Konyachō, Chiyoda, Tokyo

Landscape of the old-time Konyachō, drawn by Utagawa Hiroshige as one of the One Hundred Famous Views of Edo.

Konyachō (紺屋町), formally Kanda-Konyachō (神田紺屋町), is a district of Chiyoda, Tokyo, Japan.

The district is made up of two non-contiguous (northern and southern) neighborhoods split by Kitanorimonochō. Originally, only the southern portion had been called Konyachō. But in 1719, the Edo government ordered a part of Konyachō's residents to move to the north of Kitanorimonochō for disaster prevention. Since then, both portions adjacent to Kitanorimonochō have been called Konyachō.

Today, the district is a business district near Kanda Station.

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