Tokyo Photo Gallery

Members of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) Evaluation Commission visited Tokyo in their tour of candidate cities for the 2016 Summer Olympics. On April 17 Commission Chair Nawal El Moutawakel and the other 12 members of the Commission visited the scheduled site for the main stadium in Harumi, Chuo Ward, and other proposed competition venues. At Koto Ward’s Tokyo Big Sight, the proposed site for the Main Press Centre, Governor Shintaro Ishihara used a huge scale-model of Tokyo to explain how the proposed compact venue layout would situate nearly all Olympic facilities within an eight-kilometer radius.

Photo center: Commission Chair Moutawakel (pointing with her left hand) with Tokyo Governor Ishihara (third person to her right)