English: Tokyo Landsat 4 photo in 1986. A guided tour:
The green circle in the center is the
Kokyo (Imperial Palace). The little gray ball in the middle is the palace itself: you can also barely see the Budokan at the top of the palace grounds.
Tokyo Tower is located in the small park due south of the Kokyo.
At the bottom of the photo, on the bay,
Tokyo International Airport. The third runway was under construction at the time (or maybe it's just discolored).
The large artificial islands in the bay near central Tokyo is
Odaiba.
The green blotches west of the Kokyo are the Akasaka Palace and Jingu Park: the big blob far to the west is Yoyogi Park.
The black spot to the north of Yoyogi Park is central
Shinjuku.
The river on the south side of the photo is the Tama River, separating Tokyo from
Kanagawa Prefecture.
The second river due east of the Palace is the Arakawa, separating Tokyo from
Chiba Prefecture.
Tokyo Disney Resort is on the other side of this river from Tokyo (it's the big greenish-white thing on the artificial peninsula by the bay).
The northwestern corner of the map is in
Saitama Prefecture, I think (but it's hard to tell exactly where Saitama begins).
日本語: 東京付近の地理的概況(河川、市街地、緑地 等々)が判るランドサット画像(1986年)
Deutsch: Landsat-Aufnahme von Tokio und seiner Umgebung
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