is a location within Kōtō, Tokyo

Koto, Tokyo

is one of the 23 special wards of Tokyo, Japan. As of 2008, the ward has an estimated population of 442,271 and a population density of 11,070 persons per km². The total area is 39.48 km². The ward refers to itself as Kōtō City in English....

, Japan. It is best known as the region adjacent to and directly east of Odaiba

Odaiba

is a large artificial island in Tokyo Bay, Japan, across the Rainbow Bridge from central Tokyo. It was initially built for defensive purposes in the 1850s, dramatically expanded during the late 20th century as a seaport district, and has developed since the 1990s as a major commercial, residential...

. Airake is subdivided into four chome

Japanese addressing system

The Japanese addressing system is used to identify a specific location in Japan. In Japanese, addresses are written using the opposite convention from Western addresses, starting with the biggest geographical entities down to the more specific ones....

 and comprises part of the Tokyo Bay

Tokyo Bay

is a bay in the southern Kantō region of Japan. Its old name was .-Geography:Tokyo Bay is surrounded by the Bōsō Peninsula to the east and the Miura Peninsula to the west. In a narrow sense, Tokyo Bay is the area north of the straight line formed by the on the Miura Peninsula on one end and on...

 Landfill #10 and Tokyo Rinkai Satellite City Center.

Ariake is most well known internationally as the site of the Tokyo Big Sight

Tokyo Big Sight

is the popular nickname for the , a Japanese convention center that opened in April 1996. Located in Odaiba, Tokyo Bay, the center is one of the largest convention venues within the city, and its most iconic representation is the visually distinctive Conference Tower.-Construction:Contracted by the...

 international exhibition centre. Other important facilities located within Ariake include the Differ Ariake Arena

Differ Ariake Arena

is an indoor sporting arena located in the Ariake neighborhood of Tokyo, Japan, next to the Pro Wrestling Noah headquarters office. The capacity of the arena is 1,246 seats and it was opened in 1999...

, Ariake Tennis Forest Park (Ariake Tenisu no Mori Kōen), Ariake Coliseum

Ariake Coliseum

is an indoor sporting arena in located in Ariake, Kōtō, Tokyo, Japan. It has a capacity of 10,000. The arena is used as the center court for the Japan Open Tennis Championships and the Toray Pan Pacific Open held in Ariake Tennis Forest Park....

, Ariake Sports Center, Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Company

Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Company

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, Tokyo Ariake University of Medical and Health Sciences, the Japanese Foundation For Cancer Research and the headquarters of Aruze

Aruze

, is a Japanese manufacturer of pachinko, slot machines, arcade games and other gaming products, and a publisher of video games. Aruze possesses licenses to both manufacture and distribute casino machines in the American states of Nevada, Mississippi and New Jersey. The company's corporate...

. Ariake is a center for shipping in the pulp and paper industry.

The failed Tokyo bid for the 2016 Summer Olympics proposed holding many of its events in Ariake.

Source

This article incorporates material found in the Japanese Wikipedia in the article 有明 (江東区) (Ariake (Kōtōku)), retrieved on May 2, 2009.

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