Meguro

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title: "Meguro" type: doc version: 1 created: 2026-02-28 author: "Wikipedia contributors" status: active scope: public tags: ["meguro", "wards-of-tokyo"] topic_path: "history/military" source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meguro" license: "CC BY-SA 4.0" wikipedia_page_id: 0 wikipedia_revision_id: 0

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Meguro is a special ward in the Tokyo Metropolis in Japan. The English translation of its Japanese self-designation is Meguro City. The ward was founded on March 15, 1947.

Meguro is predominantly residential in character, but is also home to light industry, corporate head offices, the Komaba campus of University of Tokyo as well as fifteen foreign embassies and consulates. Residential neighborhoods include Jiyugaoka, Kakinokizaka, and Nakameguro. As of May 1, 2015, the ward has an estimated population of 277,171 and a population density of 18,890 persons per km2. The total area is 14.67 km2.

Meguro is also used to refer to the area around Meguro Station, which is not located in Meguro ward, but in neighboring Shinagawa's Kamiōsaki district, 100 meters from the border with Meguro ward.

History

The Higashiyama shell mound in the north of the ward contains remains from the Paleolithic, Jōmon, Yayoi, and Kofun periods.

The area now known as Meguro was formerly two towns, Meguro proper and Hibusuma, all parts of the former Ebara District of Musashi Province. The two were merged into a Meguro ward for Tokyo City in 1932 and since then the ward has remained with no alterations to its territory.

The name "Meguro", meaning "black eyes", derives from the Meguro Fudō (Black-eyed Fudō-myōō) of Ryūsenji. The Meguro Fudō was one of five Fudō-myōō statues placed at strategic points on the outskirts of Edo in the early seventeenth century by the abbot Tenkai, an advisor to Tokugawa Ieyasu, to provide protection for the new capital of the Tokugawa shogunate. Each statue had eyes of a different color. (Mejiro, a district in Toshima ward, is named for the white-eyed Fudō-myōō).

Geography

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Four other special wards surround Meguro. They are Shibuya (to the northeast), Setagaya (to the west), Ōta (to the south), and Shinagawa (to the southeast).

Districts and neighborhoods

;Hibusuma area

Politics and government

::figure[src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/36/Meguro,_Tokyo_City_Office.jpg" caption="Meguro Ward Government Offices"] ::

Meguro ward government is led by the city assembly with 36 elected members with current terms from May 1, 2011, to April 30, 2015. The chairman of the council is Yasuhiro Onose of the Liberal Democratic Party. The mayor is Eiji Aoki, an independent. His 6th term lasts until April 24, 2028.

Elections

Sightseeing and local landmarks

::figure[src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e7/Meguro_Sky_Garden_20130506_006.jpg" caption="[[Meguro Sky Garden"] ::

::figure[src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b1/Persimmon_Hall,_Meguro.jpg" caption="Persimmon Hall, Meguro"] ::

::figure[src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/34/Meguro_Pacific_Saury_Festival_2011.jpg" caption="Grilled [[Pacific saury]] at the Meguro Autumn Sanma Festival"] ::

Green spaces

Cultural institutions

Religious institutions

Transportation

::figure[src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b0/Naka-Meguro_Station_2014.jpg" caption="[[Naka-Meguro Station"] ::

Rail

Highways

Education

::figure[src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/5d/University_of_Tokyo_-Komaba_Campus-_Building_1.JPG" caption="[[University of Tokyo, Komaba Campus"] ::

Colleges and universities

Public schools

Metropolitan high schools are operated by the Tokyo Metropolitan Government Board of Education.

  • (Kokusai means "International" in Japanese)
  • Komaba High School
  • Meguro High School
  • Geijutsu High School (Closed in 2012)

In addition the metropolis operates a consolidated junior and senior high school in Meguro called Ōshūkan Secondary School.

Municipal elementary and junior high schools are operated by the Meguro City Board of Education.

Municipal junior high schools:

Municipal elementary schools:

International schools

Economy

Company headquarters

International relations

Friendship cities

Diplomatic missions in Meguro

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  • DZA Embassy of the People's Democratic Republic of Algeria (at Higashigaoka)
  • AZE Embassy of the Republic of Azerbaijan (at Mita)
  • EGY Embassy of the Arab Republic of Egypt (at Aobadai)
  • GAB Embassy of the Gabonese Republic (at Higashigaoka)
  • KEN Embassy of the Republic of Kenya (at Yakumo)
  • MRT Embassy of the Islamic Republic of Mauritania (at Gohongi)
  • FSM Embassy of the Federated States of Micronesia (at Meguro)
  • NEP Embassy of Nepal (at Shimomeguro)
  • PNG Embassy of the Independent State of Papua New Guinea (at Shimomeguro)
  • POL Embassy of the Republic of Poland (at Mita)
  • SEN Embassy of the Republic of Senegal (at Aobadai)
  • SUD Embassy of the Republic of the Sudan (at Yakumo)
  • THA Royal Thai Embassy Military Attaché Office (at Shimomeguro)
  • TOG Embassy of the Togolese Republic (at Yakumo)

Notable people from Meguro

Notable residents

Notes

References

References

  1. "Population by District". Meguro City.
  2. NHK Publishing. (24 May 2016)
  3. link
  4. "English: Meguro City (Official English webpage for Meguro City)". Meguro City.
  5. "目黒駅は目黒区じゃない!? 首都圏「住所と合ってない駅名」意外と多いワケ".
  6. "市町村合併でおなじみ「役所の位置」問題 都心の目黒区でも同様のことが起きていた".
  7. Paul Waley, ''Tokyo: City of Stories'' (Tokyo: Weatherhill, 1991), 237.
  8. "自民党 目黒区議会議員 おのせ康裕 – 公式サイト".
  9. 目黒区. "区長の部屋".
  10. link. Persimmon.or.jp
  11. "Himonya Catholic Church". Home.m06.itscom.net.
  12. "Katholische Deutschsprachige Gemeinde". Sankt Michael Tokyo.
  13. (2017-01-25). "碑文谷八幡宮".
  14. link. Nskk.org
  15. "区立中学校". Meguro.
  16. "区立小学校". Meguro.
  17. "[http://www.kinokuniya.co.jp/en/headquarters.html Headquarters & Main Contacts] {{webarchive. link. (2011-08-03 ." [[Books Kinokuniya]]. Retrieved on July 25, 2011. "Dept.General Affairs Dept. 3-7-10 Shimomeguro Meguro-ku, Tokyo 153-8504")
  18. "事業所・営業所 | Makino".
  19. "[http://www.stanley.co.jp/e/company/outline.php Corporate overview] {{Webarchive. link. (2020-01-04 ." [[Stanley Electric]]. Retrieved on March 7, 2019.)
  20. "COMPANY".
  21. (2017-11-27). "友好都市 北京市東城区（旧崇文区）". Meguro City Government.
  22. (2019-08-25). "ソウル特別市中浪区と友好都市協定を締結しました". Meguro City Government.
  23. "プロフィール | HALCALI | ソニーミュージックオフィシャルサイト".

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