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A flower shop located at Gakugei University Station. It offers a selection of gifts such as bouquets from cut flowers for home, as well as unique house plants. There are many rare plants, so you can always enjoy visiting.

In a large store with all the items of Evis, there are original products with high quality and playful quality. The 24,200 yen jeans that are carefully sewn using heavy weight materials are durable. From pop to simple color, suit with orthodox design 132,000 yen. There is also fishing equipment.

The dog park is located in Komazawa Olympic Park, which has a large number of sports and park facilities. This park is so popular with dogs that it is said to be "doggy's sacred place", and there are many users of the dog park, which is adjacent to the second parking lot and the soft baseball field. There are two dog runs: 800 square meters for large, medium and small dogs, and 400 square meters for small dogs. When it comes to holidays, many dogs visit not only from Tokyo but also from nearby prefectures. In addition, registration at the Komazawa Olympic Park Management Office is required for use. For details, see official homepage.

In addition to accessories and sweets, you can experience workshops on making clothes, card cases, and Buddha statues. It is a 2-minute walk from Tokyo Metropolitan University Station and has excellent access. Mei-chan, a cute signboard dog, will greet you.

The hall is located within the "Meguro-Kumin Campus", a park with lawn squares and streams spread over hills in the Kakinokizaka district of Meguro-ku. The glass building is surrounded by rich light and greenery, and there is a large hall and a small hall as well as a practice room and a restaurant. The large hall, which seats 1200, adopts Japan's first hanging acoustic reflector, making it a hall that emphasizes the rich resonance of raw sound. The seats are relaxed and reclining, so you can enjoy a pleasant acoustic experience.

A ward park that boasts one of the largest in Meguro-ku, with an area of about 43,500 square meters. Sports facilities such as a baseball field and a gymnasium and a tennis court spread out on the north side, and a green park centered on Benten Pond on the south side. In Benten Pond, you can enjoy boating on Saturdays, Sundays and public holidays, and in Children's Animal Square, you can interact with small animals and experience riding ponies with pulling horses. The flower park and the rose flower beds are beautifully landscaped by the people of the area to delight visitors. Standing on an islet of Benten Pond, which is connected by the Taikobashi Bridge, the Itsukushima Shrine is familiar to the area, along with the winter wind poem "Yukitsuri" of the pine trees in front of the shrine.

"Meguro's agmite cultivation" is said to have originated from the mid-Edo period. Good quality bamboo shoots were harvested in this area, which was a leading bamboo forest, it said. The Taishō period was its peak, and around the beginning of the Showa era, the nearby area became a roost for sparrows, so it came to be called "Sparrow's Inn". The park was established as a park by Meguro Ward, and large trees of shii and zelkova remain, including bamboo forests, and many wild birds live there. In a corner on the northern side of Sonunai, the main house of the "Kuriyama Family" of Meguro-ku Designated Tangible Cultural Property has been relocated and restored, and is open to the public as the old house of Meguro-ku.

It was founded in Tensho 18 (1590) as a temple of the Nichiren sect, and came in Yakumo, Meguro-ku, with a time of over 430 years. Also known as the "Great Icho no-ji", the large ginkgo in the precinct is one of the largest in Meguro-ku, and is designated as a preservation tree in Tokyo and in the ward. As a place for prayer, learning, and training, as well as for flower festivals and party ceremonies, as well as various cultural activities, activities and events such as yoga schools, tea ceremony classes, orakukai, and children's story reading sessions are held. At the entrance to the cemetery, the "Hiroshima-bombed parenting Jizo-son" is served.

It is also known by the alias of "Salesian Church", as it is entrusted to the Salesians, a Catholic religious order founded in 19th century Italy by the priest John Bosco. The mid-Showa-style cathedral, nestled in a green residential area, has a gentle appearance with white as its tone. The bell tower is a symbol of the church, which can be seen from Meguro-dori and Ring 7. The sacred painting “Santa Maria in Edo” is a masterpiece by the Italian religious painter Carlo Dolci, who was active in the middle of the 17th century. Also referred to as "Our Lady of Sorrow", many people receive comfort and grace by praying in front of the painting.

The Meguro River flows from the plateau of Musashino in Setagaya Ward through Meguro Ward and Shinagawa Ward, and is about an 8km river that empties into Tokyo Bay at Tennozu. The Meguro-ku area, about 4km, is home to about 800 cherry blossoms centered on the Yoshino cherry trees. The river width is narrow and the cherry blossoms cover the river upstream from the vicinity of the boat entrance bridge, and the river width is wide and the promenade is maintained downstream.