Tokyo Bay Para Reclaimed Site at Tokyo Ori Para Site Judgment of Koto Ward near 80% September 20 16:19

In a trial where Ota Ward and Koto Ward attributed the landfill site of Tokyo Bay where the competition venue was set up at the Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics, the Tokyo District Court handed down a judgment that nearly 80% of the landfill site was Koto Ward. .

Ota Ward appealed to Koto Ward for all attributions about the “Central Breakwater Reclaimed Land” in Tokyo Bay, where there is the “Umi no Mori Water Stadium”, which is the venue for boats and canoes at the Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics I woke up.

In a ruling on the 20th, President Takao Furuta of the Tokyo District Court said, “Tokyo Bay has been reclaimed many times and incorporated into each special ward. It should be based on the situation in the late Edo period and the beginning of the Meiji period. Ota Ward ’s claim cannot be adopted. ”

On that basis, we decided to use the central line of the Tokyo Port coastal road as the boundary.

At the boundary established by the court, 79.3% of the “Central Breakwater Landfill” is Koto Ward and 20.7% is Ota Ward.

The competition venue Uminomori Water Stadium is Koto Ward, while the port facility is Ota Ward.

Attribution issues so far

Since the renovation of the “Central Breakwater Landfill”, where the attribution was contested, has been asserted by Ota Ward and Koto Ward for over 40 years since reclamation began.

Under these circumstances, it was decided that the Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics would be held, and it was decided that the “Umi no Mori Water Stadium” for boats and canoeing and “Umi no Mori Cross Country Course” for equestrians would be established in this landfill. Ward and Koto Ward have been discussing three years ago with the aim of solving the event.

However, when both sides applied for mediation based on the Local Autonomy Law to the Tokyo Metropolitan Government without giving up their claims, the Tokyo Metropolitan Government assigned approximately 86% to Koto Ward and approximately 14% to Ota Ward. The mediation plan was shown.

Koto Ward expressed the idea of ​​accepting the mediation plan, but Ota Ward said, “In the landfilled sea area, there is a history that many inhabitants have engaged in pasture culture, but the mediation plan reflects this history. "I have not," he refused to accept the mediation proposal, and decided to bring a trial to revisit the percentage of attribution.

In Tokyo, the attribution of “Odaiba” and “Ooi Futo” has been disputed so far, but both have been settled in Tokyo ’s mediation and were the first to be disputed in court.

The speculation of Koto and Ota

It seems that there is a speculation of both parties who want to use the Tokyo Olympic and Paralympic Games venue as a valuable heritage site for future town development behind the fierce battle between the two districts over the attribution of the “Central Breakwater Landfill” .

The boats, canoes and equestrian venues that are set up in landfills are highly expected to be used as a base for sports and tourism promotion after the end of the Tokyo Games.

First of all, Ota Ward not only aims to further strengthen the logistics function by utilizing Haneda Airport and Tokyo Port in an integrated manner, but also promotes tourism to travel around the landfill by ship, A plan to form a sporting area is drawn.

On the other hand, Koto Ward has already developed a plan to make the best use of the facilities and transportation infrastructure provided for the Tokyo Games in the Gulf area, including landfills, for future urban development.

Of these, the central breakwater reclaimed land is a base for outdoor sports and leisure, and we want to make it an area where you can feel the rich nature in the suburbs of the city.

For this reason, it can be said that neither Ota-ku nor Koto-ku can be given up because the direction of urban development depends greatly on which landfill belongs to.