Tokyo Dome City

Tokyo Dome City Review

The Korakuen stop on the Marunouchi subway line, about 10 minutes from Tokyo Station, lets you out in front of the Tokyo Dome, Japan's first air-supported indoor stadium, built in 1988 and home to the Tokyo Yomiuri Giants baseball team. Across from the stadium is Tokyo Dome City, a combination of family amusement park, shopping mall, restaurants, and a natural-spring spa. Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum (¥500. Mar.-Sept., daily 10-6; Oct.-Feb., daily 10-5) offers a chance to see some of the bats, balls, and gloves of the legends that made Japanese Pro Baseball the game it is today. LaQua Amusement Park (roller-coaster rides ¥600-¥1,000. 10-10) has three stomach-churning roller coasters, a haunted house, and a merry-go-round. The LaQua Shopping Center (Shops daily 11am-9pm; restaurants daily 11am-11pm) holds 70 shops and restaurants. LaQua Spa (¥2,565; ¥315 more on holidays; and ¥1,890 surcharge midnight-6am; ¥525 surcharge for Healing Room. Daily 11am-9am) is a natural hot spring for adults, more like an amusement park in itself. There are four floors of pampering and hot springs with high concentrations of sodium chloride, which is believed to increase blood circulation.