The city is 20 to 30 km north of central Tokyo.
It is now primary a regional commercial center, and a bedroom community for central Tokyo.
Many did not hear the news until their commuter trains arrived in central Tokyo.
Company employees in central Tokyo can't go home because of the disruption.
Around the time of the last great quake about 2.5 million people lived in central Tokyo; today the figure is three times that.
The city is located 20 km west of central Tokyo.
Even in central Tokyo, farm plots take up roughly 4,500 acres.
Tanashi was connected to central Tokyo by train from 1927.
Twigger is living with two friends in a tiny apartment near central Tokyo.
There have been some attempts to create urban cores outside of central Tokyo.