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No.46 Sunshine City (redevelopment)

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Sunshine City was called "the "SUGAMO" prison" since he was requisitioned by the U.S. army after the war of Tokyo bridewell (. The Showa 53(1978) year of being the one to have done the vacant lot which was made as ) moved Adachi Ward Kosuge in the redevelopment It is the compound facilities which were equipped with the sunshine Prince Hotel world import mart and specialty shops "ARUPA" planetarium & international aquarium and so on at the same time as the skyscraper of the 60th floor the ground, 240 m which is the best (those days) of Japan and sunshine 60 are complete.

The aquarium which the Japan's highest place has "SARUKOTONARA" and so on became an eyeball about the Japan's highest building, too, and the excursionist came from various parts of Japan and sunshine City became the facilities to be bathed in the leaping footlights by. The hotel including the office, the convention center, the commercial amusement facilities where a conference and a display are made and so on are compound with the inside of this redevelopment and enter, and it says first mixed Youth's redevelopment in Japan and will be saying. In addition to making the chance to make such a redevelopment technique penetrate Japan, sunshine City is the development which was roughly contributed to the status the improvement of the whole town which is called "Ikebukuro" which is situated in Tokyo.

The person who doesn't overflow only when becoming on the weekend surges into 60 pieces of sunshine from the Ikebukuro station east exit and is absorbed just as it is to the underpass of the Tokyu hands side. The Japan's highest building changes to Tokyo Metropolitan Government and then at present, in now which had been made land mark Tower in Yokohama, it is sunshine 60 "NO". The topic seems to decrease (the "HATO" bus tour which comes to the sunshine, too, had decreased) compared with 以前 but delights the person of whom the event is plenty and it comes that air with the highest position is made to be able to be felt by the skin by opening the opening of the nan snake town and the 61th floor (Skydeck) which is a rooftop, and so on.

It becomes 4 pieces of layer structure from the 1st floor the specialty shops ""ARUPA"" basement to the 3rd floor the ground.


The fountain plaza

It thought that what and the delightful dream would be a crowded building when doing sunshine City first. The one is a fountain plaza. It makes the 3rd floor the ground a wellhole from the 1st floor the basement and it makes a fountain and a stage under it and the stage below can be seen from the person at the upstairs, too. For the first time, when seeing this, it is a schoolchild but it was moved. Moreover, to say that the pattern of the fountain changes according to the music, too, is interesting. When becoming the big fountain as it is possible to penetrate to the ceiling, a cheer arises from the neighborhood.

The fountain as it is possible to penetrate to the ceiling


In the top floor (the 3rd floor), it becomes the design by which natural light is introduced.
This light reaches the 1st floor the basement through the wellhole.


A Skydeck (the 61th floor rooftops) network is set up.


With only a great and high building there being
The various antenna (the cell phone) can be able to be installed in the rooftop.


"The portrait corner" "YA" "The commemoration medal" · ··· which is dear to ··


There is Tokyo passport section Ikebukuro branch, i.e. the surrender place of the passport
There is a travel product shop, too, next.


As for sunshine 60, the commercial establishment is only downstairs and mainly is an office building.
The design which is simple even if it is in the elevator hall for the office


It was installed in the underpass "The moving walkway".
It thinks to have been epoch-making as those days.


The tenant of the popularity, too, enters now.

This series is updated. It looks forward to the next time OBJ DO.

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