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:

  • , Japanese actor and singer
  • , Japanese professional sumo wrestler
  • Minato Oike (born 1996), Japanese BMX freestyle cyclist

;;Surname:

  • Chihiro Minato (born 1960), Japanese photographer
  • , Japanese politician
  • Kanae Minato (born 1973), Japanese murder-mystery novelist
  • Nicolò Minato (c. 1627–1698), Italian poet, librettist and impresario
  • , 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