Shinjuku Park Tower, Skyscraper in Nishi-Shinjuku, Shinjuku, Japan
Shinjuku Park Tower is a modern skyscraper in Nishi-Shinjuku comprising three connected sections of varying heights, with the tallest reaching 52 floors. The complex integrates office spaces, a hotel, and retail areas into one interconnected structure.
The site was originally a gas storage facility before architect Kenzo Tange redesigned it into a modern office complex. Opening in 1994, it marked the transformation of this part of Shinjuku.
The Park Hyatt Tokyo, on floors 39 to 52, was the main setting of Sofia Coppola's Lost in Translation. The building also appears in Godzilla 2000, where a UFO destroys it, and in the manga Psycho; a version of it is a building in SimCity 3000.
The tower stands at 3 Nishi-Shinjuku, a 12-minute walk from Shinjuku Station's south exit or 8 minutes from Tochomae Station on the Oedo Line. A free OZONE shuttle bus runs from the El Tower building near Shinjuku Station's west exit to the tower entrance; a separate hotel shuttle serves Park Hyatt guests.
The site once held a gas holder built in 1912; its removal allowed the redevelopment that produced the tower, which opened on 9 July 1994 at a construction cost of about 150 billion yen. Tokyo Gas runs a district cooling centre on-site that supplies the high-rise district and electricity to the adjacent Tokyo Metropolitan Government Building.
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