Tokyo Metropolis

This article is about metropolitan Tokyo. For more information, see Tokyo (disambiguation).

 is the official name for of the traditional  (1869-1943) and the associated municipalities of what was formerly  (1869-1943).Tokyo Metropolitan Government, 東京都年表 ; retrieved 2013-4-13. It is the capital city and a prefecture of Japan on the island of Honshu.

Greater Tokyo includes land in the Kantō region and also the Izu Islands and Ogasawara Islands.Nussbaum, Louis-Frédéric. (2005). "Tōkyō" in Japan Encyclopedia, pp. 981-982; "Kantō"  atp. 479. Ten percent (10%) of the Japanese people live in Tokyo, and as many as twenty percent (20%) of the population live around it. As of 2007, the population was 12,790,000. Tokyo is in a part of Japan called the Kantō Plain. Two big rivers run through Tokyo. One is the Arakawa River which runs from the north to the south, and flows into Tokyo Bay. The other is the Tama River which runs from the west to the east. The Tama River is a border between Tokyo and its neighbor city, Kawasaki.

History
In 1943, Tokyo prefecture's municipalities and city of Tokyo were associated in a special way. The administration of Tokyo city merged with the administration of Tokyo Prefecture.The idea of removing one level of government and raising Tokyo City administration to the level of other prefectures was not new.  It had talked about since the 19th century --  for example, see draft of Tokyo law which was not passed in 1895 . Tokyo Metropolis is governed by the Tokyo Metropolitan Government.

Other cities
Akiruno
Inagi
Oume
Kiyose
Kunitachi
Koganei
Kokubunji
Kodaira
KomaeTachikawa
Tama
Chofu
Nishi-tokyo
Hachiouji
Hamura
Higashi-kurume
Higashi-murayama
Higashi-yamatoHino
Fuchu
Fussa
Machida
Mitaka
Musashino
Musashi-murayama

Other towns/villages
Ōshima (town)
Kōzushima (village)
Toshima (village)
Niijima (village)
Ogasawara (village)
Okutama (town)
Hinode (town)Hinohara (village)
Mizuho (town)
Aogashima (village)
Hachijo (town)
Mikurajima(village)
Miyake (village)

Izu & Ogasawara Islands
Tokyo has many outlying islands.McCormack, Gavan. "Dilemmas of Development on The Ogasawara Islands,"  JPRI Occasional Paper, No. 15 (August 1999). Japan Policy Research Institute (University of San Francisco); retrieved 2013-2-27.

The Izu Islands include Izu Ōshima, Toshima, Niijima, Shikinejima, Kozushima, Miyakejima, Mikurajima, Hachijojima, and Aogashima.

The Ogasawara Islands include Chichi-jima, Nishinoshima, Haha-jima, Kita Iwo Jima, Iwo Jima, and Minami Iwo Jima. Minami Torishima, the  easternmost point in Japan, is also part of the Ogasawaras. Okinotorishima, the southernmost point in Japan, is also administered by Tokyo as part of this group."Japan hopes to build lighthouse on atoll disputed with China," Xinhua (China). August 5, 2005; retrieved 2013-2-27.

 Transportation 
Tokyo is the cultural, business, and political center of the country. It is also the center of many transport systems. There are many air, rail, sea, and road links in and out of the city. Local subway and bus systems serve every part of the city.

Two commercial airports serve Tokyo. Haneda Airport is in the city limits next to Tokyo Bay. This airport is mostly for domestic travel. Most international flights to and from Tokyo go through Narita International Airport in Chiba Prefecture, opened in 1978.

Tokyo has a busy international and domestic port, but more traffic goes through the nearby port of Yokohama. There are domestic ferries to the islands of Tokyo, but also to other parts of the country such as Hokkaido.

Sister cities
 Beijing, China
 Berlin, Germany
 Cairo, Egypt
 Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom
 Jakarta, Indonesia
 London, England, United Kingdom
 Mumbai, India
 São Paulo, Brazil
 Algiers, Algeria
 Rome, Italy
 Venice, Italy

Related pages
 Tokyo
 Provinces of Japan
 Prefectures of Japan
 List of regions of Japan
 List of islands of Japan

References

 Other websites 

Tokyo Metropolitan Government

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