Tokyo ときょう 東京都

Introduction

• Jorge Blasco Romero 3ºD

• IES La Senda

• I am going to present Tokyo

Geography

• Tokyo is the capital of Japan

• It has 35 682 460 of inhabitants

• It has a density of 6029,04 inhab/km²

• It is located in the center – east of the

island of Honshu at the east of Asia

• Tokyo is a irregular plan because it was

built in a rocky area

Laid Out

• The Ueno park is one of he most

important museum in Tokyo and it is

also the oldest zoo in Tokyo

• Near it is the Kiyomizu Kannon – do

temple established in 1625 by the

buddhist Tenkai

• The Tosho-gu sanctuary is the

beaoutifulest one

History and Development

• The city was established in 1457 by the shōgunate and it was called Edo. When its role ended it was renamed by Meiji with the name of Tokyo which meant Easter Capital.

• Was accepted as capital since 1869 when the emperor established there

• There was an earthquake in 1923 who killed 70000 people and they made a massive reconstruction which was very expensive

History and Development

• It kept growing until the World War II where Tokyo was bombed and much of the city wasdestroyed

• Its population in 1945 was only half that of 1940.

Enviromental Issues

• There are a lot of disasters in Japan,

specially fires (houses are made of

wood) and earthquakes because it is

located between two tectonic plates

• One important disaster was the

eruption of Fuji in 1707

• Also the earthquake of the Big Edo in

1855

Interesting Issues

• They are called tokiotas

• The city was founded in 1457, it is

divided in to parts continental and

islander

• After the World War II Tokyo became

the world's second-largest economy

by 1966.

Bibliography

• www.yes-tokio.es

• es.wikipedia.org.

• www.google.es (Google Maps)

• commons.wikimedia.org

• http://www.wa-pedia.com/japan-guide/tokyo_edo_history.shtml

さようなら

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