Kantō, Japan · Japan
Oslo → Tokyo?
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The facts, computed today
- Coordinates
- 35.69°N 139.69°E
- Great-circle distance from Oslo
- 8,405 km
- Direction from Oslo
- north-east
- Daylight there today
- 12h 06m
same as Oslo
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In short
Tokyo
Tokyo lies at the head of Tokyo Bay on the central coast of Honshu. It rose to prominence in 1603 as Edo, seat of the Tokugawa shogunate, and took its present name in 1868 when the Emperor moved his court here and it became the capital of Japan. Today the Tokyo Metropolis counts about 14.3 million people across twenty-three special wards, the Tama hills to the west and a scattering of Pacific islands.
It is a city that has rebuilt itself more than once — after the Great Kantō earthquake of 1923, after the war — and that opened the world's first dedicated high-speed railway, the Shinkansen to Osaka, in 1964, the year it first hosted the Olympics. On clear days the cone of Fuji stands on the western horizon: 3,776 metres, a World Heritage site since 2013, and still the mountain the city measures itself against.
Why people might travel there
A capital of fourteen million that still measures itself against a mountain.
Tokyo lies roughly 8,400 kilometres from Oslo, on a great circle that crosses the Arctic Circle over northern Russia. It represents the long-haul question in its purest form: the possibility of connecting Oslo more directly with one of Asia's most distinctive destinations.
Humid subtropical: January averages around 5 °C, August close to 27 °C. The rainy season, tsuyu, runs from early June to mid-July, and typhoon activity in the western Pacific peaks in August and September. Winters are comparatively dry and clear.
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Sources for the facts in this page: Tokyo Metropolitan Government — history, geography and population · Tokyo Metropolitan Government — monthly population estimates · UNESCO — Fujisan · Japan Meteorological Agency — Tokyo climate normals 1991–2020 · Japan Meteorological Agency — rainy-season dates, Kanto-Koshin · JMA RSMC Tokyo — typhoon climatology