Tokyo Midtown
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| Location | 9 Akasaka Akasaka, Minato, Tokyo, Japan |
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| Status | Complete |
| Groundbreaking | May 18, 2004 |
| Constructed | 2004–2007 |
| Opening | March 30, 2007 |
| Use | Mixed |
| Website | www |
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| Architect | Skidmore, Owings & Merrill |
| Developer | Mitsui Fudosan Co., Ltd |
| Owner | Mitsui Fudosan Co., Ltd |
| Manager | Tokyo Midtown Management Co., Ltd. |
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| Cost | ¥370 billion ($3 billion) |
| Buildings | 6 |
| Size | 10 hectare |
Tokyo Midtown (東京ミッドタウン Tōkyō Middotaun?) is a 569,000-square-meter (6.1 million sq ft) mixed-use development in Akasaka, Tokyo, Japan. Completed in March 2007, the $3 billion (¥370 billion) project includes office, residential, commercial, hotel, and leisure space, and the new quarters of the Suntory Museum of Art. When completed, the Midtown Tower was the tallest building in Tokyo.
The project site takes up 78,000 square meters (19.4 acres) previously occupied by the Japan Defense Agency in Roppongi area of Minato, along Gaien Higashi and close to Roppongi Station, and less than a kilometer (half a mile) from the similarly scaled Roppongi Hills complex.
The primary developer is Mitsui Fudosan, working in concert with several partners. The project was designed by architectural firm Skidmore, Owings & Merrill;Nikken Sekkei is the local architect of record. Landscape architecture of the surrounding new 40,000 m² (10 acre) public park was designed by EDAW, the Suntory Museum of Art designed by Kengo Kuma, and the design of the retail Galleria handled by the Colorado-based CommArts.
The 330,000 square meters (3.5 million square feet) of office space includes as its main tenants Fujifilm, Fuji Xerox, Yahoo! Japan, Cisco Japan, UNIQLO, Nikko Asset Management and Konami, as well as a medical clinic affiliated with the U.S.-based Johns Hopkins Hospital. The luxury 250-room Ritz-Carlton Hotel occupies the 47th through 53rd floors of Midtown Tower, their first hotel in Tokyo, under a long-term lease arrangement. Other tenants include the international law firms Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy and Herbert Smith LLP.
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