Mitsubishi Estate
SCHEDULED57% CONFIDENCEMitsubishi Estate’s own construction-start release says Torch Tower and its substation building "are scheduled for completion at the end of March 2028", and its schedule table repeats "End of March 2028".[1]
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- Mar 31, 202875% CONFIDENCEfrom the source
Torch Tower Completes as Japan's Tallest Building
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.
- Torch Tower is the centrepiece of the TOKYO TORCH district in front of the Nihonbashi Exit of Tokyo Station, developed by Mitsubishi Estate with related rights holders, and is to be the tallest building in Japan on completion[1][2]
- Construction is scheduled to complete "at the end of March 2028", together with the substation building and TOKYO TORCH Park, a 7,000 m2 plaza at the centre of the district[1]; Wikipedia gives an estimated completion of 1 March 2028 and says it will surpass the 325.2 m Azabudai Hills Mori JP Tower[2]
- The links give the height two ways: Mitsubishi Estate's press release says "The Torch Tower is as the highest building in Japan at approximately 390 meters" and its project table repeats approx. 390 m[1], while Wikipedia's infobox gives an architectural height of 385 m with a 366 m roof, a 358 m top floor and a 349 m observatory - though a navigation list on the same page still calls it "Torch Tower (390 m, 2028)"[2]
- Floor counts also differ: both agree on 62 floors above ground and 4 below[1][2], but Wikipedia's infobox totals that as 65 floors while its own text says the tower "will feature 67 floors in total"[2]
- Floor area is given as approximately 553,000 m2 by the developer[1] and 542,000 m2 by Wikipedia, which notes the latter is 1.75 times the Burj Khalifa's 309,472 m2[2]
- A groundbreaking ceremony was held on 27 September 2023 to announce the start of construction[1], a date Wikipedia's infobox repeats while its text says "Construction started in October 2023"[2]
- The programme stacks the uses vertically: observatory on 61-RF with outdoor space, rental housing on 59-60F - "the first luxury residence in Otemachi, Yurakucho and Marunouchi area" - hotel on 53-58F, offices on 7-52F with about 6,700 m2 standard floors, the roughly 2,000-seat Grand Hall on 3-6F, and retail with a 2.0 ha outdoor plaza on B1-6F[1]
- Wikipedia places the hotel differently, on "the 51st to 61st floors, at a height of more than 300 m", with its lobby floor designed to take in outside air in a space surrounded by greenery; it agrees on offices from floor 7 to 52 and on an events hall seating up to 2,000[2]
- The observation deck is expected to draw 3 to 4 million visitors a year, with views of Tokyo Bay and Mount Fuji; the exterior has a torch-inspired design and the name was chosen in the hope the tower will "illuminate Japan"[2]
- Shimizu Corporation is the main contractor[1][2]; the developer credits design and supervision to Mitsubishi Jisho Design, while Wikipedia lists the architects as Mitsubishi Jisho Sekkei, Sou Fujimoto Architects and Yuko Nagayama Associates[1][2]
- Wikipedia puts the project cost at about 500 billion yen (US$4.77 billion), a figure the press release does not give[2]
- The tower is building B of the approximately 3.1-hectare Otemachi 2-chome Tokiwabashi redevelopment, four buildings over 10 years on a 31,400 m2 site with about 740,000 m2 of gross floor area, built while keeping the district's sewage pumping station and electricity substation running; the 212 m Tokiwabashi Tower completed at the end of June 2021 and the Zenigamecho Building at the end of March 2022[1][2]
- The tower has LEED BD+C (Core & Shell) Gold precertification from the U.S. Green Building Council and office-use precertification under the WELL Building Standard, with "Gold level certification ... expected upon completion of construction"; LEED cited the plaza and aerial walkways, high-efficiency equipment and "efficient reuse of rainwater and wastewater", and WELL cited health, safety, universal design and disaster preparedness[1]
- The press release carries its own caveat that the information "is subject to change as studies and discussions continue", and its Marunouchi pipeline table dates Torch Tower's completion to FY2027 rather than the end of March 2028 given elsewhere on the same document[1]; Wikipedia's infobox meanwhile lists the project's status as "On hold"[2]
Cost ¥500B
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- [1]75%mec.co.jp/news/mec230927_torchtower/230927_Torch%20Tower_Press%20Release.pdfmec.co.jp· Posted Sep 20, 2026· Starts Mar 31, 2028 ✓· 50% of score
Mitsubishi Estate’s own construction-start release says Torch Tower and its substation building "are scheduled for completion at the end of March 2028", and its schedule table repeats "End of March 2028".
- [2]40%Torch Tower (Japan) - Wikipediaen.wikipedia.org· Added Sep 20, 2026· 50% of score
Carries the same March 2028 completion but marks the status "On hold". No owner-side document or report corroborates a suspension - the developer’s own release still gives the March 2028 schedule - so the pin follows the developer and this stays a lower-confidence note.[1]
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