Described by the owners as “…a shopping mall designed to resemble a medieval European village. The Sky Feature Program displays a fantastical sky expanding overhead, creating a magical atmosphere where time flows unlike anything in the outside world.”
The “mall” is located in the Odaiba area of Toyo and demands to be seen. While from the outside it looks like any other large shopping centre when you enter you are transported away from Tokyo by a series of rooms that have been dressed to resemble mainly Roman streets.
The “mall” is located in the Odaiba area of Toyo and demands to be seen. While from the outside it looks like any other large shopping centre when you enter you are transported away from Tokyo by a series of rooms that have been dressed to resemble mainly Roman streets.
You move from the church room (where one entire wall has been made to look like the portico of a European church), down onto the Piazza and then through the streets, complete with window shutters (all the time looking at the roof that has been painted to look like “sky”) to a Piazza containing a Roman style fountain.
The Rome theme is never more obvious than where you can queue and put your hand in the “mouth of truth”. I don’t know why but it just didn’t fill me with the same sense of foreboding when I put my hand in the mouth.
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