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{{Nihongo|'''Meguro'''|目黒区|Meguro-ku|{{IPA|ja|meꜜ.ɡɯ.ɾo, -ŋɯ.ɾo, me.ɡɯ.ɾoꜜ.kɯ, -ŋɯ.ɾoꜜ.kɯ}}<ref>{{cite book|script-title=ja:NHK日本語発音アクセント新辞典|publisher=NHK Publishing|editor=NHK Broadcasting Culture Research Institute|date=24 May 2016|lang=ja}}</ref>{{efn|The name of this ward is pronounced like this with an accent. The common noun for the [[Bonin white-eye]] is pronounced {{IPA|ja|me.ɡɯ.ɾo, -ŋɯ.ɾo|}} without an accent.}}}} is a [[Special wards of Tokyo|special ward]] in the [[Tokyo|Tokyo Metropolis]] in [[Japan]]. The English translation of its Japanese self-designation is '''Meguro City'''.<ref name="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}}</ref><ref name="Meguro City en">{{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}}</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, Meguro, Tokyo|Nakameguro]]. As of May 1, 2015, the ward has an estimated [[population]] of 277,171 and a [[population density]] of 18,890 persons per km<sup>2</sup>. The total area is 14.67&nbsp;km<sup>2</sup>.

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, Shinagawa, Tokyo|Kamiōsaki]] district.<ref>{{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}}</ref>

== History ==
The Higashiyama [[shell mound]] in the north of the ward contains remains from the [[Paleolithic]], [[Jōmon]], [[Yayoi]], and [[Kofun period]]s.

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>{{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}}</ref>

The name "Meguro", meaning "black eyes", derives from the Meguro Fudō (Black-eyed [[Acala|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, Tokyo|Mejiro]], a district in [[Toshima, Tokyo|Toshima]] ward, is named for the white-eyed Fudō-myōō).

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

Four other special wards surround Meguro. They are [[Shibuya, Tokyo|Shibuya]] (to the northeast), [[Setagaya, Tokyo|Setagaya]] (to the west), [[Ōta, Tokyo|Ōta]] (to the south), and [[Shinagawa, Tokyo|Shinagawa]] (to the southeast).

=== Districts and neighborhoods ===
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;[[Hibusuma, Tokyo|Hibusuma]] area
* [[Chūōchō, Meguro, Tokyo|Chūōchō]]
* [[Haramachi, Meguro, Tokyo|Haramachi]]
* [[Higashigaoka, Meguro, Tokyo|Higashigaoka]]
* [[Himonya, Meguro, Tokyo|Himonya]]
* [[Jiyūgaoka, Meguro, Tokyo|Jiyūgaoka]]
* [[Kakinokizaka, Meguro, Tokyo|Kakinokizaka]]
* [[Megurohonchō, Meguro, Tokyo|Megurohonchō]]
* [[Midorigaoka, Meguro, Tokyo|Midorigaoka]]
* [[Minami, Meguro, Tokyo|Minami]]
* [[Nakane, Meguro, Tokyo|Nakane]]
* [[Ōokayama, Meguro, Tokyo|Ōokayama]]
* [[Senzoku, Meguro, Tokyo|Senzoku]]
* [[Tairamachi, Meguro, Tokyo|Tairamachi]]
* [[Takaban, Meguro, Tokyo|Takaban]]
* [[Yakumo, Meguro, Tokyo|Yakumo]]
* [[Hirachō, Meguro, Tokyo|Hirachō]]
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;[[Meguro, Meguro, Tokyo|Meguro]] area
* [[Aobadai, Meguro, Tokyo|Aobadai]]
* [[Gohongi, Meguro, Tokyo|Gohongi]]
* [[Higashiyama, Meguro, Tokyo|Higashiyama]]
* [[Kamimeguro, Meguro, Tokyo|Kamimeguro]]
* [[Komaba, Meguro, Tokyo|Komaba]]
* [[Meguro, Meguro, Tokyo|Meguro]]
* [[Mita, Meguro, Tokyo|Mita]]
* [[Nakachō, Meguro, Tokyo|Nakachō]]
* [[Nakameguro, Meguro, Tokyo|Nakameguro]]
* [[Ōhashi, Meguro, Tokyo|Ōhashi]]
* [[Shimomeguro, Meguro, Tokyo|Shimomeguro]]
* [[Yūtenji, Meguro, Tokyo|Yūtenji]]
* [[Sanda, Meguro, Tokyo|Sanda]]
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== Politics and government ==
[[File:Meguro, Tokyo City Office.jpg|thumb|Meguro Ward Government Offices]]
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 ===
* [[2007 Meguro local election]]
* [[2008 Meguro mayoral election]]

== Sightseeing and local landmarks ==
[[File:Meguro Sky Garden 20130506 006.jpg|thumb|[[Meguro Sky Garden]]]]
[[File:Persimmon Hall, Meguro.jpg|thumb|Persimmon Hall, Meguro]]
[[File:Meguro Pacific Saury Festival 2011.jpg|thumb|upright|Grilled [[Pacific saury]] at the Meguro Autumn Sanma Festival]]

=== Green spaces ===
* [[Meguro River]]
* [[Komaba Park]], Komaba
* Komabano Park, Komaba
* [[Komazawa Olympic Park]]
* [[Rinshi-no-mori Park]]
* [[Meguro Sky Garden]], [[Ohashi, Meguro, Tokyo|Ohashi]] Linear roof garden park spiraling 35 meters above street level covering the junction of two major expressways.
* Saigoyama Park, Aobadai
* Sugekari Park, Aobadai
* Nakameguro Park and Nature Center
* Himonya Park, Himonya

=== Cultural institutions ===
* [[Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography]]
* [[Meguro Museum of Art, Tokyo]]
* Meguro Persimmon Hall, concert and performance arts venue<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.persimmon.or.jp |script-title=ja:トップページ ― めぐろパーシモンホール／中目黒GTプラザホール |publisher=Persimmon.or.jp |access-date=2014-04-07}}</ref>
* [[Meguro Parasitological Museum]]
* [[Japanese Folk Crafts Museum]]
* Chosenin Temple Contemporary Sculpture Museum
*[[Meguro Gajoen]], a landmark historic hotel

=== Religious institutions ===
* Himonya Catholic Church<ref>{{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}}</ref>
* St. Michael's Catholic Church (German Language)<ref>{{cite web|title=Katholische Deutschsprachige Gemeinde|url=http://stmichaeltokyo.jimdo.com|work=Sankt Michael Tokyo|access-date=23 April 2014}}</ref>
* Himonya Hachiman Shrine
* Ōtori Shrine
* [[Ryūsenji]] (Meguro [[Acala|Fudo]] temple)
* Yūten-ji Temple
* St. Paul's Church, Gohongi ([[Anglican Church in Japan]])<ref>{{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}}</ref>
* [[Masjid Indonesia Tokyo]]
* Gohyaku Rakanji Temple

== Transportation ==
{{further|Transportation in Greater Tokyo}}

[[File:Naka-Meguro Station 2014.jpg|thumb|[[Naka-Meguro Station]]]]

=== Rail ===
*[[Tokyu Corporation]]
**[[Tōkyū Tōyoko Line|Tōyoko Line]]: {{STN|Nakameguro|x}} - {{STN|Yūtenji|x}} - {{STN|Gakugei-daigaku|x}} - {{STN|Toritsu-daigaku|x}} - {{STN|Jiyūgaoka|x|Tokyo}}
**[[Tōkyū Ōimachi Line|Ōimachi Line]]: Jiyugaoka - {{STN|Midorigaoka|x|Tokyo}} - {{STN|Ōokayama|x}}
**[[Tokyu Meguro Line|Meguro Line]]: Ōokayama - {{STN|Senzoku|x}}
**[[Tōkyū Den-en-toshi Line|Den-en-toshi Line]]: {{STN|Ikejiri-Ōhashi|x}}
*[[Keio Corporation]] [[Keiō Inokashira Line]]: {{STN|Komaba-Todaimae|x}}
*Note: [[Meguro Station]] ([[JR East]], Tokyu Meguro Line, [[Tokyo Metro Namboku Line]], [[Toei Mita Line]]) is in Shinagawa, not Meguro.

=== Highways ===
*[[Route 3 (Shuto Expressway)]] Shibuya radial route (Tanimachi JCT – Yoga)
*[[Central Circular Route (Shuto Expressway)|Central Circular Route]] C2. Completed in 2016 this deep level subterranean expressway connect the [[Yamate Tunnel]] as far as the [[Bayshore Route]] in [[Shinagawa, Tokyo|Shinagawa]]

== Education ==
[[File:University of Tokyo - Komaba Campus - Building 1.JPG|thumb|[[University of Tokyo, Komaba Campus]]]]

=== Colleges and universities ===
* [[University of Tokyo]] Komaba Campus
* [[Institute of Science Tokyo]]
* Note: [[Tokyo Gakugei University]] and [[Tokyo Metropolitan University]] were formerly in Meguro.
* [[Tokyo College of Music]]

=== 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)
<!--* Tokyo Metropolitan University High School → change to the Ōshukan-->

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:<ref>{{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}}</ref>
* Meguro 1st Junior High School ([[:ja:目黒区立第一中学校|第一中学校]])
* Meguro 7th Junior High School ([[:ja:目黒区立第七中学校|第七中学校]])
* Meguro 9th Junior High School ([[:ja:目黒区立第九中学校|第九中学校]])
* Meguro 10th Junior High School ([[:ja:目黒区立第十中学校|第十中学校]])
* Higashiyama Junior High School ([[:ja:目黒区立東山中学校|東山中学校]])
* Meguro Chuo Junior High School ([[:ja:目黒区立目黒中央中学校|目黒中央中学校]])
* Meguro Nishi Junior High School (目黒西中学校)
* Otori Junior High School ([[:ja:目黒区立大鳥中学校|大鳥中学校]])

Municipal elementary schools:<ref>{{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}}</ref>
* Aburamen Elementary School ([[:ja:目黒区立油面小学校|油面小学校]])
* Dendo Elementary School (田道小学校)
* Fudo Elementary School ([[:ja:目黒区立不動小学校|不動小学校]])
* Gekkohara Elementary School (月光原小学校)
* Gohongi Elementary School (五本木小学校)
* Haramachi Elementary School ([[:ja:目黒区立原町小学校|原町小学校]])
* Higashine Elementary School ([[:ja:目黒区立東根小学校|東根小学校]])
* Higashiyama Elementary School ([[:ja:目黒区立東山小学校|東山小学校]])
* Ishibumi Elementary School ([[:ja:目黒区立碑小学校|碑小学校]])
* Kamimeguro Elementary School ([[:ja:目黒区立上目黒小学校|上目黒小学校]])
* Karasumori Elementary School (烏森小学校)
* Komaba Elementary School ([[:ja:目黒区立駒場小学校|駒場小学校]])
* Midorigaoka Elementary School (緑ケ丘小学校)
* Miyamae Elementary School ([[:ja:目黒区立宮前小学校|宮前小学校]])
* Mukaihara Elementary School (向原小学校)
* Naka Meguro Elementary School ([[:ja:目黒区立中目黒小学校|中目黒小学校]])
* Nakane Elementary School ([[:ja:目黒区立中根小学校|中根小学校]])
* Ookayama Elementary School ([[:ja:目黒区立大岡山小学校|大岡山小学校]])
* Shimomeguro Elementary School ([[:ja:目黒区立下目黒小学校|下目黒小学校]])
* Sugekari Elementary School ([[:ja:目黒区立菅刈小学校|菅刈小学校]])
* Takaban Elementary School ([[:ja:目黒区立鷹番小学校|鷹番小学校]])
* Yakumo Elementary School ([[:ja:目黒区立八雲小学校|八雲小学校]])

=== International schools ===
* [[Aoba-Japan International School]]
* [[Tokyo Indonesian School]]

== Economy ==

=== Company headquarters ===
* [[Amazon.com|Amazon Japan]] head office
* [[Books Kinokuniya]]<ref>"[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"</ref>
* [[Don Quijote (store)|Don Quijote]] discount store chain head office
* [[LDH (company)|LDH]] (Headquarters for [[Exile (Japanese band)|EXILE]] & other Dance Units)
* [[Makino]]<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.makino.co.jp/ja-jp/about-us/office|title=事業所・営業所 &#124; Makino|website=www.makino.co.jp}}</ref>
* [[New Japan Pro-Wrestling]] head office
* [[Ribera Steakhouse]]
* [[Stanley Electric]]<ref>"[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.</ref>
* [[TopTour Corporation]]
* Unilever Japan, head office
* Walt Disney Japan, head office

== International relations ==
=== Friendship cities ===
* {{Flagicon|CHN}} [[Dongcheng, Beijing|Dongcheng District]], [[Beijing]], [[China|People's Republic of China]] (since 1991<ref>{{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}}</ref>)
* {{Flagicon|KOR}} [[Jungnang District]], [[Seoul]], [[South Korea|Republic of Korea]] (since 2013<ref>{{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}}</ref>)

=== Diplomatic missions in Meguro ===
[[File:ポーランド大使館全景.jpg|thumb|Embassy of [[Poland]] at [[Mita, Meguro, Tokyo|Mita]]]]
* {{Flagicon|DZA}} [[Embassy]] of the People's Democratic Republic of [[Algeria]] (at Higashigaoka)
* {{Flagicon|AZE}} Embassy of the Republic of [[Azerbaijan]] (at [[Mita, Meguro, Tokyo|Mita]])
* {{Flagicon|EGY}} Embassy of the Arab Republic of [[Egypt]] (at [[Aobadai]])
* {{Flagicon|GAB}} Embassy of the [[Gabon]]ese 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, Meguro-ku|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 [[Thailand|Thai]] Embassy [[Military attaché|Military Attaché]] Office (at Shimomeguro)
* {{Flagicon|TOG}} Embassy of the [[Togo]]lese Republic (at Yakumo)

== Notable people from Meguro ==
{{Unreferenced section|date=April 2014}}
*[[Yumiko Fujita]], actress
*[[Waka Inoue]], model, actress
*[[Risa Tsubaki]], voice actress
*[[Toru Iwatani]], arcade game designer, most notable for [[Pac-Man]] and [[Pole Position (video game)|Pole Position]]
*[[Shigeru Izumiya]], folk singer, entertainer (born in [[Aomori (city)|Aomori, Aomori]], but raised in Meguro)
*[[Masako, Empress of Japan]] (born in [[Toranomon]], but raised in Meguro)
*[[Yukio Sakaguchi]], mixed martial arts fighter and professional wrestler

* [[Kazuo Tokumitsu]], television presenter

* [[Renhō]], politician 

=== Notable residents ===
*[[Takuya Kimura]], singer and actor in male idol group [[SMAP]]
*[[Shizuka Kudo]], popular singer and wife of Takuya Kimura (Originally from [[Hamura, Tokyo]])
*[[Keisuke Kuwata]], singer with [[Southern All Stars]] (Originally from [[Chigasaki, Kanagawa]])
*[[Nobuyo Ōyama]], voices the anime character [[Doraemon]] (Originally from [[Shibuya, Tokyo]])
*[[Miyu Uehara]], gravure idol, found dead in her Meguro apartment (Originally from [[Tanegashima, Kagoshima]])
*Halca & Yucali of the [[hip-hop]] duo [[Halcali]]<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.sonymusic.co.jp/artist/HALCALI/profile/|title=プロフィール &#124; HALCALI &#124; ソニーミュージックオフィシャルサイト|website=Sony Music}}</ref>
*[[Shori Sato]], singer and actor in male idol group [[Sexy Zone]]
*[[Suehiro Maruo]], Manga artist, one of the best-known exponents of [[Ero Guro]] (Originally from [[Nagasaki, Nagasaki]])
==Notes==
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== References ==
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== External links ==
{{Commons category|Meguro}}
{{Wikivoyage|Tokyo/Meguro|Meguro}}
*[http://www.city.meguro.tokyo.jp/ Meguro City Official Website] {{in lang|ja}}

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