Big O (ビッグ・オー, Biggu ō) is a centerless non-rotating Ferris wheel at Tokyo Dome City in Bunkyo, Tokyo, Japan. Big O has a diameter of 60 metres (200 ft).[1] Tokyo's largest roller coaster, the 130-kilometre-per-hour (81 mph) Thunder Dolphin, passes through the centre of the wheel.[2]
Big O was constructed by Mitsubishi Heavy Industries.[1][3] Construction was completed in March 2003,[3] and the ferris wheel was opened to the public in May 2003.[1][4] Big O was listed as the world's first centerless Ferris wheel by Guinness World Records.[2][4]
Joysound karaoke machines were added to eight of its forty gondolas in August 2017.[5]
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- ^ a b c "〈パレットタウン大観覧車営業終了〉「もはやこれは観覧車と言えるのか？」いまだから振り返りたい…！ 日本各地の"すごすぎる観覧車"". Bunshun Online (in Japanese). 31 August 2022. Retrieved 31 August 2022.
- ^ a b Guinness World Records 2007 (2007 ed.), Guinness World Records Limited, 2006, p. 205, ISBN 0-9735514-4-5
- ^ a b "レジャー施設・アトラクション設備：事例" (in Japanese). Mitsubishi Heavy Industries. Retrieved 2022-09-02.
- ^ a b "First centreless ferris wheel". Guinness World Records. Retrieved 31 August 2022.
- ^ Murphy, Meg (26 July 2017). "Take your singing to new heights on the world's first karaoke Ferris wheel in Tokyo". Japan Today. GPlus Media. Retrieved 30 March 2018.
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