The is a 231 m (roughly 758 ft) commercial

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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,

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.Sumitomo Fudosan Roppongi Grand Tower Outline
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

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

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and

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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

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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.

References

External links

Official Website
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