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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 ]
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 .
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.
The Tokyo Organizing Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games (TOCOG) released a statement on 2 March 2020, confirming that preparations for the upcoming Tokyo Olympics were "continuing as planned". [40] On 23 March, both Canada and Australia indicated that they would withdraw from the Games if they were not postponed by a year. [41]
It was designed by Kenzo Tange and built between 1961 and 1964 to be the aquatics center during the 1964 Summer Olympics, with the annex used for basketball events. It was also the venue for the handball competition at the 2020 Summer Olympics. [3] The design inspired Frei Otto's arena designs for the Olympic Stadium in Munich.
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 ...
Dancers in Miyashita Park. Miyashita Park is situated in one of the few green spaces within the business neighborhood of Shibuya Ward, surrounded on one side by the tracks of the Yamanote Line and Saikyō Line running between Shibuya station and Harajuku station, by Meiji Street on another side, the Shibuya River (渋谷川) and Udagawa river (宇田川) (both currently used as covered ...