Tokyo (disambiguation)

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Tokyo or Tokyo stands for:

  • Local authorities (prefectures and municipalities in Japan)
    • Tokyo prefecture ( Tōkyō-to and Tōkyō-fu ), since 1943 a prefecture (-to) , 1868/71 to 1943 a prefecture (-fu) in eastern Japan
    • Tokyo (city) (Tōkyō-shi) , from 1889 to 1943 a [district] city (-shi) in this prefecture, prefecture capital of Tokyo and imperial capital of Japan
  • Settlements without corporate status ( unicorporated communities in the US)
  • geographical names
    • Tokyo (Tōkyō [-23ku]) , collective name for the largest urban settlement in Japan, in the narrower sense for the 23 communities on the former territory of the city of Tokyo today, as such de facto the prefecture capital of Tokyo (de jure seat of the prefecture administration: Shinjuku-ku ) and state capital of Japan (de jure "capital area": Tōkyō-to and surrounding prefectures)
    • the metropolitan area of ​​Tokyo around ( depending on the definition) the 23 special districts or the entire prefecture (in Japan depending on the definition Tōkyōken , Shutoken , Keihin'yō daitoshiken , Kantō daitoshiken and others)
  • Heavenly bodies
  • Bands
  • Computer science


Tokyo is the given name of the following people:


Tokyo is the stage name of:

  • Jori Tokyo ( Johannes Riedmann ; * 1973), German artist