Shinagawa

Shinagawa City Hall
Shinagawa-ku ; 品川区
Geographical location in Japan
Region :	Kanto
Prefecture :	Tokyo
Coordinates :	35 ° 37 ' N , 139 ° 44' E Coordinates: 35 ° 36 '33 " N , 139 ° 43' 49" E
Basic data
Surface:	22.72 km²
Residents :	411.070 ; (October 1, 2019)
Population density :	18,093 inhabitants per km²
Community key :	13109-1
Symbols
Flag / coat of arms:
Tree :	Shii castanopsis , maple
Flower :	Rhododendron indicum
Bird :	Black-headed gull
town hall
Address :	Shinagawa City Hall ; 2 - 1 - 36 , Hiro-machi; Shinagawa-ku ; Tōkyō 140-8715
Website URL:	http://www.city.shinagawa.tokyo.jp
Location of Shinagawas in Tokyo Prefecture

Shinagawa ( Japanese 品川区 , - ku ) is one of the 23 districts of the Japanese prefecture of Tokyo . It is located in the south of Tokyo , the capital of Japan .

geography

Shinagawa is divided into the districts Ebara ( 荏原地区 , -chiku ), Ōi ( 大井地区 , -chiku ), Ōsaki ( 大崎地区 , -chiku ), Shinagawa ( 品川地区 , -chiku ) and Yashio ( 八潮地区 , -chiku ) .

Neighboring cities and communities

Tokyo : Shibuya , Meguro , Ōta , Kōtō , Minato boroughs

history

Today's "special district" Shinagawa was created on May 3, 1947 during the occupation during the expansion (or restoration) of the self-government of the local authorities, which has since been guaranteed in the constitution , although for decades it remained controversial as to whether this guarantee would also apply to the "special districts." “( Tokyo ) extends. Shortly before that, on March 15, 1947, the Shinagawa district was created from the merger of the Ebara and Shinagawa districts, which had been directly prefecture-level since 1943 , of the city of Tokyo , which was abolished in the war . The two city districts were created in 1932 when the cities (- machi ) Shinagawa, Ebara, Ōsaki and Ōi from the Ebara district were incorporated into the city of Tokyo. Shinagawa City was the seat of the county government until the county government was abolished in the 1920s. In the early Meiji period, the area was part of Shinagawa Prefecture , which administered parts of Musashi Province until 1871.

During the Edo period , Shinagawa was the Tōkaidō's first post office . With the many hotels with 6,000 rooms around the train station - the highest concentration in all of Tokyo - this post office function continues into the present.

Political groups in Parliament
(as of May 27, 2019)

A total of 40 seats

Jimin ・ mushozoku ・ kodomo mirai (" LDP , Independent, Future Children"): 9
Shinagawa-kugikai jimintō (" LDP [in] Shinagawa District Parliament"): 8
Kōmeitō : 7
KPY : 6
Kaikaku rengō ("Reform Union"; with Tomin First ): 3
Seikatsusha Network : 2
Non-attached: 5

View from a building on Tennōzu Isle

politics

Shinagawa has been mayor since 2006, Takeshi Hamano, previously a civil servant and from 2002 vice mayor (joyaku) . He was re-elected in September 2018, now at the age of 71, with the support of the LDP and Kōmeitō against the KDP - KPJ - LP - Tomin-First -backed former prefectural parliamentarian Hirohiko Satō (60) and another candidate for a fourth term. The 40 seats in Shinagawa's parliament were filled in the 2019 unified elections .

In prefectural parliamentary elections, the district forms a four-mandate constituency, which elected two members of Koike's prefectural party Tomin First no Kai and one each from Kōmeitō and KPJ in the last election in 2017 . The two candidates from the Liberal Democratic Party landed in fifth and seventh place.

For the House of Commons , the majority of Shinagawa together with part of sowieta and the cities and villages on the Izu and Ogasawara Islands form the constituency of Tokyo 3 . After the 2000 election, the constituency was alternately represented by the Democrat Jin Matsubara (2000-2005 and 2009-2012) and the Liberal Democrat Hirotaka Ishihara (2005-2009 and since 2012), son of the former Prefectural Governor Shintarō Ishihara . Parts of Ōsaki and Gotanda in the north-west of the district have belonged to constituency 7 since the 2017 election , which otherwise mainly includes the Shibuya district.

Infrastructure

education

Shinagawa is home to Hoshi University , Risshō University , Seisen University , Shōwa University, and Sugino Women's University .

traffic

Street

Tokyo city highway
National Road 1 , to Chūō or Osaka
National Road 15 , to Chūō or Yokohama
National Road 357

rail

JR East :
- Yamanote Line (Ring Line), from Ōsaki , Gotanda or Meguro
- Keihin-Tōhoku Line , from Ōimachi to Ōmiya or Yokohama
- Saikyō Line , from Ōsaki to Ōmiya
- Yokosuka Line , from Nishi-Ōi to Tokyo or Yokosuka
- Shōnan-Shinjuku line , from Ōsaki or Nishi-Ōi to Ōmiya or Kamakura
Tōkyū :
- Meguro Line , from Meguro, Fudomae, Musashi-Koyama or Nishi-Koyama to Musashi-Kosugi
- Ōimachi line , from Ōimachi, Shimo-Shinmei, Togoshi-kōen, Nakanobu, Ebaramachi or Hatanodai, to Setagaya
- Ikegami line , from Gotanda, Ōsaki-Hirokōji, Togoshi-Ginza, Ebara-Nakanobu or Hatanodai to Ōta
Rinkai Line , from Tennōzu Isle, Shinagawa Seaside, Ōimachi or Ōsaki to Kōtō
Tōkyō Monorail : Haneda Line , from Tennōzu Isle or Ōikeibajō-mae to Minato or Ōta
Keikyū : main line , from Kita-Shinagawa, Shin-Bamba, Aomono-Yokochō, Samezu, Tachiaigawa or Ōmori-Kaigan to Minato or Yokosuka
Tōkyō Metro : Namboku Line , from Meguro to Kita
Toei :
- Mita Line , from Meguro to Itabashi
- Asakusa Line , from Nakanobu, Togoshi or Gotanda to Ōta or Sumida
Narita Express