The Fuji Television Building stands on the waterfront district of Odaiba in Tokyo Bay, completed in 1996 to a design by the architect Kenzo Tange, serving as the headquarters of the Fuji Television Network. Its most distinctive feature is a large titanium-clad sphere, known as the Hachitama, suspended roughly 100 meters above ground between two office towers and reachable by escalators that run diagonally through the connecting sky corridors, housing an observation deck open to the public. Tange designed the building's exposed structural framework and connecting bridges to be visually legible from outside, an approach drawing on the Metabolist ideas about adaptable, modular urban structures that had shaped much of his earlier career. The building has become one of the most recognizable pieces of architecture in the Odaiba district, itself a largely artificial island developed through land reclamation beginning in the late twentieth century.
Facts
Building TypeOffice building, observation deck 1 LocationOdaiba, Minato, Tokyo, Japan 1 Completed Year Classification
Standing Status Building Type
Building Type (category) Connections
Has Building Type
Entity-backed identity for the building-type enum value this building already carries, resolved to an architecture concept by an explicit value-to-entity map (phase 3 bucket conversion, docs\design_entity_backed_browse_buckets_20260928.md). The building-type fact itself stays on the building unchanged.
In the Other Atlases
- Also in Geography Atlas: Japan, located there.
Sources
1. Fuji Broadcasting Center | Wikipedia
Infobox, height field
with a total height of 123.45 metres (405.0 ft)
Infobox, completed field
Completed June 28, 1996
Infobox, location field
in Odaiba, Minato, Tokyo
Infobox, building type field
Office building; observation deck
- infobox building_type field
Entity description and the lead/infobox of the Wikipedia article
The Fuji Television Building stands on the waterfront district of Odaiba in Tokyo Bay, completed in 1996 to a design by the architect Kenzo Tange, serving as the headquarters of the Fuji Television Network. Its most distinctive feature is a large titanium-clad sphere, known as the Hachitama, suspended roughly 100 meters above ground between two office towers and reachable by escalators that run diagonally through the connecting sky corridors, housing an observation deck open to the public. Tange designed the building's exposed structural framework and connecting bridges to be visually legible from outside, an approach drawing on the Metabolist ideas about adaptable, modular urban structures that had shaped much of his earlier career. The building has become one of the most recognizable pieces of architecture in the Odaiba district, itself a largely artificial island developed through land reclamation beginning in the late twentieth century.
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