Tokyo
Tokyo Metropolis comprises the city of Tokyo, most of the plain of Kanto, and a chain of islands that extends thousands of kilometers south.Photo: Morio, CC BY-SA 3.0.
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Essential Destinations
Top destinations include Tokyo and Minato.
Tokyo
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Tokyo is the enormous and wealthy capital of Japan, and its main city, overflowing with culture, commerce, and most of all, people. As one of the most populated urban areas 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.
Minato
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Minato is a ward in central Tokyo. Its name means "port", referring to its seaside location, although many areas in the district are quite far from the sea now due to reclamation.
Shinjuku
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Shinjuku is a central ward of Tokyo known as the metropolis' second center. The area surrounding Shinjuku Station is a huge business, commercial, and entertainment center atop the world's busiest railway station complex.
Destinations to Discover
Explore places such as Izu Islands and Hachioji.
Izu Islands
Hachioji
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Hachioji is in the western part of Tokyo, with a population of about 575,000 people. Home to Mount Takao which surprised the locals by suddenly getting 3 stars on the Guide Michelin in 2007.
Musashino
Mitaka
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Mitaka is a city in the Western Tokyo region of Tokyo Metropolis, Japan. As of 1 March 2021, the city had an estimated population of 190,403, and a population density of 12,000 persons per km2. The total area of the city was 16.42 square kilometres.
Chofu
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. Machida City has relatively more nature than any other city in Tokyo. The town has been the setting for many manga and video games.
Kodaira
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Kodaira is a city located in the western portion of the Tokyo Metropolis, Japan. As of 1 April 2021, the city had an estimated population of 195,207 in 93,654 households, and a population density of 9500 persons per km2.
Nishitokyo
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Nishitokyo is a city located in the western portion of Tokyo Metropolis, Japan. As of 1 January 2021, the city had an estimated population of 206,047, and a population density of 13,000 persons per km2. The total area of the city is 15.75 square kilometres.
Koganei
Fuchu
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Fuchū is a city located in the western portion of the Tokyo Metropolis, Japan. Fuchū serves as a regional commercial center and a commuter town for workers in central Tokyo.
Tachikawa
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".
Kokubunji
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Kokubunji is a city located in the western portion of the Tokyo Metropolis, Japan. As of 1 March 2021, the city had an estimated population of 126,791, and a population density of 11,000 persons per km2. The total area of the city was 11.46 square kilometres.
Akishima
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.
Inagi
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Photo: Toshiki Tanaka, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Photo: NASA, Public domain.
Tokyo
- Type: City with 13,600,000 residents
- Description: capital and largest city of Japan
- Also known as: “Edo”, “Jedo”, “Tokei”, “Tokio”, “Tôkyô”, “Tōkyō”, “Tokyo (Japan)”, “Tokyo Metropolis”, “Tokyo Metropolitan prefecture”, “Tokyo Prefecture”, “Tokyo-to”, “Tôkyô-to”, “Tōkyō-to”, “Tokyo, Japan”, and “Yedo”
- Neighbors: Chiba, Kanagawa, Saitama, and Yamanashi
- Categories: metropolitan prefecture, capital of Japan, tourist destination, metropolis, global city, megacity, largest city, big city, prefecture of Japan, financial center, and locality
- Location: Kanto, Japan, East Asia, Asia
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Latitude of center
35.6769° or 35° 40′ 37″ northLongitude of center
139.7639° or 139° 45′ 50″ eastPopulation
13,600,000Elevation
44 metres (144 feet)United Nations Location Code
JP TKXOpenStreetMap ID
node 265018692OpenStreetMap feature
place=cityGeoNames ID
1850144Wikidata ID
Q1490
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In Other Languages
From Abkhazian to Zulu—“Tokyo” goes by many names.
- Abkhazian: “Токио”
- Achinese: “Tokyo”
- Achinese: “Tokyô”
- Adyghe: “Токио”
- Afrikaans: “Tokio”
- Akan: “Tokyo”
- Albanian: “Tokio”
- Albanian: “Tokjo”
- Amharic: “ቶክዮ”
- Angika: “टोक्यो”
- Arabic: “توكيو”
- Arabic: “طوكيو”
- Arabic: “محافظة توكيو”
- Arabic: “محافظة طوكيو”
- Aragonese: “Tokio”
- Armenian: “Տոկիո”
- Arpitan: “Toquio”
- Assamese: “টকিঅ‘”
- Assamese: “টকিঅ’”
- Asturian: “prefeutura de Tokiu”
- Asturian: “Tokiu (prefeutura)”
- Asturian: “Tokiu”
- Asturian: “Tokyo”
- Asturian: “Tōkyō”
- Asturian: “Toquio”
- 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”
- Betawi: “Tokio”
- Bhojpuri: “टोकियो”
- Bislama: “Tokio”
- Bislama: “Tokyo”
- Bosnian: “Tokio”
- Breton: “Tokyo”
- Bulgarian: “Токио”
- Burmese: “တိုကျိုမြို့”
- Catalan: “metròpoli de Tòquio”
- Catalan: “prefectura metropolitana de Tòquio”
- Catalan: “Tōkyō-to”
- Catalan: “Tokyo”
- Catalan: “Tōkyō”
- Catalan: “Tòquio”
- Cebuano: “Tokyo (ulohang dakbayan sa Hapon)”
- Cebuano: “Tokyo”
- Central Bikol: “Tokyo”
- Central Kanuri: “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: “Тѡкио”
- Church Slavic: “Тѡкиѡ”
- Chuvash: “Токио”
- Cornish: “Tokyo”
- Corsican: “Tochiu”
- Corsican: “Tochju”
- Corsican: “Tokiu”
- Corsican: “Tokyo”
- Corsican: “Tōkyō”
- Cree: “ᑐᑭᔪ”
- Crimean Tatar: “Tokyo”
- Croatian: “Tokio”
- Czech: “prefektura Tokio”
- Czech: “Tokio”
- Czech: “Tókjó”
- Czech: “Tokyo”
- 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”
- Erzya: “Токио ош”
- Erzya: “Токио”
- Esperanto: “Tokio”
- Estonian: “Tokyo prefektuur”
- Estonian: “Tōkyō prefektuur”
- Estonian: “Tōkyō”
- Ewe: “Tokyo”
- Extremaduran: “Tokyo”
- Extremaduran: “Tóquiu”
- Faroese: “Tokyo”
- Fiji Hindi: “Tokyo”
- Fijian: “Tokio”
- Fijian: “Tokyo”
- Finnish: “Tokio”
- French: “métropole de Tokyo”
- French: “préfecture de Tokyo”
- French: “Préfecture de Tokyo”
- French: “préfecture métropolitaine de Tokyo”
- French: “Tokyo Metropolis”
- French: “Tokyo-to”
- French: “Tôkyô-to”
- French: “Tōkyō-to”
- French: “Tokyo”
- French: “Tôkyô”
- French: “Tōkyō”
- Galician: “Tokio”
- Galician: “Tokyo”
- Galician: “Toquio”
- Gan Chinese: “東京”
- Ganda: “Tokyo”
- Georgian: “ტოკიო”
- German: “Präfektur Tokio”
- German: “Stadt Tokio”
- German: “Stadt Tokyo”
- German: “Tokio”
- German: “Tokyo”
- Ghanaian Pidgin English: “Tokyo”
- Gilaki: “تؤکيؤ”
- Gorontalo: “Tokyo”
- Gothic: “𐍄𐌰𐌿𐌺𐌹𐌰𐌿”
- Gothic: “𐍄𐍉𐌺𐌾𐍉”
- Greek: “Τōκιō”
- Greek: “Τṓκιō”
- Greek: “Τōκυō”
- Greek: “Τṓκυō”
- Greek: “Τόκιο”
- Greek: “Τόκυο”
- Guarani: “Tokio”
- Guarani: “Tókio”
- Guianese Creole French: “Tokyo”
- Gujarati: “ટોક્યો”
- Haitian: “Tokyo”
- Hakka Chinese: “Tûng-kîn-tû”
- Hakka Chinese: “Tûng-kîn”
- Hausa: “Tokyo”
- Hawaiian: “Tōkiō”
- Hebrew: “טוקיו רבתי”
- Hebrew: “טוקיו”
- Hindi: “टोक्यो”
- Hungarian: “Tokió”
- Hungarian: “Tókjó”
- Hungarian: “Tokyo-to”
- Hungarian: “Tokyo”
- Hungarian: “Tôkyô”
- Hungarian: “Tōkyō”
- Iban: “Tokyo”
- Icelandic: “Tókýó”
- Ido: “Tokyo”
- Iloko: “Tokyo”
- Inari Sami: “Tokio”
- Indonesian: “Prefektur Tokyo”
- Indonesian: “Tokyo”
- Ingush: “Токио”
- Interlingua: “Tokyo”
- Interlingue: “Tōkyō”
- Inuktitut: “ᑑᑭᐅ”
- Inupiaq: “Tokyo”
- Inupiaq: “Tukiu”
- Irish: “Tóiceo”
- Irish: “Tokyo”
- Irish: “Tōkyō”
- Italian: “prefettura di Tokyo”
- Italian: “Prefettura di Tokyo”
- Italian: “prefettura di Tōkyō”
- Italian: “Tochio”
- Italian: “Tokyo”
- Italian: “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”
- Kadazan Dusun: “Tokyo”
- Kalaallisut: “Tokyo”
- Kannada: “ಟೋಕಿಯೋ”
- Kannada: “ಟೋಕ್ಯೊ”
- Kannada: “ತೋಕ್ಯೋ”
- Kara-Kalpak: “Tokio”
- Kara-Kalpak: “Tokiyo”
- Kashmiri: “ٹوکیو”
- Kazakh: “Токио”
- Kazakh: “Төкей”
- Kazakh: “Эдо”
- Khmer: “តូក្យូ”
- Khmer: “ទីក្រុងតូខ្យូ”
- Kikuyu: “Tokyo”
- Kinyarwanda: “Tokyo”
- Kirghiz: “Токио шаарынын тарыхы”
- Kirghiz: “Токио”
- Komering: “Tokyo”
- Korean: “도꾜”
- Korean: “도꾜도”
- Korean: “도쿄 도”
- Korean: “도쿄”
- Korean: “도쿄도”
- Korean: “동경 도”
- Korean: “동경”
- Korean: “동경도”
- Kotava: “Tokyo”
- Kurdish: “Tokyo”
- Ladin: “Tokio”
- Ladin: “Tokyo”
- Ladino: “Tokio”
- Lao: “ຈັງຫວັດໂຕກຽວ”
- Lao: “ໂຕກຽວ”
- Lao: “ນະຄອນຫຼວງໂຕກຽວ”
- Lao: “ມະຫານະຄອນໂຕກຽວ”
- Latin: “Metropolis Tociensis”
- Latin: “Metropolis Tokiensis”
- Latin: “Praefectura Tociensis”
- Latin: “Praefectura Tokiensis”
- 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: “तोक्यो”
- Mazanderani: “توکيو”
- Mesopotamian Arabic: “توكيو”
- Mesopotamian Arabic: “طوكيو”
- Min Dong Chinese: “Dŭng-gĭng-dŭ”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Tang-kiaⁿ-to͘”
- Minangkabau: “Tokyo”
- Mingrelian: “ტოკიო”
- Mirandese: “Tóquio”
- Moksha: “Токиа”
- Moksha: “Токио”
- Mon: “တိုကျို”
- Mongolian: “Токио хот”
- Mongolian: “Токио”
- Mongolian: “ᠲᠣᠣᠺᠶᠣ᠋ ᠬᠣᠲᠠ”
- Mongolian: “ᠲᠣᠣᠺᠶᠣ᠋”
- 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: “Tokio”
- Northern Sami: “Tokyo”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Tokyo prefektur”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Tokyo”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Tokyo”
- Norwegian: “Tokyo”
- Novial: “Tokyo”
- Nyanja: “Tokyo”
- Occitan (post 1500): “prefectura de Tòquio”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Tòquio metròpol”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Tòquio”
- Official Aramaic (700-300 BCE): “ܛܘܩܝܘ”
- Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Geddoburg”
- Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Tocyo”
- Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Tōkyō”
- Oriya: “ଟୋକିଓ”
- Oromo: “Tokyo”
- Ossetian: “Токио”
- Pa'o Karen: “ဝေင်ꩻတိုကျို”
- Pampanga: “Tokyo”
- Panjabi: “ਟੋਕੀਓ”
- Papiamento: “Tokio”
- Papiamento: “Tokyo”
- Persian: “توکیو”
- Pfaelzisch: “Togjo”
- Pfaelzisch: “Tokio”
- Picard: “Tokyo”
- 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 (Japão)”
- Portuguese: “Tokyo Metropolis”
- Portuguese: “Tokyo-to”
- Portuguese: “Tôkyô-to”
- Portuguese: “Tōkyō-to”
- Portuguese: “Tokyo, Japão”
- Portuguese: “Tokyo”
- Portuguese: “Tôkyô”
- Portuguese: “Tōkyō”
- Portuguese: “Tóquio (Japão)”
- Portuguese: “Tóquio, Japão”
- Portuguese: “Tóquio”
- Pushto: “توکيو”
- Pushto: “توکیو”
- Quechua: “Tokyo”
- Romanian: “Tokio”
- Romanian: “Tokyo”
- Romanian: “Tōkyō”
- Romanian: “Токё”
- Romansh: “Tokio”
- Russia Buriat: “Токио”
- Russia Buriat: “Тоокёо”
- Russian: “Токё-то”
- Russian: “Токё”
- Russian: “Токио-то”
- Russian: “Токио”
- Rusyn: “Токіо”
- Samoan: “Tokyo”
- Samogitian: “Tokėjės”
- Sanskrit: “टोक्यो”
- Santali: “ᱴᱚᱠᱭᱚ”
- Santali: “ᱴᱳᱠᱭᱚ”
- Sardinian: “Tokio”
- Sardinian: “Tokyo”
- Saterfriesisch: “Tokio”
- Scots: “Tokyo”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Tokyo”
- Serbian: “Токио”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Tokyo”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Tōkyō”
- Shona: “Tokyo”
- Sicilian: “Tochiu”
- Sicilian: “Tokyo”
- Sicilian: “Tōkyō”
- Silesian: “Tokjo”
- Sindhi: “ٽوڪيو”
- Sinhala: “ටෝකියෝ”
- Sinhala: “ටෝකියෝව”
- Skolt Sami: “Tokio”
- Slovak: “Tokio”
- Slovenian: “Tokijo”
- Slovenian: “Tokio”
- Somali: “Tokyo”
- South Azerbaijani: “توکیو”
- Spanish: “prefectura de Tokio”
- Spanish: “Prefectura de Tokio”
- Spanish: “Tokio”
- Spanish: “Tokyo”
- Sundanese: “Tokyo”
- Swahili: “Tokyo”
- Swati: “ITokyo”
- Swedish: “Tokyo prefektur”
- Swedish: “Tokyo”
- Swiss German: “Tokio”
- Tachelhit: “Tokyo”
- Tagalog: “Tokyo”
- Tagalog: “Tōkyō”
- Tahitian: “Tokyo”
- Tajik: “Префектураи Токио”
- Tajik: “Токио”
- Talysh: “Tokio”
- Tamil: “டோக்கியோ”
- Tamil: “டோக்யோ”
- Tamil: “தோக்கியோ”
- Tatar: “Токио”
- Telugu: “టోక్యో”
- Tetum: “Tokio”
- Thai: “จังหวัดโตเกียว”
- Thai: “โตเกียว”
- Thai: “มหานครโตเกียว”
- 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: “Tokyo”
- Turkmen: “Tokýo”
- Tuvinian: “Токио”
- Twi: “Tokyo”
- Udmurt: “Токио”
- Uighur: “توكيو”
- Ukrainian: “Метрополія Токіо”
- Ukrainian: “префектура Токіо”
- Ukrainian: “Префектура Токіо”
- Ukrainian: “Токіо метрополіс”
- Ukrainian: “Токіо, Японія”
- Ukrainian: “Токіо”
- Upper Sorbian: “Tokio”
- Urdu: “توکیو”
- Uzbek: “Tokio”
- Venetian: “Prefetura de Tokyo”
- Venetian: “Tokyo”
- Veps: “Tokio”
- Vietnamese: “Đông Kinh Đô”
- Vietnamese: “Đông Kinh”
- Vietnamese: “Thủ đô Tokyo”
- Vietnamese: “Tokyo Metropolis”
- Vietnamese: “Tokyo Metropolitan”
- Vietnamese: “Tokyo-to”
- Vietnamese: “Tokyo”
- Vietnamese: “Tôkyô”
- Vietnamese: “Tōkyō”
- 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”
- Zeeuws: “Tokyo”
- Zhuang: “Dunghgingh”
- Zulu: “ITokyo”
- “ma tomo Tokijo”
- “Tokėjės”
- “Tokio”
- “Tokyo”
- “Tōquiō”
- “Токё”
- “टोकियो”
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