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Meguro, Tokyo — Area Guide & Where to Stay
Meguro is a largely residential ward of Tokyo whose museums run from folk crafts to photography and parasitology.
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Meguro pays off for museum days. The Tokyo Photographic Art Museum, the Japanese Folk Crafts Museum and the Meguro Museum of Art give three good reasons to sleep in a ward whose own streets are given over to housing rather than sights. Nights are quiet here.
Rooms near the temple ground of En'yū-ji Temple and Kaifuku-ji Temple keep that calm, and the Meguro Parasitological Museum sits within the same ward for anyone whose curiosity runs that way.
About Meguro
What are the main landmarks in Meguro?
Photography leads the list. The Tokyo Photographic Art Museum, the Japanese Folk Crafts Museum and the Meguro Museum of Art make an unusual trio for a housing ward, and the Meguro Parasitological Museum takes the ward's name onto a narrower subject. Two temples hold older ground.
En'yū-ji Temple and Kaifuku-ji Temple stand among the streets, 新栄教会 keeps a church beside them, and Sonkeikaku Bunko, Ōtenta, Tarosaku Masamune and Tomita Gō carry entries of their own on the ward's list.
What is the history of Meguro?
Meguro City counts its founding from 1947. The English self-designation gives the ward the same name it carries in Japanese, and its special-ward status ties it into the Tokyo Metropolis alongside the others. Housing came to dominate.
What survives of the older ground shows in En'yū-ji Temple, in Kaifuku-ji Temple and in the named holdings, Sonkeikaku Bunko, Ōtenta, Tarosaku Masamune, Tomita Gō, that the ward still lists.
Where is Meguro?
Meguro City lies in southwest Tokyo, a spread of housing streets in which the museums, En'yū-ji Temple and Kaifuku-ji Temple sit at intervals.
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Updated September 2026