Have All-Abroad the travelogue delivered FREE to your mailbox every fortnight. The city was originally known as 'Edo' , which roughly translates as 'mouth of the river' but in 1868 it was renamed 'to' meaning eastern and 'kyo' meaning capital . So no need to ask directions then.
Japan deserves to be a more popular tourist destination than it actually is.
Visitors can find the complexity of the language daunting and are nervous about transgressing the infamous Japanese rules of etiquette. You can eat cheaply in Tokyo but certain selected items like some fresh fruit can be exorbitantly expensive. It's just a case of checking before you buy. It often seems like Tokyo is two cities squeezed into the space of one but behind the skyscrapers and between the concrete monstrosities little glints of a more spiritual side to the capital appear and they're worth seeking out. This is by no means a definitive list of all the things to do in Tokyo , it merely a random sampling of what the city on Tokyo Bay has to offer.