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Itabashi (板橋区, Itabashi-ku) is a special ward in the Tokyo Metropolis in Japan. In English, it is called Itabashi City . Itabashi has sister-city relations with Burlington, Ontario , in Canada; Shijingshan District of Beijing in the People's Republic of China; and Bologna in Italy.
The 23rd ward, Nerima, was formed on August 1, 1947, when Itabashi was split again. The postwar reorganization under the US-led occupation authorities democratized the prefectural administrations but did not include the reinstitution of Tokyo City.
Itabashikuyakushomae Station (板橋区役所前駅, Itabashi-kuyakusho-mae eki) is a metro station on the Toei Mita Line in Itabashi, Tokyo, Japan, operated by Toei Subway. It is located under Itabashi City Office, and the station name translates as "In front of Itabashi Ward Office".
The park contains a 70 m wide hilly area, which corresponds to the cliffline of the Musashino Terrace, and it extends for 2.3 km. Part of this area is a bird sanctuary.. Further, soft windflower, the official flower of Itabashi Ward, grows naturally in a forest that covers these hills (the Daimon area of Akatsuka Pa
The Moro Heritage Site (茂呂遺跡, Moro iseki), shown on some maps as Moro Heritage or Moro Archaeological Site, is an archaeological site where stone tools from the Paleolithic Age (between 3.3 million years ago and c. 11,650 cal BP) were found in Itabashi Ward, Tokyo, Japan.
A ward (区, ku) is a subdivision of the cities of Japan that are large enough to have been designated by government ordinance. [1] Wards are used to subdivide each city designated by government ordinance ("designated city").
Each such special ward has a status equivalent to a city in Japan. In this way they differ from ordinary wards within cities. See also: Category:Wards of cities in Japan and Category:Dissolved municipalities of Tokyo.
In 2014, when Asahi Kasei Real Estate planned to redevelop the site, Itabashi Ward formed a modern heritage group research team and successfully petitioned to rezone the proposed side as a public historic park, which secured protection as a National Historic Site in 2017 as the "Army Itabashi Explosives Factory Site".