Tokyo Big Sight

This guide to Tokyo Big Sight in Tokyo centers on Comiket, the self-published comics convention that grew from around seven hundred fans in a rented room in 1975 into a twice-yearly flood filling every hall here after settling permanently in 1996. It also recounts a tense night in 1998, when security found incendiary devices hidden inside the building the day before doors opened. Look up at the four inverted pyramids above you, sheathed in glass and titanium, spanning wide as a house.