The Yokohama Landmark Tower (横浜ランドマークタワー, Yokohama Randomāku Tawā) is the third tallest building[1] and fifth tallest structure in Japan, standing 296.3 m (972 ft) high. Until surpassed by Abeno Harukas in 2014, it stood as the tallest building in Japan. It is located in the Minato Mirai 21 district of Yokohama city, next to the Yokohama Museum of Art.[2]
Yokohama Landmark Tower | |||||
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横浜ランドマークタワー | |||||
Record height | |||||
Tallest in Japan from 1993 to 2014[I] | |||||
Preceded by | Tokyo Metropolitan Government Building | ||||
Surpassed by | Abeno Harukas | ||||
General information | |||||
Location | Yokohama, Japan | ||||
Coordinates | 35°27′17″N 139°37′54″E / 35.45472°N 139.63167°E | ||||
Construction started | 20 March 1990 | ||||
Completed | 1993 | ||||
Opening | 16 July 1993 | ||||
Cost | ¥270 billion | ||||
Owner | Mitsubishi Estate Co. | ||||
Height | |||||
Architectural | 296.3 m (972 ft)[1] | ||||
Top floor | 273.0 m (896 ft)[1] | ||||
Observatory | 273 m (896 ft)[1] | ||||
Technical details | |||||
Floor count | 73[1] | ||||
Floor area | 292,791 m2 (3,151,580 sq ft) | ||||
Lifts/elevators | 79 by Mitsubishi Electric | ||||
Design and construction | |||||
Architect(s) | Mitsubishi Jisho Sekkei and Hugh Stubbins and Associates | ||||
Main contractor | Shimizu Corporation | ||||
Japanese name | |||||
Kanji | 横浜ランドマークタワー | ||||
Kana | よこはまランドマークタワー | ||||
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The building contains a five-star hotel which occupies floors 49–70, with 603 rooms in total.[1] The lower 48 floors contain shops, restaurants, clinics, and offices. The building contains two tuned mass dampers on the (hidden) 71st floor on opposite corners of the building.[3]
On the 69th floor there is an observatory, Sky Garden, from which one can see a 360-degree view of the city and, on clear days, Mount Fuji.[4]
The tower contains what were at their inauguration the world's fastest elevators (installed by Mitsubishi Electric), which reach speeds of 12.5 m/s (41 ft/s)[1] (45.0 km/h (28.0 mph)). This speed allows the elevator to reach the 69th floor in approximately 40 seconds.[5] The elevators' speed record was surpassed by elevators of Taipei 101 (60.6 km/h, 37.7 mi/h) in 2004.
The building was designed by the architecture and engineering division of Mitsubishi Estate, now Mitsubishi Jisho Sekkei and Hugh Stubbins and Associates, later KlingStubbins.