Hongō
Hongō is a district of Tokyo located in Bunkyō, due north of the Tokyo Imperial Palace and west of Ueno.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Kitadake3193, CC BY-SA 3.0.
- Type: Quarter with 20,700 residents
- Description: neighborhood in Bunkyō-ku, Tokyo
- Also known as: “Hongō, Tokyo”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Hongo Yakushi and The University Museum, the University of Tokyo.
The University Museum, the University of Tokyo
Museum
Photo: Kestrel, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The University Museum at the University of Tokyo is a museum in Tokyo, Japan. Although there had been museums affiliated with the University of Tokyo since its establishment in 1877, UMUT was established in 1966 to maintain, organise, and exhibit the vast collection of the university.
Hongō-sanchōme Station
Metro station
Photo: Tokyo-Good, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Hongō-sanchōme Station is a railway station in Bunkyō, Tokyo, Japan, jointly operated by the Tokyo subway operators Tokyo Metro and Toei Subway. Part of the station originally lay within the Hongō-sanchōme district of Bunkyō Ward when the station was first opened, but following rezoning in 1965, the address of the station became Hongō-nichōme.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Yushima and Kanda-Misakichō.
Kanda-Misakichō
Quarter
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Kanda-Misakichō is a district of Chiyoda, Tokyo, Japan, consisting three chōme. Its population was 833 as of April 1, 2007. Its postal code is 101–0061.
Yayoi
Quarter
Photo: みそがい, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Yayoi is a neighbourhood in Bunkyo, Tokyo. In 1884, when it was part of Tokyo City, it was the location of a shell mound where a new type of pottery was discovered by Shogoro Tsuboi and his colleagues.
Hongō
Latitude
35.70774° or 35° 42′ 28″ northLongitude
139.76017° or 139° 45′ 37″ eastPopulation
20,700Elevation
26 metres (85 feet)Open location code
8Q7XPQ56+33OpenStreetMap ID
node 12638693920OpenStreetMap feature
place=quarterGeoNames ID
1862211Wikidata ID
Q3108376
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Chinese to Ukrainian—“Hongō” goes by many names.
- Chinese: “本鄉”
- Dutch: “Hongō”
- Finnish: “Hongō”
- French: “Hongo”
- French: “Hongô”
- French: “Hongō”
- Japanese: “Hongō”
- Japanese: “ほんごう”
- Japanese: “本郷”
- Korean: “혼고”
- Macedo-Romanian: “Hongou”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Hongō”
- Persian: “هونگو”
- Slovenian: “Hongo”
- Spanish: “Hongō”
- Thai: “ฮงโง”
- Turkish: “Hongō”
- Ukrainian: “Хонґо”
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Localities in the Area
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Hongō”. Photo: Kitadake3193, CC BY-SA 3.0.