Shinagawa

品川区code: ja is deprecated
品川区
Special ward
Country	Japan
Time zone	UTC+9 (Japan Standard Time)

Shinagawa (品川区code: ja is deprecated , Shinagawa-ku) is one of the 23 special wards of Tokyo, Japan. It is sometimes called Shinagawa City in English.^[1]

As of 2008, the ward has an estimated population of 344,461 and a density of 15,740 persons per km². The total area is 22.72 km².

History

The ward was founded on March 15, 1947 by combining Ebara Ward with the older Shinagawa Ward.^[2] Both Ebara Ward and Shinagawa Ward had been created in 1932 when Tokyo City expanded after the Great Kantō earthquake.

Shinagawa is a transport hub with the busy Shinagawa Station nearby in Minato Ward.

Politics and government

Shinagawa is run by a city assembly of 40 elected members.

Foreign embassies and consulates

Embassies

Education

Universities

Special colleges

Tokyo Metropolitan Government Board of Education operates two special colleges in Shinagawa:

Tokyo Metropolitan College of Technology [1] Archived 2007-10-25 at the Wayback Machine
Tokyo Metropolitan College of Industrial Technology [2]

Sister cities

Shinagawa has sister-city relationships with Auckland in New Zealand, Geneva in Switzerland, and Portland, Maine in the United States.^[3]

Shinagawa Media

Shinagawa-juku in the 1830s, as depicted by Hiroshige
Japan Airlines headquarters in Tennōzu Isle, Shinagawa
Sega Sammy's main headquarters in Shinagawa
Ebara Shrine, a Shintō shrine at Kita Shinagawa, Shinagawa, Tokyo.
Site of Hamakawa Gun Battery
Shimo-Shimmei Tenso jinjya shrine inari jinja
Tokyo Health Care University
Exterior of Shinagawa Station in Minato
Ōimachi Station at Ōi, Shinagawa

Related pages

References

↑ Tokyo Metropolitan Government (TMG), "Municipalities within Tokyo" Archived 2012-03-28 at the Wayback Machine. Retrieved 2012-3-27.
↑ No Title (in Japanese)Tokyo Metropolitan Archives. Retrieved 2020-08-03.
↑ 国際交流事業の紹介 | 品川区 Archived 2013-05-11 at the Wayback Machine ("Introduction to International Relations | Shinagawa") Retrieved on March 10, 2009
↑ Sister Cities. Consulate-General of Japan in AucklandEmbassy of Japan. Retrieved 2008-12-09.

Other websites

http://www.city.shinagawa.tokyo.jp/s_foreign/english/kucho.html Archived 2006-08-26 at the Wayback Machine, (in Japanese)
Tokyo Metropolitan Government, Special wards Archived 2014-12-08 at the Wayback Machine

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[1] Tokyo Metropolitan Government (TMG), "Municipalities within Tokyo" Archived 2012-03-28 at the Wayback Machine. Retrieved 2012-3-27.

[2] No Title (in Japanese)Tokyo Metropolitan Archives. Retrieved 2020-08-03.

[3] 国際交流事業の紹介 | 品川区 Archived 2013-05-11 at the Wayback Machine ("Introduction to International Relations | Shinagawa") Retrieved on March 10, 2009

[4] Sister Cities. Consulate-General of Japan in AucklandEmbassy of Japan. Retrieved 2008-12-09.

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