Yushima-tenmangu Omote Torii, Bunkyo Ward
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Tokyo

Bunkyo Ward

A cast-bronze torii, marked Kanbun 7.

Yushima-tenmangu Omote Torii

Photo by Saigen Jiro (Public domain)

01 / Hall

Inside a brick hall,stands a hinoki hexagonal hall.

Hall in Bunkyo Ward
Photo by Wiiii (CC BY-SA 3.0)

Kyudo Kaikan in Hongo 6-chome is a two-story brick hall designed by the architect Takeda Goichi and completed in 1915. At the front of the interior stands a hexagonal hall of pure Japanese style, built of hinoki cypress with a copper-plate roof; the metropolitan government describes a unique space that brings Japanese elements into a Western-style interior. Designated a Tokyo Metropolitan tangible cultural property in 1994.

  • Completed 1915
  • Designed by Takeda Goichi
  • Tokyo-designated, 1994

02 / Pawnshop

Ichiyo's condolence booknames a pawnshop.

Pawnshop in Bunkyo Ward
Photo by 江戸村のとくぞう (Edomura no Tokuzo) (CC BY-SA 4.0)

The Former Iseya Pawnshop in Hongo 5-chome is the building of a pawnshop Higuchi Ichiyo used from the time she lived in Kikuzaka. She kept going after moving to Ryusen-cho, and the condolence book from her death records a gift from Iseya. The ward records its founding as 1860, and designated the shop, storehouse and reception wing as ward cultural property in 2016.

  • Used by Higuchi Ichiyo
  • Ward gives 1860 as founding
  • Ward-designated, 2016

03 / Market site

Farmers rested here,and a produce market arose, they say.

Market site in Bunkyo Ward
Photo by Higa4 (CC0)

The Komagome produce market site is where, in the Edo period, a market ranked with Kanda and Senju as one of the three great produce markets, the ward says. Its origin is said to lie in the Genna era (1615-1624): farmers carrying vegetables to Edo made a daily habit of resting here, and nearby residents came to buy fresh produce. A monument tells its history in the grounds of a temple.

  • Said to date from the Genna era
  • Vegetables with soil still on
  • Ward historic site, 1983

Bunkyo Ward from the sky

Now and 1974–78. Tap a photo to zoom in.

Wide (about 6 km across)

Close (about 1.5 km across)

Now (shot June–November 2019)Shot 1974–78

Source: Geospatial Information Authority of Japan (GSI) GSI Tiles(全国最新写真(シームレス)/国土画像情報(第一期:1974〜1978年撮影))

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Living here

The ward office is a one-minute walk from Korakuen Station.

  • about 240,000 people
  • 30 min to a city centre

The ward office is in Bunkyo Civic Center, which the ward says is a one-minute walk from Korakuen Station on the Tokyo Metro (Marunouchi Line exits 4a and 5, Namboku Line exit 5). Kasuga Station on the Toei Subway is also one minute away, and JR Suidobashi Station (east exit) is nine minutes on foot.

People living here
240,069people
19952020

+9.3% since 2015

172,474 → 240,069

Area
11.29km²

11.29km² of it habitable

2024

Households
133,661households

1.8 people per household

2020

Rent (average for rentals)
112,934yen
▸

National average 60,630 yen

2023

Healthcare
9 hospitals / 309 clinics

13.2 per 10,000 people

2023

Almost entirely flat.Almost all of it is habitable land (100.0%)
Area and habitable land at the same scalee-Stat B1101 / B1103
Children waiting for childcare
—52 nurseries and similar
Home purchase subsidy
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Average annual temperature
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These 3 items are waiting on a nationwide data source. We do not fill them with estimates.

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Where you can go from here.

Bunkyo Ward in Japan35.708°N 139.752°E
OsakaBunkyo Ward
Korakuen Station
後楽園駅2018
  • to TokyoTokyo Metro Marunouchi Line8min

Travel times follow 東京メトロ丸ノ内線の時刻表(東京駅・新宿駅・池袋駅の発と後楽園駅の着)。東京メトロの駅の時刻表ページは本番が403で、Wayback の写しは2022年8月27日改正日のもの。駅の時刻表は発時刻だけで、列車ごとの後楽園駅の着が読めないため分数を数えられなかった (checked 2026-10-23). They vary by time of day.

Shape

Borders 5 municipalities.

Territory of Bunkyo Ward
Boundaries: National Land Numerical Information (Administrative Area Data), MLIT. Processed by Machigatari.

Bunkyo Ward isthis kind of town.

  1. 01The front torii of Yushima-tenmangu is cast bronze with pillars 3.88 m high, built in the Kanbun era (1661-73), according to the metropolitan government
  2. 02A brick hall and a pawnshop Higuchi Ichiyo used, Kyudo Kaikan and the Former Iseya Pawnshop, both stand in Hongo
  3. 03Beyond the site of an Edo produce market, Koishikawa Korakuen, Rikugien and the Red Gate of the University of Tokyo are also in the ward

See the town as it is now.

Source: Wikidata (P2002, P2003, P2013, P2397)

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