Bunkyo
Bunkyō is in Tokyo, 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. Location of Bunkyo in Tokyo…Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Notable Places in the Area
Koishikawa Botanical Gardens
Garden
Photo: Daderot, Public domain.
The Koishikawa Botanical Garden is a botanical garden with an arboretum operated by the University of Tokyo Graduate School of Science.
Printing Museum
Museum
Photo: Dddeco, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Printing Museum is a museum in Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, Japan.
Localities in the Area
Yanaka
Quarter
Photo: Jmabel, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Yanaka is a sector of Taito, Tokyo, Japan and, along with nearby Nezu and Sendagi neighborhoods in Bunkyo ward, is one of the few Tokyo neighborhoods in which the old Shitamachi atmosphere can still be felt.
Koishikawa
Neighbourhood
Photo: Rorowan, Public domain.
Koishikawa is a district of Bunkyo, Tokyo. It consists of five sub-areas, 1-5 chome.
Iidabashi 4-chome
Neighbourhood
Photo: Lombroso, Public domain.
Iidabashi is a district of Chiyoda, Tokyo, Japan. It was in the former ward of Kōjimachi, which existed in Tokyo until 1947.
Bunkyo
- Categories: special ward of Japan and locality
- Location: Tokyo, Tokyo, Kanto, Japan, East Asia, Asia
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
35.71881° or 35° 43' 8" northLongitude
139.74473° or 139° 44' 41" eastPopulation
228,000Elevation
21 metres (69 feet)Open Location Code
8Q7XPP9V+GVOpenStreetMap ID
node 664479961OpenStreetMap Feature
place=cityGeoNames ID
7475133Wikidata ID
Q212713Bunkyo Satellite Map
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Also Known As
- Achinese: Bunkyou
- Achinese: Bunkyō, Tokyo
- Arabic: Bunkyō
- Arabic: بونكيو
- Arabic: بونكيو، طوكيو
- Armenian: Բունքյո
- Asturian: Bunkyō-ku
- Asturian: Bunkyō
- Azerbaijani: Bunkyo
- Basque: Bunkyō
- Belarusian: Бункё
- Bengali: বুনকিয়ো-কু
- Catalan: Bunkyō
- Cebuano: Bunkyō-ku
- Chechen: Бункё
- Chinese: Bunkyô-khu
- Chinese: 文京
- Chinese: 文京区
- Chinese: 文京區
- Chinese: 東京市文京區
- Czech: Bunkjó
- Danish: Bunkyou
- Danish: Bunkyō-bydistriktet
- Danish: Bunkyō-ku
- Danish: Bunkyō
- Dutch: Bunkyo
- Dutch: Bunkyō
- English: Bunkyo-ku
- English: Bunkyo City
- English: Bunkyo Ward
- English: Bunkyō
- Esperanto: Bunkjo-kvartalo
- Esperanto: Bunkjo
- Esperanto: Bunkyo
- Esperanto: Kvartalo Bunkjo
- Estonian: Bunkyo
- Estonian: Bunkyō
- Estonian: Bunkyō ringkond
- Finnish: Bunkyo
- Finnish: Bunkyō
- French: Bunkyo
- French: Bunkyô
- French: Bunkyō
- Galician: Bunkyō
- Gan Chinese: 文京区
- Gan Chinese: 文京區
- Georgian: ბუნკიო
- German: Bunkyo
- German: Bunkyō
- Greek: Μπουνκγιό
- Gujarati: બંક્યો-કુ
- Haitian: Bunkyo
- Hebrew: בונקיו
- Hindi: बुन्क्यो-कू
- Hungarian: Bunkjó-ku
- Hungarian: Bunkjó
- Indonesian: Bunkyo-ku
- Indonesian: Bunkyo
- Indonesian: Bunkyō
- Irish: Bunkyō-ku
- Italian: Bunkyo
- Italian: Bunkyō-ku
- Italian: Bunkyō
- Japanese: Bunkyō-ku
- Japanese: ぶんきょうく
- Japanese: ブンキョウク
- Japanese: 文の京
- Japanese: 文京区
- Japanese: 東京都文京区
- Javanese: Bunkyō, Tokyo
- Kannada: ಬಂಕಿಯೋ-ಕು
- Korean: 분쿄
- Korean: 분쿄구
- Latvian: Bunkija
- Lithuanian: Bunkijas
- Macedo-Romanian: Bunkyo
- Malay: Bunkyō, Tokyo
- Malay: Bunkyō
- Marathi: बंक्यो-कु
- Min Nan Chinese: Bunkyô-khu
- Norwegian: Bunkyo
- Norwegian Bokmål: Bunkyo
- Occitan (post 1500): Bunkyo
- Persian: بونکئو
- Persian: بونکئو، توکیو
- Persian: بونکیو-کو، توکیو
- Persian: بونکیو
- Persian: بون کیو، توکیو
- Persian: بونکیو، توکیو
- Persian: بونکیو، توکیو
- Polish: Bunkyo-ku
- Polish: Bunkyo
- Polish: Bunkyō-ku
- Polish: Bunkyō
- Portuguese: Bunkyo
- Portuguese: Bunkyō
- Romanian: Bunkyō
- Russian: Бункё
- Scots: Bunkyo
- Scots: Bunkyō
- Sinhala: බුන්ක්යෝ -කු
- Slovenian: Bunkyō
- Spanish: Bunkyo
- Spanish: Bunkyo Tokio
- Spanish: Bunkyo Tokyo
- Spanish: Bunkyō
- Spanish: Bunkyō Tokyo
- Swedish: Bunkyo
- Swedish: Bunkyō
- Tagalog: Bunkyō
- Tamil: பங்கயா-கு
- Tatar: Бункё
- Telugu: బుంక్యో-కు
- Thai: Bunkyō
- Thai: บุงเกียว
- Thai: บุงเคียว
- Thai: เขตบุงเกียว
- Tumbuka: Bunkyō
- Turkish: Bunkyō
- Ukrainian: Бункьо-ку
- Ukrainian: Бункьо
- Ukrainian: Район Бункьо
- Urdu: بونکیو، ٹوکیو
- Vietnamese: Bunkyō
- Waray (Philippines): Bunkyō
- Welsh: Bunkyō-ku
- Yue Chinese: 文京
- Yue Chinese: 文京區
- Bunkyō Ku
Other Places Named Bunkyo
In the Area
Bunkyo is situated close to the neighbourhoods Hakusan 3-chome and Hakusan 4-chome.
- Hakusan 2-chomeNeighbourhood
- Koishikawa 4-chomeNeighbourhood
- Sengoku 2-chomeNeighbourhood
- Kohinata 4-chomeNeighbourhood
- Koishikawa 3-chomeNeighbourhood
- Hakusan 5-chomeNeighbourhood
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About Mapcarta. Thanks to Mapbox for providing amazing maps. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License. Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, excluding photos, directions and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page Bunkyo. Photo: Lukas, CC BY 2.0.