Tokyo Metropolis is settled within the center of the Japanese archipelago within the Kanto Region on the northwest of Tokyo Bay. It borders Edogawa River and Chiba Prefecture to the east, mountains and Yamanashi Prefecture to the west, Tama gawa River and Kanagawa Prefecture to the south, and Saitama Prefecture to the north.

Metropolitan Tokyo is split into smaller administrative bodies – the “central” space, comprising of twenty three wards.

It became the capital town of Japan within the middle of nineteenth century, once its name modified from "Edo" to "Tokyo".

More considerably, Tokyo is Japan's management and finance center. Firms with headquarters or branches or production sites in alternative parts of the country typically have large offices in Tokyo, Marunouchi being the location of the many of those. The close relationship between government and business in Japan makes Tokyo location advantageous.

Tokyo is the cultural center of Japan. Tokyo has been originated from the ethnic Jomon culture then mixed with resulting influences from initial Chinese and Korean, then Greek and Indian, and at last from European and American influences, Japan developed its own distinctive culture.