{"id":559,"date":"2009-09-08T10:40:51","date_gmt":"2009-09-08T01:40:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.realestate-minato.com\/?p=559"},"modified":"2009-09-08T10:50:05","modified_gmt":"2009-09-08T01:50:05","slug":"tokyo-sky-tree","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.realestate-minato.com\/?p=559","title":{"rendered":"Tokyo Sky Tree"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Tokyo Sky Tree is under construction.\u00a0\u00a0 It is scheduled to complete in 2011.\u00a0\u00a0 As of today, it is 126-meter tall.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Tokyo Sky Tree under construction<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Tokyo Sky Tree under construction 2<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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The about-610-meter-tall (!) TV tower is in Oshiage of Sumida-ku which is east of famous Asakusa.\u00a0\u00a0 Looking from Asakusa, Oshiage is over Sumida River.\u00a0 Oshiage is within a walking distance of popular commercial districts, such as, Asakusa, Riyogoku, and Kinshicho.\u00a0 Althoug it has good access to those popular sites, it is not so known among people.\u00a0\u00a0 On the contrary, it looks underdeveloped.\u00a0\u00a0 Very little development has occured on Oshiage for at least the last 30 years.<\/p>\n

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Tokyo Sky Tree under construction 3<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Tokyo Sky Tree under construction 4<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Oshiage consists mostly of low-rise apartment buildings and of old detached houses.\u00a0\u00a0 There is a local shopping street, but much of\u00a0the town\u00a0looks so inactive.\u00a0\u00a0 According to a local ramen maestro who has been keeping a small ramen shop for the last 33 years, Oshiage was far more populas than now with then-flourishing textile and printing businesses which have recently drained into Asian countries.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Also, I have learned from the ramen maestro that Japan’s first ready-mixed concrete plant was where Tokyo Sky Tree is about 100 years ago and that it provided ready-mixed concrete to Tokyo and helped Tokyo become westernized then.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Oshiage station<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Oshiage station 2<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Oshiage station 3Oshiage station 4<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Oshiage station 5<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n
The store manager has been so helpful in teaching me history of Oshiage.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0To my shame, I did know little about Oshiage.\u00a0 Although his language is harsh, I have learned a lot about Oshiage from him.\u00a0\u00a0 By the way, language harshness is typical of people in downtown of Tokyo.<\/div>\n
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local ramen shop in Oshiage - thank you for teaching me history of Oshiage!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n
Many people are trying to estimate Tokyo Sky Tree’s impact not only on Oshishige but also on the entire region.\u00a0\u00a0 It may create huge foot traffic in the region, but it may not.\u00a0 It may bring new industries into the region, but it may not.\u00a0\u00a0 It may trigger international investors’ move into Japanese real estate market, but it may not.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0However, I can say for sure that it is and will be worthwhile to keep an eye on the massive development.<\/div>\n
I will welcome any feedback from you on the development.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Dear international investors, \u00a0 Tokyo Sky Tree is under construction.\u00a0\u00a0 It is scheduled to complete in 2011.\u00a0\u00a0 As of today, it is 126-meter tall.\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 The about-610-meter-tall (!) TV tower is in Oshiage of Sumida-ku which is east of famous Asakusa.\u00a0\u00a0 Looking from Asakusa, Oshiage […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[149,3,4,1],"tags":[5,151,162,158,154,102,117,153,155,160,159,161,157,45,156],"class_list":["post-559","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sumida-ku","category-tokyo-real-estate-market","category-tokyo-real-estate-view","category-uncategorized","tag-add-new-tag","tag-asakusa","tag-chinese-investor","tag-development","tag-hanzomon-line","tag-international-investor","tag-investment-opportunities","tag-kinshicho","tag-oshiage","tag-ramen","tag-real-estate-investment","tag-riyogoku","tag-sumida","tag-tokyo-metro","tag-tokyo-sky-tree"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.realestate-minato.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/559","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.realestate-minato.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.realestate-minato.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.realestate-minato.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.realestate-minato.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=559"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/blog.realestate-minato.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/559\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":578,"href":"https:\/\/blog.realestate-minato.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/559\/revisions\/578"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.realestate-minato.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.realestate-minato.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.realestate-minato.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}