Ariake Area

Just as the line "The more I see the moon at dawn in the eastern mountains, the more I fall in love with it," in The Pillow Book (Makura no soshi) describes love for the moon which remains in the skies at dawn, Ariake, is the name of a place which one can feel the freshness of dawn. In the middle of 1955, part of reclaimed land No. 10 became Fukagawa Ariake Town, and in 1968, it adopted its current name.

In one part of the area, there used to be the Shinonome Air Base with a 430-meter runway, which closed in 1980 along with the construction of the Tokyo Bay Road. The Ariake-tennis-no-mori Park, which has 48 tennis courts and lawn plaza built around the Ariake Colosseum (center court) accommodating up to 10,000 people, used to be Shinonome Golf Course from 1952 to 1981.

The Ariake area has been developed since the 1960's and condominiums and commercial facilities are being built once after the other in pace with the period of high economic growth. Furthermore, development has been accelerated through the development of transport infrastructures. In addition to the opening of the Tokyo Big Sight for holding international events and exhibitions at the southern side of Yurikamome's Ariake Station, the east side is called the hill area of Ariake, serving as a wide-area disaster prevention center in the country and Tokyo metropolitan area.In the case of disasters, it is positioned to serve as a joint local response headquarters, support base for emergency medical care, and relay base for emergency transport supplies.