Yaesu (Tokyo)
Yaesu ( Japanese 八 重 洲 ) is a district of the Chūō district in the east of the Japanese prefecture of Tokyo . It is located in the center of Tokyo, immediately east of Tokyo Station . It is divided into two numbered quarters ( chôme ), each with an area of 0.09 km², in which as of June 1, 2016, according to registration statistics, 115 inhabitants lived in 76 households. The postal code of Yaesu 1-chôme is 103-0028 and that of Yaesu 2-chôme is 104-0028.
overview
The area that is called Yaesu after the address is small, but it often generally covers the entire east side of Tokyo Station, which is accessible through the Yaesu entrance ( 八 重 洲 口 , Yaesu-guchi ), while the west side, which is accessed via the Marunouchi-guchi comes with Marunouchi , the district to which geographically the train station itself belongs.
The area is primarily an office district because of its good location. Many companies have their headquarters in Yaesu, some such as Yaesu ( Yaesu Shuppan , English Yaesu Publishing ) or the two-way radio manufacturer Yaesu Musen also bear the name Yaesu. In the case of new buildings at the beginning of the 21st century, more shops were created. The underground shopping mall Yaesu ( Yaesu chikagai , English Yaesu shopping mall ) opened in 1965 and is one of the largest in Japan in terms of sales area.
The name Yaesu is derived from the Dutch Jan Joosten van Lodensteijn, more precisely from his Japanese name Yayōsu ( 耶 楊子 , from the Japanese pronunciation of his name as Yan Yōsuten ). Joosten had come to Japan in the early Edo period and served Shogun Tokugawa Ieyasu as a consultant for international relations and as an interpreter. The residence he received from Shogun for his services was nearby.
Yaesu received its present-day outlines when the district names were redefined in 1954. Yaesu 1-chōme corresponds to the previous district Gofukubashi ( 呉 服 橋 ) in the former district of Nihombashi , 2-chōme on the other hand Makichō ( 槇 町 ) in the old district of Kyōbashi . Yaesu is the only district in Chūō that spans the former district boundary between Nihombashi and Kyōbashi, as evidenced by the different postcodes, among other things, today.
geography
Yaesu - the demarcated district in the narrower sense - is in the west by the Sotobori-dōri ( sotobori means "outer moat" [of the castle Edo ]), in the east by the Yaesu-naka-dōri, in the north by the Nihonbashi-gawa and in the south bounded by the "Tokyo Autobahn" and thus only comprises a narrow strip extending from north to south. It borders in the west on Ōtemachi and Marunouchi in the district of Chiyoda , in the east on Nihombashi and Kyōbashi , in the north on Nihombashi-Hongokuchō and in the south on Ginza .
Colloquially, Yaesu also includes the buildings that, like GranTokyo, are on the west side of Sotobori-dōri, but east of the train station.
history
The original Yaesu was actually located in what is now Marunouchi, south of the street (unnamed like most Japanese streets) that now runs between the Marunouchi Building and the Mitsubishi Building. Jan Joosten's residence was also located there near the inner moat ( uchibori ). Marunouchi referred to the area north of it and was considered together with Eirakuchō as an upscale district within the outer moat. In the Edo period, the Kita-machibugyō-sho , the “northern district magistrate ”, was located near today's Yaesu entrance to the station .
In the Meiji period , a new bridge over the outer ditch, the Yaesu-bashi , was built for the route from Kyōbashi to Marunouchi between the Gofukubashi in the north and the Kajibashi ( 鍛冶 橋 ) in the south. Tokyo station opened in 1914, on the east side of which (today Yaesu, then Nihombashi) the outer moat was immediately located, so that no entrance could be built there. Only later was the trench filled in when the station was expanded: The Yaesu Bridge disappeared again, and the Sotobori-dōri was built on the former trench. The Yaesu entrance was built there in 1929, and so the place name Yaesu was first shifted to the east side of the moat and the train station. In the same year, the place names in the vicinity of the station were rearranged and the old part of Yaesu became Marunouchi 2-chôme. In 1954 the previous districts of Gofukubashi 1- to 3-chōme and Makichō 1- to 3-chōme were redesignated as Yaesu 1- to 6-chōme. In the 1970s, the current division into two chôme was finally made.
The Yaesu entrance of the station burned down after air raids by the US Air Force in June 1945, a second time shortly after the war in 1949. In 1954 the Tetsudō Kaikan Building, which became a Yaesu landmark, and the Tokyo Daimaru were completed there Department store opened. Since the buildings on the Yaesu side of the station have aged a lot compared to Marunouchi, they are currently being redeveloped as part of the “Station Renaissance” ( ス テ ー シ ョ ン ル ネ ッ サ ン ス , sutēshon runessansu ) program of JR Higashi-Nihon . The two towers of GranTokyo were opened in 2007, and the Tetsudō Kaikan Building was then torn down. In spring 2013 the GranRoof ( グ ラ ン ル ー フ , guranrūfu ), a station forecourt for pedestrians above street level, which connects the two towers of GranTokyo, is to be opened. With the demolition of the Tetsudō Kaikan Building, it is hoped that the sea breeze from Tokyo Bay towards Marunouchi will be able to dampen the urban heat island effect.
Web links
- Chūō District: 八 重 洲 一 丁目 ・ 日本 橋 地区 町 名 の 由来
- Chūō District: 八 重 洲 二 丁目 ・ 京 橋 地区 町 名 の 由来
- Chūō-ku kankyō kyōkai ("Chūō District Tourism Association ", English Chuo City Tourism Association ): 八 重 洲 日本 橋 ・ ・ 京 橋 エ リ ア ( parts in English )
- Yaesu Chikagai KK (" Yaesu Shopping Mall", English Yaesu shopping mall Co., Ltd. ): Yaechika
Individual evidence
- ↑ Tokyo Prefecture Administration , General Affairs Office, Statistics Office: Residents by municipality and district according to the census , Mitte district
- ^ District Chūō: residents by district ( Memento from October 6, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
Coordinates: 35 ° 41 ′ N , 139 ° 46 ′ E