Queens Square Yokohama

Opened in 1997 in the Minato Mirai 21 district, Queens Square Yokohama is a three-tower mixed-use complex with Tower A rising 36 floors and 172 meters. Alongside Landmark Tower, it defines the waterfront skyline of central Yokohama.

Use

Office tower

Area

Nishi-ku, Yokohama

Completed

1997

Floors

36 above ground, 5 below

Height

172 m

Total floor area

approx. 496,385 m²

Developer

Mitsubishi Estate, Tokyu, Sumitomo Corporation and others

Architect

Mitsubishi Jisho Sekkei, Nikken Sekkei

Three Towers on Yokohama’s Waterfront

In the Minato Mirai 21 district of Nishi-ku, Yokohama, adjacent to the base of Landmark Tower, a three-tower complex opened in July 1997. This is Queens Square Yokohama.

Tower A rises 36 floors above ground (with 5 basement levels) to a height of 171.8 meters. Tower B reaches 28 floors; Tower C, 21 floors. Together, the three towers account for a combined floor area of approximately 496,000 square meters. Design was shared between Mitsubishi Jisho Sekkei and Nikken Sekkei, while the development consortium — known as the T·R·Y90 enterprise — brought together Mitsubishi Estate, Tokyu Corporation, Sumitomo Corporation, and several other partners.

The ground beneath Queens Square was once the vast Mitsubishi Heavy Industries shipyard that defined this stretch of Yokohama’s harbor for much of the twentieth century. The 1989 Yokohama Exposition accelerated the transformation of this land into an urban waterfront district. Yokohama Landmark Tower opened in 1993, and Queens Square followed four years later, together forming the gateway that visitors now associate with Minato Mirai.

Music, Hotels, and the Harbor Together

What distinguishes Queens Square Yokohama from a standard office complex is the range of uses woven into its structure. Adjacent to Tower C, the Yokohama Grand InterContinental Hotel brings five-star hospitality directly into the waterfront quarter. Within the complex itself, the Yokohama Minato Mirai Concert Hall — a dedicated classical music venue equipped with a pipe organ — has made the site a center of cultural life for the city.

The commercial zones at the base of the towers serve a mixed audience: office workers on weekday lunches, tourists visiting the waterfront, and local residents who treat the area as part of their daily urban fabric. Open plazas face the harbor, and sea breezes move freely through the spaces between the towers — a quality of place that contrasts sharply with the densely enclosed commercial corridors of central Tokyo.

Walking the path from the base of Yokohama Landmark Tower through Queens Square Yokohama toward the water is one of the most direct ways to experience the scale and ambition of the Minato Mirai development. Pacifico Yokohama North lies a few minutes further along the same waterfront promenade.

Summary

Queens Square Yokohama, opened in 1997, is a three-tower mixed-use complex with a combined floor area of approximately 496,000 square meters. Tower A’s height of 172 meters places it firmly among the defining landmarks of Yokohama’s skyline. The combination of offices, concert hall, retail, and adjacent hotel in a harbor-facing setting gives the complex a breadth of purpose that makes it central to daily life in Minato Mirai.