TOKYO -- The waterfront area of Chuo Ward in Japan's capital is crowded with office buildings ... Key to the vision of Tokyo's waterfront area in the future is a planned subway link from the city ...

Tokyo’s Minato Resource Recycling Center handles many of those ... one in 10 Tokyoites in their 20s were non-Japanese. But in a city so vast, those groups faded quickly, and diversity, whatever ...

Together, these cities offer a comprehensive glimpse into Japan’s diverse cultural landscape. Tokyo is a city of neighborhoods ... Known as the center of Kyoto’s geisha culture, Gion is ...

Data sourced from the National Climatic Data Center ... city parks burst with color. The famous Japanese cherry blossoms make their appearance for a week in late March and very early April. Tokyo ...

For National Geographic Magazine’s Cities Issue, I walked across Tokyo, the world’s most populous city. The distance ... and innovative metropolises, a center of enormous appetites and ...

GIFU--The city of Seki ... button of Japan” five years from now because of population shifts. The “navel” title refers to a geographical place considered the center of the country ...