Yokohama Landmark Tower
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Yokohama Landmark Tower | |||||
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横浜ランドマークタワー | |||||
Record height | |||||
Tallest in Japan from 1993 to 2014[I] | |||||
Preceded by | Tokyo Metropolitan Government Building | ||||
Surpassed by | Abeno Harukas | ||||
General information | |||||
Location | Yokohama, Japan | ||||
Coordinates | 35°27′17″N 139°37′54″E / 35.45472°N 139.63167°E | ||||
Construction started | 20 March 1990 | ||||
Completed | 1993 | ||||
Opening | 16 July 1993 | ||||
Cost | ¥270 billion | ||||
Owner | Mitsubishi Estate Co. | ||||
Height | |||||
Architectural | 296.3 m (972 ft)[1] | ||||
Top floor | 273.0 m (896 ft)[1] | ||||
Observatory | 273 m (896 ft)[1] | ||||
Technical details | |||||
Floor count | 73[1] | ||||
Floor area | 292,791 m2 (3,151,580 sq ft) | ||||
Lifts/elevators | 79 by Mitsubishi Electric | ||||
Design and construction | |||||
Architect(s) | Mitsubishi Jisho Sekkei and Hugh Stubbins and Associates | ||||
Main contractor | Shimizu Corporation | ||||
Japanese name | |||||
Kanji | 横浜ランドマークタワー | ||||
Kana | よこはまランドマークタワー | ||||
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The Yokohama Landmark Tower (横浜ランドマークタワー, Yokohama Randomāku Tawā) is the
The building contains a five-star hotel which occupies floors 49–70, with 603 rooms in total.
On the 69th floor there is an observatory, Sky Garden, from which one can see a 360-degree view of the city and, on clear days, Mount Fuji.[4]
The tower contains what were at their inauguration the world's fastest elevators (installed by Mitsubishi Electric), which reach speeds of 12.5 m/s (41 ft/s)[1] (45.0 km/h (28.0 mph)). This speed allows the elevator to reach the 69th floor in approximately 40 seconds.[5] The elevators' speed record was surpassed by elevators of Taipei 101 (60.6 km/h, 37.7 mi/h) in 2004.
The building was designed by the architecture and engineering division of Mitsubishi Estate, now Mitsubishi Jisho Sekkei and Hugh Stubbins and Associates, later KlingStubbins.
In popular culture
See also
- List of tallest buildings in Japan
- List of public observation decks
References
- ^ a b c d e f g h "Landmark Tower". The Skyscraper Center. Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat. Archived from the original on 3 December 2013.
- ^ "Project Outline". Kintetsu. Retrieved 28 July 2014.
- ISSN 2537-2726.
- ^ "Yokohama Landmark Tower Sky Garden". Yokohama official visitor's guilde. Yokohama Convention & Visitors Bureau. Retrieved 17 February 2019.
- ^ スカイガーデン [About Sky Garden] (in Japanese). Archived from the original on 13 September 2008. Retrieved 20 August 2008.
External links
- The Landmark Tower official site
- Geographic data related to Yokohama Landmark Tower at OpenStreetMap