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Yumenoshima (夢の島, lit. Dream Island or Island of Dreams ) is a district in Kōtō, Tokyo , Japan, consisting of an artificial island built using waste landfill in Tokyo Bay . It is not the first such island in the bay (see Umi-no-mori ja:海の森公園 ).
Yumeshima (夢洲) is an artificial island in Osaka Bay. It is part of Konohana-ku (此花区), one of the 24 wards of Osaka, Japan. It is near the mouth of the Yodo River. When all the landfill is completed the total area will be 390 hectares (960 acres). It is the site of Expo 2025, a World's Fair to be held in 2025. [1]
The greenhouse was established in 1988 in Yumenoshima ("Dream Island") Park, a reclaimed landfill and dumping ground in Tokyo Bay. [2] Its three domes, A, B, and C, currently contain about 1,000 species of tropical and semitropical plants.
Yumenoshima Park (夢の島公園, Yumenoshima Kōen) is a sports park in Yumenoshima, Kōtō Ward, Tokyo, Japan. It was made by improving a landfill site called Yumenoshima, which was the final disposal site for garbage from 1957 until 1967. Yumenoshima was the site of the archery event of the Tokyo Olympic Games in 2020.
[1] [2] Japan is the fourth-largest island country in the world, behind Australia, Indonesia, and Madagascar. [3] Japan is also the second-most-populous island country in the world, only behind Indonesia. According to a survey conducted by the Japan Coast Guard in 1987, the number of islands in Japan was 6,852. At that time, the survey only ...
Yumeshima Station (夢洲駅, Yumeshima-eki) is a metro station on the Osaka Metro Chūō Line in Konohana-ku, Osaka, Japan. It is the westernmost station of the Osaka Metro system. [ 1 ] As of September 2024, [update] Osaka Metro projects that the station will be used by a maximum of 130,000 people daily during the Expo 2025 .
Yumenoshima Stadium (江東区夢の島陸上競技場) is a 5,050-capacity multi-use stadium located in Kōtō, Tokyo on Yumenoshima (夢の島, literally "Dream Island") in Tokyo Bay. The stadium is mostly used for football but also has an athletics track. The seating capacity is 2,350 seats, and the grass stand holds 2,700 people.
At the end of the 16th century, Portuguese missionaries came to coastal islands of Japan and created brief grammars and dictionaries of Middle Japanese for the purpose of trade. The 1603–1604 dictionary Vocabvlario da Lingoa de Iapam has 2 entries: nifon [8] and iippon. [9] Since then many derived names of Japan appeared on early-modern ...