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| name = Meguro

| official_name = Meguro City

| native_name = {{nobold|目黒区}}

| native_name_lang = ja

| settlement_type = Special ward

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| caption1 = Cherry trees along the Meguro River

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| caption2 = Japanese Folk Crafts Museum

| image3 = Clock tower of the building 1, Komaba, the University of Tokyo.jpg

| caption3 = Komaba Campus, University of Tokyo

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| caption4 = Shimomeguro

| image5 = Christmas illuminations in Yebisu Garden Place 2.jpg

| caption5 = Yebisu Garden Place

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| leader_name = Eiji Aoki

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| population_total = 288,088

| population_as_of = October 1, 2020{{cite web|url=https://www.toukei.metro.tokyo.lg.jp/tnenkan/2020/tn20q3e002.htm|publisher=Tokyo Statistical Yearbook|language=en|access-date=2022-07-15|title=Population by District}}

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{{Nihongo|Meguro|目黒区|Meguro-ku}} is a special ward in the Tokyo Metropolis in Japan. The English translation of its Japanese self-designation is Meguro City.{{cite web |script-title=ja:目黒区方式ホームページ |trans-title=Official Homepage of Meguro City, Japanese |url=http://www.city.meguro.tokyo.jp/index.html|access-date=2011-04-26}}{{cite web|title=English: Meguro City (Official English webpage for Meguro City)|url=http://www.city.meguro.tokyo.jp/english/index.html|publisher=Meguro City|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081103002919/http://www.city.meguro.tokyo.jp/english/index.html|archive-date=2008-11-03}} 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.{{cite web |title=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 |url=https://trafficnews.jp/post/105843}}

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.{{cite web |title=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 |url=https://urbanlife.tokyo/post/45798/ |website=Urban Life Tokyo}}

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.Paul Waley, Tokyo: City of Stories (Tokyo: Weatherhill, 1991), 237. Each statue had eyes of a different color. (Mejiro, a district in Toshima ward, is named for the white-eyed Fudō-myōō).

Geography

File:Hokusai landscape with two falconers.jpg ukiyo-e of a view of Mount Fuji from Shimomeguro]]

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 =

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;Hibusuma area

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;Meguro area

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Politics and government

File:Meguro, Tokyo City Office.jpg

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 Yoshiaki Ito.{{citation needed|date=April 2014}} The mayor is Eiji Aoki, an independent. His term lasts until April 24, 2016.{{citation needed|date=April 2014}}

= Elections =

Sightseeing and local landmarks

File:Meguro Sky Garden 20130506 006.jpg]]

File:Persimmon Hall, Meguro.jpg

File:Meguro Pacific Saury Festival 2011.jpg at the Meguro Autumn Sanma Festival]]

= Green spaces =

= Cultural institutions =

= Religious institutions =

  • Himonya Catholic Church{{cite web|url=http://home.m06.itscom.net/salesio2/side_a/web/english/english_page_001.html |title=Himonya Catholic Church |publisher=Home.m06.itscom.net |access-date=2014-04-07}}
  • St. Michael's Catholic Church (German Language){{cite web|title=Katholische Deutschsprachige Gemeinde|url=http://stmichaeltokyo.jimdo.com|work=Sankt Michael Tokyo|access-date=23 April 2014}}
  • Himonya Hachiman Shrine
  • Ōtori Shrine
  • Ryūsenji (Meguro Fudo temple)
  • Yūten-ji Temple
  • St. Paul's Church, Gohongi (Anglican Church in Japan){{cite web|url=http://www.nskk.org/tokyo/church/paul |script-title=ja:日本聖公会東京教区聖パウロ教会 |publisher=Nskk.org |access-date=2014-04-07}}
  • Masjid Indonesia Tokyo
  • Gohyaku Rakanji Temple

Transportation

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File:Naka-Meguro Station 2014.jpg]]

= Rail =

= Highways =

Education

File:University of Tokyo - Komaba Campus - Building 1.JPG]]

= Colleges and universities =

= Public schools =

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

  • {{ill|Tokyo Metropolitan Kokusai High School|lt=Kokusai High School|ja|東京都立国際高等学校}} (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:{{cite web|url=https://www.city.meguro.tokyo.jp/smph/shisetsu/shisetsu/shochurin/kuritsu_chu.html|title=区立中学校|publisher=Meguro|access-date=2022-11-08}}

Municipal elementary schools:{{cite web|url=https://www.city.meguro.tokyo.jp/smph/shisetsu/shisetsu/shochurin/kuritsu_sho.html|title=区立小学校|publisher=Meguro|access-date=2022-11-08}}

= International schools =

Economy

= Company headquarters =

  • Amazon Japan head office
  • Books Kinokuniya"[http://www.kinokuniya.co.jp/en/headquarters.html Headquarters & Main Contacts] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110803063456/http://www.kinokuniya.co.jp/en/headquarters.html |date=2011-08-03 }}." Books Kinokuniya. Retrieved on July 25, 2011. "Dept.General Affairs Dept. 3-7-10 Shimomeguro Meguro-ku, Tokyo 153-8504"
  • Don Quijote discount store chain head office
  • LDH (Headquarters for EXILE & other Dance Units)
  • Makino{{Cite web|url=https://www.makino.co.jp/ja-jp/about-us/office|title=事業所・営業所 | Makino|website=www.makino.co.jp}}
  • New Japan Pro-Wrestling head office
  • Ribera Steakhouse
  • Stanley Electric"[http://www.stanley.co.jp/e/company/outline.php Corporate overview] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200104192846/https://www.stanley.co.jp/e/company/outline.php |date=2020-01-04 }}." Stanley Electric. Retrieved on March 7, 2019.
  • TopTour Corporation
  • Unilever Japan, head office
  • Walt Disney Japan, head office

International relations

= Friendship cities =

  • {{Flagicon|CHN}} Dongcheng District, Beijing, People's Republic of China (since 1991{{Cite web |title=友好都市 北京市東城区（旧崇文区） |url=https://www.city.meguro.tokyo.jp/bunka/kusei/gaiyou/toujyouku.html |language=ja |publisher=Meguro City Government |date=2017-11-27 |access-date=2023-10-28}})
  • {{Flagicon|KOR}} Jungnang District, Seoul, Republic of Korea (since 2013{{Cite web |title=ソウル特別市中浪区と友好都市協定を締結しました |url=https://www.city.meguro.tokyo.jp/bunka/kusei/gaiyou/chunnangu_2019.html |language=ja |publisher=Meguro City Government |date=2019-08-25 |access-date=2023-10-28}})

= Diplomatic missions in Meguro =

File:ポーランド大使館全景.jpg at Mita]]

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

Notable people from Meguro

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= Notable residents =

References

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External links

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{{Wikivoyage|Tokyo/Meguro|Meguro}}

  • [http://www.city.meguro.tokyo.jp/ Meguro City Official Website] {{in lang|ja}}

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