Tokyo is Japan's capital and the largest city in the country. The city is located in the southeastern part of the central Japanese island of Honshu on the Kanto Plain.

Tokyo is the largest scientific and cultural center of Japan. In this city there are many universities.The oldest ones in Tokyo are, for example, Waseda, Keio, José, and others.

In Tokyo there are many galleries and dozens of public and private museums. The Tokyo National Museum holds 85,000 works of art, painting, sculpture.

In Ueno Park there are four national museums. The Tokyo National Museum, the country's largest museum of traditional Japanese art, the National Museum of Western Art, The Tokyo National Museum of Modern Art ( contains a collection of more than 40,000 Japanese and foreign films), and the National Museum of Science. In Tokyo, annually are held various festivals such as the Sanja at Asakusa Shrine and Kanda.

Tokyo is the city of contrasts. Here, surprisingly the old narrow streets adjoin to the fashionable quarters of new buildings.

Also, Tokyo is famous for its parks. The most famous of them is Ueno Park.

Of course the symbol of the city is sakura. And once a year Tokyo becomes a fairytale city, because the symbol of the city burst into bloom. Many people all around the world come to see this show.

Also, we want to visit different restaurants in Japan.

Japanese restaurants can satisfy visitors with different tastes and abilities. Yes, and they look in different ways: from the window in the wall where the noodles are sold up to the heavenly gourmet restaurants retey.

Retey and kaiseki. Institutions, causing awe, with manicured courtyards and spacious and elegant rooms, termed retey represent the top of the Japanese culinary art. Re-reriya. Re-reriya (it is a restaurant in Kyoto-style) – it can be called as kaiseki restaurant, because Kyoto was just a place where kaiseki reached perfection.

Sedzin-reriya. Sedzin-reriya also appeared in Kyoto, in the kitchens of Zen Buddhist monasteries in the city. Vegetarian dishes are served in the lacquer wares in separate rooms. Ippin-reriya and idzakaya (almost the same thing) – is a more refined version of the Japanese home cooks. On their shelves are exposed dishes with canned treats.

Aka-tetin, or restaurant with a red lantern -got its name from the hanging over the doors a mottled canopy. They have a menu with names of dishes that are written on sheets of paper attached to the wall, or on a blackboard.

There are a lot of Eating sushi, lapshovye snack, kissaten, cafes and bars. Many Japanese restaurants specialize i n one definite dish, such as tempura, tonkatsu or shabu-shabu. Restaurants eseku (western food) is a modest institution where are treated such dishes as furai ebi (fried shrimp) and korokke (croquettes). Both dishes became incredibly popular in Japan during the Meiji and Taisho.