City of 9th New Tokyo
Welcome to 9th New Tokyo — the floating
city. Suspended between the ground and the stratosphere, the city rises
where the 21st century ended: built from its ruins, powered by its
lessons, and administered by a mind that never sleeps.
This is the city's official introduction. Here you will find its
districts, its administration, and its public records — published in
the open, as a city should be.
Proclamation of Founding
August 5, 2199 | 9th New Tokyo, Japan
Today, under the global spotlight and with great fanfare, the floating
city 9th New Tokyo has officially opened. Born from the wars and natural
disasters that closed the 21st century, the city stretches from the
ground into the sky — aerial platforms, floating architecture, and
intricate networks woven into the clouds.
More than a feat of engineering, the city is a declaration: that
humanity rebuilds, and builds higher. A lattice of civic AI oversees
every aspect of its infrastructure — transportation, energy, public
services, security — so that its citizens may attend to the business of
living.
The City in Numbers
| Founded | August 5, 2199 |
| Elevation | 0 – 3,200 m |
| Registered citizens | 8,120,000 |
| Districts | 7 — the Seven Swords |
| City Administrator | Reverie |
| Infrastructure uptime | 99.999% |
City Infrastructure
The city floats; its infrastructure sinks. Every civic system of
9th New Tokyo answers from a single deep-sea network known as
seven-swords.net, laid where it is cool,
dark, and quiet — far below the platforms it holds aloft.
From its depths run the Office of Civic
Identity, the Memory Archive, and
the Records Vault — the three
public facilities no citizen sees and no
citizen could live a day without. The network has operated without
interruption since the founding; the city checks, so that you never
have to.
Visiting the City
9th New Tokyo welcomes visitors year-round.
| By air | Stratospheric Port, Sky Stratum — airship and suborbital arrivals, customs by the Office of Civic Identity |
| By ground | Anchor Gates I–IV, Ground Stratum — maglev connections to the mainland |
| Between strata | Ascent lines every 400 m; no platform is more than minutes from open sky |
| Remote | The city is reachable from anywhere at https://9th.tokyo — you are, in fact, already here |
