Tokyo considering Page No.225
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No.225 The Tokyo midtown

(It is the Tokyo guide to introduce by the image and the column).

It is as "the Defense Agency" because the map is old.
University of Tokyo Process Technology R & D Laboratories in the west side by the way
Now, it becomes "the national Arami art building".
Roppongi's new sight to see
"Tokyo midtown"


The Tokyo midtown was the redevelopment which was done in the old Defense Agency vacant lot (the Defense Agency moves to Ichigaya) of Roppongi and opened in the grand on March 30th in 2007. It becomes record-high business in the redevelopment which is done in Japan at present and the lot area which included a neighbor Japanese cypress city park becomes 10.1 ha, too. The business becomes Mitsui Real Estate Development, a national mutual aid agricultural cooperative joint association, Meiji Yasuda Mutual Life Insurance Co., Fukoku Mutual Life Insurance Co., Sekisui House and Daido Life Insurance Co. and appoints general architectural design office Skidmore Orwin dull & Merrill in America to the master architect (the whole plan of building).
Fusing to a high degree of "the job, the dwelling, 遊 and 憩" which the person and the corporation all over the world can communicate with about the concept of the redevelopment With the community building, in the site, it becomes the highest building in the Metropolitan area with the completion. Five buildings are constructed mainly in midtown Tower (the 248-m height) and there are they in the office, there are they in the commercial establishment, there are they in the hotel, there are they in the house and they become the compound redevelopment of the popularity doing cultural facilities attractive and now.
Mainly in Roppongi station, being situated on the diagonal line, with the triangle migration with the national Arami art building, whole Roppongi's synergy effect, too, becomes able to be expected with Roppongi Hills. Actually, on the place name, it is not Roppongi and it is situated on Akasaka 9-chome.

It makes a direct connection subway Roppongi station.
This, too, was great resort.

It becomes the interior where the Tokyo midtown, too, was conscious of "the summation".
The ceiling becomes the one to have used a grain.

Water is flowing through the ceiling.
By the positive light which comes in in the flow of this water
Becoming a flickeringly geometrical color
It becomes the enactment of the interesting shining. Of cool air's there being in the summer so

When seeing from above, it becomes the flow of cool water in this way.

The space which leads to the 1st floor "plazas"
The place to be using a bamboo becomes "a summation".

"The plaza" has a large-sized vision.


A commercial establishment is included "Galleria".
It becomes the space of the 4th floor wellholes and it becomes the color the basis of which was a grain.
The grain style is the color to feel warm warmness.

There was "a bamboo" in this wellhole, too.

The cooking class which has an English class, too

It becomes white space.
"Beauty & healthcare"

The Suntory museum entrance

Great Roppongi There was a window of the foreign currency exchanging money.
Recently, it got to come across the foreign currency exchanging money window finally in Tokyo.

In the 24-hour opening "The supermarket"
It is a Tokyu Store Chain Co., Ltd. keiretsu.


Because the restaurant is a national event line
It bought a box lunch in the previous supermarket and it had lunch outside.

Outside, it is possible to rest, sitting.

The Japanese cypress city park
This park which was from the front of the redevelopment
The serviceable plan decided by the participation of the local resident.

There is a fountain where there there is a movement and it is funny.
The child can touch, too.

the restaurant at the garden terrace is very popular "TOKA"
There is service of the live performance in the Mexican restaurant "TOKA"

The midtown from a variety of angles

But midtown Tower becomes the highest building in the Metropolitan area
When an observatory isn't set up and wanting to enjoy a view from above
It uses hotel "the Ritz-Carlton Tokyo" which is doing business in the upper class floor.

Of what well this?

It is in the Tokyo midtown that there is variously interesting enactment, too, !


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