Kyōbashi (Tokyo)

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Office buildings such as the Bridgestone headquarters dominate the Kyōbashi district.

Kyōbashi ( Japanese 京 橋 ) is a district of the Chūō district of the Japanese prefecture of Tokyo . It is located in the center of Tokyo, southeast of Tokyo Station, and is dominated by office buildings. It is divided into three numbered quarters ( chōme ), in which as of April 1, 2018, according to registration statistics, 290 inhabitants in 221 households lived. The postal code of Kyōbashi is 104-0031.

Bridge piers of the last Kyōbashi built in 1922.
Preserved pillar of the Kyōbashi from 1875.

The name of the district was given by the Kyōbashi, the "Capital Bridge", which was the first bridge on the Tōkaidō after the Nihombashi on the way to the capital city of Kyoto . The bridge led over the Kyōbashi-gawa, an artificially created river in the Edo period that connected the moat of Edo Castle with the Momijigawa and Sakuragawa. The Kyōbashi was rebuilt several times during the Meiji period . In 1954, construction began on the Tōkyō Kōsokudōro ("Tokyo Autobahn", not to be confused with the Shuto Kōsokudōro , known in German as the Tokyo city motorway ), after which the Kyōbashigawa in 1959 disappeared.

In 1878, the Kyōbashi district was established, which was part of the city ​​of Tokyo from 1889 and took up about the southern half of today's Chūō district, so it was much larger than today's district. Kyōbashi was first established as a district name in the 1930s, and Kyōbashi received its current boundaries in 1978 when it was expanded to include the former Takarachō ( 宝 町 ) in the east . The district is now bordered by Hatchobori in the east, Ginza in the south, Yaesu in the west and Nihonbashi in the north .

There are several headquarters of large companies in Kyōbashi, including those of Asahi Beer , Ajinomoto , Bridgestone and Meiji Seika . Also, located here Artizon Museum , the Film Center of the National Museum of Modern Art (Engl. Tokyo National Museum of Modern Art, National Film Center) and the Police Museum ( keisatsu-Hakubutsukan ), in the work and history of the Police Department of Tokyo are documented.

Web links

Commons : Kyōbashi, Tokyo  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ District Chūō: Population statistics
  2. ^ District Chūō: Origin of the district names , Yaesu 2-chōme & Kyōbashi
  3. ↑ Kyōbashigawa saisei no kai ("Society for the Restoration of Kyōbashigawa")

Coordinates: 35 ° 41 ′  N , 139 ° 46 ′  E