Bunkyō-ku
Bunkyō is in Tokyo, north of the Imperial Palace. The name means roughly "Capital of Culture" and, indeed, it's best known as the home of the sprawling University of Tokyo and a series of aristocratic parks and villas.Places of Interest
Highlights include Tokyo National Museum and Tokyo Dome.
Tokyo National Museum
Museum
Photo: Wiiii, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Tokyo National Museum or TNM is an art museum in Ueno Park in the Taitō ward of Tokyo, Japan. It is one of the four museums operated by the National Institutes for Cultural Heritage, is considered the oldest national museum and the largest art museum in Japan.
Tokyo Dome
Stadium
Photo: Carpkazu, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Tokyo Dome is an indoor stadium in Bunkyō, Tokyo, Japan. It was designed as a baseball stadium following its predecessor, Korakuen Stadium. In Japan, it is often used as a unit of size; for example, "the new construction is five times the size of Tokyo Dome."…
National Museum of Western Art
Museum
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The National Museum of Western Art is the premier public art gallery in Japan specializing in art from the Western tradition. The museum is in the Ueno Park in Taitō, central Tokyo. It received 1,162,345 visitors in 2016.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Taito and Chiyoda.
Taito
Photo: Yoshikazu TAKADA, CC BY 2.0.
Taitō is a northeastern ward of Tokyo. Talk to a Tokyoite about "downtown", and he will think of the Taito district: the train station of Ueno, where migrants from the deep north first arrived in their search for a better life, and the temples of Asakusa, once a boom town full of prostitutes and gangsters, now again a boom town full of tourists.
Chiyoda
Photo: Fg2, Public domain.
Chiyoda, a.k.a. Chiyoda City in English, is a special ward of Tokyo, Japan. Located in the heart of Tokyo's 23 special wards, Chiyoda consists of the Imperial Palace and a surrounding radius of about a kilometer, and is known as the political and financial center of Japan.
Bunkyō-ku
- Also known as: “Bunkyō Ku” and “Bunkyo-ku”
- Location: Tokyo, Japan, East Asia, Asia
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Latitude
35.7175° or 35° 43′ 3″ northLongitude
139.7473° or 139° 44′ 50″ eastElevation
21 metres (69 feet)Open location code
8Q7XPP8W+XWGeoNames ID
7475133
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In Other Languages
“Bunkyō-ku” goes by many names.
- Japanese: “ぶんきょうく”
- Japanese: “ブンキョウク”
- Japanese: “文京区”
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