Trip to Japan -Odaiba(お台場 )

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If you are looking for date course… Think about Odaiba in Japan Odaiba ( お台場 ) is a popular shopping and entertainment district on a man made island in Tokyo Bay. It originated as a set of small man made fort islands (daiba lit-erally means "fort"), which were built to-wards the end of the Edo Period to pro-tect Tokyo against possible attacks from the sea and specifically in response to the gunboat diplomacy of Commodore Perry.

Odaiba developed into one of Tokyo's most popular tourist attractions and date spots with a wide selection of shopping, dining and leisure options.

Today's Odaiba is a popular shopping and sightseeing destination for Tokyoites and tourists alike. Major attrac-tions include like this.•Palette Town•Fuji Television studios with a distinctive building designed by Kenzo Tange•Miraikan, Japan's National Museum of Emerging Science and Innovation•Rainbow Bridge connecting Odaiba to the heart of Tokyo•Tokyo Big Sight Tokyo International Exhibition Center•Aqua City shopping center•Diver City shopping center•Decks Tokyo Beach shopping mall, featuring Sega Joypolis and Little Hong Kong•Museum of Maritime Science (Fune no kagakukan) with swimming pool•Shiokaze park with BBQ places and Higashi Yashio park•Telekom Center Building (MXTV's former headquarters) with observa-tion deck•One of two beaches in urban Tokyo (swimming prohibited), along with Kasai Rinkai Park in Edogawa Ward•A replica of the Statue of Liberty•Panasonic Centre, a science and technology showroom

Major attractions in-clude..

Palette TownPalette Town is a large shopping and entertainment complex con-sisting of the Venus Fort shopping mall, Toyota Mega Web, a Fer-ris Wheel, the Zepp Tokyo music venue and Tokyo Leisureland.

Venus Fort is a shopping mall in the style of a 18th century South European town. The mall features over a hundred shops, fashion boutiques, cafes and restaurants on three floors including a few outlets shops on the upper floor.

<Travel information>Hours: 11:00 to 21:00 Restaurants: 11:00 to 23:00 Closed: No closing days Admission: Free

Decks Tokyo Beach

Decks is a shopping mall featuring various stores, boutiques, cafes and restaurants. The mall also houses the three story "Tokyo Joypolis" arcade (closed for renovation until mid July 2012) and a trick art museum. A Hong Kong themed food theme park and the Muscle Park were closed in 2010

<Travel information>Hours: 11:00 to 21:00 Restaurants: 11:00 to 20:00 (some restaurants until 24:00) Closed: No closing days Admission: Free(trick art museum: 900 yen)

Rainbow Bridge

The Rainbow Bridge connects Odaiba to the rest of Tokyo. The two story bridge is an iconic symbol of the bay and is especially beauti-ful during its nightly illumination. The bridge supports an ex-pressway, a regular road, the Yurikamome train line and pedes-trian walkways along both sides.

How to get there?Access to Odaiba can be an attraction in itself, as the views of the Rainbow Bridge and Tokyo's harbor and waterfront area from the Yurikamome elevated train and boas are quite spectacular. Furthermore, it is also possible to walk across the Rainbow Bridge. On Foot It is possible to cross the Rainbow Bridge on foot. The walk across takes about 30-45 minutes and offers nice views of the waterfront area. The pedestrian path begins a short walk from Shibaura-futo Station along the Yurikamome on the "Tokyo side" of the bridge, while Odaiba Kaihinkoen Sta-tion is the nearest station on the "Odaiba side". Bicycles are not allowed. By Boat Tokyo Water Bus operates boats between Odaiba Seaside Park and Hinode Pier (20 minutes, 460 yen, 1-2 boats per hour), where there are connections to Asakusa. Direct boats connect Asakusa and Odaiba less frequently (50 minutes, 1520 yen).

Hong Kong’sTourist spot & Food

If you are on a tour of Hong Kong, never fail to bite into Dim Sum, the tasty collection of delica-cies served in bamboo steamers, or crisp Peking Duck carved at your ta-ble. Be sure to try Jumbo Restaurant, counted among the world's most luxurious floating restau-rant. And Hong Kong also holds Ocean City Restau-rant and Night Club, which seats more than 4800 people.

Hong Kong Hits!

Dim Sum is the most fa-mous in the long list of dishes in a Hong Kong meal.Impressively shaped, bite-size portions of dumplings with lightly seasoned fill-ings of meat and sea fish, fluffy buns with various fillings and glutinous rice - all deliciously steamed - just ignite the taste buds.

Dim Sum

Hot PotHot Pot is best savored with a pot of tea. Served in little bamboo steamers or pretty plates, dim sum is light in content. It is a fa-vorite dish of the Chi-nese. There are few better ways to pass time than eating some bites of Hot Pot ac-companiments' and drinking the soup.

Hawker Food Hawkers register their presence in every Asian country and they are there in Hong Kong too. Visitors can savor varieties of hawker food along the streets and night markets. Popular dishes sold by these hawkers are wantan noodle, beef noodle, soy bean curd and fishballs on sticks

Food scraps soup & Mutton string

• 明星宵夜店 -- 新兰香 (xin lang xiang)(Address) 地址：尖沙咀柯士甸道 15 号地下 (telephone) 电话： 2369 6299 (delisting food ) 招牌菜：白灼柏叶、鸡肠、贡丸米 (consumption per person) ： $30 (6000-7000won)

Sea food & Barbecued pork

• 益食家 镛记 　 (Address) 地址：中环威灵顿街 32-40 号地下 　 (telephone) 电话： 2522 1624 (delisting food ) 招牌菜：牛爽腩、沙锅网油禾花雀 (consumption per person) ： $200 (30000-40000won)

special food –(san jiao cai)

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