Minato

Minato (港 or 湊) is Japanese for 'harbor', and may refer to:

Places

• Minato (湊), a neighbourhood in Chūō or Chūō City, a special ward in Tokyo, Japan
• Minato Bridge, a 1974 double-deck cantilever truss bridge in Osaka, Japan
• Minato Castle, Japanese castle in what is now Tsuchizaki Minato
• Minato Kuyakusho Station, an underground railway station
• Minato Line, a Japanese railway line between Katsuta and Ajigaura
• Minato Mirai 21, the central business district of Yokohama
• Minato Motomachi Station, a train station in Chūō-ku
• Minato School, Japanese weekend school in San Diego, California
• Minato Station, a train station in Sakai-ku, Osaka Prefecture, Japan
• Minato Ward (disambiguation)
  • Minato, Tokyo or Minato City, a special ward in Tokyo, Japan
  • Minato-ku, Nagoya, a ward of Nagoya, Japan
  • Minato-ku, Osaka, a ward of Osaka, Japan

People

Name

• Minato Matsui (松井 奏; born 2000), Japanese actor and singer
• Wakamotoharu Minato (若元春 港; born 1993), Japanese professional sumo wrestler
• Minato Oike (born 1996), Japanese BMX freestyle cyclist

Surname

• Chihiro Minato (born 1960), Japanese photographer
• Eikichi Minato (湊 栄吉; 1894–1978), Japanese politician
• Kanae Minato (born 1973), Japanese murder-mystery novelist
• Nicolò Minato (c. 1627–1698), Italian poet, librettist and impresario
• Yoshio Minato (湊 義雄; born 1949), Japanese rower
• Yūsuke Minato (born 1985), Japanese Nordic combined skier
• Minatofuji Takayuki (born 1968), sumo wrestler now known as Minato Oyakata

Fictional characters

• Minato Aqua, one of Hololive Production's virtual YouTubers
• Minato Arisato, the protagonist's name in the Persona 3 manga adaptation
• Minato Kiyomizu, the main protagonist of the anime series Re-Main
• Minato Nagase, a character in the visual novel Akaneiro ni Somaru Saka
• Minato Namikaze, a character in the manga and anime series Naruto
• Minato Narumiya, the main protagonist of the light novel series Tsurune
• Minato Sahashi, the main protagonist of the manga series Sekirei
• Fuwa Minato, one of Nijisanji's virtual YouTubers

Other uses

• Minato, a double espresso coffee with milk; see Milk coffee#Minato
• Minato Shimbun, a Japanese newspaper
• Minato stable, a stable of sumo wrestlers

See also

• Minato's Laundromat Japanese manga series
• Minato-kai, original name of the Japanese crime syndicate Sumiyoshi-kai
  • 港区 (disambiguation), the equivalent in CJKV