Tokyo

Japan's capital since 1868, Tokyo grew from the fishing village of Edo into the seat of the Tokugawa shogunate in 1603 and is now the world's most populous metropolitan area with 37 million people. The city was virtually destroyed twice in the 20th century — by the 1923 earthquake and World War II firebombing — and rebuilt each time. It seamlessly blends ancient shrines with cutting-edge technology.