Jinbōchō
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, commonly known as Jinbōchō or Jimbōchō, is a district of Chiyoda, Tokyo, Japan. Jimbōchō Book Town is known as Tokyo's center of used-book stores and publishing houses, and as a popular antique and curio shopping area.
Key facts
- Settlement.name
- Kanda-Jinbōchō
- Settlement.settlement_type
- District in Tokyo
- Settlement.image_skyline
- File:Kanda-Jimbocho 2021.jpg
- Settlement.imagesize
- 300px
- Settlement.image_alt
- Kanda-Jimbocho 2021.jpg
- Settlement.image_caption
- Kanda-Jinbōchō in 2021
- Settlement.subdivision_type
- Country
- Settlement.subdivision_type1
- Prefecture
- Settlement.subdivision_type2
- Ward
- Settlement.subdivision_name2
- Chiyoda
- Settlement.subdivision_type3
- Area
- Settlement.subdivision_name3
- Kanda
- Settlement.population_total
- 3,205
- Settlement.population_as_of
- 2017
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Wikidata facts
- Country
- Japan
- Located in
- Chiyoda
- Body of water
- Nihonbashi River
- Image
- Used book shop by K.Suzuki in Jinbo-cho, Tokyo.jpg
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- contains settlement
- Jimbōchō Book Town
- postal code
- 101-0051
- historical region
- Kanda
- Commons category
- Kanda-Jinbocho
- transliteration or transcription
- Jinbo-cho
- native label
- 神田神保町
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Encyclopedic overview
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- History
- Companies
- In popular culture
- Education
- See also
- References
- External links
, commonly known as Jinbōchō or Jimbōchō, is a district of Chiyoda, Tokyo, Japan. Jimbōchō Book Town is known as Tokyo's center of used-book stores and publishing houses, and as a popular antique and curio shopping area.
The center of Jinbōchō is at the crossing of Yasukuni-dōri and Hakusan-dōri, above Jimbōchō Station on the Tokyo Metro Hanzōmon Line, Toei Mita Line and Toei Shinjuku Line. The prestigious Tokyo Book Binding Club and Literature Preservation Society are located in Jinbōchō, and the area is within walking distance of a number of major universities, including Nihon, Senshu, Meiji, Hosei and Juntendo.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Jinbōchō” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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