The is a high rise office building with integrated retail and restaurant facilities located in front of the Marunouchi Exit of

Tokyo Station Tokyo Station ( ja, 東京駅, ) is a railway station in Chiyoda, Tokyo, Japan. The original station is located in Chiyoda's Marunouchi business district near the Imperial Palace grounds. The newer Eastern extension is not far from the Ginza ...

in Chiyoda ward, Tokyo. The building was completed in May 2012 and was opened to the public on March 21, 2013.

Overview

The 38 story JP Tower replaces the former central mail sorting facility of

Japan Post was a Japanese statutory corporation that existed from 2003 to 2007, offering postal and package delivery services, banking services, and life insurance. It's the nation's largest employer, with over 400,000 employees, and runs 24,700 pos ...

. A large portion of the original five story low rise frontage of the Tokyo Central Post Office, designed in 1931 by Tetsuro Yoshida, was preserved and redeveloped as the Kitte retail and dining facility. JP Tower tenants include offices of the Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group. The basement floor connects directly to

, as well as other nearby buildings.

Intermediatheque

The Intermediatheque, located in the renovated Central Post Office building on the 2nd and 3rd floor, serves as a museum of academic culture and a venue for workshops and seminars open to the general public. The Intermediatheque was launched as an academic-industry collaborative project with the support of the

University of Tokyo , abbreviated as or UTokyo, is a public research university located in Bunkyō, Tokyo, Japan. Established in 1877, the university was the first Imperial University and is currently a Top Type university of the Top Global University Project b ...

. The facility is jointly operated by

and

The University Museum, The University of Tokyo is a museum in Tokyo, Japan. It is part of The University of Tokyo. UMUT was established in 1966 to mainly preserve the collection of the university. Today UMUT works with preservation, research, and exhibitions for the general public. History ...

. Many of the furnishings and exhibits on display dating back to the Imperial University era.

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Kitte Retail and Dining Facilities
Marunouchi Skyscraper office buildings in Tokyo Office buildings completed in 2012 Buildings and structures in Chiyoda, Tokyo Mitsubishi Estate Retail buildings in Tokyo Japan Post Holdings 2012 establishments in Japan {{Japan-struct-stub