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Tokyo, Japan

Tokyo - The World's Eastern Capital. Here's where global business starts its day; home of Kabuki & Pokemon, Sumo & Sega; city of safe streets, cell phones, on-time trains and sky-high prices; Godzilla's playground, where East & West collide and coexist.
 

Considering that Tokyo covers some 700 square miles and is home to over 12 million people (the daytime population greatly exceeds that), it is all the more remarkable that the city’s public transportation system is second to none. This can be put... [ more ]

Though archaeological studies have concluded that the islands of Japan were already inhabited several millennia before Christ, the history of Tokyo is relatively recent. It does not start until 1603 AD, when Tokugawa Ieyasu proclaimed himself shogun... [ more ]
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