Adachi

Adachi is a special ward in the Tokyo Metropolis of Japan, lying to the north of the central part of Tokyo and usually called Adachi City in English. The ward is made up of two separate areas, a small strip of land between the Sumida and Arakawa rivers and a larger area north of the Arakawa. It borders the Saitama cities of Kawaguchi, Soka and Yashio and the Tokyo wards of Katsushika, Sumida, Arakawa and Kita. In 2015 it had an estimated 692,707 residents on 53.25 square kilometres. Its history reaches back to Adachi District in Musashi Province, the founding of the Nishiarai Daishi temple in 826, and the Great Senju Bridge of 1594, and it became a ward of Tokyo City in 1932.