What is "taito"

is a special ward located in Tokyo Metropolis, Japan. In English, it is known as Taito City.

As of May 1, 2015, the ward has an estimated population of 186,276 and a population density of 18,420 persons per km². The total area is 10.11 km². This makes Taito ward the smallest of Tokyo's wards in area, and third smallest in population.

The (commonly referred to as Taito) is a Japanese video game developer and publisher of arcade hardwares and mobile phones, and an operator of video arcades. It is also a former publisher of home video games. Taito is wholly owned by publisher Square Enix. It has its headquarters in the Shinjuku Bunka Quint Building in Yoyogi, Shibuya, Tokyo, sharing the facility with its parent company.

Taito is known for producing hit arcade games, such as Space Invaders and Bubble Bobble. It has produced arcade games all around the world, while also importing and distributing American coin-op video games in Japan. Taito owns several arcades in Japan known as Taito Stations or Game Taito Stations.

Taito Corporation currently has a subsidiary in Beijing, China. In the past, the company had operated divisions in North America, Brazil, South Korea, Italy and the United Kingdom.

Taito may mean:

• Taito Corporation, a Japanese developer of video game software and arcade hardware
  • Taito of Brazil, a former Brazilian subsidiary for pinball machines
• Taito, Tokyo, a special ward located in Tokyo, Japan
• Taito, also known as matai, paramount chiefs according to Fa'a Samoa
• Taitō Prefecture, administrative division of Taiwan under Japanese rule (now called Taitung County)
  • Taitung City, formerly Taitō City, the capital of the administrative division
• Taito (kanji), the 84-stroke Japanese character
• Taitō Station, a railway station in Japan

Taito, daito, or otodo is a kokuji " kanji character invented in Japan" written with 84 strokes, and thus the most graphically difficult CJK character—collectively referring to Chinese characters and derivatives used in the written Chinese, Japanese, and Korean languages. This rare and complex character graphically combines the 36-stroke tai 䨺 (with tripled 雲 "cloud") meaning "cloudy" above the 48-stroke tō 龘 (tripled 龍 "dragon") "appearance of a dragon in flight". The second most complicated CJK character is the 58-stroke Chinese biáng , which was invented for Biangbiang noodles "a Shaanxi-style Chinese noodle".