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Country
  
Japan

Area
  
49.9 km²

Prefecture
  
Tokyo

Region
  
Kantō

Population
  
682,418 (1 May 2015)

Flower
  
Rhododendron

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Time zone
  
Japan Standard Time (UTC+9)

Website
  
www.city.edogawa.tokyo.jp

University
  
Aikoku Gakuen Junior College

Points of interest
  
Tokyo Sea Life Park, Kasai Rinkai Park, Diamond and Flower Ferris Wh, Total Recreation Park, Edogawa Natural Zoo

Edogawa (江戸川区, Edogawa-ku) is a special ward 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.

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Map of Edogawa, Tokyo, Japan

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 May 1, 2015, the ward has an estimated population of 682,418 and a population density of 13,680 persons per km². The total area is 49.90 km².

History

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

Sites

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

  • Estelle Asmodelle – Former model, belly dancer, activist. Currently, musician, abstract artist and academic. She is known as Australia's first legal transsexual.
  • 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
  • Ira Ishida, novelist
  • Kazuhide Uekusa, economist, professor at the graduate school of University
  • 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)
  • 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
  • Yoshiko Tamura, wrestler
  • Yūsuke Koide, vocalist and guitarist for Base Ball Bear
  • Education

    Public elementary and junior high schools are operated by the Edogawa Board of Education.

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

  • Edogawa High School
  • Kasai Commercial High School
  • Kasai South High School
  • Koiwa High School
  • Komatsugawa High School
  • Momijigawa High School
  • Shinozaki High School
  • Private High Schools:

  • Edogawa Girls' High School
  • International schools:

  • Global Indian International School, Tokyo Campus
  • Universities

  • Aikoku Gakuen Junior College
  • 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
  • References

    Edogawa, Tokyo Wikipedia


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