Tokyo

Population: 28,025,000
Temp Range: 3 - 25
Record High: 37.2 (Sept)
Record Low: -5 (Mar)
Average Percipitation High: 190-195 (Oct)
Average Percipitation Low: Less than 5 (Sept)
Top 3 Singles:
1. "Final Distance" by Hikaru Utada
2. "Nminori Johnny" by Keisuke Kuwata
3. "THE*PEACE" by Morning Musume
Top North American Single: "Pop" by NSYNC
Music Info Source: JP top 40, 11-Aug-01
Currency Used: Japanese Yen (JPY)
Major School: University of Tokyo
Major Landmark: Imperial Palace

- Largest urban area of Japan
- Capital since 1868
- Tokyo means "eastern capital"
- heart of city, Imperial Palace, where emperor of
Japan lives
- 800,000 businesses, 8,000,000 million workers
- machinery, auto parts and chemical products
biggest exports
- 27 million passengers use mass transit each day
- Metro tokyo density is 5443 persons per square km
- 2% of population is non-japanese
- first appeared in history in 12th century as obscure village
called Edo
- Mar 1995, gas attack in Tokyo subway system,
killed 12, injured 5500
- literacy rate is 99%