Land Claimed from the Sea - Tokyo's Odaiba

Tokyo, as the most populous metropolis in the world, has an extremely acute contradiction between people and land. From Chiba to Mount Fuji, from Yokosuka to Nikko's Kanto Plain, it has undergone intense development and has become one of the largest human-built areas in the world. Even so, the population and resources that continue to flow into Greater Tokyo are still demanding more and more land. Therefore, Tokyo has turned its eyes to the sea. The history of reclamation in the Tokyo area is quite long. Since the economic take-off of Japan in the 1960s, due to the outward-oriented economy's pursuit of shipping, the coast of Tokyo Bay has been continuously reclaimed. Until today, the hundreds of kilometers long coastal area of Tokyo Bay has almost no natural coastline left, all are ports, docks, and urban built-up areas, which can be described as a masterpiece of human transformation of the coast. Among the land that Tokyo claims from the sea, the most famous and prosperous is Odaiba. Odaiba is located in Tokyo Bay in the southeast of downtown Tokyo. It is an urban area composed of multiple artificial islands. The reclamation history of Odaiba is over 20 years. In these 20 years, people have been reclaiming and constructing, and finally turned Odaiba into another sub-center of Tokyo - the waterfront sub-center. The center of Odaiba is the highly recognizable headquarters building of Fuji Television, which frequently appears in various Japanese cultural works. In front of the Fuji headquarters is Odaiba Seaside City, a large urban complex that combines tourism, sightseeing, hotels, and shopping. Standing on the viewing platform to the north of Seaside City, you can clearly overlook the famous Tokyo Rainbow Bridge and the dense skyline of Tokyo in the distance. What's more interesting is that on the viewing platform, there is also a Statue of Liberty, much smaller than New York's, but it does give people a sense of time travel in a trance.