Tokyu Plaza Omotesando"OMOKADO"
Mirrored kaleidoscope-tube entrance leading up to a rooftop garden shaped like a shallow bowl.
Location
About this audio guide
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.
This audio guide was created using AI.
Similar places
Omotesando Hills
Sloped shopping complex on a former cooperative housing site, its ramp echoing the avenue outside.
Shibuya 109
Cylindrical fashion mall of over a hundred boutiques that became the birthplace of a teen style revolution.
Shibuya Sky
Open-air rooftop deck over two hundred meters up, with hammock nets, a glass-edged corner, and sweeping city views.
DAIKANYAMA T-SITE
Bookstore campus of three low-rise pavilions woven with a T-shaped concrete lattice around mature trees.
Takeshita Street
Narrow pedestrian shopping lane packed with youth fashion boutiques, crepe stands, and secondhand clothing stalls.
Tokyo International Forum
Glass-hulled convention hall shaped like a ship, its steel-ribbed atrium soaring sixty meters above a plaza on old castle ground.