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Aqua town, Venus Fort, and Rainbow Bridge.  While they may sound like the settings for another big battle of 21st century superheroes, they’re in reality just 3 of the attractions which have made Tokyo’s Odaiba one of the city’s most frequented destinations. 

Odaiba stands on 2 of six islands that the Togukawa shogunate built and fortified to protect Tokyo harbor 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 3rd 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 economic boom went bust {, 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 massive draw today.  Among Odiaba’s most provoking attractions are the reproduction of France’s Statue of freedom wtching over its Aqua city mall ; Venus Fort, another mall built to seem like eighteenth-century Venice ; and Oedo Onsen Monogatari, an Edo-period style bathing park built around a 1400-metre deep hot spring. 

The Odiaba Kaihin Park, close to the Rainbow Bridge and the possessor of one of Tokyo’s 2 sand beaches, is a fave spot for romantic assignations, but swimming in Tokyo’s less-than-pristine bay is not commended.  For the scientifically 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 private 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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