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View of Shinjuku skyscrapers and Mount Fuji as seen from the Bunkyo Civic Center in Tokyo

Tokyo ( /ˈtoʊkioʊ/; Japanese: 東京, Tōkyō, [toːkʲoː] ( listen)), officially the Tokyo Metropolis (東京都, Tōkyō-to), is the capital and most populous city of Japan. Formerly known as Edo, its metropolitan area (13,452 square kilometers or 5,194 square miles) is the most populous in the world, with an estimated 37.468 million residents ; the city proper has a population of 13.99 million people. Located at the head of Tokyo Bay, the prefecture forms part of the Kantō region on the central coast of Honshu, Japan's largest island. Tokyo serves as Japan's economic center and is the seat of both the Japanese government and the Emperor of Japan.

Originally a fishing village named Edo, the city became politically prominent in 1603, when it became the seat of the Tokugawa shogunate. By the mid-18th century, Edo was one of the most populous cities in the world with a population of over one million people. Following the Meiji Restoration of 1868, the imperial capital in Kyoto was moved to Edo, which was renamed "Tokyo" ( lit. ' Eastern Capital'). Tokyo was devastated by the 1923 Great Kantō earthquake, and again by Allied bombing raids during World War II. Beginning in the 1950s, the city underwent rapid reconstruction and expansion efforts, going on to lead the Japanese economic miracle. Since 1943, the Tokyo Metropolitan Government has administered the prefecture's 23 special wards (formerly Tokyo City), various commuter towns and suburbs in its western area, and two outlying island chains known as the Tokyo Islands.

Tokyo is the second-largest urban economy worldwide by gross domestic product after New York City, and is categorized as an Alpha+ city by the Globalization and World Cities Research Network. It is also Japan's leading business hub as part of an industrial region that includes the cities of Yokohama, Kawasaki, and Chiba. , Tokyo is home to 37 companies of the Fortune Global 500. In 2020, the city ranked fourth on the Global Financial Centres Index, behind only New York City, London, and Shanghai. Tokyo is home to the world's tallest tower, Tokyo Skytree, and the world's largest underground floodwater diversion facility, the Metropolitan Area Outer Underground Discharge Channel (located in Kasukabe, Saitama, a suburb of Tokyo). The Tokyo Metro Ginza Line, opened in 1927, is the oldest underground metro line in East Asia. Recognized as one of the most livable cities in the world, Tokyo was tied fourth with Wellington in the 2021 Global Livability Ranking. ( Full article...)

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The University of Tokyo (東京大学, Tōkyō daigaku; Todai or UTokyo) is a public research university in Bunkyō, Tokyo, Japan. Established in 1877, the university was the first Imperial University and is currently a Top Type university of the Top Global University Project by the Japanese government.

UTokyo has 10 faculties, 15 graduate schools and enrolls about 30,000 students, about 4,200 of whom are international students. In particular, the number of privately funded international students, who account for more than 80%, has increased 1.75 times in the 10 years since 2010, and the university is focusing on supporting international students. Its five campuses are in Hongō, Komaba, Kashiwa, Shirokane and Nakano. ( Full article...)

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Looking north down a street in Ginza, the most important thoroughfare in Tokyo, Japan, c.1904.

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You are invited to participate in the Tokyo task force, a task force dedicated to developing and improving articles about the Tokyo metropolis, including the Special wards of Tokyo, West Tokyo, and the islands.

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Image 1A German map of Tokyo from 1896. (from History of Tokyo)
Image 2A Tokyo taxi driver indicating a fare of 50 Sen by holding up five fingers, in 1932. (from Transport in Greater Tokyo)
Image 3Map of operators in Greater Tokyo Area (from Transport in Greater Tokyo)
Image 4 Asakusa (from Special wards of Tokyo)
Image 5 JR Yamanote Line (from Transport in Greater Tokyo)
Image 6The former Edo Castle, now the Tokyo Imperial Palace (from History of Tokyo)
Image 7This marker in Nihonbashi is the place from which distances along highways are reckoned (from Transport in Greater Tokyo)
Image 8 Shinjuku (from Special wards of Tokyo)
Image 9 Shibuya (from Special wards of Tokyo)
Image 10 Tokugawa Ieyasu (from History of Tokyo)
Image 11The Tokyo Tower was built in 1958 and was constructed of steel, a third of which was scrap metal taken from US tanks damaged in the Korean War. (from History of Tokyo)
Image 12 Rainbow Bridge and Tokyo Tower viewed from Odaiba (from Special wards of Tokyo)
Image 13Tokyo from the air after the firebombing of Tokyo, 1945 (from History of Tokyo)
Image 14Tokyo streets at night (from Transport in Greater Tokyo)
Image 15Graves of the 47 Ronin at Sengakuji Temple (from History of Tokyo)
Image 16 Toei bus (from Transport in Greater Tokyo)
Image 17The new Tokyo Metropolitan Government Building was completed in 1991 in Shinjuku (from History of Tokyo)
Image 18Tokyo Haneda Airport (from Transport in Greater Tokyo)
Image 19A view of Edo, from a 17th-century screen painting (from History of Tokyo)
Image 20 Ginza (from Special wards of Tokyo)
Image 21The Sakuradamon Gate at Edo Castle where Ii Naosuke was assassinated in 1860. (from History of Tokyo)
Image 22 Marunouchi (from Special wards of Tokyo)
Image 23The Metropolitan Police Department burning at Marunouchi, near Hibiya Park during the 1923 earthquake (from History of Tokyo)
Image 24A view of a Kabuki theatre district in Edo, 1820 (from History of Tokyo)
Image 25The Ginza Line, Asia's oldest subway line, first opened in 1927 (from Transport in Greater Tokyo)
Image 26 Tokyo-Wan Ferry Shirahama-maru (from Transport in Greater Tokyo)
Image 27The governing structures of Tokyo City and Tokyo Prefecture versus Tokyo Metropolis. (from History of Tokyo)

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... that Nakano Broadway in Tokyo, founded as a luxury shopping complex in 1966, became a destination for anime and manga fans in the 1980s?
... that Ralph Page once called a contra dance for more than 4000 people in Tokyo, despite not knowing Japanese?
... that pianist Fujita Haruko, one of the first 19 female students enrolled at the University of Tokyo, was taught by Leo Sirota, who was once called the "god of piano"?
... that with his self-produced solo ice show Gift, two-time Olympic champion Yuzuru Hanyu is expected to become the first ice skater to perform at the Tokyo Dome?
... that the design of the Japanese–Italian fusion restaurant Kissa Tanto was inspired by Hotel Okura Tokyo, Italian architect Gio Ponti, and covers designed by John Gall for Haruki Murakami's novels?
... that Aga Mikolaj, a soprano who studied with Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, appeared as Mozart's Donna Elvira from San Francisco to Tokyo, and sang the Four Last Songs with "a degree of abandon and rapture"?

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Administrative divisions of Tokyo

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