Venus Fort – Odaiba

One of the oddest shopping malls in Tokyo is the Venus Fort on Odaiba. The whole island is a shopper’s paradise but this is the most interesting of them all, from a tourist point of view. The second floor of the mall is designed to look slightly like a tourist vision of a Venetian street, complete with artificial light to simulate day and night, changing every few minutes. I took these random snaps while passing through very close to closing time a couple of months ago. A huge fountain, a “square” at the end of the mall and the entrance to a Chinese restaurant, slightly out of the Italian theme but nevertheless fitting in.