An apartment in Shinjuku for 99 Yen a month?

Who said living in Tokyo was expensive? IKEA Japan is offering a furnished rental apartment in Shinjuku for just 99 Yen (US 86 cents) a month.

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Odakyu to demolish modernist department store in Shinjuku

On July 16, Odakyu Department Store Co., Ltd. announced that they will be closing their Shinjuku Main Store at the end of September 2022. This is to make way for a major redevelopment project on the western side of Shinjuku Station.

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40-story apartment tower for Nishi Shinjuku

On June 16, the Tokyo Metropolitan Government approved the land rights transfer proposal for the Nishi Shinjuku 5 Chome Central South District Redevelopment. This development will see several blocks of low-rise buildings replaced with a 40-story apartment tower.

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Shinjuku’s 65-storey twin tower apartment project gets town planning approval

On March 15, Shinjuku ward issued town planning approval for the Nishi Shinjuku 3 Chome West District Redevelopment. This project includes two 65-storey, 235 meter tall apartment towers that will be the tallest purely-residential towers in Japan based on total floor count and the second largest development based on total unit count. 

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160m tall apartment tower for Nishi Shinjuku 5 Chome

A 43-storey, 160 meter tall apartment tower is planned for the Nishi Shinjuku 5 Chome address in Tokyo. Construction is scheduled to start in mid-2020 with completion by July 2023.

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40-storey tower for Shinjuku's Kabukicho

A 225-meter tall, 40-storey tower is planned for the site of the former Shinjuku Tokyu Milano movie theatre in Kabukicho. Construction is expected to start in July 2019 with completion tentatively scheduled for 2022.Read more


The Parkhouse Shinjuku Gyoen has reached completion

Construction of The Parkhouse Shinjuku Gyoen, a 14-storey condominium located directly across the street from the Shinjuku Gyoen National Garden, reached completion last month.

The building contains 52 luxury residences ranging in size from 55 ~ 100 sqm (592 ~ 1,076 sq ft). When sales began back in early 2016, apartments were priced from 64 ~ 269 million Yen, with an average price of around 1,725,000 Yen/sqm.

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