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Japan Sport Olympic Square is a building in Tokyo, Japan, which served as an administrative center for the 2020 Summer Olympics. [1] The first two floors house the Japan Olympic Museum , [ 2 ] which opened in September 2019 [ 3 ] .The area around Japan Sport Olympic Square was developed as Tokyo Olympic Park. [ 4 ]
The area is a popular center for shopping and leisure in the Tokyo metropolitan area due in part to its close proximity to Inokashira Park and Inokashira Park Zoo. Kichijoji has been voted the number 1 place in Japan that Japanese would like to live every year since the 1990s according to polls by the magazine CNN GO. [ 1 ]
The Ariake GYM-EX, formerly known as the Ariake Gymnastics Centre, is an exhibition hall and former sports arena located in the Ariake district of Tokyo, Japan. [3] Opened in October 2019, the venue was originally constructed to host the gymnastics events at the 2020 Summer Olympics [4] and the boccia events at the 2020 Summer Paralympics. [5]
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The transformation of Tokyo in preparation for the Olympics can be seen as part of a long process of urban planning and development that encompasses several major cycles. Urban studies scholar Faure notes that "The urban development strategy of the Tokyo Olympic urban project is the result of a long-time political compromise regarding Tokyo Bay ...
In 1937, the area of Toyosu was created on reclaimed land. [8] There were dockyard, power plant, gas plant, freight station, warehouses till the early 1990s. Its proximity to central Tokyo made it valuable real estate, so the redevelopment was robust. Highrise apartments, office buildings, shopping centres were built one after another.
Chiba (千葉市, Chiba-shi, pronounced) is the capital city of Chiba Prefecture, Japan.It sits about 40 kilometres (25 mi) east of the centre of Tokyo on Tokyo Bay. [1] The city became a government-designated city in 1992.
Tokyo Olympiad, also known in Japan as Tōkyō Olympic (東京オリンピック, Tōkyō Orinpikku, lit. "Tokyo Olympics") , is a 1965 Japanese documentary film directed by Kon Ichikawa which documents the 1964 Summer Olympics in Tokyo .