JR East announced that the opening date of “TAKANAWA GATEWAY CITY,” a redevelopment project underway around Takanawa Gateway Station, has been set for March 27, 2025.
Yoichi Kitsu, President and Representative Director of East Japan Railway Company, gave a general overview of the grand opening at a press conference held in Tokyo on October 30. Mahoro Uchida, Director of the Cultural Creation Building Preparation Office, TAKANAWA GATEWAY CITY, JR East Foundation for Culture and Creative Work, explained about the Cultural Creation Building (tentative), which will serve as a center for exchange and communication for the next generation, and announced the official name of the commercial facility as “MON Takanawa: The Museum of Narratives”. The official name of the commercial facility has been decided as “MON Takanawa: The Museum of Narratives”. The hall is scheduled to open in the spring of 2026.
TAKANAWA GATEWAY CITY is a new urban area on a 13-hectare site of the former Shinagawa rail yard, and is one of the largest “Echimachi integrated urban development” projects in Japan, stretching 1.6 km north to south adjacent to Takanawa Gateway Station (Yamanote Line and Keihin Tohoku Line), which opens on March 14, 2020. The project will be a single town of about 1.6 km from north to south, adjacent to Takanawa Gateway Station (Yamanote Line and Keihin Tohoku Line), which will open on March 14, 2020, with a cluster of high-rise buildings containing offices, residences, and commercial facilities under construction and Eki Park, an eco park space, to be opened one after another.
The new urban area will consist of a total of five buildings (four high-rise and one low-rise). THE LINKPILLAR I, a north-south twin tower directly connected to the station that will house a large-scale convention hall, offices, the JW Marriott Hotel Tokyo, the first luxury hotel in the Tokyo metropolitan area, Newman Takanawa, the largest commercial facility in Lumine history, and a travel service center for new tourist attractions. THE LINKPILLAR II, which includes offices, a clinic, a fitness center, and a gallery for the preservation and utilization of the Takanawa Chikkitate, designated as a national historic site, and THE LINKPILLAR III, a residential tower with luxury high-rise rental housing. TAKANAWA GATEWAY CITY RESIDENCE,” a residential tower that will mainly house high-end, high-rise rental residences. The cultural and creative building “MON Takanawa: The Museum of Narratives,” which will be the symbol of the new city, is a low-rise, spiral-shaped facility designed by architect Kengo Kuma, and will include an exhibition hall and a rooftop garden overflowing with greenery.
After the full opening of THE LINKPILLAR I and Takanawa Gateway Station at the end of FY2024 (March 27, 2025), the other buildings (THE LINKPILLAR II, Cultural Creation Building, and Residential Building) and the areas surrounding each building will open during FY2025. The surrounding area will be “53 Playable Park,” a nature-rich landscape inspired by the 53 Stages of the Tokaido, with streets and plazas scattered over a distance of more than 1 km from north to south.
Mr. Kijima, who revealed the full details of “TAKANAWA GATEWAY CITY” 150 days before the opening, reemphasized the concept of “a testing ground for a spiritually rich life 100 years from now,” inheriting the historical background of the city’s role as the gateway to Edo and the memory of innovation in the area where the first railroad in Japan ran, and expressed his enthusiasm for the grand opening “to realize a better future. He also expressed his enthusiasm for the grand opening, saying, “For the realization of a better future.
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