Skip to content
Mixroutes
Shinagawa
Special ward in Tokyo, Japan

Shinagawa

Shinagawa is a special ward in the Tokyo Metropolis in Japan.

The ward refers to itself as Shinagawa City in English. It is home to eleven embassies.

Get in

Getting to Shinagawa

  1. 01
    Shinagawa Station is served by Japan Railways

    JR runs trains to Shinagawa on the Yamanote, Keihin-Tohoku, Yokosuka, and Tokaido lines.

See

Worth seeing

  1. 01
    Hara Museum of Contemporary Art
  2. 02
    Shinagawa Aquarium
  3. 03
    Showa Neon Takamura Kanban Museum
Do

Things to do

  1. 01
    Aqua Park Shinagawa
  2. 02
    Ōi Horse Race Course
Eat

Where to eat

Shinagawa ward has many yakitori (skewered chicken) and yakiton (skewered pork) joints because it has the largest wholesale meat market in Japan just east of the station. You don't even have to leave the station to treat yourself to a wide range of affordable restaurants. Inside the ticket barrier you can find: eCute Shinagawa (エキュート品川),. 08:00-22:00 for most shops, some open earlier.

How locals move

Getting around Shinagawa the local way

  • Get in[https://tobus.jp/blsys/navi?LCD By boat=== Suijobus Ferries also operate between Hinode Pier (on the Yurikamome line) and several stops in Odaiba.

From Wikivoyage: Tokyo/Odaiba, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us. Last edited 2026-09.

Text adapted from Wikipedia and Wikivoyage, CC BY-SA 4.0. Photograph: Wikimedia Commons (see file page), Wikimedia Commons.