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Seiji Yamamoto opened RyuGin in Roppongi in 2003 and used it to argue that kaiseki could be taken apart and rebuilt with modern technique without ceasing to be kaiseki - a position that made it the Japanese restaurant most often named on international lists. It has since moved to Hibiya, where it holds three Michelin stars.

At Tokyo's Physical AI Summit the AI Robot Association showed the first prototypes from its NEDO-backed contest to build a domestic general-purpose robot. ugo's entry, the wheeled dual-arm Nova, was developed in about six months and goes into mass production in 2027.

The 385 m, 62-storey centrepiece of the Tokyo Torch district beside Tokyo Station holds offices, more than 100 shops, an events hall for 2,000 people and the first luxury rental flats in the Otemachi-Marunouchi-Yurakucho district. Construction started in September 2023.

Mitsui Fudosan's consortium is rebuilding the 190,000 sq m former Tsukiji fish market site in Chuo City as nine buildings totalling about 1,170,000 sq m, including an all-weather multifunctional venue for roughly 50,000 people, a theatre hall, a culinary centre and a waterbus terminal. The whole scheme is costed at about 900 billion yen.

The new line runs from a station between Haneda's Terminals 1 and 2 through an underwater tunnel to the Tokaido Main Line near Tamachi, tying the airport directly into Tokyo Station and Shin-Kiba. Construction began on 2 June 2023 and the East Yamanote route is costed at about 280 billion yen.