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Tokyo Road: Best of Bon Jovi

compilation album by Bon Jovi

Manuscripts, fine bindings, an engraving plate and preserved performance ephemera
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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionNov 24, 2025
Entity authorityQ2521879 ↗
Source-derived summary

Tokyo Road: The Best of Bon Jovi – Rock Tracks (TOKYO ROAD~ベスト・オブ・ボン・ジョヴィ-ロック・トラックス) is the third overall greatest hits compilation album by American rock band Bon Jovi, exclusively released in Japan by Island Records in 2001. The album peaked at number five on Oricon's Weekly Albums Chart. It sold more than 400,000 copies and been certified double platinum by the RIAJ.

Content

The first track is a remixed version of "One Wild Night" originally released on the Crush album; the new version was released as a single and featured a music video. This version also appears on the Bon Jovi live compilation One Wild Night Live 1985–2001.

"Tokyo Road" (Live) was released as a promo single in Japan to promote the compilation album. It was also included as a bonus disc on a limited edition of the album. The live version of "Tokyo Road" would later appear on the 2010 special edition of 7800° Fahrenheit.

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“Tokyo Road: Best of Bon Jovi” enters the record as compilation album by Bon Jovi. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Tokyo, Road and Best can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewBest approached as a cultural-object dossier: authorship and date matter, but circulation and reception often explain the wider significance. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2001, 1985, 2010—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 2001-01-01. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Tokyo, Road and Best.
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“Tokyo Road: Best of Bon Jovi” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Tokyo, Road and Best provides the most credible route into that argument.

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Object files, edition statements, performance records and contemporary criticism preserve different stages of the work’s history. The source revision retrieved here is dated Nov 24, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q2521879. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2001, 1985 and 2010.

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This entry incorporates text from “Tokyo Road: Best of Bon Jovi” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.