The Toyosu Tower

A 43-story, 155-metre tower mansion near Toyosu Station, developed jointly by four major real estate companies as an early landmark of Tokyo's waterfront residential boom.

Use

Residential tower

Area

Koto City

Completed

2009

Floors

43 above ground, 1 below

Height

155 m

Total floor area

approx. 91,973 m²

Developer

Mitsui Fudosan Residential / Nomura Real Estate / Mitsubishi Estate / Tokyo Tatemono

Architect

Shimizu Corporation

155 Metres Above the Reclaimed Shore

In Toyosu 3-chome, Koto City, close to Toyosu Station on the Yurikamome line, a tower of 43 floors and 155 metres stands above the waterfront. The Toyosu Tower was jointly developed by four major real estate companies — Mitsui Fudosan Residential, Nomura Real Estate, Mitsubishi Estate, and Tokyo Tatemono — with Shimizu Corporation handling both design and construction. It was completed in 2009, with a total floor area of approximately 91,973 square metres.

Before redevelopment, this part of Toyosu was occupied by factories and warehouses that spread horizontally across the reclaimed land. A tower rising 155 metres replaced that horizontal scale with a vertical one that fundamentally reordered the neighbourhood. The Yurikamome line had already brought rail access over the canals; residential towers followed, concentrating along the waterfront in Toyosu, Shinonome, and Ariake. The Toyosu Tower stands as one of the earlier buildings to define that emerging skyline, establishing the roofline others would later build around.

A Four-Company Joint Venture

One of the notable aspects of this project is its structure: four major developers co-operating on a single building. This kind of joint venture was common in the large-scale bay-area redevelopments of the 2000s. The scale of reclaimed-land sites in the waterfront zone was often too large for any single developer to absorb alone, and the volume of units in a single tower demanded a combined sales network to reach the market effectively. Each of the four companies brought its own customer base and distribution channels to the project, and the arrangement is thought to have been a pragmatic response to the particular conditions of large-lot waterfront development.

After the tower’s completion, Toyosu continued to change rapidly. Commercial facilities and parks were added, major facilities were relocated into the area, and new high-rise towers rose nearby. The landscape of Toyosu 3-chome today looks entirely different from what it was in 2009 — yet the 155-metre line of The Toyosu Tower has remained constant through all of it, a fixed vertical marker in a neighbourhood still in the process of defining itself.

Summary

The Toyosu Tower was completed in 2009, with 43 floors above ground and one below, standing 155 metres tall and covering approximately 91,973 square metres. Jointly developed by Mitsui Fudosan Residential, Nomura Real Estate, Mitsubishi Estate, and Tokyo Tatemono, with Shimizu Corporation as designer and builder, it was among the first towers to fix Toyosu’s residential skyline. From the Yurikamome, or on foot around Toyosu Station, look up at the 155-metre outline against the bay-area sky and you are looking at where Tokyo’s waterfront story began to take its current shape.

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