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One of the reasons for the immigration is while Tokyo is an expensive city, its costs can be compensated with a tiny apartment. However, it's not necessary to l
by SapporoChris 5y ago
One of the reasons for the immigration is while Tokyo is an expensive city, its costs can be compensated with a tiny apartment. However, it's not necessary to live in Tokyo. Many of the surrounding cities commute to Tokyo on a daily basis.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tokyo#Demographics https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tokyo#Demographics
"During the daytime, the population swells by over 2.5 million as workers and students commute from adjacent areas. This effect is even more pronounced in the three central wards of Chiyoda, Chūō, and Minato, whose collective population as of the 2005 National Census was 326,000 at night, but 2.4 million during the day.[91]"
- golemiprague 5y agoIf by surrounding cities you mean Yokohama, Chiba and Saitama it is practically the same city, it is all one big metro area and commuting by regular train from those cities takes about half an hour on average. Also, you don't really need tiny apartment, decent size places are not that expensive either if you are willing to live half an hour by train from the central areas of Tokyo.
- Aperocky 5y ago> population swells by over 2.5 million I'd imagine at least half of them wouldn't strictly need to be there but for cultural reasons.