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This guide covers the Tokyo Bayside areas of Harumi (from Kachidoki on the Oedo line), Takeshiba (Yurikamome line), Toyosu (Yurikamome and Yurakucho lines), Daiba, Aomi and Ariake (Rinkai line or Yurikamome), Shin-Kiba, Kasai, and Maihama (Disneyland/Ikspiari).

Daiba (Odaiba)

Legoland Discovery Center - Attraction: Daiba
[Open 10am-8pm (enter by 6pm; weekends one hour later) daily.]
The Legoland Discovery Center is a mini-theme park inside the Tokyo Decks shopping complex, offering fun activities and charming attractions for visitors of all ages. There are a couple of entertaining rides, a 3D adventure movie, and hands-on...
Daiba Itchome Shotengai - Attraction: Daiba
[Open 11am-9pm daily.]
This nostalgic recreation of an urban Tokyo neighborhood from the 1960s includes shops selling toys and novelty items of the era. An old-fashioned game arcade offers minature bowling and vintage games, and brave visitors can explore the miniature...
Fuji Television Headquarters Building - Attraction: Daiba
[Open 10am-6pm. Closed Mondays.]
Designed by architect Kenzo Tange and completed in 1996, the Fuji TV building has become a landmark of the Odaiba area thanks to its unusual silhouette, featuring a giant floating sphere and a skeletal central section of pedestrian bridges and...
Doraemon Future Department Store - Retail: Daiba
[Open 10am-9pm daily.]
Fifty years after his manga debut, the time-traveling robotic cat now has his first official shop, fashioned vaguely after a 20th-century European department store. As you'd expect, it's jam-packed with Doraemon character goods, many of them...
Gundam Base Tokyo - Retail: Daiba
[Open 10am-9pm daily.]
Located on the seventh floor of DiverCity shopping mall in Aomi, this megastore and mini theme park is devoted to the giant battle robots of the popular Gundam anime series. Hardcore fans will enjoy exploring the galleries showcasing historic...
Odaiba Marine Park Pier - Boat pier: Daiba
Boats to Hinode Pier via Harumi on the Odaiba Line. 20/15 minutes travel time. Once or twice an hour from 11:15am-5:15pm or later. Boats to Asakusa via Toyosu on the Asakusa Odaiba Direct Line. Three times a day from 12:10-4:15pm.

Aomi (Odaiba)

Miraikan - Museum: Aomi
[Open 10am-5pm (enter by 4:30). Closed Tuesdays.]
There is more than enough to keep you (or any children you happen to bring along) busy for a whole day in this beautifully housed and expertly presented museum. The personal cinemas in the library section alone have more than 600 science videos....

Ariake (Odaiba)

Small Worlds Tokyo - Attraction: Ariake
[Open 9:30am-8pm (last entry 7:30pm) daily.]
Small Worlds Tokyo is an essential destination for anyone who loves elaborate dioramas, massive European-style model-train layouts, airports, spaceports, or the Sailor Moon or Evangelion anime franchises. Open since June 2020, it's advertised as...
Water Science Museum - Museum: Ariake
[Open 9:30am-5pm (enter by 4:30). Closed Mondays.]
H2O from A to Z. Everything you ever wanted to know about water. Small and quiet, but it's free and fun enough to justify popping in if you are nearby. As with most museums in Japan, considerable thought and money has obviously gone into the...
Tokyo Big Sight - Event space: Ariake
More than twelve million people a year visit the halls of this huge convention center, which hosts international conferences, trade shows and design festivals. Designed by the architectural firm of AXS Satow and completed in April 1996, the...
Tokyo Big Sight Pier - Boat pier: Ariake
[Closed Mondays, Tuesdays.]
Boats to Hinode Pier on the Tokyo Big Sight/Palette Town Line. 25 minutes travel time. Boats run 10:35am, then once an hour 12:35-5:35pm, Wednesday-Sunday.

Harumi

Harumi Triton Square - Shopping complex: Harumi
[Open 10am-11pm daily.]
Although it's somewhat off the beaten track, this neighborhood shopping mall boasts an attractive waterfront setting and a pleasant multi-story outdoor terrace. There are 18 shops, 14 restaurants and a lively food-court area, plus office and...

Toyosu

Lalaport Toyosu - Shopping complex: Toyosu
[Open 10am-9pm (restaurants -11pm) daily.]
A massive shopping and restaurant complex with more than 185 retail stores, "Urban Dock Lalaport Toyosu" is located right on the Tokyo Bay waterfront, offering lovely nighttime views of central Tokyo. The complex is especially friendly to dog...
Kidzania - Amusement park: Toyosu
[2 sessions per day: 10am-3pm and 4-9pm; open every day.]
In this rather unusual amusement park, children ages 3-15 can "work" at more than eighty grown-up jobs - pilot, firefighter, chef - and earn Kidzania currency while they do so. Some of the activities are geared toward older or younger kids, and...
Toyosu Pier - Boat pier: Toyosu
Boats to Asakusa on the Asakusa Odaiba Direct Line. 40 minutes travel time. Boats run three times a day from 12:40-4:40pm. Boats to Hinode Pier via Odaiba Seaside Park. Boats run seven times a day from 11:00am-4:25pm.

Shin-Kiba

Yumenoshima Tropical Greenhouse Dome - Park/garden: Shin-Kiba
[Open 9:30am-5pm (enter by 4pm). Closed Mondays.]
More than 1000 varieties of tropical and subtropical plants grow inside this 1500-square-meter dome-shaped greenhouse located in a park next to Tokyo Bay. Some highlights include giant water lilies, jade vines, Chinese banyan trees, flowering...

Kasai Rinkai Koen

Lotte Kasai Golf - Sports facility: Kasai Rinkai Koen
[Open 5:30am-4:30am daily.]
Ninety-minute unlimited drive packages are available at certain hours, or you can pay by the ball (Y16-22 depending on time of day). Note that while the facility is open 24 hours a day, they take a 45-minute maintenance break every day from...
Tokyo Sea Life Park - Aquarium: Kasai Rinkai Koen
[Open 9:30am-5pm (enter by 4pm). Closed Wednesdays.]
This beautifully designed aquarium recreates more than a dozen marine environments from around the world, including the Arctic and Antarctic Oceans as well more local spots like Tokyo Bay and Japanese rivers. Sea bird afficianados can enjoy...

Maihama

Tokyo Disney Resort - Amusement park: Maihama
[Open 9am-10pm daily.]
Tokyo Disney Resort is the home to two theme parks - Disneyland (similar to other Disneylands around the world) and the only-in-Tokyo ocean-themed DisneySea. There's also a restaurant and shopping complex called Ikspiari, a Cirque du Soleil...

Tennozu Isle

Terrada Art Complex - Art gallery: Tennozu Isle
[Open 11am-6pm (Fri -8pm). Closed Sundays, Mondays, holidays.]
By assembling several major galleries in two massive warehouse buildings, Terrada Art Complex has rather successfully pursued their mission of "making Tennoz Isle into a hub of artistic culture." The complex is now an important stop on any...
Pigment - Retail: Tennozu Isle
[Open 11am-8pm. Closed Mondays, Thursdays.]
Tokyo's most gorgeous art supply store, designed by architect Kengo Kuma, may tempt you to pick up a paintbrush, just for an excuse to shop here. The wall of pigments took a full week of chromatic coordination to get right, and they stock more than...

Shinagawa

Kuroneko Yamato Museum - Museum: Shinagawa
[Open 10am-5pm (enter by 4:30pm). Closed Mondays.]
Young children who are fascinated by package-delivery services are perhaps the main audience for this rather specialized corporate facility, although professional museum designers and connoisseurs of quirky museums may also find it of interest. ...
Maxell Aqua Park - Aquarium: Shinagawa
[Open noon-10pm daily.]
A splashy, well-choreographed dolphin show, held nine times a day, is one of the main draws at this mid-size urban aquarium, and there are also shorter penguin and sea lion performances throughout the day. Other popular features are the Wonder...
Shinagawa Prince Hotel Bowling Center - Bowling alley: Shinagawa
[Open 11am-9pm daily.]
This 80-lane bowling alley is part of the Prince Hotel complex, located conveniently close to Shinagawa station. Child-size shoes and lightweight bowling balls (from five pounds) are available for younger bowlers. Lunch and dinner bowling party...

Omori

Shinagawa Aquarium - Aquarium: Omori
[Open 10:00-17:00 (last admission at 4:30pm). Closed Tuesdays (except during school holidays).]
With its out-of-the-way location and small size, Shinagawa is mostly a neighborhood attraction, but worth a look if you happen to be nearby. The highlights are an underwater tunnel where you can watch turtles and schools of fish swimming around you...

Ota-ku

Omori Nori Museum - Museum: Ota-ku
[Open 9am-5pm daily.]
From the early 1700s up until 1962, when the Port of Tokyo began major redevelopment work, the shoreline in this area was the source of some of Japan's finest nori. There are still a number of nori wholesalers located here, and this is also the...
Tokyo Port Wild Bird Park - Park/garden: Ota-ku
[Open 9am-5pm (Nov-Jan -4:30pm; last entry 30 minutes earlier). Closed Mondays.]
Open to the public since 1989, the Wild Bird Park (Tokyoko Yacho Koen in Japanese) is a 24-hectare nature preserve built on reclaimed land in Tokyo Bay. Within the park are several diverse habitats fashioned to attract a variety of wildlife, with...