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Brand-new Tokyo hotspots

Tokyo's new famous sights. This spring a variety of great new sightseeing spots has opened. On Tokyo Eye we've already visited TOKYO SKYTREE. This time we go to Shibuya, Daiba and beyond.

DiverCity Tokyo Plaza (4 min. 01 sec.)

In Tokyo's Odaiba district, new attractions continue to pop up. A gigantic new shopping mall opened just recently.

To serve foreign shoppers, there is a currency exchange booth right inside the entrance that handles thirty-three different currencies.

The DiverCity Tokyo mall has one hundred and fifty four shops. Fashion-related stores are the most numerous.

Asakusa Culture Tourism Center (2 min. 38 sec.)

Our next new hot spot is Asakusa. Renovated and relaunched in April, the tourist center right across from the Kaminarimon Gate is bound get more attention than the 3-story building it used to occupy.

The information desk on the first floor still provides tourist guidance in four languages and sells tickets to theaters and museums, and more, just as before.

Tokyu Plaza (4 min. 40 sec.)

Jingumae Crossing is a five minute walk from JR Harajuku Station. It's one of the busiest intersections in Tokyo, and the site of a newly-built shopping mall.

Dazzling mirrors frame a dramatic entryway. The design was inspired by a kaleidoscope.

The mall has twenty-seven specialty shops, most of them fashion-related.

Shibuya Hikarie (6 min. 44 sec.)

In April, this brand-new 34-story complex opened right outside Shibuya Station. Called Shibuya Hikarie, this new landmark includes shopping, arts and culture facilities, and also offices.

You can enter directly from the subway ticket gate. An eight-level shopping mall stretches from three floors underground to five floors above the surface, with around two hundred stores selling food, clothes, sundries and much more. The main targets are women in their late twenties through forties.

Further Info

Brand-new Tokyo hotspots
- Divercity Tokyo
http://www.divercity-tokyo.com/en/
- Asakusa Bunka Kanko Center (in Japanese only)
http://www.city.taito.lg.jp/index/bunka_kanko/kankocenter/index.html
- Tokyu Plaza Omotesando-Harajuku
http://omohara.tokyu-plaza.com/
- Shibuya Hikarie
http://www.hikarie.jp/ (in Japanese only)