Bunkyo, Tokyo

Bunkyō (Japanese文京区, -ku ) is one of the 23 wards of Tokyo, capital of Japan. Bunkyō is located in the center of the district and is a residential area and home to many major educational institutions. Beginning with the Meiji period have lived here literati like Natsume Soseki, scholars and politicians.

Geography

Bunkyō is divided into the following Area:

Hakusan
Hongō
Hon - Komagome
Kasuga
Kohinata
Koishikawa
Koraku

Mejirodai
Mukōgaoka
Nezu
Nishikata
Otowa
Ōtsuka
Sekiguchi

Sendagi
Sengoku
Suidō
Yayoi
Yushima

See also List of districts of Tokyo District Bunkyō

History

The municipality was created on 15 March 1947 the old city districts Hongō and Koishikawa the city Tōkyō. The name plays on the phrase Bunkyō no fu (文教の府) for " source of education ", where instead of the character教which was identical, used for capital京which is also found in the name of Tokyo.

Monuments and Significant Facilities

Gokoku -ji (temple)
Denzu - in (temple)
Harimasaka -Sakura - Colonnade
Kodokan Judo Institute
Koishikawa Botanical Garden
Koishikawa Kōrakuen
Tokyo Dome City
Nezu Shrine
Rikugi -en (park)
Cathedral of St. Mary
University of Tokyo
Tokyo Dome
Toyo University
Yanaka Cemetery
Yayoi Museum
Yushima Tenman- gū ( Shrine )
Yushima Seido (temple)

Traffic

Bunkyō 5 ( Ikebukuro line) of the urban motorway Tokyo, the National Road 17 is connected by Chūō or Niigata and the National Road 254 to Matsumoto to the Shuto Expressway No..

With the Tōkyō Metro the connection consists of several lines. With the Marunouchi Line from Shin- Ōtsuka, Myōgadani, Korakuen, Hongō - sanchome or Ochanomizu after Suginami or Ikebukuro, with the Namboku line of Kōrakuen, Todai -mae or Honkomagome by Meguro or daycare, with the Yurakucho line of Gokokuji or Edogawabashi by Wako or Kōtō and with the Chiyoda line of Sendagi, Nezu or Yushima to Shibuya or Adachi.

In addition, you can with the Toei Mita Line of Sengoku, Hakusan, Kasuga or suidobashi by Meguro or Itabashi and the Oedo line from Iidabashi, Kasuga, or Hongō sanchome to Shinjuku or Nerima.

Economy

The printing and publishing industry, as well as leading health care facilities are important economic factors, Bunkyo. In Bunkyo are several large hospitals. In addition, here are the Tokyo Dome, the Kodokan and the University of Tokyo. In modern times, the IT industry grew in importance.

Universities and Colleges

Public

Ochanomizu Women's University
University of Tsukuba, Ōtsuka Campus
University of Tokyo Hongō Campus
Medical and Dental University Tokyo

Private

Atomi University
Juntendo University
Takushoku University
Chuo University Faculty of Engineering
Christian Women's University, Tokyo
Toyo University
Nippon Medical School
Japanese Women's University
Bunkyo Gakuin University and Bunkyo Gakuin College
International College for Postgraduate Buddhist Studies

Policy

Kaikaku Bunkyō: 7
LDP: 6
JCP: 6
Shimin no Hiroba Bunkyō: 5
Kōmeitō: 5
Minna: 2
Other fractions ( one member each ): 1

District Mayor and parliament are both chosen with uniform regional elections. In the last elections in 2011 mayor Hironobu Narisawa was elected with the support of the three main parties for a second term in Bunkyō. Narisawa was 2007 Democrat member of the 34 -member municipal parliament ahead of his first choice.

Bunkyō forms a two- mandate constituency for the Prefecture of Parliament. At the last election in 2013 the two seats two years earlier unsuccessful candidate went to the Liberal Democrats Fumitaka Nakaya and the Communist Hiroko Kotake, in the mayoral election. For the lower house of the national parliament is Bunkyō - after the general election in 1892 for over a century, the political home of the Hatoyama family - along with Chūō and Taitō part of the second constituency Tokyo; Kunio Hatoyama, then still a Democrat, won the constituency, although after the electoral reform of 1990 initially, but returned to his failed candidacy in the gubernatorial election in Tokio 1999, no longer by Bunkyō back. Since 2012, currently represents the Liberal Democrat Kiyoto Tsuji the constituency.