Americans tend to think of "suburb" as meaning "sprawly low-density area with lots of parking-lots and roads," but really it can mean any sort of outlying secon

Americans tend to think of "suburb" as meaning "sprawly low-density area with lots of parking-lots and roads," but really it can mean any sort of outlying secondary community. Kawasaki, and even Yokohama, for instance, are very much suburbs of Tokyo if you look at how people live (a huge proportion of the population commute to Tokyo for work and play), but are also a large cities in their own right, and very densely populated.