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NEWS: Tokyo Plans Temporary Locale for Tokyo Big Sight Events During Olympics Preparations




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Ali07



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PostPosted: Mon Feb 29, 2016 6:05 am Reply with quote
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The temporary exhibition space will use 24,000 square meters (5.9 acres) of this space, and will be available for a limit of one year starting in April 2019. Comparatively, Tokyo Big Sight's exhibition area is 8,000 square meters (19.7 acres) in size.

Have never been the best at maths...but is 24,000 square meters smaller than 8,000 square meters when the measurements are converted to acres? Confused (I'm guessing it was meant to be 1.97 acres, not 19.7) Laughing
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"Comparatively, Tokyo Big Sight's exhibition area is 8,000 square meters (19.7 acres) in size."

Is that supposed to be 80,000?

And yeah, I guess this is better than nothing, or having to go outside of Tokyo, but yiiiiikes that is a step down in space. I doubt the smaller only events will be affected much, but the Comic City events and Comiket? Are not gonna fit in that space...

I wonder if they'll have to reduce the size in that case o_O

"In addition, the area for the booths has been changed from the West 3 and 4 Halls to the West 1 and 2 Halls. "

DDDDD: West 1/2 are already super crowded. It's a madhouse down there. Now they're shoving the industry booths in there as well? Count me out of setting foot in the West halls this summer...
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The plans will use an area near the Rinkai Line's Tokyo Teleport station


Shocked I know Japan gets all kinds of cool stuff before the rest of the world, but come on!
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PostPosted: Mon Feb 29, 2016 10:56 am Reply with quote
Utsuro no Hako wrote:
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The plans will use an area near the Rinkai Line's Tokyo Teleport station


Shocked I know Japan gets all kinds of cool stuff before the rest of the world, but come on!


Hehe... I remember when the rinkai line opened up the station in Odaiba... "Tokyo Teleport".

It's actually a really cool underground station: Only 1 platform, but the main floor has really high ceilings and feels very open air with nice wood panelling as well.
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kiminobokuwa



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PostPosted: Mon Feb 29, 2016 12:51 pm Reply with quote
At least they're giving them a temporary space rather than cancelling everything for that whole year just for the Olympics. So, i'm happy for them.
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walw6pK4Alo



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PostPosted: Mon Feb 29, 2016 10:23 pm Reply with quote
Better than nothing. I guess the better fix for Comiket in this cake would be to expand the event by a few days so more circles can be included, but I suppose it'll just be even harder to gain a spot instead.
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PostPosted: Mon Feb 29, 2016 11:31 pm Reply with quote
Good news, no cancellations will happen.
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Whata waste of public moneys for a useless capitalist event.
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Tokyo wanted the Olympics; Tokyo got the Olympics

Hopefully at least, they'd improve the infrastructures and make Tokyo more world-friendly
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PostPosted: Tue Mar 01, 2016 10:16 am Reply with quote
enurtsol wrote:
Tokyo wanted the Olympics; Tokyo got the Olympics

Hopefully at least, they'd improve the infrastructures and make Tokyo more world-friendly


My travel agents who specialise in travel to Japan have been fearful of what will be wrecked because of the 2020 Tokyo Olympics - remember how much was wrecked for the 1964 Olympics:

http://foreignpolicy.com/2016/02/19/are-the-2020-tokyo-olympics-in-trouble/
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omiya wrote:
enurtsol wrote:
Tokyo wanted the Olympics; Tokyo got the Olympics

Hopefully at least, they'd improve the infrastructures and make Tokyo more world-friendly


My travel agents who specialise in travel to Japan have been fearful of what will be wrecked because of the 2020 Tokyo Olympics - remember how much was wrecked for the 1964 Olympics:

http://foreignpolicy.com/2016/02/19/are-the-2020-tokyo-olympics-in-trouble/


Dear lord, they destroyed a perfectly good waterway system back then. Not to mention the local fishing industry. I hate to see what's lost this time even though events like Comiket are safe or almost safe.
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omiya wrote:
enurtsol wrote:

Tokyo wanted the Olympics; Tokyo got the Olympics

Hopefully at least, they'd improve the infrastructures and make Tokyo more world-friendly

My travel agents who specialise in travel to Japan have been fearful of what will be wrecked because of the 2020 Tokyo Olympics - remember how much was wrecked for the 1964 Olympics:

http://foreignpolicy.com/2016/02/19/are-the-2020-tokyo-olympics-in-trouble/


Win some; lose some
Japan has been about moving forward. Without the miraculous rise from the WW2 ashes of Japan Inc. (and the 1964 Tokyo Olympics as seen on From Up On Poppy Hill), Japan wouldn't be as modern as it is currently. Certainly no Akiba, which started out as an Electric Town.
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PostPosted: Wed Mar 02, 2016 9:25 am Reply with quote
enurtsol wrote:
Win some; lose some
Japan has been about moving forward. Without the miraculous rise from the WW2 ashes of Japan Inc. (and the 1964 Tokyo Olympics as seen on From Up On Poppy Hill), Japan wouldn't be as modern as it is currently. Certainly no Akiba, which started out as an Electric Town.


Certainly things change, but without weighing up the consequences and making a widely informed consensus decision, unique features may be needlessly lost, see for example Shimokitazawa - the residents weren't that pleased: http://www.japantrends.com/new-documentary-examines-changing-face-of-shimokitazawa-2003-2014/, it is not quite the place mentioned in .hack//SIGN or that I visited in 2012 to hear anime singer Chiaki Ishikawa.
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