Tokyo

Hi everyone, and welcome to our first post.

This time, we're gonna talk about Tokyo

Today Tokyo is the most populous city, with about 38 million inhabitants, and probably the world's most important financial center. Located in the Kanto region on Honshu Island, is one of the 47 prefectures in Japan are divided.

Although Tokyo would be more correct transcription to Western language, some languages ​​like Spanish is called Tokyo. Before the Meiji restoration was known as Edo and in 1603, will replace Kyoto as government capital. It was in the nineteenth century when the city adopted its current nomenclature "Tokyo", meaning "Eastern Capital" (東 (this, to) and 京 (capital, kyō)). Interestingly, it has never reached the capital transferred legally, so it is questionable whether Kyoto does not remain the capital.

The earthquake that struck the city in 1923, gave way to a reconstruction plan, which was never completed due to excessive cost. Heavily bombed during World War II, he saw its population halved and their power was reduced to rubble. Flaunting Japanese efficiency, in just a few decades has become the benchmark cosmopolitan and technological and economic center of the world.

Tokyo can be divided, roughly, into two halves: on one side, west of the Ginza shopping area, the luxury shopping and office districts; the other, eastern, residential neighborhoods, more prosaic. Most of the sights are located in the area bounded by the JR line Yamamote, which surrounds the center of the city.

 FREAK STUFF

The Japanese are extremely quiet and one of the things that draws their attention (and less like) when traveling to other countries, especially Spain, is high spoken and how loud it is its people.

The taste for silence leads them to the point that in places such as subways or trains not use the cell phone to call, making the Japanese set their eyes on screens to play or write messages.