is a district of

Shibuya, Tokyo is a special ward in Tokyo, Japan. A major commercial center, Shibuya houses one of the busiest railway stations in the world, Shibuya Station. As of January 1, 2024, Shibuya Ward has an estimated population of 230,609 in 142,443 households ...

, Japan. Abutting Ebisu,

Minami-Azabu is a district of Minato, Tokyo, Japan. Literally meaning "Southern Azabu", Minami-Azabu was named so because it was situated in the southern portion of the former Azabu Ward. The area's postal code is 106–0047. Landmarks * Embassy of the Re ...

Nishi-Azabu is a district of Minato, Tokyo, Japan, which was a part of the former Azabu Ward. Nishiazabu is bordered by Aoyama, Tokyo, Minami-Aoyama on the north and west, Hiroo, Shibuya, Hiroo (Shibuya) on the south, Moto-Azabu on the southeast, and Roppon ...

and

Minami-Aoyama is a district of Minato, Tokyo, Minato, Tokyo, Japan. Education Minato City Board of Education operates public elementary and junior high schools. Minami-Aoyama 1-chōme 1-12 ban, 2-chōme, 3-chōme 1-4-ban, and 4-chōme 1-9 ban are zoned to Ao ...

, Hiroo is an upmarket residential and shopping neighborhood in central Tokyo. As of October, 2020, the population of this district is 15,263. The postal code for Hiroo is 150-0012. According to the

Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport The Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport (MOLIT; ) is a cabinet-level division of the government of South Korea. Its headquarters is in the Sejong Government Office in Sejong City. Previously the agency was headquartered in the 4th buil ...

, as of 2020, the residential land prices on Hiroo 2-chōme and 3-chōme are as high as ¥1,350,000/m² and ¥1,260,000/m², respectively. Located on Minami-Azabu, the

Hiroo Station (officially Hiro-o Station) is a subway station on the in Minato, Tokyo operated by the Tokyo subway operator Tokyo Metro. The station is named after the adjacent Hiroo neighborhood in Shibuya ward, though the station is entirely located in ...

Tokyo Metro Hibiya Line The is a subway line in Tokyo, Japan, owned and operated by Tokyo Metro. The line was named after the Hibiya area in Chiyoda, Tokyo, Chiyoda's Yurakucho district, under which it passes. On maps, diagrams and signboards, the line is shown using t ...

is the nearest subway station to Hiroo.

Geography

Hiroo is located in the southeast area of the district of Shibuya, Tokyo, Japan. The boundaries of Hiroo are Nishi-Azabu, Minato and Minami- Aoyama, Minato to the north and follows the

Shibuya River The is a river which flows through central Tokyo, Japan. The river is 2.6 km in length originating close to Shibuya Station and passing through Shibuya and Minato wards before merging with the Furu River near Hiroo and flowing into Tokyo ...

along the south. Minami-Azabu, Minato is located to the east and

Higashi, Shibuya is a residential district of the Shibuya ward in Tokyo surrounded by the residential areas of Hiroo, Ebisu, Daikanyama and Aoyama. Prince Hitachi and Princess Hitachi have their official residence in a palace in large gardens off Komazawa ...

is located to the west.

Education

Tertiary education

There are two universities in Hiroo. The University of the Sacred Heart, successor to the Sacred Heart Koto Senmon School which was established in 1916 and reorganized into a university with the current name in 1948, is one of the oldest women's universities in Japan. Its important alumnae include the former

UN High Commissioner for Refugees The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) is a United Nations agency mandated to aid and protect refugees, forcibly displaced communities, and stateless people, and to assist in their voluntary repatriation, l ...

Sadako Ogata , was a Japanese academic, diplomat, author, administrator, and professor emerita at the Roman Catholic Sophia University. She was widely known as the head of the office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) from 1991 to ...

and

Empress of Japan The empress of Japan is the title given to the wife of the Emperor of Japan or a female ruler in her own right. The current empress consort is Empress Masako, who ascended the throne with her husband on 1 May 2019. Empress regnant Titles * ...

Michiko Michiko is a Japanese given name, used for females. Although written romanized the same way, the Japanese language written forms (kanji, katakana, hiragana) can be different. Common forms include: * 美智子 — "beautiful wise child" * 美 ...

. One of the two campuses of the Japanese Red Cross College of Nursing is also located in Hiroo. Although reorganized into a four-year college recently in 1986, the origin of the nursing school dates back to 1890, when nursing education was launched at the

Japanese Red Cross The is the Japanese affiliate of the International Red Cross. The Imperial Family of Japan has traditionally supported the society, with the Empress as Honorary President and other imperial family members as vice presidents. Its headquarters ...

Hospital. The university offers education to women in Japanese.

Primary and secondary schools

operates public elementary and junior high schools. Hiroo 1-

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. The Japanese system is complex, th ...

1-8 and 11-16 ban, 2-chome 1-9 ban, and 3-chome 2-3 and 8-17 ban are zoned to Hiroo Elementary School ( 広尾小学校). Hiroo 4-5 chome, 1-chome 9-10 ban, and 2-chome 10-22 ban are zoned to Rinsen Elementary School ( 臨川小学校). Hiroo 3-chome 1 and 4-7-ban are zoned to Tokiwamatsu Elementary School ( 常磐松小学校). Hiroo 1-2 and 4-5 chome and 3-chome 2, 3, and 8-17 ban are zoned to Hiroo Junior High School ( 広尾中学校). Hiroo 3-chome 1 and 4-7 ban are zoned to Hachiyama Junior High School ( 鉢山中学校). - Has junior high school zoning Schools in Hiroo: * Hiroo Elementary School (''Hiroo Shōgakkō'') * Rinsen Elementary School, a public elementary school. * Tokyo Jogakkan Elementary, Junior and Senior High School, a private girls school. * Keio Gijyuku Yōchisha, a private　elementary school, affiliated with

Keio University , abbreviated as or , is a private university, private research university located in Minato, Tokyo, Japan. It was originally established as a school for Rangaku, Western studies in 1858 in Edo. It was granted university status in 1920, becomi ...

. It is located in Tengenji Bridge (Tengenji-Bashi). * Hiroo is also home to the

International School of the Sacred Heart International School of the Sacred Heart (ISSH) is a Kindergarten (co-ed) – Grades 1–12 (all girls) school in Shibuya, Tokyo, Japan, founded in 1908. As part of the Network of Sacred Heart Schools it is affiliated with schools and institutio ...

which was founded in 1908 and is located on the same grounds as the University of the Sacred Heart (Seishin Joshi Daigaku). It offers education in English for girls from the ages of three to eighteen. * There are several Japanese high schools in the area as well, including Hiroo Senior High School (''Hiroo Kōtōgakkō'') * The Rainbow International Montessori School also has a facility located in the same area. 広尾小学校-2.JPG, Hiroo Elementary School ( 広尾小学校) 臨川小学校-1.JPG, Rinsen Elementary School ( 臨川小学校)

Demography

Attractions

Adjacent to Hiroo, the district of

is home to Arisugawa Park, which spans through a large chunk of the town. The park consists of several paths and walkways, a baseball field, soccer field, children's amusement areas and a man-made waterfall that empties into a pond full of koi and ducks. The park is situated in the close vicinity of

, causing it to be often incorrectly regarded as "a park in Hiroo."

Foreign Embassies

Hiroo is home to several embassies: Embassy of Peru, Croatia, Czech Republic, Burkina Faso, Tajikistan, Congo, and Oman. Hiroo Station is the nearest subway station to several prominent embassies in Minato: Embassy of France, Germany, Norway, Pakistan and the EU.

New Sanno Hotel

The New Sanno Hotel is a short-term accommodation facility operated by the U.S. Navy. While the hotel technically is located in

, it is nearby the Hiroo subway station and Tengenji Bridge. The hotel opened in 1983 after moving from a location nearby Akasaka Mitsuke Station. The large number of daily visitors to the hotel contributes to the international atmosphere in Hiroo.

Tsukushigahara

In the

Edo period The , also known as the , is the period between 1600 or 1603 and 1868 in the history of Japan, when the country was under the rule of the Tokugawa shogunate and some 300 regional ''daimyo'', or feudal lords. Emerging from the chaos of the Sengok ...

, the area near present-day Tokyo Metropolitan Hiroo Hospital, Keio Gijyuku Yochisha School, Tengenji Bridge, and Tokyo Metropolitan Hiroo 5-chome Apartments was named Tsukushigahara. At the time, this area was a large flatland of susuki grass (''

miscanthus sinensis ''Miscanthus sinensis'', the eulalia or Chinese silver grass, is a species of flowering plant in the grass family Poaceae, native to most of East Asia (China, Japan, Taiwan and Korea) and Southeast Asia (the Philippines, eastern Indonesia, Mala ...

).'' Tsukushigahara was a popular strolling and play area and was recorded in the Illustrated Collection of Famous Places in Edo (江戸名所図会).

Hiroo 5-chome Shopping Street Town

The area surrounding the present-day Hiroo 5-chome shopping street town was designated a shopping street town in Shotoku 3 (1713). This area survived the destruction of the

Bombing of Tokyo The was a series of air raids on Japan by the United States Army Air Forces (USAAF), primarily launched during the closing campaigns of the Pacific War, Pacific Theatre of World War II in 1944–1945, prior to the atomic bombings of Hiroshima ...

in 1944-1945. As a result, many

Meiji period The was an era of Japanese history that extended from October 23, 1868, to July 30, 1912. The Meiji era was the first half of the Empire of Japan, when the Japanese people moved from being an isolated feudal society at risk of colonizatio ...

and Taisho period buildings can still be found in the area. The area is locally known for its nostalgic atmosphere.

Tengenji Bridge

Tengenji Bridge (天現寺橋) is located at the intersection of Gaien-Nishi-dori and Meiji-dori in Hiroo 5-chome. The bridge spans the confluence of the

and the Kogai River. The Kogai River flows completely underground since it was covered by concrete. The Kogai River flows under Gaien-Nishi Dori upstream towards and past the east side of

Aoyama Cemetery is a cemetery in Aoyama, Tokyo, Aoyama, Minato, Tokyo, Minato, Tokyo, Japan, managed by the Tokyo Metropolitan Government. The cemetery is known for its cherry blossoms and is popular during the season of . History The cemetery was origin ...

. Two springs known to still flow into the Kogai River are located at the ponds of Arisugawa Park and the ponds at the

Nezu Museum The , formerly known as the Nezu Institute of Fine Arts, is an art museum in the Minato, Tokyo, Minato district of Tokyo, Japan. The museum is home to the private collection of pre-modern Japanese and East Asian art assembled by Nezu Kaichirō (1 ...

. The Tengenji Bridge is an old bridge and existed long before it was mentioned in a text named Gofunaienkakuzsho (御府内沿革図書) published in Bunkyu 3 (1863).

Facilities

* Tokyo Metropolitan Hiroo Hospital, located in Ebisu. * Japanese Red Cross Medical Center * Aiiku Hospital, located in

. *

Japanese Red Cross College of Nursing is a private university in Hiroo, Shibuya, Tokyo, Japan with an auxiliary suburban campus in Musashino, Tokyo. History Nursing education was started at the Japanese Red Cross Hospital in 1890. And The Japanese Red Cross Junior College for Women ...

University of the Sacred Heart (Japan) The is a Japanese private Women's college, women's university located in Hiroo, Shibuya, Hiroo, Shibuya, Tokyo. It was established in 1916 as a special school (''senmon gakkō'') by the Society of the Sacred Heart. It became a university in 19 ...

Arisugawa-no-miya Memorial Park is a park located in Minami-Azabu, Minato, Tokyo, Japan. It covers an area of 67,131 square metres. History During the Edo period, the park belonged to Minonokami Nambu, a feudal lord from the former Morioka Domain who used it as an urban villa ...

, located in Minami-Azabu. * Tokyo Metropolitan Central Library, located at the center of the Arisugawa-no-miya Memorial Park in Minami-Azabu. * Embassy of Croatia * Embassy of Czech Republic * Embassy of Burkina Faso * Embassy of Oman * Embassy of Peru * Ebasssy of Tajikistan * Embassy of Congo * New Sanno Hotel * Hiroo Garden Hills * Hiroo Plaza * Tengenji Bridge (Tengenji-Bashi) * Yamatane Museum of Art * Hanezawa Garden (Demolished in 2012) * Ebisu Prime Square

References

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