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Tokyo Architecture

This is a short video of some of the interesting and different architecture in the city of Tokyo, hope you enjoy!

Sports in Tokyo

Sports are very popular in Tokyo, with a variety of sports being played. Tokyo is home to two professional baseball clubs; Yomiuri Giants who play in the Tokyo Dome, and the Yakult Swallows who play in the Meiji-Jingu Stadium.

The Japan Sumo Association is also headquartered in Tokyo at the Ryōgoku Kokugikan sumo arena where three official sumo tournaments are held annually, in January, May, and September.

Some Sumo Wrestling terms:

ashi-tori - grabbing the opponents leg to bring him down
banzuke - the official tournament ranking list
basho - a tournament
dohyo - the wrestling ring, a circle
dohyo-iri - the rituals at the beginning of a match
gyoji - name for the referee
hataki-komi - a quick side step and push
ketaguri - pulling the opponent's legs
mawashi - the silk belt of a wrestler
ozumo - another word for wrestling
rikishi - another word for wrestlers
sumotori - the same as rikishi
yokozuna - the highest rank for a wrestlers
yorikiri - grabbing the opponent at his belt

Tokyo hosted the 1964 Summer Olympics. National Stadium, also known as Olympic Stadium, in Tokyo, is host to a number of international sporting events. With a number of world-class sporting venues, Tokyo often hosts national and international sporting events such as tennis tournaments, swimming compititions, marathons, American football exhibition games, judo, karate, and many more.

Transport in Tokyo

The japanese public transport efficiency is well known throughout the world. It has to be efficient to deal with the cities huge population which increases in the day by commuters into work. Traveling by car is most likely the worst way to travel in Tokyo as it is known to have the worst traffic jams in the world.

The transport network in Greater Tokyo includes public and private rail and highway networks; airports for international, domestic, and buses; motorcycle delivery services, walking, bicycling, and commercial shipping.

"Tokyo Bullet Train"-----

Tokyo has the world's most extensive rail network in the world, which is clean, fast and efficient. There is a stunning 121 different train lines in Tokyo and despite the number of lines more are still being built. Rail in Japan is often extremely crowded, with people pushing their way in when completely full. Most lines in Tokyo are privately owned and operated, with the exception of Toei subway lines, which isrun by the Tokyo Metropolitan government. It is estimated that 20 million people use the rails every day! Shinjuku Station is registered by the Guinness Book of Records as the busiest train station in the world in terms of passengers.

Passengers carried in Greater Tokyo stations daily (2007)

Shinjuku Station 3.64 million (Registered with Guinness World Records)
Ikebukuro Station 2.71 million
Shibuya Station 2.18 million
Yokohama Station 2.09 million
Tokyo Station 1.12 million
Shinagawa Station 0.91 million
Takadanobaba Station 0.90 million
Shimbashi Station 0.85 million

Climate of Tokyo

Tokyo is in the humid subtropical zone, with hot humid summers and mild winters with some cold spells. Annual rain fall is around 1,380mm (55 inches). Snowfall is sparse but snow does come nearly every year. Tokyo also often sees typhoons each year, though few are strong. The last one to hit was Fitow, an area in Tokyo in 2007.


The diagram on the left shows the average annual rainfall and temerature in Tokyo.

About Tokyo and landscape

Tokyo is the capital of Japan and has a population of 14.5 million people. It is japan's centre of politics, finance, largest amount of colleges and universities, museums, entertainment and an excellent public transport system. It also has an international airport.


Tokyo is located in the middle of Japan along the pacific coast of Japn's main island, Honshu. The site of the city is very interesting and diverse. The inland part of Tokyo is on elevated land and the area of city near the bay is on low-lying land. Tokyo is split up into 23 different wards each governed as their own city. The mainland portion of Tokyo measures around 90km east to west and 25km from north to south.



Tokyo has many outlying islands, as far away as 1850km from central tokyo. The Izu Islands are a group of volcanic islands and form part of the Fuji-hakone-Izu Natioinal park. The islands in order from closest to Tokyo are Izu Oshima, Toshimia, Niijima, Shikinejima, Kozushima, Miyakejima, Mikurajima, Hachijojima, and Aogashima.



That is the general landscape of Tokyo.

Introduction

This site is about the many aspects of geography of the city of Tokyo, in Japan.
There will be posts on the physical geography, social and economic geography of Tokyo.
I hope you find reading my blog intresting and informative.