Shinagawa

Shinagawa Ward includes natural uplands and lowlands, as well as reclaimed land. The uplands are the eastern end of the Musashino Terrace. They include Shiba-Shirokanedai north of the Meguro River, Megurodai between the Meguro and Tachiai Rivers, and Ebaradai south of the Tachiai River.

The Ward lies on Tokyo Bay. Its neighbors on land are all special wards of Tokyo: Kōtō to the east, Minato to the north, Meguro to the west, and Ōta to the south.

Most of Tokyo east of the Imperial Palace is on reclaimed land. A large proportion of the reclamation took place during the Edo period, when Shinagawa-juku was the first shukuba (post town) in the "53 Stations of the Tōkaidō" that a traveler would reach after setting out from Nihonbashi to Kyoto on the Tōkaidō. The Tokugawa shogunate maintained the Suzugamori execution grounds in Shinagawa.

Following the Meiji Restoration and the abolition of the han system, Shinagawa Prefecture was instituted in 1869. The prefectural administration was to be set up in the Ebara District, but in 1871 Shinagawa Prefecture was integrated into Tokyo Prefecture. In 1932, during the reorganisation of the municipal boundaries of Tokyo City following the 1923 Great Kantō earthquake, a smaller version of Shinagawa Ward was created. On March 15, 1947, this was merged with the neighboring Ebara Ward to create the present Shinagawa Ward.

The Ward's historic post-town function is retained today with several large hotels near the train station offering 6,000 rooms, the largest concentration in Tokyo.

The Tōkaidō Shinkansen high-speed rail line began serving Shinagawa Station in 2003.

The mayor of Shinagawa Ward is Kyoko Morisawa [ja], elected on December 4, 2022. She is an independent politician born in 1978.

The Shinagawa Ward Assembly [ja], consisting of 40 seats, held its last election on April 23, 2023.

• Museums
  • ARCHI-DEPOT Museum [ja]^[7]
  • Kume Museum of Art [ja]
  • The Museum of Package Culture^[8]
  • Nikon Museum
  • O Art Museum
  • Shinagawa Historical Museum [ja],^[9] a public local museum of Shinagawa
  • Sugino Costume Museum
• SHINAGAWA AQUARIUM [ja]^[10]
• The Galaxy Theatre [ja]
• Ohi Racecourse
• Togoshi Ginza [ja] Shopping District^[11]
• Musashi Koyama [ja] Shopping District "PALM"^[12]
• Historic sites
  • Ōmori Shell Mounds^[13]
  • Former Tōkaidō Road
    • Former Shinagawa-juku Station
    • Site of Suzugamori Execution Grounds
    • The Bridge of Tears [ja]^[14]
  • Former Shinagawa Port [ja]
  • Site of Hamakawa Gun Battery^[15]
• Parks
  • Rinshi-no-mori Park^[16]
  • Shinagawa Kumin Park [ja]^[17]
  • Ikedayama Park [ja],^[18] site of a daimyō's villa
  • Togoshi Park [ja],^[19] site of a daimyō's villa
• Ebara Shichi-Fuku-Jin [ja] (Seven Lucky Gods in Ebara area)
• Buddhist temples
  • Honsen-ji [ja]
  • Tōkai-ji
  • Hōren-ji [ja]
  • Tōkō-ji [ja]
• Shintō shrines
  • Shinagawa Shrine [ja]
  • Shimo-Shimmei Tenso Shrine [ja]
  • Ebara Shrine [ja]
  • Ōi Kashima Shrine [ja]
  • Hebikubo Shrine [ja]
• Churches
  • Meguro Catholic Church (St. Anselm's Church)^[20]
  • St. Stephen's Church,^[21] Tokyo St. Mary's Church^[22] – Anglican churches
  • Christ Shinagawa Church^[23] – a Presbyterian church
  • Shinagawa Baptist Church,^[24] Oi Baptist Church^[25]
  • Kreuzkirche Tokyo - a German-speaking Protestant Church^[26]

• 1863 – British Liberines burning case [ja]
• 1964 – Shinagawa Katsushima warehouse explosion fire [ja]
• 1987 – Explosion accident at the Ōi Thermal Power Plant [ja]
• 1995 – Death case of arrest and detention of public affairs notary public office [ja]

• Godzilla, Shin Godzilla
• Haguregumo
• Lucky Seven
• Sun in the Last Days of the Shogunate

• Tadasuke Akiyama, photographer
• Shizuka Arakawa, figure skater
• Nobutoshi Canna (Real Name: Nobutoshi Hayashi, Nihongo: 林 延年, Hayashi Nobutoshi), actor, voice actor, singer and narrator
• Char (Real Name: Hisato Takenaka, Nihongo: 竹中 尚人, Takenaka Hisato), musician, singer-songwriter and record producer
• Osamu Dezaki, anime director and screenwriter
• Renji Ishibashi (Real Name: Renji Ishida, Nihongo: 石田 蓮司, Ishida Renji), actor
• Kenji Kawai, composer and arranger
• Momoko Kikuchi, Japanese actress, entertainer, idol, and scholar
• Yun Kōga (Real Name: Risa Kimura, Nihongo: 木村 理沙, Kimura Risa), manga artist
• Akira Kurosawa, film director, screenwriter, and producer
• Taiki Matsuno (Real Name: Tatsuya Matsuno, Nihongo: 松野 達也, Matsuno Tatsuya), actor and voice actor
• Takeshi Mori, December 2, 1959, in Shinagawa, Tokyo, Japan), television announcer and tarento
• Keiji Nishikawa, professional shogi player ranked 8-dan
• Riho (Real Name Unknown), female professional wrestler and idol
• Yuki Sato, actor
• Chiyoko Shimakura, enka singer
• Tetsuo Suda, TV presenter and news anchor
• Issei Tamura, martial artist
• Taeko Watanabe, manga artist
• Miki Yamada, politician, member of the House of Representatives and member of the Liberal Democratic Party
• Masamoto Yashiro, businessman
• Masayoshi Takanaka (高中 正義, Takanaka Masayoshi), guitarist, composer, and producer.

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  Main entrance of Togoshi Park
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  Cherry blossoms at Goten-yama Hill [ja] in Kita-Shinagawa
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  Cherry blossoms at Goten-yama Hill by Hokusai
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  Former Shinagawa Port
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  Shinagawa Port by Hiroshige
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  Night view of Higashi-Shinagawa