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Fox-Tale

April 22nd, 2007, 04:30 AM

Currently, many shopping towers are being built in Ginza.
And this is one of them:
Nicolas G Hayek Center opens next month.

Nicolas G Hayek Center Ginza is world's first Watch Landmark by the Swatch Group Ltd in Switzerland, world's biggest watch manufacturer.
Nicolas G Hayek Center in Ginza is world's largest Swatch store, and all the models of all the brands of Swatch are displayed throughout the tower.

http://ginza.keizai.biz/img/headline/1167280552_photo.jpg
Nicolas G Hayek Center Ginza
architect: Shigeru Ban (14 floors above the ground)

It is interesting to know that they will sell all brands of Swatch group there, from prestige brands of Blancpain, Brequet to middle range of Tissot, Hamilton, Calvin Klein.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Swatch_Group_Ltd.
http://www.swatchgroup.jp/

I wonder if they also sell SMART cars, a car manufacturer which is also part of Swatch group...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smart_%28automobile%29

Nicholas G. Hayek is the co-founder of Swatch Group, and he is a famous Lebanese.
Lebanese are known for being very good at business..

In Japanese history, the No.1 individual tax payer for the year 1988(best time of
Japanese bubble economy) was Lebanese, named Abdul Hadi Debs.

He came to Japan in 1928 and bought a lot of land in Yoyogi Uehara in Tokyo at a very low price when Japan was still a developing country,
and sold it at the highest price in 1988, in the midst of the bubble economy.

He gained profit of over 45,000,000,000(45 billion yen=about 400 million USD) by selling the land.
and paid 6,854,040,000 yen(about 60 million USD) as the income tax and left Japan forever to his homeland Lebanon,
before the bubble economy collapsed.
The amount of individual income tax he paid was the biggest amount in the Japanese history by that time and became a big news.
(The record was later broken by other people though.)

http://moto-ken.cool.ne.jp/material/choja/choja_88.html (Individuals Income Ranking for the year 1988, in Japanese language)

http://www.debscorp.com/group/our_history.html (about Abdul Hadi Debs)

Vapour

April 22nd, 2007, 08:02 AM

^Interesting story Fox-Tale :)

Vapour

April 22nd, 2007, 10:09 AM

My pictures of Tokyo Mid-town. Access from subway station, shopping mall and park and some views from 33th floor.

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Resona Bank office

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Convenience store

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Robot & gadget shop

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Suntory Museum of Art

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Fox-Tale

April 22nd, 2007, 12:43 PM

Tokyo Midtown looks like a university campus.
Many new universities in Japan look like this..(except for numerous shops and the Japanese garden).
Therefore, its design is typical and not so interesting in a way.

However, I think their good point is that they provide a huge park in the busiest point of the city..like Shinjuku Gyoen.

The park looks like an ordinary park, not a fancy one, so I think kids, families, and senior people can relax and eat lunch there, without caring about their clothes or fashion.

Because Roppongi is full of posh places with many fashion-conscious people, I think such a down-to-earth, relaxing place is precious and important.

April 22nd, 2007, 01:10 PM

What's that? For advertising?
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v153/sashimigadaisuki/P1180107.jpg

This would be a nice skyscraper design :)
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v153/sashimigadaisuki/P1180131.jpg

Fox-Tale

April 22nd, 2007, 04:26 PM

What's that? For advertising?

This would be a nice skyscraper design :)

Well, that is kind of a roller coaster called "half pipe"
It is located on the roof of a big discount chain "Don Quijote".
The discount shop is famous for being open 20 hours/day from 11 am till 7 am next morning, and 365 days/year .

The attraction was going to be opened on December 21, 2005, and
was supposed to become a sight-seeing spot for overlooking night view of Tokyo in the thrill ride.
However, due to strong opposition by the neighbors who were concerned about the noise generated by the ride, and about possible accidents caused by long operation hours(20 hours/day, the same as the discount shop) the company was forced to give up its plan.
The ride has never been into operation and still remains abandoned on the roof.

onmyoji

April 22nd, 2007, 05:50 PM

great pictures...really nice report!!

coldstar

April 22nd, 2007, 08:45 PM

Thanks for the info, Fox-Tale. and awesome shots, Vapour.

As for new department stores in Ginza, Tokyu Hands and Marui open the stores in Autumn.
Ginza is assimilating the atmosphere of Shibuya and Shinjuku more and more.
The snobish people would escape Ginza to Omotesando.

Tokyu Hands (14 floors above the ground)
http://ginza.keizai.biz/img/headline/1176793759_photo.jpg
Marui (21 floors above the ground)
http://hrscene.fc2web.com/pic/tokyotiyoda/yuurakutyo2.jpg

BTW, Capsule Tower in Ginza designed by Kisho Kurokawa is to be torn apart to be redeveloped.
http://img.news.goo.ne.jp/picture/kyodo/PN2007041501000469.-.-.CI0003.jpg

Shawn

April 23rd, 2007, 08:55 AM

http://hrscene.fc2web.com/pic/tokyotiyoda/yuurakutyo2.jpg

I work in an office almost directly opposite of this building . . . in fact, this is the very same view I have 5 mornings, lunches and evenings a week! I just walked through that crosswalk about an hour ago for lunch.

coldstar

April 23rd, 2007, 02:38 PM

Printemps Department Store or somewhere, Shawn?

Tokyo Central Post Office is to be rebuilt into a skyscraper!
Current office was built in 1931, designed by Tetsuro Yoshida, and its modernism beauty was praised by Bruno Taut, German architect of Art Nouveau. But finally, it is going to be built over!

Tokyo Central Post Office (low rise white bldg in the pic)
http://hrscene.fc2web.com/pic/tokyotiyoda/tokyostan2.jpg

Vapour

April 23rd, 2007, 04:50 PM

BTW, Capsule Tower in Ginza designed by Kisho Kurokawa is to be torn apart to be redeveloped.
http://img.news.goo.ne.jp/picture/kyodo/PN2007041501000469.-.-.CI0003.jpg

Can you elaborate more?? I hope "redevelopment" means replacing the door handle, I just love that building, it's a classic.

Shawn

April 24th, 2007, 03:13 AM

coldstar, I work at a marketing firm whose office is one block north of Printemps. It's right across from a Wendy's.

onmyoji

April 24th, 2007, 06:31 AM

teddybear

April 24th, 2007, 10:52 AM

Tokyo Looks awesome indeed! The most artistic, the cleanest and the ultimate Asian city.
I really want to get more photos of street level of Tokyo....

coldstar

April 24th, 2007, 01:38 PM

Can you elaborate more?? I hope "redevelopment" means replacing the door handle, I just love that building, it's a classic.
Yes, it's a magnum opus of his early architectual 'metabolism'.
But it's said that it contains toxic substance in the materials.
The matter went into litigation by Kurokawa's suit.
Anyway, Architectual Institute of Japan had asked the owner to save the building, but the owner made a tough choice to demolish it.

Blackraven

April 25th, 2007, 08:50 AM

Yes, it's a magnum opus of his early architectual 'metabolism'.
But it's said that it contains toxic substance in the materials.
The matter went into litigation by Kurokawa's suit.
Anyway, Architectual Institute of Japan had asked the owner to save the building, but the owner made a tough choice to demolish it.

I've seen pics of Kurokawa's latest project in Japan (National Art Center which opened a few months ago). So it would be exciting to see him breathe new life into his own classic creation.

Thing is, will he accept into be the one to modernize its design from the ground up or will he be disappointed that one of his first architectural/engineering masterpieces will be torn down???

coldstar

April 25th, 2007, 03:00 PM

New shopping tower, Ginza Veliva, has opened in Ginza.
HQ of Fujifilm used to be there before, but now the place has turned to be one of the most trendy shopping bldgs in Ginza.

Ginza Velvia
http://www.food-stadium.com/img/headline/1176946407.jpg
http://www.enjoytokyo.jp/img_bl/cocoa/115480_PC_L.jpg?Apr_19%2C_2007_2%3A23%3A20_PM
http://image.excite.co.jp/feed/orgrpt/chn11_rpt300_bals-1_500.jpg
http://image.excite.co.jp/feed/orgrpt/chn11_rpt300_apart_500.jpg

Ginza

April 26th, 2007, 06:45 AM

Tokyo represents the future and a contemporary lifestyle

Blackraven

April 26th, 2007, 07:44 AM

Does anyone have pics of the Nissan Skyline: 50th Anniversary Special Event?

The one held last Tuesday, April 24th??? I heard Ken Watanabe was there....

So do any of you guys have pics???

ChicagoNight

April 26th, 2007, 08:26 AM

Great panorama from a guy named Sephiroth who posted this a while ago.

http://image.blog.livedoor.jp/bluestylecom/imgs/1/7/1721a3b2.JPG

Grams

April 26th, 2007, 09:10 AM

Does anyone have pics of the Nissan Skyline: 50th Anniversary Special Event?

The one held last Tuesday, April 24th??? I heard Ken Watanabe was there....

So do any of you guys have pics???

There're some pictures you have may wanted.:)

http://blog.nissan.co.jp/SKYLINE/archives/2007/04/50th_ceremony.html
http://www.autobytel-japan.com/ncar/newmodel/skyline_coupe/index.cfm

ALKUN

April 26th, 2007, 11:10 AM

[QUOTE=ChicagoNight;12846352]Great panorama from a guy named Sephiroth who posted this a while ago.
^^ ^^

wow :eek:

awesome picture

Fox-Tale

April 26th, 2007, 02:41 PM

Great panorama from a guy named Sephiroth who posted this a while ago.

http://image.blog.livedoor.jp/bluestylecom/imgs/1/7/1721a3b2.JPG

In my opinion, this photo looks tasteless, too crowded and ugly.
Each piece of building is unique and beautiful, but as a whole city,
they dont match one another and looks ugly...
I think Tokyo should restrict the exterior of the buildings like London
or other European cities...
They are full of chaos with different, poorly-unified styles of buildings..

but I think night view, especially in water front area of Tokyo is wonderful.

Grams

April 26th, 2007, 04:51 PM

Great panorama from a guy named Sephiroth who posted this a while ago.

Do you know where did it be taken? I guess it's a skycraper mansion at Minamisenju near the Lala Terrase.:banana: 　
Could I repost with fixing inside of some distances?

http://maps.google.co.jp/maps?f=q&hl=ja&q=%E3%83%A9%E3%83%A9%E3%83%86%E3%83%A9%E3%82%B9&sll=36.5626,136.362305&sspn=40.939615,68.994141&layer=&ie=UTF8&om=1&z=16&ll=35.735871,139.800339&spn=0.020413,0.033689

ChicagoNight

April 26th, 2007, 06:11 PM

In my opinion, this photo looks tasteless, too crowded and ugly.
Each piece of building is unique and beautiful, but as a whole city,
they dont match one another and looks ugly...
I think Tokyo should restrict the exterior of the buildings like London
or other European cities...
They are full of chaos with different, poorly-unified styles of buildings..

but I think night view, especially in water front area of Tokyo is wonderful.

It's an opinion, but that's the beauty of the city to me. I love the density and craziness... it shows what a bustling and lively place Tokyo is.

And to Grams, I do not know where this was taken but I dont care if you "fix distances" since I didnt take it. You mean you want to crop it?

Grams

April 26th, 2007, 06:43 PM

And to Grams, I do not know where this was taken but I dont care if you "fix distances" since I didnt take it. You mean you want to crop it?

Here, I cropped.
http://img02.yourpix.org/images/04.07/26/1177605625tokyopanoramaview01.jpg

ChicagoNight

April 26th, 2007, 10:23 PM

Here's another great density pic, this one from sdtj:

http://img140.imageshack.us/img140/1929/tokyo13004gq.jpg

coldstar

April 27th, 2007, 05:53 PM

ShinMaru Biru opened yesterday!
(middle: 198m)
http://blog63.fc2.com/s/sky1966/file/20070112225037.jpg

Blackraven

April 28th, 2007, 03:44 AM

ShinMaru Biru opened yesterday!
(middle: 198m)
http://blog63.fc2.com/s/sky1966/file/20070112225037.jpg

Biru = Beer???

Did anyone here say "beer"?

Hope you can give me a free pint of Guiness or Asahi draft beer. :lol:

Time to get myself a free drink :cheers:

japanese001

April 28th, 2007, 02:23 PM

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giovani kun

April 29th, 2007, 06:23 PM

Blackraven ..^^ u are funny..Biru = building
Biruu = Beer

giovani kun

April 29th, 2007, 06:24 PM

Blackraven ..^^ u are funny..Biru = building
Biruu = Beer :cheers:

:cry: Sorry for double post..but the site had some problems

Muse

April 30th, 2007, 08:37 AM

No, biiru = beer. The 'i' sound is longer.

Fox-Tale

April 30th, 2007, 07:06 PM

Blackraven ..^^ u are funny..Biru = building
Biruu = Beer :cheers:

:cry: Sorry for double post..but the site had some problems

No, biiru = beer. The 'i' sound is longer.

both are wrong.
ビール = Beer
ビイル or ビルウ　are not correct:cheers:

Par

May 1st, 2007, 01:53 PM

Ginza is assimilating the atmosphere of Shibuya and Shinjuku more and more. The snobish people would escape Ginza to Omotesando.
I doubt it. Shinjuku is the most advanced city of Tokyo, Shibuya is the town for the fashionable people, Ikebukuro is the one between them, relatively ordinary people's taste. Ginza is extremely old fashioned, only the old people, Otaku & the rich people who don't know how to spend money go shopping and play there. I really disljke the eastern parts of Tokyo, the people are peculiar. Everything is basically tacky and mediocre. I don't even wanna get involved with them.

Par

May 1st, 2007, 02:10 PM

Omotesando & Aoyama included, Minato Ward is shit. The home to crappy Gaijins, exploited by them. You'll be in serious trouble if you come to Shinjuku.

coldstar

May 1st, 2007, 02:48 PM

http://hrscene.fc2web.com/pic/tokyotiyoda/tokyostan2.jpg
woooww that s a good news for tokyo station area....do you have more details about the skyscraper??

details of the reconstrution of Tokyo Central Post Office has been announced today.
According to the Asahi, Tokyo Central Post office new tower will be 200m high. (37 floors above the ground. floor space is 190,000 sq meters)

Besides, Osaka Central Post Office in Umeda and Nagoya Central Post Office at the station area are both to be rebuilt to high scrapers. Some other central post offices in big cities are also supposed to be rebuilt!

coldstar

May 1st, 2007, 02:58 PM

pics of brandnew office tower in Marunouchi financial district, Mitsubishi's ShinMaru Biru
classy design by Sir Michael Hopkins
http://allabout.co.jp/gourmet/eatoutwomen/closeup/CU20070417A/img46.jpghttp://allabout.co.jp/gourmet/eatoutwomen/closeup/CU20070406A/img9.jpg
http://allabout.co.jp/gourmet/eatoutwomen/closeup/CU20070417A/img45.jpghttp://allabout.co.jp/gourmet/eatoutwomen/closeup/CU20070406A/img10.jpghttp://allabout.co.jp/gourmet/eatoutwomen/closeup/CU20070406A/img11.jpg

Pacific_leopard

May 1st, 2007, 03:14 PM

beautiful modern buildings! :)

Grams

May 1st, 2007, 06:09 PM

Has anyone linked this picture before?
http://img409.imageshack.us/img409/6366/tokyohighresgi6.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

LordMarshall

May 2nd, 2007, 04:13 AM

thats a great picture

Grams

May 2nd, 2007, 12:15 PM

Amaging pictures of Tokyo using HDR
http://www.flickr.com/photos/altus/

He is one of my fav photographers.:banana2:
His images give me another aspect of Tokyo.

Tokyo VR Project
This site provides a local site of Tokyo panorama views. You may experience some dynamic or unusual sorroundings.
http://tokyo-vr.com/
-Panorama Gallery
http://tokyovr.blog6.fc2.com/
http://tokyo-vr.com/list00.html
http://www.northern-lights.co.jp/hiresVR/index.html

Par

May 2nd, 2007, 01:44 PM

coldstar

May 2nd, 2007, 02:43 PM

Par

May 2nd, 2007, 03:18 PM

not ugly but just banal. Considering the neigboring area of the Imperial Palace, the conservativeness here is inevitable.
This area also has the atomosphere of Osaka. Lots of the lowest class labours and poorest people.

Don't you know minimum wage law?
What is that?

Par

May 2nd, 2007, 03:27 PM

A lot of the people in the eastern Tokyo wards are jealous of Shibuya. Many people in this area dying their hairs to compete with them. They look shit. hahaha.

Ryuhei

May 2nd, 2007, 05:05 PM

Tokyo VR Project
This site provides a local site of Tokyo panorama views. You may experience some dynamic or unusual sorroundings.
http://tokyo-vr.com/

Great! This is my favourite "Virtual Reality view": http://0740.rocketspace.net/QuickTimeVR/siodome/01/index.html :)

onmyoji

May 2nd, 2007, 05:35 PM

Fox-Tale

May 2nd, 2007, 10:14 PM

edit

Fox-Tale

May 2nd, 2007, 10:19 PM

I think the Marunouchi's skyline is ugly. Not only just ugly but laughable. How can you build such ugly bunch of junks in the middle of a nation's capital city. Many people working in this district are hired rediculously cheap like 150000Yen per month. How can you live like that. Even the prostitutes earn a lot more. This is the place where the people work only based on the name of the university and spend more than 2,000 yen for horrible meals everyday. And everyone turns into a typical ugly Japanese salary man until they die. STAY AWAY.

I agree that the salary in Japan is much lower than what foreigners imagine.

As you say, 150000 yen per month, after tax deduction, is quite common for new graduates or contract workers in Japan.

And their typical monthly expenditure will be like this:

65000 yen for apartment rent(16m2 one room)
35000 yen for food & beverage
10000 yen for telephone lines, mobile phone, and internet
10000 yen for electricity, water, and gas
10000 yen for clothes and laundry
10000 for self-education(books etc)
5000 for entertainment such as music cd,
5000 yen for dining out with friends or colleagues
------------------
total 150000 yen
no money for saving left..

so, it is very difficult to live in Japan, especially if you are living alone in Tokyo.
Believe me, I say this as a real Japanese living in Tokyo.

As the evidence, see the report of Prices and Earnings 2006 by UBS
http://www.ubs.com/1/ShowMedia/ubs_ch/wealth_mgmt_ch/research?contentId=103982&name=eng.pdf

According to the report,
if New York is 100, the Prices of the Cities are as follows(including rent):

London 105.5
New York 100.0
Oslo 94.6
Tokyo 93.4
Zurich 87.3
Copenhagen 86.3
Geneva 85.8
Dublin 84.3
Chicago 82.2
Los Angeles 80.6
Luxembourg 76.6
Stockholm 75.8
Vienna 74.0
Toronto 71.4
Munich 71.2
Berlin 64.4

If New York is 100, the Wages of the Cities are as follows(Net amount after tax-deduction):

Zurich 124.2
Geneva 115.4
Oslo 110.8
Dublin 104.6
New York 100.0
Luxembourg 98.1
Los Angeles 97.0
London 96.0
Copenhagen 95.7
Chicago 94.7
Tokyo 87.4
Munich 84.5
Berlin 82.1
Vienna 81.2
Toronto 80.4
Brussels 78.2
Stockholm 77.0

-------------------------------------------------

It is sad, but the truth is, things are very expensive in Tokyo,
while the salary is relatively low.
That means life is much harder than major European cities.

I wish the salary in Japan will rise in the future..now average people's lives are miserable.

Ryuhei

May 3rd, 2007, 12:28 AM

dom

May 3rd, 2007, 01:15 AM

Par. You are a bigoted twat. There's nothing wrong with Osaka. Plenty wrong with you. Fuck off and c u next tuesday. :cheers:

dom

May 3rd, 2007, 01:22 AM

I can't believe that the Nagakin Capsule hotel will be demolished. Internationally this is one of the most famous examples of post-war Japanese architecture.

I am astounded that it is being demolished.

Vapour

May 3rd, 2007, 12:00 PM

Bye bye PAR, I don't like your (non-existent) manners.

--

Now guys, keep discussing the topic but don't forget the good vibes :okay:

A couple of days ago there was a demonstration of "freeters" asking for a salary rise, right?
Very possibly people in Scandinavian countries, Benelux or Switzerland enjoy better salaries and conditions than the Japanese, but as you go south in Europe, things change A LOT.

Fox-Tale

May 3rd, 2007, 07:27 PM

Miserable? That is a little excessive, I think. Of course, living with only one salary is tough, especially in big cities on developed countries (in America and Europe too)
Japan has only 4,1 % unemployment rate, here in Spain (world´s 8th biggest economy and one of Western Europe´s fastest growing economies) we have 8,5% (the average in European Union countries is 7,4% -and that´s a record low-).
Looking to your numbers (prices of the city - wages), the case of London is much worse:
New York -- 100 - 100 (0)
Tokyo ----- 93,4 - 87,4 (+6)
London ---- 105,5 - 96,0 (+9,5)
Oh yes, life in London must be harder than that in Tokyo!
I feel sorry for them.

Unfortunately, most salary men in Japan can only have one job, because
having another job is prohibited by company rules in most companies.
That's why life is tough for most salarymen in Japan.

Bye bye PAR, I don't like your (non-existent) manners.

--

Now guys, keep discussing the topic but don't forget the good vibes :okay:

A couple of days ago there was a demonstration of "freeters" asking for a salary rise, right?
Very possibly people in Scandinavian countries, Benelux or Switzerland enjoy better salaries and conditions than the Japanese, but as you go south in Europe, things change A LOT.

Oh yes...Freeters problem is a big social issue now.
I think the government must deal with it ... otherwise there will be more frustrated guys and society will be more unstable, and unsafe.
Europe must be so different depending on the region, but I envy them they can move and work relatively freely inside EU countries.

GHORMEH SABZi

May 3rd, 2007, 08:57 PM

WOW!! so beautiful!! my friend is chinese and his girlfriend is japanese, and we have been thinking about go to tokyo for a visit. tokyo is like one of the places I MUST visit hahahha its so alive and exciting!!!!:okay: :rofl:

coldstar

May 4th, 2007, 05:43 AM

UAE's high-end hotel chain, Jumeirah is to open a super luxurious hotel in Tokyo Central in 2010. It's their first hotel in East Asia.
Burj al-Arab of Jumeirah Group in Dubai.
http://www.thewonderingeye.co.uk/Images/Large/dubai_burj_al_arab.jpg

Capitol Tokyu Hotel near Parliament Bldg (Capitol Tokyu is famous as the hotel the Beatles stayed at in their Tokyo Tour 1966) is to be reconstructed next year. The detail was unvailed. The architect is Kengo Kuma, up-and-coming 4th generation architect of Japan). He is now designing Dellis Cay Resort in Caribbean Sea, together with Zaha Hadid.

The Peninsula Hotel Tokyo is almost completed
http://www.eonet.ne.jp/~building-pc/tokyo-kensetu/to-111hibiya.JPG

Shangri-La Hotel Tokyo is still under construction
http://www.eonet.ne.jp/~building-pc/tokyo-kensetu/to-178mori.JPG

Blackraven

May 4th, 2007, 02:25 PM

Shangri-La Hotel Tokyo is still under construction
http://www.eonet.ne.jp/~building-pc/tokyo-kensetu/to-178mori.JPG

Oh yes:)

This would make it the first Shangri-La hotel in Japan.

It is a collaboration between Shangri-La Hotels and Resort Limited and Mori Building (owned by real estate/construction mogul Minoru Mori) and itwill be finished within 2009.

It's gonna be real good (Shangrila is known for its 5-star hotels & resorts).

coldstar

May 4th, 2007, 02:53 PM

Oh yes:)

This would make it the first Shangri-La hotel in Japan.

It is a collaboration between Shangri-La Hotels and Resort Limited and Mori Building (owned by real estate/construction mogul Minoru Mori) and itwill be finished within 2009.

It's gonna be real good (Shangrila is known for its 5-star hotels & resorts).
To be more accurate, it's Mori Trust, not Mori Building. Mori Trust is owned by Akira Mori, a little brother of Minoru Mori, the owner of Mori Building.
Mori Trust is on bad terms with Mori Building these days, thus they are making their way into luxurious hotel field in Tokyo uniquely. Conrad Hotel Tokyo (2005) is one of their luxurious hotels throughout the nation.

By the way, as for hotels from Asian countries, Mandarin Oriental Tokyo is now rated as the best among the new comers here.

Mandarin Oriental Hotel Tokyo (open in 2005), designed by Cesar Pelli
http://allabout.co.jp/auto/statuscar/closeup/CU20060427A/mandarin013.jpghttp://allabout.co.jp/auto/statuscar/closeup/CU20060427A/mandarin015.jpg
http://allabout.co.jp/auto/statuscar/closeup/CU20060427A/mandarin012.jpghttp://allabout.co.jp/auto/statuscar/closeup/CU20060427A/mandarin014.jpg
http://allabout.co.jp/auto/statuscar/closeup/CU20060427A/mandarin005.jpghttp://allabout.co.jp/auto/statuscar/closeup/CU20060427A/mandarin001.jpg
http://allabout.co.jp/auto/statuscar/closeup/CU20060427A/mandarin002.jpghttp://allabout.co.jp/auto/statuscar/closeup/CU20060427A/mandarin010.jpg

BTW,
Raffles Hotel Tokyo (due to open in 2007) seems to be suspended, because all the hotels of Raffles International, bsed in Singapore, was acquired by a US investment firm , Colony Capital, and it was combined with Fairmont Hotels of Canada.

Audiomuse

May 4th, 2007, 05:48 PM

Tokyo is just so amazing. It is the best place ever, and I want to be a part of it!

Fox-Tale

May 4th, 2007, 08:24 PM

Fox-Tale

May 4th, 2007, 08:28 PM

Tokyo is just so amazing. It is the best place ever, and I want to be a part of it!

I wonder why more and more foreigners are interested in Tokyo(or in Japan) recently..

Is it because of the influence of Hollywood movies??

Not only Sony Pictures but also other movie companies seem to show Tokyo so often in the movies recently...

Anyway, I hope more foreigners will visit Japan and enjoy it,
bringing more tourists is good for Japanese economy and cultural understanding too.

GHORMEH SABZi

May 4th, 2007, 10:20 PM

I wonder why more and more foreigners are interested in Tokyo(or in Japan) recently..

Is it because of the influence of Hollywood movies??

Not only Sony Pictures but also other movie companies seem to show Tokyo so often in the movies recently...

Anyway, I hope more foreigners will visit Japan and enjoy it,
bringing more tourists is good for Japanese economy and cultural understanding too.

i think it does have to do with hollywood, here in southern california as far as i know it is like the cool thing if you and your friends all go out to a sushi bar.. for awhile it use to be hooka bar.. personally myself that im really intrested to visit is because my friend she is japanese and i will admit hollywood has been like a extra push for me wanting to come visit tokyo! :cheers2: :dj:

coldstar

May 5th, 2007, 02:48 AM

Great news!!
Dubai is finally approaching Tokyo...
I hope they will make a seven-star hotel as they already did in their home country!!

Besides, Indonesia's super luxurious resort chain, Amanresorts is to land in Japan finally.
First, Aman is to open a super deluxe resort hotel in Kyoto at the end of next year.
AmanKyoto is their first resort hotel in East Asia.

Amanresorts in the world
http://www.magellanresorts.co.jp/aman/amanpuri/img/hoteltop_photo.jpghttp://www.magellanresorts.co.jp/aman/amanpulo/img/hoteltop_photo.jpghttp://www.magellanresorts.co.jp/aman/borabora/img/hoteltop_photo.jpg
http://www.magellanresorts.co.jp/aman/amangalla/img/hoteltop_photo.jpghttp://www.magellanresorts.co.jp/aman/amanikhas/img/hoteltop_photo.jpghttp://www.magellanresorts.co.jp/aman/amangani/img/hoteltop_photo.jpg
http://www.magellanresorts.co.jp/aman/amanjena/img/hoteltop_photo.jpghttp://www.magellanresorts.co.jp/aman/amankila/img/hoteltop_photo.jpghttp://www.magellanresorts.co.jp/aman/amandari/img/hoteltop_photo.jpg

Nomels

May 5th, 2007, 04:54 AM

I wanna visit Tokyo myself one day

Fox-Tale

May 5th, 2007, 06:41 AM

Besides, Indonesia's super luxurious resort chain, Amanresorts is to land in Japan finally.
First, Aman is to open a super deluxe resort hotel in Kyoto at the end of next year.
AmanKyoto is their first resort hotel in East Asia.

Amanresorts in the world
http://www.magellanresorts.co.jp/aman/amanpuri/img/hoteltop_photo.jpghttp://www.magellanresorts.co.jp/aman/amanpulo/img/hoteltop_photo.jpghttp://www.magellanresorts.co.jp/aman/borabora/img/hoteltop_photo.jpg
http://www.magellanresorts.co.jp/aman/amangalla/img/hoteltop_photo.jpghttp://www.magellanresorts.co.jp/aman/amanikhas/img/hoteltop_photo.jpghttp://www.magellanresorts.co.jp/aman/amangani/img/hoteltop_photo.jpg
http://www.magellanresorts.co.jp/aman/amanjena/img/hoteltop_photo.jpghttp://www.magellanresorts.co.jp/aman/amankila/img/hoteltop_photo.jpghttp://www.magellanresorts.co.jp/aman/amandari/img/hoteltop_photo.jpg

Wow...they look gorgeous and beautiful...

They look like a beach resort.
But there is no sea at the City of Kyoto(there is sea on the north of Kyoto Prefecture, but far away from the City of Kyoto)...so I suppose they will make another kind of non-beach resort hotel? such as mountain resort.

onmyoji

May 5th, 2007, 07:56 AM

I read yesterday that japanese government is planning to build many new skyscrapers in a huge area not too far from toranomon and akasaka in order to build Tokyo as international financial center....woooww sounds amazing and futuristic..

Grams

May 5th, 2007, 08:29 AM

Also, Japan's Postal Service has under considerated some architecturists to rebuild
their main service centres much higher and bigger, too.:yes:

coldstar

May 5th, 2007, 12:12 PM

Yup, Japan's Postal Service has begun to invite the public participation for the design of New Tokyo Central Post Office.
I really wish ingenious world-class architects, such as Hiroshi Hara, Toyo Ito, Shin Takamatsu, Riken Yamamoto.., would win the competition!

I read yesterday that japanese government is planning to build many new skyscrapers in a huge area not too far from toranomon and akasaka in order to build Tokyo as international financial center....woooww sounds amazing and futuristic..

I read the same article, too. The decision by the Government will accelarate the current construction booms in Tokyo.

BTW, some pic from Roppongi

Shinagawa area (you can see Sony City, and Haneda Airport in the distance)
http://image.blog.livedoor.jp/bluestylecom/imgs/b/f/bf277190.JPG
Shibaura Area (you can see Odaiba across the channel)
http://image.blog.livedoor.jp/bluestylecom/imgs/f/a/fa94e4f5.JPG
and
Kounan Area (none of these towers existed a few years ago)
http://image.blog.livedoor.jp/bluestylecom/imgs/a/3/a3d1c571.JPG

Ginza

May 6th, 2007, 06:08 AM

Are there any pictures on the hotel propsed by the Jumeirah group

japanese001

May 6th, 2007, 04:32 PM

http://img127.imageshack.us/img127/4396/76917285fo2.jpg

Blackraven

May 6th, 2007, 05:57 PM

^^
Sexy lamp posts

Btw, when was that Matsuya Ginza shopping complex built? I haven't seen that before.

--------------------------
Also....

Do you think that this shot is from some place in Tokyo?

http://press.nissan-global.com/COMMON/IMAGES/CAMPAIGN/LAFESTA/LOW/01.jpg

Judging from the roadside and the way the stones were placed on the pavement, I was thinking that this pic was from a new place in Japan (more like an area in Shinbashi or in the Shiodome West District).

In any case, can anyone kindly care to verify???

Thanks.

coldstar

May 7th, 2007, 01:07 PM

Are there any pictures on the hotel propsed by the Jumeirah group
There's no rendering yet. But as to AmanKyoto, Amanresorts released the details. AmanKyoto is located in 0.5 mile north of Golden Temple in Kyoto. And dozens of Japanese-style manor houses will be built there.

BTW, Giorgio Armani is to open first 'Armani Hotel' in Burj Dubai Tower (U/C) in Dubai. After that, He is said to open a hotel in Tokyo.
BVLGARI already has run BVLGARI Hotel's in Milan and Jimbaran area in Bali Indonesia.
BVLGARI is of immediate interest to open a hotel in Tokyo as well, since BVLGARI is to open 'BVLGARI Tower' (world's largest BVLGARI shop and BVLGARI restaurant) in Ginza this autumn, and many Japanese stay both BVLGARI hotels.

JHUAN

May 7th, 2007, 05:54 PM

:D :D

japanese001

May 8th, 2007, 02:30 PM

http://img155.imageshack.us/img155/5933/tokyoho4.jpg

http://img155.imageshack.us/img155/1557/tokyo1gu7.jpg

http://img155.imageshack.us/img155/2185/tokyo2tz5.jpg

japanese001

May 8th, 2007, 02:32 PM

yokohama
http://img155.imageshack.us/img155/9219/yokoln9.jpg

japanese001

May 9th, 2007, 02:45 PM

azcJCLrwU74

kurakura

May 10th, 2007, 01:34 AM

i didnt know japanese type in english:lol:

konichiwa......greetings from singapore.

anyway...the only thing that is stoping japan to have a one of the tallest building in the world is because of the earthquake?no?

MoonPrincess

May 10th, 2007, 10:26 PM

Pretty pictures. I LOVE the Japanese so much. <3

teddybear

May 11th, 2007, 05:42 AM

Tokyo has been modern and trendy way back to early 1900!

coldstar

May 11th, 2007, 02:07 PM

Pics of Sony City in Shinagawa area.

From JR Shinagawa Stn.

(from the left, NTT Shinagawa Bldg, Sony City (Sony's brandnew world's HQ Bldg), and Sony-Ericsson Tokyo HQ Bldg)
http://blog.so-net.ne.jp/_images/blog/_06a/mysony/7257777.jpg

Around Sony City
buildings of Shinagawa Inter-City and Sony Technology Center
http://blog.so-net.ne.jp/_images/blog/_06a/mysony/7257774.jpg

http://blog.so-net.ne.jp/_images/blog/_06a/mysony/5310634.jpg
http://blog.so-net.ne.jp/_images/blog/_06a/mysony/5310617.jpg
http://blog.so-net.ne.jp/_images/blog/_06a/mysony/7257794.jpg

Sony's new HQ is not tall (only 20 floors above the ground),
but the office floor space is extremely extense. (larger than soccer stadium indeed!).
This building was designed by Plantec Architects. (one of Japan's notable design firms)
As for the environmentally sensitive technology of buildings, Sony City is on the cutting edge without doubt.

Coolant tank on the rooftop
http://www.sony.co.jp/SonyInfo/Environment/ForTheNextGeneration/csr/interview/img/img_ayako_02_4.jpg
but usually there is no need to use it. Cooling water for high-efficiency turbofreezing machine in the building is reutilized from the sewage-treatment plant.

greenery on the rooftop
http://www.sony.co.jp/SonyInfo/Environment/ForTheNextGeneration/csr/interview/img/img_ayako_02_6.jpg

solar sensors on the top
http://www.sony.co.jp/SonyInfo/Environment/ForTheNextGeneration/csr/interview/img/img_ayako_02_7.jpg
These sensors adjust automatically to the degree of the angle of the blinds.
http://www.sony.co.jp/SonyInfo/Environment/ForTheNextGeneration/csr/interview/img/img_ayako_03_1.jpg

Sony City is full glazed, all glass-walled building. But precisely, it's double glazed (called 'double skin'), for the air conditioning systems.
http://www.sony.co.jp/SonyInfo/Environment/ForTheNextGeneration/csr/interview/img/img_ayako_03_2.jpg

Blackraven

May 11th, 2007, 03:57 PM

Such a high tech facility from Sony Corporation

Pics of Sony City in Shinagawa area.
http://blog.so-net.ne.jp/_images/blog/_06a/mysony/7257794.jpg

However, I'm still puzzled.

In Sony Global website (http://www.sony.net/SonyInfo/CorporateInfo/Data/Map/index.html, they mention that their main Sony HQ is still in Minato area and not yet in this new Sony City facility in Shinagawa area.

Although it is true that it has the most number of Sony facilties are in Shinagawa area, its main HQ is still not yet within the new Sony City???

Gaaaah, I'm getting confused. Now they say (after I read the locations for more than five times) that their "SHINAGAWA TECHNOLGY CENTER" has the ff address:

Shinagawa INTERCITY C Tower
2-15-3 Konan, Minato-ku, Tokyo,
108-6201 Japan
TEL 81-3-5769-5111

So which is it then? Are Shinagawa and Minato two different areas or are they just the same??? :(

Coldstar, could you kindly help me out here?

coldstar

May 12th, 2007, 12:53 AM

In Sony Global website (http://www.sony.net/SonyInfo/CorporateInfo/Data/Map/index.html), they mention that their main Sony HQ is still in Minato area and not yet in this new Sony City facility in Shinagawa area.

Although it is true that it has the most number of Sony facilties are in Shinagawa area, its main HQ is still not yet within the new Sony City???

Geographically, Sony City is in Shinagawa Area, but administratively, this area belongs to Minato ward not Shinagawa ward. (Even Shinagawa Stn. is part of Minato ward.). kind of confusing.

BTW, Sony sold the old main HQ in Osaki ,Shinagawa ward to Sekisui House Corp. the other day.
Thus, Sekisui House Corp. is to redevelop the birthplace of Sony and to build skyscrapers there.

coldstar

May 12th, 2007, 03:46 AM

Giorgio Armani is to open first 'Armani Hotel' in Burj Dubai Tower (U/C) in Dubai. After that, He is said to open a hotel in Tokyo.
BVLGARI already has run BVLGARI Hotel's in Milan and Jimbaran area in Bali Indonesia.
BVLGARI is of immediate interest to open a hotel in Tokyo as well, since BVLGARI is to open 'BVLGARI Tower' (world's largest BVLGARI shop and BVLGARI restaurant) in Ginza this autumn, and many Japanese stay both BVLGARI hotels.

Bvlgari Ginza Tower
(11 floors above ground and rooftop garden. Bvlgari restaurant and bar are also in it)
http://nanashi-nakaji.up.seesaa.net/image/20070112b.jpg

Giorgio Armani says today that they'll open another Armani store in Ginza in this winter (on Nov.11).
Armani Ginza Tower (U/C) is to be world's largest Armani store.

Armani Ginza Tower
architect: Massimiliano Fukas (spirited Italian architect)
height: 12 floors above ground, 2 floors below ground
(all the Armani lines are in it. and Armani restaurant, spa and furniture center)
http://kstyle.s57.xrea.com/img/gag.jpg
http://kstyle.s57.xrea.com/img/armani_ginza.jpg

teddybear

May 12th, 2007, 11:27 PM

That Sony Building is very cool!, If I can have more photos of it?? I really in love with modern Japanese architect or buildings in Tokyo, they all have special features! Prada, Louis Vuitton, Channel, Mikimoto, Bulgary (the rendering shows it looks unique too), Sony Bldg... and so on...

The Cebuano Exultor

May 16th, 2007, 03:19 PM

Fox-Tale

May 16th, 2007, 04:12 PM

OMG! Tokyo is still adding more and more ultra-sized boutiques. It seems like luxury companies are extremely confident about Japan's economic turn-around/recovery that they still keep on coming and building luxury hotels and luxury boutiques like its still the 1980s heydays.

No where else on the planet can you see a city so engrossed/obsessed about luxury goods/items like Tokyo. Heck, brands like Salvatorre Ferragamo, Tod's, Prada, Chanel, and Ralph Lauren have their "world's largest store" in this city. Tokyo has the greatest concentration of luxury boutiques any where on Earth. I mean, take Louis Vuitton, for example. It has 20 outlets in the metro alone [more than any other metro in the world]. That, compared to just 5 in Greater New York.

Hail great Tokyo...the city/urban agglomeration that is beyond compare by almost all standards. :bow:

I think you are misunderstanding.
Those luxurious brand shops and hotels are coming to Tokyo
not for Japanese people nor due to Japanese economy's recovery,
but for newly rich Chinese/other Asian tourists visiting japan for shopping.
Japan, especially Tokyo is one of the most preferred destination of travel in Asia,
and many newly successful Asian(mostly Chinese) are visiting Tokyo
for shopping and sight-seeing. That is why Tokyo needs more
international five-star hotels and luxurious boutiques for them.

More and more international brands are also setting up their regional headquarters or
megaboutiques in Tokyo
because of those booming Asian market.

Ginza

May 17th, 2007, 03:09 AM

That may be contributing a little bit to the opening of many luxury boutiques in Japan,but Japans economy is recoperating and the japanese make enough money to purchase luxury goods

The Cebuano Exultor

May 17th, 2007, 07:18 AM

I think you are misunderstanding.
Those luxurious brand shops and hotels are coming to Tokyo
not for Japanese people nor due to Japanese economy's recovery,
but for newly rich Chinese/other Asian tourists visiting japan for shopping.
Japan, especially Tokyo is one of the most preferred destination of travel in Asia,
and many newly successful Asian(mostly Chinese) are visiting Tokyo
for shopping and sight-seeing. That is why Tokyo needs more
international five-star hotels and luxurious boutiques for them.

More and more international brands are also setting up their regional headquarters or
megaboutiques in Tokyo
because of those booming Asian market.

That may be contributing a little bit to the opening of many luxury boutiques in Japan,but Japans economy is recoperating and the japanese make enough money to purchase luxury goods

^^ That's exactly what I was thinking. :yes:

I mean, isn't it just plain-out dumb or stupid on the part of Chinese and other Asian tourist to buy luxury items in Tokyo when they can buy luxury items in their own home-country.

How can he claim that Japan is a "preferred" tourism/travel destination when, fact indicates, its tourist arrivals only average around 5 million annually. Heck, even Malaysia gets way more foreign tourists than that (20 million foreign tourist visited Malaysia last year).

I think you're absolutely right. Tokyoites are live more-than-average lifestyles in an excessive sort-of-way. It's the extravagant Japanese consumer that these mega-boutiques and luxury hotels are targeting...and not Chinese tourist.

Fox-Tale

May 17th, 2007, 03:06 PM

^^ That's exactly what I was thinking. :yes:

I mean, isn't it just plain-out dumb or stupid on the part of Chinese and other Asian tourist to buy luxury items in Tokyo when they can buy luxury items in their own home-country.

How can he claim that Japan is a "preferred" tourism/travel destination when, fact indicates, its tourist arrivals only average around 5 million annually. Heck, even Malaysia gets way more foreign tourists than that (20 million foreign tourist visited Malaysia last year).

I think you're absolutely right. Tokyoites are live more-than-average lifestyles in an excessive sort-of-way. It's the extravagant Japanese consumer that these mega-boutiques and luxury hotels are targeting...and not Chinese tourist.

Sorry, I should have said Japan is one of the most preferred tousim/travel destination among "rich" foreigners.
It's true that the number of tourists in Malaysia is bigger than Japan.
The reason is simply because it's easy to get visa and go to Malaysia,
from middle income to rich people.
Any nationality can
easily enter Malaysia, and can afford to stay there.
Their purpose of visit is for signt-seeing
or resort, and not for shopping.

In Japan, on the contrary,
majority of the tourists are rich Asian or Westerners from developed countries, and no poor people can enter Japan for tourism.
It is very difficult for the people in the developing countries to get tourist visa to Japan: you need to submit balance certificate issuded by your bank as part of visa application to the Japanese Embassy in their country.
And you also need to submit reservation sheet of hotel you are going to stay at. If the balance is not enough, or your hotel reservation is fake,
you will be declined issuing visa. There are also other requirements in addition to those.

Therefore, only rich people in the developing countries who can pass visa requirements, or tourists from developed countries(no visa required) are able to visit Japan.
That is why many of tourists to Japan are "selected" customers, and can afford to buy expensive brands and electronic products, and more and more brand companies are opening their shops in Tokyo. Some brands, such as Louis Vuitton, sells Japan-only products which many Chinese come to buy.

Tri-ring

May 17th, 2007, 04:45 PM

There is another side to the story then just sales which is projecting brand image.
It is common for Japanese female fashion magazines articles to be re-published in various Asian nations using original photos meaning it is essential for major fashion brands to open shop in Tokyo to maintain it's brand presence within these articles.
Tokyo is revered as the fashion information center geared towards the Asian market and what ever catches on in Tokyo is most likely gather attention in other Asian nations.

tiger

May 17th, 2007, 06:42 PM

Sorry, I should have said Japan is one of the most preferred tousim/travel destination among "rich" foreigners.

I think Hong Kong hands down in this regard.:cheers:

Jarenz

May 18th, 2007, 01:06 PM

dom

May 19th, 2007, 08:03 PM

Fox-Tale

May 19th, 2007, 09:04 PM

As much as I appreciate the glorious architecture of these high-end boutiques I find the actual brands naff in the extreme and monuments of excessive, selfish personal consumption. Who on earth can justify spending 200 pounds on a jumper or 2000 pounds on a coat?

Who actually buys stuff from Louis Vuitton? I always feel a pang of sympathy for humanities plight whenever I see some orange-faced woman with one of those bags looking thorougly miserable as she has to wade through all the 'common people' wishing a Bentley or Rolls Royce could escort her away from the hoi polloi.

The presence of brands such as Armani, Bulgari, LVMH et cetera really shows what a desperate state of affairs the world really is in.

Yes, I'm also fed up with too materialistic city of Tokyo already.
I'm not comfortable to see those brand shops open everywhere...
I hope they will stay modest and quiet..because they are not for everybody first of all.

Because Japan is finally one of the "developed" countries,
people should stop admiring those brand names and should seek for spiritual wealth rather than material wealth...

It's sad there is a strong trend of buying those brands in Japan..
More than 70 percents of sales of Louis Vuitton is by Japanese consumers.

The number of Japanese who own Louis Vuitton products is almost the same as the number of Toyota cars in Japan(each of them more than 20 millions).

Many Japanese girls wish to have Louis Vuitton products.
Because they have no self confidence in themselves, they feel they are assured fashionable if only they have a Louis Vuitton products like everybody else. It is kind of a "charm" to protect them from feeling insecure. Owning brand clothes, or goods keep their vanity, and assures them they are in step with everybody else, and following the correct fashion.

Because the Japanese society has become so convenient that
people no longer need to rely on others, and there is less ties between friends, and families.
The more they become independent and selfish, the more hollow they start to feel in themselves.
Therefore they need something strong to believe or rely on, which is brand products in Japan.

coldstar

May 20th, 2007, 02:42 AM

Many Japanese girls wish to have Louis Vuitton products.
Because they have no self confidence in themselves, they feel they are assured fashionable if only they have a Louis Vuitton products like everybody else. It is kind of a "charm" to protect them from feeling insecure. Owning brand clothes, or goods keep their vanity, and assures them they are in step with everybody else, and following the correct fashion.

At the same time, they are quality-conscious. Why are the Japanese high school girls so fond of Burberry as well? The style of Burberry never goes out. They tend to enjoy the security, not only the vanity. That's why Japanese teenagers are never drawn to cheap brands such as GAP and Esprit (shops of Esprit don't even exist in Japan)

coldstar

May 20th, 2007, 02:48 AM

people should stop admiring those brand names and should seek for spiritual wealth rather than material wealth...

need for material comfort is closely related to Japanese inner-space, IMO.

Blackraven

May 20th, 2007, 06:17 AM

I do understand what's being said with these four posts above.

I think this was observed with a few threads from the Skybar regarding the negative effects of more developed countries.

As people become more obsessed to keep up with fast-paced developments (in their respective countries), people then tend to become easily addicted to convenience. When a country becomes more developed, it is easy to see that people start to live on fast-paced lives that everything is all MOVE MOVE MOVE. It's no wonder why fastfood stalls are popular in these areas. Even the aspect of religion(s) is being affected and morality goes down on a spiral. In developed countries, money is becoming a new religion for many.

Yet the opposite happens in developing countries. They tend to smile more because the pace of life tends to be slower in those areas and tend to be more religious.....even if majority of the people live in poverty.

I guess it's a trade-off between developing and developed nations. It's a double-edged sword indeed. :ohno:

You would know this when you take up "PHILOSOPHY" and/or "THEOLOGY" degrees/courses.

dom

May 20th, 2007, 12:20 PM

Fox-Tale

May 20th, 2007, 01:07 PM

Cheers for the comments.

I found it personally uncomfortable walking the streets in Makati City with these high end shopping malls with police/army with live automatic machine guns ready to fire. Especially after I'd travelled around the rest of the Manila and the Philippines.

I don't think this rampant materialism actually makes anyone happy apart from
the companies themselves and their shareholders!

The Omotesando and the Ginza do look wonderful though. So I guess there are benefits to these fashion houses. I like their architecture and design of their clothes but I'm not so sure I like what the fashion houses stand for.

I totally agree with you!!
I like the architecture itself of fashion houses in Omotesando and the Ginza, but I don't like what the fashion houses stand for.

By the way, westerners admire neon signs of Japanese street, and it often appears in Hollywood movies, music video, etc..
But if they really know the meaning of Japanese characters on those neon signs,
they will feel astonished.
Majority of those neon signs are those of consumer finance companies.
Those companies loan money to customers at outrageous interest rates.
Many Japanese have been forced to commit suicide because of their threatening method of collection.

http://www.citynoise.org/upload/7359.jpg
http://www.travel-earth.com/japan/shinjuku-night.jpg

The neon itself might look beautiful, but I hate what those neons stand for.

Those neon signs are either consumer finance companies(Majority), pachinko parlors(Japanese version of casino), or pubs.

Those business(consumer lenders, pachinko) are so lucrative
that founders of those companies occupy high ranking of Forbes' "Japan's Top 40 millionaire" list.
http://members.forbes.com/global/2006/0619/043.html

If you can read Japanese language, a glance at night view in Tokyo
will teach you how unhealthy current Japanese society is....
most of those neon signs are those of scum business..
and it means those business are rampant in Japan and making a lot of profits
by exploiting innocent citizens.

Can you still admire the neon signs of Tokyo even after you realize those are "bait" of unscrupulous business?

I hope all of you appreciate the night view of Tokyo after you know its true meanings.

Vapour

May 20th, 2007, 03:04 PM

Fox-Tale

May 20th, 2007, 03:36 PM

Japan’s $200bn consumer finance industry received a fresh blow on Tuesday when Standard & Poor’s put Aiful on credit watch with negative implications. Not before time. Aiful, one of the top four consumer lenders, lost a net $3.4bn last year and reckons revenues – which fell 9 per cent – will decline a further 18 per cent this year.

Several changes have thrown the industry into turmoil. New legislation will slash the maximum lending rate from 29 per cent to 20 per cent. Meantime, a court ruling paved the way for borrowers who paid interest of 20-29 per cent to claim refunds. That forced consumer finance companies to increase provisioning and resulted in a sea of red ink: the top four lenders, including Aiful, lost a net $14bn in aggregate in the year to end March

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/892b78fe-02d0-11dc-a023-000b5df10621,Authorised=false.html?_i_location=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ft.com%2Fcms%2Fs%2F892b78fe-02d0-11dc-a023-000b5df10621.html&_i_referer=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.co.jp%2Fsearch%3Fsourceid%3Dnavclient

Some action taken on that industry, better late than never.

Good news.
Let's see if the night view of Tokyo will remain the same or will change for the better after some years.
I still think 20 percent of interest rate is too high, because those consumer lenders can procure fund from other Japanese banks at a very low interest rate(only 1 to 2 percent per year). The difference (18 percent or more) will be their profits.
Overdue charge for the delay of payment is even more expensive, and they have got most of their profits from there.

south

May 20th, 2007, 03:49 PM

Can you still admire the neon signs of Tokyo even after you realize those are "bait" of unscrupulous business?

I hope all of you appreciate the night view of Tokyo after you know its true meanings.

I can read the signs, and I can still admire them -- not for what they advertise, but for the color and energy they bring to the city. Likewise, I'm not even slightly into casinos but I can appreciate the lights of the Las Vegas Strip, just for the spectacle.

Fox-Tale

May 20th, 2007, 04:00 PM

I can read the signs, and I can still admire them -- not for what they advertise, but for the color and energy they bring to the city. Likewise, I'm not even slightly into casinos but I can appreciate the lights of the Las Vegas Strip, just for the spectacle.

I still feel those neon signs bring "dark" and "negative" energy to Japanese citizens, rather than good energy.
Foreigners might enjoy it though.

What do you think if casinos are everywhere in your own country,
even in your neighbourhood??
Las Vegas is a town of Casino. Only those who want to see it or want to
play there go there.

But pachinko is everywhere all over Japan..whether you wish to see it or not.
It's literally "visual crime".
They are everywhere, in front of the stations, near the elementary schools, near the hospitals, and near your house.
I really think Japan should ban rampant pachinko parlers and
only allow them to have their shops at limited "casino" areas.

You cannot avoid passing by at least one pachinko parlor every day if you walk on the street of Tokyo.

south

May 21st, 2007, 04:42 PM

I still feel those neon signs bring "dark" and "negative" energy to Japanese citizens, rather than good energy.
Foreigners might enjoy it though.

What do you think if casinos are everywhere in your own country,
even in your neighbourhood??
Las Vegas is a town of Casino. Only those who want to see it or want to
play there go there.

you're right, on some level. I hate pachinko parlors -- they're loud, stinky, everywhere, and only exist to suck money out of people's pockets. I hate slot machines in the west, too.

but i'm talking about the neon signs, not the casinos or pachislot parlors or whatever. there are huge coca-cola and nike signs in every city i've been to. i don't like the products, and i ignore the ads. but without them, the city would look like... soviet moscow.

33457

May 22nd, 2007, 02:13 PM

http://www.sony.co.jp/SonyInfo/Environment/ForTheNextGeneration/csr/interview/img/img_ayako_03_2.jpg
Her (the girl on the left) wage is 800 yen an hour even if she may work in Midtown Tower. Look at her poor clothes and shoes. And, the guy on the right stinks very badly on the train. The most business men in Tokyo wear the black suit and white shirt (everyone is wearing the same clothes!) and have bad breath. Creepy place.

onmyoji

May 22nd, 2007, 02:34 PM

Fox-Tale

May 22nd, 2007, 02:39 PM

Her (the girl on the left) wage is 800 yen an hour even if she may work in Midtown Tower. Look at her poor clothes and shoes. And, the guy on the right stinks very badly on the train. The most business men in Tokyo wear the black suit and white shirt (everyone is wearing the same clothes!) and have bad breath. Creepy place.

Well, I have to say your opinion is wrong.

Even high school girls working part-time at Mcdonalds in Tokyo
get 850 yen per hour.
In Roppongi area, it is common even part timers get
1200 yen per hour.

Moreover, the girl on the photo is Ms. Ayako Kimura, a fashion model & essayist,
and not a part time worker working at Sony.
Moreover, Sony is not in the Midtown.

Anyway she is earning much more than you, don't worry.
She just visited Sony for interview.
http://www.sony.co.jp/SonyInfo/Environment/ForTheNextGeneration/csr/interview/report_01_1.html

Her official website: http://www.takeitag.co.jp/ayako/

Besides, they look perfectly clean, and far from what you claim.

Japanese people only wear black suit and white shirt in official places like funerals or wedding, etc. and majority of people wear various colors other than black. Can you differentiate dark navy color and dark gray and black? They are all different colors, if you are not color-blind.

onmyoji

May 22nd, 2007, 02:44 PM

Tokyo considers foreign bankers’ enclave
By Michiyo Nakamoto and David Turner in Tokyo

Published: May 21 2007 22:02 | Last updated: May 21 2007 22:02

Part of central Tokyo would become a select enclave for investment bankers, full of spacious apartments, language schools and restaurants that stay open after midnight, under a move to make the city a more attractive global financial centre.

Yuji Yamamoto, financial services minister, on Monday told an audience at the American Chamber of Commerce that he wanted to turn the elite Marunouchi and Nihonbashi districts into special zones to attract more foreign companies.

The areas are already home to the Bank of Japan and the Tokyo Stock Exchange, but Mr Yamamoto would like to see building and zoning rules relaxed to make it easier for developers to build office buildings, apartment blocks, schools and hospitals catering specifically to foreigners.

Mr Yamamoto cited the recently opened New Marunouchi Building, which is accessible 24 hours a day, unlike most Japanese office buildings, and has restaurants that operate after midnight. Seventy per cent of its tenants are foreign companies.

“I am sure that we will see more efforts to enhance the environment of people who have to work in different time zones and with jet lag,” said Mr Yamamoto.

His comments come amid concern that Tokyo is losing foreign investment to other financial centres, mostly because of higher taxes and regulatory uncertainty.

Robert Feldman, a Morgan Stanley economist based in Tokyo, wrote in a recent report that the loss of business to London, Hong Kong and Singapore had “created a sense of crisis” in Tokyo.

Mr Yamamoto’s proposal may help attract more foreign companies but it also underlines other problems such as the high cost of translation and the lack of high-speed trains into Tokyo from Narita international airport.

Another sticking point is taxes. Foreign bankers have long claimed that high personal tax rates keep them from settling in Tokyo. Acknowledging this, Mr Yamamoto suggested the rise in per capita gross domestic product for a country like Ireland stemmed in part from its slashing income taxes.

In his February report on Japanese financial market competitiveness, Mr Feldman of Morgan Stanley suggested other ideas Mr Yamamoto’s group might consider, including “a quantum expansion of immigration quotas for foreign childcare workers”.

33457

May 22nd, 2007, 02:45 PM

The western world = Simple is Beauty

Japan = Plain and Tacky

33457

May 22nd, 2007, 03:23 PM

Why are the Japanese high school girls so fond of Burberry as well? The style of Burberry never goes out. They tend to enjoy the security, not only the vanity.
Burberry is mismatch for the Japanese girl's physically poor appearance after all.

LordMarshall

May 23rd, 2007, 05:00 AM

hmmm a bit surface anti-japanese sentiment

alsen

May 23rd, 2007, 07:00 AM

hmmm a bit surface anti-japanese sentiment

i feel the same way too. :ohno:

ChicagoNight

May 23rd, 2007, 07:12 AM

Seems like we haven't had actual photos in a while...

I think all of these are cool, but none of them are mine!

A rather large train track area; helps show how large the infrastructure of the city is:
http://hrscene.fc2web.com/pic/tokyominato/tamatis.jpg

A nice overhead shot from SDTJ showing some of the more familiar areas of the city (to non-Tokyo residents at least):
http://img222.imageshack.us/img222/8775/tokyopanoramar9ig.jpg

I came across this, and it looks like the Yakuza street racers' hangout area from the movie The Fast and Furious: Tokyo Drift:
http://foto.arcor-online.net/palb/alben/34/657834/1024_3063386137613364.jpg

I love Tokyo's density pictures; here is a good one, and that green building to the right has the same 9 rectangle structure system that Chicago's Sears Tower has...
http://image.blog.livedoor.jp/bluestylecom/imgs/2/0/205baac9.JPG

...shown here:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v627/skyscraperrot/sears04.jpg

I can't quite say why, but I really like this picture. It seems very "Tokyo" to me, which is weird considering I've never actually been there:
http://www.burapavong.com/japan/roppongi/imgp5987.jpg

Finally, from Poly Technique, here is a scale model of the city. Those logos blocking out the faces are actually from an anime show called Ghost in the Shell. The anime is unique because nobody, not even the writers, understand it (I'm just kidding lol):
http://img354.imageshack.us/img354/9404/18jt.jpg

Blackraven

May 23rd, 2007, 09:42 AM

Seems like we haven't had actual photos in a while...
I came across this, and it looks like the Yakuza street racers' hangout area from the movie The Fast and Furious: Tokyo Drift:
http://foto.arcor-online.net/palb/alben/34/657834/1024_3063386137613364.jpg

I do like the rooftop football/futsol field. Just hope that it's high enough so that the ball won't go over. :lol:

I love Tokyo's density pictures; here is a good one, and that green building to the right has the same 9 rectangle structure system that Chicago's Sears Tower has...
http://image.blog.livedoor.jp/bluestylecom/imgs/2/0/205baac9.JPG

I think that building is called the "Izumi Garden Tower" which opened in 2002.

Finally, from Poly Technique, here is a scale model of the city. Those logos blocking out the faces are actually from an anime show called Ghost in the Shell. The anime is unique because nobody, not even the writers, understand it (I'm just kidding lol):
http://img354.imageshack.us/img354/9404/18jt.jpg

Lolz, laughing man logo (from GITS: SAC season1)

alsen

May 23rd, 2007, 07:16 PM

sorry for bad quality.the weather was so not good. :( :( but i still want to make a little contribution here.:cheers:

http://i55.photobucket.com/albums/g150/masjan/DSC00883.jpg

http://i55.photobucket.com/albums/g150/masjan/DSC00867.jpg

http://i55.photobucket.com/albums/g150/masjan/DSC00881.jpg

http://i55.photobucket.com/albums/g150/masjan/DSC00874.jpg

May 23rd, 2007, 09:21 PM

What a sea of red lights in the sky. Nice, I envy you for being there

coldstar

May 24th, 2007, 01:40 PM

thanks, alsen. good shots.

I read yesterday that japanese government is planning to build many new skyscrapers in a huge area not too far from toranomon and akasaka in order to build Tokyo as international financial center....woooww sounds amazing and futuristic..

besides....

another plan has been released by the government.
the government has decided to redevelop the area from Nihonbashi till Kabutocyo.
Nihonbashi has been the prime financial district of Tokyo for more than 300 years, and Kabutocyo is usually referred to as 'Tokyo's Wall Street.'
But the building in these areas are generally tiny and aging and decrepit, and is confronted with the threat by rising Otemachi and Toranomon.
Thus, the buildings in these areas are to be rebuilt into state-of-the-art huge skyscrapers.

Nihonbashi and Kabutocyo
http://building-pc.cocolog-nifty.com/./photos/uncategorized/nihonbashi1.jpg
you can see Bank of Japan (BOJ) HQ , Tokyo Stock Exchange (TSE), Nomura Securities HQ, Nomura Holdings HQ, Merrill Lynch Japan Securities HQ, Daiwa Securities HQ, etc in this pic.

coldstar

May 24th, 2007, 01:49 PM

What do you think if casinos are everywhere in your own country,
even in your neighbourhood??
Las Vegas is a town of Casino. Only those who want to see it or want to
play there go there.

But pachinko is everywhere all over Japan..whether you wish to see it or not.
It's literally "visual crime".
They are everywhere, in front of the stations, near the elementary schools, near the hospitals, and near your house.
I really think Japan should ban rampant pachinko parlers and
only allow them to have their shops at limited "casino" areas.

You cannot avoid passing by at least one pachinko parlor every day if you walk on the street of Tokyo.

FULLY AGREE
Pachinko parlors and consumer finance companies (Sarakin) are both the national disgrace.
I feel exteme detestation for their existance. Especially, pachinko is the thing which disgusts me most in Japan.
Thses eyesores should be brought to destruction to hell.

Fox-Tale

May 24th, 2007, 02:39 PM

FULLY AGREE
Pachinko parlors and consumer finance companies (Sarakin) are both the national disgrace.
I feel exteme detestation for their existance. Especially, pachinko is the thing which disgusts me most in Japan.
Thses eyesores should be brought to destruction to hell.

Thank you for understanding, coldstar.

I will tell you guys another shocking fact about Pachinko parlors and consumer finance companies in Japan.

Majority of pachinko parlors and consumer lenders in Japan are owned by Korean immigrants.

TV asahi reported that Pachinko parlors in Japan consists of 50% South Korean owners, 30 to 40% North Korean owners, and 10% Japanese owners.

http://yellowpeep.blogspot.com/2007/03/pachinko-industry.html

Majority of consumer lenders are also owned by North/South Korean immigrants.

The problem is,
they are exempted from any taxation in Japan as privileged foreigners.
According to their claims, they were forced to come and work in Japan
in early 1900's.
They insist that they are not obliged to pay any taxes to Japan because they are not Japanese
and they are victims of World-War II.

Although they are very rich, they never pay taxes and have been exploiting innocent Japanese citizens. Many of them keep sending enormous amount of money they earned from those consumer lenders/pachinko parlers to their home country, North Korea.

They are financially supporting the Kim Regime in North Korea and
it is a serious risk not only to Japan, but also to the world.

For the strong link between Pachinko and North Korea,
please see this report by U.S. Senate's website.

http://www.senate.gov/~govt-aff/052003wortzel.pdf

"Japan’s 18,000 Pachinko gambling parlors, some 30 percent of which are owned by ethnic North Koreans, bring in annual sales of $280 billion a year. Some of this money is also funneled into North Korea, although Japan is now tightening up on that practice."

alsen

May 24th, 2007, 03:10 PM

alsen

May 24th, 2007, 03:22 PM

is this TSE building ? i always want to take picture of TSE but it's so not easy to find it.

http://img486.imageshack.us/img486/4528/nihonbashi1cu4.jpg

wolf18

May 24th, 2007, 04:21 PM

such a beautiful place

Grams

May 24th, 2007, 06:39 PM

^^ wow..i've never knew about this before.anyway,i have to agree that they're too many of them (pachinko) here.Judging from what I see in Sendai,looks like everyone is enjoying it.no offence but,is it easy to just ban all these pachinko? and do you have any statistic or survey about how many of japanese today still wanting this pachinco culture thingy exist in modern Japan?

Here is an estimation of gamble in Japan. http://www.crs.or.jp/58721.htm
The status was rondamly called to ask about an experience of gamble to
2,000 people who are over 20 years old in three days on July, 2006. They recieved 1,379 responces.

The list of gambles are pachinko, public lottery, horse race, bike race, motorboat race, auto race, and soccer loto.

1, Have you done gamble in a year?
Yes:37.2%(Male:46.6％/Female:28.3％)
No,21%(M:31.2％/F:51.3％)
No, but had an experience in the past:58.2％
Never:41.6％
The highest populality in ages:30-50(63～67％)

2, What kind of gamble have you done?(in famouse order)

A picture No,1(Type)
1, Public lottery:75.1%
2, Pachinko:39.7%
3, Horse race:15.7%
4, Bike race
5, Motorboat race
6, Soccer loto
7, Auto race
8, No comment

A picture No,2(Place) *same order as above

A black line in the graph is the answer of having an experience in 16 main cities in Japan.
A white line is other local cities.
A gray line is towns or villages

The reason I dislike pachinko is a lot of those shops relate with Japanese gang or something similar group, so they can get amount of money from the profit.

alsen

May 25th, 2007, 06:55 AM

i hope Sendai will have at least one supertall in the future. :cheers1:

ALKUN

May 25th, 2007, 08:43 AM

THAT'S CORRECT.^^

SOON TOKYO WILL HAVE A NEW TOWER.

IT'S GOING TO BE THE TALLEST STRUCTURE IN THE WORLD AND
IT SHOULD BE READY BY 2010.

http://img53.imageshack.us/img53/9200/23487877fy8jc5.jpg

onmyoji

May 25th, 2007, 09:36 AM

thanks, alsen. good shots.

besides....

another plan has been released by the government.
the government has decided to redevelop the area from Nihonbashi till Kabutocyo.
Nihonbashi has been the prime financial district of Tokyo for more than 300 years, and Kabutocyo is usually referred to as 'Tokyo's Wall Street.'
But the building in these areas are generally tiny and aging and decrepit, and is confronted with the threat by rising Otemachi and Toranomon.
Thus, the buildings in these areas are to be rebuilt into state-of-the-art huge skyscrapers.

Nihonbashi and Kabutocyo
http://building-pc.cocolog-nifty.com/./photos/uncategorized/nihonbashi1.jpg
you can see Bank of Japan (BOJ) HQ , Tokyo Stock Exchange (TSE), Nomura Securities HQ, Nomura Holdings HQ, Merrill Lynch Japan Securities HQ, Daiwa Securities HQ, etc in this pic.

WOOWWW that s a good news for tokyo skyline. Do you have any project to show? Still for the international financial center everything is under process..I think it ll take 1 year at least to see some projects or drafts.

coldstar

May 25th, 2007, 10:11 AM

is this TSE building ? i always want to take picture of TSE but it's so not easy to find it.

http://img486.imageshack.us/img486/4528/nihonbashi1cu4.jpg

No. It's Nihonbashi branch office of The Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ.
TSE is at the upper left.

japanese001

May 25th, 2007, 10:19 AM

Grams

May 25th, 2007, 12:27 PM

Grams

May 25th, 2007, 12:49 PM

Tokyo has tackled with planting electric cables under the ground.
http://www.chijihon.metro.tokyo.jp/10years_after/pdf/PR/p08-09.pdf
http://www.chijihon.metro.tokyo.jp/10years_after/pdf/A4-3syou1-2.pdf

They will finish to hide it along main roads inside centre core area of Tokyo by this decade.　Secound effect of natural disasters can be suppressed to the minimum.

alsen

May 25th, 2007, 01:31 PM

Here is an estimation of gamble in Japan. http://www.crs.or.jp/58721.htm
The status was rondamly called to ask about an experience of gamble to
2,000 people who are over 20 years old in three days on July, 2006. They recieved 1,379 responces.

The list of gambles are pachinko, public lottery, horse race, bike race, motorboat race, auto race, and soccer loto.

1, Have you done gamble in a year?
Yes:37.2%(Male:46.6％/Female:28.3％)
No,21%(M:31.2％/F:51.3％)
No, but had an experience in the past:58.2％
Never:41.6％
The highest populality in ages:30-50(63～67％)

2, What kind of gamble have you done?(in famouse order)

A picture No,1(Type)
1, Public lottery:75.1%
2, Pachinko:39.7%
3, Horse race:15.7%
4, Bike race
5, Motorboat race
6, Soccer loto
7, Auto race
8, No comment

A picture No,2(Place) *same order as above

A black line in the graph is the answer of having an experience in 16 main cities in Japan.
A white line is other local cities.
A gray line is towns or villages

The reason I dislike pachinko is a lot of those shops relate with Japanese gang or something similar group, so they can get amount of money from the profit.

wow..thanks.Very informative!^^

Blackraven

May 25th, 2007, 04:15 PM

http://www.chijihon.metro.tokyo.jp/10years_after/pdf/PR/p06-07.pdf
http://www.chijihon.metro.tokyo.jp/10years_after/pdf/PR/p14-15.pdf
Image
http://www.chijihon.metro.tokyo.jp/10years_after/pdf/PR/p44-45.pdf

Tokyo will replace green field to decrease CO2 and heat island problem among the density area by this decade. The statics is to catch fresh air into center area.
They'll plant over 50 million trees by 100 million. Total green area would be 700ha, twice as huge as Central Park. They'll also make green field on a roof of
building and the wall and set a solar power system. Public bus would change to use vaio gasoline soon. In addition, Umino mori island will be opened in Tokyo bay.

Japan has been a forefront in reducing harmful pollution.

Japan's emission standards alone for automobiles are considered as one of the TOP THREE strictest vehicle emission regulations in the world (top 2 are comprised of Europe = Euro 5; and America = Tier 2 Bin 5).

Even Japanese companies have been a big help in obtaining these goals for Japan and in the whole world.

Oh and ethanol can be made in Japan. There have been lots of ethanol-related projects in the Okinawa area so you can expect some local-brew bioethanol to hit your nearest fuel pump before the decade ends. :)

Ryuhei

May 25th, 2007, 07:35 PM

Lots of new information about Tokyo these days. :okay:
Thank you everyone!

giovani kun

May 25th, 2007, 11:26 PM

THAT'S CORRECT.^^

SOON TOKYO WILL HAVE A NEW TOWER.

IT'S GOING TO BE THE TALLEST STRUCTURE IN THE WORLD AND
IT SHOULD BE READY BY 2010.

http://img53.imageshack.us/img53/9200/23487877fy8jc5.jpg

" IT'S GOING TO BE THE TALLEST STRUCTURE IN THE WORLD " nani???? are you shure about the height cause I think you are mistaking :ohno:

ALKUN

May 26th, 2007, 12:59 AM

" IT'S GOING TO BE THE TALLEST STRUCTURE IN THE WORLD " nani???? are you shure about the height cause I think you are mistaking :ohno:

YES I'M SURE.
THE TOWER WILL BE 610 METERS HIGH.

ALKUN

May 26th, 2007, 01:05 AM

HERE I HAVE ANOTHER PICTURE

http://img514.imageshack.us/img514/3642/newtokyotower2gg0.jpg

Grams

May 26th, 2007, 02:49 AM

Some more pictures about New Tokyo Tower from the sky pod, special public observation deck, located at 450m include the views
toward Shinjuku and Ikebukuro area and Odaiba, Tameike, and Roppongi area.
http://www.tokyo-cci.or.jp/sumida/tower/TOWER-A4.pdf

I suppose a nithg view from the landmark tower is going to be fabulous.:eat:

The locationonally photo from past up to now
http://www.rising-east.jp/project/history.html

south

May 27th, 2007, 01:50 PM

Nagano and Tochigi are not part of Tokyo in my universe :nuts:

alsen

May 27th, 2007, 02:08 PM

if im not mistaken tochigi is located not far away from tokyo.

Fox-Tale

May 27th, 2007, 07:05 PM

s86NROe-ElE

"Japan Train Adventures" by an Australian guy living in Japan.
He is not famous but seems like an actor & comedian.

http://www.gaikokujin-talent.com/profile/shaunne_hughes.html

He is walking through JR Yamanote line train on this video.

He is harshly criticized by other people on Youtube...
but what do you think? :lol:

alsen

May 27th, 2007, 08:02 PM

haha....he is crazy and kinda annoying but like it :lol: :lol:

south

May 28th, 2007, 06:37 AM

if im not mistaken tochigi is located not far away from tokyo.

it's on the other side of saitama. you can drive there in a few hours, but you'll pass an awful lot of countryside along the way.

Vapour

May 28th, 2007, 08:35 AM

QtpZbHirK1g

"Japan Train Adventures" by an Australian guy living in Japan.
He is not famous but seems like an actor & comedian.

http://www.gaikokujin-talent.com/profile/shaunne_hughes.html

He is walking through JR Yamanote line train on this video.

He is harshly criticized by other people on Youtube...
but what do you think? :lol:

Extremely disgusting. This moron was lucky I was not riding that train.

33457

May 28th, 2007, 12:03 PM

it's on the other side of saitama. you can drive there in a few hours, but you'll pass an awful lot of countryside along the way.
Saitama is already a countryside, a part of Kita-Kanto. The cities and towns in Saitama is extremely widely spread and its population is crammed up in the countryside.

HirakataShi

May 28th, 2007, 03:00 PM

APPALLING (the video).

south

May 28th, 2007, 03:19 PM

Extremely disgusting. This moron was lucky I was not riding that train.

just another talentless idiot who thinks being in japan makes him special. i want to see him do this on the London Underground or the NYC subway; preferably ending with him having his face kicked in and being left bleeding by the ticket gate.

Top Gear

May 29th, 2007, 05:54 AM

What?! someone call densha otoko! :lol:

I hope he got sick from licking the mysterious glove on the floor.

Top Gear

May 29th, 2007, 07:05 PM

Why? densha otoko was really fun to watch (the TV series not the movie), one of the best dramas I've seen. Can't say I had fun watching Lost in Translation though (probably because I watched it inside a coachbus).

Vapour

May 31st, 2007, 10:39 AM

Hailstorm over Tokyo right now, any of you got under fire? :D

Vapour

May 31st, 2007, 10:54 AM

Did I say hailstorm? Here in Ota-ku is becoming more like the Deluge 2.0

Unsing

May 31st, 2007, 11:22 AM

The thunder is rumbling over and over here. There is no rain at this moment, but the sky looks so dark.

alsen

May 31st, 2007, 04:37 PM

Tokyo station buildings. Full length is 600m from 500m.
http://kstyle.s57.xrea.com/img/tsc.jpg

^^ expansion!? this is a good news.imo..tokyo station has become so overcrowded.so with this expansion,would help a lot.:yes:

japanese001

June 1st, 2007, 12:44 PM

http://img263.imageshack.us/img263/2965/tokyoqy2.jpg

Ryuhei

June 1st, 2007, 04:17 PM

coldstar

June 1st, 2007, 05:01 PM

electric cables overhead are so hideous indeed, but in fact much better in earthquake.

BTW, Information Technology and Innovation Foundation has released an interesting latest data.

Average broadband speed in Japan is 61Mbps: by far the fastest in the whole world!
http://media.arstechnica.com/news.media/speeds.png
news
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20070529-survey-average-broadband-speed-in-us-is-1-9mbps.html

June 1st, 2007, 08:09 PM

I have a lot of respect for Ars Technica. Not least for placing Sweden in there :tongue3:

IIRC Japan was off to a slow start on Internet connectivity, but has since sped up rapidly.

coldstar

June 1st, 2007, 11:04 PM

I have a lot of respect for Ars Technica. Not least for placing Sweden in there :tongue3:

IIRC Japan was off to a slow start on Internet connectivity, but has since sped up rapidly.

Fibre-to-the-Home (FttH) is undoubtedly the next development in telecommunications (and broadcasting) infrastructure.
Japan is the world leader.

Understanding the Japanese Broadband Miracle
According to OECD data compiled by ITIF, Japan is the world’s leader in broadband, with over 75 percent of homes (in NTT East territory) able to subscribe to 100 mbs fiber-to-the-home at very reasonable rates.

http://www.itif.org/index.php?id=38

Japan, GEPON dominate FTTH
Japan utterly dominated fiber-to-the-home (FTTH) growth last year, contributing 80% of the world's FTTH subscriber growth, according to data released by Dittberner & Associates this week.
http://telephonyonline.com/fttp/news/FTTH_global_Japan_030106/

FTTH up Worldwide, Japan Leads the Parade
RBC Capital Markets has reported good numbers on the interrelated issues of FTTH and IPTV growth, according to this report. RBC says that there are 6 million fiber homes worldwide, an increase of 140 percent compared to 2005. The majority are in Japan.
http://www.itbusinessedge.com/item/?ci=15626

BTW, you can test braodband speed and find global stats here.
http://www.speedtest.net/

japanese001

June 2nd, 2007, 03:57 AM

I have a lot of respect for Ars Technica. Not least for placing Sweden in there :tongue3:

IIRC Japan was off to a slow start on Internet connectivity, but has since sped up rapidly.

I do pc, blog by carrying. As for the mobile broadband (third-generation mobile phone) diffusion rate, Japan is the top.

June 2nd, 2007, 03:57 AM

No offence, but that's how I remembered it. Japan has always been ahead in tech, but Internet was not as common as in the west in the 90s. The Internet at the time was also not as usable as it is today, and it has obviously surpassed even the US since then.

I'm taking about the 90s, I think everyone is cunfusing it with today.

Grams

June 2nd, 2007, 06:14 AM

The title is ’Use and environment-friendly recycling of abundant water resources':cheers2:

Tokyo Metropolitan Government Bureau of Sewerage

Amount of a total sewerage length : 15,716.003km
Amount of a total average sewrage capabilities during year : 2,143,230,710m³
Amount of a total average sewrage capabilities during day : 5,855,820m³

Arakawa River, and other water source facilities related to Tokyo Metoropolis
http://www.toshiseibi.metro.tokyo.jp/plan/pdf/pdf-112.pdf#zoom=100

Demand for water supply, capacity of facilities and volume at riverheads.
http://www.toshiseibi.metro.tokyo.jp/plan/pdf/pdf-111-g.pdf#zoom=100

Maximum daily water supply volume (ward area and 28 cities/towns): Around 600 million m3/day
Capacity of facilities 696million m3/day
Volume at riverheads (Tonegawa and Tmagawa rivers, and other water sources available) 623 million m3/day

Location of Waste Treatment plant
http://www.toshiseibi.metro.tokyo.jp/plan/pdf/pdf-115.pdf

Overall plannning for sewrage system in the ward area
http://www.toshiseibi.metro.tokyo.jp/plan/pdf/pdf-113-ri.pdf

Facilities for Living Enviromnment
http://www.toshiseibi.metro.tokyo.jp/plan/pe-016.htm

Locational sewarage system map and pictures
http://www.gesui.metro.tokyo.jp/odekake/sise_list.htm

Tokyo sewerage guide with pictures
http://www.gesui.metro.tokyo.jp/kanko/kankou/nan1-guide/02.htm#1

-------------------------------------------------------------
Basical sewerage root of flash movie by Japan Sewage works Association
http://www.jswa.jp/05_arekore/motto/
http://www.jswa.jp/suisuiland/index.html
-------------------------------------------------------------

Exhibition of Tokyo sewrage system by Japan Sewrage Works Association at Tokyo bigsite
http://www.gesuidouten.jp/

Niji No Shita Water Source Facility Museum at Tokyo bay area (ad movie)
http://www.nijinogesuidoukan.jp/top.html

Drainage processing population diffusion according to city scale
http://img528.imageshack.us/img528/8172/tosikibofukyugw3.gif (http://imageshack.us)
Drainage processing population diffusion according to administrative divisions
http://img528.imageshack.us/img528/7337/todoufukenfukyuen4.gif (http://imageshack.us)

Japan maintenance situation
Drainage processing population diffusion
68%(2004)→72%(2007)
Sewage processing population diffusion
79%（2004）→86%(2007)

Antiearthquake measures by drainage network trunk line
http://www.mlit.go.jp/crd/city/sewerage/yakuwari/taisin.html

More Information
Sewrage in Tokyo
http://www.gesui.metro.tokyo.jp/english/english.htm

http://www.iwahq.org/uploads/conference_graphics/beijing2006/workshops/cities%20of%20the%20future/Shinichiro%20Ohgaki-III.pdf (Tokyo Canal Ploject)

Promotion of customer services and a water cost graph
http://www.waterworks.metro.tokyo.jp/eng/supply/06.pdf

Top Gear

June 2nd, 2007, 06:40 AM

Grams

June 2nd, 2007, 07:58 AM

There was an earthquake,magnitude 2.5 just before in Tokyo. The center core of magnitude is 4.3 in south of Ibaraki prefecture. :runaway:
http://weathernews.jp/quake/
http://weather.goo.ne.jp/earthquake/07060214433.html

coldstar

June 2nd, 2007, 08:12 AM

^^
I heard high speed internet was not very common until few years back when the Japanese government decided to invest heavily in infrastructure ...etc when they realized the country was falling behind when compared to Korea where 80% of households at that time had broadband. Thanks to that, now Japan has the most extensive FTTH infrastructure in the world. Korea is planning to convert 92% of the infrastructure to FTTH by 2010 so it will be a competition to see who can hold the top position :D

No.
Japan began building FTTH network in the entire country before 1999 , ahead of other countries.
It takes long time and vast sum of money to construct FTTH infrastructure all over the country.
That's why Japan overstrided S. Korea a few years ago. (S. Korea chose DSL network instead of Optical fiber network)
As for FTTH, S. Korea won't catch up with Japan until 2020 or somewhere.

laurentius

June 2nd, 2007, 10:06 AM

One thing I just love is all the incredible christmas lights in Tokyo. :)

Fox-Tale

June 2nd, 2007, 10:24 AM

One thing I just love is all the incredible christmas lights in Tokyo. :)

Yes, they are beautiful.
But only 1 percent of Japanese are Christian :D

99 percent are non-Christian.

laurentius

June 2nd, 2007, 08:08 PM

Oh, are they afraid of us because we drink blood and eat human flesh?

south

June 3rd, 2007, 01:26 AM

Grams

June 3rd, 2007, 06:14 PM

No Frontiers Tokyo with Diarmuid Gavin
5uTmYRUxboQ

Ryuhei

June 4th, 2007, 01:02 PM

Cool report!

Fox-Tale

June 4th, 2007, 04:22 PM

Christmas wasn't originally a Christian festival anyway -- it's based on old pagan winter solstice festivals (that's where Christmas trees come from too). If the Christians can borrow it for themselves then the Japanese should too!

Speaking of which, i never understood why the Japanese never got into Easter. i would've thought they'd jump on any holiday that involved giving & eating lots of chocolate.

I think that is because Easter holidays are too religious..., and the dates change every year, and the idea of the event is not attractive for non-Christian, so I think that is not understood or accepted in Japan.

Eddy C

June 5th, 2007, 09:30 PM

Please enjoy these photo-series of Tokyo made by a Dutch Ssc-member.
Part 1
http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showthread.php?t=481953
Part 2
http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showthread.php?t=481966
Part 3
http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showthread.php?t=481974
Part 4
http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showthread.php?t=482024
Part 5 (beautiful pano's)
http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showthread.php?t=482039

The Cebuano Exultor

June 5th, 2007, 10:15 PM

If the skyscraper of the Gruyter Tokyo has condensed to one place, it will be the No.1 skyline of the world.

^^ Tokyo is already the mid-rise capital of the world. There are like 80,000-100,000 mid-rises in Greater Tokyo. Despersed as Greater Tokyo's skyline is, it is still one skyline. Marunouchi, Ikebukuro, Minato-Mirai, Tokyo Station Area/Imperial Palace Area, Shiodome, Odaiba, Makuhari, Kawaguchi, Tsukishima, and Toyosu are the main urban cores of this immense metropolis and all of them should be counted as one skyline, albeit dispersed, but at the same time the largest, relatively, closely knit aggomeration of all-grade office space anywhere on the planet.

Sao Paulo (Brazil) will still be the largest high-rise mass of all with nearly 50,000 individual high-rise buildings of 12 or more storeys. :yes:

alsen

June 6th, 2007, 09:48 AM

Toyosu(Tokyo)
http://tm21.tencho.cc/usr/tm21/スカイシティー豊洲%20014.jpg

now i can see your picture. :)

Grams

June 7th, 2007, 05:06 PM

Whole map of Tokyo and a graph of population and land scales for each cities
http://www.metro.tokyo.jp/PROFILE/map_to.htm

Some old historical picture of Tokyo up to now
http://www.metro.tokyo.jp/PROFILE/history.htm

A real time daily pollution statistical graph of Tokyo.
http://www2.kankyo.metro.tokyo.jp/bunpu1/air/mapmenu.asp

「Tokyo Climate Change Strategy」― A Basic plan for “10-Year Project for a Carbon-Minus Tokyo"
http://www2.kankyo.metro.tokyo.jp/kikaku/kikouhendouhousin/data/ClimateChangeStrategyPress.pdf

Today, Burger King will be back to Tokyo, Japan again:eat:

Grams

June 7th, 2007, 08:08 PM

http://img516.imageshack.us/img516/5377/tky200706020184nx3.jpg (http://imageshack.us)http://img136.imageshack.us/img136/8808/env1bb8.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

Tokyo honey project in Ginza
http://www.gin-pachi.jp/env_ecosys.html
http://allabout.co.jp/health/healthfood/closeup/CU20070602A/

This project is great contribution for both bee and people.
The planer called 100,000 bees and set new colonies on a top loof of some buildings in Ginza.

The purpose of this project
1, Protect natural and bee's environment. Too much higher buildings destroy natural surroundings for animals, also beautiful sceneries of Ginza.
2, Get Tokyo honey, new special geographical food, 150 to 300 kg in a season.
3, Help ton's of flower's pollinations in Tokyo.

Now if you go to Ginza, you'll find honey stuff such as scyrup, cake, castella, youkan, and a ingredient for cocktail, originated from Ginza, Tokyo .

japanese001

June 9th, 2007, 12:30 PM

http://img405.imageshack.us/img405/8647/p1270155ie6.jpg
A plant factory in a building
http://img405.imageshack.us/img405/494/p1010356ke3.jpg
Marunouchi
http://img405.imageshack.us/img405/1885/p1270184fq8.jpg
Hibiya Park
http://img405.imageshack.us/img405/3451/p1270198ds4.jpg

http://img405.imageshack.us/img405/4426/p1270213er8.jpg

http://img405.imageshack.us/img405/7499/p1270232ui8.jpg

http://img405.imageshack.us/img405/6939/p1270245ri6.jpg
Imperial Palace/The Supreme Court / Diet building
http://img405.imageshack.us/img405/2046/p1270260jz2.jpg
Old Ministry of Justice
http://img405.imageshack.us/img405/7534/p1270287xf9.jpg
The prime minister's official residence/Tokyo international forum
http://img405.imageshack.us/img405/17/p1270298ke4.jpg

coldstar

June 9th, 2007, 01:59 PM

Hibiya Park
http://img405.imageshack.us/img405/3451/p1270198ds4.jpg

lol, Romulus and Remus in TOKYO!!

Grams

June 9th, 2007, 07:39 PM

Tokyo Station
tRGTPZldmOg
Love New Tokyo
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NEW TOKYO GUIDE
dhPanEZ2pgQ
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Zykd4_3UxD8
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QsZ5rKWkA5s

japanese001

June 13th, 2007, 04:23 PM

http://img516.imageshack.us/img516/4541/tokyo1ti9.jpg

japanese001

June 13th, 2007, 04:26 PM

http://img516.imageshack.us/img516/7650/makuhari1fn2.jpg

http://img516.imageshack.us/img516/2742/makuhari2md7.jpg

http://img516.imageshack.us/img516/1198/makuhari3kf2.jpg

http://img516.imageshack.us/img516/19/makuhari4nf4.jpg

The Cebuano Exultor

June 14th, 2007, 09:52 AM

Tokyotic! The biggest urban agglomeration in world, indeed. :yes:

I wonder, what is the current state of Japan's population growth? Is it returning to replacement levels already? I've heard Softbank's employees are given incentives for having more babies.

Blackraven

June 14th, 2007, 12:59 PM

The newest urban developement in the Greater Tokyo Area is an area called...."TOYOSU".

Anyone have pics on Toyosu area???

Thanks :)

Ryuhei

June 14th, 2007, 01:57 PM

I think this is a render of Toyosu area redevelopment, but I don´t have any other pics:

http://img530.imageshack.us/img530/3473/toyosuarearedevelopmentqw2.jpg

kiku99

June 14th, 2007, 05:45 PM

:applause: awesome pics:)

Hanshin-Tigress

June 15th, 2007, 07:25 AM

SEED

June 16th, 2007, 08:00 PM

lol, Romulus and Remus in TOKYO!!

hah! the founder of tokyo or roma? :lol:

LordMarshall

June 17th, 2007, 06:57 AM

thats a fancy boat

June 17th, 2007, 02:05 PM

Tokyo looks gorgeous.

SEED

June 17th, 2007, 04:09 PM

ive just finish viewing all the picx in this thread and i must say i really lov Tokyo! very beautiful and special city! :cool:

The Cebuano Exultor

June 18th, 2007, 09:30 AM

Can I request members of the Japanese Forums to post the Tokyo Scanner Video. It was once available on-line. I don't know where it went...

Ryuhei

June 19th, 2007, 02:02 PM

If the skyscraper of the Gruyter Tokyo has condensed to one place, it will be the No.1 skyline of the world.

Yes, probably.
Some panoramic views of the city:

This one is amazing
http://img527.imageshack.us/img527/6567/ultrapanormicatokiohx1.jpg

http://img376.imageshack.us/img376/6383/tokyomorningph5.jpg

http://img527.imageshack.us/img527/1658/tokyobayarea3vg7.jpg

http://img376.imageshack.us/img376/2773/tokyoatnightfx6.jpg

http://img150.imageshack.us/img150/149/viewformmoritowerkz4.jpg

http://img150.imageshack.us/img150/7638/sioshibapa1.jpg

http://img404.imageshack.us/img404/637/panoramicviewtokyoms0.jpg

http://img502.imageshack.us/img502/3184/tokyobayatnightbz2.jpg

The Cebuano Exultor

June 19th, 2007, 02:47 PM

coldstar

June 19th, 2007, 03:40 PM

^^ Why do I get the feeling that Metro Seoul has more high-rise buildings than Greater Tokyo. I know Greater Tokyo has more but based on pictures alone (without statistical data) you'd be fooled by Metro Seoul.

probably because of the geography.

from emporis

(over 200m)
Tokyo 16 bldgs completed (all the bldgs are office towers)
Seoul 10 bldgs completed (most of them are residentials)

(over 150m)
Tokyo 72 bldgs completed
Seoul 33 bldgs completed

(Over 100m)
Tokyo 322 bldgs completed
Seoul 88 Bldgs completed

I know the data of Emporis is inaccurate in both cities.
(For instance I cannot find ShinMarubiru (198m) in Tokyo's statistics.)
Actually, Tokyo City has much more skyscrapers than Seoul City has, without doubt. And Greater Tokyo is much bigger than Greater Seoul.
But yes, Seoul seems more three-dimensional thanks to its mountainous topographical features.

princeofseoul

June 19th, 2007, 07:40 PM

Kirk

June 19th, 2007, 09:13 PM

I worked on Tokyo at Emporis as an editor for quite some time, and yes, they're missing quite a bit of data. I don't know what the situation in Seoul is, but it seems to be fairly well-covered. From what I've seen, Seoul has a lot of Hong Kong-style developments with multiple identical skyscrapers, something Tokyo has very little of. Just as a result of that, Seoul might have more high rises than Tokyo. I believe Tokyo has more impressive skyscraper development on the whole, though, as well as the metro area.

Treasure

June 20th, 2007, 12:03 AM

prince why are you in japan? should'nt you be in korea

Taro Ikebukuro

June 20th, 2007, 01:16 AM

The core of Tokyo has been distributed too much.

Marunouchi,Nihonbashi,Kasumigaseki,Roppongi,Akasaka,
Shinjuku,Shibuya,Ikebukuro,Shinagawa,Akihabara,Iidabashi,Ueno,etc...

It is difficult to catch all skyscrapers of Tokyo in one photograph.

http://www.geocities.jp/nijiken02/images/S60/pano_d_tokyoS60_0706.jpg

http://www.geocities.jp/nijiken02/images/S60/pano_n_tokyoS60_0706.jpg

Neither Shinjuku nor Shibuya are in this photograph.

http://www.geocities.jp/nijiken02/page_001/009.htm

princeofseoul

June 20th, 2007, 01:27 AM

prince why are you in japan? should'nt you be in korea

i'm in exile! :D

LordMarshall

June 20th, 2007, 06:11 AM

not a bad exile wanna trade exiles?

The Cebuano Exultor

June 20th, 2007, 06:48 AM

Metro Tokyo has between 4,000 and 6,000 residential buildings of more than 11 stories (source: Japan statistical yearbook 2007, housing and estate section - can be deduced from the number of dwellings in buildings of more than 11 stories).

I recall reading a few years back that metro Seoul has between 30,000 and 40,000 buildings of more than 12 stories (half within the city limits and half in the burbs). Not 100% about these numbers thus - my memory might be wrong on this one.

But definitely - based on my experience - metro Seoul has significantly more buildings of 10+ stories in height than metro tokyo, especially in the burbs.

^^ Jeez, that's a lot of mid-rises. That'd put Metro Seoul second only to Sao Paulo's 48,000 high-rises. :eek:

Anyway, imho, I prefer Tokyo's urban landscape than Metro Seoul's repetitive apartment "commie" blocks.

coldstar

June 20th, 2007, 07:25 AM

Metro Tokyo has between 4,000 and 6,000 residential buildings of more than 11 stories (source: Japan statistical yearbook 2007, housing and estate section - can be deduced from the number of dwellings in buildings of more than 11 stories).

I recall reading a few years back that metro Seoul has between 30,000 and 40,000 buildings of more than 12 stories (half within the city limits and half in the burbs). Not 100% about these numbers thus - my memory might be wrong on this one.

But definitely - based on my experience - metro Seoul has significantly more buildings of 10+ stories in height than metro tokyo, especially in the burbs.

Thanks, princeofseoul.
As I've been to Seoul, I'm quite acquainted with Seoul's huge 'commie blocks'.
My impresion is that Seoul has by far more midrise apartments, but by far less office towers, than Tokyo.
Actually Seoul's apartments of commie style are generally less than 20 stories (that is approx.60 -70m).

I just referred to the number of the skyscrapers in both cities.
I've no idea as to what the difinition of 'skyscraper' is. But anyway, it seems inappropriate to label commie blocks as skyscrapers.

coldstar

June 20th, 2007, 07:29 AM

coldstar

June 20th, 2007, 01:53 PM

pics of Osaki redevelopment

Osaki used to be a mere dark railway shunting yard area until a few years ago, but the area is rapidly changing.

aerial (from the left, Gate City, New City and Art Village and Oval Court.)
Some residential towers to be built in this area)
http://building-pc.cocolog-nifty.com/./photos/uncategorized/tokyoosaki1.jpg

Art Village
http://hrscene.fc2web.com/pic/tokyosinagawa/artvillagen.jpg

Gate City
http://hrscene.fc2web.com/pic/tokyosinagawa/gatecityosaki.jpg
http://www.english-resume.net/images/bldg_osaki02.jpg
http://www.english-resume.net/images/bldg_osaki12.jpg
http://www.english-resume.net/images/bldg_osaki13.jpg
http://www.english-resume.net/images/bldg_osaki18.jpg

Osaki New City (first building in this area)
http://hrscene.fc2web.com/pic/tokyosinagawa/ncosaki.jpg
http://hrscene.fc2web.com/pic/tokyosinagawa/ncosaki2.jpg

Oval Court
http://hrscene.fc2web.com/pic/tokyosinagawa/ovalosaki.jpg

the other side of the Osaki Station

ThinkPark Tower
some residential towers are to be built in this side, too. Especially, 'Sony Area' (far right of the pics. former Sony factory) is to be redeveloped from now on.
http://building-pc.cocolog-nifty.com/./photos/uncategorized/oosaki1.jpg
http://hrscene.fc2web.com/pic/tokyosinagawa/osaki_think.jpg

The Cebuano Exultor

June 20th, 2007, 04:09 PM

Oh wow!!! :eek: :eek: :eek:

Gate City is so aesthetically-defined!!!

Why are there too few people around? :? :(

coldstar, would you be kind enough to pin-point where Osaki is in Google Earth or Google Maps. Thanks. :cheers2:

south

June 20th, 2007, 11:20 PM

Osaki has improved dramatically over the past few years; i almost enjoy going there now. There was a time when it seemed 90% of the people getting off the train at Osaki funnelled straight into Gate City; huge rivers of people from 8-10AM and then virtual silence until hometime.

Why are there too few people around? :? :(

it's still very much an office area, not much to see on the street. hopefully that will change too in future.

Kirk

June 20th, 2007, 11:22 PM

Here's the area. (http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&view=map&q=tokyo&ie=UTF8&ll=35.621547,139.729668&spn=0.005564,0.010042&t=k&z=17&iwloc=addr&om=1)

It's changed a lot since I used to live there ten years ago. Oosaki used to be a dingy little stop on the Yamanote. I wonder if the same thing will happen on the north part of the Yamanote loop?

Ginza

June 21st, 2007, 06:21 AM

Tokyo is the epitomy of modernity and progress something many countries aspire to be

Ryuhei

June 21st, 2007, 09:45 AM

I found this panoramic view posted by forumer Unoh: :cheers:

---> scroll ---> ---> scroll --->

http://photoimg.enjoyjapan.naver.com/view/enjoybbs/viewphoto/ptravel/49000/20070612118162662824597800.jpg
http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showthread.php?p=13851193#post13851193

castermaild55

June 21st, 2007, 03:03 PM

In Marunouchi district, there are many historical building.

thses are combined or reconstracted on them

we might see many　like these in the future...

Mitsubish UFJ Bank
http://photoimg.enjoyjapan.naver.com/view/enjoybbs/viewphoto/pvillage/43000/20070423117733191564151800.jpg

http://www.mj-sekkei.com/master/pimage/1167102369_m_c6fccbdcb9a9b6c8a1a6bbb0c9a9bfaec2f7.jpg

Meiji-Yasuda
http://www.eonet.ne.jp/~building-pc/photograph/meiji-yasuda-1.JPG

http://www.mj-sekkei.com/master/pimage/1167076717_m_ccc0bca3b0c2c5c4c0b8ccbfa5d3a5eb.jpg

Mitsui nihonbashi
http://www.nikkeibp.co.jp/style/biz/person/epoch/060510_01.jpg
http://www.nikkeibp.co.jp/style/biz/person/epoch/060510_mandarin1/

http://sea.ap.teacup.com/nikkeif/img/1182430809.jpg

castermaild55

June 21st, 2007, 04:02 PM

Tokyo suburb
http://photoimg.enjoyjapan.naver.com/view/enjoybbs/viewphoto/pvillage/42000/20070310117353685771556400.jpg

SEED

June 21st, 2007, 05:23 PM

wats the name of that white color bridge? its nice :cool:

alsen

June 21st, 2007, 06:27 PM

^^ Rainbow Bridge .

coldstar

June 21st, 2007, 08:20 PM

In Marunouchi district, there are many historical building.

thses are combined or reconstracted on them

we might see many　like these in the future...
http://www.eonet.ne.jp/~building-pc/photograph/meiji-yasuda-1.JPG

thank you for the pics.

I always think this building is ugliest bldg that have been built for the last few years.
What a huge boring boxy bldg!

Ginza

June 22nd, 2007, 06:49 AM

I really hope so it will add to Tokyo's dynamism

The Cebuano Exultor

June 22nd, 2007, 07:37 AM

It's good to know Japan is preserving some of its beautiful old buildings! :happy: Tokyo's preserving these architectural beauties! :okay:

Grams

June 23rd, 2007, 03:09 AM

http://img340.imageshack.us/img340/4793/256552156f3b987ddc2ojn4.th.jpg (http://img340.imageshack.us/my.php?image=256552156f3b987ddc2ojn4.jpg)

http://img404.imageshack.us/img404/5839/409217103e8e54ca4bcoju0.th.jpg (http://img404.imageshack.us/my.php?image=409217103e8e54ca4bcoju0.jpg)

http://img255.imageshack.us/img255/5008/4121933062452db8c85oej7.th.jpg (http://img255.imageshack.us/my.php?image=4121933062452db8c85oej7.jpg)

http://img182.imageshack.us/img182/4281/4141352318168191f2boql8.th.jpg (http://img182.imageshack.us/my.php?image=4141352318168191f2boql8.jpg)

http://img182.imageshack.us/img182/6778/4257831246a25b2ae4bose3.th.jpg (http://img182.imageshack.us/my.php?image=4257831246a25b2ae4bose3.jpg)

http://img523.imageshack.us/img523/9113/459129040d05d3f976boze7.th.jpg (http://img523.imageshack.us/my.php?image=459129040d05d3f976boze7.jpg)

Grams

June 23rd, 2007, 04:27 AM

http://img524.imageshack.us/img524/5135/sn380144po7.th.jpg (http://img524.imageshack.us/my.php?image=sn380144po7.jpg)

http://img144.imageshack.us/img144/8707/sn380145pe5.th.jpg (http://img144.imageshack.us/my.php?image=sn380145pe5.jpg)

http://img468.imageshack.us/img468/5552/sn380147uc8.th.jpg (http://img468.imageshack.us/my.php?image=sn380147uc8.jpg)

http://img144.imageshack.us/img144/391/sn380149ot6.th.jpg (http://img144.imageshack.us/my.php?image=sn380149ot6.jpg)

http://img520.imageshack.us/img520/5827/sn380150do0.th.jpg (http://img520.imageshack.us/my.php?image=sn380150do0.jpg)

http://img255.imageshack.us/img255/5467/sn380152ru3.th.jpg (http://img255.imageshack.us/my.php?image=sn380152ru3.jpg)

http://img255.imageshack.us/img255/3006/sn380158fm5.th.jpg (http://img255.imageshack.us/my.php?image=sn380158fm5.jpg)

http://img177.imageshack.us/img177/5290/sn380157qa2.th.jpg (http://img177.imageshack.us/my.php?image=sn380157qa2.jpg)

http://img177.imageshack.us/img177/9372/sn380159jg0.th.jpg (http://img177.imageshack.us/my.php?image=sn380159jg0.jpg)

It isn't good quality as I took those pictures by my cellphone.

coldstar

June 23rd, 2007, 05:13 AM

Marunouchi
http://photoimg.enjoyjapan.naver.com/view/enjoybbs/viewphoto/pplace/4000/20070622118250578738764200.jpg
http://photoimg.enjoyjapan.naver.com/view/enjoybbs/viewphoto/pplace/4000/20070622118250755037900400.jpg
http://photoimg.enjoyjapan.naver.com/view/enjoybbs/viewphoto/pplace/4000/20070622118250755390094800.jpg
http://photoimg.enjoyjapan.naver.com/view/enjoybbs/viewphoto/pplace/4000/20070622118250755820673500.jpg
http://photoimg.enjoyjapan.naver.com/view/enjoybbs/viewphoto/pplace/4000/20070622118250756661752400.jpg
http://photoimg.enjoyjapan.naver.com/view/enjoybbs/viewphoto/pplace/4000/20070622118250757041501300.jpg
http://photoimg.enjoyjapan.naver.com/view/enjoybbs/viewphoto/pplace/4000/20070622118250757411208700.jpg
http://photoimg.enjoyjapan.naver.com/view/enjoybbs/viewphoto/pplace/4000/20070622118250757813924500.jpg
http://photoimg.enjoyjapan.naver.com/view/enjoybbs/viewphoto/pplace/4000/20070622118250758170853600.jpg

coldstar

June 23rd, 2007, 05:18 AM

Shinjuku from Sangenjyaya
http://photoimg.enjoyjapan.naver.com/view/enjoybbs/viewphoto/ptravel/50000/20070622118251013427997600.jpg

Vapour

June 23rd, 2007, 06:41 AM

I merged the two Tokyo threads since the 500-post rule doesn't apply anymore.

Ginza

June 23rd, 2007, 07:24 AM

onceagaingreat pics I have not seen one pic in this thread that I have not liked

giovani kun

June 23rd, 2007, 11:46 PM

good ideea to merge them we can hold more info on our forum :)

giovani kun

June 23rd, 2007, 11:58 PM

fantastic pictures :) the pictures from Kanto are superb

teddybear

June 24th, 2007, 09:07 AM

I am continously amazed by Tokyo... it is huge, but it is just so damn clean, orderly, and so well maintained!!!

SEED

June 24th, 2007, 12:24 PM

i lov viewing those picx while listening to j-pop heh! :cool:

laurentius

June 25th, 2007, 04:02 AM

wooow incredible pictures Grams and Coldstar!

many thanks!

The Cebuano Exultor

June 25th, 2007, 01:12 PM

Blackraven

June 25th, 2007, 01:38 PM

Guys, since you're the senior forumers here I guess you'd know the information I'm about to ask.

Using Google Earth Plus, I realized that there are so much more golf coarses in the Greater Tokyo Area than I used to think there was. I thought there were some 400 but now I'm convinced that there are more. Can any of you peg the number of golf coarses/resorts (counted by number of resort--i.e. if one resort has two or three golf coarses it will be still counted as one)?

Thanks. :cheers: :cheers2:

I think that's a bit of a no-brainer :)

Golf is one of Japan's top three sports (aside from soccer/European football and baseball).

Not sure about basketball though....since I only know that the country hosted the FIBA World Basketball Championships last year (in Sendai).....but case in point, golf is a top sport in Japan.

The Cebuano Exultor

June 25th, 2007, 02:00 PM

Grams

June 25th, 2007, 04:58 PM

^^ Grabe, an'daming golf coarses dito no! When I scrolled all-over the Greater Tokyo Area I was like... :eek: :eek: :uh: :uh: :nuts: :nuts: Ito talaga ang "golfer's haven" (di kasama ang Amerika).

Translation: (For the Sake of the Other Forumers)
OMG, this place has so many golf-coarses! When I scrolled all-over the Greater Tokyo Area I was like... :eek: :eek: :uh: :uh: :nuts: :nuts: This, indeed, is "golfer's haven" (with the possible exception of the United States).

Number of golf facilities
http://img509.imageshack.us/img509/566/graph1ny7.gif (http://imageshack.us)

Number of users
http://img509.imageshack.us/img509/1115/graph3eo5.gif (http://imageshack.us)

Tokyo has 19 golf spots, it's popular, though.

Tokyo realtime wheather analys system, called Tokyo Amesh was renewed.
http://tokyo-ame.jwa.or.jp/en/index.html
http://tokyo-ame.jwa.or.jp/en/2.html

Unsing

June 25th, 2007, 04:58 PM

I'm not a senior forumer, but here is the statistics.

As of 2004, 239 for Greater Tokyo, 504 for Kanto Region.

http://www.meti.go.jp/statistics/tokusabi/2004k/h16-t-09.xls

Hokkaido 116
Aomori 12
Iwate 23
Miyagi 40
Akita 19
Yamagata 19

Fukushima 54
Ibaraki 104
Tochigi 90
Gunma 71
Saitama 63
Chiba 117

Tokyo 19
Kanagawa 40
Niigata 45
Toyama 16
Ishikawa 25
Fukui 8

Yamanashi 34
Nagano 66
Gifu 73
Shizuoka 91
Aichi 57
Mie 66

Shiga 40
Kyoto 31
Osaka 33
Hyogo 147
Nara 30
Wakayama 18

Tottori 13
Shimane 11
Okayama 42
Hiroshima 51
Yamaguchi 34
Tokushima 12

Kagawa 20
Ehime 19
Kochi 13
Fukuoka 56
Saga 21
Nagasaki 25

Kumamoto 37
Oita 25
Miyazaki 17
Kagoshima 32
Okinawa 31

Blackraven

June 25th, 2007, 05:44 PM

Japanese people really love golf to the fullest extent :)

The Cebuano Exultor

June 26th, 2007, 10:24 AM

Gee, thanks Unsing.

Wow, 504 golf resorts/facilities is a lot for one metropolitan region! :eek:

That's probably the highest concentration of golfing facilties anywhere in the world. Given the fact that golf courses are consume vast quantities of water daily (in order to keep the lawns, greens, faiways, etc. looking lush-green) and with sooooooo many golf resorts spread accross an area with relatively few water resources, where do they get all the water they need?!

kiku99

June 26th, 2007, 03:24 PM

http://photoimg.enjoyjapan.naver.com/view/enjoybbs/viewphoto/pplace/4000/20070622118250755037900400.jpg

i like this picture.:okay:

coldstar

June 29th, 2007, 07:53 PM

Roppongi
Roppongi Hills
http://www.english-resume.net/images/bldg_mori32.jpg
VirginCinemas at Roppongi Hills
http://www.english-resume.net/images/bldg_mori05.jpg
Roppongi Hills Arena
http://www.english-resume.net/images/bldg_mori09.jpg
Metro Hut
http://www.english-resume.net/images/bldg_mori03.jpg
TV Asahi Broadcasting Center
http://www.english-resume.net/images/bldg_mori16.jpg
Grand Hyatt at Roppongi Hills
http://www.english-resume.net/images/bldg_mori24.jpg
shops at Hills
http://www.english-resume.net/images/bldg_mori25.jpg
http://www.english-resume.net/images/bldg_mori17.jpg

Midtown at Roppongi
http://www.english-resume.net/images/bldg_midtown03.jpg
Midtown Galleria
http://www.english-resume.net/images/bldg_midtown26.jpg
http://www.english-resume.net/images/bldg_midtown21.jpg
http://www.english-resume.net/images/bldg_midtown32.jpg
http://www.english-resume.net/images/bldg_midtown37.jpg
Midtown Gardens
http://www.english-resume.net/images/bldg_midtown29.jpg

Izumi Garden Tower at Roppongi
http://www.english-resume.net/images/bldg_izumi11.jpg
Tower Entrance
http://www.english-resume.net/images/bldg_izumi13.jpg
Tower Patio
http://www.english-resume.net/images/bldg_izumi09.jpg
subway station at the tower
http://www.english-resume.net/images/bldg_izumi06.jpg

Ark Mori Bldg
http://www.english-resume.net/images/bldg_ark02.jpg
Karajan Square at Ark
http://www.english-resume.net/images/bldg_ark13.jpg
Suntory Hall at Ark
http://www.english-resume.net/images/bldg_ark15.jpg

West Shinjuku
Opera City
http://www.english-resume.net/images/bldg_opera03.jpg
http://www.english-resume.net/images/bldg_opera12.jpg
Opera City Galleria
http://www.english-resume.net/images/bldg_opera05.jpg
arcade entrance
http://www.english-resume.net/images/bldg_opera06.jpg

Park Tower
http://www.english-resume.net/images/bldg_parktower58.jpg
Park Tower entrance
http://www.english-resume.net/images/bldg_parktower05.jpg
neighbouring conference hall
http://www.english-resume.net/images/bldg_parktower25.jpg
and Tokyo Metropolitan Government
http://www.english-resume.net/images/bldg_parktower13.jpg

Island Tower
http://www.english-resume.net/images/bldg_island01.jpg
Island Tower Patio
http://www.english-resume.net/images/bldg_island10.jpg

EL Tower
http://www.english-resume.net/images/bldg_ltower01.jpg
http://www.english-resume.net/images/bldg_ltower05.jpg

Shidome
Shidome City Center
http://www.english-resume.net/images/bldg_shiodome02.jpg
http://www.english-resume.net/images/bldg_shiodome03.jpg
http://www.english-resume.net/images/bldg_shiodome27.jpg
http://www.english-resume.net/images/bldg_shiodome34.jpg
http://www.english-resume.net/images/bldg_shiodome08.jpg
Subway Station at City Center
http://www.english-resume.net/images/bldg_shiodome30.jpg
Skytrain Station at Shiodome
http://www.english-resume.net/images/bldg_shiodome28.jpg

Nippon TV Broadcasting Center
http://www.english-resume.net/images/bldg_shiodome14.jpg
http://www.english-resume.net/images/bldg_shiodome13.jpg
http://www.english-resume.net/images/bldg_shiodome09.jpg

Caretta Shidome Tower
http://www.english-resume.net/images/bldg_shiodome18.jpg
http://www.english-resume.net/images/bldg_shiodome32.jpg

Shiodome Sumitomo Bldg
http://www.english-resume.net/images/bldg_webcareer01.jpg
http://www.english-resume.net/images/bldg_webcareer06.jpg
http://www.english-resume.net/images/bldg_webcareer03.jpg
neibouring Italian Town
http://www.english-resume.net/images/bldg_shiodome31.jpg

Ebisu
Garden Place
http://www.english-resume.net/images/bldg_ebisu02.jpg
http://www.english-resume.net/images/bldg_ebisu07.jpg
http://www.english-resume.net/images/bldg_ebisu16.jpg
Garden Place Chateau
http://www.english-resume.net/images/bldg_ebisu12.jpg
moving walk to Ebisu Station
http://www.english-resume.net/images/bldg_ebisu19.jpg

Marunouchi
Maru Bldg
http://www.english-resume.net/images/bldg_marunouchi03.jpg
http://www.english-resume.net/images/bldg_marunouchi05.jpg
http://www.english-resume.net/images/bldg_marunouchi08.jpg
food court at Maru Bldg
http://www.english-resume.net/images/bldg_marunouchi12.jpg

Oazo Bldg
http://www.english-resume.net/images/bldg_marunouchi26.jpg

Opaque Bldg
http://www.english-resume.net/images/bldg_marunouchi22.jpg
http://www.english-resume.net/images/bldg_marunouchi17.jpg

Tokia Bldg
http://www.english-resume.net/images/bldg_marunouchi24.jpg
http://www.english-resume.net/images/bldg_marunouchi23.jpg

neighbouring International Forum
http://www.english-resume.net/images/bldg_marunouchi29.jpg

Nomura Bldg
http://www.english-resume.net/images/bldg_pasona05.jpg
http://www.english-resume.net/images/bldg_pasona07.jpg

Akasaka
Garden Court Tower
http://www.english-resume.net/images/bldg_newotani03.jpg
http://www.english-resume.net/images/bldg_newotani16.jpg

Sannou Park Tower
http://www.english-resume.net/images/bldg_sanno01.jpg
http://www.english-resume.net/images/bldg_sanno10.jpg
subway station at Sannou Park Tower
http://www.english-resume.net/images/bldg_sanno16.jpg

Prudential Tower
http://www.english-resume.net/images/bldg_prudential13.jpg
http://www.english-resume.net/images/bldg_prudential04.jpg

Shinagawa
Inter City A
http://www.english-resume.net/images/bldg_shinagawa02.jpg
http://www.english-resume.net/images/bldg_shinagawa05.jpg
Inter City B&C
http://www.english-resume.net/images/bldg_shinagawa11.jpg
Central Garden at Inter City
http://www.english-resume.net/images/bldg_shinagawa13.jpg
http://www.english-resume.net/images/bldg_shinagawa10.jpg

Grand Commons
http://www.english-resume.net/images/bldg_shinagawa14.jpg
http://www.english-resume.net/images/bldg_shinagawa15.jpg
Skyway to Shinagawa Station
http://www.english-resume.net/images/bldg_shinagawa08.jpg

and Shinagawa Station
http://www.english-resume.net/images/bldg_shinagawa25.jpg