is a police station located in Kōtō, Tokyo

Koto, Tokyo

is one of the 23 special wards of Tokyo, Japan. As of 2008, the ward has an estimated population of 442,271 and a population density of 11,070 persons per km². The total area is 39.48 km². The ward refers to itself as Kōtō City in English....

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History

During the fast growing development in the Tokyo's Wangan area, in the early 2004, a suggestion for the creation of a new police station was brought up. With the popularity of Bayside Shakedown

Bayside Shakedown

was a Japanese police drama/comedy series originally broadcast by the Fuji Television group in 1997. The series was so popular that five cinematic-release movies were made following the end of the TV series, the first in 1998, the second in 2003, the third and fourth in 2005, and the fifth...

franchise, it was thought that the station will be nicknamed "Wangan Police Station" from the drama. Then in June 2005, the creation of a new police station was confirmed. In February 2008, the police station was finished.

Although the tentative name during the 2005 plan was Rinkō Police Station, the survey for the official name of new station conducted with the residents, was overwhelming in favor of "Wangan Police Station" (湾岸署). On June 27, 2007, the official name of the police station was confirmed to be "Tokyo Wangan Police Station." Since Wangan Police Station (湾岸署) is a copyrighted term by Fuji Television

Fuji Television

is a Japanese television station based in Daiba, Minato, Tokyo, Japan, also known as or CX, based on the station's callsign "JOCX-DTV". It is the flagship station of the Fuji News Network and the ....

, they've added "Tokyo" before to avoid the problem. The station opened on March 31, 2008.

External links

• Official site