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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, but long past its prime now.
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Essential Destinations

Top destinations include Asakusa.

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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.

Places of Interest

Highlights include Tokyo National Museum and Tokyo Skytree.

Museum
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The or TNM is an art museum in Ueno Park in the Taitō ward of , . It is one of the four museums operated by the National Institutes for Cultural Heritage, is considered the oldest national museum and the largest art museum in Japan.

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, also written as Tokyo Sky Tree, is a broadcasting and observation , located in , , . It has been the tallest tower in Japan since opening in 2012, and reached its full height of 634 m in early 2011, making it the tallest tower in the world, displacing the , and the third tallest structure in the world behind and .

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.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Chiyoda and Bunkyo.

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, 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.

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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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is a ward to the east of central . It has a famous cherry blossom viewing area along the River near Asakusa Station in spring, and the River Fireworks Festival in summer.

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: “Taito”
  • Basque: “Taitō”
  • Belarusian: “Тайта”
  • Bengali: “তাইতো-কু”
  • Catalan: “Taitō”
  • Cebuano: “Taitō-ku”
  • Chechen: “Тайто (махсус район)”
  • Chechen: “Тайто”
  • Chinese: “Taitô-khu”
  • 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: “Taito”
  • Estonian: “Taitō”
  • Finnish: “Taitō”
  • French: “arrondissement de Taitō”
  • French: “Taito-ku”
  • French: “Taitō-ku”
  • French: “Taitō”
  • Galician: “Taitō”
  • Gan Chinese: “台东区”
  • Gan Chinese: “台東區”
  • Georgian: “ტაიტო”
  • German: “Taito-ku”
  • German: “Taitō-ku”
  • German: “Taito”
  • 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”
  • Japanese: “東京都台東区”
  • Kannada: “ತೈಟೊ-ಕು”
  • Kannada: “ತೈಟೊ, ಟೋಕ್ಯೊ”
  • Korean: “다이또 구”
  • Korean: “다이토구”
  • Korean: “타이토 구”
  • Latvian: “Taito īpašais rajons”
  • Lithuanian: “Taitas”
  • Lithuanian: “Taito seniūnija”
  • Macedo-Romanian: “Taito”
  • Malay: “Taitō, Tokyo”
  • Malay: “Taitō”
  • Marathi: “तातो-कु”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Tâi-tang-khu”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Taitô-khu”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Taito”
  • Norwegian: “Taito”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Taito”
  • Persian: “تایتو-کو، توکیو”
  • Persian: “تایتو”
  • Polish: “Taitō-ku”
  • Polish: “Taitō”
  • Portuguese: “Taito”
  • Portuguese: “Taitō”
  • Romanian: “Taitō”
  • Russian: “Тайто”
  • Sinhala: “ටයිටෝ -කු”
  • Slovenian: “Taito”
  • Slovenian: “Taitō”
  • Spanish: “Taito Tokio”
  • Spanish: “Taito Tokyo”
  • Spanish: “Taitō Tokyo”
  • 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”
  • Thai: “ไทโต”
  • Tumbuka: “Taitō”
  • Turkish: “Taitō-ku”
  • Turkish: “Taitō”
  • Ukrainian: “Район Тайто”
  • Ukrainian: “Тайто-ку”
  • Ukrainian: “Тайто”
  • Urdu: “تائتو، ٹوکیو”
  • Vietnamese: “Taitō, Tokyo”
  • Vietnamese: “Taitō”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Taitō”
  • Yue Chinese: “台東區”
  • “Taitō-ku”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Taito”. Photo: Yoshikazu TAKADA, CC BY 2.0.