Shinjuku
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Shinjuku (新宿区, Shinjuku-ku) is one of the 23 special wards of Tokyo, Japan. The administration center of the government of Tokyo Prefecture is in Shinjuku.[1] Also in Shinjuku is the biggest railway station in the world, Shinjuku Station.
History[change | change source]
On 15 March 1947, the ward of Shinjuku was formed by combining the wards of Ushigome, Yodobashi, and Yotsuya.[2]
In 1991, the Tokyo Government moved from the Marunouchi district of Chiyoda to the current building in Shinjuku.
Geography[change | change source]
Surrounding Shinjuku are six other wards: Chiyoda to the east; Bunkyo and Toshima to the north; Nakano to the west, and Shibuya and Minato to the south.
References[change | change source]
- ↑ "Shinjuku City". Archived from the original on 2008-02-09. Retrieved 2012-09-10.
- ↑ 大東京35区物語~15区から23区へ~東京23区の歴史 (in Japanese). Tokyo Metropolitan Archives. Archived from the original on 2020-06-17. Retrieved 2020-08-03.
Other websites[change | change source]
Media related to Shinjuku at Wikimedia Commons
- http://www.city.shinjuku.tokyo.jp/foreign/english/ Archived 2005-04-04 at the Wayback Machine; (in Japanese)