Nerima, Tokyo

Nerima (Japanese练 马 区, -ku ) is the newest of the 23 city wards of Tokyo, capital of Japan.

Geography

Nerima is bordered to the east by the municipalities and Shinjuku Itabashi, Saitama to the north, on the west by the city Nishitōkyō and on the south by the municipalities Suginami, Toshima and Nakano and to the city of Musashino.

Nerima consists mainly of residential areas. There is little industry located.

History

The municipality became independent on August 1, 1947 by Itabashi.

Sehenswürdigekeiten

  • In the amusement park Toshima -en the Seibu group including the oldest operating carousel in the world, which came into service in a New York amusement park on Coney Iceland 1910.
  • Hikarigaoka Park
  • Shakujii Park
  • Ōizumichuō Park
  • Musashiseki Park
  • Jōhokuchūō Park
  • Nerima City District Museum
  • Iwasakichihiro Picture Book Museum
  • Rengetsusanaizen Temple
  • Makino Memorial Garden

Traffic

  • Street: Kanetsu highway, to Niigata
  • Tōkyō- Gaikan highway, according to Ichikawa
  • National Road 17, according to Niigata Chūō or
  • National Road 254, according to Bunkyō or Matsumoto
  • Tōkyō Metro Yurakucho Line, of Chikatetsu - Akatsuka, Heiwadai, Hikawadai or Kotake - Mukaihara by Wako or Kōtō
  • Toei Oedo Line, Hikari -ga -oka, Nerima - Kasuga -chō, Toshima -en or Nerima to Shinjuku
  • Seibu Ikebukuro Line from Ekoda, Sakuradai, Nerima, Nakamurabashi, Fujimidai, Nerima - take-no -dai, Shakujiikōen or Ōizumigakuen to Ikebukuro and Chichibu
  • Seibu Shinjuku line of Kamishukujii or Musashiseki to Shinjuku or Kawagoe
  • Seibu Toshima Line: Operates only in Nerima for a total distance of 1km between the two stations Nerima and Toshima -en.
  • Seibu Yurakucho Line: Operates only in Nerima for a total distance of 2.6 km between the stations Nerima, Shin- Sakuradai and Kotakemukaihara.

The Stations of the Tōbu Nerima and Shimo- Akatsuka the Tōbu Tōjō Main Line belong to the municipality Itabashi.

Education

There are 70 public and private elementary school, as well as 34 public and four private secondary schools, nine public and four private secondary schools as well as private universities Musashino Academia Musicae, University Musashi, Nihon University and the Shakujii campus of the Faculty of Theology at Sophia University.

Policy

  • LDP: 16
  • Kōmeitō: 12
  • Minshutō / Mushozoku Club: 5
  • Seikatsusha Network / Shimin no Koe / Fukushi forum: 5
  • JCP: 4
  • Minna: 3
  • Other fractions ( one member each ): 4

Mayor of Nerima since 2003 Toyoshiro Shimura, in front of nearly 50 years, employees of the district administration, from 1999 Deputy Mayor ( joyaku ). He was re-elected in uniform regional elections in April 2011 with LDP Kōmeitō support and an absolute majority of votes for a third term. Also in uniform elections, the 50 members of the Parliament are elected by district.

For the Parliament Tokyo prefecture is the District Six mandate constituency. In the election in June 2013, the seats went to three Liberal Democrats and one member each from Kōmeitō, JCP and DPJ.

For elections to national lower house itself Nerima extends into two constituencies: the larger western part is the 9th electoral district of the prefecture, a small part of the east part of Toshima, together with the 10th constituency. After the election in December 2012, both of which are represented by the Liberal Democrats: the Constituency 9 of Isshu Sugawara, the constituency 10 of Yuriko Koike.

Sons and daughters of the town

  • Nomura Mansaku ( Kyōgen actor )
  • Miyazawa Rie (actress )
  • Kumi Nakada ( Volleyball )
  • Reiko Ohara (actress )
  • Yutaka Ozaki (musician )
  • Kazutoshi Sakurai ( founder of the band Mr. Children )
  • Yasunori " Sakura" Sakurazawa ( drummer in the band L' Arc ~ en ~ Ciel, Rayflower, Zigzo, THE MADCAP LAUGHS ect. )
  • Erika Sawajiri (actress )
  • Aya Ueto ( singer, actress, model )
  • Mayumi Wakamura (actress )
  • Akira Nagatsuma ( politician)

Twinning

  • Australia Ipswich (Queensland )
  • People's Republic of China Haidian, Beijing

Adjacent Cities and Towns

  • Tokyo: Municipalities Itabashi, Toshima, Suginami, Nakano
  • Wako
  • Asaka
Azalea Wards of Japan Itabashi, Tokyo Shinjuku, Tokyo Saitama, Saitama Suginami, Tokyo Toshima, Tokyo Nakano, Tokyo Musashino, Tokyo Coney Island Ichikawa, Chiba Matsumoto, Nagano Ikebukuro Station Chichibu, Saitama Japanese Communist Party Japanese general election, 2012 Ipswich (Queensland) Haidian District Asaka (Saitama) Special wards of Tokyo Adachi, Tokyo Arakawa, Tokyo Chiyoda, Tokyo Edogawa, Tokyo Katsushika, Tokyo Kita, Tokyo Meguro, Tokyo Shibuya, Tokyo Shinagawa, Tokyo Sumida, 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 Tachikawa Tama, Tokyo Hinode, Tokyo Mizuho, Tokyo Okutama, Tokyo Aogashima, Tokyo Ogasawara, Tokyo
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