都

ordinance-designated city

metropolitan high school

Usu. ご都合がよろしい

convenient

holy city

city developed around a church, temple, shrine, etc. (e.g. Ise, Mecca, Vatican)

Service

Utsunomiya Line

Company name

Toei Subway

city gas; mains gas; gas supplied to buildings via pipes

to leave town

Tomin First no Kai (regional political party in Tokyo)

open city declaration

boom town; emerging city; new town

the three most important cities (esp. in ref. to Tokyo, Osaka, Nagoya)

Tokyo near-field earthquake; large-scale earthquake expected to directly hit the Kanto area sometime in the future; also refers to the 1855 and 1894 Edo/Tokyo earthquakes

(city-wide) lockdown

Osaka Metropolis Plan; proposed change of Osaka Prefecture from an urban prefecture to a metropolitan prefecture (like Tokyo) which would result in the abolition of Osaka City

sister city; twin town

megacity; city with over a million people

urban space

urban development

Work of art, literature, music, etc. name

A Tale of Two Cities (1859 novel by Charles Dickens)

garden city

urban transport; urban transit

Kyoto Gozan; the five most important Rinzai temples of Kyoto

open city; defenseless city