Living Around Shinagawa as a Foreign Resident

Two major advantages for foreign residents in Shinagawa are international mobility and multilingual public support. Keikyu services provide convenient travel toward Haneda Airport, while the Tokaido Shinkansen makes domestic business trips straightforward. Minato City distributes a Welcome Package for foreign residents in English, Chinese and Korean covering daily life, waste disposal, emergency information and other essentials. The city also operates foreign-resident consultation services, using both direct and remote interpretation across languages including English, Chinese, Indonesian, Spanish, Thai and Vietnamese. Minato City has an explicit policy of providing administrative information in plain Japanese and multiple foreign languages. Shinagawa itself contains many international companies and hotels, so foreign languages are relatively common in the business environment, although language support at individual shops and medical institutions should still be checked directly. ([港区公式ホームページ][11])