Toranomom-Azabudai tower seen from Roppongi Hills 9

is a

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of Minato,

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History

Literally meaning "Tiger Gate", Toranomon was the name of the southernmost gate of

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. The gate existed until the 1870s, when it was demolished to make way for modern developments. The was an assassination attempt on the Prince Regent

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of Japan on 27 December 1923 by communist agitator Daisuke Namba. The district is home to many corporate headquarters. From the 1970s through the mid-1990s,

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(originally Toa Domestic Airlines) was headquartered in the Ark Mori Building, in the Ark Hills complex of Toranomon.

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also has its Tokyo offices in Toranomon, as well as

TV Tokyo JOTX-DTV (channel 7), branded as is a Japanese television station that serves as the flagship of the TX Network.Japan Tobacco The (JT) is a Japanese diversified tobacco company and parent company to Japan Tobacco International, one of the three largest international Big Tobacco product manufacturers in the world. It was established in 1985 as a that inherited the ri ...

Oki Electric Industry , commonly referred to as OKI, OKI Electric or the OKI Group, is a Japanese information and communications technology company, headquartered in Toranomon, Minato-ku, Tokyo and operating in over 120 countries around the world. OKI produced the f ...

, Fuji Fire and Marine Insurance, and Mitsui O.S.K. Lines. The

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, the Okura Museum of Art and the

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are also located in the district.

Education

Minato City Board of Education operates public elementary and junior high schools. Toranomon 1-5-

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is zoned to Onarimon Elementary School (御成門小学校) and Onarimon Junior High School (御成門中学校).

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