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Tokyo-Yokohama metropolitan area
Most people would probably still put the centre of Tokyo much where the centre of Edo was, immediately to the east of the palace. Marunouchi, inside the outer castle moat (now filled in), is the entrepreneurial hub of the city and of Japan; it is where the prefectural offices were until 1991. Farther east, immediately beyond the avenue built on the filled-in moat, there has been a shift....
...before used by the Japanese. Sometime later the Mitsubishi enterprises set about turning their “meadow,” vacant land within the outer castle moat, into a business centre. This became the Marunouchi district, also largely built of brick. Only fragments of the Ginza “bricktown” and of what came to be called the Mitsubishi “Londontown” survive. Monumental...
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