Area 14.67 km² Region Kantō region | Population 277,171 (1 May 2015) | |
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Time zone Japan Standard Time (UTC+9) Website www.city.meguro.tokyo.jp University Tokyo Institute of Technology Points of interest Tokyo Metropolitan Museum, Japanese Folk Crafts Museum, Yūtenji, Meguro Museum of Art - Tokyo, Himonya Park | ||
Meguro (目黒区, Meguro-ku) is a special ward in Tokyo, Japan. The English translation of its Japanese self-designation is Meguro City. The ward was founded on March 15, 1947.
Contents
- Map of Meguro Tokyo Japan
- History
- Geography
- Politics and government
- Elections
- Green spaces
- Cultural institutions
- Religious institutions
- Rail
- Highways
- Colleges and universities
- Public schools
- Companies
- Notable people from Meguro
- Notable residents
- References
Map of Meguro, Tokyo, Japan
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.
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. (Another Tokyo ward, Mejiro 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).
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 Yoshiaki Ito. The mayor is Eiji Aoki, an independent. His term lasts until April 24, 2016.
Elections
Green spaces
Cultural institutions
Religious institutions
Rail
Highways
Colleges and universities
Public schools
Public elementary and junior high schools are operated by the Meguro City Board of Education. Public high schools are operated by the Tokyo Metropolitan Government Board of Education.
In addition the metropolis operates a consolidated junior and senior high school called Ohsyukan Secondary Education School.