What timing, just saw this over the weekend. It really is impressive that a single person could putter away at this on his own. This really brings home the scale of Brooklyn and Queens v. Manhattan. There are binoculars but they're terrible, so if you have a small set, take them.
What they did, though, is change Tokyo from a fu (符) to a to (都). Tokyo is the only to, and there wasn't one before, they came up with it for Tokyo. There were other fus, but there are only two left nowadays: Kyoto-fu and Ōsaka-fu.
Why do I mention this? Because Tokyo-to is written 東京都. Kyoto is written 京都. Remember that 東 means East. And yes, there are places in the east of Kyoto that carry the name 東京都 (higashi-Kyoto, higashi being another reading of the character 東). This has to be a troll.
