Tokyo prefecture

Tōkyō-to 東京 都
Basic data
Administrative headquarters :	Shinjuku , Tokyo
Region :	Kanto
Main island :	Honshu
Area :	2,194.07  km²
Water content:	1  %
Residents :	13,942,856 (October 1, 2019)
Population density :	6355 inhabitants per km²
Counties :	1
Municipalities :	39 + 23 districts of Tokyo
ISO 3166-2 :	JP-13
Governor :	Yuriko Koike
Website:	www.metro.tokyo.jp
Symbols
Prefecture flag :
Prefecture tree :	ginkgo
Prefecture flower :	Yoshino cherry blossom
Vogel prefecture :	Black-headed gull
Prefecture song :	Tōkyō-shika / Tōkyō-toka ("Song of the City of Tōkyō" / "Song of the Prefecture of Tōkyō")
Citizens Day:	October 1

The Tokyo Prefecture ( Japanese 東京 都 Tōkyō-to , English Tokyo Prefecture or in its own name Tokyo Metropolis , often just Tokyo ) is one of the prefectures of Japan and is mostly in the Kantō plain . With over 13 million inhabitants, it is the most populous prefecture in Japan , but at only 2,000 km² it is also the third smallest. The seat of the prefecture administration is the [special] district Shinjuku , even if for geographic purposes, e.g. On state maps, for example, the whole of Tokyo is often still regarded as the prefecture capital, although it was abolished as an administrative unit in 1943.

geography

Satellite image of the Tokyo area.

The 23 districts ( 区 , ku ) in the eastern part form the urban core area of Tokyo with a total area of ​​around 621 km² and over 9 million inhabitants (as of May 2015) .

In the middle part, other large cities join seamlessly. Hachiōji alone , the largest of them, has over half a million inhabitants. The western part, on the other hand, lies on the foothills of the Japanese Alps , is only sparsely populated and with its mountainous landscape is scenic (including around Lake Okutama ). The highest point of the prefecture is the summit of Kumotoriyama (2017.1 m) on the border with the prefectures of Saitama and Yamanashi . The central and western part is also known collectively as the Tama area and has over 4 million inhabitants on 1,169 km².

The west is drained by the Tamagawa , on its lower reaches the river forms the southern border of Tokyo to Kanagawa. The great importance that had the Tamagawa historically for the water supply of the city of Edo / Tokyo was a major reason for the annexation of the Tama area 1893. In the districts in the east, there are some short rivers that directly into the Tokyo Bay lead and are partially connected to the Arakawa system by the moats and canals of the Tokugawa. In the far east and north, the Arakawa [drainage canal] , built in the early 20th century, and the Sumidagawa (the previous lower reaches of the Arakawa from the 17th to the 20th centuries) collect most of the rivers. The eastern border between Tokyo and Chiba is formed by today's Edogawa (in the 17th century, during the diversion measures of the Tokugawa for flood protection, the lower reaches of the Tonegawa , before that, originally called Ōigawa or Futoigawa, the lower reaches of the Watarasegawa to the east of the Tonegawa ) and its current estuary, the Kyū- Edogawa ("Old / Ex-Edogawa"). The northern border to Saitama in the Kantō plain is only partially marked by rivers. In the west, a ridge of the Kantō Mountains partially forms the border to Yamanashi and Kanagawa and at the same time the watershed between Tamagawa and Sagamigawa . In the far northwest, mountain ridges to the left of the Tamagawa form the boundaries to Yamanashi and Saitama.

After all, Tokyo prefecture also includes more than 60 small islands in the Pacific south of Honshū . 20 of them belong to the Izu Islands , of which the northernmost, Izu-Ōshima , is also the largest. To the south of this are the Ogasawara Islands , more than 1,000 km from the Kantō plain, which can only be reached by a 24-hour boat trip. They have been a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 2011. While the main part of the prefecture belongs to the temperate climate zone , the Ogasawara Islands are already in the subtropics . With the islands of Okinotorishima and Minami-Torishima , the southernmost and easternmost parts of the Japanese national territory also belong to the Tokyo Prefecture.

The Chichibu-Tama-Kai , Fuji-Hakone-Izu and Ogasawara National Parks as well as the Meiji-no-Mori-Takao-Quasi-National Park are partly or entirely in the prefecture . There are also six prefectural nature parks (toritsu shizen kōen) in Tokyo .

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  Topographic map of the contiguous part of Tokyo Prefecture on the main island of Honshu

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  Graphic of Tokyo Prefecture with the districts (purple) and cities and towns (pink and brown) excluding the Izu and Ogasawara Islands .

history

Original area of ​​the San-Tama ( 三多 摩 , "three Tama [counties]") Nishi- ("west", orange), Kita- ("north", yellow) and Minami-Tama ( "South Tama", green) - all districts east of it became part of the city of Tokyo in 1932.

The Tokyo Prefecture was set up in the Meiji Restoration in 1868, initially for a short time as Edo Prefecture, Edo-fu , and then as Tōkyō-fu ( 東京 府 ) after the renaming of Edo in Tokyo in the same year . In contrast to most of the other prefectures, which were established as ken , nine urban areas, which had been administered by Bugyō directly from the Shogun , were set up as fu . These included the capitals of Edo, Kyōto and Osaka, and initially also the contractual ports opened in the unequal treaties . The latter were converted to Ken in 1869 .

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Kidai Shōran (熈 代 勝 覧), 1805. Illustrates scenes from the Edo period that take place along the main street of Nihonbashi in Tokyo.

The territory of the prefecture initially corresponded to that of the later city of Tokyo. After the abolition of the fief system ( Han ) and the extensive division of Japan into prefectures in 1871, the prefectures Kosuge and Shinagawa as well as parts of Ōmiya / Urawa were added to Tokyo, which thus encompassed the later districts of Ebara , East Tama and South Toshima (1896 to Toyotama United), North Toshima , South Adachi, and South Katsushika . Other areas followed: the Izu Islands of Shizuoka in 1878 , the Ogasawara Islands in 1880 and the three western parts of Tama County of Kanagawa in 1893 . As a result, rural regions and remote islands also belonged to Tokyo.

In 1878 a prefecture parliament (fukai) with 49 members was elected for the first time . In 1889, the government subdivided the prefectures into the municipal forms that still exist today: the [district] city ​​of Tōkyō was established in the area of ​​the Tokyo prefecture and cities ( Machi ) and villages ( Mura ) in the surrounding districts . However, the governor of the prefecture appointed by the Ministry of the Interior remained mayor of the city of Tokyo - a regulation that initially applied to all "three capitals" (santo) , that is, in addition to Tōkyō, also for the cities of Kyoto and Osaka . It was not until October 1, 1898, that the city of Tokyo received an administration that was independent of the prefecture administration of Tokyo and thus a self-government, albeit limited from a post-war perspective. In 1922, the city of Tokyo declared October 1st a "self -government commemoration day " (jichi-kinenbi) - under the same name it still exists in the city of Kyoto, which still exists today, but where the independent city administration was not established until October 15, 1898. After the post-war reforms, with which the prefecture and the municipalities in Tokyo also received a significantly expanded self-government, the prefecture declared in 1952 as successor to both the prefecture (-fu) and the city (-shi) Tokyo, October 1st in a prefectural statute "Day of the Prefectural Citizens " ( 都 民 の 日 , tomin no hi ).

1943 were dissolved with the Tōkyō-tosei city ​​and previous Tokyo prefecture and the capital city Tōkyō-to established. The mayors of the Tokyo districts were now directly subordinate to the Tokyo Prefecture and the governor was called tōkyō-to-chōkan ( 東京 都 長官 ). After the end of the Pacific War , the administration was democratized, as in the other prefectures: from 1947 the governor was elected by the people. However, the special status of the former urban area of ​​Tokyo was partially retained, but the districts were given greater autonomy and now have largely the same rights as the other municipalities in the country.

The second independent city (shi) in the prefecture was Hachiōji in 1917, followed by Tachikawa in 1940 - after the dissolution of the city of Tokyo in 1943 the only two shi in Tokyo. Starting with Musashino in 1947, a large part of the prefecture was organized in independent cities in the post-war years. Of the three Tama districts, only one still exists today, which since 1995 has consisted of four no longer connected communities.

population

Population development since 1920

Population growth of the municipalities in Tokyo between the 2005 and 2010 censuses
Increase

> 10.0%

7.5-10.0%

5.0-7.5%

2.5-5.0%

0.0-2.5%

Decrease

0.0-2.5%

2.5-5.0%

5.0-7.5%

7.5-10.0%

> 10.0%

As of July 1, 2011, Tokyo Prefecture had 13,190,383 residents (6,547,551 men and 6,642,832 women) who lived in 6,445,202 households. Only 3.1% of the total population (410,184) are registered foreigners.

Population development in the prefecture

Census population

Census year	Total population	male population	female population	Gender ratio men to 1000 women	Area in km²	Population density per km 2
1920	3,699,428	1,952,989	1,746,439	1118	2142.40	1726.8
1925	4,485,144	2,387,609	2,097,535	1138	2142.40	2093.5
1930	5,408,678	2,855,323	2,553,355	1118	2144.79	2521.8
1935	6,369,919	3,325,696	3,044,223	1093	2144.80	2969.9
1940	7,354,971	3,795,875	3,559,096	1067	2144.80	3429.2
1945	3,488,284	1,788,145	1,700,139	1052	2148.00	1624.0
1950	6.277.500	3,169,389	3.108.111	1020	2137.26	2937.2
1955	8,037,084	4,115,823	3,921,261	1050	2129.15	3774.8
1960	9,683,802	4,997,023	4,686,779	1066	2133.03	4539.9
1965	10,869,244	5,564,583	5,304,661	1049	2135.11	5090.7
1970	11,408,071	5,801,009	5,607,062	1035	2141.11	5328.1
1975	11,673,554	5,913,373	5,760,181	1027	2145.38	5441.3
1980	11,618,281	5,856,280	5,762,001	1016	2156.35	5387.9
1985	11,829,363	5,955,029	5,874,334	1014	2162.34	5470.6
1990	11,855,563	5,969,773	5,885,790	1014	2183.26	5430.2
1995	11,773,605	5,892,704	5,880,901	1002	2186.62	5384.4
2000	12.064.101	6,028,562	6,035,539	999	2186.90	5516.5
2005	12,576,601	6,264,895	6.311.706	993	2186.96	5750.7
2010	13,159,388	6,512,110	6,647,278	980	2187.50	6015.7
2015	13,515,271	6,666,690	6,848,581	973	2190.93	6168.7

economy

View of Shinjuku , one of the city's financial districts.

Bank of Japan headquarters in Chuo, Tokyo

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Shibuya

The “ gross domestic product ” of Tokyo prefecture amounted to 92.3 trillion yen (around 590 billion euros) in fiscal year 2006 , which corresponds to almost a fifth of the total Japanese domestic product.

Services play the main role in Tokyo's economy: of the approximately 8.7 million employees in Tokyo in 2006 - including more than 7.2 million in the 23 districts - fewer than 1.4 million were in industry, construction, energy, Gas and water supply and only a good 6,000 active in mining, agriculture, forestry and fishing. The corporate headquarters of numerous Japanese companies and many branches of foreign companies are located in Tokyo. The Tokyo Stock Exchange is the largest in Japan and Tokyo is one of the most important financial centers in Asia and the world.

Income and the cost of living in Tokyo are high. The average monthly household income (employees only) in Tokyo in 2006 was around 570,000 yen, of which around 428,000 yen was spent on living expenses.

The minimum wage in Tokyo is currently (October 1, 2019 - October 2020) 1013 yen, the highest of all 47 prefectures.

Cityscape

Architecture in Tokyo has largely been shaped by the history of Tokyo. Twice in recent history, the metropolis has been left in ruins: first in the Great Kanto earthquake in 1923 and later after a comprehensive incendiary attack on Tokyo in World War II. Because of this, Tokyo's urban landscape consists mostly of modern and contemporary architecture, and older buildings are rare. Tokyo is home to many internationally known forms of modern architecture , including the Tokyo International Forum , Asahi Beer Hall , Mode Gakuen Cocoon Tower , NTT Docomo Yoyogi Building, and Rainbow Bridge . Tokyo also features two distinctive towers: Tokyo Tower and the new Tokyo Skytree , which is the tallest tower in Japan and the world, and the second tallest structure in the world after the Burj Khalifa in Dubai. Mori Building Co has started work on Tokyo's new tallest building, due for completion in March 2023. The project will cost 580 billion yen ($ 5.5 billion).

Tokyo also contains numerous parks and gardens in Tokyo . There are four national parks in Tokyo Prefecture, including Fuji Hakone Izu National Park , which includes all of the Izu Islands .

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Panoramic view of Tokyo from Tokyo Skytree

Politics and administration

The [main] building of the prefecture administration of Tokyo ( 東京 都 庁 舎 , Tōkyō tochō-sha ), in Nishi-Shinjuku in the district Shinjuku , built in 1991 by Kenzō Tange (English Tokyo Metropolitan Government Building in Nishi-Shinjuku, Shinjuku City ).

Officially introduced in 1989, the prefecture symbol, which resembles a leaf of the prefectural ginkgo tree, is a stylized representation of Tokyo's first letter T in the Latin alphabet.

At the head of the prefectural administration of Tokyo ( Tōkyō tochō ; English Tokyo Metropolitan Government , TMG) ​​is the governor ( 東京 都 知事 , Tōkyō tochiji ) as in all prefectures . In the 2016 gubernatorial election in Tokyo , the former LDP deputy and minister, Yuriko Koike, was elected to succeed Yōichi Masuzoe , who resigned due to an expense scandal . Koike had declared her candidacy before and as a result against the LDP's nomination process and in 2017 founded her own prefectural party, the Tomin First no Kai . In the 2020 gubernatorial election , according to the 8 p.m. forecast of the public broadcaster NHK , she won a second term with a clear majority against the center-left candidate Kenji Utsunomiya and 20 other applicants.

The Tokyo Prefectural Parliament ( Tōkyō togikai ) has 127 members and is responsible for the legislature and the budget. It also votes on important governor personnel decisions, including the lieutenant governors. Since the last election on July 2, 2017 , Koikes Tomin First no Kai has been the strongest force, but has since lost several MPs and the Kōmeitō as permanent allies. The LDP, the strongest and declared prefecture “opposition” party before the 2017 election, recorded its historically worst result with 23 seats. The Japanese Communist Party is the fourth largest force.

The Tokyo Prefecture assumes certain administrative tasks from the 23 districts that the municipalities are entitled to in other prefectures or other municipalities in Tokyo. This includes public services such as the fire brigade and infrastructure areas such as water supply. For this purpose, it receives some of the municipal taxes from the districts and in turn allocates funds to these according to their population. In the post-war decades, many of the cities and towns to the west of the districts also transferred responsibility for fire brigade and water supply to the prefecture: Today, with only a few exceptions, the Tokyo water supply authority and fire brigade are responsible for the entire main island part of Tokyo. The Izu and Ogasawara Islands are administered by four sub-prefectures , which are located at the Department of General Affairs (sōmu-kyoku) .

The prefecture elects 25 Shūgiin MPs directly to the national parliament - after the 2017 election and party reshuffles since then (as of August 2019) 20 Liberal Democrats, one Kōmeitō member and four Constitutional Democrats - and six Sangiin MPs per partial election, after the 2016 , 2019 elections and party reshuffles since then : four Liberal Democrats, three Constitutional Democrats, two members each from Kōmeitō and KPJ and one from Nippon Ishin no Kai .

The Tokyo Police, which for historical reasons is called Keishi-chō and not Tokyo Prefectural Police (which is translated into English but analogously to the other 46), is by far the largest police force in Japan with over 40,000 police officers.

CO ₂ emissions trading

In the fiscal year 2010, a mandatory program for emissions trading for industry and offices began in Tokyo Prefecture on April 1, 2010 . In the period 2010 to 2014, greenhouse gas emissions should then be reduced by six to eight percent, by the end of fiscal year 2019 (April 2020) by 15-17%, and by fiscal year 2024 by 25-27%. In 2011, emissions trading began in the neighboring prefecture of Saitama , which was linked to the Tokyo system.

International partnerships

Although the prefecture of Tokyo is not a city, it maintains both (quasi as a representative of the non-existent city ​​of Tokyo ) numerous twinnings with world cities , as well as regional partnerships . In addition, the capital districts and cities in the region also maintain their own city partnerships.

In addition to the twelve bilateral city and regional partnerships, the Tokyo Prefecture is part of the ANMC21 (Asian Network of Major Cities 21) , a cooperation between Asian capitals and capital regions . This includes a political cooperation with the Greater London Authority that was agreed in 2006. Since then, Tokyo Prefecture has also been a member of the C40 Large Cities Climate Leadership Group initiated by Greater London in 2005 .

Town twinning

• Berlin , Germany (since 1994)
• Jakarta , Indonesia (since 1989)
• Cairo , Egypt (since 1990)
• Moscow , Russia (since 1991)
• New York , USA (since 1960)
• Paris , France (since 1982)
• Beijing , People's Republic of China (since 1979)
• Rome , Italy (since 1996)
• Seoul , South Korea (since 1988)
• London , United Kingdom (since 2015)

Regional partnerships

• New South Wales , Australia (since 1984)
• São Paulo , Brazil (since 1990)

Administrative division

Tokyo Highway No. 4, later known as the Chūō Highway , runs from the boroughs through some of the cities of western Tokyo.

Oberlin University in Machida, one of over 100 universities in the prefecture.

Mount Hinode in the municipality of the same name in the sparsely populated western part of Tokyo.

The Izu Islands, part of the Fuji Hakone Izu National Park

Tokyo Prefectural Boundary Sign as you enter Kiyose City

Since 2001 there are still 62 parishes in Tokyo (in 1893 there were more than 150 and in 1953 just under 100, see list of former parishes in Tokyo prefecture ):

• 23 (special) districts ( [tokubetsu] -ku ) ,
• 26 [independent] cities (- shi ) , including Hachiōji , a " core city " since April 2015 ,
•  5 cities (- machi ) and
•  8 villages (- mura ) .

The machi and mura on the islands in Tokyo have the peculiarity that they never belonged to one of the districts (- gun ) - abolished as an administrative unit in the 20th century, but still used as a geographical unit today - but rather by sub-prefectures (- shichō) are more closely tied to the prefecture administration to this day.

At the beginning of the following table are the 23 special districts ( 特別 区 , -tokubetsuku ), followed by the urban districts ( 市 , -shi ). At the end of the table, the single district ( 郡 , -gun ) and the four sub-prefectures ( 支 庁 , -shichō ) are shown in italics, below (indented) the small towns ( 町 , -machi ) and villages ( 村 , -mura ) within them .

List of municipalities in Tokyo Prefecture

code	Surname		Area (in km²)	population	Population density ( inhabitants / km²) 2
	Rōmaji	Kanji	January 1, 2020	1st October 2019	October 1, 2015
13101	Chiyoda- ku	千代 田 区	11.66	65,472	58,406	5417.2
13102	Chūō- ku	中央 区	10.21	166,536	141.183	15,758.0
13103	Minato- ku	港区	20.37	259.494	243.283	12,587.9
13104	Shinjuku- ku	新宿 区	18.22	349,511	333,560	19,042.7
13105	Bunkyō- ku	文 京 区	11.29	235.026	219.724	20,388.3
13106	Taitō- ku	台 東区	10.11	208,562	198.073	20,342.1
13107	Sumida- ku	墨 田 区	13.77	269,627	256.274	19,361.3
13108	Kōtō -ku	江東 区	40.16	518.371	498.109	12,824.4
13109	Shinagawa- ku	品 川 区	22.84	411.070	386,855	17,659.3
13110	Meguro -ku	目 黒 区	14.67	287,776	277,622	19,434.9
13111	Ōta -ku	大田 区	60.83	739.962	717.082	12,072.7
13112	Setagaya- ku	世 田 谷 区	58.05	938.205	903.346	16,011.2
13113	Shibuya- ku	渋 谷 区	15.11	234,728	224,533	15,334.2
13114	Nakano- ku	中 野 区	15.59	341.985	328.215	21,685.0
13115	Suginami- ku	杉 並 区	34.06	585.186	563.997	17,025.2
13116	Toshima- ku	豊 島 区	13.01	300,756	291.167	23,072.9
13117	Kita -ku	北区	20.61	354.256	341.076	17,062.7
13118	Arakawa- ku	荒 川 区	10.16	218.434	212.264	21,384.4
13119	Itabashi- ku	板橋 区	32.22	583,467	561.916	17,943.1
13120	Nerima- ku	練 馬 区	48.08	741,649	721.722	15,291.4
13121	Adachi- ku	足 立 区	53.25	683.110	670.122	12,775.0
13122	Katsushika- ku	葛 飾 区	43.8	454,882	442.913	13,010.4
13123	Edogawa- ku	江 戸 川 区	49.9	696.014	681.298	13,900.1
13201	Hachiōji- shi	八 王子 市	186.38	577,560	577,513	3097.2
13202	Tachikawa- shi	立 川 市	24.36	180,880	176.295	7398.0
13203	Musashino- shi	武 蔵 野 市	10.98	148,326	144,730	13,443.3
13204	Mitaka- shi	三 鷹 市	16.42	192.489	186.936	11,657.0
13205	Ōme -shi	青梅 市	103.31	133,824	137.381	1305.4
13206	Fuchsu- shi	府中 市	29.43	263,932	260.274	8964.8
13207	Akishima -shi	昭 島 市	17.34	112.005	111,539	6455.7
13208	Chofu- shi	調 布 市	21.58	239,650	229.061	11,011.9
13209	Machida- shi	町 田 市	71.55	434,407	432,348	6064.8
13210	Koganei- shi	小 金井 市	11.3	125,815	121,396	11,036.5
13211	Kodaira- shi	小平 市	20.51	196.137	190.005	9495.7
13212	Hino- shi	日 野 市	27.55	189,945	186.283	6859.9
13213	Higashimurayama- shi	東村 山 市	17.14	150.186	149,956	8757.4
13214	Kokubunji- shi	国 分 寺 市	11.46	127,790	122,742	11,022.4
13215	Kunitachi- shi	国立 市	8.15	75,156	73,655	9205.2
13218	Fussa- shi	福 生 市	10.16	57,527	58,395	5726.8
13219	Coma- shi	狛 江 市	6.39	83,788	80,249	12,989.5
13220	Higashiyamato- shi	東 大 和 市	13.42	84.223	85.157	6295.1
13221	Kiyose- shi	清 瀬 市	10.23	75,190	74,864	7370.5
13222	Higashikurume -shi	東 久留 米 市	12.88	116,482	116,632	9030.2
13223	Musashimurayama- shi	武 蔵 村 山 市	15.32	71,579	71,229	4687.0
13224	Tama- shi	多 摩 市	21.01	147.832	146.631	7035.8
13225	Inagi- shi	稲 城市	17.97	91,649	87,636	5051.4
13227	Hamura- shi	羽 村 市	9.9	54,874	55,833	5556.0
13228	Akiruno- shi	あ き る 野 市	73.47	80,074	80,954	1092.2
13229	Nishitōkyō- shi	西 東京 市	15.75	205.801	200.012	12,905.3
13300	Nishitama-gun (West Tama County )	西多摩 郡	375.86		58,334	152.2
13303	Mizuho- machi	瑞 穂 町	16.85	32,478	33,445	1950.6
13305	Hinode- machi	日 の 出 町	28.07	17.191	17,446	613.7
13307	Hinohara- mura	檜 原 村	105.41	2012	2209	19.7
13308	Okutama-machi	奥多摩 町	225.53	4913	5234	22.3
13360	Ōshima-shichō ( shima sub-prefecture )	大 島 支 庁	141		12,861	87.1
13361	Ōshima-machi	大 島 町	90.76	7268	7884	82.1
13362	Toshima-mura	利 島村	4.12	343	337	84.2
13363	Niijima-mura	新 島村	27.54	2611	2749	95.6
13364	Kozushima-mura	神 津 島村	18.58	1861	1891	99.4
13380	Miyake-shichō ( Ogasawara Sub-Prefecture )	三 宅 支 庁	75.8		2817	35.5
13381	Miyake-mura	三 宅村	55.26	2292	2482	42.5
13382	Mikurajima-mura	御 蔵 島村	20.54	338	335	16.6
13400	Hachijō-shichō ( Hachijō Sub-Prefecture )	八丈 支 庁	83.01		7791	89.4
13401	Hachijō-machi	八丈 町	72.23	7127	7613	100.4
13402	Aogashima- mura	青 ヶ 島村	5.96	175	178	28.4
13420	Ogasawara-shichō ( Ogasawara Sub-Prefecture )	小 笠原 支 庁	106.88		3022	28.5
13421	Ogasawara- mura	小 笠原 村	106.88	3047	3022	28.5
	Unclear municipality affiliation (but in the sub-total districts)		8.60
	Unclear municipality affiliation (but sub-prefectures in the subtotal)		4.81
Tokubetsuku -bu (proportion of the "special" districts, " Tokyo ", formerly the city ​​of Tokyo )	特別 区 部	627.57		9,272,740	15,226.9
Shi-bu (proportion of urban districts)	市 部	783.95		4,157,706	5363.7
shicho-, gun-bu (proportion of sub-prefectures and counties)	支 庁 ・ 郡 部	782.55		84,825	105.6
13000	Tōkyō-to (Tokyo Prefecture)	東京 都	2,194.07	13,942,856	13,515,271	6309.8

There are also areas of unexplained parish membership on the Saitama and Chiba prefectural borders.

Biggest places

Former and existing cities and special districts (-ku)
census results on October 1st

place	Census year						Remarks
	2015	2010	2005	2000	1995	1990
Chiyoda-ku	58,406	47,115	41,778	36,035	34,780	39,472
Chūō-ku	141.183	122,762	98,399	72,526	63,923	68,041
Minato-ku	243.283	205.131	185.861	159,398	144,885	158,499
Shinjuku-ku	333,560	326,309	305.716	286.726	279.048	296,790
Bunkyō-ku	219.724	206,626	189,632	176.017	172.474	181.269
Taitō-ku	198.073	175.928	165.186	156.325	153.918	162,969
Sumida-ku	256.274	247,606	231.173	215.979	215,681	222,944
Kōtō-ku	498.109	460,819	420,845	376.840	365.604	385.159
Shinagawa-ku	386,855	365.302	346.357	324,608	325,377	344,611
Meguro-ku	277,622	268,330	264.064	250.140	243,100	251.222
Ōta-ku	717.082	693.373	665.674	650.331	636.276	647.914
Setagaya-ku	903.346	877.138	841.165	814.901	781.104	789.051
Shibuya-ku	224,533	204,492	203,334	196,682	188,472	205,625
Nakano-ku	328.215	314,750	310,627	309,526	306,581	319,687
Suginami-ku	563.997	549,569	528.587	522.103	515,803	529.485
Toshima-ku	291.167	284,678	250,585	249.017	246.252	261,870
Kita-ku	341.076	335,544	330.412	326.764	334.127	354,647
Arakawa-ku	212.264	203.296	191.207	180,468	176,886	184,809
Itabashi-ku	561.916	535.824	523.083	513,575	511.415	518.943
Nerima-ku	721.722	716.124	692,339	658.132	635.746	618.663
Adachi-ku	670.122	683.426	624,807	617.123	622.270	631.163
Katsushika-ku	442.913	442,586	424,878	421,519	424.478	424,801
Edogawa-ku	681.298	678.967	653.944	619.953	589.414	565,939
Hachiōji	577,513	580.053	560.012	536.046	503.363	466.347
Tachikawa	176.295	179,668	172,566	164,709	157.884	152.824
Musashino	144,730	138,734	137,525	135,746	135.051	139,077
Mitaka	186.936	186.083	177.016	171,612	165.721	165,564
Ōme	137.381	139,339	142.354	141.394	137.234	125,960
Foxu	260.274	255.506	245,623	226,769	216.211	209.396
Akishima	111,539	112.297	110.143	106,532	107.292	105,372
Chofu	229.061	223,593	216.119	204,759	198,574	197,677
Machida	432,348	426.987	405,534	377.494	360.525	349.050
Koganei	121,396	118,852	114.112	111,825	109.279	105,899
Kodaira	190.005	187.035	183,796	178,623	172.946	164.013
Hino	186.283	180.052	176,538	167.942	166,537	165.928
Higashimurayama	149,956	153,557	144.929	142,290	135.112	134.002
Kokubunji	122,742	120,650	117,604	111,404	105,786	100,982
Kunitachi	73,655	75,510	72,667	72.187	66,719	65,833
Tanashi	-	-	-	78.165	74,813	75.144
Hōya	-	-	-	102,720	100,260	95,146
Fussa	58,395	59,796	61,074	61,427	61,497	58,062
Coma	80,249	78,751	78,319	75,711	74,656	74,189
Higashiyamato  1	85.157	83,068	79,353	77,212	76,355	75,132	Yamato-machi
Kiyose	74,864	74,104	73,529	68,037	67,386	67,539
Higashikurume  1	116,632	116,546	115,330	113,302	111.097	113,818	Kurume-machi
Musashimurayama  1	71,229	70.053	66,553	66.052	67.015	65,562	Murayama-machi
Tama	146.631	147,648	145,877	145,862	148.113	144,489
Inagi	87,636	84,835	76,492	69,235	62,806	58,635
Akigawa	-	-	-	-	-	50,387
Hamura	55,833	57.032	56,514	56.013	55,095	-
Akiruno	80,954	80,868	79,587	78.351	75,355	-
Nishitōkyō	200.012	196.511	189,735	-	-	-

Remarks:

• In 1970 six small towns were raised to urban districts, including the ¹  marked with a name change at the same time.
• November 1, 1991 - The small town of Hamura -cho is raised to the status of a district-free town .
• September 1, 1995 - The independent city of Akigawa and a municipality unite to form the new (independent) city ​​of Akiruno .
• January 21, 2001 - The independent cities of Hōya and Tanashi are united to form the new (independent) city ​​of Nishi-Tōkyō .

See also : List of former parishes in Tokyo Prefecture

See also

• List of Tokyo Governors
• Traffic in the Tokyo metropolitan area

Web links

Commons : Tokyo Prefecture  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Official website of the Prefecture Administration (Japanese, English, Chinese, Korean)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Tokyo Prefecture Administration , Political Planning Bureau, General Affairs Department: 東京 都 庁 の 所在地
2. ↑ Tokyo Prefecture Administration, Environment Agency (kankyō-kyoku) : Nature parks in Tokyo Prefecture ( Memento of the original from July 27, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (Japanese) 
3. ↑ Parishes in Tokyo Prefecture since 1889 ( Memento of the original dated February 12, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
4. ↑ Kyōto city administration: 京 都市 自治 記念 日 に つ い て
5. ↑ Tokyo Prefecture Administration , seikatsu-bunka-kyoku ( 生活 文化局 , "Office for [daily] life and culture"), bunka-shinkō-bu ( 文化 振興 部 , "Department for cultural promotion"): 「都 民 の 日」 に つ い て
6. ↑ reiki.metro.tokyo.jp 都 民 の 日 条例 ( tomin no hi jōrei , "Prefectural Citizens' Conference ") / 昭和 二 七年 九月 二 七日 条例 第七 五号 (jōrei no. 75 of September 27, 1952) in the "REIKI-BASE" (digitized collection of statutes (jōrei) and official ordinances (kisoku) - together reiki - of the Tokyo prefecture)
7. ↑ Tokyo Metropolitan Government News No. 792, issue Sept. 2011 (leaflet distributed to all Tokyo households by the prefecture administration)
8. ↑ e-Stat database , accessed on March 8, 2019 (English)
9. ↑ Department of General Affairs (sōmu-kyoku) of the TMG, Statistical Yearbook 2007: Section 16: 都 民 経 済 計算 , 16-2: 経 済 活動 別 都 内 総 生産 ( MS Excel ; 29 kB)
10. ↑ Department of General Affairs (sōmu-kyoku) of the TMG, Statistical Yearbook 2007: Section 3: 事業 所 , 3-1: 地域 ， 産業 （大 分類） 別 事業 事業 所 数 及 び 男女 別 従 業 者 数 ( MS Excel ; 183 kB )
11. ↑ Department of General Affairs (sōmu-kyoku) of the TMG, Statistical Yearbook 2007: Section 14: 家計 , 14-2: 勤 め 先 収入 ７ 分 位 階層 別 １ 世 帯 帯 当 た り 年 平均 １ か 月 間 の 収入 と 用途 別 生計 労 （勤 勤 勤 勤 勤 勤 （（者 世 帯） ( MS Excel ; 121 kB)
12. ^ Ministry of Social Affairs and Labor: List of minimum wages in all prefectures
13. ↑ 最低 賃 金 、 東京 都 で 1000 円 超 え へ 厚 労 省 が 3 ％ 引 き 上 げ 検 討 . In: Mainichi Shimbun . July 2, 2019, Retrieved September 30, 2019 (Japanese). 
14. ↑ 東京 都 の 最低 賃 金 、 28 円 上 げ 1013 円 に 審議 会 が 答 申 . In: Nihon Keizai Shimbun . August 5, 2019. Retrieved September 30, 2019 (Japanese). 
15. ↑ ^{a b} Hidenobu Jinnai. Tokyo: A Spatial Anthropology . University of California Press (1995), pp. 1-3 Please enter either wayback - or webciteID - or archive-is - or archiv-url parameters . ISBN 0-520-07135-2 .
16. ↑ Tokyo - GoJapanGo . In: Tokyo Attractions - Japanese Lifestyle . Mi Marketing Pty Ltd. Retrieved April 18, 2012.
17. ↑ Tokyo skyline reaches for new heights with $ 5.5 billion Mori project (en) . In: Reuters , August 22, 2019. 
18. ↑ 都 の 紋章 ・ 花 ・ 木 ・ 鳥
19. ^ Tōkyō Shimbun : Gubernatorial Election 2016
20. ↑ 東京 都 知事 選 現 職 の 小池 百合 子 氏 2 回 目 の 当選 確 実. In: NHK News (available for a limited time). July 5, 2020, accessed July 5, 2020 (Japanese). 
21. ↑ 東京 都 知事 選. In: NHK SenkyoWeb. July 5, 2020, accessed July 5, 2020 (Japanese). 
22. ^ Tokyo Metropolitan Government (TMG): Organizational Structure of TMG
23. ^ TMG: TMG and the 23 Special Wards
24. ↑ Asia's first cap-trade plan starts in Tokyo. In: The Japan Times . April 2, 2010, accessed April 2, 2010 . 
25. ↑ Tokyo Prefecture Administration , Environment Department (kankyō-kyoku) : 地球 温暖 化 対 策 ("Measures to Combat Global Warming") , 総 量 削減 義務 と 排出 量 取 引 シ ス テ ム に つ い て (Japanese, English: Tokyo Cap-and-Trade Program )
26. ^ TOKYO: An Emissions Trading Case Study. (PDF) International Emissions Trading Association (IETA; Industry Association for Emissions Trading), May 2015, accessed on April 6, 2019 . 
27. ↑ Japan - Tokyo Cap-and-Trade Program. International Carbon Action Partnership (ICAP; government cooperation on emissions trading), March 22, 2019, accessed on April 6, 2019 . 
28. ↑ 二 都市 間 都市 外交 . Tokyo Prefecture Administration , Political Planning Office, 2019, accessed September 30, 2019 (Japanese).  , English overview: Sister Cities (States) of Tokyo
29. ↑ Website of the ANMC21 (Japanese, English)
30. ↑ Greater London Authority, May 31, 2006: Mayor of London and Governor of Tokyo sign Partnership Agreement ( Memento of January 11, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
31. ↑ Tokyo Prefecture, Environment Agency: C40 (世界 大都市 気 候 先導 グ ル ー プ) に つ い て
32. ↑ Website of the C40 (English)
33. ↑ Prefecture Administration of Tokyo: 都 内 区 市町村 マ ッ プ (Japanese: map [and list] of municipalities as of January 1, 2017), Municipalities within Tokyo (English [only map and list without population and area])
34. ↑ ^{a b c d} Kokudo Chiriin : 令 和 ２ 年 全国 都 道 府 県 市区 町 村 別 面積 調 （１ 月 １ 日 時点） , 13 東京 都 (Japanese), accessed June 13, 2020.
35. ↑ 東京 都 の 人口 （推 計） ト ッ プ ペ ー ジ . 東京 都 , October 1, 2019, accessed October 31, 2019 (Japanese). 
36. ↑ Results of the 2015 census, e-stat , accessed on March 8, 2019
37. ↑ e-Stat database , accessed on March 8, 2019 (English)

Coordinates: 35 ° 41 ′  N , 139 ° 42 ′  E