Tokyo Japan

 

The information in our Tokyo Japan travel guide should help you on your vacation, tour, trip, or travels to Tokyo. The Tokyo travel guide will be updated regularly as there is just so much to say about Tokyo we have to add to it almost as fast as the city grows.

Tokyo is unique in Japan because it is a city and a prefecture, this is because it is the seat of the Japanese government and the Imperial Palace, and the home of the Japanese Imperial Family. Tokyo is the capital of Japan and services as the business and financial center of the country.

Tokyo is one of the largest cities in the world with a total population of over 8 million people. The total population of the prefecture exceeds 12 million.

The Greater Tokyo Area, centered on Tokyo but also including Chiba, Kanagawa, and Saitama, is the most populous metropolitan area in the world with a population of over 35 million people. It has been the world's most populous urban area since between 1965 and 1970, and despite Japan's overall declining population, is still growing.
 

 

Akihabara Tokyo

The name Akihabara is now world famous. More than 250 electrical appliance and electronic shops of all sizes are located in a small area centered around Chuo-dori Street, to the west of Akihabara Station. In the past several years, the main trend has been a shift away from general home electrical appliances towards the new world of computers and the Internet. Emerging animation-related shops have also been attracting much attention. The shop assistants have a wealth of knowledge and are able to answer all sorts of questions. Many of them speak English, Chinese or Korean.

Shinjuku Tokyo

Shinjuku Station in Shinjuku-ku, the "new center of Tokyo," is an immense terminal with a concentration of various rail lines: the JR Chuo, Yamanote, Sobu and Saikyo lines; the Toei Shinjuku and Oedo Subway lines; and private railways such as the Odakyu, Keio and Seibu Shinjuku lines.