Surugadai
Kanda-Surugadai (神田駿河台, Kanda-Surugadai) is a district of Chiyoda, Tokyo, Japan. It was named after Tokugawa Ieyasu's death, when the Edo government allowed officials from Sunpu (now Shizuoka) to live in the area. Kanda-Surugadai is often called Surugadai (駿河台, Surugadai) or, colloquially, Sundai (駿台, Sundai).
The main building and campus of Meiji University is in the district.
The headquarters of the Japanese Trade Union Confederation (Rengo) is located in Kanda-Surugadai.[1]
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- Meiji University (Liberty Tower)
- Rengo HQ in Kanda-Surugadai
Companies based in Surugadai
Nippon Paper Industries, the pulp and paper manufacturing company has its headquarters in the district.[2]
Education
Chiyoda Board of Education [ja] operates public elementary and junior high schools. Ochanomizu Elementary School (お茶の水小学校) is the zoned elementary school for Kanda-Surugadai 1-2-chōme, Kanda-Surugadai 3-chōme 1, 3, 5, 7, 8, and 11-ban, and Kanda-Surugadai 4-chōme 1, 3, and 5 ban. Shōhei Elementary School (昌平小学校) is the zoned elementary school for Kanda-Surugadai 3-chōme 2, 4, and 6 ban, and Kanda-Surugadai 4-chōme 2, 4, and 6 ban.[3] There is a freedom of choice system for junior high schools in Chiyoda Ward, and so there are no specific junior high school zones.[4]
References
35°41′57″N 139°45′49″E / 35.69917°N 139.76361°E / 35.69917; 139.76361
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Kōjimachi Area |
- Akihabara/Iwamotochō (JR, Metro, Toei, Tsukuba Express, bus terminal)
- Ichigaya (JR, Metro, Toei)
- Iidabashi (JR, Metro, Toei)
- Jimbōchō (Metro, Toei)
- Kanda (JR, Metro)
- Kasumigaseki (Metro)
- Kokkai-gijidō-mae/Tameike-Sannō (Metro)
- Kudanshita (Metro, Toei)
- Nagatachō (Metro)
- Ōtemachi (Metro, Toei)
- Tōkyō (JR, Shinkansen, Metro, bus terminal)
- Yūrakuchō/Hibiya (JR, Metro, Toei)
- Casals Hall
- Comic Takaoka (closed)
- Hotel New Otani Tokyo
- Holy Resurrection Cathedral
- Jimbōchō Book Town
- Kanda Shrine
- Kasumigaseki Common Gate
- Kasumigaseki Building
- Marunouchi Building
- National Archives of Japan
- National Diet Building
- National Diet Library
- National Museum of Modern Art
- National Theatre of Japan
- Nippon Budokan
- Old Ministry of Justice Building
- Prime Minister's Official Residence
- Prudential Tower
- Sanno Park Tower
- Shin-Marunouchi Building
- Supreme Court of Japan
- Tokyo Imperial Palace
- Tokyo International Forum
- Tokyo Garden Terrace Kioicho
- Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department Headquarters
- Wadakura Bridge
- Yasukuni Shrine
- Graduate School of Management, Globis University
- Hitotsubashi University Kanda Campus
- Hosei University
- Meiji University
- Nihon University
- Kudan campus of the Nishogakusha University
- Senshu University
- Sophia University
- Gyosei Junior and Senior High School
- Hibiya High School
- Otsuma Women's University
- Tokyo Chinese School
- Tokyo Kasei-Gakuin University
- Sakuradamon Incident (1860)
- Hibiya incendiary incident
- February 26 Incident
- Toranomon incident
- Sakuradamon Incident (1932)
- May 15 incident
- Greater East Asia Conference
- Kyūjō incident
- 1974 Mitsubishi Heavy Industries bombing
- Akihabara massacre
- 2015 Tokyo drone incident