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Lighting of the Nihonbashi Mitsui Tower [Tokyo Metropolis]


Fig. 1 External appearance (daytime).


Fig. 2 Lighting of the exterior.


Fig. 3 Entrance
(from the Sembikiya Main Office side).


Fig. 4 Entrance
(from the Mitsui Memorial Museum side).

Brief summary

The Nihonbashi Mitsui Tower, which has become a new symbol of the Nihonbashi area, has four underground floors, thirty-nine floors above ground, and one penthouse floor. It is a complex facility consisting of a lower section of the first to fourth floors for stores, atrium, and lobby, a middle section from the fifth through twenty-eighth floors for tenant offices, and an upper tier section from the thirtieth to thirty-eighth floors for a hotel (Fig. 1 and Fig. 2).

Principal use: Office, hotel, stores, and parking lot
Main structure: Steel frame, partly steel reinforced concrete, and reinforced concrete
Number of floors: 4 floors under ground, 39 floors above ground, one floor of penthouse
Building area: 5,358.77m2
Total floor area: 133,727.20m2

  • Location: Chuo City, Tokyo
  • Completion: July 2005
  • Client: Mitsui Fudosan Co., Ltd.
    Sembikiya-Sohonten, Ltd.
  • Design: Cesar Pelli & Associates Japan, Inc.
    NIHON SEKKEI, Inc.
  • Materials provided by: Yuichi Amagai (Toshiba Lighting & Technology Corporation)
    Photographs (Fig. 1 - Fig. 4): Copyright Toshiba Lighting & Technology Corporation
    (September 2006)

*This text is quoted from “Lighting Datasheets” published in the Journal of the IEI-J, Vol. 91, Number 1, January 2007. The journal contains detailed descriptions of the lighting facilities.

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