![]() After the war, Kihei Suzuki from the Association of Readjustment and Reconstruction of Shinjuku worked with the major landowner, Mohei Minejima to draw up plans for Kiku-za, a kabuki theatre, in the area they believed that performers from the Kabuki-za theatre in Ginza would accept their invitation to perform at Kiku-za. ![]() ĭuring the war, a bombing raid on April 13, 1945, razed the area to the ground. Prior to World War II, the district was one of the areas open to foreign-born property owners (primarily from Taiwan and Korea), who mainly operated tsurekomi yado, predecessors to today's love hotels. In 1920, a girls' school was built there, and the surroundings were developed into a residential area. As the Yodobashi Purification Plant was built in 1893, the ponds were filled in. After the Meiji Period, the area became a duck sanctuary. Originally, the area was known as Tsunohazu ( 角筈) and was a swamp.
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