Tokyo, formerly

The answer

EDO

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

Used 129 times across 45 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 1966. It appears in 21 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.

Other answers for this clue

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• YEDO (2 uses in xd)

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'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

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.

• Formerly named - NEE, used 112 times
• Formerly known as - NEE, used 102 times
• Formerly called - NEE, used 96 times
• Formerly - NEE, used 61 times
• Yoko from Tokyo - ONO, used 56 times
• Spike TV, formerly - TNN, used 24 times

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