Itabashi

Itabashi City Hall
Itabashi-ku ; 板橋区
Geographical location in Japan
Region :	Kanto
Prefecture :	Tokyo
Coordinates :	35 ° 45 ' N , 139 ° 43' E Coordinates: 35 ° 45 '4 " N , 139 ° 42' 33" E
Basic data
Surface:	32.17 km²
Residents :	583,467 ; (October 1, 2019)
Population density :	18,137 inhabitants per km²
Community key :	13119-9
Symbols
Flag / coat of arms:
Tree :	Japanese zelkove
Flower :	Anemone flaccida
Bird :	Motacilla alba lugens
town hall
Address :	Itabashi City Hall ; 2 - 66 - 1 , Itabashi; Itabashi-ku ; Tōkyō 173-8501
Website URL:	http://www.city.itabashi.tokyo.jp/
Itabashi's location in Tokyo Prefecture

Itabashi ( Japanese 板橋区 , - ku ) is one of the 23 districts of Tokyo , the capital of Japan .

geography

Itabashi is on the Kantō level . It is located in the north of the city between Nerima in the west and Kita in the east. South of Itabashi is the Toshima District . The Arakawa borders the district in the north, on the other side are the cities of Wakō and Toda in Saitama Prefecture . To the south, the Shakujii River crosses the district.

The center of the district is a business district, while there are industrial settlements in the north.

history

The name Itabashi, in English “plank bridge” refers to a wooden suspension bridge over the Shakujii, which already existed here during the Heian period . In the Edo period , the Nakasendō ran over the nearby Shimo-Itabashi (lower plank bridge), so that the name expanded to the surrounding area. Itabashi was one of the four post stations in Edo , where travelers to and from the capital stopped. The fiefdom ( Han ) Kaga had a country estate here.

On October 1, 1932, nine small towns ( Machi ) and villages ( Mura ) of the then Kitatoshima-gun of the city of Tokyo were annexed and combined to form the Itabashi district. On May 3, 1947, it became one of the then 22 boroughs ( tokubetsu-ku ). On August 1 of the same year, Nerima District was split off from Itabashi.

traffic

Itabashi is connected to the Tokyo city motorway, national road 17 to Chūō or Niigata and to national road 254 to Bunkyō or Matsumoto . By train, you can take the JR - Saikyō Line from Itabashi or Ukimafunado to Ōmiya or Osaki and the Toei - Mita Line from Nishi-Takashimadaira, Shin-Takashimadaira, Takasahimadaira, Nishidai, Hasune, Shimura-Sanchōme, Shimura-Sakaue, Motohasunuma, Itabashi-Honchō, Itabashi-ku-Yakusho-mae or Shin-Itabashi to Meguro . You can also take the Yūrakuchō line of the Tōkyō Metro from Chikatetsu-Narimasu to Wakō or Kōtō and the Tōbu - Tōjō main line from Ōyama, Naka-Itabashi, Tokiwadai, Kami-Itabashi, Tōbu Nerima, Shimo-Akatsuka or Narimasu to Ikebukuro or Saitama .

education

Four universities have a campus in Itabashi: Tokyo Kasei University , Teikyō University , Daitō Bunka University, and the medical faculty of Nihon University .

politics

Political groups in Parliament
(as of May 29, 2019)

A total of 46 seats

LDP : 17
Kōmeitō : 10
KPY : 9
Minshu Club ("Democratic Club"; KDP , DVP ): 4
Shimin Club ("Citizens' Club "; non-party, SDP ): 3

Mushozoku no kai ("Association of Independents"; non-party): 2

Non-attached: 1

Former LDP Prefectural MP Takeshi Sakamoto has been Mayor of Itabashi since 2007. He was confirmed for a fourth term in the 2019 regional elections with the support of LDP , DVP and Kōmeitō against center-left candidate Michimasa Matsushima ( KDP , KPJ , LP , SDP ). The 46 members of the district parliament were also elected in the regional elections.

Itabashi is a five-mandate constituency in elections to the prefectural parliament . In the 2017 election , the LDP was left without a seat, two candidates from the Tomin First no Kai prefectural party were elected by Governor Yuriko Koike and one each from KPJ, Kōmeitō and DFP .

For the Shūgiin , most of the district constitutes the one-mandate constituency Tokyo 11 , which has been held by the Liberal Democrat Hakubun Shimomura since the electoral reform of the 1990s until today . A small part of Itabashi in the north has belonged to constituency 12 since 2017 (otherwise mainly daycare ).