Nihombashi-ku (Tokyo)

Nihombashi ( Japanese 日本 橋 区 , Nihonbashi-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 city districts of Tokyo with the gun-ku-chō-son-hensei-hō ( 郡 区 町 村 編制 法 , "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 enacted in 1878 by the Meiji government ( Dajōkan ). It became part of the existing city of Tokyo from 1889 to 1943 and was merged in 1947 with the old Kyōbashi district to form the "special district" Chūō ("center").

The Nihombashi district comprised the current districts of Yaesu 1-chōme, Nihombashi , where the eponymous bridge is located, and the areas east and northeast of it, together about the northern half of today's Chūō. The district administration was located in today's Nihombashi- Kakigarachō .