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Aqua City Odaiba

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Time Out says

Odaiba's Aqua City shopping complex might not be worth visiting if it wasn't for this rather ordinary-looking tourist info desk, manned by a robotic guide proficient in three languages. Chihira Junco, produced by electronics giant Toshiba, is a bona fide android who can point you to Odaiba's wildest sights – or just the local Statue of Liberty replica – in English, Japanese or Chinese. She even performs songs together with ApriPetit, a much smaller fellow robot also stationed at the info desk, and looks almost human when viewed from afar. Junco definitely wouldn't pass the Voight-Kampff test from Blade Runner, used to tell androids and humans apart in Ridley Scott's sci-fi classic, but she's just about the best Japanese technology can come up with right now.

Details

Address
Aqua City Odaiba, 1-7-1 Daiba, Minato-ku
Tokyo
Transport:
Daiba Station (Yurikamome), north exit
Opening hours:
11am-9pm daily

What’s on

Fiesta Mexicana

Celebrate all things Mexican at this year’s Fiesta Mexicana, held along the West Promenade outside Aqua City in Odaiba. The annual festival, which is now in its 25th year, brings together the best of Mexico’s long-standing traditions and food culture to commemorate the country’s Independence Day. Expect about 20 booths offering Mexican food, handicrafts and local specialities. There are fun activities, too, like hitting a piñata, which takes place at 3pm on September 20, 21 and 22 beneath the Yurikamome monorail tracks. Live entertainment is also scheduled over the three-day festival, including a masked Lucha Libre Mexican wrestling performance, so get ready to let your hair down and partake in some live music and dancing.
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