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Template:Nihongo is a special ward in the Tokyo Metropolis in Japan. The English translation of its Japanese self-designation is Meguro City.<ref name="Meguro City">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref name="Meguro City en">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> 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.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

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.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

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.<ref>Paul Waley, Tokyo: City of Stories (Tokyo: Weatherhill, 1991), 237.</ref> 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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Hokusai 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

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Meguro Ward Government Offices

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Elections

Sightseeing and local landmarks

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Meguro Sky Garden
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Persimmon Hall, Meguro
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Grilled Pacific saury at the Meguro Autumn Sanma Festival

Green spaces

Cultural institutions

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Religious institutions

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Transportation

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Naka-Meguro Station

Rail

Highways

Education

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University of Tokyo, Komaba Campus

Colleges and universities

Public schools

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

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  • 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.

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International schools

Economy

Company headquarters

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International relations

Friendship cities

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Diplomatic missions in Meguro

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Embassy of Poland at Mita

Notable people from Meguro

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Notable residents

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Notes

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References

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