Kyōbashi-ku (Tokyo)

Kyōbashi ( Japanese 京 橋 区 , -ku ) was a district of the city ​​of Tokyo ( Tōkyō-shi ) in the old Tokyo Prefecture ( Tōkyō-fu ).

The district was set up like the other 14 municipal districts of Tokyo with the gun - ku - chō - son -hensei-hō ("Law on the Organization of Counties, Districts, Cities and Villages"), one of the "three new regional laws" ( 地方 三新法 , chihō san shin-hō ), which were issued by the Meiji government ( Dajōkan ) in 1878 . It became part of the existing city of Tokyo from 1889 to 1943 and was merged in 1947 with the old Nihombashi district to form the "special district" Chūō ("center").

The Kyōbashi district comprised the current districts of Kyōbashi , Ginza and Yaesu 2-chōme and the areas east and southeast of it, including today's Tsukiji , where the district administration was located, together about the southern half of today's Chūō.