Tokyo
Tokyo is the enormous and wealthy capital of Japan, and also its main city, overflowing with culture, commerce, and most of all, people. As the most populated urban area in the world, Tokyo is a fascinating and dynamic metropolis that mixes foreign influences, consumer culture and global business along with remnants of the capital of old Japan.Photo: Morio, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Popular Destinations
Minato
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Minato is a ward in central Tokyo. The name means "port", referring to its seaside location, although due to reclamation many areas in the district are quite far from the sea these days.
Shinjuku
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Shinjuku is a central ward of Tokyo, known as the metropolis' second center.
Shibuya
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Shibuya is a shopping and eating district popular with a lot of young Tokyoites.
Destinations
Tokyo Haneda Airport
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Haneda Airport, officially known as Tokyo International Airport, in the Tokyo neighborhood of Ota, is the largest and busiest airport in Japan, and the second busiest airport in all Asia despite the majority of flights being domestic.
Chiyoda
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Chiyoda Ward is the center of Tokyo and in many ways the center of all Japan.
Setagaya
Setagaya is in western Tokyo, and is the most populous and the second largest of the city's 23 wards.Bunkyo
Bunkyō is in Tokyo, north of the Imperial Palace. The name means roughly "Capital of Culture" and, indeed, it's best known as the home of the sprawling University of Tokyo and a series of aristocratic parks and villas.Sumida
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Sumida Ward lies east of central Tokyo. It is home to a famous cherry blossom viewing area in spring, the Sumida River Fireworks Festival in summer, and Tokyo's main sumo stadium where tournaments are held three times a year.
Suginami
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Suginami is a special ward in the Tokyo Metropolis in Japan.
Shinagawa
Shinagawa is one of the 23 wards of central Tokyo, and is also a major railway station in south-central Tokyo.Chuo
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Chuo is a central ward in Tokyo. It has been the historical commercial heart of Tokyo since the Edo period, and to this day, is filled with offices, banks, and other institutions that drive the Japanese economy.
Toshima
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Toshima is a ward in northwest Tokyo, Japan. This guide incorporates Ikebukuro, a section of Toshima and one of the three major metropolitan sub-centers on the Yamanote Line, along with Shinjuku and Shibuya.
Nakano
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Nakano is a special ward in the Tokyo Metropolis in Japan.
Meguro
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Meguro is a special ward in the Tokyo Metropolis in Japan.
Akihabara
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Akihabara, or Akiba in slang, is Tokyo's "Electric Town" on the eastern side of the central Chiyoda ward.
Ginza
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The Ginza district of Tokyo, literally "Silver Mint", is in the Chuo ward.
Harajuku
For the young and fashionable teenager, spending time in Harajuku on the weekends is practically a necessity.Asakusa
Asakusa is a part of Tokyo's downtown Taito district best known for its many temples, particularly Sensōji.Photo: Yodalica, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Places in the Area
Shiodome
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Shiodome is a district of the Minato ward of central Tokyo, Japan.
National Diet Library
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The National Diet Library is the national library of Japan and among the largest libraries in the world.
Tokyo Imperial Palace
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The Imperial Palace is the main residence of the Emperor of Japan.
Localities in the Area
Roppongi
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Roppongi is an expensive section of Tokyo's Minato ward famous for its nightlife, much of which is geared towards foreigners.
Akasaka
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Akasaka is one of Tokyo's central business districts, full of corporate headquarters and expensive hotels.
Shinbashi
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Shinbashi is a district of central Tokyo which is a significant business center and commercial area, although not quite as busy as Shinjuku or Shibuya to the west.
Tokyo
- Type: Locality with 8,340,000 residents
- Description: special wards in the eastern part of Tokyo Metropolis in Japan, that used to form a single city
- Categories: global city, financial centre, million city, metropolis and national capital
- Location: Tokyo, Kanto, Japan, East Asia, Asia
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Latitude
35.6823° or 35° 40' 56" northLongitude
139.7532° or 139° 45' 11" eastPopulation
8,340,000Elevation
44 metres (144 feet)IATA airport code
TYOUnited Nations Location Code
JP TYOOpen Location Code
8Q7XMQJ3+W7GeoNames ID
1850147Wikidata ID
Q7473516Tokyo Satellite Map
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Also Known As
- Albanian: Tokyo
- Amharic: ቶክዮ
- Arabic: توكيو
- Arabic: طوكيو
- Aragonese: Tokio
- Armenian: Տոկիո
- Asturian: Tokiu
- Azerbaijani: Tokio
- Azerbaijani: Tokio şəhəri
- Basque: Tokio
- Basque: Tokio Hiria
- Bavarian: Tokio
- Belarusian: Токіа
- Belarusian: Токіё
- Belarusian: места Токіё
- Bengali: টোকিও
- Bulgarian: Токио
- Catalan: Tòquio
- Central Kurdish: تۆکیۆ
- Chinese: Tang-kiaⁿ
- Chinese: 东京
- Chinese: 日本东京
- Chinese: 日本東京
- Chinese: 東京
- Croatian: Tokio
- Czech: Tokio
- Czech: Tokyo
- Czech: Tókjó
- Danish: Tokyo
- Dutch: Tokio
- Eastern Mari: Токио
- English (Historic): Edo
- English: City of Tokyo
- Esperanto: Tokio
- Esperanto: Urbo Tokio
- Estonian: Tōkyō
- Fiji Hindi: Tokyo
- Finnish: Tokio
- French: Tokyo
- French: Tōkyō
- Galician: Toquio - 東京
- Galician: Toquio
- Galician: cidade de Toquio
- Georgian: ტოკიო
- German: Stadt Tokio
- German: Tokio
- German: Tokyo
- Greek: Τόκιο
- Greek: Τόκυο
- Gujarati: ટોક્યો
- Haitian: Tokyo
- Hakka Chinese: Tûng-kîn
- Hausa: Tûng-kîn
- Hebrew: טוקיו
- Hindi: टोक्यो
- Hungarian: Tokió
- Icelandic: Tokyo
- Icelandic: Tókýó
- Ido: Tokyo
- Iloko: Tokyo
- Indonesian: Tokyo
- Interlingua: Tokyo
- Interlingue: Tōkyō
- Irish: Tóiceo
- Italian: Tokyo
- Italian: Tōkyō
- Japanese: 日本東京
- Japanese: 東京
- Japanese: 東京都
- Kannada: ಟೊಕಿಯೊ
- Khmer: ទីក្រុងតូខ្យូ
- Korean: 도꾜
- Korean: 도쿄
- Korean: 동경
- Kurdish: Tokyo
- Ladin: Tokyo
- Lao: ໂຕກຽວ
- Latin: Tocio
- Latin: Tokium
- Latvian: Tokija
- Limburgan: Tokio
- Lithuanian: Tokijas
- Lojban: tokios.
- Low German: Tokio
- Luxembourgish: Tokio
- Macedo-Romanian: Tokyo
- Macedonian: Токио
- Malagasy: Tokyo
- Malay: Tokyo
- Malayalam: ടോക്കിയോ
- Maltese: Tokjo
- Marathi: टोकियो
- Marathi: टोक्यो
- Min Dong Chinese: Dŭng-gĭng
- Min Nan Chinese: Tang-kiaⁿ
- Mirandese: Tóquio
- N'Ko: ߕߏߞߑߦߏ߫
- N'Ko: ߕߏߞߑߦߏ߫ ߘߎ߬ߜ߭ߎ
- N'Ko: ߕߏߞߑߦߏ߫ ߛߏ
- Norwegian: Tokyo
- Norwegian Bokmål: Tokyo
- Norwegian Nynorsk: Tokyo
- Novial: Tokyo
- Occitan (post 1500): Tòquio
- Official Aramaic (700-300 BCE): ܛܘܟܝܘ
- Official Aramaic (700-300 BCE): ܜܘܟܝܘ
- Old English (ca. 450-1100): Tōkyō
- Ossetian: Токио
- Papiamento: Tokio
- Papiamento: Tokyo
- Persian: توکیو
- Pfaelzisch: Togjo
- Piemontese: Tokyo
- Polish: Tokio
- Portuguese: Tóquio
- Pushto: توکيو
- Romanian: Tokio
- Romanian: Tokyo
- Romanian: Токё
- Romansh: Tokio
- Russian: Токио
- Samogitian: Tokėjės
- Sardinian: Tokio
- Scots: Imperial Tokyo
- Scots: Tokyo
- Serbian: Токио
- Serbo-Croatian: Tokyo
- Sicilian: Tochiu
- Sinhala: ටෝකියෝ
- Slovak: Tokio
- Slovenian: Tokio
- Spanish: Tokio
- Swedish: Tokyo
- Swiss German: Tokio
- Tahitian: Tokyo
- Tajik: Токио
- Tamil: டோக்கியோ
- Tamil: டோக்யோ
- Tamil: தோக்கியோ
- Telugu: టోక్యో
- Thai: โตเกียว
- Turkish: Tokyo
- Twi: Tokyo
- Uighur: توكيو
- Ukrainian: Токіо-сіті
- Ukrainian: Токіо
- Ukrainian: канто Токіо
- Ukrainian: місто Токіо
- Urdu: ٹوکیو
- Vietnamese: Thành phố Tokyo
- Vietnamese: Tokyo
- Welsh: Tokyo
- Wu Chinese: 东京
- Yue Chinese: 東京
- Zeeuws: Tokio
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About Mapcarta. Thanks to Mapbox for providing amazing maps. Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, excluding photos, directions and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page Tokyo. Photo: Morio, CC BY-SA 3.0.