40 Vacations - Travel Guides - Destination Tokyo

Interesting Facts

- Tokyo is the capital city of Japan.

- 75% of Japan's land mass is covered by mountains.

- There are 13 subway lines crisscrossing the city, which connect major places in the city.

- The world famous bullet trains run in Tokyo. On an average, the delay time of the 160,000 bullet trains in 2003 came out to be 0.1 minute per train.

- The three most popular shrines in tokyo are The Imperial Palace, Meiji Shrine, and Sensoji Temple.

- There are almost 240 museums and art galleries in Tokyo. Various specimens of Japanese, Oriental and Western art are on exhibition in here.

- It is a fun place to picnic with your family as it has 30 zoological and botanical gardens and aquariums.