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Chiyoda

Chiyoda, known as Chiyoda City in English, is a special ward of , Japan. Located in the heart of Tokyo's 23 special wards, Chiyoda consists of and a surrounding radius of about a kilometer, and is known as the political and financial center of Japan.
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  • Type: City with 46,400 residents
  • Description: special ward in the Tokyo Metropolis in Japan
  • Also known as: “Chiyoda-ku”, “Chiyoda, Tokyo”, “Kanda-ku”, and “Kōjimachi-ku”
  • Neighbors: , , , , and

Places of Interest

Highlights include Edo Castle and Yasukuni Shrine.

Castle
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
is a flatland castle that was built in 1457 by Ōta Dōkan in Edo, Toshima District, Musashi Province. In modern times it is part of the in Chiyoda, Tokyo, and is therefore also known as Chiyoda Castle.

Photo: Kakidai, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is a Shinto shrine located in Chiyoda, Tokyo. It was founded by Emperor Meiji in June 1869 and commemorates those who died in service of Japan, from the Boshin War of 1868–1869, to the two Sino-Japanese Wars, 1894–1895 and 1937–1945 respectively, and the First Indochina War of 1946–1954.

Sports venue
Photo: Morio, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The , often shortened to simply Budokan, is an indoor arena in Chiyoda, Tokyo, Japan. It was originally built for the inaugural Olympic judo competition in the 1964 Summer Olympics.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Tokyo and Bunkyo.

Photo: Morio, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is the enormous and wealthy capital of , and its main city, overflowing with culture, commerce, and most of all, people. As the most populated urban area in the world, is a fascinating and dynamic metropolis that mixes foreign influences, consumer culture and global business along with remnants of the capital of old Japan.

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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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, or Akiba in slang, is 's "Electric Town" on the eastern side of the central Chiyoda 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.

Chiyoda

Latitude
35.69381° or 35° 41′ 38″ north
Longitude
139.75322° or 139° 45′ 12″ east
Population
46,400
Elevation
19 metres (62 feet)
United Nations Location Code
JP CAU
Open location code
8Q7XMQV3+G7
Open­Street­Map ID
node 1042516435
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
1864529
Wiki­data ID
Q214051
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Achinese to Yue Chinese—“Chiyoda” goes by many names.
  • Achinese: “Chiyoda, Tokyo”
  • Achinese: “Chiyoda”
  • Arabic: “تشيودا”
  • Armenian: “Թիյոդա”
  • Armenian: “Տիյոդա”
  • Asturian: “Chiyoda-ku”
  • Asturian: “Chiyoda”
  • Azerbaijani: “Çiyoda”
  • Balinese: “Chiyoda, Tokyo”
  • Basque: “Chiyoda”
  • Belarusian: “Ціёда”
  • Bengali: “চিয়োদা-কু”
  • Bulgarian: “Чийода”
  • Catalan: “Chiyoda”
  • Cebuano: “Chiyoda-ku”
  • Chechen: “Тиёда (махсус район)”
  • Chechen: “Тиёда”
  • Chinese: “Tiyoda-khu”
  • Chinese: “千代田”
  • Chinese: “千代田区”
  • Chinese: “千代田區”
  • Czech: “Čijoda”
  • Danish: “Chiyoda”
  • Dutch: “Chiyoda-ku”
  • Dutch: “Chiyoda”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “تشيودا, طوكيو”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “تشيودا”
  • Esperanto: “Ĉijoda kvartalo”
  • Esperanto: “kvartalo Ĉijoda”
  • Esperanto: “Kvartalo Ĉijoda”
  • Estonian: “Chiyoda”
  • Finnish: “Chiyoda”
  • French: “arrondissement de Chiyoda”
  • French: “Chiyoda-ku”
  • French: “Chiyoda”
  • Galician: “Chiyoda, Tokyo”
  • Galician: “Chiyoda”
  • Gan Chinese: “千代田区”
  • Gan Chinese: “千代田區”
  • Georgian: “ჩიოდა”
  • German: “Chiyoda-ku”
  • German: “Chiyoda”
  • Greek: “Τσιγιόντα”
  • Gujarati: “ચિયોડા-કુ”
  • Haitian: “Chiyoda”
  • Hebrew: “צ’יודה”
  • Hindi: “चियोदा -कू”
  • Hungarian: “Csijoda-ku”
  • Hungarian: “Csijoda”
  • Indonesian: “Chiyoda, Tokyo”
  • Indonesian: “Chiyoda”
  • Irish: “Chiyoda-ku”
  • Italian: “Chiyoda”
  • Japanese: “Chiyoda-ku”
  • Japanese: “ちよだく”
  • Japanese: “千代田区”
  • Japanese: “千代田區”
  • Japanese: “東京都千代田区”
  • Javanese: “Chiyoda, Tokyo”
  • Javanese: “Chiyoda”
  • Kannada: “ಚಿಯೊಡಾ-ಕು”
  • Korean: “지요다구”
  • Korean: “천대전구”
  • Korean: “치요다 구”
  • Korean: “치요다구”
  • Latvian: “Čijoda īpašais rajons”
  • Literary Chinese: “千代田區”
  • Lithuanian: “Čijoda”
  • Lithuanian: “Čijodos seniūnija”
  • Macedo-Romanian: “Chiyoda”
  • Malay: “Chiyoda, Tokyo”
  • Malay: “Chiyoda”
  • Marathi: “छियोदा-कु”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Tiyoda-khu”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Chiyoda”
  • Norwegian: “Chiyoda”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Chiyoda”
  • Persian: “چیودا-کو، توکیو”
  • Persian: “چیودا”
  • Polish: “Chiyoda-ku”
  • Polish: “Chiyoda”
  • Portuguese: “Chiyoda”
  • Romanian: “Chiyoda”
  • Russian: “Тиёда”
  • Scots: “Chiyoda-ku”
  • Sinhala: “චියෝදා -කු”
  • Slovak: “Čijoda”
  • Slovenian: “Chiyoda-ku”
  • Slovenian: “Chiyoda”
  • Slovenian: “Čijoda”
  • Spanish: “Chiyoda Tokio”
  • Spanish: “Chiyoda Tokyo”
  • Spanish: “Chiyoda”
  • Sundanese: “Chiyoda, Tokyo”
  • Swedish: “Chiyoda”
  • Tagalog: “Chiyoda”
  • Tamil: “சியோடா-கு”
  • Tatar: “Тиёда (махсус район)”
  • Tatar: “Тиёда”
  • Telugu: “చియొడ- కు”
  • Thai: “เขตชิโยดะ”
  • Thai: “ชิโยดะ”
  • Turkish: “Chiyoda-ku”
  • Turkish: “Chiyoda”
  • Ukrainian: “Район Чійода”
  • Ukrainian: “Тійода-ку”
  • Ukrainian: “Тійода”
  • Ukrainian: “Чійода”
  • Urdu: “چییودا، ٹوکیو”
  • Vietnamese: “Chiyoda, Tokyo”
  • Vietnamese: “Chiyoda”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Chiyoda, Tokyo”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Chiyoda”
  • Welsh: “Chiyoda-ku”
  • Wu Chinese: “千代田区”
  • Yue Chinese: “千代田區”

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