Nihonbashi Bakurochō (日本橋馬喰町), known in short as Bakurochō (馬喰町),[1] is a neighborhood in Chuo-ku, Tokyo.
Its name means "horse trader town",[1] a reference to how it was formerly a center for selling and buying horses.
[1] Additionally, Matjaz Ursic and Heide Imai, in Creativity in Tokyo: Revitalizing a Mature City, stated that the concentration of hotels, stemming from lodging needed for horse trading, gave the Bakurochō area fame.
[3] Public elementary and junior high schools are operated by Chuo City Board of Education (中央区教育委員会).
Bakurochō 1 and 2-chome can choose between Hisamatsu or Nihonbashi (中央区立日本橋小学校) elementary schools.