The Fuji Television Building

Aqua town, Venus Fort, and Rainbow Bridge. While they may sound like the settings for the next big battle of 21st century superheroes, they are in reality just three of the attractions which have made Tokyo’s Odaiba one of the town’s most frequented destinations.

Odaiba stands on two of six 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 gigantic industrial 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 constructed on them.

The commercial boom filed for bankruptcy {, however ,} and in the 1990s, new plans permitting Odaiba to be commercially developed saw it quickly inhabited by the entertainment and commercial ventures which make it such a big draw today. Among Odiaba’s most provoking attractions are the replica of France’s Statue of freedom wtching over its Aqua town shopping mall ; Venus Fort, another shopping mall designed to resemble 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 two sand beaches, is a fave spot for romantic meetings, but swimming in Tokyo’s less-than-pristine bay is not recommended. For the technically inclined, Odaiba has the Miraikan, Japan’s Museum of developing Science and invention, the Fuji television Building, and the Toyota Mega Web.

Accessing Odaiba from either the Rainbow Bridge or the Yurikamome raised train will afford visitors some splendid views 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 whirl of Tokyo with its. The Odaiba Nikko is a perfect spot for romantic getaways.

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