Nihonbashi, Tokyo

Nihombashi (Japanese日本 桥, alternative romanization Nihonbashi ), the " Japanese Bridge ", is a bridge in the district of Chūō Japanese Tokyo Prefecture and one named after her district in the same district. Both are located in the eastern center of Tokyo, the former Edo.

The Bridge

The first wooden Nihombashi was built in 1603 under the Shogun Tokugawa Ieyasu when he formally einrichtete the seat of government in Edo. It was the starting point of Gokaidō, the combined five main roads, Edo with the provinces.

The bridge was burned down several times, so that the built in 1911, today's stone bridge is already the 20th Nihombashi. This also withstood Tōkyō Daikushu, the big air raid on Tokyo on March 10, 1945, even though traces of incendiary bombs today are recognizable. In 1999, the bridge was designated as an "important cultural property" of Japan.

To date, the Nihombashi is the Doro gempyō reference point for distance to Tokyo and starting point of national roads 1, 4, 6, 14, 15, 17 and 20 Today, it is also the starting point of the continental AH1.

The district

The area around the junction Nihombashi developed already in the Edo period to the business district in the area between the castle and the residences of the nobility in the West - the Yamanote Line is in this range at the former outer moat - and the " lower city " in the east. In the 17th century, the Mitsui family was founded here by the Echigo -ya, the forerunner of today's Mitsukoshi department store.

After the Meiji Restoration, the district Nihombashi was established in 1878, which covered the northern part of today's Chūō, and 1889 a city district of the new city of Tokyo was. After these had been dissolved in the Pacific War and the district in 1947 united with Kyobashi to Chūō, most parts of the city were in the previous district adding Nihombashi -. This leads to the borders of the former borough can still recognize also is the current district of Higashi- Nihombashi, so " East Nihombashi ", not directly east of Nihombashi but, on the north-east of the district Chūō at the mouth of Kanda in Sumida.

Only in 1970, today's district Nihombashi was established with the north-west corner is the bridge. It is bordered on the west by Yaesu, south to Kyobashi, to the east by Kabutochō and is divided into three north-south numbered chome district in which lived from 1 June 2011, according to statistics reporting 340 inhabitants in 225 households. The zip code of Nihombashi is 103-0027.

Here are primarily office and commercial buildings, including the main department store Takashimaya, the Maruzen main house and the office tower COREDO Nihombashi.

At the ( underground) station Nihombashi the Ginza Line and the Tozai Line of Tōkyō Metro and the prefecture operated Asakusa Line meet. On the inner ring line of the Tokyo urban motorway which surrounds the district in the north and east, you come across the connection points Edobashi in the north and Takarachō in the southeast.

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