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Tokyo, officially the Tokyo Metropolis is the capital and most populous city of Japan. The population of the city proper was over 14 million as of 2023. The Greater Tokyo Area, which includes Tokyo and parts of six neighboring prefectures, is the third-most populous metropolitan area in the world, with 33 million residents as of 2025^[update].

Lying at the head of Tokyo Bay, Tokyo is part of the Kantō region, on the central coast of Honshu, Japan's largest island. It is Japan's economic center and the seat of the Japanese government and the Emperor of Japan. The Tokyo Metropolitan Government administers Tokyo's central 23 special wards, which formerly made up Tokyo City; various commuter towns and suburbs in its western area; and two outlying island chains, the Tokyo Islands. Although most of the world recognizes Tokyo as a city, since 1943 its governing structure has been more akin to that of a prefecture, with an accompanying Governor and Assembly taking precedence over the smaller municipal governments that make up the metropolis. Special wards in Tokyo include Chiyoda, the site of the National Diet Building and the Tokyo Imperial Palace; Shinjuku, the city's administrative center; and Shibuya, a hub of commerce and business.

Tokyo, originally known as Edo, rose to political prominence in 1603 when it became the seat of the Tokugawa shogunate, and by the mid-18th century, Edo had evolved from a small fishing village into one of the largest cities in the world, with a population surpassing one million. After the Meiji Restoration (1868), the imperial capital in Kyoto was moved to Edo, and the city was renamed Tokyo (lit. 'Eastern Capital'). Tokyo was greatly damaged by the 1923 Great Kantō earthquake and by Allied bombing raids during World War II. Beginning in the late 1940s, Tokyo underwent rapid reconstruction and expansion, which fueled the Japanese economic miracle, in which Japan's economy became the second-largest in the world at the time, behind that of the United States. As of 2025^[update], Tokyo is home to 26 of the world's 500 largest companies, as listed in the annual Fortune Global 500. (Full article...)

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Map of Tokyo Metro and Toei Subway rail lines in Tokyo

The transport network in Greater Tokyo includes public and private rail and highway networks; airports for international, domestic, and general aviation; buses; motorcycle delivery services, walking, bicycling, and commercial shipping. While the nexus is in the central part of Tokyo, every part of the Greater Tokyo Area has rail or road transport services. There are also a number of ports offering sea and air transport to the general public.

Public transport within Greater Tokyo is dominated by the world's most extensive urban rail network (as of May 2014, the article Tokyo rail list lists 158 lines, 48 operators, 4,714.5 km of operational track and 2,210 stations (although stations are recounted for each operator)) of suburban trains and subways run by a variety of operators, with buses, trams, monorails, and other modes supporting the railway lines. The above figures do not include any Shinkansen services. However, because each operator manages only its own network, the system is managed as a collection of rail networks rather than a single unit. Forty million passengers (counted twice if transferring between operators) use the rail system daily (14.6 billion annually) with the subway representing 22% of that figure with 8.66 million using it daily. There are 0.24 commuter rail stations per square kilometer (0.61/sq mi) in the Tokyo area, or one for each 4.1 square kilometers (1.6 sq mi) of developed land area. Commuter rail ridership is very dense, at six million people per line mile annually, with the highest among automotive urban areas. Walking and cycling are much more common than in many cities around the globe. Private automobiles and motorcycles play a secondary role in urban transport. (Full article...)

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Takashimaya Times Square department store (next to Shinjuku station), Shibuya, Tokyo

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Image 1Tokyo Haneda Airport (from Transport in Greater Tokyo)
Image 2An 1814 handscroll depicting the Great Fire of Meireki (from History of Tokyo)
Image 3A scene from the Tokugawa Seiseiroku, showing an aspect of the sankin-kōtai system: the festive attendance day of daimyo at Edo Castle (from History of Tokyo)
Image 4Tokyo Imperial University's law building before 1902 (from History of Tokyo)
Image 5Taira no Masakado, who challenged the Emperor by becoming the effective ruler of Kanto (from History of Tokyo)
Image 6Shinjuku (from Special wards of Tokyo)
Image 7The Tokyo Skytree in 2014 (from History of Tokyo)
Image 8Ginza (from Special wards of Tokyo)
Image 9A Tokyo taxi driver indicating a fare of 50 Sen by holding up five fingers, in 1932 (from Transport in Greater Tokyo)
Image 10The Kabukicho district of Shinjuku in 1982, before police cracked down on its illegal activities (from History of Tokyo)
Image 11Rainbow Bridge and Tokyo Tower viewed from Odaiba (from Special wards of Tokyo)
Image 12Tokyo from the air after the firebombing of the city, 1945 (from History of Tokyo)
Image 13Toyota Crown Comfort Nihon Kotsu Taxi (from Transport in Greater Tokyo)
Image 14A kawaraban (news broadsheet) depicting the damage of the 1855 earthquake (from History of Tokyo)
Image 15Tokyo Skytree, Sumida (from Special wards of Tokyo)
Image 16An 1869 picture scroll of the 1772 Great Meiwa Fire (from History of Tokyo)
Image 17A leaflet dropped by the U.S. over Tokyo during the bombings, urging civilians to leave the city (from History of Tokyo)
Image 18Rokumeikan, a club mixing Japanese and European styles (from History of Tokyo)
Image 19Map of operators in Greater Tokyo Area (from Transport in Greater Tokyo)
Image 20Hokusai's painting of the 47 ronin storming Kira Yoshinaka's mansion (from History of Tokyo)
Image 21A painting of the new Tokyo Imperial Palace (from History of Tokyo)
Image 22A protest against the U.S.–Japan Security Treaty around the National Diet building on 18 June 1960 (from History of Tokyo)
Image 23Picture of the Upper Class, a c. 1794–1795 painting by Utamaro. The woman on the left is lower in class than the woman on the right, who wears more colorful clothes. (from History of Tokyo)
Image 24The Ginza Line, Asia's oldest subway line, first opened in 1927 (from Transport in Greater Tokyo)
Image 25JR Yamanote Line (from Transport in Greater Tokyo)
Image 26Yukio Mishima speaking during his coup attempt at the Japan Ground Self-Defense Force building on 25 November 1970 (from History of Tokyo)
Image 27A Torii Kiyomasu painting of kabuki actor Ichikawa Danjuro I playing Soga Tokimune. This was likely one of the most popular ukiyo-e actor prints. (from History of Tokyo)
Image 28A view of the IMTFE in session (from History of Tokyo)
Image 29Ōta Dokan, who built the start to Edo Castle (from History of Tokyo)
Image 30Tokugawa Ieyasu, who made Edo the capital of Japan (from History of Tokyo)
Image 31Nihonbashi Bridge, in a c. 1838–1842 painting by Hiroshige (from History of Tokyo)
Image 32Marunouchi (from Special wards of Tokyo)
Image 33The 1964 Summer Olympics closing ceremony on 24 October (from History of Tokyo)
Image 34The Kasumigaseki Building in Kasumigaseki, Chiyoda (from History of Tokyo)
Image 35Japanese children living in the ruins of Tokyo in 1945 (from History of Tokyo)
Image 36This 1858 map shows the yamanote western district (at top) and the shitamachi eastern district (at bottom). Nihonbashi is at center. (from History of Tokyo)
Image 37Otoya Yamaguchi preparing to stab Inejiro Asanuma a second time at the Hibiya Public Hall on 13 January 1960 (from History of Tokyo)
Image 38Tokyo-Wan Ferry Shirahama-maru (from Transport in Greater Tokyo)
Image 39Soil liquefaction in Kōtō after the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake (from History of Tokyo)
Image 40Toei bus (from Transport in Greater Tokyo)
Image 41A section of the Tamagawa Josui in an 1856 painting by Hiroshige (from History of Tokyo)
Image 42Shibuya (from Special wards of Tokyo)
Image 43A social hierarchy chart based on old academic theories. Such hierarchical diagrams were removed from Japanese textbooks after various studies in the 1990s revealed that peasants, craftsmen, and merchants were in fact equal and merely social categories. Successive shoguns held the highest or near-highest court ranks, higher than most court nobles. (from History of Tokyo)
Image 44Tokyo streets at night (from Transport in Greater Tokyo)
Image 45A German map of Tokyo from 1896 (from History of Tokyo)
Image 46Emperor Meiji, moving from Kyoto to Tokyo after the fall of Edo in 1868 (from History of Tokyo)
Image 47A jar from the Yayoi period (300 BC to 300 AD) found in Kugahara, Ōta (from History of Tokyo)
Image 48The funeral procession for Hirohito (by then renamed Showa) on 24 February 1989 (from History of Tokyo)
Image 49Folding screen view of Edo in the 17th century, showing Edo Castle on the upper right corner (from History of Tokyo)
Image 50The Shintomi-za theater, as painted by Utagawa Hiroshige III in 1881 (from History of Tokyo)

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Western Tokyo				Special wards
Okutama Hinohara Ōme Hinode Akiruno Hachiōji Hamura Mizuho Fussa Akishima	Hino Tama Machida Musashimurayama Tachikawa Kunitachi Fuchū Inagi Higashiyamato Kodaira	Kokubunji Koganei Chōfu Higashimurayama Kiyose Higashikurume Nishitōkyō Musashino Mitaka Komae		Nerima Suginami Setagaya Nakano Itabashi Toshima Shinjuku Shibuya Meguro Shinagawa	Ōta Kita Bunkyō Chiyoda Minato Chūō Adachi Arakawa Taitō Kōtō	Sumida Katsushika Edogawa