Odaiba is an island Tokyo built on purpose — first as gun batteries in the 1850s, which is what daiba means, then as a 1990s waterfront of malls and broadcast towers and a small borrowed Statue of Liberty. It shouldn't work, and in daylight it barely does. Come at dusk and it's the best skyline seat in the city.
Three and a half kilometres along the water. Down from Odaiba-kaihinkoen to the seaside park and the man-made beach, then along to the Statue — a replica about a seventh of New York's, set so she stands against the Rainbow Bridge. That framing is the whole island in one shot, and it costs nothing. Behind you, Kenzo Tange's Fuji TV building hangs its titanium sphere between two towers.
Carry on to the Unicorn Gundam outside DiverCity, twenty metres of robot that transforms after dark — though it's due to come down in late 2026, so check first. Then back to the seafront deck for the thing you came for: central Tokyo across the bay, the bridge lit in front of it, the lights coming on. Home on the Rinkai line, or the Yurikamome back over the water.
