School District 1

District 1 (第一学区) is a District near the very center of Academy City. It is bordered by District 16 to the northwest,  District 4 to the northeast,  District 5 to the southeast,  District 7 to the southwest, and  District 8 to the west.

It is the district where most of the city's administration is located.

Principles
As stated, the District's focus is to accommodate the administration of Academy City. The district is lined with administrative and judicial facilities and it does not have the sense of livelihood that other, more normal districts had. It has almost no residences or restaurants. In exchange for gathering together all of the functions needed for smoothly operating such a large city, only the bare minimum of functionality for people to live there has been prepared. The extremely mechanical cityscape helps reinforce that image of the district.

The district is the base of the Academy City Board of Directors, but not the Chairman, who resides in the Windowless Building in District 7.

There are unofficial railway lines and subway stations under the district's judicial facilities for prison trains (such as the Overhunting) that are sometimes used to secretly transport prisoners directly to the prison facilities in District 10 when ordinary transportation would not suffice.

Post-Handcuffs Arc
On December 29th, as the district was the site of protests following the trial of Accelerator and the Winter Cleaning movement, the prison train Overhunting departed one of the unofficial stations at 5PM, carrying survivors of Operation Handcuffs and heading for the Special Criminal Adult Correctional Facility in District 10.

New Year's Arc
On January 3rd, in order to circumvent the legal protections around the building housing the Condroniard Republic consulate set up by the Bridge Builders Cabal in District 12, Accelerator arranged for the consulate to be moved to the nicer District 1 in exchange for some economic support, putting the previous building in a gray zone and allowing him to take action against the cabal before the move was completed.

Toaru Kagaku no Railgun: Cold Game
The Academy City General Courthouse was the site of Innai Chigiri's trial in connection to the Cold Sleep Murder Case.