The Parkhouse Nishishinjuku Tower 60

A 60-story residential skyscraper completed in 2017 through an urban redevelopment project in the Nishi-Shinjuku 5-chome district. Standing approximately 199 meters tall, it participates in the same skyline as Nishi-Shinjuku's established office towers.

Use

Residential tower

Area

Shinjuku City

Completed

2017

Floors

60 above ground, 2 below

Height

199.16 m

Developer

Mitsubishi Jisho Residence, Sotetsu Real Estate, Marubeni

Architect

Fujita Corporation

A Residential Tower at the Edge of an Office District

Walk southwest from Shinjuku Station and the skyline changes character. The cluster of office towers that defines the Nishi-Shinjuku sub-center gives way, at its southern edge, to a finer-grained neighborhood of narrow lanes and older low-rise buildings. It was here, in the Nishi-Shinjuku 5-chome district, that The Parkhouse Nishishinjuku Tower 60 was completed in 2017. Standing 60 floors above ground and reaching approximately 199 meters (with the rooftop structure bringing the total to about 209 meters by some sources), it was jointly developed by Mitsubishi Jisho Residence, Sotetsu Real Estate, and Marubeni. Design and construction were handled by Fujita Corporation.

The site had long been a densely built residential area — an urban fabric of aging wooden structures with narrow access roads and limited open space. That character, inherited from the Taisho and early Showa eras, was also a source of fire and earthquake risk, making the district a candidate for the kind of comprehensive redevelopment enabled under Japan’s Urban Redevelopment Law.

From Crowded Neighborhood to High-Rise

Under the Type 1 Urban Redevelopment framework, original rights-holders in the district converted their claims on the old buildings into proportional rights in the new structure — a process that allowed the mosaic of small lots to be consolidated into a single large-scale complex. The result is a 60-floor, 2-basement-level tower whose footprint incorporates retail space and publicly accessible plazas at street level, connecting the building to the surrounding neighborhood.

At approximately 199 meters, the tower’s height places it in the same visual range as Nishi-Shinjuku’s major office buildings. Yet it is a residential building — a distinction that quietly shifts the western edge of the sub-center’s identity. Access is supported by the Toei Oedo Line’s Nishi-Shinjuku 5-chome Station nearby and the Tokyo Metro Marunouchi Line’s Nishi-Shinjuku Station within walking distance, linking residents directly to the office cluster and the broader city network.

Summary

The Parkhouse Nishishinjuku Tower 60 was completed in 2017, with 60 floors above ground and a height of approximately 199 meters. Developed under a Type 1 urban redevelopment scheme, it transformed a densely built low-rise neighborhood into one of the tallest residential buildings in Shinjuku City — standing at the fringe of the well-known office tower cluster and extending the sub-center’s skyline into residential use. If you visit this corner of Nishi-Shinjuku, look for the narrow lanes that survived alongside the tower: the contrast of old scale and new height is where the story of how Tokyo keeps remaking itself comes into sharpest focus.

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