Yokohama Landmark Tower

Third tallest building in Japan

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35°27′17″N 139°37′54″E / 35.45472°N 139.63167°E / 35.45472; 139.63167Construction started20 March 1990Completed1993Opening16 July 1993Cost¥270 billionOwnerMitsubishi Estate Co.HeightArchitectural296.3 m (972 ft)^[1]Top floor273.0 m (896 ft)^[1]Observatory273 m (896 ft)^[1]Technical detailsFloor count73^[1]Floor area292,791 m² (3,151,580 sq ft)Lifts/elevators79 by Mitsubishi ElectricDesign and constructionArchitect(s)Mitsubishi Jisho Sekkei and Hugh Stubbins and AssociatesMain contractorShimizu CorporationJapanese nameKanji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

Transcriptions
Romanization	Yokohama Randomāku Tawā

References^[1]

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]

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.

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References

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h "Landmark Tower". The Skyscraper Center. Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat. Archived from the original on 3 December 2013.
^ "Project Outline". Kintetsu. Retrieved 28 July 2014.
^ Septimu-George Luca; Cristan Pastia; Florentina Chira (2007). "Recent applications of some active control systems to civil engineering structures" (PDF). Bulletin of the Polytechnic Institute of Jassy: 25. ISSN 2537-2726.
^ "Yokohama Landmark Tower Sky Garden". Yokohama official visitor's guilde. Yokohama Convention & Visitors Bureau. Retrieved 17 February 2019.
^ スカイガーデン [About Sky Garden] (in Japanese). Archived from the original on 13 September 2008. Retrieved 20 August 2008.