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Tokyo is a city in the Kantō region of the island country of Japan, in Asia, on the Planet Earth. It is one of the Earth's tether cities, along with New Mombasa, Kenya in Africa, Havana, Cuba in North America, Quito, Ecudor in South America and Sydney, Australia in Oceania. With it being a city with a space elevator, it was split into New and Old Tokyo, like Mombasa.

History
Tokyo is the capital of the country Japan. It is the largest municipal area in the world.

Interstellar Era
Tokyo was chosen to be Earths' second tether city, second to New Mombasa. In 2310, The space elevator was constructed on a man-made island, in Tokyo Bay, about 500 metres from mainland Tokyo. The space elevator was named after Wallace Fujikawa, the co-creator of the Slipspace Drive. The elevator was named "The Fujikawa Needle". The original Tokyo; or the Tokyo before 2310, became enlargened and named "New Tokyo". Any point after the enlargened part, for 50 km, was named "Old Tokyo". A new feature, one not put in any other tether city, was UNSC space ship ports. These were a series of raised sections of artificial land, which, in whole, took about 5-by-5 kilometres up from New Tokyo. There was a direct bridge going straight from the space ship ports to the Space Elevator.

The Space Elevator changed Tokyo and the surrounding area alot. In all, 23 bridges were built to, from and around the space elevator. There were about 5000 shipments to and from space every day. But this was all before something big happened. Many artificial islands were created around the artificial island that sported the space elevator. Towers up to 3 kilometres tall were built, and even an underwater sector that powered the space elevator and the surrounding buildings. But because of all these buildings made, ships could not get from place to place, and all the smoke from these buildings were filling up the air above Tokyo. Eventually some of these buildings had to be shut down, others demolished completely and thrown into the ocean. Once again, the Space Elevator was the only building in the Tokyo Bay, and all the smoke had went away.

New Tokyo
In mainland Tokyo, surrounding the Tokyo Bay, some of the tallest towers and buildings in the entire world stood. There were about 150 buildings in New Tokyo that were 3500 metres and above. These buildings were in a 5 kilometre radius from the shoreline of Tokyo Bay. Beyond that were medium sized factories, buisnesses, office buildings and the UNSC space ship yard. Also, in New Tokyo, a very special building for the UNSC was built. A new affiliation rose from the existing UNSC, with signed documents for it to be in place from UNSC around the world, the UNSCDF in space and Japanese leaders. It was named USOAJ, or the United Special Operations Affiliation of Japan. This building was 741 metres tall, with a square kilometre area of Military posts, and an underground data sector which held data on all of the Kanto Region, and a secret data sector for data about the USOAJ, UNSC and UNSCDF. From this rose another affiliation of the UNSC - the UJNSDS, or the United Japanese Nations Space Defense System.

New Tokyo also had a large area of high-speed trains, an underground area of highspeed subways, bridges which went over the smaller buisnesses and factories, and a AI data infrastructure. Parts of New Tokyo were on both sides of the Tokyo Bay, attached only by bridges that went over the water and subways under the water. Over 30 billion dollars were invested in the creation of New Tokyo alone, with the buisnesses and offices from the 21st and 22nd century surrounding the skyline. New Tokyo had 15 million people in it. It was a fraction of Earth's population in 2552 during the Human-Covenant War, with the Earths' population at that time around 300 million.

In the 2400s, many stations were launched from New Tokyo to orbit above the city in gyrosynchronous orbit above Japan. Unlike the 300 stations that gyrosynchronously orbited major cities on Earth, these ones were smaller, and not a part of those other 300 stations at all. But along with those stations was a colony station. Because of the already over-population of Tokyo from the 2000s-2100s, this colony station was launched, and held a total of 10 000 civillians, and an extra 1000 UNSC personnel.

Invasion of the Covenant
Battle of New Tokyo

Old Tokyo
This was an area of cities 50-by-50 kilometres from New Tokyo that had been named to Old Tokyo in the 2300s.