Kanda, Tokyo

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See also Kanda, Fukuoka and the disambiguation page for Kanda.

Kanda (神田) is a district in Chiyoda, Tokyo, Japan. It encompasses about thirty neighborhoods. Prior to 1943, when there was a city named Tokyo, Kanda was a ward.

It is home to the Kanda Myojin (Shinto) shrine, devoted to Taira no Masakado, who led a rebellion against the central government during the Heian period.

In the Edo period, the shrine's festival was one of the three most famous in the city.

Kanda is also the home of the Tokyo Resurrection Cathedral which was built by Nikolai of Japan and is the main Cathedral of the Japanese Orthodox Church.

There are a lot of bookstores and second hand bookshops in Kanda.

A popular Japanese television series, Zenigata Heiji, features a fictitious police patrolman (the title character) whose beat is Kanda. Near the end of every show, Heiji fells the dastardly villain by throwing a coin at him.