Aqua city, Venus Fort, and Rainbow Bridge. While they may sound like the settings for a new 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 2 of six islands which the Togukawa shogunate built and fortified to protect 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 big commercial boom in the early 1980s, the third and sixth of the fortified islands were extended, and named Tokyo Teleport Town for the ultramodern business town which was to be constructed 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 enterprises which make it such a massive draw today. Among Odiaba’s most electrifying attractions are the reproduction of France’s Statue of freedom wtching over its Aqua town shopping mall ; Venus Fort, another shopping center designed 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 two sand beaches, is a fave spot for romantic assignations, but swimming in Tokyo’s less-than-pristine bay isn’t suggested. For the technically inclined, Odaiba has the Miraikan, Japan’s Museum of developing Science and innovation, the Fuji television Building, and the Toyota Mega Web.
Accessing Odaiba from either the Rainbow Bridge or the Yurikamome elevated train will afford visitors some splendid perspectives of Tokyo Bay.
The park-like grounds and personal 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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