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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 14.67km2.

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

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

  1. Hibusuma area

  2. Chūōchō

  3. Haramachi

  4. Higashigaoka

  5. Himonya

  6. Jiyūgaoka

  7. Kakinokizaka

  8. Megurohonchō

  9. Midorigaoka

  10. Minami

  11. Nakane

  12. Ōokayama

  13. Senzoku

  14. Tairamachi

  15. Takaban

  16. Yakumo

  17. Hirachō

  18. Meguro area

  19. Aobadai

  20. Gohongi

  21. Higashiyama

  22. Kamimeguro

  23. Komaba

  24. Meguro

  25. Mita

  26. Nakachō

  27. Nakameguro

  28. Ōhashi

  29. Shimomeguro

  30. Yūtenji

  31. Sanda

Politics and government

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

Green spaces

Cultural institutions

Religious institutions

Transportation

Rail

Tokyu Corporation

Highways

Education

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

Notable people from Meguro

Notable residents

Notes

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