Nihonbashi Mitsui Tower, Modern skyscraper in Nihonbashi district, Tokyo, Japan
Nihonbashi Mitsui Tower is a 192-metre, 34-storey skyscraper in Nihonbashi-Muromachi, Chūō, Tokyo, completed in 2005. Its pale vertical stone or metal fins run unbroken up the facade, continuing as freestanding fins above a recessed setback near the flat roof. The lower four floors open into a 24.5-metre-high glass atrium with white granite sculpture, and floors 30 to 38 hold the Mandarin Oriental Tokyo.
Sembikiya, a fruit merchant founded in 1867, occupied this site with a three-story Western-style building, replaced in 1971 by an eleven-story office block. Sembikiya moved its headquarters in 2002, and the tower, completed in 2005, was built in a style complementing the adjacent 1929 Mitsui Honkan, an Important Cultural Property since 1998.
The Mitsui Memorial Museum opened on the seventh floor of the neighbouring Mitsui Honkan, reached from the tower's public atrium. Its collection holds the Mitsui family's art and tea utensils, and the tower's ground floors host the main Sembikiya store, a fruit merchant established on this site in 1867.
The building connects directly to Tokyo Metro Mitsukoshimae Station, making it easily accessible by train. Most visitors enter through the station connection to reach the shops, museum, and hotel areas.
The four-storey atrium linking the tower to Mitsui Honkan is open to the public and hosts events. Inside it stand a 24.5-metre glass artwork modelled on the Honkan's colonnade and a white granite sculpture. The same atrium is the approach to the Mitsui Memorial Museum on the seventh floor of the Honkan.
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