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Arakawa-ku

Arakawa City

Arakawa is a special ward in the in . The ward takes its name from the , though the river does not run through or touch the ward.
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  • Type: City with 216,000 residents
  • Description: special ward in the Tokyo Metropolis in Japan
  • Also known as: “Arakawa”, “Arakawa-ku”, and “Arakawa, Tokyo”
  • Neighbors: , , and

Places of Interest

Highlights include Tokyo National Museum and National Museum of Western Art.

Museum
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The or TNM is an art museum in Ueno Park in the ward of , 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.

Museum
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The is the premier public art gallery in specializing in art from the Western tradition. The museum is in the Ueno Park in , central . It received 1,162,345 visitors in 2016.

Museum
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The is in the northeast corner of Ueno Park in Tokyo. The museum has exhibitions on pre-Meiji science in Japan. It is the venue of the taxidermied bodies of the legendary dogs Hachikō and Taro and Jiro.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Taito and Asakusa.

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Taitō is a northeastern ward of . Talk to a Tokyoite about "downtown", and he will think of the district: the train station of , where migrants from the first arrived in their search for a better life, and the temples of , once a boom town full of prostitutes and gangsters, now again a boom town full of tourists.

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is a part of Tokyo's downtown district, best known for its many temples, particularly Sensō-ji, Tokyo's largest Buddhist temple.

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If you want to get a feel for old , in the district is a good place to start. Entirely lacking in high-rise condos or whiz-bang shopping malls, by Tokyo standards it's distinctly downmarket, in contrast to places like , but that means that eating, shopping and drinking are all affordably priced.

Arakawa City

Latitude
35.7375° or 35° 44′ 15″ north
Longitude
139.7813° or 139° 46′ 53″ east
Population
216,000
Elevation
8 metres (26 feet)
Open location code
8Q7XPQQJ+2G
Open­Street­Map ID
node 1111454600
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
10968247
Wiki­data ID
Q232624
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In Other Languages

From Achinese to Yue Chinese—“Arakawa City” goes by many names.
  • Achinese: “Arakawa, Tokyo”
  • Achinese: “Arakawa”
  • Arabic: “أراكاوا، طوكيو”
  • Arabic: “أراكاوا”
  • Armenian: “Արաքավա”
  • Azerbaijani: “Arakava”
  • Balinese: “Arakawa, Tokyo”
  • Basque: “Arakawa”
  • Bengali: “আরাকাওয়া-কু”
  • Catalan: “Arakawa”
  • Cebuano: “Arakawa-ku”
  • Chechen: “Аракава (махсус район)”
  • Chechen: “Аракава”
  • Chinese: “Arakawa-khu”
  • Chinese: “荒川区”
  • Chinese: “荒川區”
  • Czech: “Arakawa”
  • Danish: “Arakawa-bydistriktet”
  • Danish: “Arakawa-ku”
  • Danish: “Arakawa”
  • Dutch: “Arakawa”
  • Esperanto: “Arakaŭa-kvartalo”
  • Esperanto: “Arakaŭa”
  • Esperanto: “Kvartalo Arakaŭa”
  • Estonian: “Arakawa ringkond”
  • Estonian: “Arakawa”
  • Finnish: “Arakawa”
  • French: “Arakawa”
  • Galician: “Arakawa”
  • Gan Chinese: “荒川区”
  • Gan Chinese: “荒川區”
  • Georgian: “არაკავა”
  • German: “Arakawa”
  • Greek: “Αρακάβα”
  • Gujarati: “અરાકાવા-કુ”
  • Haitian: “Arakawa”
  • Hindi: “अराकावा -कू”
  • Hungarian: “Arakava”
  • Indonesian: “Arakawa-ku”
  • Indonesian: “Arakawa, Tokyo”
  • Indonesian: “Arakawa”
  • Indonesian: “荒川区”
  • Irish: “Arakawa-ku”
  • Italian: “Arakawa”
  • Japanese: “Arakawa-ku”
  • Japanese: “あらかわく”
  • Japanese: “東京都荒川区”
  • Japanese: “荒川”
  • Japanese: “荒川区”
  • Kannada: “ಅರಕವಾ-ಕು”
  • Korean: “아라카와구”
  • Latvian: “Arakava īpašais rajons”
  • Lithuanian: “Arakava”
  • Lithuanian: “Arakavos seniūnija”
  • Macedo-Romanian: “Arakawa”
  • Malay: “Arakawa, Tokyo”
  • Malay: “Arakawa”
  • Marathi: “अराकावा-कु”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Arakawa-khu”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Arakawa”
  • Norwegian: “Arakawa”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Arakawa”
  • Persian: “آراکاوا-کو، توکیو”
  • Persian: “آراکاوا”
  • Persian: “اراکاوا، توکیو”
  • Polish: “Arakawa-ku”
  • Polish: “Arakawa”
  • Portuguese: “Arakawa”
  • Romanian: “Arakawa”
  • Russian: “Аракава”
  • Sinhala: “අරකවා කු”
  • Slovenian: “Arakava”
  • Slovenian: “Arakawa”
  • Spanish: “Arakawa Tokio”
  • Spanish: “Arakawa Tokyo”
  • Spanish: “Arakawa”
  • Sundanese: “Arakawa, Tokyo”
  • Swedish: “Arakawa”
  • Tagalog: “Arakawa, Tokyo”
  • Tagalog: “Arakawa”
  • Tamil: “அறக்கவா-கு”
  • Tatar: “Аракава (махсус район)”
  • Tatar: “Аракава”
  • Telugu: “అరకావా-కు”
  • Thai: “เขตอารากาวะ”
  • Thai: “อารากาวะ”
  • Turkish: “Arakawa, Tokyo”
  • Turkish: “Arakawa”
  • Ukrainian: “Аракава-ку”
  • Ukrainian: “Аракава”
  • Ukrainian: “Район Аракава”
  • Urdu: “آراکاوا، ٹوکیو”
  • Vietnamese: “Arakawa, Tōkyō”
  • Vietnamese: “Arakawa”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Arakawa, Tokyo”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Arakawa”
  • Yue Chinese: “荒川區”

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