Shibuya Infoss Tower

A 22-floor, 102 m office tower completed in 1998 on Sakuragaoka-cho, just south of Shibuya Station. Owned by Hanadagakuen and also known as Hanazonosquare, the building represents the late-1990s wave of Shibuya redevelopment.

Use

Office tower

Area

Shibuya City

Completed

1998

Floors

22 above ground

Height

102 m

Developer

Hanadagakuen

A White Tower on Sakuragaoka Hill

South of Shibuya Station, the hill district of Sakuragaoka-cho has a quieter character than the neon-lit blocks around the scramble crossing. It was here, in 1998, that Shibuya Infoss Tower was completed — a 22-floor, 102 m office building owned by Hanadagakuen, a vocational-school corporation. The building is also known by the name Hanazonosquare. A few minutes on foot from Shibuya Station’s south exit, the tower occupies a position slightly removed from the main pedestrian flows, giving it a composed presence on the hillside despite sitting within one of Tokyo’s most active commercial zones.

The tower’s facade is finished in white, with a grid of windows arranged in even horizontal and vertical bands that give it a clean, ordered appearance against the mixed roofline of the surrounding neighbourhood. This restraint made it a modest but recognisable presence in a district that was then undergoing its first wave of large-scale redevelopment.

Shibuya’s Late-1990s Redevelopment Cohort

Shibuya Infoss Tower arrived in 1998 alongside several other significant buildings. Cerulean Tower, Shibuya Mark City, and this building all reflected the same late-boom momentum, adding height and floor space to a station district that was repositioning as a major Tokyo hub. More than a quarter of a century later, the neighbourhood has changed dramatically around it — Shibuya Scramble Square’s 260 m tower opened in 2019, and large portions of the station precinct have been entirely remade. Through all of this, Shibuya Infoss Tower continues operating as an active multi-tenant office building, an intact example of how Shibuya looked at the turn of the millennium.

Summary

Shibuya Infoss Tower was completed in 1998 at 22 floors and 102 m in Sakuragaoka-cho, Shibuya. Owned by Hanadagakuen and operating as a multi-tenant office building to this day, it stands as one of the clearest survivors of the generation of towers that first gave the south side of Shibuya its high-rise profile. Walking up the slope from the station’s south exit is a short but effective way to see how Shibuya’s layers of time overlap.