Yumenoshima

Yumenoshima

Yumenoshima (夢の島?, literally "Dream Island") is a district in Kōtō, Tokyo, Japan, consisting of an artificial island built using waste landfill.

Construction started in the late 1950s as a potential solution to the garbage problem in the city of Tokyo.

Today, Yumenoshima has been covered over with a layer of top soil and includes a sports park (with baseball and soccer fields and a gymnasium), the Yumenoshima Tropical Greenhouse Dome, the Fukuryu Maru Memorial Museum, a large-scale yacht marina, waste disposal and incinerating facilities.

At one time the island was even the home of the Daigo Fukuryū Maru, a fishing boat which had been exposed to nuclear fallout during the Bikini Atoll test. The boat was sold to a scrap dealer in the 1960s (the levels of radiation had dropped to safe levels in the mid 1950s), and abandoned there.

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Coordinates: 35°39′00″N 139°49′49″E / 35.64990°N 139.83021°E / 35.64990; 139.83021|


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