Kanda RiverThe Kanda River (神田川, Kandagawa) stretches 24.6 km (15.3 mi) from Inokashira Park in Mitaka to the Sumida River under the Ryōgoku Bridge at the boundary of Taitō, Chūō, and Sumida. Its entire length lies within Tokyo, Japan. It drains an area of 105.0 km (40.5 sq mi). The government of Japan classifies it as a Class A river. Tributaries and branchesThe Zenpukuji, Momozono, and Myōshō-ji rivers are tributaries of the Kanda.
NihonbashiNihonbashi (日本橋, Nihonbashi; Japanese pronunciation:, also romanized as Nihombashi) is a business district of Chūō, Tokyo, Japan, which sprung up around the bridge of the same name that has linked two sides of the Nihonbashi River at this site since the 17th century. The first wooden bridge was completed in 1603. The current bridge, designed by Tsumaki Yorinaka and constructed of stone on a steel frame, dates from 1911.
ChōninChōnin (町人; "townsman") was a social class that emerged in Japan during the early years of the Tokugawa period. The word chōnin comes from the character chō (町) meaning city ward and the character nin (人) meaning person. In the social hierarchy, it was considered subordinate to the samurai warrior class.
Tokyo BayTokyo Bay (東京湾, Tōkyō-wan) is a bay located in the southern Kantō region of Japan spanning the coasts of Tokyo, Kanagawa Prefecture, and Chiba Prefecture, on the southern coast of the island of Honshu. Tokyo Bay is connected to the Pacific Ocean by the Uraga Channel. The Tokyo Bay region is the most populous and the largest industrialized area in Japan.
SamuraiThe samurai (侍) were members of the professional warrior class in pre-industrial Japan, who served as retainers to the lords. These men came from warrior families and trained from a young age in military arts through private instruction. Swordsmanship, archery, and horsemanship were the primary martial skills; and often in Japanese history, only samurai had the right to even possess these weapons.
TokyoCapital and most populous city in JapanCapital city and metropolis in Kantō, JapanTokyo, officially the Tokyo Metropolis, is the capital and most populous city of Japan. The population of the city proper was over 14 million as of 2023. The Greater Tokyo Area, which includes Tokyo and parts of six neighboring prefectures, is the third-most populous metropolitan area in the world, with 33 million residents as of 2025.
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KyotoKyoto ( or ; Japanese: 京都, Kyōto [kʲoꜜːto] ), officially Kyoto City (京都市, Kyōto-shi; [kʲoːtoꜜɕi] ), is the capital city of Kyoto Prefecture in the Kansai region of Japan's largest and most populous island of Honshu. As of 2020, the city had a population of 1.46 million, making it the ninth-most populous city in Japan. More than half (56.8%) of Kyoto Prefecture's population resides in the city.
Meiji RestorationThe Meiji Restoration (明治維新, Meiji Ishin; also translated as the Meiji Reform[ation]), referred to at the time as the Honorable Restoration (御維新／御一新, Goi(s)shin), was a political event that restored imperial rule to Japan in 1868 under Emperor Meiji and led to the Westernisation of Japan.
Romanization of JapaneseThe romanization of Japanese is the use of Latin script to write the Japanese language. This method of writing is sometimes referred to in Japanese as rōmaji (ローマ字; lit.'Roman letters', or ). Japanese is normally written in a combination of logographic characters borrowed from Chinese characters (kanji), and syllabic scripts (kana) that are simplified variants of Chinese characters, either as cursive modifications (hiragana) or as character parts (katakana).
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