Koto English-speaking Volunteer Guide Association: Let’s Walk Around Toyosu Area　

A lot of sunshine. Temperature is very pleasant.

May is a very good season to walk around the town.

When you feel like spending a holiday somewhere nice,

Toyosu can be one of your choices.

【Toyosu】

Toyosu, one of the rapidly developing area in Koto city, can provide a variety of places to visit.

The following is a list of “where-to-go” in Toyosu.

1. Urban Dock Lalaport Toyosu ( 3 minutes-walk from the Metro Toyosu station)

There are more than 180 shops and restaurants.

You can purchase anything you want and you can eat anything you like.

Recently many tour buses visit this shopping complex.

2. KiZania Tokyo

Inside of Lalaport, children can experience his or her future job in Kizania.

They can be a pilot, flight attendant, bank officer or even a surgeon.

3. Toyosu Civic center ( 1 minute-walk from the Metro Station)

A new tall building (built in Sep 2015) provide a variety of information.

You may enjoy concerts or performance on the 5^th floor, where you can see

Rainbow Bridge in Odaiba from the stage.

If you are a book lover, you can read or rent a novel or a magazine from the library on the 9^th floor.

There is a gold statue “Byakko(a white tiger) in front of the entrance.

4. Toyosu Park( 2 minute walk from the Metro Station)

A beautiful grass field with colorful playing tools for children can be found

near Lalaport. On weekends, young parents and their children enjoy their

“obento (lunch)” under the sun.

Toyosu Civic Center

Byakko statue

Lalaport from Toyosu Park

The above are very popular places you can visit. Today let me recommend one more place to visit: “ Gas Science Museum”.

【Gas Science Museum】

Gas Science Museum is just a 6-minute walk from the exit 7 of Toyosu Metro Station.

When you get out of the station, you will pass “Toyosu civic center” and Toyosu Park (explained above) and easily reach the entrance of Gas Science Museum soon.

This museum (2-story and rooftop) is operated by Tokyo Gas and have a lot of exhibits which you including young children can touch and learn a lot of things.

The main theme of this theme park is “Learning about all ”?” (questions) of energy and the environment, for your “!” (findings).

Good points of this museum

1. Children (and parents) can learn many thing by participating in a science show with experiments and demonstrations

2. A lot of programs(such as cooking) are provided

3. Admission free

Another surprising thing here is that you can command a fine view on the grass on the rooftop. You can find a lot of skyscrapers across the canal and also can view the Rainbow Bridge and Tokyo Tower.