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Places of Interest

Highlights include Shiodome and National Diet Library.

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is an area in , Japan, located adjacent to and , near and the Hamarikyu Gardens. Formerly a railway terminal, has been transformed into one of Tokyo's most modern areas.

Library
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The is the national library of and among the largest libraries in the world. It was established in 1948 for the purpose of assisting members of the National Diet of Japan in researching matters of public policy. is situated 5 km east of Tokyo.

Public building
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The , also referred to as the Tochō for short, is the seat of the Tokyo Metropolitan Government, which governs the special wards, cities, towns, and villages that constitute the .

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Shinjuku and Shibuya.

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is a central ward of known as the metropolis' second center. The area surrounding Station is a huge business, commercial, and entertainment center atop the world's busiest railway station complex.

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is a shopping and eating district of popular with a lot of young Tokyoites. It deserves a prize for having more two-story televisions than any other area in the world. Harajuku and areas in the ward have separate articles.

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is a ward in northwest , . This guide incorporates Ikebukuro, a section of and one of the three major metropolitan sub-centers on the Yamanote Line, along with Shinjuku and Shibuya.

Tokyo

Latitude
35.6895° or 35° 41′ 22″ north
Longitude
139.6917° or 139° 41′ 30″ east
Population
14,200,000
Elevation
44 metres (144 feet)
United Nations Location Code
JP TKX
Open location code
8Q7XMMQR+RM
Geo­Names ID
1850144
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In Other Languages

From Achinese to Zulu—“Tokyo” goes by many names.
  • Achinese: “Tokyo”
  • Adyghe: “Токио”
  • Afrikaans: “Tokio”
  • Akan: “Tokyo”
  • Albanian: “Tokjo”
  • Amharic: “ቶክዮ”
  • Angika: “टोक्यो”
  • Arabic: “طوكيو”
  • Aragonese: “Tokio”
  • Armenian: “Տոկիո”
  • Arpitan: “Toquio”
  • Assamese: “টকিঅ‘”
  • Asturian: “Tokiu”
  • Awadhi: “टोकियो”
  • Aymara: “Tokyo”
  • Azerbaijani: “Tokio”
  • Balinese: “Tokyo”
  • Bambara: “Tokyo”
  • Banjar: “Tokyo”
  • Bashkir: “Токио”
  • Basque: “Tokio”
  • Bavarian: “Tokio”
  • Belarusian: “Токіа”
  • Bengali: “টোকিও”
  • Bhojpuri: “टोकियो”
  • Bislama: “Tokio”
  • Bosnian: “Tokio”
  • Breton: “Tokyo”
  • Bulgarian: “Токио”
  • Burmese: “တိုကျိုမြို့”
  • Catalan: “Tòquio”
  • Cebuano: “Tokyo”
  • Central Bikol: “Tokyo”
  • Central Kurdish: “تۆکیۆ”
  • Central Okinawan: “東京都”
  • Chamorro: “Tokyo”
  • Chechen: “Токио”
  • Cherokee: “ᏙᎩᏲ”
  • Cheyenne: “Tokyo”
  • Chinese: “东京都”
  • Church Slavic: “Тѡкиѡ”
  • Chuvash: “Токио”
  • Cornish: “Tokyo”
  • Corsican: “Tokiu”
  • Cree: “ᑐᑭᔪ”
  • Crimean Tatar: “Tokyo”
  • Croatian: “Tokio”
  • Czech: “Tokio”
  • Dagbani: “Tokyo”
  • Danish: “Tokyo”
  • Dhivehi: “Tokyo”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Tokyo”
  • Dotyali: “टोकियो”
  • Dutch: “Tokio”
  • Dzongkha: “ཊོ་ཀི་ཡ”
  • Eastern Mari: “Токио”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “طوكيو”
  • Erzya: “Токио”
  • Esperanto: “Tokio”
  • Estonian: “Tōkyō prefektuur”
  • Ewe: “Tokyo”
  • Extremaduran: “Tóquiu”
  • Faroese: “Tokyo”
  • Fiji Hindi: “Tokyo”
  • Fijian: “Tokyo”
  • Finnish: “Tokio”
  • French: “Préfecture de Tokyo”
  • Galician: “Toquio”
  • Gan Chinese: “東京”
  • Ganda: “Tokyo”
  • Georgian: “ტოკიო”
  • German: “Tokio”
  • Ghanaian Pidgin English: “Tokyo”
  • Gilaki: “تؤکيؤ”
  • Gorontalo: “Tokyo”
  • Gothic: “𐍄𐌰𐌿𐌺𐌹𐌰𐌿”
  • Greek: “Τόκιο”
  • Guarani: “Tokio”
  • Guianese Creole French: “Tokyo”
  • Gujarati: “ટોક્યો”
  • Haitian: “Tokyo”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Tûng-kîn”
  • Hausa: “Tokyo”
  • Hawaiian: “Tōkiō”
  • Hebrew: “טוקיו”
  • Hindi: “टोक्यो”
  • Hungarian: “Tokió”
  • Icelandic: “Tókýó”
  • Ido: “Tokyo”
  • Iloko: “Tokyo”
  • Inari Sami: “Tokio”
  • Indonesian: “Prefektur Tokyo”
  • Ingush: “Токио”
  • Interlingua: “Tokyo”
  • Interlingue: “Tōkyō”
  • Inuktitut: “ᑑᑭᐅ”
  • Inupiaq: “Tokyo”
  • Irish: “Tóiceo”
  • Italian: “Tokyo”
  • Jamaican Creole English: “Tuokio”
  • Japanese: “とうきょうと”
  • Japanese: “東京”
  • Japanese: “東京都”
  • Javanese: “Tokyo”
  • Kabiyè: “Tokiyo”
  • Kabyle: “Tokyo”
  • Kalaallisut: “Tokyo”
  • Kannada: “ಟೋಕ್ಯೊ”
  • Kara-Kalpak: “Tokiyo”
  • Kashmiri: “ٹوکیو”
  • Kazakh: “Токио”
  • Khmer: “តូក្យូ”
  • Kikuyu: “Tokyo”
  • Kinyarwanda: “Tokyo”
  • Kirghiz: “Токио”
  • Korean: “도쿄 도”
  • Kurdish: “Tokyo”
  • Ladin: “Tokyo”
  • Ladino: “Tokio”
  • Lao: “ໂຕກຽວ”
  • 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.”
  • Lombard: “Tokyo”
  • Low German: “Tokio”
  • Lower Sorbian: “Tokio”
  • Luxembourgish: “Tokio”
  • Macedo-Romanian: “Tokyo”
  • Macedonian: “Токио”
  • Maithili: “टोक्यो”
  • Malagasy: “Tokyo”
  • Malay: “Tokyo”
  • Malayalam: “ടോക്കിയോ”
  • Maltese: “Tokjo”
  • Manx: “Tokyo”
  • Maori: “Tōkio”
  • 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”
  • Moroccan Arabic: “طوكيو”
  • Narom: “Tokyo”
  • Nauru: “Tokyo”
  • Navajo: “Táłtsʼá Hiníyíní”
  • Neapolitan: “Tokyo”
  • Nepali: “टोकियो”
  • Newari: “तोक्यो”
  • Nias: “Tokyo”
  • Northern Frisian: “Prefektuur Tokio”
  • Northern Luri: “توکیو”
  • Northern Sami: “Tokyo”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Tokyo”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Tokyo”
  • Novial: “Tokyo”
  • Nyanja: “Tokyo”
  • 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”
  • Persian: “توکیو”
  • Pfaelzisch: “Togjo”
  • Picard: “Tōkyō”
  • Piemontese: “Tokyo”
  • Pitcairn-Norfolk: “Tokyo”
  • Polish: “Tokio”
  • Pontic: “Τόκιο”
  • Portuguese: “Tóquio”
  • Pushto: “توکيو”
  • Quechua: “Tokyo”
  • Romanian: “Токё”
  • Romansh: “Tokio”
  • Russia Buriat: “Тоокёо”
  • Russian: “Токио”
  • Rusyn: “Токіо”
  • Samoan: “Tokyo”
  • Samogitian: “Tokėjės”
  • Sanskrit: “टोक्यो”
  • Santali: “ᱴᱳᱠᱭᱚ”
  • Sardinian: “Tokio”
  • Saterfriesisch: “Tokio”
  • Scots: “Tokyo”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Tokyo”
  • Serbian: “Токио”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Tokyo”
  • Shona: “Tokyo”
  • Sicilian: “Tochiu”
  • Silesian: “Tokjo”
  • Sindhi: “ٽوڪيو”
  • Sinhala: “ටෝකියෝ”
  • Slovak: “Tokio”
  • Slovenian: “Tokio”
  • Somali: “Tokyo”
  • South Azerbaijani: “توکیو”
  • Spanish: “Tokio”
  • Sundanese: “Tokyo”
  • Swahili: “Tokyo”
  • Swedish: “Tokyo prefektur”
  • Swiss German: “Tokio”
  • Tachelhit: “Tokyo”
  • Tagalog: “Tokyo”
  • Tahitian: “Tokyo”
  • Tajik: “Префектураи Токио”
  • Talysh: “Tokio”
  • Tamil: “தோக்கியோ”
  • Tatar: “Токио”
  • Telugu: “టోక్యో”
  • Tetum: “Tokio”
  • Thai: “จังหวัดโตเกียว”
  • Tibetan: “ཐོ་ཁེ་ཡོ།”
  • Tok Pisin: “Tokyo”
  • Tonga (Tonga Islands): “Tokio”
  • Tswana: “Tokyo”
  • Tulu: “ಟೋಕಿಯೋ”
  • Tumbuka: “Tokyo”
  • Turkish: “Tokyo”
  • Turkmen: “Tokio”
  • Twi: “Tokyo”
  • Udmurt: “Токио”
  • Uighur: “توكيو”
  • Ukrainian: “Токіо”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Tokio”
  • Urdu: “توکیو”
  • Uzbek: “Tokio”
  • Venetian: “Tokyo”
  • Veps: “Tokio”
  • Vietnamese: “Tokyo”
  • 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: “東京都”
  • Zeeuws: “Tokio”
  • Zhuang: “Dunghgingh”
  • Zulu: “ITokyo”

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Localities in the Area

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