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Some places/links to consider adding to the attractions section:

Palette Town http://www.palette-town.com/

Venus Fort http://www.venusfort.co.jp/

Sun Walk http://www.sunwalk.net/

Daikanransha (Giant Ferris Wheel) http://www.daikanransha.com/

Leisure Land http://www.leisureland.jp/

-- Peter Kaminski 19:13, 21 July 2006 (UTC)

Contents 1 Tokyo Big Sight 2 Attractions 3 Online research 4 Merger with Tokyo Teleport Town 5 "Swimming not recommended"

[edit] Tokyo Big Sight

Seeing as Tokyo Big Sight doesn't have it's own article, why not add it here? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 71.255.222.25 (talk) 20:12, 10 December 2006 (UTC).

[edit] Attractions

"Daikanransha, the world's largest ferris wheel after the London Eye"

Does anybody have a source for this? There are so many other ferris wheels that have been said to either be the largest or among the largest in the world, including a few in Japan alone: the Cosmo Clock 21 in Yokohama, the Sky Dream in Fukuoka and the one in Tempozan, Osaka. Does anyone have any information that could help verify these claims?

--Stephen Mok 19:12, 29 July 2006 (UTC)

Moved the little tidbit of information about Digimon to a section at the bottom called "Odaiba in Fiction." This kind of trivia does not belong in the opening lines of an article. --Black Orpheus 06:48, 3 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Online research

I was trying to trace the source of an image of dubious copyright status from Tokyo Teleport Town, and found it on a thesis that compares urban projects around the world. Odaiba is included, and as the thesis seems to have been researched in 1995 (as the world expo was being scrapped), it provides an interesting perspective. here is the chapter of the thesis online. And, despite being a thesis, I think there are several interesting parts which would not violate WP:OR if they were included in this article. Neier 06:28, 6 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Merger with Tokyo Teleport Town

As far as I understand Odaiba is actually only the northern part of the artifical island belonging to Minato Ward (northern part of dumping place no. 13, see Japanese entry) but commonly the whole island seems to be called by that name. In that case the Tokyo Teleport Town entry should be merged with this article.

Forgot: I think 'Daiba' is the name of the orginial fortresses (and now also the name of a Yurikamome monorail station close to that place) whereas 'Odaiba' is the modern name of the larger area.

Daiba is Japanese for "fortress" or "battery". "Odaiba" just means (more or less) "the fortress", because it was the first and biggest in Edo times. In Japanese, the area is officially known as Rinkai, which simply means "seaside", but the term "Odaiba" is quite well understood. Jpatokal 10:43, 11 August 2006 (UTC)

Are you sure about the name? If I read the Japanese entry correctly then "Odaiba" is a corruption of "Houdaiba" (砲台場), i.e. a fortress with cannons. 130.69.200.200 07:52, 17 August 2006 (UTC)

Agree to the merger. Been living in Tokyo later Yokohama for 20 years; for me Tokyo Teleport Town is almost a synonym for the Odaiba area. Just missing some hitech for teleportation  ;-) Bernd in Japan 07:45, 27 September 2006 (UTC)

I also agree to the merger. The articles should be one and the same. -- Gloriamarie 16:45, 7 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] "Swimming not recommended"

Is this the opinion of one of the authors (I wouldn't swim their either) or the official advice from some authority? Either way, that point should be clarified.

Last I checked (it's been a while) there were signs on the beach prohibiting swimming. Jpatokal 04:33, 28 September 2006 (UTC)