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8 Sights

210px Tokyo International Forum 's swooping curves, designed by architect Rafael Vinoly , welcome international visitors fresh from Tokyo station. Some famous places for sight-seeing include:

• Japanese Imperial Palace (Kokyo)
• Tokyo Tower
• Tokyo National Museum
• Edo-Tokyo Museum
• Roppongi Hills, one of Tokyo's largest skyscrapers
• Budokan and Tokyo Dome arenas
• Odaiba, a large artificial island in Tokyo Bay
• The Rainbow Bridge and Yurikamome monorail
• Kabukiza theater
• Akasaka Palace and Jingu Gaien Park
• Meiji Shrine
• Ueno Park
• Sumida Park
• Nagata-cho, location of the Diet Building and other government offices
• Sensoji temple in Asakusa
• Tokyo Disney in nearby Urayasu

See also: Tourism in Japan

210px Harajuku Station, built for the 1964 Summer Olympics, now plays host to cosplay gatherings on weekends and at night.

9 Prefectural symbols

Coat of arms: A sun, sending forth its radiance in six directions.

10 Miscellaneous topics

10.1 Transportation

10.1.1 Airports

• Narita International Airport (Formerly New Tokyo International Airport), Narita, Chiba Prefecture
• Tokyo International Airport (Haneda Airport), Ota, Tokyo
• Chofu Airport, Chofu, Tokyo

Narita Airport handles almost all of the international service coming into Tokyo, while Tokyo International is the hub for the lion's share of domestic flights coming into Tokyo. Chofu handles some flights to the islands south of Tokyo.

10.1.2 Rail and metro

Tokyo has one of the world's most extensive metro systems, which is run by the Tokyo Metro (formerly Teito Rapid Transit Authority, or Eidan) and the Tokyo Metropolitan Bureau of Transportation (Toei), as well as surface lines operated by JR East (formerly the Japan National Railway), a number of suburban commuter-rail lines, and the Arakawa streetcar line.

Major railway stations:

• Akihabara Station
• Ikebukuro Station
• Shibuya Station
• Shinagawa Station
• Shinjuku Station
• Tokyo Station
• Ueno Station

10.2 Movies, manga, anime, and television shows that take place in Tokyo

The Ginza area of Tokyo, once the world's most expensive shopping area during the economic bubble of the 1980s, is still home to exclusive department stores.

• Angelic Layer
• Boys Over Flowers
• Bremen
• Bubblegum Crisis
• Cardcaptor Sakura (Mostly takes place in fictional Tomoeda, but has some scenes of Tokyo)
• Detective Conan (Case Closed)
• Digimon (real world segments in Odaiba, Shinjuku and Shibuya)
• Godzilla (1954)
• Hikaru no Go
• InuYasha (Only portions that take place in the modern world)
• Kill Bill (volume 1)
• Kochikame
• The Last Samurai
• Lost in Translation
• Magic Knight Rayearth
• Maison Ikkoku
• MegaTokyo
• The Prince of Tennis
• Princess Ai
• Ranma ½ (takes place in Nerima)
• Rurouni Kenshin
• Sailor Moon
• Sayonara (Ending sequence)
• Shaman King
• Tenchi in Tokyo
• Tokyo Babylon
• Tokyo Godfathers
• Tokyo Joe
• Tokyo Mew Mew
• Tokyo Story
• Tokyo Tribes
• Whispers of the Heart
• X, also known as X/1999
• You Only Live Twice ( James Bond film)
• You're Under Arrest
• YuYu Hakusho

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