is a special ward located in Tokyo Metropolis,

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. It is located to the north of the heart of Tokyo. The ward consists of two separate areas: a small strip of land between the

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and Arakawa River and a larger area north of the Arakawa River. The ward is bordered by the cities of Kawaguchi, Sōka and Yashio in Saitama and Katsushika, Sumida, Arakawa and Kita in Tokyo. The ward is called Adachi City in English. As of May 1, 2015, the ward has an estimated

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of 692,707 and a

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of 13,010 persons per km². The total area is 53.25 km². The Adachi Land Transportation Office is located here, and automobiles registered at this office bear Adachi number plates.

History

Under the

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system, the present-day ward was the southern extremity of Adachi District, Musashi Province. In 826, during the

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, the Nishiarai Daishi temple was founded. During the

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and into the

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, the Chiba clan held control of the region. The Great Senju Bridge was built in 1594. In the

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, parts were under the direct control of the Tokugawa shogunate, and parts were under the administration of

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, a temple in present-day Ueno, Tokyo. Adachi was also home to Senju-shuku was a post station on both the Nikkō Kaidō and the Mito Kaidō. The shogunate maintained the

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in Senju. In 1932, Adachi, formerly known as Minamiadachi District, became a ward of Tokyo City. The special ward was founded on March 15, 1947.

Districts and neighborhoods

;Ayase Area * Adachi * Aoi * Ayase * Kōdō * Nishi Ayase ;Fuchie Area * Higashi Hokima * Higashi Rokugatsu-chō * Hodzuka-chō * Hokima * Nishi Hokima * Rokuchō * Rokugatsu * Takenotsuka ;Hanahata Area * Hanahata * Kahei * Kitakaheichō * Minami Hanabatake * Mutsuki * Nishi Kahei * Shinmei * Shinmei Minami * Tatsunuma * Yanaka ;Higashi Fuchie Area * Higashi Ayase * Nakagawa * Ōyata * Sano * Tōwa ;Ikō Area * Higashi Ikō * Ikō * Ikōhon-chō * Nishi Ikō * Nishi Ikōchō * Nishi Takenotsuka ;Kōhoku Area * Horinouchi * Kaga * Kōhoku * Miyagi * Nitta * Odai * Saranuma * Shikahama * Tsubaki * Yazaike ;Nishi Arai Area * Motoki * Motoki Higashi-machi * Motoki Kita-machi * Motoki Minami-machi * Motoki Nishi-machi * Nishi Arai * Nishi Arai Honchō * Ōgi * Okino * Sekihara ;Senju Area * Hinodemachi * Senju * Senju Motomachi * Senju Akebono-chō * Senju Asahi-chō * Senju Azuma * Senju Hashido-chō * Senju Kawahara-chō * Senju Kotobuki-chō * Senju Midori-chō * Senju Miyamoto-chō * Senju Naka-chō * Senju Nakai-chō * Senju Ōkawa-chō * Senju Sakuragi * Senju Sekiya-chō * Senju Tatsuta-chō * Senju Yanagi-chō * Yanagihara ;Toneri Area * Iriya * Iriya-chō * Kojiya * Kojiya Honchō * Toneri * Toneri Kōen * Tonerimachi ;Umejima Area * Chūō Honmachi * Hirano * Hitotsuya * Kurihara * Nishi Arai Sakae-chō * Shimane * Umeda * Umejima

Sights

Nishiarai Daishi

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and Sano Yakuyoke Daishi, and a large number of people annually visit the temple at

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Parks

*Toneri Park: Toneri Park is a metropolitan park located in Toneri. It is divided into east and west sections by Ogubashi Street. The west site has sports facilities such as an athletic stadium, tennis courts and baseball grounds. The east site has a big pond, water park and bird sanctuary. A part of the east site is now under construction. The park can be accessed by arriving at Toneri-kōen Station on the

Nippori-Toneri Liner The is an automated guideway transit (AGT) system between Nippori Station in Arakawa and Minumadai-shinsuikōen Station in Adachi, Tokyo, Japan. The line opened on 30 March 2008. It is operated by the Tokyo Metropolitan Bureau of Transportatio ...

or by bus. *Higashi Ayase Park: Higashi Ayase Park is a metropolitan park that straddles the border between Ayase and Higashi Ayase. It contains Tokyo Budokan. Within the park, there is a

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which has a wide variety of plants. It also has sports facilities such as baseball and gateball grounds. *Urban Agricultural Park: Urban Agricultural Park (Toshi Nōgyō Kōen), located in Shikahama, is run by Adachi Ward. Officially, it is a part of Kōhoku Park. It is located near the meeting of the Shiba and Arakawa Rivers, and its south end faces a green space on the Arakawa river area. There are fields, orchards, greenhouses and other facilities that aim to show farming techniques that have been adopted in the suburbs of Tokyo. There are also facilities for families such as lawns and play equipment. There is a rest house near the entrance on the Arakawa riverbank side. The rest house is at the point where the Arakawa and Shibakawa cycling roads meet. There is no admission fee. It is closed early in the morning and late at night, as well as all day on some days such as the year-end and new-year holidays. The park is far from the train station, but there is a bus running from Nishiarai Station to the park. The park is about a five-minute walk south of the bus stop Shikahama 5 on Kawaguchi Station line (Shikahama-Ryōke) and Akabane Station line (to Nishiarai Station by way of Arakawa Bridge). There is parking for cars and sightseeing buses under the Shuto Expressway Kawaguchi Route, and Shikahamabashi Exit and Higashi Ryōke Exit are nearby. The parking lot is also close to Kan-nana Road. *Adachi Park of Living Things: Adachi Park of Living Things, located within Motofuchie Park in Hokima, is run by Adachi Ward.

Halls and cultural facilities

*Tokyo Budokan: Tokyo Budokan, located within Higashi Ayase Metropolitan Park, is a sports facility run by Tokyo Sport Benefits Corporation. The Tokyo Budokan has an avant-garde building designed by a famous architect Kijō Rokkaku. It includes places for martial arts and Kyūdō, and training rooms. The word ''budokan'' means "martial arts hall," and the same word is part of the name of the more-famous Nippon Budokan. The Tokyo Budokan's address is 3-20-1 Ayase, Adachi, Tokyo. *Galaxy+City: Galaxy+City (Gyarakushitii) is a generic term for series of cultural facilities in Kurihara. It used to be run by Adachi Lifelong Educational Promotion Corporation, but the management was taken over by Youth Centre of Adachi Board of Education on 1 April 2005. It contains two main facilities: Nishiarai Culture Hall (theatre) and Adachi Children's Science Museum. There are also event halls, cafes and others. *Theatre 1010: Theatre 1010 was named as it is because the number 1010 (Senjū) and the name of the theatre's location (Senju) are homonyms in Japanese. *Adachi Historical Museum: Adachi Historical Museum, located within Higashifuchie Park in Ōyata, is run by Adachi Ward. *

Senju Thermal Power Station The Senju Thermal Power Station (千住火力発電所) was a power plant in Tokyo that existed on the banks of the Sumida River from 1926 to 1963. The plant is still somewhat famous in Japan because of its "Ghost Chimneys", which became a sym ...

Education

The city's public high schools are operated by the Tokyo Metropolitan Government Board of Education. The city's public elementary and junior high schools are operated by the Adachi City Board of Education (足立区教育委員会). International schools: * - North Korean school() Tokyo Future University is located in the area.

Sister cities

Adachi has sister-city relationships with Belmont,

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. Within Japan, Adachi has similar ties with the city of Uonuma (formerly the town of Koide) in Niigata Prefecture, Yamanouchi in Nagano Prefecture, and the city of Kanuma in

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Transportation

Rail

The primary railway station in the city is Kita-Senju Station. ; JR East :

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- - ; Tobu Railway : Skytree Line - - - Kita-Senju - - - - - - : Daishi Line Nishiarai - ; Keisei Electric Railway : Keisei Main Line - - - ; Tokyo Metro :

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- Kita-Senju :

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: Tsukuba Express - Kita-Senju - - - ;

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Highways

Shuto Expressway *No.6 Misato Route (Kosuge JCT - Misato JCT) *C2 Central Loop (Itabashi JCT - Kasai JCT) *S1 Kawaguchi Route (Kōhoku JCT - Kawaguchi JCT)

Notable people

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, actress * Back-On, rock band * Tochiazuma Daisuke, sumo wrestler * Kouta Hirano, manga artist *

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, progressive-electronic musician * Itsuki Hirata, mixed martial artist *Jo Kamisaku, murderer of Junko Furuta *

Kaela Kimura is a Japanese pop rock singer, lyricist, fashion model and television presenter. Career Born in Adachi, Tokyo, Japan to a Japanese mother and British father, Kimura started working as a model in 2002 for the Japanese magazine '' Seventeen''. ...

, singer and model * Takeshi Kitano, comedian and filmmaker * Daijiro Morohoshi, manga artist * Nujabes, hip hop artist/producer * Mayumi Ogawa, actress * Masatoshi Ono, rock/heavy metal singer * Mika Akino, professional wrestler * Tetsuya Naito, professional wrestler *

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, professional wrestler * Yoshiko Tanaka, actress *

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, professional wrestling referee *

Kenta Yamazaki Kenta Yamazaki ( ja, 山崎健太, born May 19, 1987) is a professional footballer from Adachi, Tokyo, Japan. In summer 2014, Yamazaki transferred from FK Berane, having played with them in the 2013–14 Montenegrin Second League, to OFK Grbal ...

, soccer player

References

External links

Adachi City Official Website
{{Authority control Wards of Tokyo