Sendagaya

Sendagaya (Japanese千駄ヶ谷) is a district of Shibuya district in the east of Japan Tokyo Prefecture. It is located west of the center of Tokyo north of Shibuya and south of Shinjuku. The majority of commercial and office buildings embossed, but also traversed by residential development district is divided into six numbered district, Chome, where according to the 2005 census was 1.16 km ², 8,498 inhabitants lived, the daily population is 43 578. The zip code of Sendagaya is 151-0051.

Geography

Directly on Sendagaya station on the Chūō Line is Sendagaya 1 -chome. North of it lies mostly in the neighboring district of Shinjuku, a large park, the Shinjuku Gyoen. Beside the railway station is located with the Tōkyō Taiikukan a competition venue of the Olympic Summer Games in 1964, immediately east of it is - beyond the county line in Kasumigaokamachi - the National Stadium. Next door is the Tsuda Hall, are given in the classical concerts. It belongs to the 1900 founded Tsuda University. In the southwest of 1 -chome Hato no Mori Hachiman Jinja, a thousand year old shrine is located.

Further south is Sendagaya 2 -chome, which is bordered on the south by the district Jingū -mae ( Harajuku ). West of Sendagaya 1 and 2 extends between the Meiji- dori and the Yamanote Line Sendagaya 3 -chome, where increases are clothing stores. Between the Yamanote and Chuo lines that meet at the Yoyogi station, stand in Sendagaya 4 -chome some larger office building. There are, among others, the headquarters of the Communist Party of Japan and the Kokuritsu Nōrakudō, the "national Noh theater." North of the Chūō Line is Sendagaya 5 -chome, which reaches as far north as the Shinjuku Station. Here are NTT Docomo Yoyogi with the Building and Takashimaya Times Square striking skyscrapers. Sendagaya finally 6 -chome covers the southwest part of the Shinjuku Gyoen.

The Onden -gawa (穏 田 川), the upper reaches of the canalized since 1964 Shibuya -gawa, originated in present-day Shinjuku Gyoen and flowed through the eastern part of today's Sendagaya from north to south. In Sendagaya its course is no longer visible. However, its reedy banks named in the 17th century for the then village: After Shimpen Musashi Fudoki -kō (新编 武 蔵 风土 记 稿), a chronicle of the province of Musashi, were there at a time in 1624 daily " thousand [ loaded on pack horses ] bundle " (千 駄, senda, an idiomatic expression for " very much " ) mowing of reed grass (萱, kaya ). The village therefore was named Sendagaya ,千 駄 萱, "a thousand bundles of reeds ", from which a few decades later the present case Sendagaya ,千駄ヶ谷, eg " Valley of a Thousand Horses charges " should be made ​​.

History

As a modern community Sendagaya created in 1889 by the merger of the villages Sendagaya, Harajuku and Onden to the village Sendagaya (千駄ヶ谷 村, -mura ) in the district of South Toshima (later County Toyotama ) and thus also included large parts of present-day district Jingū -mae. 1907 Sendagaya to town ( machi ) was upgraded. According to the 1930 Census it had some 41,000 inhabitants. 1932 Sendagaya was eventually incorporated into the city of Tokyo, where together with the cities Yoyohata and Shibuya to Shibuya Ward. The present city part division was created in the 1960s.

Economy and Transport

In Sendagaya are the headquarters of several major companies, including, for example, Nippon Seifun, the construction company Fujita, the real estate group Daikyo and Five Foxes ( known by the fashion brand comme ça du mode),

In the north, running alongside the Chūō Line Shinjuku Line (No. 4 ) of the urban motorway Tokyo, a prefectural road, as well as including the Oedo Line of prefecture -powered subway. Main roads in north-south direction of the Meiji - dori and the Gaien - nishi - dori, which forms the eastern border of Sendagaya. Under the Meiji -dori the Fukutoshin line of Tōkyō Metro stopping at Kitasandō station in Sendagaya runs 4 In the northwest lie on the Yamanote Line train stations Yoyogi and Shinjuku, the most important transport hub of Tokyo, in the southwest is the Harajuku Station, on is on the Sendagaya page of the special platform for the Imperial Family.