KOTOKU

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Kotoku  is one of Tokyo's special wards located east of the Tokyo metropolitan centre, bounded by the Sumidagawa to the west and the Arakawa to the east. Its major districts include Kamedo, Kiba, Kiyosumi, Monzen-nakacho, and Shirakawa. The newly-developed waterfront area of Ariake is in Kotoku, as is part of Odaiba (including the popular Palette Town shopping complex).

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Sightseeing Spots in Kotoku

Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo

Museum of Contemporary Art, located in Miyoshi, is a public museum specialising in contemporary art. It was built within the large site of metropolitan Kiba Park, and opened in 1995.
It focuses on works created after 1945 for collection and exhibition, and some of their collections were moved from Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum in Ueno. The museum spent large amount of money on Girl with Hair Ribbon by Roy Lichtenstein when it opened, which became controversial. That triggered a series of debates on local government’s purchasing a work of art.
Total floor area of the museum is 33,515 square meters, which makes it the largest among Japanese art museums (but it is the second largest if annex is taken into account). There are totally 10 permanent exhibition rooms on the first floor and third floor. In exhibition rooms on the first floor, you can follow about 30-year path of changing art from those reflecting fear and chaos after the World War II to those created in 1970s. There are works of contemporary artists in the exhibition rooms on the third floor, so you can see the various trends of contemporary art. There is a vault great space for exhibiting contemporary art works, which have tendency to become larger.

Gas Science Center (Tokyo Gas)

Tokyo International Exhibition Center (Tokyo Big Sight)
Tokyo International Exhibition Center, located in Ariake, is run by Tokyo Big Sight Inc. It contains large exhibition halls and a conference tower. It used to be Harumi Fairgrounds, and moved to the current place in 1996.

Telecom Center
Telecom Center is a high-tech building for sending and receiving information in and out of the country. There is a lookout on the 21st floor where you can see the panoramic view of Odaiba.

Tokyo University of Marine Science and Technology
Tokyo University of Marine Science and Technology is a national university. Tokyo University of Mercantile Marine and Tokyo University of Fisheries merged and opened a new university in October 2003, and started to take new students in April 2004.
Students in the Faculty of Marine Technology are mainly being trained to be ship’s personnel or researching on logistics. On the other hand, students in the Faculty of Marine Science are studying mainly on fisheries and food research.
The research on logistics by the Department of Logistics and Information Engineering, Faculty of Marine Technology, is attracting a great attention due to the increasing need for logistics and SCM among businesses. Professor Saburo Tsuruta, dean of the department, was given the Logistics Merit Award by Japan Institute of Logistics System in 2004 fiscal year. In addition, Professor Yoji Takahashi is considered one of the top researchers on modal shift and social experiment on transport.

Suzaki Kyujo
Suzaki Kyujo was a baseball ground located in 3 Toyo. It held official baseball games in 1930s.

Kotoku Shrines

Kamedoten Shrine (Kamedo Tenjin)
Kamedoten Shrine, located in Kamedo, is dedicated to Michizane Sugawara. It holds festivals for plum tree (from February to March), wisteria (from April to May) and chrysanthemum (from October to November).

Tomioka Hachimangu
Tomioka Hachimangu, located in Tomioka, is the biggest shrine dedicated to Hachiman, the Shinto god of war, in Tokyo. As a symbol of Fukagawa area. Also famous for Fukagawa Hachiman festival, one of the three biggest festivals in Tokyo. The portable shrine(=Mikoshi) of This festival is the largest in Japan.

Tomioka Hachimangu Shrine, Kotoku, Tokyo. Picture by kentin

Fukagawa Fudodo
Fukagawa Fudodo is a Tokyo branch of Naritasan Shinshoji Temple (Chiba).

Kotoku Gardens & Parks

Kiyosumi Garden
Kiyosumi Garden, located in Kiyosumi, is a metropolitan park. There are Suzumi Tei and Jyabu Jyabu Pond within the site.

Metropolitan Kiba Park
Kiba Park extends across not only Kiba but also Hirano and Toyo. It has a total area of 24.2 hectares. Unlike other places surrounding it, the park contains a lot of green.
There used to be many storages and timber yards related to the timber industry, but they moved to Shinkiba when the new landfill site was opened there. After the industrial function was removed from Kiba, Koto Ward built the park as a part of regional disaster prevention program.
Traditional arts of Kiba no Kakunori, which held at the Event Pond at the middle of the park and close to the entrance space in every October, reminds us of old days when there were timber yards.

Wakasu Seaside Park
Wakasu Seaside Park, a marine park run by Bureau of Port and Harbour Tokyo Metropolitan Government, faces the Tokyo Bay. It is one of the largest parks in Tokyo. The park contains various leisure facilities such as a golf course, cycling road, camp site and fishing place. It is one of a few places in Tokyo, where you can escape from the bustle of the big city and enjoy the sea. You can see the panoramic view from Kisarazu, Yokohama to Tokyo Disney Land on sunny days, which makes the park a great place for couples.

Kotoku Attractions

Palette Town
Palette Town is a complex that has recreation facilities, shops and restaurants.

Ooedo-Onsen Monogatari
Ooedo-Onsen Monogatari has open-air, foot, sand, and steam baths, and aesthetic/ massage salons.

Ariake Tennis no Mori (Tennis Courts)

Tokyo Tatumi International Swimming Pool

(Article based on Japanese Wikipedia article and translated by Japanese Lifestyle. Used under the GNU Free Documentation License)