Tokyo
Facts
32 propertiesIdentity
- Inception
- September 3, 1868[17]
- Official website
- www.gotokyo.org[21]
Location
- Coordinate location
- 🗺️ 35.684°, 139.774°
- Located in or next to body of water
- Port of Tokyo, Tokyo Bay, Arakawa River, Edo River[4][5][6][7]
- Located in/on physical feature
- Kantō Plain[18]
- Shares border with
- Western Tokyo[10]
Population and size
- Area
- +627.53, +619
- Elevation above sea level
- +49
Codes
- Postal code
- 100-0000[13]
More facts +17
- Coextensive with
- ward area of Tokyo
- Different from
- Tokio
- Foundational text
- Edict Renaming Edo to Tokyo[15]
- Has part(s)
- ward area of Tokyo[16]
- Hashtag
- Tokyo
- Historical region
- Edo
- IPA transcription
- /toːkʲoː/[22]
- Köppen climate classification
- humid subtropical climate
- Language used
- Tokyo dialect
- Name in kana
- とうきょう, とうきやう
- Named after
- east, capital city[11][12]
- Revised Hepburn romanization
- Tōkyō
- Significant event
- February 26 Incident, Bombing of Tokyo, Bombing of Tokyo[19][20]
- Transliteration or transcription
- Tōkyō, Tokyo, Toukyou
- ArchINFORM location ID
- 1142
- BabelNet ID
- 14890548n
- Encyclopedia of China (Third Edition) ID (2026)
- 2WiTtG
- Encyclopedia of China (Third Edition) old ID (2021)
- 322636
- Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID
- place/Tokyo
- FactGrid item ID
- Helen Waddell
- Freebase ID
- /m/07dfk
- GNS Unique Feature ID
- -246227
- Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names ID
- 7004472
- GitHub topic
- tokyo
- Google Knowledge Graph ID
- /g/12lnhn10f
- Klexikon article ID
- Tokio
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- Münzkabinett ID
- location/3230
- National Historical Museums of Sweden ID
- geo/9622152A-E751-4535-BD18-05CD8B1CE9F6
- NicoNicoPedia word article ID
- 東京
- Provenio UUID
- f2e4851d-db0e-4740-ae98-b460962bb160
- SNARC ID
- Natascha Niemczyk
- SVKKL authority ID
- g0002636-Tokio-Japonsko
- Topic's main category
- Category:Tokyo
- Treccani's Dizionario di Storia ID
- tokyo
- UN/LOCODE
- JPTYO
- Wellcome Collection concept ID
- ngd2czbk
- Yale LUX ID
- concept/d820857f-d92e-467c-92c5-d2f13f8c2b76
- Zhihu topic ID
- 19567749
People born here 1221
People who died here 664
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Summary
Tokyo is a de facto national capital[1].
Body
Physical Characteristics
Areas include 627.53 km²[30] and 619 km²[31]. Tokyo sits at an elevation of 49 m[32].
Climate and Environment
Tokyo's Köppen climate classification is recorded as humid subtropical climate[33].
Cultural Significance
Things named for Tokyo include Tokyo International Airport[34], an international airport[35], in Japan[36], founded in 1952[37]; Narita International Airport[38], an international airport[39], in Japan[40], founded in 1978[41]; Keihin-Tōhoku Line[42], a passenger train service[43], in Japan[44]; Keio[45], a major railway company[46], in Japan[47], founded in 1948[48], headquartered in Sekido[49]; Tokyo Bay[50], a bay[51], in Japan[52]; Tokyo (Silene Oliveira)[53], a fictional human[54]; and Little Tokyo[55], a Japantown[56], in United States[57].
Why It Matters
Entities named for Tokyo include Tokyo International Airport[34], an international airport[35], in Japan[36], founded in 1952[37]; Narita International Airport[38], an international airport[39], in Japan[40], founded in 1978[41]; Keihin-Tōhoku Line[42], a passenger train service[43], in Japan[44]; Keio[45], a major railway company[46], in Japan[47], founded in 1948[48], headquartered in Sekido[49]; Tokyo Bay[50], a bay[51], in Japan[52]; and Tokyo (Silene Oliveira)[53], a fictional human[54].