Almost all the travelers will head for Tokyo as the very first destination in Japan. The metropolitan has nearly 14 million residents and surely is one of the most populated cities in the world. This is how modern and vibrant culture is created incessantly.
Tokyo started to grow as the main city in 1603 when Shogun Military General Ieyasu Tokugawa (徳川家康) has opened his shogunate, however, Kyoto had been the center of Japan until that time. People gathered in this city since 17th century, and what is called Townsman culture, like Kabuki, Ukiyoe, and many more cultures which are now considered as very Japanese, have flourished.
You will never get bored of the city, so let’s find out good old and new things in this article.
