English 'Tokyo' is borrowed from Japanese Tōkyō (東京), meaning 'Eastern Capital' — named in 1868 when the emperor moved the capital east from Kyoto, using Chinese-derived characters for 'east' and 'capital'.
The capital city of Japan, situated at the head of Tokyo Bay on the Pacific coast of central Honshu.
English 'Tokyo' is borrowed from Japanese 'Tōkyō' (東京), which literally means 'Eastern Capital'. The name is composed of two Chinese-derived characters: 東 (tō, 'east') and 京 (kyō, 'capital'). The city was renamed from Edo (江戸, 'estuary') in 1868 when Emperor Meiji moved the imperial capital there from Kyoto. The name was chosen as a deliberate counterpart to Kyoto (京都, 'capital city') — Tokyo became the 'eastern capital' relative to the old western capital. The same character 京 appears in Beijing (北京, 'northern capital'), Nanjing (南京, 'southern capital'), and