Anyone who reads the news in Japan knows that when it comes to dealing with really big stuff, Tokyo Dome represents the ultimate measuring stick. Animal, vegetable, state-of-the-art facility—nearly everything, it seems, can best be explained as “the size of [x number of] Tokyo Domes!”
1 TD: amount of blood spilled in recent action flick Ninja Assassin (news.searchina.ne.jp)
15 TD: land occupied by Meiji Jingu Shrine (Omotesando Online)
25 TD: projected area of the new Shanghai Disneyland, set to open in 2015 (Nikkei Shimbun)
100 TD: area of the hotly debated Futenma Air Station in Okinawa (4510plan.jp)
246 TD: size of Miniatur Wunderland, the world’s largest model train display in Hamburg, Germany (Designtobira.com)
500 TD: volume of water found in craters on the moon’s North Pole (Asahi Shimbun)
7,800 TD: size of Kenya’s Sweetwater Game Reserve, recently visited by the Crown Prince (47news.jp)
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