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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.


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.

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