Open Meguro in the guide, with the map, the walks and the places you can see for free.
Meguro, Tokyo
The Meguro Station side, away from the Nakameguro canal crowds. Quiet residential streets hiding some of Tokyo's most serious counters, including yakitori worth planning a trip around.
How I use Meguro
A river walk, retro kissaten, and along Meguro-dori the interior shops that furnish Tokyo's coolest rooms. It's a neighborhood for walking off lunch and pretending you live here.
What Meguro is known for
Meguro is a calm, residential river neighbourhood known for its interior-design and furniture shops strung along Meguro-dori, retro kissaten coffee houses, and an easy riverside walk. It's unshowy Tokyo, the kind of area you wander to eat well and browse without a crowd.
Getting to Meguro
Meguro Station is on the JR Yamanote line, the Tokyo Metro Namboku line, and the Toei Mita line. It's a few minutes from Shibuya or Shinagawa on the Yamanote loop.
Come for a long lunch and a slow browse. The furniture shops down Meguro-dori are a window into how design-minded Tokyo furnishes its rooms; the river gives you the walk to earn the meal.
What to eat & do in Meguro
I've vetted 3 places in Meguro myself. Each one in the guide carries the nearest station and exit, what to order and the reservation reality.
The full names and the exact directions open in the full guide, that specificity is the whole product.
Meguro, Tokyo: frequently asked questions
Is Meguro worth visiting?
It's a quieter, local pick rather than a sightseeing must, good for design shopping, retro cafes and a relaxed riverside walk. If you like neighbourhoods over landmarks, it's a rewarding half-day, especially combined with Nakameguro one stop away.
How do I get to Meguro?
Take the JR Yamanote line, the Tokyo Metro Namboku line or the Toei Mita line to Meguro Station. It's a few minutes from Shibuya or Shinagawa.
What is Meguro known for?
Interior-design and furniture shops along Meguro-dori, retro kissaten coffee houses, the Meguro river walk, and, for one week in spring, cherry blossoms. It's a calm, design-leaning residential district.
Explore nearby
- Shibuya, Energy capital.
- Shinjuku, The city in miniature: skyscrapers west, Golden Gai's tin-roof bars and Omoide Yokocho's yakitori smoke east, Shinjuku Gyoen's gardens an unexpected hush in the middle.
- Asakusa, Old-Tokyo temple district.
- Ginza, Old-money Tokyo.
- Harajuku & Omotesando, Takeshita Street's teenage chaos one block from Omotesando's quiet luxury, the most architecturally beautiful shopping street in Tokyo.
- Ueno & Yanaka, Museum row meets a low-key neighborhood untouched by the bubble years.