Tokyo - Wikipedia During the Meiji Restoration in 1868, the name of the city was changed to Tokyo (東京; from 東 tō "east", and 京 kyō "capital"), when it became the new imperial capital, [26] in line with the East Asian tradition of including the word capital (京) in the name of the capital city (for example, Kyoto (京都), Keijō (京城), Beijing
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