Editing Shinjuku (section)

==History==
[[File:Buildings with colorful neon street signs at blue hour, Shinjuku, Tokyo.jpg|thumb|270px|Shinjuku at night]]

In 1634, during the [[Edo period]], as the outer moat of the [[Edo Castle]] was built, a number of temples and shrines moved to the Yotsuya area on the western edge of Shinjuku. In 1698, Naitō-Shinjuku had developed as a new (shin) station ([[shukuba|shuku or juku]]) on the [[Kōshū Kaidō]], one of the major [[Kaidō|highways]] of that era. Naitō was the family name of a ''[[daimyō]]'' whose mansion stood in the area; his land is now a public park, the Shinjuku Gyoen. In 1898, the Yodobashi Water Purification Plant, the city's first modern water treatment facility, was built in the area that is now between the park and the train station.<ref>{{cite web |title=Water Supply in Tokyo |url=https://www.waterworks.metro.tokyo.lg.jp/eng/business/supply/ |website=Bureau of Waterworks, Tokyo Metropolitan Government |access-date=15 February 2021}}</ref>

In 1920, the town of Naitō-Shinjuku, which comprised large parts of present-day Shinjuku (the neighborhood, not the municipality), parts of [[Nishi-Shinjuku]] and [[Kabukichō, Tokyo|Kabukichō]] were integrated into [[Tokyo City]]. Shinjuku began to develop into its current form after the [[1923 Great Kantō earthquake|Great Kantō Earthquake]] in 1923, since the seismically stable area largely escaped the devastation. Consequently, West Shinjuku is one of the few areas in Tokyo with many [[skyscraper]]s.

The [[Bombing of Tokyo in World War II|Tokyo air raids]] from May to August 1945 destroyed almost 90% of the buildings in the area in and around Shinjuku Station.<ref>[http://www.city.shinjuku.tokyo.jp/foreign/english/aramashi/rekishi/rekishi.html History of Shinjuku] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060326063824/http://www.city.shinjuku.tokyo.jp/foreign/english/aramashi/rekishi/rekishi.html |date=2006-03-26 }}</ref> The pre-war form of Shinjuku and the rest of Tokyo was retained after the war because the roads and rails, damaged as they were, remained, and these formed the heart of Shinjuku in the post-war construction. Only in Kabuki-cho was a grand reconstruction plan put into action.<ref>Ichikawa, 2003</ref>

The present ward was established on March 15, 1947 with the merger of the former wards of Yotsuya, Ushigome, and Yodobashi. It served as part of the [[Athletics at the 1964 Summer Olympics|athletics]] 50&nbsp;km walk and marathon course during the [[1964 Summer Olympics]].<ref>[http://www.la84foundation.org/6oic/OfficialReports/1964/or1964v2pt1.pdf 1964 Summer Olympics official report.] Volume 2. Part 1. p. 74.</ref>  In March 1965, the Yodobashi Water Purification Plant closed and was replaced by skyscrapers in the following years.<ref>{{cite web |title=Shinjuku Then and Now |url=https://resources.realestate.co.jp/news/shinjuku-then-and-now/ |website=Real Estate Japan |date=7 October 2015 |publisher=GPlus Media Inc |access-date=15 February 2021}}</ref>

In 1991, the Tokyo Metropolitan Government moved from the [[Marunouchi]] district of [[Chiyoda, Tokyo|Chiyoda]] to the current building in Shinjuku (the [[Tokyo International Forum]] stands at the former site vacated by the government).