24 October, Wednesday - Mercury day, moon in Pisces,
the 10th day of the 10th lunar month.
in order to protect Edo (Tokyo) from attacks by foreign vessels.
Daiba is literally translated as Cannon battery (dai) Place (ba).
The island was built by Tokugawa Syogun, using the soils on
Mt. Gotenyama and Mr. Yatsuyama in Shinagawa.
2 decades ago, dates back in the 90's, Odaiba returned to life as a
large scale commercial island, providing variates of amusements,
hotels, shopping malls, apartments, convention/ conference halls.
↑ photo by Wiki.
Video, ''Gundam hotel'' in Odaiba (Sankei news).
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Gundam in Odaiba photo by tokyoyakei jp.
