Edogawa 江戸川区
Special ward
Edogawa City[1]
Furukawa Waterside Park in Edogawa
Flag Emblem
Location of Edogawa in Tokyo Metropolis
Edogawa Location in Japan
Coordinates: 35°42′N 139°53′E / 35.700°N 139.883°E / 35.700; 139.883
Country	Japan
Region	Kantō
Prefecture	Tokyo Metropolis
First official recorded	721 AD
As City of Tokyo	October 1, 1932
As Special ward of Tokyo	July 1, 1943
Government
• Mayor	Takeshi Saitō (since April 2019)
Area
• Total	49.90 km2 (19.27 sq mi)
Population  (October 1, 2020[2])
• Total	697,932
• Density	13,986/km2 (36,220/sq mi)
Ethnic groups 97~99.5% Japanese 0.5% Indian
Time zone	UTC+09:00 (JST)
Climate	Cfa
Website	www.city.edogawa.tokyo.jp
Symbols
Flower	Rhododendron
Tree	Cinnamonum camphora

Edogawa (江戸川区, Edogawa-ku) 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 Kōtō (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 km². ^{[citation needed]} The total area is 49.90 km².

History

The ward was founded in 1937 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

As of 2018^[update] 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 Nishikasai [ja] 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.^[5]

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."^[6]

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.^[5]

Districts and neighborhoods

Sites

• Edogawa Boat Race Course
• Edogawa Stadium
• Kasai Seaside Park

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
• Fuka 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
• Keizō 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, is 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,is a Korean–Japanese singer and television personality. He was the vocalist and oldest member of the South Korean hip-hop group M.I.B
• Yoshiko Tamura, wrestler
• Yūsuke Koide, vocalist and guitarist for Base Ball Bear

Education

Universities

• Aikoku Gakuen Junior College

Metropolitan high schools are operated by the Tokyo Metropolitan Government Board of Education.

Private High Schools:

• Edogawa Girls' Junior & High School [ja]^[14]

International schools:

• Global Indian International School, Tokyo Campus

Public elementary and junior high schools are operated by the Edogawa Board of Education (江戸川区教育委員会).

Junior high schools:^[15]

Elementary schools:^[16]

Transportation

Rail

■ East Japan Railway Company

■ Chūō-Sōbu Line

• – Hirai – Shin-Koiwa(Shin-Koiwa Station is in Katsushika, Tokyo) – Koiwa –

■ Keiyō Line

• – Kasairinkai-Kōen –

■ Keisei Electric Railway

■ Keisei Main Line

• – Keisei Koiwa – Edogawa –

■ Toei

○ Toei Shinjuku Line

• – Higashi-Ōjima – Funabori – Ichinoe – Mizue – Shinozaki –

■ Tokyo Metro

○ Tozai Line

• – Nishi-Kasai – Kasai –

Highway

• Shuto Expressway
  • C2 Central Loop
  • No.7 Komatsugawa Route
  • B Bayshore Route