Meguro

is one of the 23 special wards of Tokyo, Japan.

The municipality calls itself "Meguro City" in English.

As of December 31, 2007, the ward has an estimated population of 259,968 and a density of 17,685 persons per km². The total area is 14.70 km².

The ward was founded on March 15, 1947.

## History

The area now known as Meguro was originally two towns. One was called Meguro, and the other was called Hibusuma. Both used to be parts of the Ebara District of Musashi Province. The two were combined to create Meguro ward for Tokyo City in 1932. The ward area has not changed since then.

## Population

The number of people living in Meguro has not changed over the last forty years. The high was almost 300,000 people in 1970, and the low was under 250,000 in 1995. See the census information below.

- 1970: 295,612 people
- 1975: 285,003 people
- 1980: 273,791 people
- 1985: 269,166 people
- 1990: 251,222 people
- 1995: 243,100 people
- 2000: 250,140 people
- 2005: 264,064 people
- 2010: 268,719 people

## Geography

There are four other special wards next to Meguro. They are Shibuya (to the northeast), Setagaya (to the west), Ōta (to the south) and Shinagawa (to the southeast).

## Foreign embassies and consulates

There are many embassies from African nations in the ward.
- Embassies
    - Bangladesh（Meguro）
    - Uzbekistan（Shimomeguro）
    - Kyrgyzstan（Shimomeguro）
    - Poland（Mita）
    - Algeria（Mita）
    - Egypt（Aobadai）
    - Kenya（Yagumo）
    - Djibouti（Shimomeguro）
    - Uganda（Himonya）
    - Nigeria（Shimomeguro）
    - Gabon（Higashigaoka）
    - Senegal（Aobadai）
    - Cuba（Shimomeguro）
    - Kazakhstan（Himonya）
- Consulates
    - Iceland（Nakameguro）

### Colleges and universities

- University of Tokyo Komaba Campus
- Tokyo Institute of Technology
- Note: Tokyo Gakugei University and Tokyo Metropolitan University used to be in Meguro. They have moved, but railway stations named for them kept the university names.

## Culture

- Meguro Museum of Art, Tokyo

## Religion

- Himonya Catholic Church
- Himonya Hachiman Shrine
- Ōtori Shrine
- Ryūsen-ji (Meguro Fudo temple). Its black-eyed (me-guro) statue of Fudo gave Meguro its name.
- Yūten-ji

### Famous people from Meguro

- Yumiko Fujita: actress
- Waka Inoue: model, actress
- Masako, Empress of Japan
- Shigeru Izumiya: folk singer, entertainer
- Kazuo Tokumitsu: announcer

### Notable residents

- Takuya Kimura: singer and actor in male idol group SMAP
- Shizuka Kudo: popular singer, Takuya Kimura's wife
- Keisuke Kuwata: singer, Southern All Stars
- Nobuyo Ōyama: voices the cartoon character Doraemon
- Halca & Yucali of the Hip-hop duo Halcali

## Related pages

- List of special wards of Tokyo
- Capital of Japan

## Other websites

- Meguro City official website  in English
- Tokyo Metropolitan Government, Special wards

## Infobox (city japan)

- **name**: Meguro
- **official name**: Meguro City
- **settlement type**: Special wards of Tokyo, Special ward
- **image skyline**: Meguro River Spring 2014(2).jpg
- **image caption**: Cherry trees along the Meguro River, near Nakameguro, Meguro, Tokyo, Nakameguro
- **image flag**: Flag of Meguro, Tokyo.svg
- **image symbol**: Emblem of Meguro, Tokyo.svg
- **symboldescription**: Emblem
- **region**: Kantō region, Kantō
- **prefecture**: Tokyo, Tokyo Metropolis
- **mayor**: Eiji Aoki
- **area km2**: 14.67
- **population**: 277,171
- **population as of**: May 1, 2015
- **density km2**: 18,890
- **tree**: _Castanopsis_
- **flower**: _Lespedeza_
- **bird**: Great tit
- **image map**: Meguro-ku in Tokyo Prefecture Ja.svg