都

Organization name

Tokyo Metropolitan Government

Organization name

Tohto University

planned city

sister city; twin town

the whole metropolis; the whole capital

all of Tokyo; the whole of Tokyo

cosmopolitan city

Organization name

Tokyo Metropolitan Assembly

main city (of a district, province, etc.); major city

ordinance-designated city

(national) capital city

Shinto

family grave; ancestral grave; tomb

holy city

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

everywhere in the capital (e.g. Tokyo); everyone in the capital

Service

Utsunomiya Line

Kuwait

prefectural capital

Little Kyoto; small town with historical features reminiscent of Kyoto

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

Abbreviation

university town; college town

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