Gobanchō, Chiyoda, Tokyo
town located in Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo
Part of the Banchō area, Gobanchō (五番町) is an upscale, mostly residential district of Chiyoda, Tokyo, Japan. As of June 2020, the population of this district is 971 in 439 households.
Education
The Chiyoda Board of Education operates public elementary and junior high schools. Bancho Elementary School (番町小学校) is the zoned elementary of Gobanchō. There is a freedom of choice system for junior high schools in Chiyoda Ward, and so there are no specific junior high school zones.
Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Gobanchō, Chiyoda, Tokyo” is town located in Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Gobanchō, Chiyoda and Tokyo, not as a finished interpretation.
Why this record matters
The phrase “town located in Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo” supplies a clear boundary for inquiry. It also exposes the unanswered questions: who defined that boundary, when it became stable and which sources sit outside it.
The strongest evidence will usually combine a dated visual record with documents produced by the authority responsible for the place. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jun 3, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q3347205. Authority coordinates are 35.690, 139.734. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2020.
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This entry incorporates text from “Gobanchō, Chiyoda, Tokyo” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.