Bunkyo
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.
- Type: City with 228,000 residents
- Description: special ward in the Tokyo Metropolis in Japan
- Also known as: “Bunkjó-ku”, “Bunkyô”, “Bunkyō”, “Bunkyo City”, “Bunkyō City”, “Bunkyō ringkond”, “Bunkyo Tokio”, “Bunkyo Tokyo”, “Bunkyō Tokyo”, “Bunkyo Ward”, “Bunkyō-bydistriktet”, “Bunkyo-ku”, “Bunkyō-ku”, “Бункьо-ку”, “بون کیو، توکیو”, “بونکئو”, “بونکئو، توکیو”, “بونکیو”, “بونکیو، توکیو”, “บุงเกียว”, “분쿄”, “東京市文京區”, and “東京都文京区”
- Neighbors: Chiyoda, Shinjuku, Taito, and Toshima
Places of Interest
Highlights: Tokyo Dome and Suidōbashi Station.
Kodokan Judo Institute
Sports venue
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Chiyoda and Ueno.
Chiyoda
Photo: Fg2, Public domain.
Bunkyo
- Categories: special ward of Japan and locality
- Location: Tokyo, Tokyo, Kanto, Japan, East Asia, Asia
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
35.70803° or 35° 42′ 29″ north
Longitude
139.75231° or 139° 45′ 8″ east
Population
228,000
Elevation
99 metres (325 feet)
Established
March 15th, 1947
Open location code
8Q7XPQ52+6W
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=city
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In Other Languages
From Achinese to Yue Chinese—“Bunkyo” goes by many names.
- Achinese: “Bunkyō, Tokyo”
- Achinese: “Bunkyou”
- Arabic: “بونكيو، طوكيو”
- Arabic: “بونكيو”
- Armenian: “Բունքյո”
- Asturian: “Bunkyō”
- Azerbaijani: “Bunkyo”
- Balinese: “Bunkyō, Tokyo”
- Basque: “Bunkyō”
- Belarusian: “Бункё”
- Bengali: “বুনকিয়ো-কু”
- Catalan: “Bunkyō”
- Cebuano: “Bunkyō-ku”
- Chechen: “Бункё”
- Chinese: “文京”
- Chinese: “文京区”
- Chinese: “文京區”
- Czech: “Bunkjó”
- Danish: “Bunkyō”
- Danish: “Bunkyou”
- Dutch: “Bunkyo”
- Esperanto: “kvartalo Bunkjo”
- Esperanto: “Kvartalo Bunkjo”
- Estonian: “Bunkyō”
- Finnish: “Bunkyō”
- French: “arrondissement de Bunkyō”
- French: “Bunkyō”
- Galician: “Bunkyō”
- Gan Chinese: “文京区”
- Gan Chinese: “文京區”
- Georgian: “ბუნკიო”
- German: “Bunkyō”
- Greek: “Μπουνκγιό”
- Gujarati: “બંક્યો-કુ”
- Haitian: “Bunkyo”
- Hausa: “Bunkyo”
- Hebrew: “בונקיו”
- Hindi: “बुन्क्यो-कू”
- Hungarian: “Bunkjó”
- Indonesian: “Bunkyō, Tokyo”
- Indonesian: “Bunkyō”
- Irish: “Bunkyō-ku”
- Italian: “Bunkyo”
- Italian: “Bunkyō”
- Japanese: “Bunkyō-ku”
- Japanese: “ぶんきょうく”
- Japanese: “文京”
- Japanese: “文京区”
- Javanese: “Bunkyō, Tokyo”
- Javanese: “Bunkyō”
- Kannada: “ಬಂಕಿಯೋ-ಕು”
- Korean: “분쿄구”
- Latvian: “Bunkija”
- Lithuanian: “Bunkijas”
- Macedo-Romanian: “Bunkyo”
- Malay: “Bunkyō, Tokyo”
- Malay: “Bunkyō”
- Marathi: “बंक्यो-कु”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Bunkyô-khu”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Bunkyo”
- Norwegian: “Bunkyo”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Bunkyo”
- Ossetian: “Бункё”
- Persian: “بونکیو-کو”
- Persian: “بونکیو”
- Polish: “Bunkyō”
- Portuguese: “Bunkyo”
- Portuguese: “Bunkyō”
- Romanian: “Bunkyō”
- Russian: “Бункё”
- Scots: “Bunkyō”
- Sinhala: “බුන්ක්යෝ -කු”
- Slovenian: “Bunkjo”
- Spanish: “Bunkyō”
- Sundanese: “Bunkyo, Tokyo”
- Swedish: “Bunkyo”
- Swedish: “Bunkyō”
- Tagalog: “Bunkyō”
- Tamil: “பங்கயா-கு”
- Tatar: “Бункё”
- Telugu: “బుంక్యో-కు”
- Thai: “เขตบุงเกียว”
- Tumbuka: “Bunkyō”
- Turkish: “Bunkyō”
- Ukrainian: “Бункьо”
- Ukrainian: “Район Бункьо”
- Urdu: “بونکیو، ٹوکیو”
- Vietnamese: “Bunkyō”
- Waray (Philippines): “Bunkyō”
- Welsh: “Bunkyō-ku”
- Yue Chinese: “文京區”
- “文京区”
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