Tokyo is Japan's capital and the world's most crowded city. It is additionally one of Japan's 47 prefectures, comprising of 23 focal city wards and various urban communities, towns and towns west of the downtown area. The Izu and Ogasawara Islands are likewise part of Tokyo. Before 1868, Tokyo was known as Edo. A little manor town in the sixteenth century, Edo turned into Japan's political focus in 1603 when Tokugawa Ieyasu built up his medieval government there. A couple of decades later, Edo had developed into one of the world's most crowded urban areas. With the Meiji Restoration of 1868, the ruler and capital moved from Kyoto to Edo, which was renamed Tokyo ("Eastern Capital"). Huge parts of Tokyo were decimated in the Great Kanto Earthquake of 1923 and noticeable all around assaults of 1945. 

 

More prominent Tokyo is the world's most crowded metropolitan zone and is the focal point of Japanese culture, back, and government. A clamoring cosmopolitan city, Tokyo is likewise a noteworthy transportation center point and a world monetary and mechanical focus. The city brags an expansive number of world-class foundations of advanced education, the most elevated centralization of colleges in Japan. Tokyo was known as Edo until 1868, when the Japanese majestic family was moved there from Kyoto. Metropolitan Tokyo is for the most part characterized as the four prefectures of Tokyo, Saitaima, Kanagawa, and Chiba, while the city of Tokyo appropriate generally alludes to the 23 wards in Tokyo prefecture itself. The metropolitan zone incorporates the significant urban communities of Yokohama (the second biggest city in Japan), Kawasaki, and Chiba, and in addition country mountain locales west of the city, the Izu Islands outside Tokyo Bay, and the Bonin Islands toward the southeast in the Pacific Ocean. 

 

Today, Tokyo offers an apparently boundless decision of shopping, diversion, culture and eating to its guests. The city's history can be acknowledged in areas, for example, Asakusa, and in numerous brilliant exhibition halls, notable sanctuaries and greenery enclosures. In opposition to normal discernment, Tokyo likewise offers various appealing green spaces in the downtown area and inside generally short prepare rides at its edges.