Fuji TV headquarters
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Astro Girl
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Hatsune Miku
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Eri : Rainbow Bridge
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Odaiba is Tokyo’s new amusement park, especially near Fuji Television’s building is very popular area for young people.

Odaiba was born from reclaimed land in Tokyo Bay in the southeastern part of Tokyo. It attracts mostly young people as a new amusement spot in the city. The name Odaiba means a “platform site.” It derives its name from the installation of a platform for a marine cannon battery that was constructed in haste to meet the sudden need for the defense of Tokyo (called Edo at that time) after the unexpected appearance of the black steel ships from the United States in 1853 commanded by Commodore Perry.

The center of Odaiba is Aquacity Odaiba. It includes a shopping mall with a 300-meter-long boutique street, a multi-flex cinema that employs the latest acoustic and screen technologies, and a gourmet zone that stretches over 15,000 square meters, which is obviously the largest such zone in Japan.

Major attractions of Odaiba are dotted along the Yurikamome Line, a new unmanned traffic system that crosses Rainbow Bridge to connect Shimbashi Station with Odaiba. Attractions include the Odaiba Seaside Park that overlooks Rainbow Bridge, Fuji TV headquarters and studios where visitors can see the sets of popular TV programs, and Palette Town, a “theme park for women” with an interior modeled after a European city in the 18th century, and which accommodates over 150 shops. All of these and many other vie against each other in one location.

more info : http://www.aquacity.jp/en/

Access :

  • from Shinjuku, Shibuya, Ikebukuro
    • You have to change trains at Shinbashi from JR Yamanote Line to Yurikamome Line.
      • From Shinjuku to Shinbashi (JR Yamanote Line)
        • Price : ¥190
        • Duration : 20min
      • From Shibuya to Shinbashi(JR Yamanote Line/Tokyo Metro Ginza Line)
        • Price :  JR Yamanote Line ¥190 / Tokyo Metro Ginza Line ¥160
        • Duration :  15min / 13min
      • From Ikebukuro to Shinbashi(JR Yamanote Line)
        • Price : ¥190
        • Duration : 25min
    • From Shinbashi To Odaiba-Kaihin-Khoen (Yurikamome Line)
      • Price : ¥310
      • Duration : 15min
odaiba kaihin khoen
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