Minato ( 港区 , Minato-ku ) [minato] is a special ward of Tokyo , Japan. It is also called Minato City in English.
17-404: Minato was formed in 1947 as a merger of Akasaka , Azabu and Shiba wards following Tokyo City 's transformation into Tokyo Metropolis . The modern Minato ward exhibits the contrasting Shitamachi and Yamanote geographical and cultural division. The Shinbashi neighborhood in the ward's northeastern corner is attached to the core of Shitamachi , the original commercial center of Edo-Tokyo. On
34-1622: A variety of private schools, including: The city operates the Minato Library, the Mita Library, the Azabu Library, the Akasaka Library, the Takanawa Library, and the Konan Library. The metropolis operates the Tokyo Metropolitan Library Central Library in Minato. The library opened in 1973. Companies with headquarters in Minato include Air Nippon , All Nippon Airways (ANA), ANA & JP Express , All Nippon Airways Trading, Animax , Asmik Ace Entertainment , Bandai Namco Holdings , Brainlab , Cosmo Oil Company , COVER Corporation , Daicel , Dentsu , Euglena (company) , Fujifilm , Fuji Xerox , Fujitsu , Haseko , Hazama Ando , Honda , Japan Tobacco , Kajima , Kaneka Corporation , Konami , KYB Corporation , Kyodo News , Mitsubishi Motors , Mitsui Chemicals , Mitsui O.S.K. Lines , Mitsui Oil Exploration Company , NEC , Nippon Sheet Glass , NYK Line , Obayashi Corporation , Oki Electric Industry , Pizza-La , The Pokémon Company , THK , Toagosei , Toraya Confectionery , Sato Pharmaceutical , Sega Sammy Holdings , Sigma Seven , Sony , SUMCO , Toraya Confectionery , Toyo Suisan (owns
51-498: Is a Japanese petrochemical company. It is Japan's third-biggest refiner by sales after JX Holdings and Idemitsu Kosan . Cosmo in Japan traces its corporate roots to Maruzen Petroleum (丸善石油株式会社), a company established in 1931, although the oil business operated by Maruzen was originally established by Zenzo Matsumura in Kobe in 1907. Cosmo Oil Company was formed on April 1, 1986, through
68-478: Is also known for being one of the wealthiest residential areas in Japan, and for its relatively high concentration of foreign expats due to the number of embassies and multinational corporations located in and around the area. Notable neighborhoods and districts of Minato include Akasaka , Aoyama , Azabu , Roppongi and Toranomon . Minato is located southwest of the Imperial Palace and has boundaries with
85-670: Is the first female mayor of Minato. The ward assembly has 34 members. Notes: - formerly part of Shiba Area - 1-chōme - 1, 2, 3-chōme - 2, 3-chōme - 4, 5-chōme The local public high schools are operated by the Tokyo Metropolitan Government Board of Education . The city's public elementary and junior high schools are operated by the Minato City Board of Education (港区教育委員会). Combined elementary and junior high schools: Junior high schools: Elementary schools: Former schools: There are also
102-712: The Roppongi district. Akasaka (including the neighboring area of Aoyama ) was a ward of Tokyo City from 1878 to 1947, and maintains a branch office of the Minato City government. In neighbouring Moto-Akasaka (literally "original Akasaka") to the North: Previously Jaleco Holding had its headquarters in the Akasaka DS Building ( 赤坂DSビル , Akasaka DS Biru ) in Akasaka. The Japanese offices of
119-910: The Air China Building in Minato. Asiana Airlines operates a sales office on the sixth floor of the ATT New Tower Building. Hawaiian Airlines has its Japan offices in the Eagle Hamamatsuchō Building ( イーグル浜松町ビル , Īguru Hamamatsuchō Biru ) in Minato. Iran Air has its Tokyo office in Akasaka. Japanese companies that formerly had headquarters in Minato include Air Next , Airtransse , Asatsu , Jaleco Holding , Ricoh , Toa Domestic Airlines (later Japan Air System and later Japan Air Lines), On 22 December 2008 operations of Seiko Epson 's Tokyo sales office began at Seiko Epson's Hino Office in Hino, Tokyo . Previously operations were at
136-565: The World Trade Centre in Minato. Several countries operate their embassies in Minato. Tokyo's main ferry terminal is located adjacent to Takeshiba Station on the Yurikamome, due east of JR Hamamatsucho Station . Akasaka, Tokyo Akasaka ( 赤坂 ) is a residential and commercial district of Minato, Tokyo , Japan, located west of the government center in Nagatachō and north of
153-672: The branch Maruchan ), TV Tokyo , WOWOW , and Yazaki . In addition ANA subsidiary Air Japan has some offices in Minato. The Japanese division of CB&I , the Japanese division of Aramark and Aim Services, Google Japan , Yahoo! Japan , and the main Japanese offices of Hanjin and Korean Air are located there. Air France operates an office and ticketing counter in the New Aoyama Building in Minato. The Japanese division of Deutsche Post, DHL. Air France's Minato office handles Aircalin -related inquiries. Air China has operations in
170-723: The following are based in Akasaka: Akasaka's public elementary and junior high schools are operated by the Minato City Board of Education ( [2] in English, in Japanese). Akasaka 1-9- chōme are zoned to Akasaka Elementary School ( 赤坂小学校 ) and Akasaka Junior High School ( 赤坂中学校 ). Akasaka High School [ ja ] [3] was operated by the Tokyo Metropolitan Government Board of Education . It closed down in March 2009. It reopened
187-634: The merger of Maruzen Petroleum and Daikyo Petroleum, a group of oil businesses based in Niigata Prefecture , which merged in 1939. A major fire occurred at the Cosmo refinery in Ichihara, as a result of the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake . It was extinguished after ten days, injuring six people and destroying storage tanks The ultimate cause was traced to the collapse of supports for LPG Tank 364, which had been filled with water and undergoing hydrostatic testing at
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#1732855597224204-476: The name Minato , simply meaning "harbor". Per Japanese census data, the population has recently begun rising after decades of rapid decline. In June 2024, Ai Seike beat Masaaki Takei [ jp ] in mayoral elections. Takei, mayor since 2004, was seeking his sixth term and received support from the Liberal Democratic Party and Komeito . Seike, previously a member of the ward assembly,
221-607: The next month as the Aoyama campus of Ōta Sakuradai High School [ ja ] [4] . Third Junior & Senior High School of Nihon University was previously in Akasaka, but it moved to Machida in 1976. The Akasaka Library has moved to a new building in 2007, near the Aoba Park and the Aoyama-itchōme subway station. Cosmo Oil Company Cosmo Oil Company, Limited ( コスモ石油株式会社 , Kosumo Sekiyu kabushiki gaisha )
238-537: The other hand, the Azabu and Akasaka areas are typically representative Yamanote districts. As of 1 July 2015, Minato had an official population of 243,094, and a population density of 10,850 persons per km. The total area is 20.37 km. Known as one of Tokyo's largest business areas, Minato is home to the headquarters of many large domestic companies, including Honda , Mitsubishi Motors Corporation , NEC , Nikon , SoftBank Group , Sony and Fujitsu . Minato
255-536: The other three shareholding companies are Showa Shell Sekiyu , TonenGeneral Sekiyu, and Sumitomo Corporation , all with 25% of the ownership. Cosmo operates three refineries, all of which are located in Japan: In August 2012, the company announced that it will close its Sakaide plant in southwest Japan. The refinery, which was closed and turned into an oil terminal in July 2013, was a former Asia Oil refinery with
272-458: The special wards of Chiyoda , Chūō , Kōtō (in Odaiba), Shinagawa , Shibuya , and Shinjuku . The ward was founded on 15 March 1947, with the merger of Akasaka , Azabu , and Shiba Wards. Various names were considered for the new ward, such as Atago , Aoyama , Aoba , Iikura , Mita , and Higashiminato . Higashiminato was chosen, meaning "East Harbor", but then Higashi was cut leading to
289-494: The time the earthquake struck. The collapse fractured LPG pipes, releasing gas that then ignited, in turn igniting LPG in several adjacent tanks. In February 2015, the company said it will reorganize itself under a holding company to boost profitability. Also in 2015, in March, Cosmo Oil formed an LPG joint-venture, by merging its LPG business with three other company's LPG units. The new company, named Gyxis Corporation , started effective operations on April 1, 2015. Along Cosmo,
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