Tokyo
Tokyo Metropolis covers the city of Tokyo, a bulk of the plain of Kanto and a chain of islands extending thousands of kilometers south.Photo: Morio, CC BY-SA 3.0.
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Tokyo
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Tokyo is the enormous and wealthy capital of Japan, and also its main city, overflowing with culture, commerce, and most of all, people.
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.
Destinations
Izu Islands
The Izu Islands are a chain of volcanic islands scattered over several hundred kilometers south of Tokyo, Japan.Hachioji
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Hachioji is in the western part of Tokyo, with a population of about 550,000 people.
Chofu
Chofu is a western suburb of Tokyo, and the main draws are Jindaiji Temple and Jindai Botanical gardens.Mitaka
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Mitaka is a city in western Tokyo. The main attraction for foreign visitors is the Ghibli Museum, while for Japanese the main attraction is Inokashira Park, in which the museum is located, particularly during cherry blossom season.
Machida
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Machida is a city in Tokyo Prefecture, Japan. The city is west of Tokyo's 23 downtown wards, bordering on Kanagawa.
Kodaira
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Kodaira is a city located in the western portion of Tokyo Metropolis, Japan.
Tama
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Tama is a western suburban city of Tokyo. One of the first things you see on arrival at Tama Center train station is a glowing sign proclaiming "Tama is Hello Kitty's Town".
Nishitokyo
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Nishitokyo is a city located in the western portion of Tokyo Metropolis, Japan.
Kokubunji
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Kokubunji is a city located in the western portion of Tokyo Metropolis, Japan.
Kunitachi
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Kunitachi is a city in western Tokyo. The naming of Kunitachi comes from its location: sandwiched between Kokubunji and Tachikawa, the first kanji in each city was combined to create a new name.
Okutama
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Okutama is a mountainous region along the Tama River, at the extreme western end of Tokyo.
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Tokyo
- Type: City with 13,600,000 residents
- Description: capital and largest city of Japan
- Neighbors: Chiba, Kanagawa, Saitama and Yamanashi
- Categories: prefecture of Japan, capital of Japan, million city, tourist destination, metropolis, global city, megacity, largest city, big city, primate city and locality
- Location: Kanto, Japan, East Asia, Asia
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Latitude of centre
35.6822° or 35° 40' 56" northLongitude of centre
139.7622° or 139° 45' 44" eastPopulation
13,600,000Elevation
44 metres (144 feet)United Nations Location Code
JP TKXOpenStreetMap ID
node 265018692OpenStreetMap Feature
place=cityGeoNames ID
1850144Wikidata ID
Q1490Tokyo Satellite Map
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Also Known As
- Abkhazian: Tokyo
- Achinese: Tokyo
- Achinese: Tokyô
- Adyghe: Токио
- Afar: Tokio
- Afrikaans: Tokio
- Akan: Tokyo
- Albanian: Tokio
- Albanian: Tokjo
- Amharic: ቶክዮ
- Angika: टोक्यो
- Arabic: Tokyo
- Arabic: توكيو
- Arabic: طوكيو
- Arabic: محافظة توكيو
- Arabic: محافظة طوكيو
- Aragonese: Tokio
- Armenian: Թոքիօ
- Armenian: Տոկիո
- Arpitan: Toquio
- Assamese: টকিঅ'
- Asturian: Tokiu (prefeutura)
- Asturian: Tokiu
- Asturian: Tokyo
- Asturian: Tōkyō
- Asturian: prefeutura de Tokiu
- Awadhi: टोकियो
- Aymara: Tokyo
- Azerbaijani: Tokio
- Balinese: Tokyo
- Bambara: Tokyo
- Banjar: Tokyo
- Bashkir: Токио
- Basque: Tokio
- Bavarian: Prefektua Tokio
- Bavarian: Tokio
- Belarusian: Токіа
- Belarusian: Токіё
- Bengali: টোকিও
- Bhojpuri: टोकियो
- Bislama: Tokio
- Bislama: Tokyo
- Bosnian: Tokio
- Breton: Tokyo
- Bulgarian: Токио
- Burmese: တိုကျိုမြို့
- Catalan: Tokyo
- Catalan: Tòquio
- Catalan: Tōkyō-to
- Catalan: Tōkyō
- Catalan: metròpoli de Tòquio
- Catalan: prefectura metropolitana de Tòquio
- Cebuano: Tokyo (ulohang dakbayan sa Hapon)
- Cebuano: Tokyo
- Central Bikol: Tokyo
- Central Kurdish: تۆکیۆ
- Central Okinawan: 東京都
- Chamorro: Tokyo
- Chavacano: Tokio
- Chechen: Токио
- Cherokee: ᏙᎩᏲ
- Cheyenne: Tokyo
- Chinese: Tang-kiaⁿ-to͘
- Chinese: 东京
- Chinese: 东京都/東京都
- Chinese: 东京都
- Chinese: 日本东京
- Chinese: 日本東京
- Chinese: 東京
- Chinese: 東京都
- Church Slavic: Тѡкиѡ
- Chuvash: Токио
- Cornish: Tokyo
- Corsican: Tochiu
- Corsican: Tochju
- Corsican: Tokiu
- Corsican: Tōkyō
- Cree: ᑐᑭᔪ
- Crimean Tatar: Tokyo
- Croatian: Tokio
- Czech: Tokio
- Czech: Tokyo
- Czech: Tókjó
- Czech: prefektura Tokio
- Dagbani: Tokyo
- Danish: Tokyo
- Dhivehi: Tokyo
- Dhivehi: ޓޯކިޔޯ
- Dimli (individual language): Tokyo
- Dotyali: टोकियो
- Dutch: Tokio-to
- Dutch: Tokio
- Dzongkha: ཊོ་ཀི་ཡ
- Eastern Mari: Токио
- Egyptian Arabic: طوكيو
- English: Tokei
- English: Tokio
- English: Tokyo (Japan)
- English: Tokyo, Japan
- English: Tokyo-to
- English: Tokyo Metropolis
- English: Tokyo Metropolitan prefecture
- English: Tokyo Prefecture
- English: Tôkyô-to
- English: Tôkyô
- English: Tōkyō-to
- English: Tōkyō
- Erzya: Токио
- Erzya: Токио ош
- Esperanto: Tokio
- Estonian: Tōkyō
- Estonian: Tōkyō prefektuur
- Ewe: Tokyo
- Extremaduran: Tóquiu
- Faroese: Tokyo
- Fiji Hindi: Tokyo
- Fijian: Tokio
- Fijian: Tokyo
- Finnish: Tokio
- French: Préfecture de Tokyo
- French: Tokyo
- French: Tokyo-to
- French: Tokyo Metropolis
- French: Tôkyô
- French: Tôkyô-to
- French: Tōkyō
- French: Tōkyō-to
- French: métropole de Tokyo
- French: préfecture de Tokyo
- French: préfecture métropolitaine de Tokyo
- Galician: Tokio
- Galician: Toquio
- Gan Chinese: 東京
- Ganda: Tokyo
- Georgian: ტოკიო
- German: Präfektur Tokio
- German: Stadt Tokio
- German: Tokio
- German: Tokio Metropolis
- German: Tokyo
- German: Tokyo Metropolis
- Ghanaian Pidgin English: Tokyo
- Gorontalo: Tokyo
- Gothic: 𐍄𐌰𐌿𐌺𐌹𐌰𐌿
- Gothic: 𐍄𐍉𐌺𐌾𐍉
- Greek: Τōκιō
- Greek: Τōκυō
- Greek: Τόκιο
- Greek: Τόκυο
- Greek: Τṓκιō
- Greek: Τṓκυō
- Guarani: Tokio
- Guarani: Tókio
- Guianese Creole French: Tokyo
- Gujarati: ટોક્યો
- Haitian: Tokyo
- Hakka Chinese: Tûng-kîn
- Hausa: Tokyo
- Hausa: Tûng-kîn-tû
- Hausa: Tōkiō
- Hawaiian: Tōkiō
- Hebrew: טוקיו
- Hebrew: טוקיו רבתי
- Hindi: टोक्यो
- Hungarian: Tokió
- Hungarian: Tokyo-to
- Hungarian: Tokyo
- Hungarian: Tôkyô
- Hungarian: Tōkyō
- Icelandic: Tókýó
- Ido: Tokyo
- Iloko: Tokyo
- Inari Sami: Tokio
- Indonesian: Prefektur Tokyo
- Ingush: Токио
- Interlingua: Tokyo
- Interlingue: Tōkyō
- Inuktitut: ᑑᑭᐅ
- Inupiaq: Tokyo
- Irish: Tokyo
- Irish: Tóiceo
- Irish: Tōkyō
- Italian: Tochio
- Italian: Tokyo
- Italian: Tōkyō
- Italian: prefettura di Tokyo
- Italian: prefettura di Tōkyō
- Jamaican Creole English: Tuokio
- Japanese: Tōkyō-to
- Japanese: とうきょうと
- Japanese: 東京
- Japanese: 東京都
- Javanese: Tokyo
- Kabiyè: Tokiyo
- Kabyle: Tokyo
- Kalaallisut: Tokyo
- Kannada: ಟೋಕಿಯೋ
- Kannada: ಟೋಕ್ಯೊ
- Kara-Kalpak: Tokiyo
- Kashmiri: ٹوکیو
- Kazakh: Токио
- Kazakh: Төкей
- Kazakh: Эдо
- Khmer: តូក្យូ
- Khmer: ទីក្រុងតូខ្យូ
- Kikuyu: Tokyo
- Kinyarwanda: Tokyo
- Kirghiz: Токио
- Kirghiz: Токио шаарынын тарыхы
- Korean: 도꾜
- Korean: 도쿄
- Korean: 도쿄 도
- Korean: 도쿄도
- Korean: 동경
- Korean: 동경 도
- Korean: 동경도
- Kurdish: Tokyo
- Ladin: Tokio
- Ladin: Tokyo
- Ladino: Tokio
- Lao: Tokyo
- Lao: ຈັງຫວັດໂຕກຽວ
- Lao: ນະຄອນຫຼວງໂຕກຽວ
- Lao: ມະຫານະຄອນໂຕກຽວ
- Lao: ໂຕກຽວ
- Latin: Tocium
- Latin: Tokium
- Latvian: Tokija
- Lezghian: Токио
- Ligurian: Tòkyo
- Limburgan: Tokio
- Lingala: Tokyo
- Lingua Franca Nova: Tokyo
- Literary Chinese: 東京都
- Lithuanian: Tokijas
- Livvi: Tokio
- Lojban: tokios.
- Lojban: tokios
- Lombard: Tokyo
- Low German: Tokio
- Lower Sorbian: Tokio
- Luxembourgish: Prefektur Tokio
- Luxembourgish: Tokio
- Macedo-Romanian: Tokyo
- Macedonian: Токио
- Maithili: टोक्यो
- Malagasy: Tokyo
- Malay: Tokyo
- Malay: توکيو
- Malayalam: ടോക്കിയോ
- Maltese: Tokjo
- Maltese: Tokyo
- Manx: Tokyo
- Maori: Tōkio
- Marathi: टोकियो
- Marathi: तोक्यो
- Mazanderani: توکيو
- Min Dong Chinese: Dŭng-gĭng-dŭ
- Min Nan Chinese: Tang-kiaⁿ-to͘
- Minangkabau: Tokyo
- Mingrelian: ტოკიო
- Mirandese: Tóquio
- Moksha: Токио
- Mongolian: Токио
- Mongolian: Токио хот
- Mongolian: ᠲᠣᠣᠺᠶᠣ᠋
- Mongolian: ᠲᠣᠣᠺᠶᠣ᠋ ᠬᠣᠲᠠ
- Moroccan Arabic: طوكيو
- Narom: Tokyo
- Nauru: Tokyo
- Navajo: Táłtsʼá Hiníyíní
- Neapolitan: Tokyo
- Nepali: टोकियो
- Nepali: तोक्यो
- Newari: तोक्यो
- Nias: Tokyo
- Northern Frisian: Prefektuur Tokio
- Northern Luri: توکیو
- Northern Sami: Tokio
- Northern Sami: Tokyo
- Norwegian: Tokyo
- Norwegian Bokmål: Tokyo
- Norwegian Bokmål: Tokyo prefektur
- Norwegian Nynorsk: Tokyo
- Novial: Tokyo
- Nyanja: Tokyo
- Occitan (post 1500): Tòquio
- Occitan (post 1500): Tòquio metròpol
- Occitan (post 1500): prefectura de Tòquio
- Official Aramaic (700-300 BCE): ܛܘܩܝܘ
- Old English (ca. 450-1100): Tōkyō
- Oriya: ଟୋକିଓ
- Ossetian: Токио
- Pa'o Karen: ဝေင်ꩻတိုကျို
- Pampanga: Tokyo
- Panjabi: ਟੋਕੀਓ
- Papiamento: Tokio
- Papiamento: Tokyo
- Persian: توکیو
- Pfaelzisch: Togjo
- Pfaelzisch: Tokio
- Picard: Tōkyō
- Piemontese: Tokyo
- Pitcairn-Norfolk: Tokyo
- Polish: Edo
- Polish: Prefektura Tokio
- Polish: Tokio
- Polish: Tōkyō-to
- Pontic: Τόκιο
- Portuguese: Edo
- Portuguese: Metrópole de Tóquio
- Portuguese: Tokei
- Portuguese: Tokio
- Portuguese: Tokyo
- Portuguese: Tokyo (Japão)
- Portuguese: Tokyo, Japão
- Portuguese: Tokyo-to
- Portuguese: Tokyo Metropolis
- Portuguese: Tóquio
- Portuguese: Tóquio (Japão)
- Portuguese: Tóquio, Japão
- Portuguese: Tôkyô
- Portuguese: Tôkyô-to
- Portuguese: Tōkyō
- Portuguese: Tōkyō-to
- Pushto: توکيو
- Pushto: توکیو
- Quechua: Tokyo
- Romanian: Tokio
- Romanian: Tokyo
- Romanian: Tōkyō
- Romansh: Tokio
- Russia Buriat: Токио
- Russia Buriat: Тоокёо
- Russian: Токио-то
- Russian: Токио
- Russian: Токё-то
- Russian: Токё
- Rusyn: Токіо
- Samoan: Tokyo
- Samogitian: Tokėjės
- Sanskrit: टोक्यो
- Santali: ᱴᱚᱠᱭᱚ
- Santali: ᱴᱳᱠᱭᱚ
- Sardinian: Tokio
- Saterfriesisch: Tokio
- Scots: Tokyo
- Scottish Gaelic: Tokyo
- Serbian: Токио
- Serbo-Croatian: Tokyo
- Serbo-Croatian: Tōkyō
- Shona: Tokyo
- Sicilian: Tochiu
- Silesian: Tokjo
- Sindhi: ٽوڪيو
- Sinhala: ටෝකියෝ
- Sinhala: ටෝකියෝව
- Slovak: Tokio
- Slovenian: Tokio
- Somali: Tokyo
- South Azerbaijani: توکیو
- Spanish: Prefectura de Tokio
- Spanish: Tokio
- Spanish: prefectura de Tokio
- Sundanese: Tokyo
- Swahili: Tokyo
- Swedish: Tokyo
- Swedish: Tokyo prefektur
- Swiss German: Tokio
- Tachelhit: Tokyo
- Tagalog: Tokyo
- Tahitian: Tokyo
- Tajik: Префектураи Токио
- Tajik: Токио
- Talysh: Tokio
- Tamil: டோக்கியோ
- Tamil: டோக்யோ
- Tamil: தோக்கியோ
- Tatar: Токио
- Telugu: టోక్యో
- Tetum: Tokio
- Thai: จังหวัดโตเกียว
- Thai: มหานครโตเกียว
- Thai: โตเกียว
- Tibetan: ཐོ་ཁེ་ཡོ།
- Tok Pisin: Tokyo
- Tonga (Tonga Islands): Tokio
- Tosk Albanian: Tokio
- Tswana: Tokyo
- Tulu: ಟೋಕಿಯೋ
- Tumbuka: Tokyo
- Turkish: Tokyo
- Turkmen: Tokio
- Turkmen: Tokýo
- Twi: Tokyo
- Udmurt: Токио
- Uighur: توكيو
- Ukrainian: Метрополія Токіо
- Ukrainian: Префектура Токіо
- Ukrainian: Токіо, Японія
- Ukrainian: Токіо
- Ukrainian: Токіо метрополіс
- Ukrainian: префектура Токіо
- Upper Sorbian: Tokio
- Urdu: توکیو
- Uzbek: Tokio
- Venetian: Tokyo
- Veps: Tokio
- Vietnamese: Thủ đô Tokyo
- Vietnamese: Tokyo-to
- Vietnamese: Tokyo
- Vietnamese: Tokyo Metropolis
- Vietnamese: Tokyo Metropolitan
- Vietnamese: Tôkyô
- Vietnamese: Tōkyō
- Vietnamese: Đông Kinh
- Vietnamese: Đông Kinh Đô
- Vlaams: Tokio
- Vlax Romani: Tokyo
- Volapük: Tokyo
- Võro: Tokio
- Waray (Philippines): Tokyo
- Welsh: Tokyo
- Western Armenian: Թոքիօ
- Western Frisian: Tokio
- Western Mari: Токио
- Western Panjabi: ٹوکیو
- Wolof: Tokyo
- Wu Chinese: 东京都
- Yakut: Токио
- Yiddish: טאקיא
- Yoruba: Tokyo
- Yue Chinese: 東京
- Yue Chinese: 東京都
- Zeeuws: Tokio
- Zhuang: Dunghgingh
- Zulu: ITokyo
- Prefettura di Tokyo
- Tukiu
- Tōquiō
- ma tomo Tokijo
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