Railway terminals

and the developments along the lines

Tatsuo Arakawa

Deputy Director General,

Urban Renaissance Department,

Urban Renaissance Agency

Tokyo Metropolitan Area

23 Wards

RegionTama Region

Tokyo City

Population Treds of Tokyo Prefecture（1913-1924）

0

500000

1000000

1500000

2000000

2500000

3000000

3500000

4000000

4500000

1913 1914 1915 1916 1917 1918 1919 1920 1921 1922 1923 1924

Tokyo Prefecture Tokyo City The suburbs of Tokyo Prefecture

(Persons)

(year)

The Great Kanto Earthquake

The Great Kanto Earthquake （September, 1923）

Photo: Devastation in Nihonbashi and Kanda, seen from the roof of the Dai-ichi Sogo

Building, Kyobashi, near Tokyo Station (September, 1923)

Source: Osaka Mainichi Newspaper

Suburban developments after the Great Kanto Earthquake

Kunitachi academic town

along Cyuo Line

Kanagawa Pref.

Chiba Pref.

Ibaragi Pref.

Saitama Pref.

Tokyo Bay

Tokyo

Garden towns along

Meguro-Kamata Line

Kunitachi academic town

Kunitachi Station (around 1926)

Map of Kunitachi academic town

Garden towns along Meguro-Kamata Line

Map of Senzoku residential town

Meguro-Kamata Line started operation (1923) Map of Garden Towns along

Meguro-Kamata Line

Ookayama Campus, Tokyo Institute of Technology

Population Treds of Tokyo Metropolitan（1935-2015）

1940-1945 1954-1973

(year)

0

2000000

4000000

6000000

8000000

10000000

12000000

14000000

16000000

1930 1940 1950 1960 1970 1980 1990 2000 2010 2020

Tokyo Metropolitan 23 Wards Region Tama and islands Region

(persons)WWⅡ High Economic Growth Period

New town developments in high economic growth period

Nagayama

Tama Newtown

TamaCenter

Shinjuku

Shibuya

Tokyo

Shinagawa

Ikebukuro

Tokyo Metropolitan

Kanagawa Prefecture Haneda Airport

Expressway

Road

Raiway

prefectural boundary

Machida

Kawasaki

Tachikawa

Fuchu

Horinouchi Wakabadai

Hachiouji

Hashimoto

TamaMonorail

Chofu

Shinyurigaoka

Shin Yokohama

Tokyo Bay

Inagi

karakida

Minami-Osawa

TakahataFudo

Tokyo essentialMap around Shinjuku Station

Shinjuku

Shinsen Shinjyuku

Tochomae

Location of Shinjuku Stations

Shonan-Shinjuku Line

Saikyo LineChuo LineSobu Line

Yamanote Line

Fukutoshin Line

Toei-Shinjuku Line

Seibu Shinjuku Line

Odakyu Line

Keio Line

New Keio Line

Ooedo Line

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The generation of the buildings around Shinjuku Station

Explanatory note2008~

1998~2007

1988~1997

1978~1987

1968~1977

~1967

〇 Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism

〇 Tokyo Metropolitan Government

〇 Shinjuku Ward Office

〇 Shibuya Ward Office

〇 East Japan Railway Company

〇 Odakyu Electric Railway Co., Ltd.

〇 Keio Corporation

〇 Tokyo Metro Co., Ltd.

〇 (Bureau of Transportation , Tokyo Metropolitan Government)

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