Shopping mall
Tokyu Plaza Omotesando"OMOKADO"
4-chōme-30-3 Jingūmae, Shibuya, Tokyo 150-0001
Mirrored kaleidoscope-tube entrance leading up to a rooftop garden shaped like a shallow bowl.
This guide to Tokyu Plaza Omotesando in Tokyo starts with Central Apartments, the mirrored-glass high-rise that once stood on this corner and drew Tokyo's boldest young fashion crowd through the 1960s and 70s. It follows architect Hiroshi Nakamura's 2012 design, which reopened the site with a tube of angled mirror panels at the entrance that multiplies everyone who walks through it. The rooftop above is planted like a shallow bowl, so strangers end up sitting shoulder to shoulder facing the tree-lined avenue below.
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