Edo castle town

Timeline

1. 1603Edo Castle · Musashi ProvinceAfter Tokugawa Ieyasu established the shogunate, he greatly expanded Edo Castle as the shogunal residence, and construction of the castle town proceeded in full; samurai residences, merchant districts, and temple-shrine grounds expanded outward according to plan.
2. 1650–1680Edo · Kantō regionSankin-kōtai brought large numbers of samurai families to settle, spurring a population surge; the shogunate led land reclamation and canal digging, forming a waterway transport network spanning the entire city and laying the foundation for Edo's world-class urban scale.
3. 1869Tokyo · Kantō regionThe Meiji government renamed Edo to Tokyo ("Eastern Capital"), the emperor moved the capital there, and the original castle town's spatial layout was preserved through modernization and transformed into the modern urban structure.