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Nishi-Shinjuku (西新宿) is a skyscraper business district in Shinjuku, Tokyo, Japan.This region was called Tsunohazu (角筈) before.
Nishi-Shinjuku was Tokyo's first major foray into building skyscrapers with the first appearing in the 1970s with Keio Plaza Inter-Continental. Kenzo Tange's Tokyo Metropolitan Government Building being the current latest. Tower I was also the tallest building in Japan at this time.
Progress continues in Nishi-Shinjuku and in West Shinjuku which is heading away from the city center and has the site of the proposed Nishi-Shinjuku 3-Chōme Redevelopment with plans for what will be three of the four tallest buildings in Japan.
Seiko Epson's Tokyo Office is in the Shinjuku NS Building in Nishi-Shinjuku.[1]
Skyscrapers in Nishi-Shinjuku
 Shinjuku Sumitomo Building (1974) |
 Shinjuku Mitsui Building (1974) |
 Shinjuku KDDI Building (1974) (ex-KDD Honsha Building) |
 Shinjuku Sompo Japan Building (1976) (ex-Yasuda Kasai Kaijo Building) |
 Shinjuku Nomura Building (1978) |
 Shinjuku Center Building (1979) |
 Hotel Hyatt Tokyo Shinjuku (1980) |
 Shinjuku NS Building (1982) |
 Kougakuin University S-Tec Building (1989) |
 Shinjuku L Tower (1990) |
 Shinjuku Monolith Building (1990) |
 Shinjuku Park Tower (1994) |
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 Shinjuku I-town Square (1994) |
 Shinjuku I-land Tower (1995) |
 Tokyo Opera City Tower (1996) |
 Nishi-Shinjuku Mitsui Building (1999) |
 Shinjuku Oak City (left：2002, right:2003) |
 Shinjuku First West (2003) |
 Mode Gakuen Cocoon Tower (2008) |
See also
References
- ^ "Head Office & Japanese Facilities." Seiko Epson. Retrieved on January 13, 2009.
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