吉祥寺

Tokyo's most-coveted neighborhood is named after a temple it doesn't have. The temple burned in 1657; the monks went north, the parishioners went west — and took only the name.

The temple Kichijō-ji stood in central Edo until the Great Fire of 1657 burned its temple town. The temple itself moved to Komagome — but its displaced parishioners were resettled far west on the Musashino plain, where they cleared farmland and, out of loyalty, named their new village after the temple they'd lost. The temple never followed. Kichijōji has never contained a Kichijō-ji.

A migration name: born from the same 1657 Great Fire that built Tsukiji. The real temple survives in Komagome.