Odaiba is a group of man-made islands in Tokyo Bay, reached over Rainbow Bridge on the Yurikamome line, and it has changed more than any other part of Tokyo since 2021. The Ferris wheel, VenusFort and the life-size Unicorn Gundam statue have all gone. What is open in November 2026 is the beach at Odaiba Seaside Park, a free walk over Rainbow Bridge, the Fuji TV sphere, The Gundam Base shop, and Tokyo Aqua Symphony, a fountain show that opened in March 2026, with teamLab Planets a short ride away at Toyosu.
This guide starts with what has closed, so you do not plan around it, then gives the hours, prices and stations for everything still open, checked on 1 November 2026, and a walking route over the bridge that we measured. It is part of our Tokyo travel guide.
Odaiba at a glance
Where: Tokyo Bay, across Minato City (Daiba) and Koto City (Aomi)
Getting there: Yurikamome line from Shimbashi; Rinkai Line to Tokyo Teleport; water bus from Asakusa
Free: Odaiba Seaside Park, the Rainbow Bridge walk, Tokyo Aqua Symphony
New in 2026: Tokyo Aqua Symphony fountain show, from 28 March
Gone in 2026: the life-size Unicorn Gundam statue, after 31 August
Checked: 1 November 2026
Things to Do in Odaiba Now
What Has Closed in Odaiba Since 2021, and What Is Open in November 2026
Many guides, and Google’s own summary, still send visitors to places that have shut. This table puts the changes in one place.
| Place | Status on 1 November 2026 | Date |
|---|---|---|
| Oedo-Onsen-Monogatari hot spring theme park | Closed | 5 September 2021 |
| Zepp Tokyo and Mega Web, Palette Town | Closed | End of 2021 |
| VenusFort shopping mall, Palette Town | Closed | 27 March 2022 |
| Daikanransha Ferris wheel, Palette Town | Closed | 31 August 2022 |
| teamLab Borderless, Odaiba | Moved to Azabudai Hills, reopened 9 February 2024 | Closed in Odaiba 31 August 2022 |
| Life-size Unicorn Gundam statue, DiverCity Tokyo Plaza | Display ended, statue dismantled | 31 August 2026 |
| Toyota Arena Tokyo, Aomi | Open: a 10,000-seat arena, home of Alvark Tokyo | Opened 3 October 2025 |
| Tokyo Aqua Symphony fountain show | Open, free | Opened 28 March 2026 |
| The Gundam Base Tokyo, DiverCity Tokyo Plaza 7F | Open | 10am to 9pm |
| Fuji TV Hachitama sphere | Open, closed most Mondays | 10am to 6pm, ¥800 |
The old teamLab museum is now teamLab Borderless at Azabudai Hills, and our guide explains its rooms and how long to allow.
Why It Is Called Odaiba: Gun Batteries Built in 1853
The name comes from daiba, the gun batteries the shogunate built in the bay after Commodore Perry’s warships sailed in as far as Haneda in 1853. Construction off Shinagawa began that year on the advice of Egawa Hidetatsu, the official in charge at Nirayama in Izu. Only two survive, the No. 3 and No. 6 batteries, and they were designated a national historic site in 1926. No. 3 is now Daiba Park, a square, tree-lined island that is part of Tokyo’s metropolitan parks; No. 6 is a small island closed to visitors.
Walking Rainbow Bridge: 1.5km, Free, 10am to 6pm in Winter
Rainbow Bridge is 798 metres long and carries a free footpath, the Rainbow Promenade, on both sides. The whole walking route is 1,523 metres, and JNTO says walkers take 30 to 40 minutes. From November to March it opens from 10am to 6pm, and from April to October from 9am to 9pm, with last entry 30 minutes before closing. It closes on the third Monday of each month (the next day if that Monday is a public holiday) and in strong winds, so avoid 16 November and 21 December 2026. The north side looks towards Tokyo Tower and Tokyo Skytree; the south side looks over the container cranes and, on a clear day, Mount Fuji.
Start on the city side at Shibaura-futo station on the Yurikamome, where a lift takes you up to the bridge, because the Odaiba end has no lift, only a long sloping path. Our walking route below continues across the island.
| Leg | From | To | Distance | Walk |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Shibaura-futo Station (Yurikamome) | Daiba Park, over Rainbow Bridge | 2,750m | 38 minutes |
| 2 | Daiba Park | Statue of Liberty replica, along the beach | 1,650m | 23 minutes |
| 3 | Statue of Liberty replica | Fuji TV building | 520m | 7 minutes |
| 4 | Fuji TV building | DiverCity Tokyo Plaza | 290m | 4 minutes |
| 5 | DiverCity Tokyo Plaza | Tokyo Teleport Station (Rinkai Line) | 550m | 8 minutes |
| Total | about 5.8km | about 80 minutes |
Odaiba Seaside Park, the Beach and the Statue of Liberty Replica
Odaiba Seaside Park (Odaiba Kaihin Koen) wraps around a man-made sand beach about 800 metres long, facing Rainbow Bridge and the city across the water. It is free to visit. Near its western end stands a replica of the Statue of Liberty, usually photographed with Rainbow Bridge behind it, and the observation deck beside it is where GO TOKYO suggests watching the fountain show. Odaiba-kaihinkoen and Daiba stations on the Yurikamome are both a few minutes away.
Tokyo Aqua Symphony: a Free 150-Metre Fountain Show, 10 Times a Day
Odaiba’s newest sight sits in the water off the beach. Tokyo Aqua Symphony, a Tokyo Metropolitan Government project run by the Tokyo Aqua Symphony Executive Committee, opened on 28 March 2026: a fountain about 250 metres wide, set 170 metres offshore, with one jet reaching up to 150 metres. It is free and needs no booking. Since 31 October 2026 the regular schedule has run 10 shows a day, each about 10 minutes, at 3pm, 3.45pm, 4.30pm, 5.15pm, 6pm, 6.45pm, 7.30pm, 8.15pm, 9pm and 9.30pm. The music changes from show to show and includes Canon, Dragon Quest and the original Mobile Suit Gundam theme, Tobe! Gundam.
Check the official calendar before you go. In November 2026 the shows are paused all day from 16 to 19 November and from 24 to 26 November, some shows are dropped on 13, 20, 27 and 30 November, the schedule changes on 7, 8, 14 and 23 November, and weather can cancel a performance. Daiba station is three minutes’ walk away.
The Fuji TV Building and Its Hachitama Sphere, ¥800
The Fuji TV headquarters, with a silver sphere slung between its two towers, is Odaiba’s best-known building, at 2-4-8 Daiba. The sphere holds Hachitama, a 25th-floor viewing room open from 10am to 6pm and closed on Mondays (or the next weekday when a Monday is a public holiday). Entry is ¥800 for adults and high school students and ¥500 for primary and junior high pupils, and under-school-age children go free. In November 2026 it is also closed on Tuesday 24 November, along with the Mondays of 9, 16 and 30 November. The building is three minutes from Daiba station’s south exit.
The Gundam Base Tokyo at DiverCity, After the Unicorn Gundam
For nearly nine years a 19.7-metre Unicorn Gundam stood outside DiverCity Tokyo Plaza. Bandai Namco Filmworks ended its display on 31 August 2026, after a farewell ceremony on 29 August, and the statue was dismantled in September. Gundam fans still have a reason to come: The Gundam Base Tokyo, the official Gunpla store and workshop, remains open on the seventh floor of DiverCity at 1-1-10 Aomi, from 10am to 9pm in line with the mall’s hours, with some shortened days posted on its news page. A second Tokyo store, The Gundam Base Shibuya, opens at Shibuya Parco on 20 November 2026. If you know The Gundam Base London, our interview with Bandai explains how the two compare.
teamLab Planets at Toyosu, Open Until the End of 2027
Further along the Yurikamome at Shin-Toyosu, teamLab Planets is the barefoot digital art museum where you wade through water and walk under a garden of floating orchids. In November 2026 it opens from 8am to 10pm, with last entry an hour before closing, and it is closed on Thursday 5 November. Adult tickets were ¥3,800 on teamLab’s site, with prices that move with demand, and none are sold at the door. It is three minutes from Exit 1A of Shin-Toyosu station, and teamLab lists it as running only until the end of 2027. Our guide to every teamLab museum in Japan compares Planets with Borderless and the sites outside Tokyo.
Onsen Near Odaiba After Oedo-Onsen-Monogatari: Manyo Club at Toyosu
Oedo-Onsen-Monogatari, the hot spring theme park in Aomi, closed on 5 September 2021, and the nearest large bathhouse today is Tokyo Toyosu Manyo Club, inside the Toyosu Senkyaku Banrai complex beside Toyosu Market at 6-5-1 Toyosu, four minutes from Shijo-mae station on the Yurikamome. It is open 24 hours and uses hot spring water brought from Hakone and Yugawara, and its rooftop foot bath garden looks over the waterfront. You do not need a bath ticket for the eighth-floor foot bath garden, which is free to everyone from 9am to 10pm. Prices and house rules are on the Toyosu Senkyaku Banrai site.
Odaiba Night Views: the Bridge, the Fountain and the Bay
Odaiba is at its best after dark, when Rainbow Bridge is lit over the water. A good evening plan in November: walk the bridge before it closes at 6pm, watch the sunset from the Seaside Park boardwalk, then catch the 6pm or 6.45pm fountain show from the deck by the Statue of Liberty. The Hachitama sphere also closes at 6pm, so go up in the afternoon if you want the view from height. For a slower way home, the water bus runs between Odaiba Seaside Park and Asakusa, about an hour up the Sumida River for ¥2,000.
Getting to Odaiba: the Yurikamome, the Rinkai Line and the Water Bus
The Yurikamome runs from Shimbashi to Toyosu through 16 stations, crossing Rainbow Bridge on the way into Odaiba. Single adult fares run from ¥190 to ¥390. Since 14 July 2025 the line has stopped selling its paper one-day ticket; instead, if you tap in and out with a contactless credit or debit card, it charges no more than ¥820 in a day, however many trips you take. A 24-hour pass on PASMO costs ¥900. The Rinkai Line runs to Tokyo Teleport station, which Fuji TV puts five minutes from its building, with DiverCity a short walk further. From Asakusa, Tokyo Cruise’s water bus reaches Odaiba Seaside Park in 55 to 70 minutes for ¥2,000.
Odaiba works best as a half-day or evening trip. Our guide to where to stay in Tokyo explains why most visitors base themselves elsewhere and come here for the day.
Odaiba: Questions and Answers
No. The life-size Unicorn Gundam statue outside DiverCity Tokyo Plaza ended its display on 31 August 2026 after nearly nine years, and it was dismantled in September. The Gundam Base Tokyo, the official Gunpla store, is still open on the seventh floor of DiverCity, and a new Gundam Base opens at Shibuya Parco on 20 November 2026.
No. Palette Town closed in stages: Zepp Tokyo and Mega Web at the end of 2021, VenusFort on 27 March 2022, and the Daikanransha Ferris wheel and teamLab Borderless on 31 August 2022. Part of the site is now Toyota Arena Tokyo, a 10,000-seat arena that opened on 3 October 2025. teamLab Borderless reopened at Azabudai Hills in 2024.
Yes, for free. The Rainbow Promenade path is 1,523 metres and takes 30 to 40 minutes. It opens from 10am to 6pm between November and March and 9am to 9pm between April and October, with last entry 30 minutes before closing. It closes on the third Monday of each month and in strong winds. Start at Shibaura-futo station, where there is a lift.
Tokyo Aqua Symphony runs 10 free shows a day in Odaiba Marine Park, each about 10 minutes, at 3pm, 3.45pm, 4.30pm, 5.15pm, 6pm, 6.45pm, 7.30pm, 8.15pm, 9pm and 9.30pm on its regular schedule from 31 October 2026. Shows pause on some days for maintenance, including 16 to 19 and 24 to 26 November 2026, so check the official calendar first.
Not a large one. Oedo-Onsen-Monogatari in Aomi closed on 5 September 2021. The nearest bathhouse is Tokyo Toyosu Manyo Club at Toyosu Senkyaku Banrai, four minutes from Shijo-mae station on the Yurikamome, open 24 hours with water brought from Hakone and Yugawara. The complex’s eighth-floor foot bath garden is free from 9am to 10pm.
Take the Yurikamome from Shimbashi, which crosses Rainbow Bridge to Odaiba-kaihinkoen, Daiba and on to Toyosu, with single fares from ¥190 to ¥390 and a ¥820 daily cap for contactless card taps. The Rinkai Line runs to Tokyo Teleport for DiverCity. From Asakusa, Tokyo Cruise’s water bus reaches Odaiba Seaside Park in about an hour for ¥2,000.
