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, hatamoto and gokenin) and temples and shrines.
In the commercial area centered on Nihonbashi, there was a town area 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), the town was born with a new town name independent of the former samurai area, and the merger and renaming of the old town progressed.

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

After that, there were the reorganization of parcels and town names associated with the Great Kanto Earthquake and reconstruction projects, and the change of town names in Chuo-ku, which was born in 1947 (1947) after the end of the war.
By the town name arrangement in the ward, which was implemented sequentially based on the House Labeling Act of 1962 (1962), the town split and the town name, block code, house number, etc. have been expressed 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.