Giant panda (bamboo bear) is a national treasure of China, in addition, it can be seen on the logo of the World Wildlife Fund (WWF). Below you will find out where you can see a panda in China, how long pandas live and much more, panda pictures by Bemorepanda.

Giant pandas are similar to bears, but differ in their characteristic black and white coloration. Panda's paws, eyes and ears are covered with black fur; a black strip also runs around the shoulders of the animal.

Have you noticed what color a panda's tail is? The tail of the giant panda is white! 

Giant pandas spend up to 14 hours a day eating. The fact is that the calorie content in bamboo is small, and the panda quickly begins to feel hungry again.

Having eaten, pandas go to bed for a period of 2 to 4 hours. When they wake up, they again go in search of food.

In addition to feeding and sleeping, giant pandas also climb trees. Yes, these huge clumsy bears can climb trees! Usually, pandas climb a tree to get away from danger, during the courtship period, and also to avoid stronger competitors.

Pandas eat the roots, shoots and leaves of bamboo. Bamboo makes up 99% of their daily diet. In addition to bamboo, they feed on some types of fruits.

1.Favourite food

2.Relaxing together

3.Look at me

4.Let me show my tongue

Giant pandas in captivity are fed special bread made from rice and corn flour, soy powder and eggs. Wild pandas also eat grasses, insects, mice and even lambs found in the surrounding villages.

Giant pandas in China live in the west and southwest of the country. The city of Chengdu is, without exaggeration, the best place to get acquainted with these cute animals. Here you can visit the big panda and get acquainted with the habits of the animal, which has become one of the symbols of the Celestial Empire.

Giant pandas are dearly loved not only by the people of China, but also by many foreigners - children and adults. The best places in China to see pandas are located in the Chengdu area, which is called the "homeland of the giant panda". In addition, the panda can be seen in zoos in cities such as Beijing, Shanghai, Chongqing, Guilin and Hong Kong.

If you are curious to watch the panda in its natural habitat - come to Sichuan! More information on how to visit a giant panda is available on the China Panda Tours page.

Get even closer to see the panda by participating in a volunteer program at the China Center for the Conservation and Study of the Dujiangyan Giant Panda (CCRCGP) near Chengdu. Here you can take care and even feed the big panda.

5.Baby panda

6.Trying something new

7.This smile

As of 2014, there were only 1,864 giant pandas left in the wild. It is considered one of the rarest endangered species in the world, which is why the giant panda has adorned the logo of the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) since the foundation of the organization in 1961.

Today, the only place suitable for the giant panda to live in its natural environment is in a remote mountainous region at an altitude of 1200 to 3100 meters above sea level. These are the foothills of Tibet in the provinces of Sichuan, Gansu and Shaanxi.

Pandas can only live in vast bamboo forests because bamboo is their main food.

In the city of Chengdu, Sichuan province, there are large panda bases (for example, Bifengxia Bifengxia Giant Panda Nursery), where both wild pandas and those that live in captivity are taken care of. The most famous of them is the Giant Panda Research Center, located 10 km from the center of Chengdu.

The habitats of the giant panda are gradually disappearing due to deforestation and the development of agricultural production. There have also been cases of poaching in history. The disappearance of the natural environment for the panda has led to the fact that the animals are under the threat of extinction.

On September 5, 2016, the giant panda was moved from the endangered species list to the Vulnerable category.

8.Sunvibes

9.Good environment

10.Let me show you how to eat

The giant panda's natural habitat is protected by the Chinese government. Agricultural land is moving back into forest areas. In the event of an earthquake, rescued pandas are nurtured in a nature reserve and then released back into the wild.

The giant panda is the only vegetarian bear in the world. As a rule, in order not to starve to death, he needs to eat about 12 and a half kilograms of bamboo per day, because only 17 percent of the food consumed is digested. No wonder they spend 14 hours a day eating.

The reason for this inefficiency is simple - the panda's digestive system is unable to process bamboo leaves and shoots. According to Chinese scientists, these animals switched to plant foods only twenty thousand years ago - quite recently by the standards of evolution. During this time, their digestive tract did not have time to change: it is arranged in much the same way as in omnivorous animals. Pandas do not have a multi-chambered stomach or an elongated small intestine where plants are processed. There are no special genes responsible for the production of enzymes necessary for the digestion of plant fibers.

To extract at least some nutrients from the shoots and leaves of bamboo, the bacteria that live in their intestines - streptococci, E. coli and shigella - help the bears.

11.Play time

12.Legs up

13.Cool panda

Pandas extract many times less energy from food than, for example, cows or sheep, and they manage to survive on a plant-based diet only thanks to a special metabolism. As it turns out, pandas only need 1,100 calories a day. This is about 37 percent of the energy consumed by mammals of the same size and mass. Such an economy is not typical for any other animal species, except for sloths with their specific way of life.

Unlike sloths, pandas are quite active, although they move less and more slowly than other bears. In addition, their body temperature is lower than that of other mammals, but falls short of that characteristic of animals that have fallen into hibernation or anabiosis. The main secret to saving energy is a low metabolic rate, which has arisen due to a "breakdown" in the DUOX2 gene. It is involved in the synthesis of the thyroid hormones thyroxine and triiodothyronine. The levels of these substances in the body of pandas are even lower than those of a brown bear that has gone into hibernation.

Bamboo bears have the most energy-consuming organs—the brain, liver, and kidneys—are smaller than you might expect given their size. The mass of the brain is about 20 percent less than expected, and the weight of the kidneys and liver is 25 and 37 percent, respectively. All this allows giant pandas to survive on only bamboo leaves and shoots, even though the intestines are not able to digest them properly.

14.Mom and baby

15.Friends

16.Baby gang

17.Gymnastics

18.Climbing up

19.Good swing

20.Nap time

21.Cute panda

22.Breakfast

23.So gracious

24.My swing

25.Cuddles

26.These eyes

27.Don’t take him

28.Hi, Human

29.Let me take a nap

30.Hello

31.Tasty bamboo

32.Rawr

33.Passport picture

34.Cute face

35.Love nose

36.Hugs

37.Perfect place

38.Gang

39.Dinner

40.Hide and seek

41.Dancing

42.Food with friends

43.Yoga

44.Cute nap

45.Friends be like

46.Two little brothers

47.Let me escape

48.Baby time

49.So tiered

50.Kisses for mom

51.Sport be like

52.Thinking about food

53.Tasty food

54.Stretching

55.Two perfect colors

56.Stone chilling

57.Sleeping

58.Perfect position

59.Let me sleep here

60.Lovely panda

61.Boss panda

62.Baby panda

63.Wanna take a pic?

64.Food lover

65.Perfect time for food

66.Good times

67.Cuddles

68.Kisses

69.Friends nap

70.Baby panda hello

The emergence of the pandemic has led to a change in the human behavior of the lifestyle and the reality in which we live. Almost all people were focused on professional activity on professional, social, family success. With the onset of the pandemic, we all had to adapt to the newly created situation, the newly emerged rules / laws to survive the COVID -19 virus. 

Specialists in social psychology have published preliminary conclusions on the change in human behavior during the pandemic. However, for the conclusions that some measures will be possible, the studies must be carried out on a larger time scale. Speaking of COVID-19, first of all we have the feeling of uncertainty, a state that comes with many other feelings such as: isolation, anxiety, sadness, etc. 

Everyone around us is feeling lost right now. There are feelings, states, difficult emotions that we can experience during the pandemic, sadness, disappointment, anger, guilt, frustration or loneliness, which are normal responses during this period, to abnormal conditions. We grieve and experience pain and loss. It is important that we take a compassionate approach to ourselves and those around us. At the level of primary reaction, our mind knows that something bad is happening, but it cannot be identified, it is practically impossible to make a representation. This shatters our sense of security, which is lost. We do not realize if this, the loss of security, is experienced by all people or only happens to us. 

There is something powerful that made us pay attention to this pain, something that helps us feel what is inside us. Almost all of us had forgotten the importance of feelings. Emotions need movement, life. It is important to recognize what we are going through. We don't think you want to be an emotionless man, a man for whom this pandemic doesn't exist, we think that would have been the saddest thing. If we allow the feelings to happen, they will happen in an orderly way and give us POWER, so we will not be victims. Don't let suffering take over, live your emotions and go on with your life!

Stay positive, but be Covid-19 negative! With love, Bemorepanda!

1.Stay positive, but be negative

2.Something positive will happen to you

3.Be positive

Quarantine is defined as: Separating individuals who may have been exposed to an infectious disease from the rest of the population to determine if they are ill and thus reducing the risk of infecting others. During the outbreak of coronavirus (COVID-19), quarantine has been used as a health strategy to reduce the transmission of the disease. Quarantine efforts ranged from mass quarantine of large cities to isolation in state-run facilities to self-isolation at home. 

While quarantine generally serves the public good, it is also associated with psychological challenges for quarantined people and caregivers, who care for a large number of patients. Most of the administrative, professional, political decisions of the quarantine period are the responsibility of the management in the public health system. These decisions relate in particular to some of the relevant factors for senior public health officials, such as local, state, and health authorities, as they consider their roles in the range of quarantine-related psychological effects. 

Quarantine stressors and their psychological consequences can expose individuals to stressors both during and after the quarantine period, with acute and long-term psychological consequences. The effects of quarantine may include symptoms of post-traumatic stress, anxiety and depression and responses such as fear, anger / irritability, insomnia, fatigue, detachment and avoidance behaviors, impaired concentration and decreased work performance. 

4.Stay positive Mr. President

5.I stay positive

6.Time traveler

7.Positive during Covid

Practice kindness to yourself! Treat yourself like you would treat a friend! Kindness and compassion for you is never selfish; in fact, it will help you maintain strength and endurance, ultimately allowing you to be a more effective support for others. Recognize the universality of the pandemic phenomenon, we are all together. Many people around the world have the same types of experiences, thoughts and feelings as you.

Anticipatory pain is the mind that goes to the future and imagines the worst. To calm down, you have to live in the present. This would be familiar advice to those who have received psychotherapy, who have followed a meditation or mindfulness program, but people are always surprised at how prosaic this can be. Not everyone understands meditation and its qualities. For example, an exercise is to be mindful of everything you do when you stay home. For example, pay attention to the activity you do with all the senses (sight, hearing, smell, taste, touch) - wash the plate and pay attention to the sensation that water transmits, the noise and heat of the water, its velvety structure, then look at the food scraps on the plate being diluted in hot water with soap bubbles, smell the dishwashing detergent in the nostrils, smell of lilac, see its consistency on the sponge with which I wash the dish, hear the ripple of water in a certain rhythm, and so on Following this example, we can be mindful when we eat, drink, walk, bathe, look around, and so on.

Another exercise in which you can distract yourself from painful worries is to name five things in the living room: a computer on the left, a chair, a picture of the dog, an old pen on the desk, and a cup of coffee. It's very simple, breathe and change the mental image with a suitable one.

Practically realize that at the moment, nothing you anticipated has happened. Right now, you're fine. You are practically on a vacation, taken earlier, at home. You have food, you are not sick, you enjoy for the first time your free time in which you can do simple things that you did as a child.

8.Optimism be like

9.World is ending

10.Dark open light

11.Must stay positive

Use your senses and think about how you feel, enjoy this state. The desk is made of heavy mahogany wood, you like its shapes, and this gives you a state of resistance. The blanket is soft, fluffy, it warms your soul only when you look at it. You can already feel the breath coming into your nose, a breath of calm and relaxation. These little daily exercises will help you function in a healthy way and relieve some of that anticipatory pain.

At the same time, this anticipatory pain makes you think that this is the only way you are able to let go of what you cannot control. But practically the opposite is true: all these anticipatory thoughts are in fact a "morganic face" of reality. Of course, even if you have these thoughts, it does not mean that you can control them: “What your neighbor is doing is out of your control, it is up to you to stand six meters away from him and wash your hands. ” Focus on what you can do!

Finally, it is a good time to provide yourself with gratitude, love, and compassion. Everyone will have different emotional levels: fear, pain, sadness, emotions that manifest in different ways. A friend tells you that he is very upset that you didn't call him more often, another complains that he doesn't like this condition, others have bizarre ideas, but in the end, that's how they deal with this state of staying at home. . They are afraid and anxious. So, be patient, think about what that person is usually like and not who he seems to be right now.

"This is only a temporary condition," we have to say from time to time. The precautions we take are the right ones, history tells us that and surely the law enforcement officers know what they are saying and do what is good for us. In this way you are a survivor, we will all survive well!

12.Positive atittunde

13.Mondays be like

14.Even on hard days

15.I can’t take it

16.When you stay at work

17.Think positive

18.Good news

19.I like meetings

20.We shall not pass

21.Positive toward negative

22.A bad month

23.Good spray

24.Today is the day

25.Can do anything

26.Work days

27.Bad time

28.Decision to try

29.You need motivation?

30.That fart

31.Go hard

32.A rough day

33.Sending positive

34.Don’t give up

35.A bad day

36.Waiting 14 years

37.Mandated

38.I hate it

39.Positive pandas

40.Failing final exam

41.Just Bro

42.No pain no gain

43.Nope

44.Get well

45.Life is trash

46.Oh thanks

47.Why trying so hard

48.Move forward

49.Must  stay positive

50.Stress and anxiety

51.Really bad

52.Keep going

53.Better

54.I’m being positive

55.Stay positive

56.One day

57.Folks

58.Schelude

59.Complete shit

60.Life is stressing

61.Event planners

62.Mark on the world

63.Dying inside

64.Wednesday

65.Rough day

66.What a beautiful day

67.Head off

68.This snowy smile

69.Going to sleep

70.Hopeful

Lemon and currant tart is a perfect decision for any event. It is easy to prepare and does not require much effort. This tart has a surprising aroma and will surely delight the family and the guests of the house. Bemorepanda has made things even easier, so you can see the tutorial here.

 

Lemon and currant tart is an easy dessert to change to everyone's liking. You can actually replace currant with any other fruit such as strawberry, or you can omit currant and finally get a delicious lemon tart. This recipe is suitable for any season, as you can use frozen fruit.

 

In summer, this tart will have an even stronger scent if you use fruit from your personal garden. But even in winter on the eve of the holidays, currants and lemons fit perfectly on the holiday table. Being an easy recipe to prepare, it will surely be to everyone's liking.

 

Lemon and currant tarts is the favorite dessert of many.

 

This recipe is of French origin and combines excellently with a slightly crumbly crust and buttery aroma, with a sweet-sour and extremely aromatic lemon cream together with a bit of a more sour currant. Lemon peel was used for this lemon tart, so the aroma is extraordinary. Quite a lot of lemon juice was also used, but the sourness was balanced, it depends a lot on how sour the lemon you use is.

 

The tart crust is easy to prepare. All you have to do is keep the butter, water and yolk very cold and keep in mind that this dough does not stretch too much, but only enough to be formed into the tray.

 

The secret of this tart is in the baking of the cream. Cream for tart with lemon and currant should not be allowed to boil too much. It just needs to bind and mix lightly and softly in the middle. Rather, the consistency should be similar to that of the ice-cream.

 

If it boils a lot, it will grow, and after baking it will crack. Check it by gently moving the tray to make sure it is not liquid. Before consuming the lemon and currant tart, let it reach room temperature, then put it in the fridge for at least 3 hours. On top you can add meringue or even a little whipped cream. However, keep in mind that for meringue you need to use sugar syrup to pasteurize the egg whites.

 

INGREDIENTS

• Flour 250 g
• Powdered sugar 100 g
• Butter 210 g
• Sour cream 2 tbsp
• Vanilla essence 2 tsp
• 4 lemons
• Sugar 300 g
• Corn starch 80 g
• 4 eggs
• Salt
• Frozen currant 100 g

 

METHOD OF PREPARATION

 

1. Put flour, powdered sugar, butter in a food processor bowl and mix.

 

2. Add the cream, vanilla essence and mix a little more. Knead, powder the work table, roll out the dough, arrange in the pan and cut off the excess dough. Refrigerate for 30 minutes.

 

3. Squeeze the lemon juice, pour into the saucepan, add hot water, sugar, cornstarch, vanilla essence and cook over medium heat for 5 minutes.

 

4. Divide the egg whites into yolks.

 

5. Gradually incorporate the egg yolks into the lemon cream.

 

6. Grate the lemon zest, add the butter, mix, transfer the cream to a bowl, cover with cling film and refrigerate until completely cool.

 

7. Prick the dough with a fork and place the tray at 190 ° C for 20 minutes.

 

8. Remove the dough and let it cool.

 

9. Put a pinch of salt over the egg whites and mix, gradually add sugar over 2 minutes and mix until a thick, fluffy meringue comes out.

 

10. Place the currant at the base of the tart, cover with lemon cream, decorate with meringue and brown with a burner.

 

Bon appetit!  

 

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 The feed is not refreshed, messages are not loaded. According to DownDetector data, the error is observed all over the world. Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp crashed tonight. 

 Instagram users do not have an application (51%), a website (29%). WhatsApp users complain about non-sending messages, difficulties connecting to the server. Facebook is having problems with the website.

 Problems are reported by users around the world.

Bemorepanda decided to collect some memes, so to laugh together.

1.Everyone be like

2.The end is near

3.You’re down

4.Sad life

5.Instagram is down

6.Let me in

7.This is everybody

8.One day

9.Complicated

10.The Boss

11.Log in on instagram 

12.What to do

13.My time now

14.Twitter

15.Hello there

16.Whatsapp down

17.Reddit

18.Why so sad

19.Calm down

20.Making memes

21.So dangerous 

22.A lifetime

23.Crying 

24.Let’s cry

25.Behind the scene

Tokyo, the capital of distant and prosperous Japan, stuns tourists literally from the first moments, as soon as the traveler's footsteps on his land. Everything seems to be different here than in other cities: an incredibly complex layout of blocks, and intricate metro lines that are perceived as not connected to each other, and a solid jungle of city communications wires. During rush hours, people seem to merge into one river, and its flows fill the streets, underpasses, public transport. Here you need to always keep your eyes open, because it is very easy to get lost, getting completely different from where you hoped to be.

Tokyo is second in the world in terms of population density. The city of 37 million is not only the political, administrative and financial, but also the industrial and cultural center of the country. Located in the southeastern part of Japan's largest island of Honshu, this ultra-modern metropolis, where life does not stop day or night, is located on the Kanto Plain, in a cozy bay of Tokyo Bay. To truly feel its amazing atmosphere and get acquainted with at least half of the sights, one day or even a week is not enough - you need to live here for several months.

Huge and many-sided Tokyo, the capital of the only empire in the world, and even an island - Japan, cannot be described in a few words or limited to only a couple of epithets, even the most eloquent ones. And all because in this ancient city, modernity and ancient Japanese traditions harmoniously coexist, mutually penetrating each other. The Old City is worth mentioning separately. Having visited its numerous palaces, temples and shrines, it is as if you are plunging into the era of the shoguns, who for a long time were the sole rulers of the Land of the Rising Sun. Art lovers will quench their thirst for beauty in Tokyo's many museums.

1. Beneath Tokyo are five huge cylindrical shafts that will be filled with water in the event of a flood. This will prevent the destruction of the city.

2. There is an anime and manga in Japan called "Saint Young Men" in which Jesus and Buddha live in Tokyo as roommates. They rest on Earth and try to understand Japanese society.

3. When Tokyo officials went to congratulate the oldest man in the city on his 111th birthday in 2010, they found his remains on a bed. He had been dead for 30 years, and his family was taking away his pension, which was still accruing to him.

4. The Allied bombing of Tokyo killed more civilians than the atomic bombings of Nagasaki and Hiroshima combined.

5. During the Tokyo real estate bubble, the Imperial Palace (1.32 square miles) was valued more than all real estate in California.

6. Researchers in Tokyo have developed a mirror that changes a person's facial expression in real time. It gives a smile to the face. The application is intended for use in the bathrooms of the mall. The technology was adopted in the hope that happy shoppers would spend more.

7. The 2020 Olympic Games was held in Tokyo, Japan, as predicted in the 1982 Akira manga.

8. In 2013, a 39-story hotel in Tokyo literally "disappeared". It was demolished without the use of explosives or a special wrecking ball. All 39 floors were dismantled from the inside using a small crane, which gradually folded floor by floor.

9. You can pay a travel agency in Tokyo to send your plush toy on vacation without you.

10. One day, the Japanese government sent cherry tree seedlings to Washington as a gift. After the Second World War, cuttings from these cherry trees were sent back to Japan to restore the Tokyo collection, which was destroyed as a result of American bombing.

11. Tokyo Skytree is the tallest freestanding tower in the world. The height of the building is 634 meters. The tower's final height was chosen solely because of a play on words. The result is "Musashi": "mu" (in old Japanese means the number 6), "sa" (3) and "si" (4). This was the name of the historic district where modern Tokyo is located.

12. A Japanese scientist has created an exact copy of Tokyo. He used oatmeal to create nearby settlements, and bright light to simulate mountains, water sources and other natural features. When a scientist placed a living slime mold in the center of the mock-up, it created a network reminiscent of the Tokyo rail system as it tried to reach the treat (oatmeal).

13. Japan has almost twice as many 7-Elevens stores as the US. Only in Tokyo there are 2079 stores of this network.

14. There is a store in Tokyo called Whoopi Goldberg.

15. One of the Tokyo skyscrapers informs you with the help of colored lights whether to take an umbrella with you when you go outside.

16. In Tokyo, there is a building built in 1972, consisting of tiny 90-square-foot capsule apartments. If necessary, they can be replaced as Lego pieces.

17. There is a 12-story luxury stationery store in Tokyo. On the 12th floor they serve lettuce grown on the organic indoor farm located on the 11th floor of the same building.

18. Tokyo University is developing a tactile hologram. In other words, they create a hologram that can be touched and felt.

19. Tokyo has an anime-themed Butler cafe. According to the hostess, Japanese women “want to visit cafes where handsome male waiters will treat them like princesses.” This is the only cafe where only foreigners work.

20. 45 of the 51 busiest train stations in the world are in Japan. The busiest Shinjuku station, located in Tokyo, serves approximately 1.2 billion passengers a year.

21. At noon on September 1, 1923, a powerful earthquake occurred in Tokyo. Major fires broke out throughout the city because at the time of the earthquake, people were cooking dinner over an open fire. More than 100,000 people died.

22. Blue "anti-suicide" LED lights have been installed on all train platforms in Tokyo in an attempt to reduce the number of suicides committed here. It is believed that such lanterns have a calming effect. Studies have shown that blue-light stations have reduced suicide rates by 84%.

23. In 1923, a “fire tornado” swept through Tokyo and burned over 38,000 people.

24. Each Tokyo train station has its own unique theme songs.

25. The rock and roll culture of the 50s is still thriving in Tokyo.

26. Researchers at the University of Tokyo have created a robot arm that wins 100% of the time in a game of rock-paper-scissors. Using a high-speed camera, the robot recognizes within one millisecond the shape that the human hand is about to create, and then selects the winning combination.

27. A cafe has opened in Tokyo where visitors can hug hedgehogs.

28. On March 9-10, 1945, 300 B29 bombers dropped almost 500,000 cylinders of napalm and petroleum products on Tokyo, creating a 40-kilometer firestorm that killed over 100,000 people and maimed another million Japanese. It was the most destructive bombing in human history, including the atomic bombs of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

29. Crows in Tokyo often steal steel wires to add to their nests. This often results in power outages when birds build nests on power lines.

30. Tokyo restaurants have more Michelin stars than Parisian establishments. In 2007, the editor of Michelin declared Tokyo to be the "Gastronomic Capital of the World".

31. Cat cafes are popular and quite common in Japan. Here, people pay to interact with cats, since most Tokyo apartments do not allow pets.

32. Only after 3 hours in Tokyo learned that Hiroshima had been bombed.

33. In 2011, the residents of Sendai received an earthquake warning 10-30 seconds before the main seismic waves hit. Residents of Tokyo, the Japanese Earthquake Early Warning System (EEW) notified of the impending wave in 60 seconds. Messages were relayed via mobile phones, TV shows and web pages across the country.

34. The Tokyo metropolitan area has a larger population than Canada.

35. More than 70 unexploded WWII bombs are found in Tokyo every year.

36. Tokyo Tower was built from steel, a third of which was scrap metal (American tanks damaged in the Korean War). Often this building is used in the Japanese kaiju film genre. It also became the site of the culminating "battles" of Godzilla, Mothra and King Kong.

37. Tokyo is by far the richest city on Earth. If it were a city-state, then Tokyo would still be among the ten richest countries in terms of GDP.

38. The former Tokyo governor claimed that the Nanjing Massacre (the mass rape and murder of Chinese civilians by the Japanese military) never happened.

39. Because of Tokyo's location on a tectonic fault, geologists call it the "city waiting for death."

40. There are rumors that a secret underground city is supposedly located under Tokyo, but officials vehemently deny this information.

41. The ancestors of modern Japanese inhabited these lands in the era of stone axes. Previously, this city was a military fortress and was called "Edo".

42. Tokyo became the capital of Japan only in 1868. Prior to that, for 1075 years, the capital was the city of Kyoto.

43. In 1923, a terrible earthquake destroyed almost half of Tokyo and killed more than 90,000 people (earthquake facts).

44. The cost of a square meter of real estate in the business center of the city here reaches 2 million dollars.

45. Due to the high price of real estate in Tokyo, capsule micro-apartments have become widespread. 

46. Some establishments here do not allow foreigners. A sign can hang right on the door, which means "foreigners are not served."

47. Despite the relative popularity of tattoos among Japanese youth, a person with a tattoo on exposed areas of the body will most likely not be allowed into any decent restaurant. In Japan, tattoos are strongly associated with the yakuza and the underworld.

48. In order to get rid of traffic jams in Tokyo, a huge number of high-speed highways were built, but the passage on them is paid.

49. The cost of parking here is fabulously high. 

50. Fruits and vegetables are expensive here. 

51. The most popular area for Tokyo youth looking for entertainment is Harajuku. It is here that you can meet the owners of the strangest outfits and hairstyles.

52. In Tokyo, there is a restaurant "Aragawa", which from year to year occupies one of the first places in the list of the most expensive establishments in the world.

53. An asteroid discovered in 1900 by a Tokyo astronomer was named after this city.

54. The zoo in Tokyo closes for two months each year so that its inhabitants can take a break from visitors.

55. “Cat cafes” are common here - establishments where you can play with these fluffy creatures. 

55. They have become popular because most Japanese people love cats, but in most households, the rules forbid keeping pets (cat facts).

56. The air temperature in Tokyo is usually 9-10 degrees higher than outside the city. The reason for this is a huge amount of infrastructure radiating into space, plus 13 million inhabitants, whose bodies also warm the air around.

57. There are about 150 earthquakes in Tokyo every year, but most of them are so weak that people don't even notice them. A similar situation is observed, by the way, in Santiago, the capital of Chile.

58. The capital occupies only 0.6% of the area of ​​Japan, but it provides a third of its total GDP.

59. The GDP of the city of Tokyo alone is higher than the GDP of all of Australia.

60. Twice as many people live in the suburbs of the Japanese capital than in the city itself. In total, more than 35 million people live in and near the city. This is about 60 times more than the population of Montenegro.

61. Based on the area of ​​​​the city and the population, there are about 4 square meters per inhabitant.

52. Tokyo's ubiquitous vending machines sell everything from chocolates and hamburgers to used women's underwear.

53. The dog Hachiko, famous all over the world due to his devotion, was waiting for his master right here, at Tokyo's Shibuya station, until his death.

54. In major Japanese cities, many homeowners ban pets, which is why "cat cafes" have appeared in Tokyo - for a low fee, visitors can choose a cat and pet it while drinking lemonade or tea.

55. The Tokyo subway system is the world's largest in terms of ridership, with 3.2 billion people a year. An interesting fact is that there is even a special position here - osiya, or pushers, whose duties include pushing passengers into overcrowded cars.

56. Public transport in Tokyo is the most reliable, affordable and fastest way to get around. But still, he's not cheap.

57. The asteroid Tokyo, discovered in this city in 1900, was named after the city. This is an irregularly shaped celestial body with a diameter of approximately 81 kilometers.

58. Tokyo Ueno Zoo is Japan's oldest zoo with over 2,600 pets. 

59. If you say at least a couple of phrases to the Japanese in Tokyo in their language, they will be very happy, because they believe that foreigners simply cannot learn Japanese because of its phenomenal complexity.

60. The population density in Tokyo is one of the highest among cities in the world, and there are only 4 square meters per person. In total, more than 35,000,000 people live in the Tokyo agglomeration.

61. There are a lot of single people in Tokyo who have never been in any kind of relationship with the opposite sex. Because of this, the suicide rate is extremely high.

62. If Tokyo were a separate country, it would be 15th place in the world in terms of GDP.

63. Tokyo is the safest metropolis in the world. Tokyo is so safe that young children use public transport on their own.

64. Tokyo's Shinjuku-Ni-Cheme area has the largest concentration of gay bars in the world.

65. Dressing up as your favorite manga or anime character and organizing a performance in Tokyo is a completely normal pastime.

66. Since the "Land of the Rising Sun" is located in a seismically active zone, earthquakes often occur here. In 1923, a powerful earthquake destroyed about half of Tokyo's infrastructure, killing more than 90,000 people in the process.

67. In the capital, real estate costs fabulous money. For 1 m 2 in the business center of Tokyo, the buyer will have to pay about $ 2 million!

68. Due to the high cost of housing, there are many micro-apartments in Tokyo. Their area varies within 10 m².

69. Parking in the city center for 1 hour is approximately $15.

70. Curiously, Harajuko is predominantly populated by young people. For this reason, in this region you can see many people with original hairstyles and outfits.

71. An interesting fact is that in the capital, rail transport is the most common type of public transport.

72. The Tokyo Stock Exchange is one of the three largest stock exchanges in the world.

73. Unlike some other megacities like Kuala Lumpur or Manila, Tokyo can be called a safe city with a clear conscience. True, foreigners are not welcome here everywhere. Some establishments here, as in the Korean capital of Seoul, put up a sign stating that "foreigners are not served."

74. Formally, Tokyo ceased to exist as a city in 1943 and was no longer displayed on maps. Officially, Tokyo refers to the 62 administrative divisions that make up the Tokyo Metropolitan Area. 

75. Moreover, the 23 special districts included in it, which made up Tokyo until 1943, are now equated in status with individual cities that have their own mayor and their own city council.

76. An indicator of the exceptional transparency of the air in Tokyo - if from it you can see the sacred Mount Fuji located 100 kilometers from it - the national symbol of Japan. But this happens very rarely.

 

77. Fujiyama, in fact, is not a mountain, but a volcano, although it is listed as weakly active. Its last eruption occurred in 1707. Then Edo was covered with a cloud of volcanic ash.

78. Tokyo is one of the few capitals in the world located in a seismically active zone. And at the same time - the only one, because the world's largest economy is located here. 

79. The earth on which it stands is shaken by earthquakes of various strengths about 150 times a year.

80. The Tokyo subway is also the largest in the world in terms of passenger traffic: more than 8.5 million passengers a day. Of these, 3 million are at Shinjuku Station alone, the busiest transport hub in the world. 

81. However, trains must still leave stations without delay. That is why passengers are helped by special employees - osiya ("pushers"): they push them into the cars and make sure that the doors do not jam anyone's luggage.

82. One of the main attractions of Tokyo is Ginza, the main street of Tokyo's administrative center and the main shopping street. Walking on it is a kind of ritual. The whole street is one continuous showcase of shops located on it. 

83. Buying here is not available to everyone, but it is prestigious. And also such a purchase means that you belong to the middle class - the basis of the entire Japanese economy.

84. From an architectural point of view, Tokyo is a gray and featureless city, devoid of frills and sights. 

85. After World War II, mass construction began in the rapidly developing city, and it was guided by only three principles: pragmatism, expediency, and economy. 

86. Tokyo can be amaze with an abundance of gray and inexpressive streets, many of which do not even have a name.

87. In Tokyo, as in other major cities in Japan, it is forbidden to keep any animals at home - the unanimous point of view of Japanese homeowners.

88. The onset of cherry blossom season, which is an important part of spring in Japan, marks the end of harsh winters. Cherry blossoms can be enjoyed for only two weeks during the whole year.

89. With a noodle shop and a beer garden on top, Takao-san is the world's most visited mountain on the western edge of Tokyo.

90. Tokyo Tower, modeled after the Eiffel Tower, is repainted with approximately 7,500 gallons of paint every 5 years.

91. Tokyo's Ritz Carlton has the most expensive room in the city, costing as much as $25,000.

92. The longest concert in Tokyo was the concert of the American band Guns N'Roses, which lasted three hours and thirty-seven minutes.

93. No matter how old people in Japan are, the Komagata Dozeu restaurant managed to survive the earthquakes and bombings, and managed to continue operating on the same piece of land for six generations (150 years).

94. Tokyo Skytree became the tallest tower in 2010. The official name was determined by a voting system. The current name received 30% of the votes and was announced on June 10, 2008 as "Tokyo Skytree".

95. Shinjuku Station has 36 platforms, including an underground entrance, an overhead entrance, and many corridors. Moreover, there are more than 200 different exits.

96. Tokyo in translation means the eastern capital. There are approximately 150 earthquakes in Tokyo every year.

97. In Japan, growing plants is an art.

98. The new generation of Japanese is not as small as Europeans think.

99. The Japanese tend to believe that all foreign countries, especially America, are dangerous to visit.

100. You can buy batteries, beer, wine, condoms, cigarettes, comics, hot dogs, light bulbs, and used women's underwear from Tokyo's vending machines.