Description of the attraction
The Museum of the Study of the Sea is located in the Odaibo area. The building of the museum is built in the form of a ship, and this "ship" is moored to land, which once did not exist for a long time.
Odaibo is a bulk island, land reclaimed by man from the sea. Man-made islands appeared in Japan during the reign of the shoguns. They were built as defensive structures that blocked the entrance to the bay. In the era of revival of foreign trade relations, the fortifications were abandoned, then turned into dumps, and only in the 90s of the last century the Japanese began to improve them.
Today Odaibo is one of the centers of trade and entertainment, there are comfortable hotels, exhibition centers, parks, the only Tokyo beach, restaurants, a port, numerous offices, sports facilities and museums. You can get to Odaibo by using the Yurikamome automatically controlled trains or by a pleasure tram.
A visit to the Museum of the Study of the Sea will be interesting for everyone who is interested in the sea, as well as for children. Where else can you steer a sea vessel? On the "bridge" of the museum there are slot machines, turning the steering wheels of which, you can make the boats move in the pool in front of the "bridge".
In the museum you can learn a lot of information about Japanese shipbuilding and fishing, navigation and mining, scientific and naval vessels. Shown here are equipment for studying the depths of the sea (research underwater vehicle, underwater station, deep-sea spacesuit). The ice-class research vessel Soya was built by order of the Soviet Union, however, at the beginning of World War II, Japan kept it and used it first as a supply ship, then for research purposes. Visitors can board the Soya as well as the Yoteimaru. There are also a couple of submarines on display. One of the exhibits of the museum is so huge that it was decided to build the museum itself around it - it is a three-story turbine engine.
