Kita, Tokyo
Kita (Japanese北区, -ku ) is one of the 23 city wards of Tokyo, capital of Japan.
Geography
Kita- ku is the northernmost of all districts and therefore also means aptly "North- city district ". With 20.59 square kilometers, it makes 0.94 % of the total area of Tokyo ( 3.31 % of the surface of the inner 23 prefectures) and is one of the smaller districts of the capital. He stretches out about three kilometers from east to west and nine in North-South direction. On February 1, 2014 335 559 people lived in Kita- ku ( 2.52% of the total population of Tokyo, 3.7 % of the population of the 23 districts), with a population density of 16,297 inhabitants per square kilometer.
Kita- ku is mostly commuters from the north neighboring Saitama Prefecture known to be achieved by the large north -south commuter rail lines Saikyo Line, Utsunomiya Line, Shonan -Shinjuku Line and Keihin - Tohoku Line on the way Shinjuku or pass through the Tokyo Kita- ku station or change there. All paths meet at the large interchange station Akabane, by which the public life in the form of shops, restaurants, arcades and karaoke bars concentrated. The administrative center of the district town hall is located in Ōji.
History
The municipality was founded in 1947 by merging the old city districts Takinogawa and Ōji the city of Tokyo.
Attractions
Mostly through residential areas marked (80 % of the buildings in Kita- ku are residential buildings, therefore the high population density, industry and trade accounted for less than ten percent ) and still relatively young can Kita- ku with only a few sights come up: the Asukayama - Park (飞鸟 山 公园, Asukayama - kōen ), the first public park in Tokyo (the eighth Tokugawa Shogun Yoshimune planted here cherry trees and opened the park later to the public) with the Asukayama Museum, the Shibusawa Museum and the Paper Museum, and the Japanese Garden kyū - Furukawa - Teien (旧 古河 庭园) from the Meiji period ( mitgeplant from Kyoto Garden architects Ogawa ).
Traffic
Kita is connected by Toshima or Nikko on the motorway Tokyo, the National Road 17 ( Nakasendō ) to Chūō or Niigata and the National Road 122. By train you can take the JR Utsunomiya Line of Akabane or Oku to Ueno or Nasushiobara, the JR Takasaki Line of Akabane or Oku to Ueno or Takasaki, JR Shonan -Shinjuku Line of Akabane after Ōmiya or Kamakura, the JR Saikyo line Itabashi, JUJO, Akabane, Kita- Akabane or Ukimafunado after Ōmiya or Ōsaki, the JR Keihin - Tohoku line of Tabata, Kaminakazato, Ōji, Higashi - JUJO or Akabane after Ōmiya or Kamakura, the JR Yamanote Line ( ring line ) by Tabata, the deaths Arakawa line of Nishigahara Yonchōme, Takinogawa itchome, Asukayama, Ōji - ekimae, Sakae- chō or Kajiwara by Arakawa or Shinjuku, Tokyo Metro Namboku line of Akabane Iwabuchi, Shimo, Ōji - Kamiya, Ōji or Nishigahara by Meguro and the Saitama Kosoku tetsudō of Akabane Iwabuchi to Saitama.
Policy
- LDP: 14
- Kōmeitō: 10
- JCP: 9
- Minshu Asuka Kumin Club: 7
- Minna no Tō / Ishin no Kai: 2
- NSP: 1
Both local elections in Kita were last carried out as part of the unified regional elections in April 2011. As mayor Yosōta Hanakawa was re-elected to only a CPY -supported opposition candidates by a two -thirds majority for a third term.
For the Parliament of the Tokyo prefecture of the district forms a four- mandate constituency. In the 2013 election, the candidates of LDP seats, Kōmeitō, JCP and Minna no Tō shared. The Democratic Party had nominated two candidates, but only reached the fifth and seventh.
In the lower house of the national parliament Kita is represented together with a part of Adachi as part of the 12th electoral district by the former chairman Kōmeitō Akihiro Ōta. Ōta was a candidate for the first time in the 2003 election in the constituency and was defeated only when DPJ landslide victory in 2009 the Democrat Ai Aoki (now Seikatsu no Tō ).
Sons and daughters of the town
- Abe Kobo ( writer )
- Kyoko Fukada (actress )
Adjacent Cities and Towns
- Tokyo: Municipalities Arakawa, Itabashi, Adachi, Toshima, Bunkyō
- Kawaguchi
- Toda