Oh, there were proposals: a tower garlanded with rails to distant cities, enabling visitors to toboggan home; another tower from whose top ... Ferris was hardly the first to imagine such a wheel.

Enjoy tree-top ... The Ferris Wheel is open day or night so you can get two different experiences riding it a couple of times. The ride is pretty smooth and you can see a great view of The Wharf ...

After more than 20 years, the iconic Ferris wheel in Odaiba ... special illumination every night. From sundown until 10 p.m. every night until Aug. 31, the giant wheel will be lit up repeatedly ...