Taito

Taitō is a northeastern ward of . Talk to a Tokyoite about "downtown", and he will think of the Taito 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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  • Type: City with 204,000 residents
  • Description: special ward in the Tokyo Metropolis in Japan
  • Also known as: “Tâi-tang-khu”, “Taitō”, “Taito City”, “Taitō City”, “Taito seniūnija”, “Taito Tokio”, “Taito Tokyo”, “Taitō Tokyo”, “Taito Ward”, “Taito-ku”, “Taitō-ku”, “Тайто-ку”, “ತೈಟೊ, ಟೋಕ್ಯೊ”, “ไทโต”, “다이또 구”, “타이토 구”, and “東京都台東区”
  • Neighbors: , , , and

Places of Interest

Highlights: 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 Taitō ward of , Japan. It 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 Taitō, 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 Akihabara and Ueno.

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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.

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If you want to get a feel for old , in the Taito 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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is a part of Tokyo's downtown Taito district, best known for its many temples, particularly Sensō-ji, Tokyo's largest Buddhist temple.

Taito

Latitude
35.71258° or 35° 42′ 45″ north
Longitude
139.78007° or 139° 46′ 48″ east
Population
204,000
Elevation
21 metres (69 feet)
Open location code
8Q7XPQ7J+22
Open­Street­Map ID
node 1042491447
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
11790369
Wiki­data ID
Q232641
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In Other Languages

From Achinese to Yue Chinese—“Taito” goes by many names.
  • Achinese: “Taito, Tokyo”
  • Achinese: “Taitou”
  • Arabic: “تايتو، طوكيو”
  • Arabic: “تايتو”
  • Armenian: “Թայթո”
  • Azerbaijani: “Tayto”
  • Balinese: “Taitō, Tokyo”
  • Basque: “Taitō”
  • Belarusian: “Тайта”
  • Bengali: “তাইতো-কু”
  • Catalan: “Taitō”
  • Cebuano: “Taitō-ku”
  • Chechen: “Тайто (махсус район)”
  • Chechen: “Тайто”
  • Chinese: “台东区”
  • Chinese: “台東”
  • Chinese: “台東區”
  • Chinese: “臺東區”
  • Czech: “Taitó”
  • Danish: “Taitou”
  • Dutch: “Taito”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “تايتو, طوكيو”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “تايتو”
  • Esperanto: “kvartalo Taito”
  • Esperanto: “Kvartalo Taitō”
  • Estonian: “Taitō”
  • Finnish: “Taitō”
  • French: “arrondissement de Taitō”
  • French: “Taitō”
  • Galician: “Taitō”
  • Gan Chinese: “台东区”
  • Gan Chinese: “台東區”
  • Georgian: “ტაიტო”
  • German: “Taitō”
  • Greek: “Ταϊτό”
  • Gujarati: “ટેટો-કુ”
  • Haitian: “Taito”
  • Hebrew: “טאייטו”
  • Hindi: “टैटो -कू”
  • Hungarian: “Taitó”
  • Indonesian: “Taitō, Tokyo”
  • Indonesian: “Taito”
  • Indonesian: “Taitō”
  • Irish: “Taitō-ku”
  • Italian: “Taito”
  • Italian: “Taitō”
  • Japanese: “Taitō-ku”
  • Japanese: “たいとうく”
  • Japanese: “台東”
  • Japanese: “台東区”
  • Kannada: “ತೈಟೊ-ಕು”
  • Korean: “다이토구”
  • Latvian: “Taito īpašais rajons”
  • Lithuanian: “Taitas”
  • Macedo-Romanian: “Taito”
  • Malay: “Taitō, Tokyo”
  • Malay: “Taitō”
  • Marathi: “तातो-कु”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Taitô-khu”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Taito”
  • Norwegian: “Taito”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Taito”
  • Persian: “تایتو-کو”
  • Persian: “تایتو”
  • Polish: “Taitō”
  • Portuguese: “Taito”
  • Portuguese: “Taitō”
  • Romanian: “Taitō”
  • Russian: “Таито”
  • Russian: “Тайто”
  • Sinhala: “ටයිටෝ -කු”
  • Slovenian: “Taito”
  • Spanish: “Taito”
  • Spanish: “Taitō”
  • Sundanese: “Taito, Tokyo”
  • Swedish: “Taito”
  • Swedish: “Taitō”
  • Tagalog: “Taitō”
  • Tamil: “டைடோ-கு”
  • Tatar: “Тайто (махсус район)”
  • Tatar: “Тайто”
  • Telugu: “టైటో-కు”
  • Thai: “เขตไทโต”
  • Tumbuka: “Taitō”
  • Turkish: “Taitō-ku”
  • Turkish: “Taitō”
  • Ukrainian: “Район Тайто”
  • Urdu: “تائتو، ٹوکیو”
  • Vietnamese: “Taitō, Tokyo”
  • Vietnamese: “Taitō”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Taitō”
  • Yue Chinese: “台東區”
  • “台東区”

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