Osaki Bright Tower

A 31-story, 142.9-meter mixed-use tower completed in April 2015 at the west exit of Osaki Station. Designed by Nihon Sekkei and developed by the Kitashinagawa 5-chome District 1 Urban Redevelopment Association.

Use

Office tower

Area

Shinagawa City

Completed

2015

Floors

31 above ground, 2 below

Height

142.9 m

Developer

Kitashinagawa 5-chome District 1 Urban Redevelopment Association

Architect

Nihon Sekkei

142.9 Meters Above Osaki’s West Exit

Step off the JR Saikyo Line at Osaki Station and look west: Osaki Bright Tower fills the view. The 31-story, two-basement tower reaches 142.9 meters and was completed in April 2015. The Kitashinagawa 5-chome District 1 Urban Redevelopment Association developed it; Nihon Sekkei provided the design. Office floors occupy the mid and upper levels, while retail and shared amenities fill the lower stories—a formula that has become standard in Tokyo’s station-adjacent redevelopments.

The tower stands next to Osaki Bright Core, together forming the western anchor of the Osaki Station precinct. Both buildings are linked directly to the station’s west exit, making them effectively carless destinations where the train is the natural way to arrive.

Osaki’s Transformation from Factories to Offices

Osaki was designated a “subcenter” of Tokyo in the 1980s, triggering a wave of redevelopment that replaced industrial sites with high-rise mixed-use towers over the following three decades. Gate City Osaki opened in 1999, ThinkPark Tower in 2004. Each project absorbed a former factory or logistics site and replaced it with offices, hotels, and public plazas. Osaki Bright Tower, completed in 2015, extends that lineage.

The neighborhood around Kitashinagawa 5-chome retained traces of its industrial past even as towers rose nearby. The urban redevelopment association that developed the building consolidated fragmented land ownership and replaced a mixture of old factories, small residences, and warehouses with a single integrated precinct. Walking the west side of Osaki today, the layering of these different development eras is visible in the varying heights and vintages of the towers that line the tracks.

Summary

Osaki Bright Tower was completed in April 2015 as a 31-story, 142.9-meter mixed-use tower at Osaki Station’s west exit. Designed by Nihon Sekkei, it is a defining landmark of Osaki’s decades-long transformation from an industrial district into one of Tokyo’s busiest office precincts. Take the Saikyo Line to Osaki and look up from the west exit to get the full measure of the tower.