Edogawa, Tokyo

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Edogawa 江戸川区
Special ward
Edogawa City[1]
Furukawa Waterside Park in Edogawa
Flag Emblem
Location of Edogawa in Tokyo Metropolis
Edogawa Location in Japan
Coordinates: 35°42′N 139°53′E / 35.700°N 139.883°E / 35.700; 139.883Coordinates: 35°42′N 139°53′E / 35.700°N 139.883°E / 35.700; 139.883
Country	Japan
Region	Kantō
Prefecture	Tokyo Metropolis
First official recorded	721 AD
As City of Tokyo	October 1, 1932
As Special ward of Tokyo	July 1, 1943
Government
• Mayor	Takeshi Saitō (since April 2019)
Area
• Total	49.90 km2 (19.27 sq mi)
Population  (January 1, 2020)
• Total	695,797
• Density	13,680/km2 (35,400/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+09:00 (JST)
Website	www.city.edogawa.tokyo.jp
Symbols
Flower	Rhododendron
Tree	Cinnamonum camphora

Edogawa (江戸川区, Edogawa-ku) is one of 23 special wards located in Tokyo Metropolis, Japan. It takes its name from the Edo River that runs from north to south along the eastern edge of the ward. In English, it uses the name Edogawa City.

The easternmost of the wards, it shares boundaries with the cities of Urayasu and Ichikawa in Chiba Prefecture (to the east) and with the wards of Katsushika (to the north), Sumida and Kōtō (to the west). It meets the city of Matsudo in Chiba at a point.

Edogawa has a sister-city relationship with Gosford, New South Wales, Australia. Domestically, it has friendship ties with the cities of Azumino in Nagano Prefecture and Tsuruoka in Yamagata Prefecture.

As of January 1, 2020, the ward has an estimated population of 695,797, and a population density of 13,925 persons per km².^{[citation needed]} The total area is 49.90 km².

History[]

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The ward was founded in 1937 with the merger of seven towns and villages in : the towns of Koiwa and Komatsugawa, and the villages of Kasai, Matsue, Mizue, Shinozaki and Shikamoto.

Demographics[]

Edogawa is notable for its large Indian population. There were 3,758 Indians living in the ward as of January 2018, centered in the neighborhood. Around 30% of Indians in Tokyo, and 10% of all Indians in Japan, live in Edogawa.^[2]

Districts and neighborhoods[]

Sites[]

• Edogawa Boat Race Course
• Edogawa Stadium
• Kasai Seaside Park

Notable people[]

• Seiya Ando, basketball player
• Keita Ono, darts player
• Akiko Hinagata, actress
• Daisuke Matsuzaka, baseball player (played for Seibu Lions and currently with the Boston Red Sox)
• Hayato Aoki, baseball player
• Fuka Nagano, soccer player
• Ira Ishida, novelist
• Kazuhide Uekusa, former economics professor at Waseda University convicted of sex offences
• Kazuya Kamenashi, J-pop idol, singer, actor, television host (member of KAT-TUN)
• Kazuyoshi Nakamura, actor
• Keizō Kanie, actor
• Kenta Suga, actor
• Kreva, rapper
• Maki Goto, singer (Morning Musume)
• Masahiro Yanagida, professional volleyball player
• Norikazu Otsuka, announcer
• Romi Park, actress and voice actress
• Takamasa Suga, actor
• Takeshi Morishima, professional wrestler
• Tochinishiki Kiyotaka, 44th yokozuna in sumo
• Tomochika Tsuboi, baseball player
• Uno Misako, is a Tarento, artist, actress, essayist and talent agent best known as a lead vocalist and dancer of the Co-ed performing arts group AAA.
• Yasuo Namekawa,is a Korean–Japanese singer and television personality. He was the vocalist and oldest member of the South Korean hip-hop group M.I.B
• Yoshiko Tamura, wrestler
• , vocalist and guitarist for Base Ball Bear
• Yogendra Puranik, India-born politician

Education[]

Public elementary and junior high schools are operated by the .

Public high schools are operated by the Tokyo Metropolitan Government Board of Education.

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Private High Schools:

• Edogawa Girls' High School^[10]

International schools:

• Global Indian International School, Tokyo Campus

Universities

• Aikoku Gakuen Junior College

Transportation[]

Rail[]

■ East Japan Railway Company

■ Chūō-Sōbu Line

• – Hirai – Shin-Koiwa(Shin-Koiwa Station is in Katsushika, Tokyo) – Koiwa –

■ Keiyō Line

• – Kasairinkai-Kōen –

■ Keisei Electric Railway

■ Keisei Main Line

• – Keisei Koiwa – Edogawa –

■ Toei

○ Toei Shinjuku Line

• – Higashi-Ōjima – Funabori – Ichinoe – Mizue – Shinozaki –

■ Tokyo Metro

○ Tozai Line

• – Nishi-Kasai – Kasai –

Highway[]

• Shuto Expressway
  • C2 Central Loop
  • No.7 Komatsugawa Route
  • B Bayshore Route

See also[]

References[]

External links[]

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Edogawa, Tokyo.

• Edogawa City Official Website (in Japanese)