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Above: Tokyo Metropolitan Government Building. Tokyo's city hall,
the city's tallest skyscraper (243m/797f, 48 stories, 1991).
In the first three pictures the building is seen from the front. In the last one from the back.
In 2007, the reign of tallest of Tokyo may be over when Mid Town Tower will be completed.
This tower is currently under construction and will be 248m/813f tall, with 54 stories.


Above left: Tokyo Metropolitan Government Buildings #1 (background) and #2 (163m/535f, 39 stories, 1992).
Over 13.000 people work in these buildings every day!!
Above middle: view of the road behind the Tokyo Metropolitan Government Buildings #1 and #2.
On the left, you can see the Shinjuku Park Tower Building.
Above right: Shinjuku Park Tower: 233m/769f, 52 stories, 1994.


Above left: view from the Business Hotel in Shinjuku towards the skyscrapers of the Shinjuku Business District.
Above middle: view from downtown Shinjuku towards the Shinjuku business district.
With from left to right: Shinjuku Center Building (223m/731f, 54 stories, 1979), Yasuda-Kasai Building
(193m/633f, 43 stories, 1976) and Nomura Building (203m/666f, 53 floors, 1978).
Above right: this picture was taken standing in front of Tokyo Metropolitan Government Building #2,
with #1 building on the far left. Then from left to right: Sumitomo Building (200m/656f, 52 stories, 1974),
Mitsui Building (225m/738f, 55 stories, 1974) and Keio Plaza Hotel (170m/558f, 47 stories, 1971).


Above left: Mitsui Building (225m/738f, 55 stories, 1974).
Above middle: on the far left, part of the Shinjuku Center Building, in the middle,
the Nomura Building (203m/666f, 53 floors, 1978),
and on the right, the Yasuda-Kasai building (193m/633f, 43 stories, 1976).
Above right: Shinjuku Center Building (223m/731f, 54 stories, 1979).


Above left: Mitsui Building (225m/738f, 55 stories, 1974), with Shinjuku Center Building
(223m/731f, 54 stories, 1979) next to it.
Above middle: Yasuda-Kasai building and Nomura building seen from a distance in one of
the many very busy streets of the Shinjuku district of Tokyo.
Above right: Shinjuku I-Land Tower (190m/623f, 44 stories, 1995) seen through a space
left by the Shinjuku Center Building (left) and the Mitsui Building.


Above: Tokyo Tower, Tokyo's answer to the Eiffel Tower. It's 333m/ 1092f tall,
and was built in 1958. It's a tourist attraction and has two observation decks.



Above: a few views of Tokyo from the observation deck of the Sunshine 60 Building.



Tokyo's 10 tallest skyscrapers:
1. TOKYO CITY HALL 243m/797f, 48 stories, 1991
2. SUNSHINE 60 BUILDING 240m/787f, 60 stories, 1978
3. DOCOMO YOYOGI BUILDING 240m/787f, 28 stories, 2000
4. ROPPONGI HILLS MORI TOWER 238m/781f, 54 stories, 2003
5. TOKYO OPERA CITY TOWER 234m/768f, 54 stories, 1997
6. SHINJUKU PARK TOWER 233m/764f, 52 stories, 1994
7. SHINJUKU MITSUI 212m/696f, 55 stories, 1974
8. SHINJUKU CENTER BUILDING 223m/731f, 54 stories, 1979
9. ST. LUKE'S TOWER 221m/724f, 51 stories, 1994
10. SHODOME CITY CENTER 216m/708f, 43 stories, 2003

The building data, the top 10 of tallest buildings and some of the building information are courtesy of
EMPORIS.COM, one of the world's leading architectural resources on tall buildings.

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