Edo

Edo 江戸 Yedo
Former city
Former location of Edo and present location of Tokyo
Coordinates: 35°41′00″N 139°46′00″E / 35.6833°N 139.7667°E / 35.6833; 139.7667
Country	Japan
Castle Built	1457
Capital	1603
Renamed Tokyo	1868
Population  (1721)
• Total	1,000,000

This article is about Edo. For more information, see Tokyo (disambiguation).

Edo (江戸)^[1] is the former name of the Japanese capital Tokyo, and was the seat of power for the Tokugawa shogunate which ruled Japan from 1603 to 1868. During this period it grew to become one of the largest cities in the world.

1. ↑ literally: bay-door, "estuary", pronounced: edo, once also spelled Yedo or Yeddo