LEADING. GLOBAL. CITY.

The Greater Region:

TOKYO
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WHAT’S INSIDE CITY
PROFILE
DATA

TRENDS INFRA-
STRUCTURE

INNOVATIVE
PERSPECTIVES
PROGRAMS
 CITY Tokyo, Japan is the original mega-city, a throbbing, dynamic
metropolis of 32.5 million people, well over 50 percent more
PROFILE massive than the world’s next largest metropolitan areas.
OFFICIAL MAP

SUBWAY MAP
BEFORE
Exactly 70 years ago, more than 100,000 people were killed in a Tokyo air strike during the
Second World War. Came as U.S. bombers dumped cluster bombs and destroyed a fifth of the
Japanese capital in just one night. The attack was more deadly than Nagasaki
but received little attention as Tokyo rebuilt itself quickly after the war 

AFTER
Now 70 years on, new before and after pictures have been released
showing how the Japanese capital recovered after the firebomb strike
that killed more than Nagasaki in a single night.
DATA Statistics and Rankings of Tokyo

POPULATIO WEATHER RANKINGS

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 Global Cities Index (2017-2019): Tokyo

Average Annual ranks as the No. 3 most global city
Temperature range overall behind London and New York
 City proper: (No. 2 for Business Activity and No. 4 for
Cultural Experience)
13 million people  5.5C(Jan)-26C(Aug)  Mercer Worldwide Cost of Living
 rainy season lasts from Survey (2011): Tokyo comes in at No. 2
in Mercer’s annual ranking of the world’s
 Metropolitan area: late June to mid-July most expensive cities for expatriates
 summer months (July,  EIU Worldwide Cost of Living Survey
32.5 million people (2011): Tokyo ranks No. 1 in the
August) get to be quite
Economist Intelligence Unit’s ranking of
hot and humid the world’s most expensive cities, ahead
of Osaka, Kobe, Paris and Zurich
 Tokyo was named the world's most satisfying city for travel in a 2013 poll by
TRENDS TripAdvisor and its popularity is continuing to grow. Here are our some
reasons why Tokyo is the world's best city:

TRADITION FOOD
 The "Walking-over-Fire" Festival
takes place at Mount Takao

Tempting tempura

ARTS Manga: The eyes follow you PLACE

around the room.

The Tokyo Sky Tree:

Still the world's tallest tower.

FASHION TRANSPO
Japanese fashion: Known for
pushing boundaries.

Tokyo's rail system: One of the

most efficient in the world
INFRA- Tokyo, the city that leads businesses to
STRUCTURE success

LAND AIR SEA RAILWAY

 Near central Tokyo, there  The Port of Tokyo is  Tokyo Station includes
 A network of highways,
is Haneda Airport (Tokyo Japan's principal port for the Hokuriku Shinkansen,
such as the Tomei
International Airport) international trade and it Tohoku Shinkansen,
Expressway, Tohoku
available 24 hours a day. functions as the Joetsu Shinkansen,
Expressway, Kanetsu
international logistics base Yamagata Shinkansen,
Expressway and Joban
 With the increase in for a massive inland Akita Shinkansen and
Expressway, radiates from
regularly scheduled consumer market Tokaido Shinkansen,
Tokyo to the entire nation.
international flights, the centered in the National
convenience of the region Capital Region.  Tokyo and the National
 A system of ring roads,
is increasing even more. Capital Region are
including the Three Ring
 The city's aim is to form a covered with a web of JR
Roads (Central Circular
 Haneda Airport has flights new international trade lines and private rail lines,
Route, Tokyo Outer Ring
to 48 cities in Japan and and business zone that as well as crisscrossing
Road and Metropolitan
to 32 cities in 18 countries serves as an engine for subway lines, which
Inter-City Expressway), is
and regions abroad, so it Tokyo's economic vitality, together form a high-
under construction, with
has excellent accessibility collaborating with density rail network
the goal of relieving
to other regions in Japan international convention running on precise
chronic traffic congestion.
and to abroad. facilities in Waterfront City. schedules.
INNOVATIVE PROMOTING INCLUSION AND
PROGRAMS CELEBRATING DIVERSITY

TURN consists of four programmes; TURN Interactive Programs, TURN LAND, TURN Meeting, and TURN Fes. In
TURN Interactive Programs, artists visit workplaces and social welfare facilities, where they meet and spend time
with the residents and staff, and lead enrichment activities. Through the programme, dancers have led movement
workshops at factories employing people with intellectual disabilities or autism. Artists have also organised
workshops at care homes to build more enjoyment into residents’ daily routines.

THE TURN PROJECT

The Tokyo Tokyo Festival is a cultural programme to be held leading up to, and during, the Tokyo Olympic and
Paralympic Games in 2020. Devised by the Tokyo Metropolitan Government, the programme aims to promote the
Games and celebrate arts and culture in Tokyo more widely. The public will have the opportunity to influence
aspects of the programme’s design. The Festival is an expansion of the existing Tokyo Cultural Programme which
has already begun generating interest in the city’s culture ahead of the Games. It is hoped that the Festival’s
programmes will create an atmosphere of celebration in the city throughout the Games, leaving a legacy of
economic and cultural growth.

TOKYO TOKYO FESTIVAL

Furoshiki has also traditionally been used in Japanese arts and crafts. ‘Furoshiki Paris’ aims to promote the
environmentally friendly characteristics of Tokyo and Japanese culture throughout the world. Taking place in
autumn 2018 as part of the Tandem Paris-Tokyo 2018, a year long cultural exchange between the two global
cities, the exhibition will be based in a pavilion outside Paris City Hall and will be the first involving Furoshiki
outside of Japan.

FUROSHIKI PARIS
 Creating the Future:
PERSPECTIVES
The Long-Term Vision for Tokyo

SUCCESSFUL 2020 EVOLVING

INFRASTRUCTURE
OMOTENASHI SAFE AND SECURE
GAMES
SUPPORTIVE TAMA AREA AND
LEADING GLOBAL CITY SUSTAINABLE CITY
ENVIRONMENT ISLANDS
ROLE Why is Tokyo important to the world?

Today size is not so important: Of the world’s 10 most populous cities, only Tokyo,
New York and Beijing are in the top 10 of our ranking of the world’s most important
cities. Instead, what matters today is influence.

To rank the world’s global cities, We have attempted to go beyond some

of the standard methods of evaluating the global importance of cities,
which include assessing the concentration of support services available
for multinationals, such as financial and accounting firms, or the size of
the overall economy. Efficiency and access to capital and information,
we believe, is more critical to being an important global city than
number of jobs, and regional GDP is a false measure, since it doesn't
reflect whether the source is domestic or global economic activity.

In order to quantify cities’ global influence, we looked at eight factors:

the amount of foreign direct investment they have attracted; the
concentration of corporate headquarters; how many particular business
niches they dominate; air connectivity (ease of travel to other global
cities); strength of producer services; financial services; technology and
media power; and racial diversity. We found those factors particularly
important in identifying rising stars that, someday, might challenge the
current hegemony of our two top-ranked global cities, London and New
York.
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