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14      INTRODUCING  T OK Y O
                                                                                               Wakkanai
       Putting Tokyo on the Map                                                                          Otoineppu
                                                      Spassk-Dal’niy
                                                                Dal’negorsk
                                                                                                          Nayoro
       Tokyo, Japan’s official capital city since 1868, lies on                                                      Abashiri
       the Japanese archipelago’s largest island, Honshu.    Arsen’yev                                        Kitami
       This island chain is situated to the east of mainland    R U S S I A                               Asahikawa
       Asia, in the northwest of the Pacific Ocean. Tokyo is                                                                Nemuro
       located at the southern end of the Kanto Plain, on    Vladivostok                                              Kushiro
       Tokyo Bay, and is bordered by Chiba, Yamanashi,   Nakhodka                              Sapporo    Obihiro
       Kanagawa, and Saitama prefectures.                                                                         Urahoro
                                                                                       Oshamanbe      Tomakomai  Hokkaido
                                                                                                  Muroran
                                                                                            Mori
        Tokyo                                                                                     Hakodate
                       Kita

                                Arakawa
        Nerima       Toshima                                                                      Aomori
                                                                                           Hirosaki
                            Bunkyo
           Nakano                  Taito                                                                Kuji
                                      Sumida
                  Shinjuku                                                                           Morioka
                         Chiyoda                                                           Akita
        CHUO EXPRESSWAY   Shibuya TOKYO Chuo  Koto  S ea of   J apan                    Sakata Yokote   Honshu

        Setagaya         Minato                     (East Sea)                                        Ishinomaki
         TOM EI EXPRESSWAY   Meguro     Narita                                        Tsuruoka  Yamagata  Sendai

                                                                                  Sado   Niigata
                                                                                  Island         Fukushima
         0 kilometers  3
                        Shingawa                                                             Aizu-Wakamatsu
         0 miles    3
                                                                                    Kashiwazaki
                Taejon                                                      Toyama  Nagano
                                                                                        Takasaki  Utsunomiya
             S O U T H  Taegu                                            Kanazawa            Mito  Oarai
             K O R E A                                             Fukui           Chino
                                                                                         TOKYO
                                                                                      See map above
                                                     Tottori                      Kofu  Kawasaki
                                              Matsue        Maizuru  Tsuruga
        Sunch’on         Pusan                                            Gifu        Yokohama  Chiba
                                                                            Nagoya
                                                        Himeji  Kyoto        Toyohashi  Shizuoka
                                                          Kobe
                                       Hiroshima  Kurashiki  Okayama  Osaka
                                   Yamaguchi            Takamatsu   Nara  Ise
                            Shimonoseki
                                       Tokuyama      Tokushima  Wakayama
                           Fukuoka
                                              Matsuyama
                                                      Kochi  Tanabe                    P acif ic
                                 Kurume                                                 Ocean
                                       Oita        Shikoku
     Shanghai,        Nagasaki
     Qingdao                      Kumamoto
                          Yatsushiro     Nobeoka
              East                     Kyushu
           China Sea      Sendai      Miyazaki
                         Kagoshima  Shibushi
                       Okinawa                   Okinawa



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