Aqua city, Venus Fort, and Rainbow Bridge. While they may sound like the settings for the next big battle of 21st century superheroes, they are in actuality just 3 of the attractions which have made Tokyo’s Odaiba one of the town’s most frequented destinations.
Odaiba stands on 2 of 6 islands that the Togukawa shogunate built and fortified to guard Tokyo bay from Western intrusion, which arrived in the person of Commodore Matthew Perry in 1853. It received its name from the Japanese word ‘daiba,’ for fort. When Japan experienced its enormous economic boom in the early 1980s, the third and 6th of the fortified islands were extended, and named Tokyo Teleport Town for the ultramodern business town which was to be created on them.
The industrial boom went bust {, however ,} and in the 1990s, new plans allowing Odaiba to be commercially developed saw it quickly inhabited by the entertainment and commercial ventures which make it such a massive draw today. Among Odiaba’s most electrifying attractions are the reproduction of France’s Statue of liberty wtching over its Aqua city shopping mall ; Venus Fort, another shopping mall built to seem like eighteenth-century Venice ; and Oedo Onsen Monogatari, an Edo-period style showering park built around a 1400-metre deep hot spring.
The Odiaba Kaihin Park, near the Rainbow Bridge and the possessor of one of Tokyo’s 2 sand beaches, is a favorite spot for romantic assignations, but swimming in Tokyo’s less-than-pristine bay isn’t recommended. For the scientifically inclined, Odaiba has the Miraikan, Japan’s Museum of emerging Science and creativity, the Fuji TV Building, and the Toyota Mega Web.
Accessing Odaiba from either the Rainbow Bridge or the Yurikamome raised train will afford visitors some splendid perspectives of Tokyo Bay.
The park-like grounds and non-public waterfront balconies of the five-star Odaiba Nikko Hotel, the first built on Odaiba, offer visitors an escape from the bustle of Tokyo with its. The Odaiba Nikko is an ideal spot for romantic getaways.
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