25th Ward

Shinko Kuroyanagi and Mokutaro Shiroyabu among the monolithic highrises of The 25th Ward

The 25th Ward, also referred to as Ward 25, is a city that serves as the main setting and namesake of The 25th Ward: The Silver Case. It is a further addition to the real-life 23 special wards of Tokyo, Kanto, Japan, after Ward 24.

Geography

Like Ward 24 before it, Ward 25 is divided into five Areas designated with the letters A through E. There is little other information on the Ward's layout or structure, although it is suggested it may border the 24th Ward in some way. It is located on the coast of Kanto, with Area A in particular being on the water.

Locations

• Area A
  • Area A1
    • Seaside Park
    • City Hall
  • Area A2
    • Bayside TowerLand
    • Shonai's apartment
    • Apartment used for RAB stakeout
  • Area A3
    • Port
    • Tokio's Boat
    • Seaside Planetarium
  • Area A4
    • Construction Site
    • Sewerage entrance
    • Thousand Hotel
  • Area A7 (oddly, no other area numbering ever goes beyond 4)
    • Clock Tower Square
• Area B
  • Area B1
    • Central Station
    • Gigazel Intersection
    • ATM 1
  • Area B2
    • Cafe Caravaggio
    • Loud Noise
    • Megastore
  • Area B3
    • Multi-tenant Building
    • Alternative Batting Center
    • Building across from Multi-tenant Building
    • ATM 2
  • Area B4
    • Mobile Shop Ema
• Area C
  • Area C1
    • Central Park
    • ATM 6
  • Area C2
    • Museum
  • Area C3
    • Regional Adjustment Bureau building
  • Area C4
    • ATM 5
• Area D
  • Area D1
    • Heinous Crimes Unit building
    • ATM 3
  • Area D2
    • Restaurant Full Moon
    • ATM 7
  • Area D4
    • Forensic Medical Center
    • Evildiver University Hospital
• Area E
  • Area E1
    • Convenience Store
    • Akihiko Alley
    • ATM 4
  • Area E2
    • Kamijo's house
  • Area E4
    • Sunset Building
    • Apartment with Kamijo's car
• Red Room
• Blue Room
• White Room
• Kurumizawa's House

Government

The 25th Ward had a mayor, Kenichiro Mikoshiba, as well as law enforcement agencies such as the 25th Ward Heinous Crimes Unit. Organizations like these made up the surface-level ward government, and the initiatives to develop it were led by the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications. However, under the surface, the Ward was actually controlled by the Postal Federation who enforced a form of martial law on the residents to better control them. Working in collaboration with the Postal Federation was a secret agency known as the Regional Adjustment Bureau, who administrated the Postal Federation's deliverymen.

Following the destruction and re-designation of the Ward, its government makeup if any is unkonwn.

History

The 25th Ward was seemingly established by Kinshiro Nakane using his wealth and power. Plans for it began at least as early as 2003, as seen by Mikoshiba's poster in case#25:whiteout prologue, on which he promoted the Ward 25 plan, suggesting that he was also involved with its creation from early on. The 25th Ward was designed to take in certain kinds of residents from all over the country; in Nakane's words, "people are not made. People are scouted." It was also designed as a political plan to reconstruct Kanto itself and theoretically act as a new capital. However, at the same time, different factions in the Ward were conducting experiments to gather observational data collected by observers; it is suggested that this was the true purpose of the Ward.

In #05 electride, Mikoshiba gave a speech for the election term announcing his intention to establish the Ward as an independent state separate from the greater government. This would not come to pass, as he was found dead not long after. Even if he had lived, though, the 25th Ward would not have existed for much longer regardless. At the conclusion of the experiment, most of the Ward was destroyed in a protocol known as the Rage Earth Plan and sank below the sea.

The remains were re-designated the 0 Ward, and it was visited by Travis Touchdown in Travis Strikes Again: No More Heroes, where he found that the train station there was still referred to as the "25th Ward Station", a clue as to its nature. Kosuke Kurumizawa was shown to have a digital house that still resided in the sea where the city used to be.

See also

• Ward 24
• 26th Ward

Appearances

• The 25th Ward: The Silver Case
• The Silver Case (mentioned in 2017 patch only)
• Travis Strikes Again: No More Heroes