Tokyo
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.
Essential Destinations
Top destinations include Minato and Shinjuku.
Shinjuku
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Destinations to Discover
Explore places such as Tokyo Haneda Airport and Chiyoda.
Chiyoda
Photo: Fg2, Public domain.
Harajuku
For the fashionable teenager, spending time in Harajuku on the weekends is practically a necessity.
East Tokyo
Eastern Tokyo covers the wards of Adachi, Katsushika, Edogawa, Kōtō and Arakawa.
Ebisu
Places of Interest
Highlights include Shiodome and National Diet Library.
Tokyo Station
Railway station
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Roppongi and Akasaka.
Tokyo
- City with 13,600,000 residents
- …lies at an elevation of 44 metres (144 feet)
- …has the IATA airport code TYO
- …was formerly known as “Edo”
- Description: special wards in the eastern part of Tokyo Metropolis in Japan, that used to form a single city
- Also known as“City of Tokyo”“Eastern Tokyo”“Tokyo Proper”
- Categories
- Location
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Latitude
35.6823° or 35° 40′ 56″ north
Longitude
139.7532° or 139° 45′ 11″ east
UN/LOCODE
JP TYO
Open location code
8Q7XMQJ3+W7
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
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In Other Languages
From Achinese to Zeeuws—“Tokyo” goes by many names.
- Achinese: “Tokyo”
- Afrikaans: “Tokyo”
- Albanian: “Tokyo”
- Amharic: “ቶክዮ”
- Arabic: “توكيو”
- Arabic: “طوكيو”
- Aragonese: “Tokio”
- Armenian: “Տոկիո”
- Asturian: “Tokiu”
- Azerbaijani: “Tokio şəhəri”
- Azerbaijani: “Tokio”
- Basque: “Tokio Hiria”
- Basque: “Tokio”
- Bavarian: “Tokio”
- Belarusian: “места Токіё”
- Belarusian: “Токіа”
- Belarusian: “Токіё”
- Bengali: “টোকিও”
- Bengali: “পূর্ব টোকিও”
- Breton: “Tokyo”
- Bulgarian: “Токио”
- Burmese: “တိုကျိုမြို့”
- Catalan: “Tòquio”
- Central Kurdish: “تۆکیۆ”
- Chinese: “东京”
- Chinese: “东京都/東京都”
- Chinese: “日本东京”
- Chinese: “日本東京”
- Chinese: “東京”
- Croatian: “Tokio”
- Czech: “Tokio”
- Czech: “Tókjó”
- Czech: “Tokyo”
- Danish: “Tokyo”
- Dutch: “Tokio”
- Eastern Mari: “Токио”
- Esperanto: “Tokio”
- Esperanto: “Urbo Tokio”
- Estonian: “Tokio”
- Estonian: “Tokyo”
- Estonian: “Tōkyō”
- Fiji Hindi: “Tokyo”
- Finnish: “Tokio”
- French: “Tokyo”
- French: “Tōkyō”
- Galician: “cidade de Toquio”
- Galician: “Tokyo”
- Galician: “Toquio”
- Georgian: “ტოკიო”
- German: “Stadt Tokio”
- German: “Tokio”
- German: “Tokyo”
- Greek: “Τόκιο”
- Greek: “Τόκυο”
- Gujarati: “ટોક્યો”
- Haitian: “Tokyo”
- Hakka Chinese: “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: “Tōkyō-to”
- Japanese: “とうきやう”
- Japanese: “とうきょう”
- Japanese: “とうきょうと”
- Japanese: “日本東京”
- Japanese: “東京”
- Japanese: “東京都”
- Kannada: “ಟೊಕಿಯೊ”
- Kannada: “ಟೋಕ್ಯೊ”
- Kashmiri: “ٹوکیو”
- Khmer: “ទីក្រុងតូខ្យូ”
- Korean: “도꾜”
- Korean: “도쿄”
- Korean: “도쿄도”
- 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”
- Malay: “توکيو”
- Malayalam: “ടോക്കിയോ”
- Maltese: “Tokjo”
- Marathi: “टोकियो”
- Marathi: “टोक्यो”
- Min Dong Chinese: “Dŭng-gĭng”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Tang-kiaⁿ”
- Mirandese: “Tóquio”
- N'Ko: “ߕߏߞߑߦߏ߫ ߘߎ߬ߜ߭ߎ”
- N'Ko: “ߕߏߞߑߦߏ߫ ߛߏ”
- N'Ko: “ߕߏߞߑߦߏ߫”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Tokyo”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Tokyo”
- Norwegian: “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: “Tōkyō”
- 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: “Staden Tokyo”
- Swedish: “Tokyo”
- Swiss German: “Tokio”
- Tagalog: “Kalakhang Tokyo”
- Tagalog: “Tokyo”
- Tahitian: “Tokyo”
- Tajik: “Токио”
- Tamil: “டோக்கியோ”
- Tamil: “டோக்யோ”
- Tamil: “தோக்கியோ”
- Tatar: “Токио”
- Telugu: “టోక్యో”
- Thai: “โตเกียว”
- Turkish: “Tokyo”
- Twi: “Tokyo”
- Uighur: “توكيو”
- Ukrainian: “канто Токіо”
- Ukrainian: “місто Токіо”
- Ukrainian: “Токіо”
- Urdu: “ٹوکیو”
- Vietnamese: “Thành phố Tokyo”
- Vietnamese: “Tokyo”
- Welsh: “Tokyo”
- Western Armenian: “Թոքիօ”
- Wu Chinese: “东京”
- Yue Chinese: “東京”
- Zeeuws: “Tokio”
- “ma tomo Tokijo”
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