Skyscraper Shinjuku Mitsui is located in a special area of ​​Shinjuku, the administrative and commercial center of the prefecture of Tokyo. Here is the busiest railway station of the world, through which more than 3, 5 million people a day. The area around Shinjuku Station located hotels, shopping centers, cinemas, restaurants, a variety of office and residential buildings.

In this part of the capital is the highest number of Tokyo skyscrapers: the most "small" ones - Keio Plaza Hotel North Tower (47 floors, 180 meters), the largest - Tokyo Metropolitan Government Building (48 floors, 243 meters). Skyscraper Shinjuku Mitsui its parameters is somewhere in the middle of this gathering of giants - with 55 floors and a height of 225 meters, he ranked eighth in the list of the skyscrapers of Tokyo.

The building was built in 1972-1974 years in the fashion of the time - style skyscrapers that were built then in the United States. On the east and west walls of the building redrawn black lines. In the building there are two gardens with artificial reservoirs - one on the roof, the other at its base. The building lease office space, many companies, there are also restaurants and shops.

Among the skyscrapers of Tokyo it is not only the Office, but also residential buildings. Buildings giants until stoically suffer regularly occurring in the Japan earthquake - swinging, but do not fall, but are no longer the most commercially successful overlooking residential real estate. Residents upper floors are not so easy to get out of a building during an earthquake, because you can not use the elevator, down stairs takes a lot of time, and no other way. Moreover, when the tremors stopped, he skyscraper for some time continued to wobble. Thus scientists predict that the tectonic activity in the area of ​​the Japanese capital increased over time, as the Japanese construction engineers continue to work hard to make the new "high-rise" became safer.