Tokyo Midtown

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Tokyo Midtown
東京ミッドタウン

Information
Location 9 Akasaka
Akasaka, Minato, Tokyo, Japan
Status Complete
Groundbreaking May 18, 2004
Constructed 2004–2007
Opening March 30, 2007
Use Mixed
Companies
Architect Skidmore, Owings & Merrill
Developer Mitsui Fudosan Co., Ltd
Owner Mitsui Fudosan Co., Ltd
Manager Tokyo Midtown Management Co., Ltd.
Technical details
Cost ¥370 billion
($3 billion)
Buildings 6
Size 10 hectare
Website
www.tokyo-midtown.com/en
Signboard of Tokyo Midtown

Tokyo Midtown (東京ミッドタウン Tōkyō Middotaun) is a 569,000 square meter (6.1 million sq ft) mixed-use development in Akasaka, Tokyo, Japan. Completed in March 2007, the $3 billion (¥370 billion) project includes office, residential, commercial, hotel, and leisure space, as well as the tallest building in Tokyo and the new quarters of the Suntory Museum of Art.

The project site takes up 78,000 square meters (19.4 acres) previously occupied by the Japan Defense Agency in Roppongi area of Minato, along Gaien Higashi and close to Roppongi Crossing, and less than a kilometer (half a mile) from the similarly scaled Roppongi Hills complex.

The 330,000 square meters (3.5 million square feet) of office space includes as its main tenants Fujifilm, Fuji Xerox, Yahoo! Japan, Cisco Japan, UNIQLO, Nikko Asset Management and Konami, as well as a medical clinic affiliated with the U.S.-based Johns Hopkins Hospital. The luxury 250-room Ritz-Carlton Hotel occupies the 47th through 53rd floors of Midtown Tower, their first hotel in Tokyo, under a long-term lease arrangement.[1] Other tenants include the international law firms Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy and Herbert Smith LLP.

The 5-floor retail Galleria, with 73,000 square meters (786,000 sq ft) of stores, restaurants and shops includes the first Terence Conran restaurants in Japan, a wine bar (Coppola's Vinoteca) showcasing the wines of Francis Ford Coppola, and an outlet of high-end American food retailer Dean & DeLuca.

The primary developer is Mitsui Fudosan, working in concert with several partners. The project was designed by architectural firm Skidmore, Owings & Merrill;[2] Nikken Sekkei is the local architect of record. Landscape architecture of the surrounding new 40,000 m² (10 acre) public park was designed by EDAW, the Suntory Museum of Art designed by Kengo Kuma, and the design of the retail Galleria handled by the Colorado-based CommArts.

Tokyo Midtown is also the home of Design Sight 21_21, a design gallery/workshop created by fashion designer Issey Miyake and architect Tadao Ando. "The idea was to create not only a museum that shows exhibits," says Ando, "but also a place for researching the potentiality of design as an element that enriches our daily life, a place that fosters the public's interest in design by arousing in them different sights and perspectives on how we can view the world and the objects surrounding us."[3] The building, designed by Ando, is on the edge of the park area, and features 1,700 square meters (18,300 sq ft) of floor space, including two galleries and an attached cafe run by chef and restaurateur Takamasa Uetake. The split-level concrete structure includes a hand-sanded steel roof (whose design was inspired by Issey Miyake's A-POC ("A Piece of Cloth") concept) and 14-meter (46 ft) long glass panels.

Buildings

  • Midtown Tower is the second tallest building in Tokyo Prefecture at 248 meters (814 ft). It is the fifth-tallest in Japan, after Yokohama's Landmark Tower, Osaka's World Trade Center Building, Izumisano's Rinku Gate Tower Building, and the Tokyo Skytree. The building includes office space, condominiums, and, at the top floors, the Ritz-Carlton hotel.[citation needed] The tower has the headquarters of Hudson Soft.[4]
  • Midtown East
  • Midtown West has the headquarters of Fujifilm and the headquarters of Fuji Xerox.[5][6] The headquarters of Fuji Xerox moved to its current location on January 15, 2007.[7]
  • Parkside
  • Midtown Front
  • Midtown Gardenside (formerly known as Midtown West) will feature the Oakwood Premier Tokyo Midtown luxury serviced apartments.
  • Galleria

  • Inside the Galleria of Tokyo Midtown.

  • 21_21 Design Sight. Design by Tadao Ando.

Retail

Major retail operations at Tokyo Midtown include:

Galleria:

Plaza:

See also

  • List of tallest buildings and structures in Tokyo

References

  1. ↑ Statistics courtesy of Mitsui Fudosan
  2. ↑ "About Tokyo Midtown: Architect and Designer". 
  3. ↑ From "Sight of the Times" by Gordon Kanki Knight, Wallpaper*, Issue #98 (April 2007)
  4. ↑ "Corporate overview." Hudson Soft. Retrieved on July 12, 2010.
  5. ↑ "Head Office." Fujifilm. Retrieved on July 12, 2010.
  6. ↑ "FUJI XEROX Company Profile." Fuji Xerox. Retrieved on July 12, 2010.
  7. ↑ "FUJI XEROX Headquarters Map." Fuji Xerox. Retrieved on July 12, 2010.
  8. ↑ "JEAN-PAUL HEVIN." Tokyo Midtown. Retrieved on August 23, 2009.
  9. ↑ "NoKA CHOCOLATE." Tokyo Midtown. Retrieved on August 23, 2009.
  10. ↑ "J.LINDEBERG." Tokyo Midtown. Retrieved on August 23, 2009.
  11. ↑ "E.MARINELLA NAPOLI." Tokyo Midtown. Retrieved on August 23, 2009.
  12. ↑ "HARRY WINSTON." Tokyo Midtown. Retrieved on August 23, 2009.
  13. ↑ "BOTTEGA VENETA." Tokyo Midtown. Retrieved on August 23, 2009.
  14. ↑ "Chloe." Tokyo Midtown. Retrieved on August 23, 2009.
  15. ↑ "Seven-Eleven." Tokyo Midtown. Retrieved on August 23, 2009.
  16. ↑ "Tomod's express." Tokyo Midtown. Retrieved on August 23, 2009.
  17. ↑ "STARBUCKS COFFEE TOKYO MIDTOWN COMPLEX STUDIO." Tokyo Midtown. Retrieved on August 23, 2009.

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Coordinates: 35°39′57″N 139°43′52″E / 35.66583°N 139.73111°E / 35.66583; 139.73111

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