Located within easy and direct access from Minato Mirai station, Ikebukuro area offers everything a curious traveller is looking for. "Sunshine city" complex with its observation deck on the 60th floor, the Ancient orient museum, an aquarium, World Import Mart, Alpha, which boasts of cuisines from around the world, a planetarium and other leisure and shopping facilities, Prince Hotel within the complex make this area one of the favourite sightseeing spots among foreign tourists. . For anime and manga lovers Ikebukuro also has a reputation for being an otaku hub. Multiple anime and manga merchandise shops are located there.