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Aqua town, Venus Fort, and Rainbow Bridge.  While they may sound like the settings for a new big battle of 21st century superheroes, they’re in actuality 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 which the Togukawa shogunate built and fortified to guard 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 big economic 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 assembled on them. 

The economic 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 enterprises which make it such a huge draw today.  Among Odiaba’s most provoking attractions are the replica of France’s Statue of freedom wtching over its Aqua city shopping center ; Venus Fort, another shopping center built to look 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 favourite spot for romantic meetings, but swimming in Tokyo’s less-than-pristine bay is not commended.  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 elevated 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 a perfect spot for romantic getaways.

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