Arakawa, Tokyo

Arakawa (Japanese荒 川 区, -ku ) is one of the 23 city wards of Tokyo, capital of Japan. The name of the district is derived from the eponymous river.

History

During the Edo period, the district was still rural. During the industrialization in the Meiji period settled on the banks of Arakawa factories. On 1 October 1932, the area was incorporated into the old Tōkyō and one of the then 35 districts.

Traffic

  • Street: National Highway 4 ( Nikko Kaidō ), after Chūō or Aomori
  • JR Yamanote Line ( ring line), Nishi- Nippori or Nippori
  • JR Keihin - Tohoku Line, Nishi- Nippori or Nippori after Ōmiya or Yokohama
  • JR Joban Line from Nippori, Mikawashima Minami -Senju or to Ueno or Sendai
  • Deaths Arakawa Line ( tram ) from Minowabashi, Arakawa- Itchū - mae, Arakawa- ku Yakusho - mae, Nichome Arakawa, Arakawa Nanachōme, Machiya - Ekimae, Machiya Nichome, Higashi - Ogu sanchome, Kumano - mae, Miyanomae, Odai, Arakawa- Yuenchi -mae or Arakawa- Shako -mae to Shinjuku
  • Tokyo Metro Chiyoda Line, Nishi- Nippori of Machiya or to Shibuya or Adachi
  • Tokyo Metro Hibiya line, from Minami -Senju by Meguro or Adachi
  • Keisei Main Line from Nippori, Shin- Mikawashima or Machiya by Taitō or Narita Airport
  • MIR Tsukuba Express, Minami -Senju to Akihabara or Tsukuba
  • Nippori - Toneri Liner ( driverless train ) from Nippori, Nishi- Nippori, Akado - Shōgakkō -mae and Kumano -mae by Adachi

Education

In Arakawa, the Tokyo Metropolitan University of Health Sciences (东京 都 立 保健 科学 大学, Tōkyō - toritsu hoken kakgaku daigaku ), Shuto Daigaku Tōkyō, the Tokyo Metropolitan College of Aeronautical Engineering (东京 都 立 航空 工业 高等 専 门 学校, is Tōkyō- toritsu koku Kōgyō Kōtō Semmon Gakko ) and the Arakawa Campus Tokyo Metropolitan College of Industrial Technology (东京 都 立 产业 技术 高等 専 门 学校, Tōkyō - toritsu Sangyo gijutsu Kōtō Semmon Gakko ).

Policy

  • LDP: 12
  • Kōmeitō: 6
  • JCP: 6
  • Minshutō / Shimin no Kai: 3
  • Other fractions ( one member each ): 4

Mayor of the district since 2004, the former reformist conservative (LDP / NFP / LP / KP ) member of Parliament Taiichirō Nishikawa. In 2012 he was elected for the third time. The local Parliament has regularly 32 members and is still in uniform regional elections ( last, 2011 ) was chosen.

For the Parliament of Tokyo prefecture is Arakawa Two mandate constituency at the last election in 2013, the seats went to Chishō Sakiyama (LDP ) and Kantaro Suzuki ( Kōmeitō ).

In the national lower house is Arakawa, forming the 14 Tokyo constituency together with Sumida, currently represented by the Liberal Democrat Midori Matsushima.

Sons and daughters of the town

Twinning

  • United States Corvallis (Oregon )
  • Japan Kamaishi
  • Japan Fukushima
  • Japan Kori
  • Japan Ishikawa
  • Japan Yoshikawa -ku, Joetsu (formerly Yoshikawa )
  • Japan Hokuto (formerly Takane )
  • Japan Chichibu (formerly Arakawa )
  • Japan Kamogawa
  • Japan Otaki

Adjacent Cities and Towns

  • Tokyo: Municipalities Bunkyō, Taitō, Sumida, Kita, Adachi
Azalea Wards of Japan Aomori, Aomori Nippori Station Yokohama Station Shinjuku, Tokyo Shibuya, Tokyo Adachi, Tokyo Meguro, Tokyo Keisei Electric Railway Narita International Airport Akihabara Station Tsukuba (Ibaraki) Japanese Communist Party New Frontier Party (Japan) Sumida, Tokyo Corvallis (Oregon) Kamaishi, Iwate Hokuto (Yamanashi) Chichibu, Saitama Kita, Tokyo Special wards of Tokyo Chiyoda, Tokyo Edogawa, Tokyo Itabashi, Tokyo Katsushika, Tokyo Nakano, Tokyo Nerima, Tokyo Shinagawa, Tokyo Suginami, Tokyo Toshima, Tokyo Cities of Japan Akiruno, Tokyo Akishima, Tokyo Fussa, Tokyo Hamura, Tokyo Higashikurume, Tokyo Higashimurayama, Tokyo Hino, Tokyo Inagi, Tokyo Kiyose, Tokyo Kodaira, Tokyo Koganei, Tokyo Kokubunji, Tokyo Komae, Tokyo Kunitachi, Tokyo Machida, Tokyo Mitaka, Tokyo Musashino, Tokyo Tachikawa Tama, Tokyo Hinode, Tokyo Mizuho, Tokyo Okutama, Tokyo Aogashima, Tokyo Ogasawara, Tokyo Tokyo City Akasaka, Minato, Tokyo Asakusa, Tokyo Azabu, Tokyo Yodobashi, Tokyo
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