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It is the second-largest single metropolitan area in the world in terms of built-up or urban function landmass at 8,547 km 2 (3,300 mi 2), behind only the New York City metropolitan area at 11,642 km 2 (4,495 mi 2). [5] With over US$2 trillion in GDP, Tokyo remains the second-largest metropolitan economy in the world, also behind New York.
Tokyo Station: 2013: Renovations to the historic Marunouchi side of the station were completed in 2012. Developments to the Yaesu side are expected to finish in 2013. Tokyo Midtown: 2008: A "New Urban Centre" Project located near Roppongi Hills, housing shops, the Suntory Museum of Art and the Ritz Carlton Tokyo.
Urban expressways (都市高速道路, Toshi Kōsokudōro) are intra-city expressways which are found in many of Japan's largest urban areas. Due to lack of space many of these expressways are constructed as viaducts running above local roads. The two largest networks are the Shuto Expressway in the Tokyo area and the Hanshin Expressway in the ...
Azabudai Hills (麻布台ヒルズ, Azabudai Hiruzu) is a complex of three skyscrapers in Tokyo, Japan. Upon its completion in 2023, the Azabudai Hills Mori JP Tower in the development became the tallest building in Tokyo and Japan. The complex was developed by the Mori Building Company, the project cost about 640 billion yen ($5.3 billion). [3]
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Public transport within Greater Tokyo is dominated by the world's most extensive urban rail network (as of May 2014, the article Tokyo rail list lists 158 lines, 48 operators, 4,714.5 km of operational track and 2,210 stations [although stations are recounted for each operator]) of suburban trains and subways run by a variety of operators, with ...
Although the mining company paid compensatory money and the government engaged in the embankment works of the Watarase River, no fundamental solution of the problem was achieved. Japan is the world's leading importer of both exhaustible and renewable natural resources [citation needed] and one of the largest consumers of fossil fuels. [2]
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