Area introduction area guide

In the Edo period, the central area, which was reclaimed as a castle town in Edo, was largely occupied by Samurai residence (the residence of Daimyo, Hagimoto, and family members) and temples and shrines.
In the commercial area centered on Nihonbashi, there were many towns where many townspeople lived.
After the Meiji Restoration, the city of Tokyo, which was under the control of the former town magistrate, was divided into 50 wards, and land readjustment was carried out.
Around 1872 (1872), a town was born with an independent new town name on the former samurai area, and the merger and renaming of the old town progressed.

In 1878 (1878), the 15 wards of Tokyo were established by the enactment of the county ward, municipal organization law, and Nihonbashi ward and Kyobashi ward, the predecessors of Chuo-ku, were established.
At that time, there were more than 290 towns in each ward, including about 140 towns in Nihonbashi and about 150 towns in Kyobashi.

After that, there were divisions and street names associated with the Great Kanto Earthquake and reconstruction projects, and street names changed in Chuo-ku, which was born in 1947 (1947) after the end of the war.
By rearranging the street names in the ward, which were implemented sequentially based on the Housing Indication Law of 1962 (1962), the town layout and street names, block codes, house numbers, etc. have come to be displayed again.
As of 2021, Chuo-ku consists of a total of 37 towns, 22 towns in the Nihonbashi area, 10 towns in the Kyobashi area, and 5 towns in the Tsukishima area.