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Taitō (台東区, Taitō-ku) is one of the 23 special wards of Tokyo, Japan. The population was 190,873 in 2015.[1]
On 15 March 1947, the ward of Taitō was formed by combining the wards of Asakusa and Shitaya.[2]
References
[change | change source]- ↑ 台東区. Kotobank (in Japanese). Asahi Shimbun. Retrieved 2020-08-03.
- ↑ 大東京35区物語~15区から23区へ~東京23区の歴史 (in Japanese). Tokyo Metropolitan Archives. Archived from the original on 2020-06-17. Retrieved 2020-08-03.
Other websites
[change | change source]- Official website (in Japanese)