TAKANAWA GATEWAY CITY is a commercial complex of four high-rise buildings and one low-rise building adjacent to Takanawa Gateway Station (Yamanote and Keihin Tohoku lines), which opens on March 14, 2020. The 2nd district will be a cultural and creative building with a park and a live hall, the 3rd district will be Complex II adjacent to Sengakuji Station, and the 4th district will be Complex I (North and South), the symbolic twin towers. The 4th district is scheduled to open in March 2025, and the other districts in fiscal 2025.
On May 16, JR East announced that the official name of the urban development project being promoted at the former Shinagawa rail yard site adjacent to Takanawa Gateway Station has been decided as “TAKANAWA GATEWAY CITY. A joint press conference was also held to announce that KDDI’s headquarters will be relocated to the I North complex, which will open in March 2025, and that JR East and KDDI will work together to co-create the city.
The name “TAKANAWA GATEWAY CITY” was chosen as the gateway connecting Japan and the world.
Mr. Yuji Fukasawa, President and Representative Director of East Japan Railway Company, took the stage and said, “JR East’s challenge is to create a rich and enriched lifestyle 100 years into the future. This town is the gateway to the world and to the future. We would like to work from here in Takanawa to create a town that will better energize the region, Japan, and the future of the earth.” He explained the concept of the project, followed by the announcement of the official logo and details of the name.
The name “TAKANAWA GATEWAY CITY” is written in alphabetical characters, with global awareness. He explained that by including the name of the station, he wanted to express the unity of the station and the city. The logo was designed to resemble a gate, with the letter “Taka” representing the gateway to the world, as Takanawa, once the gateway to Edo, is now the gateway to the world.
The first is to achieve virtually zero CO2 emissions for the entire city, and to create an environment-led sustainable town that adopts a circular economy in which waste is reused as a resource. The second, with KDDI as a co-creation partner, is to build a testing ground for a spiritually rich lifestyle 100 years into the future.
In terms of energy, as part of the city’s environment-leading urban development, the project will implement energy creation using solar power, wind power, biomass, etc., energy conservation using high-performance exteriors and exhaust heat, and the latest energy management for efficient use of these resources. The company also intends to actively utilize mobility and devices that use hydrogen, which is expected to be a clean energy source. As one such example, the company plans to consolidate cargo from outside into a temporary storage area, and FC trucks using fuel cells will be introduced for deliveries. Food residues from restaurants and other businesses will be converted into heat energy at the first building-in biogas facility in the eastern Japan area, and will be used to supply hot water to the JW Marriott Hotel Tokyo, which is scheduled to move into the building. In addition, a system will be established to recycle and resell the collected clothing using the latest technology.
The city block is also characterized by its abundance of greenery. More than 2.7 hectares of trees, mainly native species, will be planted on the site, which stretches more than 1 km from north to south, and a biotope adjacent to the residential tower will have trees and water features to promote the establishment of wild birds and insects native to Minato Ward. The company plans to provide lush vegetation on the upper floors as well, and will construct a botanical space of approximately 2,000 tsubo on the 28th and 29th floors of Building I (North), boasting a sight unparalleled in the world for a high-rise building, he explained.
He also mentioned the second vision of the project as an experimental site. To solve global-scale issues, business creation facilities will be developed to enable collaboration among local residents, tenant companies and start-ups, universities, and creators. In addition to coworking and event spaces, incubation facilities and laboratories will be provided to enable industry, government, and academia to work together to solve issues. In addition, the “Urban OS,” a data infrastructure that collects and analyzes data from city facilities, will be constructed, and the big data obtained from this will be used to create new services.
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