Tokyo

• 21/09/2016 10:54
• Asia, Japan

Tokyo is the capital of Japan. It is one of the 47 prefectures of Japan and includes the highly urbanized central area of ​​Tokyo, which is the heart of the homonymous metropolitan area. has approximately 13 million inhabitants- 10% of the population, while the metropolitan area live about 36 millions of people, thus making it the most populous of the world. Tokyo is located in Kanto, in Honshu, the central and largest of the islands that make up Japan.

Tokyo has organized the Olympics 1964 and it has been selected by the International Olympic Committee as the city that will host the Olympics 2020. According to the annual report of the Economist Intelligence Unit for 2009, is the most expensive city in the world.