Takanawa: once a hilltop of daimyo estates and imperial residences, now three hotels around a cherry-blossom garden
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Coming out of the Takanawa exit of Shinagawa Station (outside this neighborhood), across the Dai-ichi Keihin avenue to the west is Zakuro-zaka, a straight slope running uphill. Takanawa is a long north-south ridge of hills, with many slopes.
Halfway up the slope is the Grand Prince Hotel Shin Takanawa, and there are two more Prince hotels in Takanawa 3-chome. The three hotels surround a Japanese garden of about 20,000 square meters, where in spring about 210 cherry trees of 17 varieties bloom.
This neighborhood is mainly two districts, Takanawa 3-chome and Takanawa 4-chome, with the hotels and homes sharing the same slope. Together the two districts have about 4,900 households and just over 9,000 people. The neighborhood also takes in Kita-Shinagawa 6-chome in Shinagawa City, home to about 860 people in 2020.
From our street photos, greenery ranks 18th out of 395 neighborhoods in Tokyo, the strongest of this neighborhood's seven sub-scores.
Public transit ranks 66th, with both Shinagawa Station and the Toei Asakusa Line's Takanawadai Station nearby.
There are many slopes, so coming from Shinagawa Station you'll first have to climb Zakuro-zaka. Daily shopping ranks 213th.
Construction on the Shinagawa Station West Exit A District in Takanawa 3-chome began in May 2025, and it is scheduled to open in fiscal 2029, with work continuing until then.
The name Takanawa comes from Takanawahara in Sengoku-period military chronicles, meaning a straight road atop a highland. In 1524, Hojo Ujitsuna and Uesugi Tomooki fought a battle here.
In the Edo period, the north side of Zakuro-zaka was the lower residence of the Satsuma Domain's Shimazu family, and the south side was the lower residence of the Kurume Domain's Arima family. The slope back then had a hook-shaped bend, and it wasn't straightened until the Meiji era.
After the Meiji era, the domain residences on the highland gave way to the mansions of financial leaders and imperial family branches. The Takeda-no-miya residence, completed in 1910, is now the guesthouse beside the Grand Prince Hotel Takanawa. Many old residences followed the same pattern, later becoming hotels or apartment buildings.
The West Exit A District plan calls for a 29-story above-ground building with office, commercial, hotel, and conference facilities. Toyota plans to move its new Tokyo headquarters here in fiscal 2029.
Construction on extending the Namboku Line from Shirokane-Takanawa to Shinagawa began in November 2024, with service targeted to start in the mid-2030s.
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Hospitals with inpatient beds (2020 data), public elementary and junior high schools whose catchment covers this area, high schools and universities within 1 km, stations, parks of 1 ha or more, and large shopping malls and department stores. Many Tokyo junior high students attend private schools, so junior high catchments are only a guide.
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