrine Falcon Street" or "Peregrine Falcon City", originated in the early 17th century when Tokugawa Ieyasu moved his seat of government to Edo, today's Tokyo. Here, in front of the inner moat of Edo Castle , falconers settled in order to breed and train birds of prey. During the Edo period , aristocratic families who had to spend part of their time with their entourage in Edo because of the Sankin kōtai established residences in Hayabusachō, including the Miyake clan from Tahara in Mikawa province and the (Echizen) Matsudaira clan from of Harima Province . The painter and scholar Watanabe Kazan was born in the neighborhood in 1793.

In the Meiji period , the Imperial Japanese Army set up several locations in Hayabusachō: Here, among other things, the headquarters of the Army Air Force and the General Inspector for Training ( kyōiku sōkan-bu ) had their headquarters. After the end of the Pacific War, the National Theater and from 1966 onwards 1972 the Supreme Court, which today occupy a large part of the district.

Web links

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

Individual evidence

1. ↑ District Chiyoda: 町 丁別世 帯 数 お よ び 人口 （国 勢 調査） , 町 丁別世 帯 数 お よ び 人口 （国 勢 調査） (MS Excel)
2. ↑ District Chiyoda: 千代 田 区 行政 基礎 資料 集 （平 成 26 年 版） , 1. 人口 ・ 面積 (PDF), p. 25: 町 丁目 別 昼夜 間 人口
3. ↑ Chiyoda District: 千代 田 区 町 名 由来 板 ガ イ ド ： 隼 町 （は や や ぶ さ ち ょ う）

Coordinates: 35 ° 41 ′  N , 139 ° 45 ′  E