Fantastic Tobu World Square

Visit the world in just one day

George Popescu Sep 09, 2015 - 1 min read

<p>The buildings are very detailed and also their surrounding areas are created to scale, so you can enjoy the true size of these famous locations.</p>

<p>A the entrance there's a cool map that shows the main areas of the park from above. </p>

<p>Greeting you at the entrance of the outdoor park is a bunch of automated figurines playing music in what looks like a metallic globe. </p>

<p>After you enter there's an indoor theater on the left side of the compound before you go into the actual park. You'll find there a lot of information, including a 360 degree video.</p>

<p>Inside the theater there's also a huge print of the timeline of all the buildings in the park, showing the dates when they were built. </p>

<p>You can see everything from the top as a giant, or you can get down to eye level and see the buildings as you'd normally see them if you were there as a tourist. </p>

<p>There's even an area showing an airport. You can walk among the planes and even touch them, and you can truly feel like a giant being so close to an airplane replica. </p>

<p>The areas of the buildings are very close to each other, so you can see Tokyo Tower, the Tokyo Skytree and the statue of liberty at the same time. </p>

<p>A mall replica of New York, which includes the two towers that were lost in 2001.</p>

<p>Egypt: Pyramids up close and personal as well as the temple of Ramses built into a wall and surrounded by tourists</p>

<p>Ancient buildings from Greece or Italy and many other European countries. You can get very close to the ruins. </p>

<p>Make sure not to step on some of the miniature tourists!</p>

<p>When you get down to eye level, you can see the buildings and take photos that look almost real, as if you were in the real location.</p>

<p>The famous temple on the 10 yen coin is also featured as a miniature building in the ancient Japan section of the park. Can you find it?</p>

<p>This awesome round globe saying good-bye to you as you exit the park after enjoying the amazing views. </p>

The Tobu World Square is a great park to enjoy with the whole family. About 100 of the world’s most famous buildings, including 45 World Heritage sights, have been reconstructed to scale here. To fully enjoy the this park you will need to calculate about 2 to 3 hours to walk around with the family. Plus, they have a nice coffee shop in the middle of the park, where you can relax and have a snack and a coffee. If you purchase the chain donuts you will get a wooden plaque such as the ones you see at the shrines. You can write a message on it and leave it near the coffee shop entrance. This is a stunning location and very fun for the whole family, you can visit the world in half a day!

Please visit this website to get a pass to both the Tobu World Square and the Edo Wonderland, and you safe quite some money.

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George Popescu @george.popescu

I was born in Bucharest, Romania and after a brief stay in London, England I settled and lived in Toronto, Canada for 20 years. I moved to Tokyo in late 2013 and have lived here ever since. I enjoy exploring the city with my camera as well as going to many special events that Tokyo has to offer e...