Koto, Tokyo

Kōtō (Japanese江东 区, Kōtō -ku, Koto City engl. ) Is one of 23 districts in the east of Japan Tokyo Prefecture. It is located in the southeast of Tokyo, the capital of Japan.

Geography

Kōtō lies to the east of the city center, between the Sumida in the west and the Arakawa to the east. The two rivers form the border of the districts of Chūō in the West and in the East Edogawa. To the north lies Sumida, south of Tokyo Bay. Much of the area of the district has only emerged since the Meiji Restoration through land reclamation.

The main neighborhoods in the district are Kameido, Kiba, Kiyosumi, Monzen - nakacho and Shirakawa. Also the development area Ariake in port ( part of Odaiba ) belongs to the district Kōtō.

History

The "Special" Kōtō district was created on March 15, 1947 by merging the boroughs Fukagawa and Joto the city of Tokyo.

As in all of Tokyo both the Great Kanto Earthquake in 1923 and the bombing at the end of World War II have destroyed nearly all the buildings in the district.

Traffic

  • Street: Urban motorway Tokyo
  • National Road 14, according to Chiba Chūō or
  • JR Chūō - sobu - line of Kameido by Mitaka or Chiba
  • JR Keiyo Line from Etchu -jima, Shiomi, or Shin- Kiba, Tokyo or Chiba
  • JR Freight
  • Tōkyō Metro Tozai Line, Monzen - nakacho, Kiba, Toyocho or Minami- Sunamachi by Nakano or Funabashi
  • Tōkyō Metro Yurakucho Line, Shin - Kiba, Tatsumi or Toyosu by Wako
  • Tōkyō Metro Ginza Line, Sumiyoshi or Kiyosumi - Shirakawa to Shibuya or Sumida
  • Toei Shinjuku Line, by Morishita, Sumiyoshi, Nishi- Ojima, Ojima or Higashi- Ojima to Shinjuku or Ichikawa
  • Toei Oedo Line, by Morishita, Kiyosumi - Shirakawa or Monzen - nakacho to Shinjuku or Nerima
  • Tōbu Kameido - line of Kameido or Kameido - Suijin by Sumida
  • TWR Rinkai line from Shin- Kiba, Shinonome, Kokusai - Tenjijo or Tōkyō Teleport to Shinagawa
  • Yurikamome of Fune -no- kagakukan, Telecom Center, Aomi, Kokusai - Tenjijo - Seimon, Ariake, Ariake Tennis -no- mori, Shijō - mae, Shin- Toyosu, Toyosu Minato

Attractions

  • Kameido - tenjin - sha, a shrine of the 17th century
  • Tomioka Hachiman-gu, a shrine of the 17th century
  • Fukagawa Fudo -son, a 1703 equipped branch temple of Naritasan Shinshoji, a temple of the Shingon shū in the town of Narita
  • Kiyosumi Park ( Kiyosumi Teien; engl Kiyosumi Garden. ), Landscaped in the 19th century Japanese garden
  • Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo ( Tōkyō-to gendai Bijutsukan; engl Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo. )
  • Tokyo Big Sight, officially the " International Exhibition Hall Tokyo " ( Tōkyō Kokusai Tenjijo; engl Tokyo International Exhibition Center. )
  • Suzaki Baseball Stadium ( Suzaki KYUJO; engl Suzaki Baseball Field. ), From 1936 home of the Taiyo Robin in Japanese professional baseball take place
  • Kiba Park ( Kiba kōen; engl Kiba Metropolitan Park. ), A prefecture -operated parking
  • Tōkyō Gate Bridge

Education

  • The central government " Oceanographic Tokyo Institute " ( Tōkyō Daigaku Kaiyo; engl Tokyo University of Marine Science and Technology. )

Policy

  • LDP: 12
  • Kōmeitō: 10
  • JCP: 7
  • Kōtō50: 5
  • DPJ: 4
  • Non-attached Members: 5

The council has an authorized strength of 44 members and is in uniform regional elections ( most recently in 2011 ) selected. The mayor is also elected in uniform regional elections; 2011, the former prefecture MPs Takaaki Yamazaki was re-elected with LDP Kōmeitō support for a second term.

For the Prefecture Parliament is the Kōtō -ku four- mandate constituency; at the last election in 2013, the four seats went to candidates of LDP, Kōmeitō, JCP and Minna no Tō.

The district forms the constituency Tokyo 15 for the Shūgiin, the lower house of the national parliament. 2012 won Mito Kakizawa the constituency for the Minna no Tō - 2013 he joined the breakaway Yui no Tō. Kakizawas father Koji had represented the constituency until 2003.

Sons and daughters of the town

  • Tomomi Kahala (J- pop singer )
  • Shintaro Katsu ( actor, director, author, singer)
  • Hidetaka Nishiyama (1928-2008), Karateka
  • Yasujirō Ozu ( director, screenwriter )

Adjacent Cities and Towns

  • Tokyo (English former Tokyo City ) / Tokyo Prefecture (English Tokyo [ Metropolis ] ): Districts (german special wards or cities ) Sumida, Edogawa, Shinagawa, Minato, Chūō, Ōta
Pinus thunbergii Wards of Japan Special wards of Tokyo Edogawa, Tokyo Sumida, Tokyo Kambara Ariake Chiba, Chiba Mitaka, Tokyo Tokyo Station Nakano, Tokyo Funabashi, Chiba Shibuya Station Ichikawa, Chiba Nerima, Tokyo Shinagawa, Tokyo Narita, Chiba Baseball in Japan Japanese Communist Party J-Pop Adachi, Tokyo Arakawa, Tokyo Chiyoda, Tokyo Itabashi, Tokyo Katsushika, Tokyo Kita, Tokyo Meguro, Tokyo Shibuya, Tokyo Shinjuku, 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 Musashino, Tokyo Tachikawa Tama, Tokyo Hinode, Tokyo Mizuho, Tokyo Okutama, Tokyo Aogashima, Tokyo Ogasawara, Tokyo
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