“Tokyo Review 052” Shibuya area-6
Evolution of Tokyu Plaza Shibuya to Shibuya FUKURAS
In front of the south exit of Shibuya Station located on the west side of JR Shibuya Station, a lot of local buses are lined up heading to southwestern Tokyo such as Setagaya and Meguro. A commercial facility named Tokyu Plaza Shibuya was situated across the bus terminal, on the opposite side of the JR Shibuya Station / Tokyu Toyoko Department Store South wing. There was a Russian restaurant named ROGOVSKI on the 9th floor and a fresh product market named Shibuya Marusen Market on the 1st basement floor, which was very impressive with powerful magnet stores such as greengrocer Sawamitsu, fish market Uo-ko and butcher New Quick. It was opened in 1965 as a complex building named Shibuya Tokyu Building including Tokyu Land Corporation.
Tokyu Plaza Shibuya was rebuilt and reborn as Shibuya FUKURAS on December 5. Tokyu Plaza Shibuya remained as the name of the commercial facility of this building, and the 9th to 17th floors are office floors for GMO Internet Group.
Tokyu Plaza Shibuya is occupying the 2nd to 8th floors and the 18th floor and a part of 17th floor, covered by 69 tenants including BEAMS.
On the 5th floor, the “Life Stories” salon had launched, the target of which is active senior generation from the 50s to 80s called “Grand Age” by them. They supply various services with the theme of “life-ending-activity”. From the 17th floor to the 18th floor, there is CE LA VI opening the first restaurant in Japan with a roof garden called SHIBU NIWA. As a whole, they seem to focusing their target to adults in the 40s to 60s.
The first floor is a bus terminal for route buses connecting to Futakotamagawa and etc., limousine buses connecting to Haneda and Narita airports. There is also a support facility for inbound tourists called SHIBUYA-SAN. For this reason, the main entrance of the commercial facility is on the second floor, and a pedestrian deck leading to Sakuragaoka and Cerulean Tower is connected to the second floor.
The area around Shibuya Station is psychologically divided into four areas by an elevated track on the JR Yamanote Line running from the north to south, National Route 246 running from east to west and Metropolitan Expressway No.3. Along with the pedestrian decks from Shibuya FUKURAS, pedestrian deck network is also provided including the east side of the JR Yamanote Line, contributing to the improvement of pedestrian circulation.
From the deck, I could see the site of Sakuragaoka redevelopment, which was in the process of dismantling and excavation. All these are the elements of the “Shibuya Massive Redevelopment Projects”
