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| Capital special ward | Shinjuku |
| Region: | Kanto |
| Island: | Honshu |
| Area - Total | Ranked 45th 2,187.08 km² 1.0% |
| Population - Total ( Jan 1January 1 is the first day of the calendar year in both the Julian and Gregorian calendars. Here a calendar year refers to the order in which the months are displayed, January to December. The first day of the medieval Julian year was usually a day other, 20012001 is a common year starting on Monday (see link for calendar), and also: The International Year of the Volunteer The United Nations Year of Dialogue Among Civilizations Events January January 1 A black monolith measuring approximately nine feet tall ap) | Ranked 1stJapanese prefectures Rank Prefecture Japanese Population ¹ 1 Tokyo 12,059,237 2 Osaka 8,804,806 3 Kanagawa 8,489,932 4 Aichi 7,043,235 5 Saitama 6,938,004 6 Chiba 5,926,349 7 Hokkaido 5,682,950 8 Hyogo 5,550,742 9 Fukuoka 5,015,666 10 Shizuoka 3,767,427 1 12,064,101 |
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| GovernorA governor is an official who heads the government of a colony, state or other sub-national state unit. Most countries in the world have some sort of official known as a governor, though in some countries, the heads of the states, provinces and regions ma: | Shintaro IshiharaShintaro Ishihara ( Ishihara Shintaro born 1932), author, outspoken Japanese nationalist, populist, and current governor of Tokyo, was born in Hyogo prefecture in Japan. After winning the Akutagawa Prize (Japan's most prestigious literary prize) when he w |
| ISO 3166-2: | JP-13 |
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| Pref. Flower: | Yoshino cherry blossom |
| Pref. Tree: | Ginkgo tree (Ginkgo biloba) |
| Pref. Bird: | Black-headed gull (Larus ridibundus) |
Tokyo (東京; Tokyo, lit. eastern capital) is the capital of Japan as well as the most populous conurbation in Japan, and the world's largest metropolitan area by population with 33,750,000 people living within its urban influence.
A little more than 12 million people live in Tokyo while hundreds of thousands of others commute everyday from surrounding areas to work and do business in Tokyo. Tokyo is the central place of politics, economy, culture and academics in Japan as well as the home of the Japanese emperor and the seat of the national government, as well as a major business and financial centre for all of East Asia.
It is unusual in that it has far fewer skyscrapers than other cities of its size, mostly due to earthquake construction codes; rather, it mostly consists of low-rise apartments of six to ten floors and densely-packed family homes. Tokyo is also home to the world's most complex mass transit system, and is world-famous for its crowded rush hours.
Tokyo literally means "eastern capital" in Japanese, a meaning in opposition to an old capital to the west, Kyoto, which was renamed "Saikyo", meaning "western capital", for a brief period of time.
The name was spelled Tokio in English until the latter half of the 20th century; while now thoroughly obsolete, this usage persists in a few rare cases like the Tokio Marine & Fire Insurance company. The name is still spelled Tokio in some other languages like Dutch, Finnish, German, Spanish, and Esperanto.