What's your favourite part of Tokyo?

Regarding Odaiba, putting an o- in front of a word is a common way to indicate respect towards something in Japanese polite speech, such as o-uchi for a house, or o-kata for a person. Sometimes it can also be a go- prefix, I believe for words of Chinese origin, such as in go-han for meal or go-shujin for husband. Also I'm kinda sad for no mention of Meguro, the ward I live in, or Jimbocho, a district I love for their abundance of used bookstores.

the fact that more there are about the same amount of people in the tokyo metro area as the entire nation of Canada seems unbelievable

The size of Fuji in those pictures of Tokyo are ridiculous. On a clear day, you can just about see it in the extreme distance, about 100 km (60 miles) away.

6:03 The name "Nagata-cho" comes from the fact that during the Edo period, the land was for horse barn (= Baba) and called "Nagata Baba" because there were many samurai residences with the surname Nagata on the land. Same as Takadanobaba, the area next to Shinjuku. 6:31 The "O" in Odaiba is a kind of polite word. It is a prefix that is sometimes used to express respect and importance, or to assure one's politeness. O-dai-ba was originally a defense base built during the period of isolation to protect Edo from foreign threats (although it had no meaning since the country was later opened to the outside world). It means "the place where the Shogun's cannon platform was located". So, local residents and old documents sometimes refer to it simply as "Daiba". 9:10 "shina" means product and goods, It has nothing to do with China. And fun fact, the place where Tokyo Station is located is called "Yae-su", which is named after the Dutchman Jan Joosten: Jan-Joos (Yan-Yo-su) → Ya-yo-su → Yaesu. In Kanji, it is expressed as "八重洲(Eight-layer-island)," but this is simply an adaptation of the Kanji that sound auspicious(Eight is good number for infinity, layering means many). If there are other place names you want to look up, you can look up "XXX (place name) 語源" or "XXX (place name) 由来" and translate with Deepl to get more definitive information.

The kanji in 品川 shinagawa mean "goods, product" and "river". As it was a big harbour district the name most likely comes from the products that were shipped across the river. (Which is also the explanation in the source you gave us). The old name for China 支那 shina however is spelled differently. It was used from the edo period until the end of the second World War. It's a racist term only used by nationalist nowadays to put Japan above China. The name shinagawa is used since the 13th century, so it can't be the origin

I stayed in Arakawa when I was an English teacher in Japan (like a lot of foreigners might do when they go). It's a really pretty area, and you brush shoulders with a lot of wealthy people in the city. Turns out it's pretty common to find houses there with two floors, and a lot of families there have two, sometimes three kids. Pretty shocking when you consider Japanese families only really tend to have one kid, let alone two.

Do names of Hong Kong neighborhoods names! With names originating with local languages to colonial languages, there are bound to be some interesting stories behind them. Same with Macau!

Being from Iceland (one of the least densely populated countries), Tokyo fascinates me. How do they all fit in there!? I suppose we might never know the answer.

I am SUPER thankful you started EQing and compressing your audio! Sounds great and makes much more enjoyable videos.

Man you make me wanna go, great vids!

Thank you!

You're an awesome dude

Any city that gets to Tokyo's size basically has to become a gaggle of smaller cities wearing the same trench coat just so that people living there can have services and government that halfway function. (Only halfway, we're still talking about city government here.)

Playing the rpg The World Ends With You, which takes place predominantly in Shibuya. So the name meaning Harsh/Bitter valley feels appropriate.

The O from Odaiba can be an honorific prefix to nouns to refer to them in a respectful way.

As for the O in odaiba. In Japanese O is often placed in front of words to give it more respect. Cha (tea) becomes ocha. So maybe it's the same thing with odaiba.

Not sure why the title is Neighborhoods of Tokyo instead of Wards of Tokyo... Or at least Boroughs of Tokyo.

In Sweden we have a mailorder company called Ginza

I want to go there so bad! I think I would enjoy Asakusa very much! Would take a lot of pictures! Thanks for this video Patrick Chan! Very interesting

im here wayyyyyy to early! third comment kinda proud :3

I love that haiku. They don't often have rhymes or semi-rhymes.

Can you do more stuff on South Korea?

For Odaiba isn’t o a prefix that can mean something like greatest? I’ve heard that Aikido practitioners call the founder of Aikido Osensei meaning something like great teacher

Shibuya is also home of the Hachiko statue.

shoulkd do one about the 23 wards

Alot of them I know from Persona.

Neighborhoods of Buenos Aires please!

The "O" in Odaiba, can mean either "Big/great" from this character 大 , or could be the honorific designation of an object.

Yeah

re: odabai. "o" is a prefix meaning "big" or "grand" or "great". For example: O-zumo == Grand Sumo. Ogatana == Great Katana

Yup, Tokyo is a great place!

I personally like Gion in Kyoto, Japan better than Tokyo but I watch many virtual tours of both cities.

This is a very low number of views and comments for a good video

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In the name Odaiba, where daiba is the word of "fort" I think, the "O"-part is meaning "big". The meaning I learnt from the names of throws in judo, which is japanese. So Odaiba would be "big fort".