is a place in Kōtō, Tokyo

Koto, Tokyo

is one of the 23 special wards of Tokyo, Japan. As of 2008, the ward has an estimated population of 442,271 and a population density of 11,070 persons per km². The total area is 39.48 km². The ward refers to itself as Kōtō City in English....

, Japan. Its subdivisions consist of Aomi 1 and 2 chome

Japanese addressing system

The Japanese addressing system is used to identify a specific location in Japan. In Japanese, addresses are written using the opposite convention from Western addresses, starting with the biggest geographical entities down to the more specific ones....

. Aomi is part of Tokyo Bay

Tokyo Bay

is a bay in the southern Kantō region of Japan. Its old name was .-Geography:Tokyo Bay is surrounded by the Bōsō Peninsula to the east and the Miura Peninsula to the west. In a narrow sense, Tokyo Bay is the area north of the straight line formed by the on the Miura Peninsula on one end and on...

 Landfill #13 and Tokyo Rinkai Satellite City Center.

Many important facilities are located in Aomi. Among them are Miraikan

Miraikan

is Japan's National Museum of Emerging Science and Innovation, created by Japan's Science and Technology Agency. It is situated in a new purpose-built building in the Odaiba District of Tokyo. Some highlights include real-time displays of data from a huge array of seismometers across Japan which...

 scientific museum, Oedo-Onsen-Monogatari (Sentō

Sento

is a type of Japanese communal bath house where customers pay for entrance. Traditionally these bath houses have been quite utilitarian, with one large room separating the sexes by a tall barrier, and on both sides, usually a minimum of lined up faucets and a single large bath for the already...

), the Palette Town (including VenusFort shopping mall, the 115 metres (377 ft) Daikanransha

Daikanransha

is a tall Ferris wheel at Palette Town in Odaiba, Tokyo, Japan.When it opened in 1999, it was the world's tallest Ferris wheel. It has the same diameter as its world record predecessor, the Tempozan Ferris Wheel, at Osaka, but its overall height is greater...

 Ferris wheel

Ferris wheel

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, Zepp Tokyo

Zepp

The Zepp music halls are a group of Japanese music halls covering every area of the country. The Zepp halls play host to many international tours and are a popular stop among Japanese musicians. Each venue takes the Zepp name, along with the city in which it is located...

 music hall, Megaweb - the exhibition hall of Toyota), a National Institute of Technology

National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology

The , or AIST, is a Japanese research facility headquartered in Tokyo, and most of the workforce is located in Tsukuba Science City, Ibaraki, and in several cities throughout Japan. The institute is managed to integrate scientific and engineering knowledge to address socio-economic needs...

. There is a large seaport facility area of the Port of Tokyo

Port of Tokyo

Port of Tokyo is one of the largest Japanese seaports and one of the largest seaports in the Pacific Ocean basin having an annual traffic capacity of around 100 million tonnes of cargo and 4,500,000 TEU's....

 (Aomi dock) and a transportation base (Aomi container terminal). More than a half of Aomi 2 chome area is dedicated for the port and many cargo storages.

The land of whole Aomi area had been constructed in the sea after 1946, thus all trees have been planted and there is no large animal except wild cats. Several kinds of wild birds and fishes can be observed.

Source

This article incorporates material found in the Japanese Wikipedia in the article 青海 (江東区) (Aomi (Kōtōku)), retrieved on June 9, 2009.