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Bunkyo

Bunkyō is in , 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.
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  • Type: City with 228,000 residents
  • Description: special ward in the Tokyo Metropolis in Japan
  • Also known as: “Bunkyō”, “Bunkyo City”, “Bunkyō City”, “Bunkyo Ward”, and “Bunkyo-ku”
  • Neighbors: , , , and

Places of Interest

Highlights include Tokyo Dome and Kodokan Judo Institute.

Stadium
Photo: Carpkazu, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is an indoor 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 ."…

Sports venue
Photo: Probell, CC BY-SA 2.5.
The , or Kōdōkan, is the headquarters of the worldwide judo community. The kōdōkan was founded in 1882 by Kanō Jigorō, the founder of judo, and is now an eight-story building in .

Railway station
Photo: MaedaAkihiko, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is a railway station which straddles 's and Bunkyō wards, operated jointly by East Japan Railway Company and Tokyo Metropolitan Bureau of Transportation.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Chiyoda and Ueno.

Photo: Fg2, Public domain.
, known as City in English, is a special ward of , Japan. Located in the heart of Tokyo's 23 special wards, consists of and a surrounding radius of about a kilometer, and is known as the political and financial center of Japan.

Photo: z tanuki, CC BY 3.0.
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.

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, or Akiba in slang, is 's "Electric Town" on the eastern side of the central ward. The area houses thousands of shops selling every technological gadget you can imagine, from computers to gaming consoles and vacuums to DVDs, at reasonable prices.

Bunkyo

Latitude
35.70803° or 35° 42′ 29″ north
Longitude
139.75231° or 139° 45′ 8″ east
Population
228,000
Elevation
99 metres (325 feet)
Open location code
8Q7XPQ52+6W
Open­Street­Map ID
node 664479961
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
11790632
Wiki­data ID
Q212713
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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-ku”
  • Asturian: “Bunkyō”
  • Azerbaijani: “Bunkyo”
  • Balinese: “Bunkyō, Tokyo”
  • Basque: “Bunkyō”
  • Belarusian: “Бункё”
  • Bengali: “বুনকিয়ো-কু”
  • Catalan: “Bunkyō”
  • Cebuano: “Bunkyō-ku”
  • Chechen: “Бункё”
  • Chinese: “Bunkyô-khu”
  • Chinese: “文京”
  • Chinese: “文京区”
  • Chinese: “文京區”
  • Chinese: “東京市文京區”
  • Czech: “Bunkjó”
  • Danish: “Bunkyō-bydistriktet”
  • Danish: “Bunkyō-ku”
  • Danish: “Bunkyō”
  • Danish: “Bunkyou”
  • Dutch: “Bunkyo”
  • Dutch: “Bunkyō”
  • Esperanto: “Bunkjo”
  • Esperanto: “Bunkyo”
  • Esperanto: “kvartalo Bunkjo”
  • Esperanto: “Kvartalo Bunkjo”
  • Estonian: “Bunkyō ringkond”
  • Estonian: “Bunkyo”
  • Estonian: “Bunkyō”
  • Finnish: “Bunkyo”
  • Finnish: “Bunkyō”
  • French: “arrondissement de Bunkyō”
  • French: “Bunkyo”
  • French: “Bunkyô”
  • French: “Bunkyō”
  • Galician: “Bunkyō”
  • Gan Chinese: “文京区”
  • Gan Chinese: “文京區”
  • Georgian: “ბუნკიო”
  • German: “Bunkyo”
  • German: “Bunkyō”
  • Greek: “Μπουνκγιό”
  • Gujarati: “બંક્યો-કુ”
  • Haitian: “Bunkyo”
  • Hausa: “Bunkyo”
  • Hebrew: “בונקיו”
  • Hindi: “बुन्क्यो-कू”
  • Hungarian: “Bunkjó-ku”
  • Hungarian: “Bunkjó”
  • Indonesian: “Bunkyo-ku”
  • Indonesian: “Bunkyō, Tokyo”
  • Indonesian: “Bunkyo”
  • Indonesian: “Bunkyō”
  • Irish: “Bunkyō-ku”
  • Italian: “Bunkyō-ku”
  • Italian: “Bunkyo”
  • Italian: “Bunkyō”
  • Japanese: “Bunkyō-ku”
  • Japanese: “ぶんきょうく”
  • Japanese: “文の京”
  • Japanese: “文京”
  • Japanese: “文京区”
  • Japanese: “東京都文京区”
  • Javanese: “Bunkyō, Tokyo”
  • Javanese: “Bunkyō”
  • Kannada: “ಬಂಕಿಯೋ-ಕು”
  • Korean: “분쿄”
  • 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: “بون کیو، توکیو”
  • Persian: “بونکئو، توکیو”
  • Persian: “بونکئو”
  • Persian: “بونکیو-کو، توکیو”
  • Persian: “بونکیو، توکیو”
  • Persian: “بون‌کیو”
  • Persian: “بونکیو”
  • Polish: “Bunkyo-ku”
  • Polish: “Bunkyō-ku”
  • Polish: “Bunkyo”
  • Polish: “Bunkyō”
  • Portuguese: “Bunkyo”
  • Portuguese: “Bunkyō”
  • Romanian: “Bunkyō”
  • Russian: “Бункё”
  • Scots: “Bunkyo”
  • Scots: “Bunkyō”
  • Sinhala: “බුන්ක්යෝ -කු”
  • Slovenian: “Bunkjo”
  • Slovenian: “Bunkyo-ku”
  • Slovenian: “Bunkyō”
  • Spanish: “Bunkyo Tokio”
  • Spanish: “Bunkyo Tokyo”
  • Spanish: “Bunkyō Tokyo”
  • Spanish: “Bunkyo”
  • Spanish: “Bunkyō”
  • Sundanese: “Bunkyo, Tokyo”
  • Swedish: “Bunkyo”
  • Swedish: “Bunkyō”
  • Tagalog: “Bunkyō”
  • Tamil: “பங்கயா-கு”
  • Tatar: “Бункё”
  • Telugu: “బుంక్యో-కు”
  • Thai: “เขตบุงเกียว”
  • Thai: “บุงเกียว”
  • Tumbuka: “Bunkyō”
  • Turkish: “Bunkyō”
  • Ukrainian: “Бункьо-ку”
  • Ukrainian: “Бункьо”
  • Ukrainian: “Район Бункьо”
  • Urdu: “بونکیو، ٹوکیو”
  • Vietnamese: “Bunkyō”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Bunkyō”
  • Welsh: “Bunkyō-ku”
  • Yue Chinese: “文京”
  • Yue Chinese: “文京區”

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