The tallest building in the city, the highest viewing platform and the world's fastest elevator - all this characterizes the Landmark Tower in Yokohama, one of the most modern skyscrapers in Japan. In addition, the tower is not so long ago was still the highest building in the world that has ever been built on the island, but in 2003, the highest skyscraper island became the Taiwan Taipei 101.

The tower is located in the Minato Mirai 21 (or "port of the future of the XXI century"), which is considered one of the most successfully developing areas of Yokohama and business center of the city. Here are the offices of major Japanese corporations, hotels, boutiques, entertainment and exhibition centers. Not far from the skyscraper is Yokohama Museum of Art. Minato Mirai project appeared in the 60s of the last century, and its base was in the 80s. Landmark Tower was built in 1990-1993, its opening was timed to coincide with the tenth anniversary of the founding of Minato Mirai. On the shore of the Bay of Yokohama, a whole complex of skyscrapers, with the bulk of working here used gravel and other materials collected at the site of the ruins that remained after a devastating earthquake in 1923. Skyscraper Landmark Tower Yokogama is a symbol of the area. Another name skyscraper - "Yokohama Landmark Tower,".

Building height of 296 meters, it 73 floors above ground and three underground. In Japan, it is the third highest skyscraper. The lower 50 floors of the building occupied by offices, shops, clinics and restaurants of various cuisines of the world. In the next 20 floors located luxury hotel, in which more than 600 rooms. The 69th floor has an observation deck Sky Garden («Heavenly Garden") with all-round visibility, and views of Yokohama Bay Visitors watch from a height of 273 meters. At a height of a lift, moving at a speed of 12, 5 meters per second - to pass from the first floor to the last can be about 40 seconds. In the lower part of the building are the remains of the oldest in Japan stone dock, which is more than 120 years and which was used for the construction of merchant ships.