Adachi City

Adachi is a special ward in the in . It is located to the north of the heart of Tokyo. The ward consists of two separate areas: a small strip of land between the and Arakawa River and a larger area north of the Arakawa River.
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  • Type: City with 695,000 residents
  • Description: special ward in the Tokyo Metropolis in Japan
  • Also known as: “Adachi”, “Adachi city”, “Adachi special ward”, “Adachi ward”, “Adachi-ku”, and “Adachi, Tokyo”
  • Neighbors: , , and

Places of Interest

Highlights include Tokyo University of the Arts and Tokyo Detention House.

University
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or Tokyogeidai is a school of art and music in Japan. Located in Ueno Park, it also has facilities in , Yokohama, Kanagawa, and Adachi, Tokyo.

Prison
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The is a correctional facility in , Tokyo. The prison, which is operated by the Ministry of Justice, is one of seven detention centres that carry out executions in Japan.

Railway station
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Station is a passenger railway station located in Adachi, Tokyo, , operated by the Tokyo Metropolitan Bureau of Transportation.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Yashio and Asakusa.

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is a city located in , . As of 1 January 2021, the city had an estimated population of 92,512 in 44,288 households and a population density of 5100 persons per km2. The total area of the city is 18.02 square kilometres.

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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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Nerima, Itabashi, and Kita are a trio of suburban wards in north and northwestern , bordering and outer Tokyo's . All three lie well beyond the central Yamanote line – nearby is as close as it gets.

Adachi City

Latitude
35.7746° or 35° 46′ 29″ north
Longitude
139.8045° or 139° 48′ 16″ east
Population
695,000
Elevation
5 metres (16 feet)
Inception
May 3rd, 1947
United Nations Location Code
JP ADA
Open location code
8Q7XQRF3+RR
Open­Street­Map ID
node 1111454619
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
10987897
Wiki­data ID
Q213464
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Satellite Map

Discover Adachi City from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
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In Other Languages

From Achinese to Yue Chinese—“Adachi City” goes by many names.
  • Achinese: “Adachi, Tokyo”
  • Achinese: “Adachi”
  • Afrikaans: “Adachi”
  • Arabic: “أداتشي، طوكيو”
  • Arabic: “أداتشي”
  • Armenian: “Ադաթի”
  • Azerbaijani: “Adaçi”
  • Balinese: “Adachi, Tokyo”
  • Basque: “Adachi”
  • Belarusian: “Адаты”
  • Bengali: “আদাচি-কু”
  • Catalan: “Adachi”
  • Cebuano: “Adachi-ku”
  • Central Kurdish: “ئاداچی، تۆکیۆ”
  • Chechen: “Адати”
  • Chinese: “Adati-khu”
  • Chinese: “足立区”
  • Chinese: “足立區”
  • Czech: “Adači”
  • Danish: “Adachi-bydistriktet”
  • Danish: “Adachi-ku”
  • Danish: “Adachi”
  • Dutch: “Adachi”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “أداتشي (طوكيو)”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “أداتشي”
  • Esperanto: “Adaĉi-kvartalo”
  • Esperanto: “Adaĉi”
  • Esperanto: “Kvartalo Adaĉi”
  • Estonian: “Adachi”
  • Finnish: “Adachi”
  • French: “Adachi”
  • French: “arrondissement d’Adachi”
  • Galician: “Adachi, Tokyo”
  • Galician: “Adachi”
  • Gan Chinese: “足立区”
  • Gan Chinese: “足立區”
  • Georgian: “ადაჩი”
  • German: “Adachi”
  • Greek: “Αντάτσι”
  • Gujarati: “અદાચી-કુ”
  • Haitian: “Adachi”
  • Hebrew: “אדאצ’י”
  • Hindi: “अदाची -कू”
  • Hungarian: “Adacsi”
  • Indonesian: “Adachi-ku”
  • Indonesian: “Adachi, Tokyo”
  • Indonesian: “Adachi”
  • Indonesian: “足立区”
  • Irish: “Adachi-ku”
  • Italian: “Adachi”
  • Japanese: “Adachi-ku”
  • Japanese: “あだちく”
  • Japanese: “東京都足立区”
  • Japanese: “足立”
  • Japanese: “足立区”
  • Javanese: “Adachi, Tokyo”
  • Javanese: “Adachi”
  • Kannada: “ಅದಾಚಿ-ಕು”
  • Korean: “아다치구”
  • Latin: “Adachi”
  • Latvian: “Adači īpašais rajons”
  • Lithuanian: “Adačio seniūnija”
  • Lithuanian: “Adačis”
  • Luxembourgish: “Adachi”
  • Macedo-Romanian: “Adachi”
  • Malay: “Adachi, Tokyo”
  • Malay: “Adachi”
  • Marathi: “अदची-कु”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Adati-khu”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Adachi”
  • Norwegian: “Adachi”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Adachi”
  • Persian: “آداچی-کو”
  • Persian: “آداچی”
  • Persian: “اداچی، توکیو”
  • Polish: “Adachi-ku”
  • Polish: “Adachi”
  • Portuguese: “Adachi”
  • Romanian: “Adachi”
  • Russian: “Адати”
  • Russian: “Адачи”
  • Sinhala: “අදචි-කු”
  • Slovenian: “Adači”
  • Spanish: “Adachi Tokio”
  • Spanish: “Adachi Tokyo”
  • Spanish: “Adachi”
  • Spanish: “足立区”
  • Sundanese: “Adachi, Tokyo”
  • Swedish: “Adachi”
  • Tagalog: “Adachi, Tokyo”
  • Tagalog: “Adachi”
  • Tamil: “அடச்சீ-கு”
  • Tatar: “Адати”
  • Tatar: “Адачи”
  • Telugu: “అడాచి-కు”
  • Thai: “เขตอาดาจิ”
  • Thai: “อาดาจิ”
  • Turkish: “Adachi”
  • Ukrainian: “Адаті (район)”
  • Ukrainian: “Адаті-ку”
  • Ukrainian: “Адаті”
  • Ukrainian: “Адачі”
  • Ukrainian: “Район Адачі”
  • Urdu: “اداچی، ٹوکیو”
  • Vietnamese: “Adachi, Tokyo”
  • Vietnamese: “Adachi”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Adachi, Tokyo”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Adachi”
  • Yue Chinese: “足立區”

Localities in the Area

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Notable Places Nearby

Highlights include Adachi City Hall and 綾瀬警察署 中央本町交番.

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