Shirokane road widening plan to start this year
Bad news for this stretch of historic shophouses alongside Kitasato Street in Shirokane. On July 25, the Tokyo Metropolitan Government announced that a road widening plan will start sometime this year that will see the road widened from its current 11 meters to 20 meters. Doing so will probably require some buildings to be partially or entirely demolished.
Real estate tour of Shirokane
Shirokane is an affluent neighborhood known for parks, tree-lined avenues, Imperial estates, fancy restaurants and boutiques. Larger family homes, low-rise (and a few high-rise) apartments can be found. Property prices tend to be on the high end due to the esteemed reputation of the area. Join us on a real estate tour through Shirokane.
140m tall apartment tower planned for Shirokane
Tokyu Land Corporation has been chosen to lead the Shirokane 1 Chome North-Central Redevelopment Project. This will see a 140-meter tall, 900-unit apartment tower built on the western side of Shirokane AER City.
Modernist house-turned-restaurant in Shirokane closes its doors
Located in a quiet and wealthy residential neighborhood just minutes from Shirokane sits a small and unassuming modernist house. Until late last year, this home was the Kamikozawa-tei shabu-shabu restaurant serving small groups of customers.
Seiko to sell historical residence in Shirokane for an estimated 30 billion Yen
On August 12, Seiko Holdings announced that they will be selling the 81-year old residence of company founder Kintaro Hattori in Shirokane 2 Chome and are expected to post a gain of 8.5 billion Yen (82 million USD) from its sale. Managing Director Akio Naito said the property was of historical importance to the company and they will announce further details after the property is transferred at the end of September.
The residence was designed by architect Teitaro Takahashi (1892 - 1970) and built by Obayashi Corporation in 1933. Takahashi designed a number of residences, hotels and buildings including the Former Maeda Residence in Komaba Park (1928) and the Takashimaya Department Store in Nihonbashi (1933).
Hattori founded the Wako watch and jewellery shop in Ginza in 1881. The current Wako department store building in Ginza was built in 1932 as the K. Hattori Building and replaced Hattori's original store which had been demolished in 1921. Naturally, the clock atop the building is a Seiko.Read more
Large-scale redevelopment for Shirokane 1 Chome
A large redevelopment is planned for a 17,000sqm block in Shirokane 1 Chome area in Minato-ku. The development will include approximately 1,200 residential apartments. There will be three buildings of varying heights, with the highest being a 156m tall tower with 43 floors. The floorspace of the buildings will total 133,700 sqm (1,438,612 sqft). Construction is scheduled to begin in 2015 (it was originally planned for 2014) and the project should be completed by 2019.Read more