Japan has many big cities such as Yokohama,
Osaka, Sapporo,
and Kyoto. But Tokyo, on the island
of Honshu, is the
biggest. How big is Tokyo?
It’s the biggest city in the entire world! There are more than 26 million
people living in and around Tokyo.
The city is the capital of Japan
and the nation’s economic and cultural center.
Tokyo has something for everyone. It has more than 100
universities. It has museums such as the Tokyo Metropolitan
Art Museum and the
National Museum of Science. It has theaters for modern plays as well as
traditional Japanese theater. It has old religious sites such as the Meiji
Shrine and the Kanda Shrine. It even has an imperial palace. That’s where the
emperor of Japan,
the nation’s symbolic leader, still lives.
Tokyo is very modern. High-speed trains, called bullet trains,
connect Tokyo to other parts of Japan. Tokyo is a center for
services such as banking and insurance, new technology, and manufacturing.
Answer the following questions
based on the text above.
a.
Where is Tokyo located?
b.
How many people are living in
and around Tokyo?
c.
What buildings are there in Tokyo?
d.
Where does the Emperor of Japan
live?
e.
…. It has theaters for modern plays …..(par 2) What does the
underlined word refer to?
