Kita (Tokyo)

Kita City Hall
Kita-ku ; 北区
Geographical location in Japan
Region :	Kanto
Prefecture :	Tokyo
Coordinates :	35 ° 45 ' N , 139 ° 44' E Coordinates: 35 ° 45 '11 " N , 139 ° 44' 0" E
Basic data
Surface:	20.59 km²
Residents :	354,256 ; (October 1, 2019)
Population density :	17,205 inhabitants per km²
Community key :	13117-2
Symbols
Flag / coat of arms:
Tree :	Cherry tree
Flower :	azalea
town hall
Address :	Kita City Hall ; 1 - 15 - 22 , Ōji-honcho; Kita-ku ; Tōkyō 114-8508
Website URL:	http://www.city.kita.tokyo.jp/
Location of daycare centers in Tokyo Prefecture

Kita ( Japanese 北区 , - ku ) is one of the 23 boroughs of Tokyo , the capital of Japan .

geography

Kita-ku is the most northerly of all districts and therefore also aptly means "northern district". With an area of 20.59 square kilometers, it accounts for 0.94% of the total area of Tokyo (the prefecture / "Metropolis") and 3.31% of the area of Tokyo (the 23 "Sonder" / "special" districts / before 1947 35 Administrative districts / before 1943 city of Tokyo ) and is one of the smaller districts of the capital. It extends about three kilometers in east-west and nine in north-south direction. On October 1, 2019, 354,256 people lived in Kita-ku (2.54% of the total population of Tokyo, 3.67% of the residents of the 23 districts), with a population density of 17,205 people per square kilometer.

Kita-ku is mainly known to commuters from the neighboring Saitama Prefecture to the north , who are on their way to Shinjuku with the large north-south S-Bahn lines Saikyō Line , Utsunomiya Line , Shōnan-Shinjuku Line and Keihin-Tōhoku Line or go through or change trains at Tokyo Kita-ku station . All trains meet in the large Akabane transfer station, around which public life is concentrated in the form of shops, restaurants, amusement arcades and karaoke bars. The administrative center with the district town hall is in Ōji.

history

The municipality was founded in 1947 by merging the old Takinogawa and Ōji districts of Tokyo City .

Attractions

Mainly characterized by residential development (80% of the buildings in Kita-ku are residential buildings, therefore the high population density, industry and trade together make up less than ten percent) and still relatively young, Kita-ku can only offer a few sights: the Asukayama- Park ( 飛鳥山公園 , Asukayama-kōen ), the first public park in Tokyo (the eighth Tokugawa Shogun Yoshimune planted cherry trees here and later opened the park to the public) with the Asukayama Museum, the Shibusawa Museum and the Paper Museum, and the Japanese Garden Kyū-Furukawa-Teien ( 旧古河庭園 ) from the Meiji period (planned by the Kyoto garden architect Ogawa).

traffic

Kita is connected via the Tokyo city motorway, national road 17 ( Nakasendō ) to Chūō or Niigata and national road 122 to Toshima or Nikkō . By train you can take the JR - Utsunomiya Line from Akabane or Oku to Ueno or Nasushiobara , the JR Takasaki Line from Akabane or Oku to Ueno or Takasaki , the JR Shōnan-Shinjuku Line from Akabane to Ōmiya or Kamakura , the JR Saikyō line from Itabashi , Jūjō, Akabane, Kita-Akabane or Ukimafunado to Ōmiya or Ōsaki , the JR Keihin-Tōhoku line from Tabata , Kaminakazato, Ōji , Higashi-Jūjō or Akabane to Ōmiya or Kamakura, the JR Yamanote Line (Ring Line) from Tabata, the Toden Arakawa Line from Nishigahara Yonchōme, Takinogawa Itchōme, Asukayama, Ōji-ekimae, Sakae-chō or Kajiwara to Arakawa or Shinjuku , the Namboku Line of the Tōkyō Shimo Metro from Akabane- Iwabane-Iwabane , Ōji-Kamiya, Ōji or Nishigahara to Meguro and the Saitama Kōsoku Tetsudō from Akabane-Iwabuchi to Saitama .

politics

Political groups in Parliament
(as of June 1, 2019)

A total of 40 seats

LDP : 11
Kōmeitō : 10
KPY : 9
Rikken club (" Constitutional Club"): 4
Non-attached (1 each from SDP , ToFi , Ishin , Atarashii tō, NSP , NHK kara kokumin o mamoru tō): 6

The town hall in Ōji-Honchō

Both local elections in Kita were last held as part of the uniform regional elections in April 2019 . The 84-year-old Yosōta Hanakawa became mayor with 46.3% of the votes against the former Minna → Tomin-First -Prefectural Parliament member Shun Otokita (35 years old; 38.1%) from the Atarashii tō ( あたらしい党 ; literally the "new one." Party ”), a local party founded in 2018 that relies on crowdfunding and more modern forms of communication, and another communist candidate was re-elected for a fifth term. 52 candidates applied for the 40 seats in the district parliament, most votes received Miki Komazaki, a candidate of the Atarashii tō.

The Parliament of Tokyo the district chooses only three instead of four previously deputy since 2017th In the 2017 election , the seats went to candidates from Tomin First no Kai (vacant after Otokita's candidacy for mayor in 2019), Kōmeitō and KPJ . The candidates of the two major national parties LDP and Minshinto lost. The vacant seat later went to Kanako Yamada from the LDP in a by-election held together with the 2020 gubernatorial election.

In the lower house of the national parliament Kita is represented together with part of Adachi as part of the 12th constituency by the former Kōmeitō chairman Akihiro Ōta . Ōta ran for the first time in the 2003 election in the constituency and was only defeated by the Democrat Ai Aoki (now Seikatsu no Tō ) in the DPJ landslide victory in 2009 .