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13110 ／めぐろく

Meguro Ward

A Meiji test paddy still grows rice.

Kellner Paddy, Komabano Park

Photo by Aw1805 (CC BY-SA 3.0)

01 ／ Western and Japanese houses

Where the two houses join,Western style turns Japanese.

The Former Maeda Family Main Residence in Komaba Park has a Western-style house completed in 1929 and a Japanese-style house completed in 1930. The ward notes the latest technology of the time, such as a lift carrying dishes from the kitchen to the dining room, and a design device in the connecting corridor that switches from Western to Japanese style.

Western house: 1929
Japanese house: 1930
Important Cultural Property, 2013

02 ／ Guardian statues

Black-lacquered guardians:papers inside date them to 1559.

The Nio gate of Enyu-ji Temple in Himonya holds a pair of black-lacquered Kongo Rikishi statues. From papers placed inside them, the ward records that the Buddhist sculptor Taizo Hogen of Kamakura made them in 1559 (Eiroku 2); in the Edo period they were known as the Black Nio of Himonya. The main hall in the same grounds is a national Important Cultural Property.

Eiroku 2 (1559)
Tokyo-designated, 1969
Main hall: national

03 ／ Hawking post

A family keeping game for hawkingmoved to live near Komabano.

The first tsunasashi of the Meguro hawking grounds was Kawai Gonbei, a farmer from Nozuta Village (now Machida City) said to be a master pheasant catcher. In 1718 (Kyoho 3) he was ordered to move near Komabano and keep wild birds for the shogun's hunts. The post passed down in the Kawai family, whose papers are a ward cultural property.

Kyoho 3 (1718)
First: Kawai Gonbei
Ward-designated, 1984

Meguro Ward from the sky

Now and 1974–78. Tap a photo to zoom in.

Now1974–78

Wide (about 6 km across)

Close (about 1.5 km across)

Now (shot June–November 2019)Shot 1974–78

Source: Geospatial Information Authority of Japan (GSI) GSI Tiles（全国最新写真（シームレス）／国土画像情報（第一期：1974〜1978年撮影））

Open in GSI Maps (now)Open in GSI Maps (1974–78)

Living here

The ward office is a five-minute walk from Nakameguro Station.

about 290,000 people

The ward office is in the General Government Building in Kami-Meguro 2-chome. The nearest station is Naka-Meguro Station on the Tokyu Toyoko Line and Tokyo Metro Hibiya Line, five minutes on foot, the ward says. Tokyu Bus route Shibu 71 runs from Shibuya Station to the Meguro Ward General Government Building stop, a one-minute walk.

People living here: 288,088people
Area: 14.67km²
Households: 155,715households
Rent (average for rentals): 129,690yen
Healthcare: 9 hospitals ／ 348 clinics

Area and habitable land at the same scalee-Stat B1101 / B1103

Children waiting for childcare: —43 nurseries and similar
Home purchase subsidy: —
Average annual temperature: —

These 3 items are waiting on a nationwide data source. We do not fill them with estimates.

Shape

Surrounded by 4 municipalities, and almost entirely flat.

Meguro Ward in Japan35.642°N 139.698°E

Territory of Meguro Ward

Boundaries: National Land Numerical Information (Administrative Area Data), MLIT. Processed by Machigatari.

North to south

7.0km

Setagaya Ward, Shinagawa Ward, Shibuya Ward, Ota Ward

Travel times per leg are not published by the municipality, so they are not shown.

Meguro Ward isthis kind of town.

01The Kellner Paddy in Komabano Park is where the German Kellner studied soil and fertilizer from 1881; the ward calls it the birthplace of agricultural science
02The Former Maeda Family Main Residence is an early Showa Western-style and Japanese-style house pair, with a corridor that switches from Western to Japanese design
03The Enyu-ji guardian statues date to 1559, and the papers of the Kawai family, hawking-ground tsunasashi, are kept in the ward

See the town as it is now.

Source: Wikidata (P2002, P2003, P2013, P2397)

If something caught your eye, ask the town itself.

Meguro Ward official site ↗Wikipedia ↗

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