Tokyo Bay on the Pacific coast of central Honshu. It is the focus of the vast metropolitan area often called Greater Tokyo, the largest urban and industrial agglomeration in Japan. ... With the Meiji Restoration of 1868, which ended the shogunate, the capital was moved to Edo.
Tokyo was originally a fishing village called Edo. It was first fortified by the Edo Clan in the 12th century and 200 years later the famous Edo Castle was built there. In 1509, the city became the center of government when Tokugawa Ieyasu became Shogun and made it his hometown
