Odaiba Guide (2026): Things to Do, the Beach, the Rainbow Bridge Walk and What's Closed (2026)

Walk in over the Rainbow Bridge

The best way to arrive in Odaiba is on foot. The Rainbow Promenade is the walkway along the lower deck of the Rainbow Bridge, 1.7 km from the Shibaura entrance on the mainland to the Odaiba entrance, and the Port of Tokyo says it takes 20 to 30 minutes. You walk above the water with the bay on one side and the city on the other, and come down near the beach. You can also go over it by road on a guided go-kart tour.

Open: 10am to 6pm from 1 November to 31 March, 9am to 9pm from 1 April to 31 October; last entry is 30 minutes before closing. Closed: the third Monday of every month, or the next day when that Monday is a holiday, so 16 November and 21 December 2026 and 18 January 2027. It can also close for maintenance or bad weather. Cost: the port lists no charge.

The rules: no riding bikes across (you can push one on the hire dolly or carry it folded in a bag), pets only in a cage, and wheelchair users need a helper because the slopes are steep. The only toilets are at the Shibaura end, and there's no parking. Tokyo Rinkai Holdings, which runs the official Odaiba site, gives Odaiba-kaihinkoen (Yurikamome) and Tokyo Teleport (Rinkai Line) as the stations at the Odaiba end.

The beach, the statue and the fountain

Odaiba Marine Park wraps a sheltered inlet of the bay, and its centrepiece is Odaiba Beach, an artificial sand beach about 800 metres long, made with sand brought from Kozushima in the Izu Islands. It faces back across the water to the Rainbow Bridge and Tokyo Tower, which is why people come here at sunset.

Can you swim? No. The park's own Q&A says plainly that swimming is prohibited. You can play at the water's edge, and gathering shellfish is allowed, though the park asks you to leave baby clams under 2.5cm, about the size of a 10-yen coin. The Tokyo Metropolitan Government publishes water-quality surveys for the beach. The one exception is an organised event: Minato City's Odaiba Plage ran here on 17 to 21 July 2026, with swimming from 2pm to 7pm; the 2027 dates are not announced yet.

The other rules: the park is strictly no-fire, so no fireworks, bonfires or barbecues. Kites, parasols, large tents and staked tents are banned (a small folding shade for two or three people is fine), drones and radio-controlled toys are banned over land, water and air, and dogs must be on a short lead. Fishing is only allowed on a marked rocky stretch, not on the beach. Facilities: Marine House, by the beach, has hot showers (¥200 for 5 minutes) and lockers, open 9am to 6pm from October to March, plus a café, two restaurants upstairs and a 3rd-floor viewing terrace.

At the southwest end of the beach, by the observation deck, stands Odaiba's Statue of Liberty, about 11 metres tall and weighing about 9 tonnes. It went up in December 2000 to mark France Year in Japan, and it was cast from a mould of the Paris statue that had stood here for about a year from April 1998. It's free, and from the deck behind it you get the photo everyone takes: the statue with the Rainbow Bridge and the city behind.

Out in the water off the statue is Odaiba's newest attraction, the Tokyo Aqua Symphony, a fountain the Tokyo Metropolitan Government switched on on 28 March 2026. GO TOKYO, the city's official tourism site, says it shoots water up to 150 metres high across a 250-metre front, set 170 metres offshore, in shows of about 10 minutes set to music and lights.

Cost: free, with no booking. When: from 31 October 2026 the normal schedule is ten shows a day, at 3pm, 3:45pm, 4:30pm, 5:15pm, 6pm, 6:45pm, 7:30pm, 8:15pm, 9pm and 9:30pm, with music that includes the Dragon Quest theme and the first Gundam series' song. Times change on 7 and 8 November 2026 for an event, and shows can be called off in bad weather, so check the day's schedule on the official site. Where to watch: the observation deck by the Statue of Liberty (with the Rainbow Bridge and Tokyo Tower behind), the foot of the stairs for a close view, or the 2nd-floor promenade from above.

In December: the Odaiba Rainbow Fireworks are back on 5, 12, 19 and 26 December 2026, at 7pm for about 5 minutes, launched off the Statue of Liberty. The 19 December show is set to music. They're called off in stormy weather, and the organisers ask you to come by train: there's no event parking.

At the north tip of the beach, Daiba Park is the reason Odaiba has its name. It's the No. 3 Daiba, one of the gun-battery islands the shogunate built in the bay in the 1850s, and it's a nationally designated historic site. You can still see the gun platforms on the raised edge and the remains of the guard house, the powder store and the cooking stoves in the middle. In 2017 the Shinagawa Daiba forts (No. 3 and No. 6) were named No. 124 on Japan's list of 100 more great castles; the stamp is kept at the Marine House information centre. It's free, and it's the quietest place on the island.

Daiba: Fuji TV and the malls

The Fuji Television headquarters, the building with a metal ball held up in its frame, is three minutes from Daiba station. The ball is Hachitama, a 25th-floor observation room about 100 metres up, looking over the bay and the Rainbow Bridge. On the 7th floor is Fuji TV's big goods shop, Fuji-san.

Cost: ¥800 for high school age and over (high school students pay ¥640 on weekdays with a student card), ¥500 for primary and junior high school children, free for younger children; prices can differ on event days. No booking: buy at the counter. Open: 10am to 6pm, last entry 30 minutes before closing. Closed: Mondays (the Tuesday when Monday is a holiday); in November 2026 that's the 9th, 16th, 24th and 30th, and on 28 and 29 November an event narrows the viewing area. The building is lit up every evening from sunset to 11pm.

Good to know: the main lift from the 1F mall to the 7F terrace is being replaced from 7 September 2026 to late January 2027 (expected), so follow the signs to the temporary one. Fuji TV's car park isn't open to the public.

Next door, AQUA CiTY Odaiba is the mall that faces the beach, a minute from Daiba station, with a cinema (United Cinemas, from 10am) and the Tokyo Ramen Kokugikan ramen floor. Its bayside restaurants look straight at the Rainbow Bridge, which makes it the obvious place for dinner after the fountain show. Open: shops 11am to 8pm on weekdays and 11am to 9pm at weekends and on holidays; restaurants 11am to 11pm.

DECKS Tokyo Beach, two minutes from Odaiba-kaihinkoen station and joined to the beach by a walkway from Marine House, is the mall with the rainy-day attractions: Tokyo Joypolis (below), LEGOLAND Discovery Center Tokyo, the Tokyo Trick Art Labyrinth and Daiba Itchome Shotengai, a recreated Showa-era shopping street. The Odaiba Takoyaki Museum, its octopus-ball food court, is closed from 26 October to 4 December 2026. Open: shops 11am to 8pm on weekdays and to 9pm at weekends; restaurants to 11pm.

The catch: Madame Tussauds Tokyo, which was here, closed for good on 30 September 2026, so ignore older guides that pair it with LEGOLAND. For more indoor ideas, see our rainy day Tokyo page.

Tokyo Joypolis, on DECKS' 3rd to 5th floors, is an indoor theme park of rides and VR attractions. Cost: entry only is ¥1,700 for adults (18 and over) and ¥1,400 for primary to high school students. The Passport, with unlimited rides, is ¥6,000 and ¥5,000. The Evening Passport, ¥5,000 and ¥4,000, goes on sale from 3pm (4pm on days the park closes at 10pm). Opening hours change by date, so check its calendar. If you're bringing children, our Tokyo with kids guide has more.

Aomi: DiverCity, Gundam and the old Palette Town

DiverCity Tokyo Plaza is the big mall three minutes from Tokyo Teleport station (B exit) or five from Daiba. The life-size Unicorn Gundam is no longer here. The official statue site says its display ended on 31 August 2026, after nearly nine years on the mall's 2nd-floor Festival Plaza (it was completed on 24 September 2017), with a final ceremony on 29 August. No replacement has been announced on the official site. Many guides and maps still send people to see it, so don't plan a trip around it.

The mall itself carries on: open 11am to 8pm on weekdays and 10am to 9pm at weekends and on holidays, with the food court open until 9pm (10pm at weekends) and restaurants until 10pm. A Godzilla tie-up runs to 30 November 2026, and the 2nd-floor Doraemon Future Department Store is temporarily closed for renovation from 30 September 2026.

For Gundam fans, the reason to come now is THE GUNDAM BASE TOKYO, the official Gunpla (Gundam plastic model) store, which takes about 600 tsubo (roughly 2,000 square metres) of DiverCity's 7th floor, plus a small ANNEX on the 2nd floor. Open: 10am to 9pm. It warns that crowds can mean entry limits or numbered tickets, and it sometimes runs an advance entry lottery, so check its site before a weekend visit. A second store, THE GUNDAM BASE SHIBUYA, opens on 20 November 2026.

What happened to Palette Town? The block next to DiverCity in Aomi was Palette Town, and it closed in stages, according to the operators' joint notice of July 2021: MEGA WEB on 31 December 2021, Zepp Tokyo on 1 January 2022, the VenusFort mall on 27 March 2022, and the Palette Town Ferris wheel and the original teamLab Borderless on 31 August 2022. The wheel, 115 metres high, had opened in 1999. Toyota says MEGA WEB's site has been reborn as Toyota Arena Tokyo, the arena that opened in October 2025 as home of the B.League basketball team Alvark Tokyo (4 minutes from Aomi station). Immersive Fort Tokyo, which opened in Aomi in March 2024, closed on 28 February 2026.

Also closed for now: the Miraikan (National Museum of Emerging Science and Innovation), a short walk south of DiverCity, is shut for refurbishment from 1 October 2026 to 22 April 2027. Before the closure, adult entry was ¥630. The Telecom Center's observation deck nearby is on our best views in Tokyo list.