Tokyo Big Sight

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Tokyo Big Sight ( T¿ky¿ Biggu Saito ) is the popular nickname for the Tokyo International Exhibition Center ( T¿ky¿ Kokusai Tenjij¿ ), a Japanese convention center that opened in April 1996. Located in Odaiba of 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.Contracted by the Tokyo Metropolitan Government's Bureau of Finance, the construction of the entire site was handled by eight contractors in total, among them companies such as the Hazama and Shimizu Corporations. Construction efforts began in October 1992 and were finalized in October 1996, the contract in total worth no less than 40,392 million Yen. A considerable 45% of that sum went towards the sole handler of the Tower segment, the Hazama Corporation.

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