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Shinagawa 品川区 | |
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Shinagawa City | |
![]() Meguro River at Ōsaki, Shinagawa | |
![]() Location of Shinagawa in Tokyo Metropolis | |
Coordinates: 35°36′N 139°44′E / 35.600°N 139.733°E | |
Country | Japan |
Region | Kantō |
Prefecture | Tokyo Metropolis |
Area | |
• Total | 22.84 km2 (8.82 sq mi) |
Population (April 1, 2016) | |
• Total | 380,293 |
• Density | 16,510/km2 (42,800/sq mi) |
Time zone | UTC+9 (Japan Standard Time) |
Website | www.city.shinagawa.tokyo.jp |
Shinagawa (品川区, 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
[change | change source]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
[change | change source]Shinagawa is run by a city assembly of 40 elected members.
Foreign embassies and consulates
[change | change source]Embassies
[change | change source]Education
[change | change source]Universities
[change | change source]Special colleges
[change | change source]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
[change | change source]Shinagawa has sister-city relationships with Auckland in New Zealand, Geneva in Switzerland, and Portland, Maine in the United States.[3]
Geneva, Switzerland
Auckland, New Zealand[4]
Harbin, People's Republic of China
Hayakawa, Japan
Portland, Maine
Related pages
[change | change source]References
[change | change source]- ↑ Tokyo Metropolitan Government (TMG), "Municipalities within Tokyo" Archived 2012-03-28 at the Wayback Machine. Retrieved 2012-3-27.
- ↑ 大東京35区物語~15区から23区へ~東京23区の歴史 (in Japanese). Tokyo Metropolitan Archives. Archived from the original on 2020-06-17. 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 Auckland. Embassy of Japan. Archived from the original on 2008-12-09. Retrieved 2008-12-09.
Other websites
[change | change source]![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4a/Commons-logo.svg/30px-Commons-logo.svg.png)
- 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