Takanawa
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Takanawa is a neighborhood in Minato, Tokyo
, Japan
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Minato, Tokyo
is one of the 23 special wards of Tokyo, Japan. As of 1 March 2008, it had an official population of 217,335 and a population density of 10,865 persons per km². The total area is 20.34 km².Minato hosts 49 embassies...
, Japan
Japan
Japan is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south...
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Education
- The Takanawa Library is in Takanawa. is a junior high school. TakamatsunomiyaArisugawa-no-miyaThe ' is one of the shinnōke, branches of the Imperial Family of Japan which were, until 1947, eligible to succeed to the Chrysanthemum Throne in the event that the main line should die out....
contributed some of its own mansions for Minato and a junior high school was built there.
Notable sites
- The temple Sengaku-jiSengaku-jiSengakuji is a Sōtō Zen Buddhist temple located in the Takanawa neighborhood of Minato-ku, near Shinagawa Station, Tokyo, Japan.The graves of Asano Takumi no Kami Naganori and the Forty-seven Ronin are there.-External links:* - in Japanese...
, containing the graves of the Forty-seven RoninForty-seven RoninThe revenge of the , also known as the Forty-seven Samurai, the Akō vendetta, or the took place in Japan at the start of the 18th century...
and their lordDaimyois a generic term referring to the powerful territorial lords in pre-modern Japan who ruled most of the country from their vast, hereditary land holdings... - Tōzen-jiTozen-jiTōzen-ji is a temple in Takanawa, Minato, Tokyo, Japan. It belongs to the Rinzai sect of Zen Buddhism which has its headquarters at Myoshin-ji in Kyoto.In 1610, Ryonan-zenji founded it at Akasaka and in 1636 it was relocated to its present location...
; a Zen temple - The Hatakeyama Memorial Museum
- Maruyama Jinja, a Shinto shrine
- Stone wall in Takanawa seashoreStone wall in Takanawa seashoreStone wall in Takanawa seashore is a historical place in Takanawa 1 chome, Minato, Tokyo, Japan. In the Edo period, stone walls were built along the Takanawa seashore and they are now a historical site. The research excavation at the ruins in the ward facility building in 20th of 1995 Takanawa...