Chiyoda , known as Chiyoda City in English, is a special ward of Tokyo, Japan. Located in the heart of Tokyo's 23 special wards, Chiyoda consists of the Imperial Palace and a surrounding radius of about a kilometer, and is known as the political and financial center of Japan. As of October 2020, the ward has a population of 66,680, and a population density of 5,709 people per km2, making it by far the least populated of the special wards. The total area is 11.66 km2, of which the Imperial Palace, Hibiya Park, National Museum of Modern Art, and Yasukuni Shrine take up approximately 2.6 km2, or 22% of the total area.
Image: Seimon Ishibashi
Image: Diet of Japan Kokkai 2009
Image: Yasukuni Shrine 201005
Image: Tokyo STA Marunouchi Entrance 2023
Special wards are a special form of municipalities in Japan under the 1947 Local Autonomy Law. They are city-level wards: primary subdivisions of a prefecture with municipal autonomy largely comparable to other forms of municipalities.
Shinjuku, one of Tokyo's special wards
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