is a special ward in the Tokyo Metropolis in Japan. It takes its name from the Edo River that runs from north to south along the eastern edge of the ward. In English, it uses the name Edogawa City.
The easternmost of the wards, it shares boundaries with the cities of Urayasu and Ichikawa in Chiba Prefecture (to the east) and with the wards of Katsushika (to the north), Sumida and KÃ
ÂtÃ
 (to the west). It meets the city of Matsudo in Chiba at a point.
Edogawa has a sister-city relationship with Gosford, New South Wales, Australia. Domestically, it has friendship ties with the cities of Azumino in Nagano Prefecture and Tsuruoka in Yamagata Prefecture.
As of January 1, 2020, the ward has an estimated population of 695,797, and a population density of 13,925 persons per km<sup>2</sup>. The total area is 49.90 km<sup>2</sup>.
History
The ward was founded in 1932 with the merger of seven towns and villages in Minami-Katsushika District: the towns of Koiwa and Komatsugawa, and the villages of Kasai, Matsue, Mizue, Shinozaki and Shikamoto.
Climate
Demographics
3,758 people of Indian ancestry, about 10% of the people of Indian origin in Japan and about 30% of the people of Indian origin in Tokyo Metropolis, reside in Edogawa Ward. The area has a high concentration of Indian origin families. The Indian community increased when engineers came to Japan to fix the Y2K bug. Indian people settled in Nishikasai due to the proximity to the Tokyo Metro Tozai Line, which connects to their places of employment.
Nishikasai includes the Edogawa Indian Association. The head of the organization as of 2023, Jagmohan S. Chandrani, has been called the "father of Little India."
Restaurants serving the cuisine of northern India opened in the northern part of the community, while the southern part had southern Indian restaurants. Global Indian International School Tokyo caters to the Indian expatriate community.
Districts and neighborhoods
Komatsugawa Area
Matsue Area
Mizue Area
Kasai Area
Shishibone Area
Shinozaki Area
Koiwa Area
Sites
Notable people
- Seiya Ando, basketball player
- Keita Ono, darts player
- Akiko Hinagata, actress
- Daisuke Matsuzaka, baseball player (played for Seibu Lions and Boston Red Sox)
- Hayato Aoki, baseball player
- FÃ
«ka Nagano, soccer player
- Ira Ishida, novelist
- Kazuhide Uekusa, former economics professor at Waseda University convicted of sex offences
- Kazuya Kamenashi, J-pop idol, singer, actor, television host (member of KAT-TUN)
- Kazuyoshi Nakamura, actor
- KeizÃ
 Kanie, actor
- Kenta Suga, actor
- Kreva, rapper
- Maki Goto, singer (Morning Musume)
- Masahiro Yanagida, professional volleyball player
- Norikazu Otsuka, announcer
- Romi Park, actress and voice actress
- Yogendra Puranik, India-born politician
- Takamasa Suga, actor
- Takeshi Morishima, professional wrestler
- Tochinishiki Kiyotaka, 44th yokozuna in sumo
- Tomochika Tsuboi, baseball player
- Misako Uno, a Tarento, artist, actress, essayist and talent agent best known as a lead vocalist and dancer of the Co-ed performing arts group AAA.
- Yasuo Namekawa, a KoreanâÂÂJapanese singer and television personality. He was the vocalist and oldest member of the South Korean hip-hop group M.I.B
- Yoshiko Tamura, wrestler
- YÃ
«suke Koide, vocalist and guitarist for Base Ball Bear
Education
Universities
Metropolitan high schools are operated by the Tokyo Metropolitan Government Board of Education.
Private High Schools:
International schools:
Public elementary and junior high schools are operated by the Edogawa Board of Education (æ±ÂæÂ¸å·ÂåºæÂÂè²å§Âå¡ä¼Â).
Junior high schools:
- Harue Junior High School (æÂ¥æ±Âä¸Âå¦校)
- Higashi Kasai Junior High School ()
- Kamiishiki Junior High School (ä¸Âä¸Âè²ä¸Âå¦校)
- Kasai Junior High School ()
- Kasai No. 2 Junior High School ()
- Kasai No. 3 Junior High School ()
- Koiwa No. 1 Junior High School ()
- Koiwa No. 2 Junior High School ()
- Koiwa No. 3 Junior High School ()
- Koiwa No. 4 Junior High School ()
- Koiwa No. 5 Junior High School ()
- Komagatsukawa No. 1 Junior High School ()
- Komagatsukawa No. 2 Junior High School (å°ÂæÂ¾å·Â第äºÂä¸Âå¦校)
- Komagatsukawa No. 3 Junior High School (å°ÂæÂ¾å·Â第ä¸Âä¸Âå¦校)
- Matsue No. 1 Junior High School (æÂ¾æ±Â第ä¸Âä¸Âå¦校)
- Matsue No. 2 Junior High School ()
- Matsue No. 3 Junior High School (æÂ¾æ±Â第ä¸Âä¸Âå¦校)
- Matsue No. 4 Junior High School (æÂ¾æ±Â第åÂÂä¸Âå¦校)
- Matsue No. 5 Junior High School (æÂ¾æ±Â第äºÂä¸Âå¦校)
- Matsue No. 6 Junior High School ()
- Minami Kasai Junior High School ()
- Minami Kasai No. 2 Junior High School ()
- Mizue Junior High School (çÂÂæ±Âä¸Âå¦校)
- Mizue No. 2 Junior High School (çÂÂæ±Â第äºÂä¸Âå¦校)
- Mizue No. 3 Junior High School (çÂÂæ±Â第ä¸Âä¸Âå¦校)
- Ninoe Junior High School (äºÂä¹Âæ±Âä¸Âå¦校)
- Nishi Kasai Junior High School ()
- Seishin No. 1 Junior High School ()
- Seishin No. 2 Junior High School ()
- Shikamoto Junior High School ()
- Shinozaki Junior High School ()
- Shinozaki No. 2 Junior High School (篠å´Â第äºÂä¸Âå¦校)
- Shishibone Junior High School ()
Elementary schools:
- No. 2 Kasai Elementary School (第äºÂèÂÂ西å°Âå¦校)
- No. 3 Kasai Elementary School (第ä¸ÂèÂÂ西å°Âå¦校)
- No. 4 Kasai Elementary School (第åÂÂèÂÂ西å°Âå¦校)
- No. 5 Kasai Elementary School (第äºÂèÂÂ西å°Âå¦校)
- No. 6 Kasai Elementary School (第åÂ
ÂèÂÂ西å°Âå¦校)
- No. 7 Kasai Elementary School (第ä¸ÂèÂÂ西å°Âå¦校)
- No. 2 Matsue Elementary School ()
- No. 3 Matsue Elementary School (第ä¸ÂæÂ¾æ±Âå°Âå¦校)
- Edogawa Elementary School (æ±ÂæÂ¸å·Âå°Âå¦校)
- Funabori Elementary School ()
- Funabori No. 2 Elementary School ()
- Harue Elementary School ()
- Higashi Kasai Elementary School ()
- Higashi Koiwa Elementary School (æÂ±å°Â岩å°Âå¦校)
- Higashi-Komatsugawa Elementary School (æÂ±å°ÂæÂ¾å·Âå°Âå¦校)
- Hirai Elementary School ()
- Hirai Higashi Elementary School (å¹³äºÂæÂ±å°Âå¦校)
- Hirai Minami Elementary School (å¹³äºÂÃ¥ÂÂå°Âå¦校)
- Hirai Nishi Elementary School (å¹³äºÂ西å°Âå¦校)
- Hon-Isshiki Elementary School (æÂ¬ä¸Âè²å°Âå¦校)
- Ichinoe Elementary School (ä¸Âä¹Âæ±Âå°Âå¦校)
- Ichinoe No. 2 Elementary School (ä¸Âä¹Âæ±Â第äºÂå°Âå¦校)
- Kamata Elementary School ()
- Kami-Isshiki Minami Elementary School (ä¸Âä¸Âè²åÂÂå°Âå¦校)
- Kamikoiwa Elementary School (ä¸Âå°Â岩å°Âå¦校)
- Kamikoiwa No. 2 Elementary School (ä¸Âå°Â岩第äºÂå°Âå¦校)
- Kasai Elementary School (èÂÂ西å°Âå¦校)
- Kita Koiwa Elementary School (Ã¥ÂÂå°Â岩å°Âå¦校)
- Koiwa Elementary School (å°Â岩å°Âå¦校)
- Komagatsugawa Elementary School ()
- Komagatsugawa No. 2 Elementary School ()
- Matsue Elementary School (æÂ¾æ±Âå°Âå¦校)
- Matsumoto Elementary School (æÂ¾æÂ¬å°Âå¦校)
- Minami Kasai Elementary School ()
- Minami Kasai No. 2 Elementary School (Ã¥ÂÂèÂÂ西第äºÂå°Âå¦校)
- Minami Kasai No. 3 Elementary School (Ã¥ÂÂèÂÂ西第ä¸Âå°Âå¦校)
- Minami Koiwa Elementary School (Ã¥ÂÂå°Â岩å°Âå¦校)
- Minami Koiwa No. 2 Elementary School (Ã¥ÂÂå°Â岩第äºÂå°Âå¦校)
- Minami Shinozaki Elementary School (Ã¥ÂÂ篠å´Âå°Âå¦校)
- Mizue Elementary School (çÂÂæ±Âå°Âå¦校)
- Naka Koiwa Elementary School (ä¸Âå°Â岩å°Âå¦校)
- Niihori Elementary School ()
- Ninoe Elementary School (äºÂä¹Âæ±Âå°Âå¦校)
- Ninoe No. 2 Elementary School (äºÂä¹Âæ±Â第äºÂå°Âå¦校)
- Ninoe No. 3 Elementary School ()
- Nishiichinoe Elementary School (西ä¸Âä¹Âæ±Âå°Âå¦校)
- Nishi Kasai Elementary School (西èÂÂ西å°Âå¦校)
- Nishi Koiwa Elementary School ()
- Nishikomatsugawa Elementary School (西å°ÂæÂ¾å·Âå°Âå¦校)
- Osugi Elementary School (大æÂÂå°Âå¦校)
- Osugi No. 2 Elementary School (大æÂÂ第äºÂå°Âå¦校)
- Osugi Higashi Elementary School (大æÂÂæÂ±å°Âå¦校)
- Rinkai Elementary School ()
- Seishin No. 1 Elementary School (æ¸Â
æÂ°ç¬¬ä¸Âå°Âå¦校)
- Seishin Futaba Elementary School ()
- Shikamoto Elementary School (鹿æÂ¬å°Âå¦校)
- Shimokamata Elementary School (ä¸ÂéÂÂç°å°Âå¦校)
- Shimokamata Higashi Elementary School (ä¸ÂéÂÂç°æÂ±å°Âå¦校)
- Shimokamata Nishi Elementary School (ä¸ÂéÂÂç°西å°Âå¦校)
- Shimokoiwa Elementary School (ä¸Âå°Â岩å°Âå¦校)
- Shimokoiwa No. 2 Elementary School (ä¸Âå°Â岩第äºÂå°Âå¦校)
- Shinden Elementary School (æÂ°ç°å°Âå¦校)
- Shinozaki Elementary School (篠å´Âå°Âå¦校)
- Shinozaki No. 2 Elementary School (篠å´Â第äºÂå°Âå¦校)
- Shinozaki No. 3 Elementary School (篠å´Â第ä¸Âå°Âå¦校)
- Shinozaki No. 4 Elementary School ()
- Shinozaki No. 5 Elementary School ()
- Shishibone Elementary School (鹿骨å°Âå¦校)
- Shishibone Higashi Elementary School (鹿骨æÂ±å°Âå¦校)
- Ukita Elementary School (å®ÂÃ¥ÂÂç°å°Âå¦校)
Transportation
Rail
East Japan Railway Company
ChÃ
«Ã
Â-SÃ
Âbu Line
* â â (Shin-Koiwa Station is in Katsushika, Tokyo) â âÂÂ
KeiyÃ
 Line
* â âÂÂ
Keisei Electric Railway
Keisei Main Line
* â â âÂÂ
Toei
Toei Shinjuku Line
* â â â â â âÂÂ
Tokyo Metro
Tozai Line
* â â âÂÂ
Highway
See also
References
External links