Tokyo

Honestly I don't know about Tokyo very much so I can't explain it. This is because the railway system in Japan is horrible, for when I go to Tokyo from Osaka by "Shinkansen", I have to pay about $200 for a return ticket, by plane $220 and by the cheapest bus $80. What do you think about it? I couldn't afford them. I've been there several times and did lots of things. I think nobody live in Tokyo, they live around Tokyo and go to the central Tokyo at the day time to work, play or pick up boys or girls. Anyway I felt Tokyo was too big like London in the U.K. or Paris in France and too high-tech. In fact this is the part of Japan but I felt as if I wasn't in Japan. You can eat any kinds of food and meet any kinds of people. Moreover, a Tokyo dialect isn't familiar to me so I felt very strange. The following is the explain from the guidebook about Tokyo Tokyo is Japan's capital and the country's most populous city. Tokyo is also one of Japan's 47 prefectures, but is called a metropolis (to) rather than a prefecture (ken). The metropolis of Tokyo consists of 23 city wards (ku), 26 cities, 5 towns and 8 villages, including the Izu and Ogasawara Islands, several small Pacific Islands in the south of Japan's main island Honshu. The 23 city wards (ku) are the center of Tokyo and make up about one third of the metropolis' area, while housing roughly eight of Tokyo's approximately twelve million residents. Prior to 1868, Tokyo was known as Edo. A small castle town in the 16th century, Edo became Japan's political center in 1603 when Tokugawa Ieyasu established his feudal government there. A few decades later, Edo had grown into the world's most populous city. With the Meiji Restoration of 1868, the emperor and capital where moved from Kyoto to Edo, which was renamed Tokyo ("Eastern Capital"). Large parts of Tokyo were destroyed in the Great Kanto Earthquake of 1923 and in the air raids of World War II.