Shinjuku (jpn)

Shinjuku

Shinjuku ranks 1,041st in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind Ravenna, Willesden, and Nagasaki. Memorable people born in Shinjuku include Shinzō Abe, Ken Ogata, and Kishin Shinoyama. Memorable people who died in Shinjuku include Ken Shimura, Giant Baba, and Morihei Ueshiba. Shinjuku has been the birth place of many soccer players, and politicians and the death place of many actors, and comedians. Shinjuku is located in Japan.

Shinjuku , officially called Shinjuku City, is a special ward of Tokyo, Japan. It is a major commercial and administrative center, housing the northern half of the busiest railway station in the world as well as the Tokyo Metropolitan Government Building, the administrative center of the Tokyo Metropolitan Government. As of 2018, the ward has an estimated population of 346,235 and a population density of 18,232 people per km2. The total area is 18.23 km2. Since the end of World War II, Shinjuku has become a major secondary center of Tokyo (fukutoshin), rivaling the original city center in Marunouchi. Read more on Wikipedia