Minato
Minato is a ward in central Tokyo. The name means "port", referring to its seaside location, although due to reclamation many areas in the district are quite far from the sea these days. Location of Minato in Tokyo…Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
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Popular Destinations
Odaiba
Odaiba is a large artificial island in Tokyo, featuring many hypermodern and just plain strange buildings memorably described as the result of an acid-soaked pre-schooler's architecture class.Roppongi
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Roppongi is an expensive section of Tokyo's Minato ward famous for its nightlife, much of which is geared towards foreigners.
Akasaka
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Akasaka is one of Tokyo's central business districts, full of corporate headquarters and expensive hotels.
Destinations
Shiodome
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Shiodome is a district of the Minato ward of central Tokyo, Japan.
Shinbashi
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Shinbashi is a district of central Tokyo which is a significant business center and commercial area, although not quite as busy as Shinjuku or Shibuya to the west.
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Notable Places in the Area
Shinagawa Station
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Shinagawa Station is a major railway station in the Takanawa and Konan districts of Minato, Tokyo, Japan, operated by East Japan Railway Company, Central Japan Railway Company, and the private railway operator Keikyu.
Rainbow Bridge
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The Rainbow Bridge is a suspension bridge crossing northern Tokyo Bay between Shibaura Pier and the Odaiba waterfront development in Minato, Tokyo, Japan.
Roppongi Hills
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Roppongi Hills is a development project in Tokyo and one of Japan's largest integrated property developments, located in the Roppongi district of Minato, Tokyo.
Localities in the Area
Ginza
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The Ginza district of Tokyo, literally "Silver Mint", is in the Chuo ward.
Minato
Latitude
35.64323° or 35° 38' 36" northLongitude
139.74006° or 139° 44' 24" eastPopulation
255,000Elevation
9 metres (30 feet)Open Location Code
8Q7XJPVR+72OpenStreetMap ID
node 1111454640OpenStreetMap Feature
place=cityGeoNames ID
1857100Wikidata ID
Q190088Minato Satellite Map
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Also Known As
- Achinese: Minato, Tokyo
- Achinese: Minato
- Arabic: Minato, Tokyo
- Arabic: ميناتو
- Arabic: ميناتو، طوكيو
- Armenian: Մինատո
- Asturian: Minato
- Azerbaijani: Minato
- Basque: Minato
- Belarusian: Міната
- Bengali: মিনাতো-কু
- Bulgarian: Минато
- Catalan: Minato
- Cebuano: Minato-ku (distrito)
- Cebuano: Minato-ku
- Central Kurdish: میناتۆ، تۆکیۆ
- Chinese: Minato-khu
- Chinese: 港区 (东京都)
- Chinese: 港区
- Chinese: 港區 (東京都)
- Chinese: 港區
- Czech: Minato
- Danish: Minato
- Dutch: Minato-ku
- Dutch: Minato
- Egyptian Arabic: ميناتو, طوكيو
- English: Minato, Tokyo
- English: Minato-ku
- Esperanto: Kvartalo Minato-ku
- Esperanto: Kvartalo Minato
- Estonian: Minato
- Finnish: Minato
- French: Minato
- Galician: Minato, Toquio
- Galician: Minato
- Gan Chinese: 港区 (东京都)
- Gan Chinese: 港区
- Gan Chinese: 港區 (東京都)
- Gan Chinese: 港區
- Georgian: მინატო
- German: Minato
- German: Minato-ku
- Greek: Μινάτο
- Gujarati: મિનાટો-કુ
- Haitian: Minato
- Hebrew: מינאטו
- Hindi: मिनाटो -कू
- Hungarian: Minato
- Indonesian: Minato
- Irish: Minato-ku
- Italian: Minato
- Japanese: Minato-ku
- Japanese: みなとく
- Japanese: 東京都港区
- Japanese: 港区
- Japanese: 湊
- Javanese: Minato, Tokyo
- Kannada: ಮಿನಾಟೊ-ಕು
- Korean: 도쿄도 미나토구
- Korean: 동경도 항구
- Korean: 미나토구
- Korean: 항구
- Latvian: Minato īpašais rajons
- Lithuanian: Minatas
- Lithuanian: Minato seniūnija
- Macedo-Romanian: Minato
- Malay: Minato
- Marathi: मिनिटो-कू
- Min Nan Chinese: Minato-khu
- Norwegian: Minato
- Norwegian Bokmål: Minato
- Occitan (post 1500): Minato
- Persian: میناتو-کو، توکیو
- Persian: میناتو
- Persian: میناتو، توکیو
- Polish: Minato-ku
- Polish: Minato
- Portuguese: Minato
- Pushto: ميناتو
- Romanian: Minato
- Russian: Минато
- Scots: Minato
- Serbian: Minato
- Serbian: Минато
- Serbo-Croatian: Minato, Tokijo
- Serbo-Croatian: Minato
- Sinhala: මිනටෝ-කු
- Spanish: Minato
- Spanish: Minato Tokio
- Spanish: Minato Tokyo
- Swedish: Minato
- Tagalog: Minato
- Tamil: மின்டோ-கு
- Telugu: మినాటో-కు
- Thai: มินะโตะ
- Thai: มินาโตะ
- Thai: เขตมินาโตะ
- Turkish: Minato-ku
- Turkish: Minato
- Ukrainian: Мінато
- Ukrainian: Район Мінато
- Urdu: میناتو، ٹوکیو
- Vietnamese: Cảng khu
- Vietnamese: Minato
- Vietnamese: Quận Minato
- Waray (Philippines): Minato
- Welsh: Minato
- Yue Chinese: 港區 (東京都)
- Yue Chinese: 港區
- Minatochō
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About Mapcarta. Thanks to Mapbox for providing amazing maps. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License. Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, excluding photos, directions and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page Minato. Photo: Kentin, CC BY-SA 3.0.