Images of Tokyo, taken in August 2019.
“Tokyo forms part of the Kantō region on the southeastern side of Japan’s main island, Honshu.
“Originally a small fishing village named Edo, the city became a prominent political centre of Japan when Shōgun Tokugawa Ieyasu made the city his headquarters in 1603. When Emperor Meiji moved the imperial seat to the city from Kyoto in 1868, Edo was renamed Tokyo, literally ‘the Eastern Capital’.”
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