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  • hundreds of years ago, Tokyo was called Eddo, and the city flourished around its waterways.

  • Tokyo Waas Constructed as water city, this area is surrounded wa, surrounded by network off water system.

  • Mhm While the city eventually transitioned to using mawr modern infrastructure such as railroads and highways, many of these historic canals and waterways still exist in the Tokyo We know now this is my first time being a belt.

  • Everybody in Tokyo as I was living in Italy, I mean many times in the Venice Ferris's onto the water.

  • But today we're here in Tokyo, but still, But we don't feel like taco is onto the water.

  • Since the Edo period, much of the Tokyo Bay Area has been built from reclaimed land into man made islands.

  • They took the earth and sand reclaimed the land.

  • And as a result, these channels now exist.

  • When we think about a mom in land is that we think about Okay, maybe goodbye.

  • But actually Tokyo is much developed.

  • I want a man, Maryland.

  • It Z kind of crazy thing.

  • City is changing.

  • As you can see, Venues like the Athletes Village are now being built for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics along the river three.

  • The guide of us Really great.

  • He he knew a lot of things and the ones we start crazy.

  • I saw so many new places.

  • E think, uh, when it comes to Tokyo, when you see it Tokyo you have to have experienced both died, you know, living inside the jail on in the way of looking at it from outside, which is from a river, you see Tokyo in different ways.

hundreds of years ago, Tokyo was called Eddo, and the city flourished around its waterways.

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