Top 100 Tokyo Quotes

Words matter. These are the best Tokyo Quotes from famous people such as Yui Mizuno, Albert II, Prince of Monaco, Satoru Iwata, Mary Kom, Thundercat, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.

The Tokyo Dome is a huge venue, so for us, its such a p

The Tokyo Dome is a huge venue, so for us, its such a prestigious opportunity.
Yui Mizuno
Tokyo is unbelievable. They have loads for kids, and the range of activities they can propose for young kids is incredible.
Albert II, Prince of Monaco
In 1978, I entered the Tokyo Institute of Technology. I would have loved to study videogame programming, but nobody was teaching it then. So I went to classes on engineering and early computer science.
Satoru Iwata
Winning the 2012 bronze medal was magnificent, but I would love to win a gold medal in the 2020 Tokyo Olympics.
Mary Kom
Tokyo style is so specific. And I’m a very big fan of their history. It’s pretty simple. A lot of the time, people expect to see the wild style that comes out of Japan, but I think, traditionally, the style is very simple.
Thundercat
I didn’t realize how much the paint was going to affect how I moved and how I walked. And it wasn’t something that consciously happened. It was because the first time I’d done it was a Tokyo Dome show, I want to say in 2013-14, and I walked out there, and I was a completely different person.
Finn Balor
I’ve published one book before, and now I’m writing a book of essays and stories about life in Tokyo. And I have one book coming out in May in Germany, about fitness.
Franka Potente
I’ll always be on the move for peace in the Korean peninsula. If necessary, I will fly straight to Washington. I will go to Beijing and Tokyo and, if the conditions allow, to Pyongyang as well.
Moon Jae-in
I’ve always known that Rio and Tokyo are my two Olympics. Now that Rio hasn’t gone to plan, Tokyo has to work, and I’m more motivated than ever.
Katarina Johnson-Thompson
We burned to death 100,000 Japanese civilians in Tokyo – men, women and children. LeMay recognized that what he was doing would be thought immoral if his side had lost. But what makes it immoral if you lose and not immoral if you win?
Robert McNamara
I grew up in a low-income area of Tokyo. Like most homes in Tokyo, ours was small. It was a free-standing, two-family rental duplex built 30 years earlier.
Takashi Murakami
I have a thing for clean lines and beautiful form that I attribute to my four years in Tokyo and Kyoto. I also appreciate traditional architecture and a warm palette that I think my Midwest upbringing has something to do with.
Scott Foley
When my family was living in Tokyo, there was a year when we couldn’t go back to the States for Thanksgiving, and we went to Seoul. Mandu is a highly satisfying substitute for turkey and trimmings.
Min Jin Lee
The best creative no longer has to originate in Chicago or London; it will be coming from Stockholm, Tokyo, and Seoul as well.
Richard Edelman
I don’t do the same food in Tokyo that I do in Vegas and vice versa. If I did that, two weeks later I would have no customers.
Alain Ducasse
If transportation technology was moving along as fast as microprocessor technology, then the day after tomorrow I would be able to get in a taxi cab and be in Tokyo in 30 seconds.
W. Daniel Hillis
My dad really wanted to work in Tokyo and he made it happen. That’s important in the way that I grew up. If my parents wanted to do something, then they would do it, and they always push me to try things, to not be afraid of changes and to go out in the world and not be bound by what we’re supposed to do.
Stacy Martin
I often stay in Tokyo’s Daikanyama neighbourhood. You can go for a peaceful morning run along the Meguro river, and it is particularly incredible during cherry blossom season.
Joe Gebbia
I just played at a club in L.A. called the Baked Potato. It fits like 90 people. It’s like playing somewhere in a basement in, like, Indiana or somewhere where all your friends show up. It’s really fun and there’s a very different energy to that than to play to 50,000 at a Tokyo baseball stadium.
Chad Smith
In 2007, I went straight from Tokyo to Iowa to join Hillary Clinton’s traveling press. I felt like a foreigner there, too. I remember thinking, ‘Americans are huge.’
Amy Chozick
I went to Tokyo when I was a child, but there’s still so much of the country I’d like to explore.
Caroline Flack
Without ‘Annapolis,’ I wouldn’t have gotten ‘Tokyo Drift’ – I wouldn’t be here today. And, so, it’s part of who I am.
Justin Lin
You could be an 18-year-old girl in Tokyo wondering how you could ever break into fashion or beauty, so you follow your favourite designer or editor, see what their day comprises, where they go, who they meet, how they do it… If I were setting up my own label today, I would definitely do it through Instagram.
Eva Chen
I love eating in San Francisco, Chiang Dao, China, Tokyo, Hanoi.
Andrew Zimmern
I particularly love the silk in Jakarta, the shoes in Tokyo and the amazing cloth from Thailand and Malaysia.
Leo Sayer
I want to go to the Paralympics in Tokyo in 2020 so that’s my aim in sport, but what do I want to do after I retire? Do I want to do a normal job? I would like to become a primary school teacher but… it will be totally different.
Ellie Simmonds
We’re competing against other great cities: Madrid, Rio de Janeiro, and Tokyo. That’s why it’s important that we all join together on the final path to Copenhagen. Having the support of President Obama is key.
Richard M. Daley
Joe Frazier’s life didn’t start with Ali. I was a Golden Gloves champ. Gold medal in Tokyo ’64. Heavyweight champion of the world long before I fought Ali in the Garden.
Joe Frazier
Prior to ‘Tokyo Drift,’ the iconic perception of Asians in Hollywood films has been either the Kung Fu guy, the Yakuza guy or some technical genius. It used to be such a joke, to be laughed at rather than with.
Sung Kang
Interviewing Rei Kawakubo in Tokyo and John Galliano in Paris, both for ‘Pop’ magazine, were huge for me, not just in learning about fashion and writing but about how little desire I had to be a critic/reporter/journalist/commentator so much as a kind of travel diarist.
Tavi Gevinson
I am making this trip to Africa because Washington is an international city, just like Tokyo, Nigeria or Israel. As mayor, I am an international symbol. Can you deny that to Africa?
Marion Barry
In 1600, Shakespeare's London was a city of 200,000 peo

In 1600, Shakespeare’s London was a city of 200,000 people. At the same time, there were already over a million in Tokyo.
Simon McBurney
I am one of the writers who wish to create serious works of literature which dissociate themselves from those novels which are mere reflections of the vast consumer cultures of Tokyo and the subcultures of the world at large.
Kenzaburo Oe
Tokyo may have more money and Kyoto more culture; Nara may have more history and Kobe more style. But Osaka has the biggest heart.
Vikas Swarup
If you go to Japan, you have to take the train and go visit different capital cities. Just sticking to one city would be a shame, considering how easy it is to get around. Tokyo, Osaka, and Kyoto all have different vibes and sights.
Ronny Chieng
I met John Lennon and he was with his wife in Tokyo. I met him there.
Bryan Ferry
Shibuya is a trendy part of Tokyo where young people come to meet and have a good time.
Rebecca MacKinnon
I grew up in the countryside and wanted to go to Tokyo. I had Tokyo complex.
Makoto Shinkai
I always wanted to get out of Tokyo and in 1977, New York seemed like the most interesting place to visit. I didn’t intend to live here- I just wanted to get out and see what was happening. I just happened to stay here then.
Ikue Mori
I’ve been covering North Korea nuclear issues since I was a young reporter in the Tokyo bureau of ‘The Times’ and wrote some of the first pieces about the existence of the program at Yongbyon.
David E. Sanger
Aside from ROH, just getting a taste of Wrestle Kingdom at the Tokyo Dome with NJPW has me really excited at the prospect of furthering and developing my career in Japan.
Adam Cole
I’m a city girl from Seoul City, where I grew up, to Tokyo & Paris.
CL
I’m not afraid to look like a big, hairy, smelly, foreign devil in Tokyo, though I do my best not to, I really do.
Anthony Bourdain
The fact of the matter is that fewer people in Tokyo are able to do business in English than in many other big Asian cities, like Shanghai, Seoul or Bangkok.
Rebecca MacKinnon
The Metropolis should have been aborted long before it became New York, London or Tokyo.
John Kenneth Galbraith
My plan of going to Tokyo has gone out of the window, but I was able to spend three to four months with my family and I’ve never been able to do that before.
Ellie Simmonds
It’s just exciting to be able to see what someone around the world is eating in Sicily or Tokyo.
Steve Chen
During the morning rush hour on March 20, 1995, the Japanese cult Aum Shinrikyo placed packages on five subway trains converging on Tokyo’s central station. When punctured, the packages spread vaporized Sarin through the subway cars and then into the stations as the trains pulled in.
Barton Gellman
Touring life can often be so busy it makes it difficult to visit places and do all the touristy things, but I’ve had the chance to visit Tokyo a number of times and see a lot of the city. I love it!
Hardwell
The Bullet Club keeps New Japan Pro Wrestling in the black. Far in the black. Because of me. I’m a part-timer in that company, and I hold the Tokyo Dome merchandising record and Osaka’s. Funkos. Bucks on a career run. This Bullet Club may never be topped.
Cody Rhodes
Koizumi was not rooted in Japan’s rightwing nationalist tradition: he was a pragmatist and a populist. Abe, in contrast, is a rightwing nationalist. Unlike Koizumi, for example, he has questioned the validity of the postwar Tokyo trials of Japan’s wartime leaders, which found many of them guilty of war crimes.
Martin Jacques
I am from the countryside, very rural countryside, and I moved to Tokyo when I was 18 and have been living first-ever since. So yes, I am a city guy, but sometimes I sort of feel there’s another me in a parallel world, still in the countryside.
Makoto Shinkai