Jokes aside, it's fascinating as a Brit to think that the greater area of one city would take up most of Wales. I can't imagine living that far away from central Tokyo and still being in greater Tokyo.
Tokyo is massive, but the outline in the image is really the region of Kantō, with several cities and rural areas. It's like saying greater London is the whole of the south east
Different countries define "greater city" in some fairly different ways.
Greater NYC, for example, contains like a dozen smaller satellite cities and their suburbs. It includes some of the largest cities in both New Jersy and Connecticut.
It takes me an hour and a half to commute to work by express train in my metropolitan area. The train only makes 5 stops.
That’s why tourists from outside the UK plan activities all over the island in a 3-day period; while many locals may never have traveled more than a few kilometres from home except to vacation in Spain, spending 3-4 hours traveling between points of interest in a day is standard practice in many parts of the world.
Sounds horrible. I don't travel for these reasons. Stress free is what I am for, and I have never been happy when vacationing out of my province (and sometimes within, depending).
Meanwhile my partner has been to China, Japan and various other places while we've been together. She doesn't even try to get me to go with her anymore, bless her heart.
I live in the U.S. and I didn't really understand how big a state or a city could be until I moved to California and entered Los Angeles county to go to my apartment in North Hollywood. And it just kept going... and going... and going...
Reminds me of that one occasion where there was a natural disaster event in Japan.
Someone commented that Japan must be lying because they checked Google Maps street view from the areas that were hammered by the nature and didn't see anything broken.
No, it shows "Greater London" which is basically just London, but is called that to distinguish it from "The City of London" which is 1mi square in the centre of Greater London.
This Greater Tokyo Area covers whole prefectures outside of Tokyo. I personally consider 首都圏 to be prefectures surrounding Tokyo, or "capital region" is more of an apt term.
Since Narita in Chiba is considered a Tokyo Airport, a more fair comparison for London would be from Lydd Airport - London Ashford to London Luton Airport to London Stansted Airport.