Marunouchi
Marunouchi ( Japanese 丸 の 内 ) is a business district in the center of the Japanese capital Tokyo . It is located in the Chiyoda district , between Tokyo Station and the Imperial Palace . The name, translated “within the circle”, is derived from the location within the outer moat of what was then Edo Castle (today's Imperial Palace).
Marunouchi is the center of the Japanese banking system, the headquarters of the three largest banks in Japan are based here. The headquarters of many companies of the former Mitsubishi - Zaibatsu are also located in Marunouchi.
The postcode of Marunouchi is 100-0005, but some buildings, some of them individual floors, have their own postcodes. According to the 2005 census, Marunouchi had 67 inhabitants, five of whom were women, in 67 households.
history
Before Tokugawa Ieyasu moved his residence to Edo Castle in 1590 , the area was an offshoot of Edo Bay under its former name Hibiya . When the castle was expanded as the new power center of Japan, new territory was gradually gained here from 1592. A second moat was created and the former moat became the inner moat. The area was named Okuruwauchi , and 24 daimyō , especially Shimpan and Fudai daimyō , built their residence here in Edo according to the Sankin kōtai regulation. The area therefore got the nickname daimyō kōji ("daimyo alley"). The residences of the north and south magistrates and the financial administration of the shogunate were also located here.
With the beginning of the Meiji Restoration in 1871, the land held by the daimyo in what is now called Tokyo was annexed by the new central government. Initially, the area was used for barracks and parade grounds for the newly founded Imperial Army of Japan . In 1890 Iwasaki Yanosuke , younger brother and successor of the founder of the Mitsubishi Zaibatsu, Iwasaki Yatarō , acquired the land for 1.5 million yen. The new owners built an English brick-style business district and much of the area is still owned by Mitsubishi Estate .
In 1894 the prefecture administration of Tokyo established its seat on the territory of the residence of the daimyō of Kōchi.
In 1911 the "Imperial Theater" ( teikoku gekijō ; English Imperial Garden Theater ) was built here as the first western-style theater in Japan. Mainly musicals and operas are performed here.
In 1914 Tokyo Station was opened in Marunouchi . Nowadays it is the second most important transportation hub in Tokyo after Shinjuku Station .
The 1954 opened Marunouchi Line of Eidan (now Tokyo Metro ) is named after the district.
When the prefectural administration moved to Shinjuku in 1991, the Tokyo International Forum was established on the area of the old city hall and opened in 1997.
The Marunouchi Building , opened in 2002, stands on what some say is the most expensive piece of land in all of Japan, valued at 21 million yen per square meter.
Individual evidence
- ↑ 町 丁別世 帯 数 お よ び 人口 (国 勢 調査) ("Households and residents by district (census)"). In: Chiyoda-ku / Chiyoda City. December 18, 2014, accessed July 27, 2016 (Japanese).
- ^ The architect was Josiah Conder (1852–1920)
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Coordinates: 35 ° 40 ′ 48 ″ N , 139 ° 45 ′ 55 ″ E