3 articles tagged “Ikebukuro”
A 49-story, 189-metre supertall tower steps from Ikebukuro Station, where Toshima City Hall and 432 private condominiums share a single building — Japan's first civic-office-plus-residence integrated high-rise, completed in 2015.
Completed in 1978 as part of Sunshine City in Higashi-Ikebukuro, Toshima. With a gross floor area of 93,356 square metres, it serves as the complex's entertainment and exhibition core — housing a rooftop aquarium, a planetarium, an indoor theme park, and trade-fair halls. The precinct stands on the site of the former Sugamo Prison, one of postwar Tokyo's most charged pieces of land.
A 60-story building rising over Ikebukuro; long the tallest in Japan and a symbol of the subcenter.