Tokyo
Tokyo, capital city of Japan is a huge city of 2,000 square kilometres and a population of over 12 million inhabitants in the official prefecture metropolitan area alone. Greater Tokyo has a population of some 35 million people and the city has a varied geography too, with the modern metropolis of skyscrapers and neon, to the mountain ranges of the west and islands to the south. Tokyo is home to modern large shopping malls, electronics megastores and Electric Town, restaurants, karaoke bars, pubs and clubs but is also steeped in tradition and history with many shrines and temples, traditional street foods of noodles and sushi, Tsukiji Fish Market, public bathhouses (sento) and ryokans (guest houses), There is also a wide variety of museums from traditional art and history to the unusual and unexpected (museum of parasites!).
