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is a district in Kōtō, Tokyo, Japan. It is best known as the region adjacent to and directly east of

Odaiba is a large artificial island in Tokyo Bay, Japan, across the Rainbow Bridge (Tokyo), Rainbow Bridge from central Tokyo. Odaiba was initially built for defensive purposes in the 1850s. The land was dramatically expanded during the late 20th centur ...

. Ariake is subdivided into four ''chome'' and comprises part of the

Tokyo Bay is a bay located in the southern Kantō region of Japan spanning the coasts of Tokyo, Kanagawa Prefecture, and Chiba Prefecture, on the southern coast of the island of Honshu. Tokyo Bay is connected to the Pacific Ocean by the Uraga Channel. Th ...

Landfill No. 10 and Tokyo Rinkai Satellite City Center. As of April 2012 its population was 6,145. Ariake is most well known internationally as the site of the

Tokyo Big Sight , officially known as , is a convention center, convention and exhibition center in Tokyo and the largest such venue in Japan. Opened in April 1996, the center is located in the Ariake, Tokyo, Ariake Minami district of the on the Tokyo Bay waterf ...

international exhibition centre. Other important facilities located within Ariake include the Ariake Tennis Forest Park (''Ariake Tenisu no Mori Kōen''),

Ariake Coliseum is an indoor arena, indoor sporting arena in Ariake Tennis Park located in Ariake, Tokyo, Ariake, Kōtō, Tokyo, Japan. It has a capacity of 10,000 and is one of the few professional tennis venues which has a retractable roof. When Ariake Col ...

, Ariake Sports Center,

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, Tokyo Ariake University of Medical and Health Sciences, the

Japanese Foundation for Cancer Research The (JFCR) is a non-profit cancer research organization based in Ariake, Tokyo. The JFCR was founded in 1908 as the first Japanese organization specializing in cancer by Katsusaburō Yamagiwa and his supporters. The Cancer Institute and its atta ...

and the headquarters of

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. Ariake is a center for shipping in the

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. The failed

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proposed holding many of its events in Ariake. Once the city won the rights to host the

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, the flame cauldron was installed on the Yume no Ohashi bridge, that crosses the

Ariake West Canal The Ariake West Canal is a canal located between Ariake, Koto-ku, in Tokyo and Odaiba, Minato-ku. Geography It is located between Ariake at No. 10 and Daiba at No. 13 in the reclaimed land of Tokyo Bay. Both banks are part of Tokyo Waterfro ...

, and the district received new sports venues in the

Ariake Gymnastics Centre The Ariake GYM-EX, formerly known as the Ariake Gymnastics Centre, is an exhibition hall and former sports arena in the Ariake, Tokyo, Ariake district of Tokyo, Japan. Opened in October 2019, the venue was originally constructed to host the Gymna ...

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, and

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Education

Koto Ward Board of Education operates public elementary and junior high schools. Ariake Elementary School (有明小学校) is the zoned public elementary school for parts of Ariake, while Ariake Nishi Gakuen ( 有明西学園) is the zoned public elementary school for other parts of Ariake. Ariake Junior High School (有明中学校) is the zoned junior high for parts of Ariake. Some areas are zoned to Ariake Nishi Gakuen for junior high school.

References

Districts of Kōtō Artificial islands of Tokyo Islands of Tokyo {{tokyo-geo-stub