Shinagawa
Shinagawa covers the southern part of Minato Ward and northern Shinagawa Ward in central Tokyo, anchored by the major JR East terminal of Shinagawa Station. As a midway station of Japan's first railway, opened between Shinbashi and Yokohama in 1872 (Meiji 5), it has 150+ years of history and serves about 360,000 passengers a day across the Tokaido Shinkansen, JR Yamanote Line, Keihin-Tohoku Line, Tokaido Line, Yokosuka Line, and the Keikyu Main Line — Tokyo's third-busiest hub after Tokyo and Shinjuku Stations. Originating as «Shinagawa-juku,» the first post station on the Edo-period Tokaido road, the area now combines that history with the skyscrapers of Shinagawa Intercity (157 m), the KDDI Otemachi Building, and Grand Prince Hotel New Takanawa, alongside canals, warehouses, and the Tennozu Isle waterfront — a multi-layered urban photographic destination.
Highlights
- Shinagawa Station Takanawa and Konan Exits — Tokaido Shinkansen arrivals and departures; combinations of bullet trains with skyscrapers; evening rush hour
- Shinkansen Bird's-Eye View — capture high-speed passings of the Tokaido Shinkansen from the Takanawa pedestrian bridge — a shutter-speed challenge
- Tennozu Isle — a waterfront where Tokyo Bay meets office towers; the canal nightscape is otherworldly
- Shinagawa Intercity — glass corridors and skyscraper clusters; geometric compositions of contemporary architecture
- Tokyo Bay-side and Oi Wharf — the logistics landscape of a container terminal, with sunset against gantry cranes
