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Toshima

Toshima is a ward in northwest , . This guide incorporates Ikebukuro, a section of Toshima and one of the three major metropolitan sub-centers on the Yamanote Line, along with Shinjuku and Shibuya.
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  • Type: City with 299,000 residents
  • Description: special ward in the Tokyo Metropolis in Japan
  • Also known as: “Toshima-ku”
  • Neighbors: , , and
Photo: Asanagi, CC0.

Places of Interest

Highlights include Ikebukuro Station and Mejiro.

Railway station
Photo: Kakidai, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a major railway station located in the district of Toshima, Tokyo, , shared by the East Japan Railway Company, Tokyo subway operator Tokyo Metro, and the two private railway operators Seibu Railway and Tobu Railway.

Railway station
Photo: Nyao148, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Station is a railway station on the Yamanote Line in Toshima, Tokyo, Japan, operated by the East Japan Railway Company.

Shopping center
Photo: Kakidai, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a building complex located in East , Toshima, , Japan. It consists of four buildings: the 240-meter Sunshine 60 skyscraper, which includes corporate offices and restaurants; the Prince Hotel; the World Import Mart; and the Bunka Kaikan building.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Mejirodai and Takada.

Quarter
is one of the districts that comprise Bunkyo in , . Divided into three sections, It currently has a population of 6,595 as of October 1, 2007.

Quarter
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is a quarter.

Neighborhood
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or Takatanobaba is a neighborhood in , , Japan.

Toshima

Latitude
35.72591° or 35° 43′ 33″ north
Longitude
139.71664° or 139° 42′ 60″ east
Population
299,000
Elevation
45 metres (148 feet)
Open location code
8Q7XPPG8+9M
Open­Street­Map ID
node 656246516
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
7475135
Wiki­data ID
Q236680
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In Other Languages

From Achinese to Yue Chinese—“Toshima” goes by many names.
  • Achinese: “Toshima, Tokyo”
  • Achinese: “Toshima”
  • Arabic: “توشيما، طوكيو”
  • Arabic: “توشيما”
  • Armenian: “Թոսիմա”
  • Azerbaijani: “Toşima”
  • Basque: “Toshima”
  • Belarusian: “Тасіма”
  • Bengali: “তোশিমা-কু”
  • Catalan: “Toshima”
  • Cebuano: “Toshima-ku”
  • Chechen: “Тосима (махсус район)”
  • Chechen: “Тосима”
  • Chinese: “Tosima-khu”
  • Chinese: “丰岛区”
  • Chinese: “豐島”
  • Chinese: “豐島區”
  • Czech: “Tošima”
  • Danish: “Toshima”
  • Dutch: “Toshima”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “توشيما”
  • Esperanto: “kvartalo Toŝima”
  • Esperanto: “Kvartalo Toŝima”
  • Esperanto: “Toŝima-ku”
  • Estonian: “Toshima”
  • Finnish: “Toshima”
  • French: “arrondissement de Toshima”
  • French: “Toshima-ku”
  • French: “Toshima”
  • Galician: “Toshima, Tokyo”
  • Galician: “Toshima”
  • Gan Chinese: “丰岛区”
  • Gan Chinese: “豐島區”
  • Georgian: “ტოშიმა”
  • German: “Toshima”
  • Greek: “Τοσίμα”
  • Gujarati: “તોશીમા-કુ”
  • Haitian: “Toshima”
  • Hebrew: “טושימה”
  • Hindi: “तोषिमा -कू”
  • Hungarian: “Tosima”
  • Indonesian: “Toshima, Tokyo”
  • Indonesian: “Toshima”
  • Irish: “Toshima-ku”
  • Italian: “Toshima”
  • Japanese: “Toshima-ku”
  • Japanese: “としまく”
  • Japanese: “東京都豊島区”
  • Japanese: “豊島区”
  • Kannada: “ತೋಶಿಮಾ-ಕು”
  • Korean: “도시마구”
  • Korean: “토시마 구”
  • Latvian: “Tošimas īpašais rajons”
  • Lithuanian: “Tošima”
  • Lithuanian: “Tošimos seniūnija”
  • Malay: “Toshima, Tokyo”
  • Malay: “Toshima”
  • Marathi: “तोशिमा-कु”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Tosima-khu”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Toshima”
  • Norwegian: “Toshima”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Toshima”
  • Persian: “توشیما-کو، توکیو”
  • Persian: “توشیما”
  • Polish: “Toshima-ku”
  • Polish: “Toshima”
  • Portuguese: “Toshima”
  • Romanian: “Toshima”
  • Russian: “Тосима”
  • Sinhala: “ටෝශිමා-කු”
  • Slovenian: “Toshima”
  • Slovenian: “Tošima”
  • Spanish: “Toshima Tokio”
  • Spanish: “Toshima Tokyo”
  • Spanish: “Toshima”
  • Sundanese: “Toshima, Tokyo”
  • Swedish: “Toshima, Tokyo”
  • Swedish: “Toshima”
  • Tagalog: “Toshima”
  • Tamil: “டோஷிமா -கு”
  • Tatar: “Тосима (махсус район)”
  • Tatar: “Тосима”
  • Telugu: “తోషిమా-కు”
  • Thai: “เขตโทชิมะ”
  • Thai: “โทชิมะ”
  • Tumbuka: “Toshima”
  • Turkish: “Toshima-ku”
  • Turkish: “Toshima”
  • Ukrainian: “Район Тосіма”
  • Ukrainian: “Район Тошіма”
  • Ukrainian: “Тосіма-ку”
  • Ukrainian: “Тосіма”
  • Urdu: “توشیما، ٹوکیو”
  • Vietnamese: “Toshima, Tokyo”
  • Vietnamese: “Toshima”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Toshima”
  • Yue Chinese: “豐島區”

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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 “Toshima”. Photo: Dick Thomas Johnson, CC BY 2.0.