Musashi-kosugi station area, in Kawasaki city (due south of Tokyo) is to experience a skyscraper revolution within the next years. The existing NEC Tamagawa towers in JR Mukaigawara station (next to Musashi-kosugi, with 155 and 111 metres) will see up to 7 residential towers rising in the area until 2011:

-140 metres x 2 (2010/2011)
-160 metres x 3 (2008)
-170 metres (2008)
-200 metres (2008) Japan's tallest residential bldg along with Osaka's X-tower

Source:
http://www.eonet.ne.jp/~building-pc/kawasaki/birukawasaki.htm

Masterplan from the City of Kawasaki website:

http://www.city.kawasaki.jp/50/50zigyo/home/kosugi/kosugi050325/0(nanbu)top/image1.jpg

Last but not least, I live 2 stations away from Musashi-kosugi :D

I took these days ago:

http://img458.imageshack.us/img458/5227/1539520sf.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

http://img458.imageshack.us/img458/6678/1535153az.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

Oh! That's awesome!!.

Model
http://www.alles.or.jp/~salut/gallery20050515.html

It seems to be exposed on 1st floor, Nakahara Kuyakusho, Kawasaki :)

great news :cool:
im guessing there arent many skyscrapers yet there?

^3 over 100 metres.

Taken today 7/25

http://img81.imageshack.us/img81/9682/155118mi6.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

http://img81.imageshack.us/img81/8422/160352de1.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

http://img81.imageshack.us/img81/6172/160527bp4.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

http://img81.imageshack.us/img81/7121/160555xn4.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

http://img81.imageshack.us/img81/1667/160817wy8.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

http://img81.imageshack.us/img81/3160/160907oa1.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

http://img81.imageshack.us/img81/3905/161004eq6.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

http://img81.imageshack.us/img81/420/161421of4.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

http://img81.imageshack.us/img81/8701/161449qe4.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

^^Wow!!! Nice updates, it's rising well now.

very nice projects.

8/23

http://img214.imageshack.us/img214/7155/174118ys2.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

Wow!!!! Nice pregress, thanks

I opened a thread on Musashi-kosugi developments long ago, I tried to recover it but the search function did not display any results. Anyway...

You see 5 residential towers over 100 metres reaching for the sky. Other 2 (?) will join the party if I remember well.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v153/sashimigadaisuki/P1190241.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v153/sashimigadaisuki/P1190242.jpg

Shin-kawasaki

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v153/sashimigadaisuki/P1190244.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v153/sashimigadaisuki/P1190254.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v153/sashimigadaisuki/P1190255.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v153/sashimigadaisuki/P1190256.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v153/sashimigadaisuki/P1190257.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v153/sashimigadaisuki/P1190260.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v153/sashimigadaisuki/P1190272.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v153/sashimigadaisuki/P1190273.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v153/sashimigadaisuki/P1190274.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v153/sashimigadaisuki/P1190275.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v153/sashimigadaisuki/P1190276.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v153/sashimigadaisuki/P1190277.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v153/sashimigadaisuki/P1190278.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v153/sashimigadaisuki/P1190279.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v153/sashimigadaisuki/P1190282.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v153/sashimigadaisuki/P1190283.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v153/sashimigadaisuki/P1190285.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v153/sashimigadaisuki/P1190283.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v153/sashimigadaisuki/P1190285.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v153/sashimigadaisuki/P1190287.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v153/sashimigadaisuki/P1190289.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v153/sashimigadaisuki/P1190290.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v153/sashimigadaisuki/P1190292.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v153/sashimigadaisuki/P1190293.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v153/sashimigadaisuki/P1190294.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v153/sashimigadaisuki/P1190297.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v153/sashimigadaisuki/P1190302.jpg

The building in the last picture was the only high-rise in the area in 1995, the ones you see in my pictures will be over 160 metres: 203.5m-162.8-161.7-161.1-160.

thanks for the photos Vapour, appreciate your hard work.

Good to see some real Japan, looks good

great pics wonderful development