What is Shinjuku?
[[File:TokyoSpecialWardsMap.svg|thumb|right|A map showing Shinjuku in Tokyo's wards]] [[Image:Flag of Shinjuku, Tokyo.svg|thumb|150px|Flag]] [[Image:Emblem of Shinjuku, Tokyo.svg|thumb|90px|Emblem]] {{Nihongo|'''Shinjuku'''|新宿区|Shinjuku-ku|}} is one of the 23 [[special wards of Tokyo]], [[Japan]]. The administration center of the government of [[Tokyo Prefecture]] is in Shinjuku.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.city.shinjuku.tokyo.jp/foreign/english/aramashi/gaiyou/gaiyou.html |title=Shinjuku City |access-date=2012-09-10 |archive-date=2008-02-09 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080209165233/http://www.city.shinjuku.tokyo.jp/foreign/english/aramashi/gaiyou/gaiyou.html |url-status=dead }}</ref> Also in Shinjuku is the biggest railway station in the world, [[Shinjuku Station]]. ==History== On 15 March 1947, the ward of Shinjuku was formed by combining the wards of Ushigome, Yodobashi, and Yotsuya.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.soumu.metro.tokyo.lg.jp/01soumu/archives/0714tokyo_ku.htm|script-title=ja:大東京35区物語～15区から23区へ～東京23区の歴史|publisher=[[Tokyo Metropolitan Archives]]|access-date=2020-08-03|archive-date=2020-06-17|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200617044050/https://www.soumu.metro.tokyo.lg.jp/01soumu/archives/0714tokyo_ku.htm|language=Japanese}}</ref> In 1991, the Tokyo Government moved from the [[Marunouchi]] district of [[Chiyoda, Tokyo|Chiyoda]] to the current building in Shinjuku. ==Geography== Surrounding Shinjuku are six other wards: [[Chiyoda, Tokyo|Chiyoda]] to the east; [[Bunkyo, Tokyo|Bunkyo]] and [[Toshima, Tokyo (ward)|Toshima]] to the north; [[Nakano, Tokyo|Nakano]] to the west, and [[Shibuya, Tokyo|Shibuya]] and [[Minato, Tokyo|Minato]] to the south. ==References== {{Reflist}} ==Other websites== {{Commons category-inline|Shinjuku}} * http://www.city.shinjuku.tokyo.jp/foreign/english/ {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20050404084032/http://www.city.shinjuku.tokyo.jp/foreign/english/ |date=2005-04-04 }}; [http://www.city.shinjuku.lg.jp/ {{in lang|ja}}] {{Tokyo}} [[C