Map of Tokyo City Pictures
Map of Tokyo Metro Pictures
Map of Tokyo City Location Pictures
Tokyo (東京 Tōkyō?, "Eastern Capital") - Japanese pronunciation: (toːkjoː), English pronunciation: /ˈtoʊkiˌoʊ/; clearly Tokyo Metropolis (東京都 Tōkyō-to?), is one of the 47 prefectures of Japan. It is amid in the Kantō arena on the southeastern ancillary of the basic island Honshu and includes the Izu Islands and Ogasawara Islands. Tokyo Metropolis was formed in 1943 from the alliance of the above Tokyo Prefecture (東京府 Tōkyō-fu?) and the burghal of Tokyo (東京市 Tōkyō-shi?). Tokyo is the basic of Japan, the centermost of the Greater Tokyo Area, and the better burghal breadth of Japan. It is the bench of the Japanese government and the Imperial Palace, and the home of the Japanese Imperial Family.
The Tokyo City government administers the twenty-three appropriate wards of Tokyo (each absolute as a city), which awning the breadth that was the burghal of Tokyo, as able-bodied as 39 municipalities in the western allotment of the prefecture and the two afar island chains. The citizenry of the appropriate wards is over 8 actor people, with the absolute citizenry of the prefecture beyond 13 million. The prefecture is allotment of the world's best crawling burghal breadth with upwards of 35 actor bodies and the world's better burghal abridgement with a GDP of US$1.479 abundance at purchasing ability adequation in 2008, advanced of New York City, which ranks additional on the list. The burghal hosts 47 of the Fortune All-around 500 companies.
Tokyo has been declared as one of the three "command centers" for the apple economy, forth with New York Burghal and London. This burghal is advised an alpha+ apple city, listed by the GaWC's 2008 account and ranked third amid all-around cities by Foreign Policy's 2010 All-around Cities Index. In 2010 Tokyo was called the additional best big-ticket burghal for departer employees, according to the Mercer and Economist Intelligence Unit cost-of-living surveys, and called the fourth Best Liveable Burghal and the World’s Best Livable Megalopolis by the annual Monocle. The Michelin Guide has awarded Tokyo by far the best Michelin stars of any burghal in the world. Tokyo hosted the 1964 Summer Olympics and is currently behest to host the 2020 Summer Olympics.
