Tourism in the city of Tokyo / Japan

Occupies the area of the city of Tokyo urban area of ​​600 km ²; made ​​up of 23 alive (in Japanese: 区 = ku), and has a population of 12 million people. If we take into account the urban agglomerations neighbors, the Tokyo, the largest urban agglomeration in the world, extending the urban fabric where uninterrupted occupies an area of 10,000 km ², and comprises more than 30 million people, including many small towns adjacent to three large cities: Yokohama, Kawasaki and Chiba , and all located east of Tokyo

Settlement was the place occupied by the current city since the Jomon period, then became a part of land ownership (of the emperor) during the periods of Nara and Heian. Hit the region during the Middle Ages in the hands of warriors coming from the eastern plains surrounding the foundations of these military government in the south of Tokyo Bay: In the place called Kamakura, it was at the end of the 12th century CE, and since that time I took the city name first Edo, meaning Port Bay (Tokyo Bay day).

The city became the capital of Japan since the beginning of the 17th century AD, and I knew prosperous era during Edo period, a total population of one million people in the next century (the 18 m). After the fall of the Cogonyh, during the transitions (see: Astarash Meiji) diminished the role of the city, in favor of Kyoto (the imperial capital). However, the court finally decided to transfer his capital to Edo was renamed to Tokyo '(meaning eastern capital).

 
I took the city evolve and become one of the major cities of the world. During the early Meiji period took the old city transformed, Vaandhant major companies, and the first universities in the country's first activities as defined industries. Transformed the appearance of the city in 1870, when public lighting was held (the gas) in the streets, was built Central Station, from which the trains to the city of Yokohama and from there to other parts of the country. After the decimal (10 years) of time began to tram lines invade the streets of the city, also initiated in the construction of government buildings, new in the neighborhood of Kasumigaseki and others to embrace the headquarters of large companies in the neighborhood of Maronoaoshi, completed most of these buildings with stone and in accordance with drawings Bank, changed that transfers the old city center , and then became its streets lit by electric lighting

 By the 20 th century AD, the greater the wider Tokyo: The tissue around Amrna heavy, and took advantage of all the vacant spaces along the west bank of Tokyo Bay, and then took the swallow new land to the north and east. The city was destroyed several times: fires, earthquakes destroyed many of the neighborhoods, then came the great earthquake of 1923, more than half of the city's buildings. After the decimal (20 years) caused air bombing campaigns during World War II killed more than 100,000 people and destroyed the entire fabric of Imari along the 100 km ².

 
The rebuilding process has a fast pace: new ways axes drawn around the city; a special program for the construction of buildings and civil government, administrative, and ended its work in 1964 with the launch of the Olympic Games (in Tokyo).

Hardly business workshops in Tokyo, calm, due to shocks that are exposed, which caused severe damage to its buildings, most buildings do not last for more than one generation of time. Began the old wooden houses, which used to be rebuilt every 20 years ago, to fade, leaving the place to modern buildings, completed to withstand powerful earthquakes. Took the new buildings with a modern architectural style takes its place in modern biology, challenge the towering buildings Baaloha natural hazards, earthquakes, and some residents objected to the city by them because they obscure the vision of the sacred Mount Fuji.

 
Ever-renewed the city of Tokyo, which works almost endless. Officials did not adopt any of theurban plans, so it seems a diverse urban fabric and show the city more grouping of small villages maintain their respective unique characteristic, including the giant modern city .

.Is a major street, which charted in the years 1950-1960 AD and the modern buildings and the interface, the main city, as is the old neighborhoods and small buildings, consisting of floor or two floors, temples and shrines and wooden buildings scattered across it. The city offers its visitors and sight problem is mostly consistent, co-exist where different architectural styles, materials and construction methods Almentoah. Unlike some Maiatkdh, parks and green spaces in Tokyo, a large and wide, both in the city center or on the banks of the Sumida River.

 
Palace is located Alambrtora was occupied by the old city of Edo, and this area is the historic heart of the city. Rich in green spaces and increase the residence of the imperial family in the middle, and attend to the public to visit the place. To the south and west sides of the neighborhood of Kasumigaseki, and gather where most of the official government bodies: Parliament, the residence of the Prime Minister, ministers and the Supreme Court

To the east of the Imperial Palace is located Maronoaucci neighborhood, one of the most important business centers in the city - and country -, which are located the headquarters of several major banking institutions. Followed to the east, district of Ginza famous old was this neighborhood gathering place for wholesalers from Osaka, and now the place of shopping choice for residents of the city, dotted with stores, restaurants, cinemas, theaters, and is preventing the passage of vehicles where on Sunday for the limited movement walk in the streets to pedestrians only.

 
After Ginza and to the north and east, and on the columns along the River Sumida, stretches of the city old (trachea), located where the district Asakusa popular, which is famous for Bashoarah narrow, winding and spread through shops craftsmen, are active in this neighborhood manufacturing trade for traditional, as is the temple Sinso (or: Sinso G), which is devoted to personal Kannon, the god of mercy, according to Buddhism (according to Japanese tradition).