- Tokyo is the seat of the Japanese government, home of the Emperor of Japan and is the capital of the country.
- Tokyo, capital of Japan, is one of the world’s biggest and most overcrowded cities. Men known as ‘pushers’ are employed to pack people onto the city’s trains.
- You can buy batteries, beer, wine, condoms, cigarettes, comic books, hot dogs, light bulbs, and used women’s underwear from vending machines.
- The name ‘Tokyo’ literally translates to ‘Eastern Capital’.
- Earlier, Tokyo was a small fishing village named ‘Edo’, meaning estuary. Later, when it became the imperial capital of Japan, in 1868, its name was changed to Tokyo.
- McDonalds employees will run outside to give you your drive-thru order.
- Japan has about 1,500 earthquakes each year.
- You may already know that you don’t wear shoes in the house, you wear slippers, but did you also know that there are special slippers designed to be worn when visiting the toilet? There are also special ‘corridor’ slippers.
- The Japanese visit shrines and give eachother money for New Year’s.
- Tokyo has so many people, that in the summer a giant heat bubble forms over the city that increases the average temperature by 10 degrees.
- In Japan, flower arranging is an art.
- The new generation of Japanese people are not as short as Westerners think.
12 interesting facts about Tokio
