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Nishi-Shinjuku
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Nishi-shinjuku (西新宿) is the skyscraper business district of Tokyo and was Tokyo’s first major foray into building skyscrapers. Nishi-shinjuku is part of Shinjuku. The first skyscrapper appeared 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 the time it was built. Progress continues in Nishi-shinjuku and in West Shinjuku which is heading away from the city center and has the site of the coming Nishi-shinjuku 3-Chome redevelopment with plans for what will be 3 of the 4 tallest buildings in Japan. (Article uses content from Wikipedia article and used under the GNU Free Documentation License) |