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The Four Season Hotel is placed in the Marunouchi central business district, adjacent to Tokyo Station. The hotel offers a striking, contemporary setting within the landmark glass-clad tower of the prestigious Pacific Century Place.

The Four Seasons hotel boasts the most convenient location in town. For first-timers leery of traveling between Narita Airport and Tokyo Station, the hotel offers a unique “greeting” service at the airport to assure a seamless transition all the way to the hotel (cost: Â¥5,250/$44/£22).

This property offers the ultimate in service, privacy, and exclusivity, with a well-trained staff that goes out of its way to make guests feel welcome (including special amenities and services for children).

Guests are accompanied to rooms by guest-relations officers, and with good reason, as rooms are so high-tech it’s almost impossible to figure out even such mundane tasks as double-locking the doors or engaging the bathtub stopper.

At 44 sq. m (474 sq. ft.) and larger, the attractive rooms are tremendous by Tokyo standards, with such standouts as wall-mounted 42-inch plasma-screen TVs with Internet connections, hookups for MP3 players with surround sound, leather-covered desks, bathrooms with separate tub and shower areas, and floor-to-ceiling windows. The ultimate comfort!

At Four Seasons, you enjoy a unique vantage point from which to explore the sights, sounds and experiences around you.

As well as the Four Seasons Hotel Tokyo at Marunouchi is part of the 31-level Pacific Century Place, a prestigious office and retail development neighbouring Ginza shopping district and Tokyo’s train and subway stations.

It’s wonderful because Tokyo offers four defined seasons with comfortable temperatures throughout. Cherry trees blossom in springtime before temperatures reach 30°C (86°F) in summer months. The vibrant colours of autumn paint a memorable image, amidst crisp temperatures. Relatively mild winter temperatures rarely fall far below freezing.

Tokyo is another world with extremely different lifestyle from the other part of the world. Hidden night clubs have become all the range among a certain Tokyo set. One of these places is Le Baron- one of the few intimate dance clubs.

In Tokyo dress codes are rarely strict. Enterance fees to clubs are really high, but in the most cases include a couple of drinks. Drink prices also depend on the surroundings.If you are clubbing in one of the city’s many spectacular clubs be prepare that a beer can easily cost 10 000 yen. As well as Tokyo’s gay bars are clustered in the Shinjuku area. They are mostly taken of foreign customers and are most explored with a Japanese companion.

One of the good thing for bohemian lifestyle is that there aren’t specific licensing hours in Tokyo, despite the minimum drinking are 20 years.

About the music I would say, that jazz has a large influence and ever growing following in the city and there’re a wide variety of clubs offering excellent live jazz music. Let’s goooo clubbin’!!!

This is an absolutely stunning organic food market and cafe situated in the Omotesando area in Tokyo, Japan. When visitors come up inside they will feel the warm atmosphere and the exude freshness and comfort.

The function of the cafe and the usage of the space were revolved in the interior design since the ingredients offered at the market on the shelves are also used by the chefs for cooking the dishes available in the cafe restaurant. As well as the food being sold and served in the shop, it was important that pure and simple materials were chosen to create an environment that complimented the philosophy and earnestness of the organicity.

This tiny gallery house is located in Nakana, Tokyo. The building is very strange and is cut on the axis line to a front road by 63.02′.

In front of the fine sight of the structure are separeted beautifully cherry blossoms tree stands. This marvelous gallery have perfect interior and exterior, where great artists could exhibits their lovely paintings or presented stylish objects and fashion japanese cloths.

The shades of concrete heighten the effectiveness of the design and focus on straight lines and edges. The abstract of natural light through clinically inserted voids of glass is marvel, allowing pinpoint contrasts to the interior. This building is equally gallery and exhibition.

This is an Undercover Lab building, which is undercover.Hihihihi. Not only is it tucked away in the back streets of Harajuku but the site is also very deceiving. The house is situated in Harajuku which is an area of Tokyo, Japan.

This crazy building creature is studio, press showroom, and office. Hmmm just 3 in 1- a very popular combination these days. The house is 20m long hanger rail to show the entire collection of one season was required. This is housed in a black tube running along the only 20m straight line on the site, which extends out over the entrance driveway. This cantilevered tube extends the building’s influence to the main street in a strong but stealth way.

The tube was made to look as secret as possible, almost like a shipping container where you have no idea of its contents. The tube also conjures up images of telescopes etc, which give the building a mysterious feel _ nobody knowing what quite is going on inside. So much so that some people may feel intimidated just walking under the tube if they are unannounced.

Narita Airport, is also known as New Tokyo International Airport, located in the city of Narita in Chiba Prefecture, about 60 km outside of Tokyo. It consists of two terminal buildings, terminal 1 and terminal 2, with each airline being assigned to one of the two terminals.

In this issuse I’ll present mostly Terminal 1, which is absolutely funky and magnificent place. Narita Terminal 1 handles mostly US and European airlines‘ flights plus Cathay Pacific, Korean Air and Singapore Airlines.

In the earily 60’s Tokyo International Airport was quickly becoming overcrowded. So Japenese government had decided to built a bran new airport with multufunctional terminal. On April 1, 2004, New Tokyo International Airport was opened its doors named as Narita International Airport.

Terminal 1 uses a satellite terminal design and it’s very stylish.Check-in is processed on the fourth floor, and departures and immigration control are on the third floor. Arriving passengers clear immigration on the second floor, then claim their baggage and clear customs on the first floor. Most shops and restaurants are located on the fourth floor of the Central Building and they are absolutly lovely and gorgeous. You can chillin and enjoy your timing there.

Heidi House is located in an up-central residential area of Tokyo. The house is keep back from the adjoining site boundaries by 3 meters so there is no fire proofing of the external wall was necessary. This offset from the boundary line established the plan of the building. This is an extremely example for low cost studio and office space.

The idea and construction of the house is very creative simple wooden framed structure was built and lined internally with plywood for lateral strength. An external layer of plywood was not needed structurally, so instead of this layer and a waterproof siding.

Long window openings were made in the plywood sheets in between the structural frame. Internally the plywood skin was painted white, while the wooden structural core of the building was wallpapered with black wallpaper. The wooden ceiling structure was left exposed. No insulation was used in the wall construction, the trapped air pockets used form a thermal buffer.

Many houses are made of wood in Japan, but because they are covered with metal or plastic siding, sometimes even fake bricks, you have no idea that the house is made of wood. It is very clear that this house is made of wood!It is a beautiful wooden-glass house.

This is a café in the clouds. It is loacated on the 52nd floor of Roppongi Hills – overlooking the vast shag-pile in concrete that is Tokyo. The space is organized with low zigzagging walls upholstered in pink leather. It brings a dash of glam and colour to the sleekness of the surroundings.

Sitting in a café with such a outstanding view, it’s hard to keep your attention on your companion’s face. Your eyes keep straying to off the horizon. Rather that try fight this natural impulse, we accentuated it. We created a stepping floor, so those at the back could so over the heads of those nearest the windows. And we added mirrors, to bring some of the view to those unfortunate ones who were still left view-challenged. But not just ordinary mirrors. Convex mirrors used to see around tight street corners in the narrow winding alleys of Tokyo. They provide a gentle reminder of the delights at street-level of the city the café so loftily overlooks.

This is stylish salon for private investors from Trdares Holdings Co that is located on the 29^th floor of a Tokyo skycraper. This is a superb, magnificent place for the investors given to them space to place their trades next to a bar lounge commanding with amazing view of the city. The place is much like a lounge in exclusive hotel.

The primary business of the company is to control and manage its subsidiaries, which operate Securities trading business, foreign exchange trading business, and investment management business, by holding stock of subsidiaries. The present is Masatoshi Saito which is very good business man.

All the interior is created to give comfort and pleasure to all customers. There is also an office space which is so sophisticated and the atmosphere is very motive for the workers.

So If you are one of those guys that business is most important thing in their world and your business goal is in Tokyo, you can try to find your lucky number there.

This is a magnificent, splendid lounge cafe which is located on the 7^th floor of the Shin Marunouchi Building in front of Tokyo Station. The Marunouchi Building is a local landmark that reemerged in 2002. Located in front of the Tokyo Station, the Shin-Marunouchi Building, along with the Marunouchi Building, is the visual and functional “face of Marunouchi.

The design is by Uichi Yamamoto. He creates amazing interior within the overall space with different areas each with independently different atmostpheres with the intention that it would encourage interaction among the customers.

The furniture is really stylish, elegant, and comfortable. There are a lot of lounge individual sofas, so soft and colourful.The funky simple floor plays a huge part of the interior and also lighting is exactly on place.

Fusing creative minds with great foods and extraordinary events, Henry Good Seven is an eztension of your living-room. A place where you’re bound to run into old friends or make new ones. You can go there and share your knowledge, talent, views and attitude with friends.

There are a great music and delicious food and live entertainment, Dj sets, jazz which promisses every day and night to be a great experience.

Gallery Ma is sited just above the Nogizaka Subway Station and adjacent to Roppongi in Tokyo. The Gallery Ma is a 14 year old space with exhibiting architecture and related design. The project was created and inserted into the third floor of a six-storey building. On this level, an external quasi-zen-garden bounded by concrete walls cuts the floors above in half, creating a L shape building mass. A glass membrane divides the interior space from the garden and allows total visual invasion into the inserted project. The space is approximately 6.5 x 11 meters in plan and 2.45 meters in section.

The design scheme for Gallery MA is developed from the Homolosine Interrupted Projection Mapping System. The Homolosine Projection depicts the world in a series of sheared ellipses, thus the green surface inside Gallery MA is an “interrupted projection” as it deploys a flattened and empty global surface to form space. The surface bends and loops to form a 3 dimensionally smooth yet complex geometry capable of merging with the graphically logoized world of visual codes and conventional signs.

Tokyo is one of the largest cities of the world and it is capital of Japan. The population is 12,64-million. Tokyo had a long history archive. At the time, Tokyo was called Edo, which by the 18^th century had grown to a huge city of over a million people. Today it’s Japan, center for political, economic, cultural and various other activities.

From east to west all along the city there are hills, plateaus, and mountains. Small as it is, Tokyo’s geographical features are rich in variety, comprising low lands of only four meters above the sea-level, meantime mountainous area of over 2000 meters. It’s important to add that volcanic islands in the Pacific, Izu and Ogasawara Islands also are part of Tokyo.

Tokyo attracts many tourists not only from abroad, but from all over the country, because the city provides many points and places of interest to visit, well-developed traffic networks, facilities for business enterprises that are linked together. Tokyo is a really charming city, with sightseeing spots, full of history and tradition.

The Isu Island are situated southeast of the city in the Pacific Ocean, ranging in order from those closest to the Metropolitan Government Office: Shima, Toshima, Niijima, Shikinejima, Kouzushima, Miyakejima, Mikurajima, Hachijojima, and Aogashima. Each island is unique and offer sport such as swimming, scuba diving, surfing, fishing and etc.

Ogasawara Islands are about 100 km away from Tokyo. The islands consist 20 islands in the subtropical zone but only Chichijima and Hahajima are inhabited. The whole area is full of beautiful nature, and it is known for whale watching.

Cafe Pause is a stylish, superb cafe-bar located in Ikebukuro, Tokyo. Ikebukuro is a multiple city center situated in the northwestern corner of the Yamanote Loop Line. The center offers plenty of entertainment, shopping and dinning oppurtunities.

The wonderful design cafe also acting as the office and showcase for designer toys company Roughtoys, and a bit of gallery, as seen with the Shu-Thang Grafix images that adorned the walls.

Cafe Pause features wireless internet and small collection of books, also produces events and parties.

The interior design of the cafe is a mixture of interesting chairs, lounges, sofas, tables and wall amazing features.

If you plan to visit Tokyo these days, do not miss it out…!

Part retail store, part television screen, the glass facade of the Chanel store in Tokyo’s swanky Ginza district lights up the night sky with 700,000 embedded LEDs. The massive display can project footage of fashion show runway scenes or an electronic version of Chanel’s iconic black-and-white tweeds on a larger-than-life scale. The electronic mille-feuille can also transform from see-through to opaque, thanks to a combination of 3,675 square feet of canvas scrim and electronically controlled privacy glass.
In transparent mode, the structure offers clear views inside or outside. But what’s neatly hidden is a complex system of 65,000 microcomputers that can process more than 32 trillion commands per second when the building transforms into a larger-than-life video billboard. The final effect is stunning showmanship in the name of a classic, yet hip and inventive fashion brand.

The luxury hotel is located on Chuo Dori, the “5th Avenue” of the rich historical district off Nihonbashi. The area includes the original Mitsukoshi Department Store, Bank of Japan and Tokyo Stock Exchange. The renowned Ginza entertainment and shopping district is within walking distance and in less than twenty minutes you can stroll to the Imperial Palace. Guests arriving at Mandarin Oriental Hotel, Tokyo are ushered from a private entrance, whisked directly to the 38th floor Sky Lobby and presented with a breathtaking view of the dramatic cityscape. Above, the sky is revealed through the vast glass windows. There is no doubt the new Mandarin Oriental hotel epitomises sophisticated luxury. Silent corridors lead to 4 treatment rooms and 5 private spa suites with extraordinary views of the contrasting activity below. Heat and water experiences will ease the body and relieve the mind. The vitality pool gently releases muscle tension, the crystal steam room offers a meditative experience, and a splash from the ice fountain provides a sharp, arctic refresher. The 22 suites are designed with careful intelligence in dividing bedrooms and living areas, ensuring guests maintain a sense of privacy when entertaining friends or associates. Apart from the highly sophisticated technology and fabulous levels of luxury they are impressively large; however long your visit, occupying these suites will always be a pleasure.

The Spa decor combines indigenous materials and symbols to create a unique Japanese feeling. The vast space also contains a vitality pool, water lounges, a dry sauna and a crystal steam room. Professional body and skin care products by Comfort Zone and Aromatherapy Associates will be used in the treatments, as will the luxury hotel group’s signature line, which includes aromatherapy-based body and bath oils, stylish spa-wear, tea-infusions and an Asian-inspired CD collection.

With soaring views from the 38th floor across Tokyo City the fine dining restaurant makes a heart stopping impression the moment you enter. The cosmopolitan vibe is contagious and you’ll relish dining at the top of the metropolis. French inspired world cuisine, Cantonese, Japanese and Asian fares are also available here. Mandarin Oriental, Tokyo’s exciting and innovative lineup of seven new restaurants and bars is set to become Tokyo’s next wining and dining sensation. Six of the outlets are situated on the topmost floors of the Cesar Pelli-designed tower, offering guests sweeping views of the city including Tokyo Bay to the South and East, and the Imperial Gardens to the West.

5star hotel in Tokyo is one of her most fair luxury hotels in a whole world. The Mandarin Oriental spa hotel is real relaxing time off point.