Meguro

is one of the 23 special wards of Tokyo, Japan.Tokyo Metropolitan Government (TMG), "Municipalities within Tokyo" . Retrieved 2012-3-27. 

The municipality calls itself "Meguro City" in English.Meguro City . Retrieved 2012-4-2.

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).

Districts
Meguro Area
Aobadai
Ōhashi
Kamimeguro
Gohongi
Komaba
ShimomeguroNakachō
Nakameguro
Higashiyama
Mita
Meguro
Yūtenji
Hibusuma Area
Ōokayama
Kakinokizaka
Jiyūgaoka
Senzoku
Tairamachi
Takaban
Chūōchō
NakaneHaramachi
Higashigaoka
Himonya
Midorigaoka
Minami
Megurohonchō
Yakumo

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）

Education
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

People
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

Photographs of Meguro

Related pages 
 List of special wards of Tokyo
 Capital of Japan

References

Other websites

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

Category:Wards of Tokyo
Category:Settlements in Tokyo Prefecture