Yaesu

Yaesu (Japanese八 重 洲) is a district of Chūō district in the east of Japan Tokyo Prefecture. It is located in central Tokyo, just east of Tokyo Station. It is divided into two numbered district ( chome ), in which lived from 1 December 2010, according to statistics reporting 127 inhabitants in 81 households. The zip code of Yaesu 1 -chome is 103-0028, the Yaesu 2 -chome 104-0028.

Overview

The area is named after the address Yaesu is small, but so is often generally the entire east side of Tokyo Station, which by the Yaesu input (八 重 洲 口, Yaesu -guchi ) is accessible, while the west side to the one on the Marunouchi -guchi comes with Marunouchi is called, the district, is one of the geographically and the station itself.

The area is mainly a business district because of its good location. Many companies have their headquarters in Yaesu, some like the publisher Yaesu ( Yaesu Shuppan, Eng. Yaesu publishing), or wireless device manufacturer Yaesu Musen also bear the name of Yaesu. In new buildings at the beginning of the 21st century reinforced shops emerged. The underground shopping mall opened in 1965 Yaesu ( Yaesu Chikagai, Eng. Yaesu shopping mall) is according to sales area one of the largest in Japan.

The name is derived from the Yaesu Dutchman Jan Joosten van Lodensteijn, more precisely of its Japanese name Yayosu (耶 杨子, from the Japanese pronunciation of his name as Yan Yōsuten ). Joosten had come in the early Edo period in Japan and served Shogun Tokugawa Ieyasu as a consultant for international relations and as an interpreter. The residence, which he received from Shogun for his services, was near.

Today's outline was Yaesu at a redefinition of the district name in 1954. This corresponds Yaesu 1 -chome the previous district Gofukubashi (呉 服 桥) in the former Nihombashi district, 2 -chome, however Makichō (槇 町) in the old district Kyobashi. Yaesu is the only district in Chūō is spanning the former county line between Nihombashi and Kyobashi, which, among other things, the different postal codes still bear witness today.

Geography

Yaesu - the demarcated area in the narrower sense - is the west by Sotobori - dori ( Sotobori means "outer moat " [ Edo Castle ] ), to the east by the Yaesu - naka - dori, on the north by the Nihonbashi -gawa and the south limited by the "Tokyo highway " and thus represents only a narrow extended in a north-south direction strips. It is bordered on the west by Otemachi and Marunouchi in Chiyoda ward, to the east by Nihombashi and Kyobashi, on the north by Nihombashi - Hongokuchō and south to Ginza.

Colloquially Yaesu particularly includes the buildings that are like Gran Tokyo on the west side of Sotobori - dori, but east of the station.

History

The original Yaesu was actually in what is now south of the Marunouchi (like most Japanese streets nameless ) road that runs today between the Marunouchi Building and the Mitsubishi Building. There, near the inner moat ( Uchibori ) was located, Jan Joosten's residence. Marunouchi described the area north of it and was together with Eirakuchō as upscale neighborhood within the outer moat. Near the present Yaesu entrance to the station was located in the Edo period, the Kita- machibugyō - sho, the 'northern Stadtteilmagistratur ".

In the Meiji period was built a new bridge over the outer ditch in the south in 1884 for the way from Kyobashi after Marunouchi between the Gofukubashi the north and the Kajibashi (锻冶 桥), the Yaesu -bashi. Opened in 1914, the Tokyo Station, on the east side (now Yaesu, then Nihombashi ) immediately lay the outer moat, so that there is no input could be built. Only later did the moat was filled in the expansion of the station: The Yaesu bridge disappeared, and on the former moat was the Sotobori - dori. There the Yaesu entrance was built in 1929, and thus the place name Yaesu postponed for the first time on the east side of the moat and the train station. In the same year, the place names were re-organized in the vicinity of the railway station and from the old district of Marunouchi was Yaesu 2 -chome. 1954, formally the existing neighborhoods Gofukubashi 1 - to 3 -chome and Makichō 1 - to 3 -chome as Yaesu 1 - to 6 -chome redesignated. In the 1970s, finally, the present classification was made ​​in two chome.

The Yaesu entrance of the station burned down after air raids in the U.S. Air Force in June 1945, down a second time shortly after the war in 1949. 1954 there the tetsudō - Kaikan building was completed, which became a landmark Yaesu, and the Tokyo Daimaru department store opened. Since the buildings are heavily aged on the station Yaesu side compared to Marunouchi, this to be redeveloped as part of the "Station Renaissance " (ステーション ルネッサンスsutēshon runessansu, ) of JR Higashi- Nihon program at the time. In 2007, the two towers of Gran Tokyo were opened, demolished the tetsudō - Kaikan building afterwards. In the spring of 2013, the GranRoof to (グラン ルーフ, guranrūfu ) are opened, a station forecourt for pedestrians from the street that connects the two towers of the Gran Tokyo. The demolition of the tetsudō - Kaikan building, it is hoped that the sea breeze from Tokyo Bay can attenuate the urban heat island effect in the direction of Marunouchi.

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