Originally a fishing village, Edo was the foundation of modern-day Tokyo. It started to prosper in the early 17th century and later went through a modernisation phase in the Meiji era (1868-1912), ...
Get this: a compact, walkable area around Tokyo’s Sumida River is the site of both the city’s oldest temple, Sensoji, and its newest technological marvel, the 634-metre Tokyo Skytree. And as if that ...
The Tokyo metropolis is well known for the way that it constantly renews itself. So much so that visitors often claim it is next to impossible to find historical buildings. Yet, if one looks, ...