Arrived Tokyo

Terri and her family arrived Tokyo on 27 December, 2009 as the plane was delayed and we couldn't manage to catch the transit plane to Tokyo on 26th December in Beijing. We were arranged to spend a night at a hotel in Beijing. It was really cold in Beijing. We had't got a chance to go out for a look at Beijing but we could feel the coldness of Beijing. It was -7ºC. We left Beijing this morning at half past nine. We can smoothly arrived Tokyo we booked a month ago.

We were impressed by the big department store, called Atre. There are a great variety of foods and different types of things.

Here is some information regarding Tokyo I extracted from the Internet:
http://www.japan-guide.com/e/e2164.html

Tokyo is Japan's capital and the country's largest city.

Tokyo is also one of Japan's 47 prefectures, but is called a metropolis (to) rather than a prefecture (ken). The metropolis of Tokyo consists of 23 city wards (ku), 26 cities, 5 towns and 8 villages, including the Izu and Ogasawara Islands, several small Pacific Islands in the south of Japan's main island Honshu.
The 23 city wards (ku) are the center of Tokyo and make up about one third of the metropolis' area, while housing roughly eight of Tokyo's approximately twelve million residents.

Prior to 1868, Tokyo was known as Edo. A small castle town in the 16th century, Edo became Japan's political center in 1603 when Tokugawa Ieyasu established his feudal government there. A few decades later, Edo had grown into one of the world's most populous cities.

Population of Tokyo itself is 12 million, out of which 8 million gather in the wards, but these numbers don't really show the size of the metropolis.