Tokyo is the best cities to lives

Friday, September 24, 2010

Tokyo is also one of Japan's prefectures, but is called metropolis rather than prefectures. Tokyo consist of 23 city ward, 26 cities, 5 town, and 8 village including the Izu and Ogasawara Islands, several small pasific island in the south of Japan's main island Honshu. The 23 city ward are the centre of Tokyo and make up about one third of metropolis area while housing roughly eight ofTokyo's approxiamately twelve milion people.
Prior to 1868, Tokyo was known as Edo. A small castle town in the 16th century. Edo become Japan's political center in 1603 when Tokugawa Ieyashu established his feudal goverment there. A few decades later. Edo had grown into one of the world most populos cities. With Meiji Restoration of 1868, the emperor and capital moved from Kyoto to Edo, which rename Tokyo ( eastern capital).







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