ÅŒta, Tokyo

Ōta (Japanese大田 区, -ku ) is the largest area of the 23 wards of Tokyo and the third largest by population of the municipality of Tokyo Prefecture.

Geography

As the southernmost of the 23 districts he is bordered to the north by the districts of Shinagawa, Meguro and Setagaya, and Kōtō in the east. In the south and west Ōta borders the city of Kawasaki in Kanagawa Prefecture. The Tama forms the border between the two cities, their development approach extends on both sides to the river. The dense sea of ​​houses in Tokyo metropolitan area extends south but much broader, encompassing Kawasaki addition to the million city of Yokohama.

The center of the district is located around the two Kamata Stations (JR Kamata and Keikyu Kamata ), which includes the district town hall and the main post office are located.

On the territory of the county, on new territory in the Bay of Tokyo is Tokyo International Airport, commonly referred to as Haneda Airport, the second (and older ) major airport of Tokyo, on which a large part of the domestic flights is handled.

History

The Special District ( tokubetsu -ku ) Ōta was born on March 15, 1947 by merging the old city districts Omori (大 森 区) and Kamata (蒲 田 区) created the city of Tokyo. The name Ōta was here from the concatenation of the first kanji of Omori and the last of Kamata, neglecting the suffix ' ku.

Attractions

  • The Honmon -ji, a Buddhist temple of the Nichiren shū from the 13th century.
  • The Omori - Køkkenmøddinger ( archaeological site of old middens )
  • The Senzoku Pond, is said to have washed in the Nichiren his feet.

Traffic

  • Street: Urban motorway Tokyo
  • National Road 1, after Chūō or Osaka
  • National Road 15, according to Chūō or Yokohama
  • National Road 131: Located just in Ōta on a total distance of 3.8 km.
  • National Road 357, according to Chiba or Yokosuka
  • JR Keihin - Tohoku Line, Omori and Kamata after Ōmiya or Kamakura
  • Keikyu main line of Heiwajima, Ōmorimachi, Ume - Yashiki, Keikyu Kamata, zoshiki and Rokugōdote Minato or Yokosuka
  • Keikyu Airport Line: Operates only in Ōta on a total distance of 6.5 km between the stations Keikyu Kamata, Kojiya, main shrine, Anamori -Inari and Tenkūbashi.
  • Are Tokyu Toyoko Line, of Den'en - Chōfu and Tamagawa to Shibuya or Yokohama
  • Tōkyū Ikegami line Kamata, Hasunuma, Ikegami, Chidorichō, Kugahara, ONTAKESAN, Yukigaya - Ōtsuka, Ishikawadai, Senzoku Ike or Nagahara by Gotanda
  • Tōkyū Tamagawa Line: Operates only in Ōta on a total distance of 5.6 km between the stations Tamagawa, Numabe, Unoki, Shimo- Maruko, Musashi - Nitta, Yaguchinowatashi and Kamata.
  • Tōkyō Monorail from Haneda Airport Terminal 1 and 2, Shin- Seibijō, Tenkūbashi, Seibijō, Shōwajima or Ryutsu Center in Minato
  • Toei Asakusa Line, Nishi- Magome or Magome by Sumida

Policy

  • LDP: 16
  • Kōmeitō: 12
  • JCP: 9
  • DPJ: 5
  • Other fractions ( one member each ): 5

50 -member Parliament and Mayor of Ōta were last elected in the unified regional elections in April 2011. Tadayoshi Matsubara was confirmed with LDP Kōmeitō support and around 60 % of the vote against three candidates for a second term. Prior to his first election in 2007, he had spent three terms as LDP MP for Ōta Prefecture in Parliament, before 1983 three municipal parliament of Ōta.

For the Parliament Tokyo Prefecture Ōta heard next to Setagaya as an eight- mandate constituency among the largest constituencies, which it generally easier to allow smaller parties to win seats. At the last election in 2013 Ōta elected three Liberal Democrats, two Kōmeitō members and one member of the Democratic Party, Communist Party of Japan and Nippon Ishin no Kai.

For national lower house elections, the larger eastern part of Ōta forms the constituency Tokyo 4, the smaller western part belongs together with the district Shinagawa and the towns and villages of the Izu and Ogasawara Islands to the constituency 3 Both are represented by the 2012 election of the Liberal Democrats.

Twinning

  • United States Salem ( Massachusetts) (the discoverer of the Omori - Køkkenmøddinger Edward S. Morse was the museum's director of Salem; since 18 November 1991),
  • China People's Republic of Chaoyang, Beijing ( since 21 September 1998)

Sons and daughters of the town

  • Miwa Fukuhara ( born 1944 ), figure skater
  • Tsutomu Hata ( b. 1935 ), 80th Prime Minister of Japan
  • Daisaku Ikeda ( born 1928 ), philosopher
  • Mamoru Oshii ( born 1951 ), director and writer
  • Kenjiro Shinozuka (* 1948), rally driver
  • Karina Maruyama ( b. 1983 ), football player
  • Kotaro Sakurai (* 1994), race car driver

Adjacent Cities and Towns

  • Tokyo: Districts Setagaya, Shinagawa, Meguro, Kōtō
  • Kawasaki
Special wards of Tokyo Shinagawa, Tokyo Meguro, Tokyo Kawasaki (Kanagawa) Land reclamation Tokyo City Ikegami Honmon-ji Chiba, Chiba Yokosuka, Kanagawa Kamakura, Kanagawa Shibuya Station Yokohama Station Tōkyū Ikegami Line Gotanda Station Sumida, Tokyo Japanese Communist Party Kamata Station (Tokyo) Japan Restoration Party Salem (Massachusetts) Chaoyang District, Beijing Adachi, Tokyo Arakawa, Tokyo Chiyoda, Tokyo Edogawa, Tokyo Itabashi, Tokyo Katsushika, Tokyo Kita, Tokyo Nakano, Tokyo Nerima, 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 Mitaka, Tokyo Musashino, Tokyo Tachikawa Tama, Tokyo Hinode, Tokyo Mizuho, Tokyo Okutama, Tokyo Aogashima, Tokyo Ogasawara, Tokyo
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