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It is one of the city's oldest commercial districts, although it has since been eclipsed by Ginza to the south and Nihonbashi to the north. Kyobashi, together with Nihonbashi and Kanda , is the core of Shitamachi , [ 1 ] the original downtown center of Edo-Tokyo, before the rise of newer secondary centers such as Shinjuku and Shibuya .
Tokyo's 23 special wards, one part of the Tokyo Metropolis prefecture. The history of Tokyo, Japan's capital prefecture and largest city, starts with archeological remains in the area dating back around 5,000 years. Tokyo's oldest temple is possibly Sensō-ji in Asakusa, founded in 628.
It replaced the old city hall at Yūrakuchō, which was built in 1957 and also designed by Tange, which is now the site of the Tokyo International Forum. [6] At 242.9 meters (797 ft), [1] it was the tallest building by roof height in Tokyo until 2007, when the Midtown Tower was completed.
The ward refers to itself in English as Chūō City. It was formed in 1947 as a merger of Kyōbashi and Nihonbashi wards following Tokyo City 's transformation into Tokyo Metropolis . Chūō-ku, as a combination of Kyōbashi and Nihonbashi, is the core of Shitamachi , [ 2 ] the original downtown center of Edo-Tokyo.
The former Tokyo City Hall (1930s) The former Tokyo Metropolitan Government Building (c. 1960) The Tokyo Metropolitan Government (東京都庁, Tōkyōto-chō) is the government of the Tokyo Metropolis. One of the 47 prefectures of Japan, the government consists of a popularly elected governor and assembly.
The Tokyo city council/assembly (Tōkyō-shikai) was first elected in May 1889. [2] Each ward also retained its own assembly. City and prefectural government were separated in 1898., [2] and the government began to appoint a separate mayor of Tokyo City in 1898, but retained ward-level legislation, which continues to this day in the special ...
1901 - Tokyo Photography Circle (club) formed. [8] 1902 - Industrial Bank of Japan headquartered in city. [11] 1903 Electric tram begins operating. [19] Electric Hall (cinema) opens. [2] 1905 - September 5: Hibiya Incendiary Incident occurs. [1] 1906 - Harajuku Station opens. 1907 - Tokyo Industrial Exhibition held. [12] 1910 - Luna Park opens.
After that, Tokyo city had seven different mayors until 1926, none of whom served for longer than three years. Elected mayors of Tokyo city include former Bank of Japan governor Otohiko Ichiki, former Takushoku University president and Mie governor Hidejirō Nagata and former Tokyo governor Toratarō Ushizuka. Tokyo city's last mayor was a ...