Your guide to...Tokyo
Tokyo is one of the biggest metropolitan cities in the world. As a capital city of Japan, the city has population with more than 13 million, and has around 11% of the Japan`s total population.
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Tokyo Area and Maps
The `Central` of Tokyo area is divided into 23 special wards (In Japanese they called – Ku) which each of them is further divided into districts.
There another area in west Tokyo, called ` Tama area` and it is made up of 26 cities (shi), 3 towns (machi), and 1 village (mura).
Also, need to mention that Tokyo also has also 11 islands that can be visited for tourism.
Each area is certainly beautiful, and has its unique things to see and excperince.
If you take only Tokyo and divide it each area, you will see Tokyo like this:
I made this map colorful on purpose for make you see how big Tokyo is and how it has so many areas.
To make it more visible and understandable, let’s take the 23 main districts Of Tokyo (were it is called ‘big city’) and divide it to 5 main areas:
East Tokyo includes
Adachi・Katsushika・Edogawa・Taito・Sumida・Koto
North Tokyo includes
Itabashi・Kita・Arakawa・Toshima
Central Tokyo includes
Bunkyo・Shinjuku・Shibuya・Chiyoda・Chuo ・Minato
West Tokyo includes
Nerima・Nakano・Suginami・Setagaya
South Tokyo includes
Meguro・Shingawa・Ota
(In some map you may see the West and South written together so it may sometimes written as only 4 areas.)
I decided to choose this map with 5 areas to make it more easy to see the areas.
Now, let’s take the another area of Tokyo, which is considered to be more ‘the countryside of Tokyo’ called “Tama Area” .
And divide it to an 3 main areas which one area (the North are) can be divided to another 3 areas.
West Tama includes
Okutama・Ome・Mizuho ・ Hamura・Fussa・Hinode・Akiruno・Hinohara
South Tama includes
Hachioji・Hino・Tama・Machida・Inagi
Northern Tama is can be divided to more 3 parts:
North Tama the west area includes
Musashi-Murayama・Higashi-Yamato・Tachikawa・Akishima・Kokubunji・Kunitachi
North Tama the north area includes
Higashi-Murayama・Kiyose・Higashi-Kurume・Nishi-Tokyo・Kodaira
North Tama the south area includes
Koganei・Fuchu・Musashino・Mitake・Chofu・Komae
Explore Tokyo
After we look at the map and understood the areas, now we can explore Tokyo →
Explore by the areas:
23 Special Ward
Tama Area
