Tenryu天竜区
Tenryu-ku. The name ends in 区 (ku), the word for ward.
Tenryu (天竜区, Tenryu-ku) is a ward of Hamamatsu, in Shizuoka Prefecture. The ward is an office of the city, not a government. Borders 10 places.
An administrative ward of the city around it. Its ward office handles counter services such as residence registration, but the ward has no mayor and no assembly: the city's mayor and assembly govern it.
In an address this ward is in the same slot as a Tokyo special ward, which makes the two look equivalent. Only Tokyo's 23 wards are governments.
Facts
- Japanese name
- 天竜区
- Reading
- Tenryu-ku
- Kind
- Ward of a designated city (行政区): an office of the city, not a government
- City
- Hamamatsu City 浜松市
- Prefecture
- Shizuoka 静岡県
- Region
- Chūbu 中部
- Population
- No census figure. The 2020 census counted the wards as they were in 2020, and this ward was formed later.
- Code
- 22140 (団体コード, the municipality code)
- Website
- www.city.hamamatsu.shizuoka.jp/ward/tenryu/index.html
- Wikipedia
- English / 日本語
Neighbouring wards and municipalities
10 places share a land border with Tenryu, 1 of them wards of the same city. Borders across water are not counted.
Questions about Tenryu
- Is Tenryu a city?
- Tenryu (天竜区) is a ward of Hamamatsu (浜松市), a designated city. It is not a government. The ward office handles counter services such as residence registration, but the ward has no mayor and no assembly of its own: the city's mayor and assembly govern it. Tokyo's 23 special wards are written with the same character, 区, and those are governments.
- Where is Tenryu?
- Tenryu is inside Hamamatsu (浜松市), in Shizuoka Prefecture (静岡県), in the Chūbu region of Japan. The prefecture is a government; the region is a customary grouping of prefectures and elects nothing.
- What is the population of Tenryu?
- The 2020 census counted the wards as they were in 2020. Tenryu was formed later, so it has no census figure of its own. The city's figure is on its page.
- Which municipalities border Tenryu?
- 10: Iida City (飯田市) in Nagano, Tenryu Village (天龍村) in Nagano, Hamana Ward (浜名区), Shimada City (島田市), Iwata City (磐田市), Kawanehon Town (川根本町), Mori Town (森町), Shinshiro City (新城市) in Aichi, Toei Town (東栄町) in Aichi, and Toyone Village (豊根村) in Aichi. These are the wards and municipalities that share a land border with Tenryu in the boundary data. Borders across water are not counted.
- How is Tenryu written in Japanese?
- 天竜区, read Tenryu-ku. The last character, 区 (ku), is the word for ward, and the name is often used without it in English.
- How does an address in Tenryu begin?
- 静岡県浜松市天竜区… (Shizuoka-ken, Hamamatsu-shi, Tenryu-ku, …). The prefecture name is written first, then the city name, then the ward name. After that are written the named area, the chōme, the block, and the building number.
Boundaries and neighbours: MLIT 国土数値情報. Population, households, and age groups: 2020 Population Census (令和2年国勢調査). Area: Geospatial Information Authority of Japan (全国都道府県市区町村別面積調, 2020). Website and Wikipedia links: Wikidata.