Previous studies on land use in Tokyo during the transition to the modern era focused on creating land use maps for the late Edo era and the Taisho era. However, land use maps for the early Meiji era have not been produced, and the relationship between land use before and after that era has not been clarified. This paper created a land use map of the early Meiji era and analyzed the transformation of land from the period before the early Meiji era to the period after it. This study found that imperial facilities and military land characterized the changes in urban space between the early Meiji and the Taisho period. The inner area changed significantly from the early Meiji era to the Taisho era, mainly due to the relocation of military land to outer area. Additionally, by analyzing the changes in land use, we have been able to quantitatively demonstrate that the use of former daimyo residences differed according to the inner-outer concentric area and highland-lowland topographic area.
