Setagaya (district)

The Setagaya District City Hall in Setagaya 4-chôme

The main gate of the bailiwick

Setagaya ( Japanese 世田谷 ) is a district of the Setagaya district (Setagaya-ku) of the Japanese prefecture of Tokyo . It is located in the eastern center of the district in southwest Tokyo . According to the 2010 census, it had 16,145 inhabitants in four numbered quarters (chōme) on an area of 0.77 km² . In Setagaya there are among other things the Setagaya campus of the private Tōkyō Iryō Hoken Daigaku and the Kokushikan University , the town hall of the Setagaya-ku and one of five regional branches (sōgō shisho) of the district administration. The Tōkyū Setagaya line tram runs through the district. The postal code of Setagaya is 154-0017.

In the Edo period there was a bailiwick of the Ii in Setagaya , whose main property was Hikone in the province of Ōmi , but from 1633 they had an exclave in the province of Musashi on the lower reaches of the Tama ( Setagaya-ryō , 世田谷領 ), which of was administered here for a long time by the bailiffs from the Ōba ( 大場 ) family . On the site of the 18th century residence of the bailiffs ( Setagaya daikan yashiki , 世田谷代官屋敷 ) in Setagaya 1-chōme, the district-run local history museum (Setagayaku-ritsu kyōdo shiryōkan) is located today . During the Meiji period, the area became part of Tokyo Prefecture in 1871. From 1889 the village community Setagaya (Setagaya-mura) existed in the district of Ebara , which in 1923 became a city (-machi) . In 1932, when it was incorporated into the city of Tokyo, it became part of the new Setagaya district. The Setagaya district received its current boundaries and the current division into four chôme in 1966.

Individual evidence

↑ Tokyo Prefecture Administration, General Affairs Office ( sōmu-kyoku ), Statistics Department ( tōkei-bu ): 平成 22 年東京都区市町村町丁別報告 (Population by municipality, district and chōme as of 2010 census)

↑ Setagaya District Administration: 世田谷総合支所 (Japanese, machine translations Chinese, English, Korean), accessed April 1, 2020.

↑ Tamagawashi henshū iinkai (Ed. On behalf of the Kantō Regional Office of the Ministry of Construction ) 1986: 多摩川誌 ( Memento from January 5, 2013 in the Internet Archive ), Volume 6, Chapter 3, Section 4.1.4: 彦根藩井伊家の世田谷領 ( Memento from July 25, 2013 in the Internet Archive )

↑ Setagaya District Administration: 世田谷区立郷土資料館

[1] Tokyo Prefecture Administration, General Affairs Office ( sōmu-kyoku ), Statistics Department ( tōkei-bu ): 平成 22 年東京都区市町村町丁別報告 (Population by municipality, district and chōme as of 2010 census)

[2] Setagaya District Administration: 世田谷総合支所 (Japanese, machine translations Chinese, English, Korean), accessed April 1, 2020.

[3] Tamagawashi henshū iinkai (Ed. On behalf of the Kantō Regional Office of the Ministry of Construction ) 1986: 多摩川誌 ( Memento from January 5, 2013 in the Internet Archive ), Volume 6, Chapter 3, Section 4.1.4: 彦根藩井伊家の世田谷領 ( Memento from July 25, 2013 in the Internet Archive )

[4] Setagaya District Administration: 世田谷区立郷土資料館