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Higashigotanda, Shinagawa, Tokyo
is a district located at the northern part of Shinagawa, Tokyo, Japan. It consists of 1 to 5-chōme. As of February 1, 2008, the total population is 10,716. Higashigotanda borders Kamiōsaki, Shinagawa and Shirokanedai, Minato on the north, Takanawa, Minato on the east, Kitashinagawa, Shinagawa on the southeast, Ōsaki, Shinagawa (across Meguro River) on the south, and Nishigotanda, Shinagawa (across JR Yamanote Line) on the west. Gotanda Station is located in Higashigotanda 1-chōme. Higashigotanda has several well-known upper-class residential districts including and , which roughly correspond to Higashigotanda 3-chōme and 5-chōme, respectively. Higashigotanda is home to two private universities. Seisen University is located in Higashigotanda 3-chōme, and Tokyo Health Care University is located in Higashigotanda 4-chōme. Education Shinagawa City Board of Education operates public elementary and junior high schools. Hino Gakuen ( 日野学園) is the zoned combine ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nishigotanda, Shinagawa, Tokyo
is a district of Shinagawa, Tokyo, Japan. Nishigotanda is located at the northern part of Shinagawa. It consists of 1 to 8-chōme, and its total population is 20,187 (as of February 1, 2008). Nishigotanda borders Kamiōsaki and Higashigotanda, Shinagawa on the northeast; Ǒsaki, Shinagawa on the east; Togoshi and Hiratsuka, Shinagawa on the southeast; Ebara, Shinagawa on the south; Koyama, Shinagawa on the southwest; Koyamadai, Shinagawa on the west; and Shimomeguro, Meguro on the northwest. Pola Cosmetics is headquartered in Nishigotanda. Nishigotanda 7-chome is home to the 13-story commercial building Toc Building. It houses an exhibition hall, a conference room, and a number of shops, including Office Depot, Uniqlo, Natural Lawson, ABC-Mart, Shop99, and Orihica. Education Shinagawa City Board of Education operates public elementary and junior high schools. Portions of Higashigotanda 1 and 2-chome The Japanese addressing system is used to identify a specific loca ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chome
The Japanese addressing system is used to identify a specific location in Japan. When written in Japanese characters, addresses start with the largest geographical entity and proceed to the most specific one. When written in Latin characters, addresses follow the convention used by most Western addresses and start with the smallest geographic entity (typically a house number) and proceed to the largest. The Japanese system is complex and idiosyncratic, the product of the natural growth of urban areas, as opposed to the systems used in cities that are laid out as grids and divided into quadrants or districts. Address parts Japanese addresses begin with the largest division of the country, the prefecture. Most of these are called ''ken'' (県), but there are also three other special prefecture designations: ''to'' (都) for Tokyo, ''dō'' (道) for ''Hokkaidō'' and ''fu'' (府) for the two urban prefectures of Osaka and Kyoto. Following the prefecture is the municipality. For ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tokyo Health Care University
is a private university headquartered in Shinagawa, Tokyo, Japan. The university offers health professional education programs in undergraduate and graduate levels. History The predecessor of the university, Aobagakuen Junior College, was established as a women's two-year junior college in 1966. It became coeducational in 2001 and it was reorganized into a four-year university in 2005. Campuses * Gotanda Campus: Higashigotanda, Shinagawa, Tokyo * Setagaya Campus: Setagaya, Tokyo * Campus: Meguro, Tokyo * National Hospital Organization Tachikawa Campus: Tachikawa, Tokyo * Funabashi Campus: Funabashi City, Chiba Prefecture * Onominato Campus: Wakayama City, Wakayama Prefecture * Campus: Wakayama City, Wakayama Prefecture Organization Undergraduate schools The university has five divisions of nursing. Their entrance examinations and educations are conducted separately. * Faculty of Healthcare: Gotanda and Setagaya Campus ** Division of Nursing ** Division of Medical ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Seisen University (Tokyo)
is a private Catholic liberal arts women's college in Shinagawa, Tokyo, Japan. History The predecessor of the school, , was founded in 1938 by the Handmaids of the Sacred Heart of Jesus. It was chartered as a women's four-year college in 1950. Organization Undergraduate studies * Department of Spanish Language and Literature * Department of English Language and Literature * Department of Global Citizenship Studies * Department of Cultural History * Department of Japanese Language and Literature Graduate School of Humanities * Master's Program in Language and Culture * Master's Program in Thought and Culture * Master's Program in Global Citizenship Studies * Doctoral Program in Humanities Research institutes * Research Institute for Cultural Studies * Research Institute for Christian Culture * Research Institute for Language Education Campus Address 3-16-21 Higashi Gotanda, Shinagawa-ku, Tokyo, 141-8642, Japan Facilities The university's Italian Renaissance ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gotanda Station
Gotanda Station ( ja, 五反田駅,) is a railway station in Shinagawa, Tokyo, Japan, operated by the East Japan Railway Company (JR East), the private railway operator Tokyu Corporation, and the Tokyo subway operator Toei. Lines Gotanda Station is served by the following lines: * JR East Yamanote Line * Toei Asakusa Line (Station number A-05) * Tokyu Ikegami Line - terminus station Station layout JR East The JR East station consists of an elevated island platform serving two tracks. The station has a "Midori no Madoguchi" staffed ticket office. Chest-height platform edge doors were installed on the Yamanote Line platforms in February 2015, with operation commencing in March. File:JR_Yamanote-Line_Gotanda_Station_Platform_(20210410).jpg, JR platforms, 2021 Tokyu The Tokyu station consists of one elevated island platform serving two tracks, located above the JR platforms. File:Gotanda-Sta-Tokyu-Platform.JPG, Tokyu platforms, 2016 Toei The Toei subway station consists o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yamanote Line
The Yamanote Line ( ja, 山手線, Yamanote-sen) is a loop service in Tokyo, Japan, operated by the East Japan Railway Company (JR East). It is one of Tokyo's busiest and most important lines, connecting most of Tokyo's major stations and urban centres, including Marunouchi, the Yūrakuchō/ Ginza area, Shinagawa, Shibuya, Shinjuku, Ikebukuro, and Ueno, with all but two of its 30 stations connecting to other railway or underground (subway) lines. Internally JR East refers to the "Yamanote Line" as the quadruple-track corridor between Shinagawa and Tabata via Shinjuku. The corridor consists of a pair of tracks used by Yamanote local trains and another parallel pair of tracks called "the Yamanote Freight Line" used by the Saikyō and Shōnan-Shinjuku line trains, some limited express services, and freight trains. In everyday usage, branding on maps and station signage, the "Yamanote Line" refers to the local service running the entire line looping between the Yamanote corrid ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ōsaki, Tokyo
is a primarily commercial district in the northern part of Shinagawa, Tokyo, Japan. The district has completed several urban renewal projects centered around the Yamanote Line's Ōsaki Station, which include Ōsaki New City in 1987, Gate City Ōsaki in 1999, Art Village Ōsaki in 2007, Oval Court Ōsaki in 2004, and ThinkPark in 2007. Rissho University, its predecessor established in 1580 and reorganized into a university in 1924, is a private university with the main campus in Ōsaki. The 55th Prime Minister of Japan Tanzan Ishibashi served as this school's president from 1952 to 1968. Ōsaki is now one of the seven officially designated by the Tokyo Metropolis. Economy MOS Burger has its headquarters in the ThinkPark Tower in Ōsaki. Fuji Electric and Lawson have their headquarters in the East Tower of Gate City Ohsaki in Ōsaki. Nippon Chemi-Con, an electronic components manufacturer and Topy Industries, a machinery and automotive components company, are also headquartered ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shinagawa, Tokyo
is a special ward in Tokyo, Japan. The Ward refers to itself as Shinagawa City in English. The Ward is home to ten embassies. , the Ward had an estimated population of 380,293 and a population density of 16,510 persons per km2. The total area is 22.84 km2. ''Shinagawa'' is also commonly used to refer to the business district around Shinagawa Station, which is not in Shinagawa Ward. This Shinagawa is in the Takanawa and Konan neighborhoods of Minato Ward, directly north of Kita-Shinagawa. Geography 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. Districts and neighbo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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