Tokyo, before it was Tokyo

The answer

EDO

3 letters. See every clue for this answer on the EDO answer page.

Used 17 times across 6 distinct years; most recently in 2020; first recorded in 2011. It appears in 3 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.

Other clues for EDO

Every other clue in this collection answered by EDO, most used first.

• Tokyo, once - used 190 times, most recently in 2026
• Tokyo, formerly - used 129 times, most recently in 2026
• Tokyo's old name - used 71 times, most recently in 2026
• Former name of Tokyo - used 51 times, most recently in 2023
• Old Tokyo - used 50 times, most recently in 2021
• Tokyo's former name - used 50 times, most recently in 2025
• Old name for Tokyo - used 41 times, most recently in 2024
• Tokyo, before 1868 - used 34 times, most recently in 2025
• Conductor de Waart - used 33 times, most recently in 2014
• Tokyo, long ago - used 28 times, most recently in 2026
• Old name of Tokyo - used 22 times, most recently in 2023
• Shogun's capital - used 22 times, most recently in 2016
• Tokyo of old - used 17 times, most recently in 2017
• Shogun stronghold - used 14 times, most recently in 2019
• Tokyo of yore - used 13 times, most recently in 2014
• Maestro de Waart - used 12 times, most recently in 2012
• Former name for Tokyo - used 11 times, most recently in 2025
• Ancient Tokyo - used 8 times, most recently in 2005
• Japanese capital, once - used 8 times, most recently in 2017
• Pre-1868 Tokyo - used 8 times, most recently in 2021
• Shogun capital - used 8 times, most recently in 2016
• Shogun's Tokyo - used 8 times, most recently in 2015
• Tokyo, to shoguns - used 8 times, most recently in 2011
• Tokyo's historic name - used 8 times, most recently in 2025
• 19th-century samurai home - used 7 times, most recently in 2013
• Former capital of Japan - used 7 times, most recently in 2020
• It's Tokyo now - used 7 times, most recently in 2018
• Nigerian native - used 7 times, most recently in 2005
• Nineteenth-century samurai home - used 6 times, most recently in 2013
• Tokugawa shogunate capital - used 6 times, most recently in 2016

Related clues

Clues in this collection of the same answer length that share a word with this clue, or match its answer pattern when no word is shared. Most used first.

• Before - ERE, used 733 times
• "-- was saying ..." - ASI, used 395 times
• Before, poetically - ERE, used 277 times
• Before now - AGO, used 273 times
• Night before - EVE, used 235 times
• Bard's "before" - ERE, used 218 times

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