Yodobashi (Tokyo)
| Yodobashi-chō (incorporated) 淀 橋 町 |
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| Geographical location in Japan | |||
| Region : | Kanto | ||
| Prefecture : | Tokyo | ||
| Coordinates : | 35 ° 42 ' N , 139 ° 42' E | ||
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| Incorporated on: | Oct. 1, 1932 | ||
| Incorporated in: | Tokyo | ||
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| Residents : | 57,313 (October 1, 1930) |
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Yodobashi Town Hall 133 , Aza Naruko-chō-Kitagawa, Ōaza Kashiwagi Yodobashi -chō, Toyotama-gun Tōkyō |
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Yodobashi ( Japanese 淀 橋 町 , -chō ) was a community in Toyotama County in Tokyo Prefecture . It was also the seat of the district administration. The area developed rapidly after the Shinjuku Railway Station opened in 1885. With the expansion of the Tokyo metropolitan area in 1932, the community in the Yodobashi district of Tokyo went up. Their area extended into what is now the Nishi-Shinjuku and Kita-Shinjuku districts of Shinjuku .
geography
Most of Yodobashi was elevated on the Musashino plateau , the northeast part was in the alluvial plain of the Kanda .
In Yodobashi there was a work of the Monopoly Department of the Ministry of Finance (responsible for the tobacco and salt monopoly), the Yodobashi water treatment plant and the predecessor of today's University Hospital of the Medical University of Tokyo ( Tōkyō Ika Daigaku ) , which opened in 1931 .
history
Yodobashi was created in 1889 through the merger of the villages ( mura ) Tsunohazu and Kashiwagi in Minami-Toshima County. It was named after the Yodobashi, a bridge that led the Ōme-kaidō , the old country road over Ōme to Kofu over the Kanda. In a narrower sense, Yodobashi referred to only a small area on the Ōme-kaidō, while the community Yodobashi continued to be divided into the areas ( Ōaza ) Tsunohazu and Kashiwagi.
In 1896, Minami-Toshima Counties and Higashi-Tama Counties merged to form Toyotama County. In 1932 Yodobashi was incorporated into Tokyo and merged with Ōkubo , Totsuka and Ochiai in the Yodobashi district. After the city of Tokyo was dissolved in 1943, it became part of Shinjuku in 1947 , where the area of the Yodobashi community is located in today's Nishi-Shinjuku ("West Shinjuku") and Kita-Shinjuku ("North Shinjuku") districts.
traffic
With the Shinjuku train station on the eastern outskirts of Yodobashi, one of the most important railway junctions in today's Tokyo developed. Opened in 1885 by the Nippon Tetsudō , two of the most important railway lines in the metropolitan area soon met there, today's Yamanote Line and the Chūō Main Line .
In addition to the Ōme-kaidō, the Kōshū-kaidō , one of the five old main roads that connected Edo with the provinces, ran through Yodobashi. (The premodern "New Naitō Post Station", Naitō-Shinjuku, near the junction of the two streets gave its name to today's Shinjuku.) During the modernization in the Meiji period , both important thoroughfares remained initially for carriages, partly also for trams and later for Automobiles. In this area they correspond to today's national road 20 (Kōshū-kaidō) and prefecture road 4 (Ōme-kaidō).
Railway routes in Yodobashi:
- Ministry of Railways : Chūō Main Line , Yamanote Line at Shinjuku Station
- Odakyu Odawara Line at Shinjuku Station
- Keiō line at the "Railway Station at Shinjuku Station of the Ministry Lines " ( 省 線 新宿 駅 前 駅 , shōsen-Shinjuku-eki-mae-eki ) and at Shimmachi Station
- Seibu Tetsudō (tram): Suginami Line on the Ōme-kaidō
- Tōkyō-to Densha (tram): Tsunohazu and Shinjuku lines at Tsunohazu and Shinjuku stations
education
In Yodobashi there has been the "Tokyo Bible Seminar " ( Tōkyō Seisho Gakuin ) of the sanctification movement (in Kashiwagi, since 1964 in Higashimurayama ) and from 1920 the "5th Girls High School of the Prefecture of Tokyo ”(in Tsunohazu), today's“ Fuji High School of the Prefecture of Tokyo ”( Tōkyō-toritsu Fuji Kōtō-gakkō ).