Tokyo Capital of Japan

Tokyo is the busiest city and capital of Japan Tokyo is political and economical centre of the country and state of the emperor of Japan. Tokyo station is the central hub for japan bullet train system.



District of Tokyo include 

1.Chiyoda: the site of the imperial palace

2.shinjuku: the city administrative centre

3.shibuya: commercial and business hub centre.

Climate of Tokyo

It has four distinct seasons, has a humid subtropical climate with warm and wet summer and mild winter.

Culture of Tokyo

1. Tokyo has many of museum.

 Tokyo National Museum is in Ueno Park,  the country's largest museum and specializing in traditional Japanese art; the National Museum of Western Art and Ueno Zoo. 

Other museums include the National 

Museum of Emerging Science and Innovation in Odaiba; the Edo-Tokyo Museum in Sumida, across the Sumida River from the centre of Tokyo; the Nezu Museum in Aoyama; and the National Diet Library, National Archives, and the National Museum of Modern Art, which are near the Imperial Palace.

2. Tokyo has many theatres for performing arts.

 These include national and private theatres for traditional forms of Japanese drama. The New National Theater Tokyo in Shibuya is the national centre for the performing arts, including opera, ballet, contemporary dance and drama. Tokyo also hosts modern Japanese and international pop, and rock music at venues ranging in size from intimate clubs to internationally known areas such as the Nippon Budokan.

3. Many different festivals occur throughout Tokyo

 such as The Sanja Festival in Asakusa, a parade with elaborately decorated floats and fireworks display.

Tokyo, with various arrangement of sports,

Tokyo is home to two professional baseball clubs

 the Yomiuri Giants who play at the Tokyo Dome and Tokyo Yakult Swallows at Meiji-Jingu Stadium.

Football clubs in Tokyo include F.C. Tokyo and Tokyo Verdy 1969, both of which play at Ajinomoto Stadium in Chōfu, and FC Machida Zelvia at Nozuta Stadium in Machida. Basketball clubs include the Hitachi SunRockers, Toyota Alvark Tokyo and Tokyo Excellence.

The Japan Sumo Association is also headquartered in Tokyo at the Ryōgoku Kokugikan. sumo arena where three official sumo tournaments are held annually (in January, May, and September).

Tokyo often hosts national and international sporting events such as basketball tournaments, women's volleyball tournaments, tennis tournaments, swim meets, marathons, rugby union and sevens rugby games, football, American football exhibition games, judo, and karate.

Tokyo hosted the 1964 Summer Olympics, thus becoming the first Asian city to host the Summer Games.

 The top attraction of Tokyo 

1. Tsukiji Outer Market

 is a district adjacent to the site of the former Tsukiji Wholesale Market. It consists of a few blocks of wholesale and retail shops, as well as restaurants crowded along narrow lanes. Here you can find fresh and processed seafood and produce alongside food-related goods such as knives.

2. Akihabara

 also called Akiba after a former local shrine, is a district in central Tokyo that is famous for its many electronics shops. Akihabara as a center for global electronics technology and trade. Hundreds of electronics shops, ranging from tiny one-man stalls specializing in a particular electronic component to large electronics retailers, line the main Chuo Dori street and the crowded side streets around Akihabara. They offer everything from the newest computers, cameras, televisions, mobile phones, electronics parts, and home appliances to second-hand goods and electronic junk.

3. Koishikawa Korakuen

 is one of Tokyo's oldest and best Japanese gardens. It was built in the early Edo Period (1600-1867) at the Tokyo residence of the Mito branch of the ruling Tokugawa family. Like its namesake in Okayama, the garden was named Korakuen after a poem encouraging a ruler to enjoy pleasure only after achieving happiness for his people. Koishikawa is the district in which the garden is located. Koishikawa Korakuen is attractive throughout the year but is especially so in late November and early December during the fall color season. Dozens of maple trees are planted around the garden's three ponds which turn vibrant shades of orange and red. There is also a small, almost hidden grove of ginkgo trees near the southeast corner of the gardens that turn a golden yellow during autumn.

4. The current Imperial Palace

 is located on the former site of Edo Castle, a large park area surrounded by moats and massive stone walls in the center of Tokyo, a short walk from Tokyo Station. 

It is the residence of Japan's Imperial Family. The palace was once destroyed during World War 2 and rebuilt in the same style, the large plaza in front of the Imperial Palace, visitors can view the Nijubashi, two bridges that form an entrance to the inner palace grounds.

 The stone bridge in front is called Meganebashi (Eyeglass Bridge) for its looks. The bridge in the back was a wooden bridge with two levels, from which the name Nijubashi (Double Bridge) is derived. The inner grounds of the palace are not open to the public. Only on January 2 (New Year's Greeting) and February 23 (Emperor's Birthday), visitors are able to enter the inner palace grounds and see the members of the Imperial Family, who make several public appearances on a balcony.


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