About the Area for SilverDoor Serviced Apartments in Tokyo

Tokyo is a vast and densely populated city with about 35million people in the greater metropolitan area. Since 1900 it has been designed around its many suburban railways and subway lines, so public transport is the best way to get around. The firebombings of 1945 were almost as devastating as the atomic bombs of Hiroshima and Nagasaki and large areas of the city were flattened. After the war, Tokyo was completely rebuilt, and showcased to the world during the city's 1964 Olympic Games.

While the generally-accepted center of Tokyo is the Imperial Palace, as a rail-centric city, there are a number of major urban centers where business, shopping, and entertainment are concentrated around major train stations. These include:

Shinjuku - known for Tokyo's early skyscrapers, major department stores, electronics stores and hotels. On the east side of Shinjuku Station, Kabuki-cho is notorious for its many bars and nightclubs. Shinjuku Station moves an estimated three million passengers a day, making it the busiest in the world.

Marunouchi and Otemachi - the main financial and business district of Tokyo has many headquarters of banks, trading companies and other major corporations.

Ginza and Yurakucho – the major shopping and entertainment district with department stores, upscale shops selling brand-name goods, and movie theaters.

Odaiba - a large, reclaimed, waterfront area that has become one of Tokyo's most popular shopping and entertainment districts.

Narita Intenational Airport is about 60km east of the downtown core and trains to Tokyo Station take about an hour. Haneda Airport handles all domestic flights and is best reached by the Tokyo Monorail.

Tokyo can be very confusing to first time foreign visitors, but if you hold a map and look lost within a few moments some helpful local will invariably try to help you and practice their use of English.