Arakawa, Tokyo Nature Park Public elementary and middle schools are operated by the Arakawa City Board of Education. Public high schools are operated by the Tokyo Metropolitan Government Board of Education. The Tokyo First Korean Elementary and Junior High School (), a North Korean school, is in the ward. The metropolis operated the Tokyo Metropolitan College of Aeronautical Engineering in Arakawa until 2010. Additional facilities are under construction. Arakawa, Tokyo Arakawa has sister-city relationships with Donaustadt in Vienna, Austria, and with Corvallis, Oregon, U.S. Domestically, it has similar relationships with nine cities, towns and villages. As of May 1, 2015, the ward
Shizuka Arakawa Slutskaya. Cohen fell twice during her long program, leaving the door open to the other leaders. Arakawa won the free program, skating to Vanessa Mae's Violin Fantasy on Puccini's Turandot by Giacomo Puccini. She performed an Ina Bauer and then did a three jump combination. "Ina Bauer" became a household word in Japan as a result. Although she had planned two triple-triple combinations for the free skate, she did not perform them, doing instead a triple Lutz-double loop and a triple salchow-double toe loop combinations. Arakawa earned a total combined score of 191.34 points, almost eight points ahead of the