The is a 231 m (roughly 758 ft) commercial
skyscraper
A skyscraper is a tall continuously habitable building having multiple floors. Modern sources currently define skyscrapers as being at least or in height, though there is no universally accepted definition. Skyscrapers are very tall high-ris ...
located in
Roppongi
is a district of Minato, Tokyo, Japan, famous for the affluent Roppongi Hills development area and popular night club scene. A few foreign embassies are located near Roppongi, and the night life is popular with locals and foreigners alike. It is ...
,
Minato ward,
Tokyo
Tokyo (; ja, 東京, , ), officially the Tokyo Metropolis ( ja, 東京都, label=none, ), is the capital and largest city of Japan. Formerly known as Edo, its metropolitan area () is the most populous in the world, with an estimated 37.468 ...
.
[Sumitomo Fudosan Roppongi Grand Tower Outline](_blank)
Sumitomo Realty & Development
The 40-story tower is a result of the . Completed in September 2016, it is the largest commercial office building in by property portfolio, a real estate developer that owns and manages over 200 office properties in central Tokyo.
Construction
Located in the
Roppongi
is a district of Minato, Tokyo, Japan, famous for the affluent Roppongi Hills development area and popular night club scene. A few foreign embassies are located near Roppongi, and the night life is popular with locals and foreigners alike. It is ...
district of Tokyo adjacent to the
Izumi Garden Tower
The is a 201 m (roughly 659 ft) high-rise building in the Roppongi district of Tokyo. The tower features a hotel, apartments, a fitness center, offices, shops and restaurants. When construction was completed in 2002, the tower was the tall ...
, also owned by Sumitomo Realty, on a site that used to house the former
IBM Japan
IBM has had business internationally since before the company had a name. Early leaders of the companies that would eventually become IBM (Mr Hollerith, Mr Flint, and Mr Watson) all were involved in doing international business.
In those early day ...
Head Office Building (87.4m, 1991) and the former Roppongi Prince Hotel, closed in 2006.
The building was designed by
Nikken Sekkei Ltd. and is being built by a joint venture between
Obayashi Corporation
is one of five major Japanese construction companies along with Shimizu Corporation, Takenaka Corporation, Kajima Corporation, and Taisei Corporation. It is listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange and is one of the Nikkei 225 corporations. Its head ...
and
Taisei Corporation
is a Japanese corporation founded in 1873. Its main areas of business are building construction, civil engineering, and real estate development. Taisei's headquarters are located at Shinjuku Center Building in Nishi-Shinjuku, Shinjuku, Tokyo.
Ta ...
.
Facilities
Built on a sloping site with a car passenger entrance and main atrium on the 4th floor, the 1st floor of the main office tower will be directly connected to
Roppongi-itchōme Station on the
Tokyo Metro Namboku Line
The is a subway line owned and operated by Tokyo Metro in Tokyo, Japan. The line runs between Meguro in Shinagawa and Akabane-Iwabuchi in Kita. The Namboku Line was referred to as Line 7 during the planning stages, thus the seldom-used officia ...
.
Office tenants
Floors 10 to 27 and 31 to 43 are designated as commercial office space. Publicly accessible retail and restaurants will occupy floors 2 and 3. The tower is the current headquarters of
TV Tokyo
JOTX-DTV (channel 7), branded as and known colloquially as , is a television station headquartered in the Sumitomo Fudosan Roppongi Grand Tower in Roppongi, Minato, Tokyo, Japan, owned and operated by the subsidiary of listed certified b ...
and
TX Network
TX Network (TXN) is a commercial television network in Japan owned by Nikkei, Inc. The "TX" is taken from the callsign of its flagship station, TV Tokyo. It is also known as TV Tokyo Network.
History
Tokyo Channel 12 almost went into ban ...
.
Residences
The main tower is joined by a 27-storey 109 meter residential building.
Roppongi 3-chome East District Redevelopment
Tokyo Metropolitan Government
Gallery
File:Sumitomo Fudosan Roppongi Grand Tower Void 2018.jpg, Indoor space access to office lobby.
File:Sumitomo Fudosan Roppongi Grand Tower Courtyard 2018.jpg, Courtyard.
File:Sumitomo Fudosan Roppongi Grand Tower Open space 2018.jpg, Open space.
See also
* List of tallest buildings and structures in Tokyo
Tokyo is the most populated of Japan's 47 prefectures. In Tokyo, there are 53 buildings and structures that stand taller than 187 metres (614 ft). The tallest structure in the prefecture is Tokyo Skytree, a lattice tower th ...
References
External links
Official Website
Roppongi
Skyscraper office buildings in Tokyo
Office buildings completed in 2016
Buildings and structures in Minato, Tokyo
2016 establishments in Japan
Residential skyscrapers in Tokyo
Residential buildings completed in 2016
Retail buildings in Tokyo
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