Travel to Tokyo Japan

Attractions to see on your Tokyo vacation. 

There is no shortage of things to do in this attractive and busy city of twelve million.   Visitors and tourists will enjoy such attractions as museums, theaters and world class dining establishments.  Art museums such as the Imperial art museum and the Museum of Western art are numerous and feature high quality exhibitions.   Shrines, temples and gardens are also popular with visitors and provide a unique insight into the city’s history.

Tokyo Tour

  
Navigating Tokyo is relatively easy, as the city has the most advanced and extensive train system in the world.  Bullet trains, surface trains and subways integrate well with a network of busses and other forms of road transportation.   The subways of Tokyo are packed and serve as a method to get from almost any point in the city to any other.

How big is Tokyo?

When considering how big Tokyo really is, well its just plain huge.  While the official census is just over 8,000,000 people, the more common definition of the metropolitan area into which the city overflows puts the number in the area of 35,000,000 to 40,000,000 inhabitants. 

Technically Tokyo is made up of twenty six cities, which are essentially suburbs in the western sense of the word.  These cities each have a population of between 75,000 and 200,000 people.

Tokyo Vacation

 If you are considering a vacation to Tokyo Japan, you are not alone.  Over 80 million people a year arrive or depart from the two major airports in the greater Tokyo  district.  Between Tokyo international airport and Narita international, there is constant traffic for both business and personal reasons from the city.  

Depending on the metrics used, Tokyo is considered to be the largest city in the world, and by any measure it is an extremely important city.

A vacation in Tokyo is a full blown immersion into modern Japanese culture, complete with bullet trains, crowded subways and a culture that is all about business.    The city has action at any time of the day or night, and there are always places to go and things to see.    It is a fast paced experience and if you are a foreigner it will usually be obvious to the local citizens.  

People’s reactions to the Tokyo experience varies but it is likely to be a positive experience that you will remember for a lifetime.

Attractions in Tokyo

There are countless attractions in Tokyo, and the event calendar is always full.   There is far too much to document here, however the Japan National Tourism site can be a fantastic resource for up to the minute information on what is happening where.  

Japan Business

Tokyo Business Culture

Tokyo businesses are prosperous, and Tokyo is one of the top three financial cities in the world in terms of GDP.  One out of ten corporations in the global top 500 have their headquarters located in Tokyo Japan.

The business culture in Japan is part of the deeply engrained cultural psyche.  From a young age, male children are taught that the route to success is through hard work.   The zhiabatsu is a distinctively Japanese concept of loyalty to the corporation by employees, and loyalty to employees by the corporation.  It is not uncommon for a young Japanese business person to enter a company at a young age and stay with it throughout his career.  The career with the company may start with corporate financed education and training, after completion of the traditional extensive basic education that is offered by the school system in Tokyo.  

This philosophy is pervasive and for many people in the society the career and place in the social system are entwined for a lifetime.   In this culture a person is defined by their work, their corporate identity and the greater cause of both individual and corporate success. 

Foreigners may have difficulty coming to grip with this and other related cultural concepts such as the primacy of the group over the individual. 

Japanese Businesses have flourished in this atmosphere.  Businesses are both rivals and at the same time deeply integrated on a national level in many ways.  

International Companies in Tokyo

Powerful international companies regularly emerge from this culture and 47 the most powerful 500 corporations in the world have their headquarters in this city.    In Tokyo Japan, business is a serious matter. 

A number of companies are on the cutting edge of industries such as robotics, electronics and advanced engineering.