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Port: Period from City of Edo to Tokyo, Step of 400 years
Every period regardless of City of Edo and Tokyo, the port supports the lives of industries and people, nurturing a rich urban culture. Here, its footsteps that continue to the future will be reviewed.
The city of Tokyo is located in the depths most of Tokyo Bay having the feature that lowlands formed by many pouring rivers are surrounding the Musashino-hills.
In the river mouth of the low land, the water transport was developed to support a huge population of Edo-Tokyo. As the sea was landfilled with the soil that the plateau had been broken down, the city area was expanded
Rivers, Hills, and the Sea. The port born there and the city where water transport has brought up. That is exactly the City of Tokyo.