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Sony and Hondurentas (a privately-held rental company from Honduras) operates in Takanawa.[1]
Education
Minato City Board of Education operates public elementary and junior high schools.
Tanakawa 1-chōme 6-27 ban and 2-4-chōme are zoned to Takanawadai Elementary School (高輪台小学校) and Takamatsu Junior High School (高松中学校, Takamatsu Chūgakkō).[2] Takanawa 1-chōme 1-3-ban are zoned to Shirogane-no-oka Gakuen (白金の丘学園) for elementary and junior high school. Takanawa 1-chōme 4-5-ban are zoned to Mita Elementary School (御田小学校) and Mita Junior High School (田中学校).
Takanawadai Elementary School occupies a historic building that had been renovated.[3] Takamatsu Junior High is a junior high school. Takamatsunomiya contributed some of its own mansions for Minato and a junior high school was built there.[4]
The Takanawa Public Library occupies the 3rd and 4th floors on the Takanawa Branch office, Minato City. It periodically holds film shows for adult users as well as children's programs involving toddlers to elementary pupils. There are gallery walls where the local public elementary school holds art shows.[5]
The Minato City Office has a district general branch, "Takanawa Sogo shisho" (高輪総合支所) at 16-25, Takanawa 1-chome, and provides services and duties for the citizens and visitors in the area of 4 and 5-chome Mita, Takanawa, Shirokane and Shirokanedai.(三田4/5丁目, 高輪, 白金, and 白金台)
Site of residence of Iwaya Sazanami—a designated cultural asset of Tokyo[18]
Stone wall in Takanawa seashore—(高輪海岸の石垣石, Takanawa kaigan no ishigaki ishi) is a historical place in Takanawa. In the Edo period, stone walls were built along the Takanawa seashore, and they are now a historical site. The research excavation at the ruins in the ward facility building in 20th of 1995 Takanawa 2-chome unearthed this historical site. The public now have had access to the historical site, which the Minato Ward school board established in 2002.[citation needed]
In Takanawa area, there are three subway stations, one each by two operating companies and the JR train station. Each of them are served with municipal and public bus services.
For bus services, the City of Minato operates community bus system called "Chii Bus", serving Takanawa area with Takanawa Route.[27][28]
Tokyo Metropolitan Government runs buses nicknamed Toei Bus, or To-Bus in short, and services are available in Takanawa neighborhood, too.[29]
Tokyu Bus operates lines in Takanawa area as well.[30] Takanawa has bus access from Shinagawa station east gate to Tokyo International Airport in Narita, Chiba prefecture[31] as well as from Grand Prince Hotel New Takanawa to Haneda Airport.[32]
Subway Toei Asakusa Line serves Takanawadai Station.
Bus routes in Takanawadai area
The Grand Prince Hotel New Takanawa
Airport Limousine (Haneda): Grand Prince Hotel New Takanawa - Terminal 2, Haneda - Terminal 1, Haneda - International Terminal, Haneda[32]
Shina 93: Ōi Keibajō - The Grand Prince Hotel New takanawa - Meguro[29]
Shina 97: Shinjuku station west gate - The Grand Prince Hotel New takanawa - Shinagawa station Takanawa gate[29]
The Grand Prince Hotel Takanawa
Airport Limousine (Haneda): Grand Prince Hotel Takanawa - Grand Prince Hotel New Takanawa - Terminal 2, Haneda - Terminal 1, Haneda - International Terminal, Haneda[34]
Airport Limousine (Narita): Grand Prince Hotel New Takanawa - Shinagawa station east gate - Terminal 2, Narita Airport - Terminal 1, Narita Airport - Terminal 3, Narita Airport[31]
Shirokanedai 2-chome
Tan 94: Akabanebashi - Shirokanedai 2-chome - Gotanda[29]
^"Takamatsu Junior High School—History of Education in Minato Ward, vol.2". Dejitaru Minatoku Kyoikushi [Minato-ku Digital Archive for the History of Education] (in Japanese). Minato Ward Board of Education. p. 470. Retrieved 18 October 2017. From chapter 7: the history and present status of education in Minato ward, section 3: Public kindergartens, elementary schools, and junior high schools.
^Seishi Yokomizo (1978). Byōinzaka no kubikukuri no ie: Kindaichi Kōsuke saigo no jiken [The House of Hanging on Hospital Slope: the last of Kōsuke Kindaichi's case files]. Kadokawa shoten. ISBN4041304628. OCLC494527380.