Shinagawa

Shinagawa (品川区, Shinagawa-ku) is a special ward in the Tokyo Metropolis in Japan. The Ward refers to itself as Shinagawa City in English. The Ward is home to ten embassies.

For other uses, see Shinagawa (disambiguation).

Shinagawa

品川区

Japan

Kantō

Tokyo Metropolis

22.84 km² (8.82 sq mi)

422,488

18,497/km² (47,910/sq mi)

UTC+09:00 (JST)

2-1-36 Hiromachi,
Shinagawa-ku, Tōkyō-to
140-8715

www.city.shinagawa.tokyo.jp

Chroicocephalus ridibundus

Rhododendron indicum

Castanopsis
Acer

As of 1 April 2016, the Ward had an estimated population of 380,293 and a population density of 16,510 persons per km². The total area is 22.84 km².^[2]

Shinagawa is also commonly used to refer to the business district around Shinagawa Station, which is not in Shinagawa Ward. This Shinagawa is in the Takanawa and Konan neighborhoods of Minato Ward, directly north of Kita-Shinagawa.

Shinagawa District, including the former on the Tōkaidō.

Shinagawa-juku

(大崎) District, formerly a town of that name, stretching from Ōsaki Station to Gotanda and Meguro Stations.

Ōsaki

Ebara (荏原) District, formerly a town of that name.

Ōi (大井) District, formerly a town of that name.

Yashio (八潮) District, consisting of reclaimed land, including Higashiyashio on .

Odaiba

Kume Museum of Art

^[57]

SHINAGAWA AQUARIUM

The Galaxy Theatre

Ohi Racecourse

Site of

Suzugamori execution grounds

Site of Hamakawa ^[58]

Gun Battery

Shopping District^[59]

Togoshi Ginza

Shopping District "PALM"^[60]

Musashi Koyama

Ōmori Shell Mounds Park

(Seven Lucky Gods in Ebara area)

Ebara Shichi-Fuku-Jin

Buddhist temples

Honsen-ji

Shintō shrines

Shinagawa Shrine

Catholic

Hoshi University

Rissho University

Seisen University

Showa University

Tokyo Health Care University

Sugino Fashion College

– graduate school

Advanced Institute of Industrial Technology

^[72] – college of technology (kōsen)

Tokyo Metropolitan College of Industrial Technology

Gotanda Station

Meguro Station

Ōsaki Station

Ōimachi Station

1863 –

British Liberines burning case

1964 –

Shinagawa Katsushima warehouse explosion fire

1987 –

Explosion accident at the Ōi Thermal Power Plant

1995 –

Death case of arrest and detention of public affairs notary public office

, Switzerland

Geneva

, New Zealand^[78]

Auckland

Portland, Maine

Japanese photographer

Tadasuke Akiyama

Japanese figure skater

Shizuka Arakawa

(Real Name: Nobutoshi Hayashi, Nihongo: 林延年, Hayashi Nobutoshi), Japanese actor, voice actor, singer and narrator

Nobutoshi Canna

(Real Name: Hisato Takenaka, Nihongo: 竹中尚人, Takenaka Hisato), Japanese musician, singer-songwriter and record producer

Char

Japanese anime director and screenwriter

Osamu Dezaki

(Real Name: Renji Ishida, Nihongo: 石田蓮司, Ishida Renji), Japanese actor

Renji Ishibashi

Japanese composer and arranger

Kenji Kawai

Japanese actress, entertainer, singer, and scholar

Momoko Kikuchi

(Real Name: Risa Kimura, Nihongo: 木村理沙, Kimura Risa), Japanese manga artist

Yun Kōga

Japanese film director, screenwriter, and producer

Akira Kurosawa

(Real Name: Tatsuya Matsuno, Nihongo: 松野達也, Matsuno Tatsuya), Japanese actor and voice actor

Taiki Matsuno

December 2, 1959, in Shinagawa, Tokyo, Japan), Japanese television announcer and tarento

Takeshi Mori

Japanese professional shogi player ranked 8-dan

Keiji Nishikawa

(Real Name Unknown), Japanese professional wrestler and idol

Riho

Japanese actor

Yuki Sato

enka singer and TV presenter

Chiyoko Shimakura

Japanese TV presenter and news anchor

Tetsuo Suda

Japanese mixed martial artist

Issei Tamura

Japanese manga artist

Taeko Watanabe

Japanese politician, member of the House of Representatives and member of the Liberal Democratic Party

Miki Yamada

Japanese businessman

Masamoto Yashiro

(高中正義, Takanaka Masayoshi), Japanese guitarist, composer, and producer.

Masayoshi Takanaka

Togoshi Park

Cherry blossoms at Goten-yama Hill in Kita-Shinagawa

Cherry blossoms at Goten-yama Hill by Hokusai

Harbor in Kita-Shinagawa

Harbor in Kita-Shinagawa by Hiroshige

Night view of Higashi-Shinagawa

(in Japanese)