Tokyo’s former fish market is making way for skyscrapers, glittering stadiums to lure spenders from around the world

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TOKYO (AP) — The website of Tokyo’s famous Tsukiji fish market, left blank when it was demolished six years ago, will be replaced by a beautiful waterfront stadium and gleaming skyscrapers in line with plans for its redevelopment. Which may have to face some staunch opposition.

A realistic PC video of plans for the 900 billion yen ($5.7 billion) project, created by expansion developer Mitsui Fudosan, shows speeding air taxis over the Sumida River, famous for its beautiful bridges.

This is a real vision to transform the old market that is known for its tuna auctions and fresh sushi foods before dawn in nearby retail shops.

Mitsui Fudosan says the unused building will rival government waterfront locations in playgrounds such as Sydney and Singapore. The plan is to attract a substantial amount of people from each Japan and other countries. However some people in Tokyo are hostile and would like to see the top website folded into a box.

The plans include office structures, match fields, greenery and indoor disciplines, hotels and a biotechnology research centre. Additionally, there are ample playgrounds to buy and consume.

“We are entering a new chapter. “In Japan’s modernization years, the waterfront was used for warehouses and factories,” said Jiro Ueda, an executive who oversees building construction plans at primary real estate corporate Mitsui Fudosan, which won the bid to redevelop the branch. Wale is the head of the union.

“We want to create sports and entertainment facilities to inspire people emotionally. “We want to make Japan more economically competitive.”

The consortium includes a tough lineup including Toyota Motor, Toyota Fudosan, Kajima, Taisei, Shimizu and Takenaka building teams, engineering firms Nikken Sekkei and Pacific Specialists, and media teams Asahi Shimbun and Yomiuri Shimbun Workforce, which includes its baseball group, the Yomiuri Giants. Is. , will likely use the unused field as their home stadium.

For now, what used to be a huge primary fish market is just an empty 190,000-square-metre (47-acre) cement branch the size of 35 soccer gardens, with a few construction machines and a small dugout.

The city-owned land along the Sumida River is walking distance from glittering downtown Ginza and across a beautiful bridge from Hamarikyu, a standard oriental area with sculptural pine trees, a beautiful forest, and a tea area.

All that is left of the old Tsukiji market is an old-fashioned “retro” branch, called the “jogai” or “outer area” of the market, filled with sushi and ice cream stalls, which the latter may find irresistible. Is. Fashionable building.

Tsukiji’s fish market facilities were moved in 2018 to a more modern, larger warehouse-like facility called Toyosu in another branch of Tokyo Bay.

The market structures were then demolished, with the vacant space used for parking during the Tokyo Olympics, which were not scheduled for 2021 by a month due to the pandemic. The city sought bids in 2022 and in April selected a Mitsui-led consortium, a player in the Hudson Yards megadevelopment in the Big Apple, New York. Initial construction is scheduled to begin next month.

“Tsukiji is a special place for Tokyo. It is very close to the city, yet it is surrounded by waterways and greenery,” said Town Hall prefect Takuo Takano. “It will become the face of Tokyo,” Takano told The Related Press.

The venture construction will connect ferries with the city’s subway strains across the city’s rivers and Tokyo Bay and assign an exhibition venue for global conferences, industry showcases and summits in addition to tourism.

The Tsukiji venture “will be like a giant city in itself,” said Sachiko Okada, an analyst at Goldman Sachs.

“That location choice is perfect,” he said.

Some groups in the city have opposed the relocation of the centuries-old fish market, a landmark of the city, to Toyosu, and some still ban the project, saying the construction of skyscrapers would interfere with the move. Pollution will spread in the branch.

One area can be a big backup, says Shizuko Nagaya, who consults on ecological problems. He is also concerned about the safety of densely populated complexes on land reclaimed from Tokyo Bay in the seventeenth century if a major earthquake occurs as expected.

“This is a piece of land that belongs to the people,” said Nagaya, who researches history and waterways. “We need blue skies, sea air and lots of green space where our future children can play.”

Christian Dimmer, a lecturer in city research at Tokyo’s Waseda College, believes the fish market will have to remain in the same place it used to be, and builders will have to take advantage of the cities’ ancient and cultural heritage.

He said, “Removing the fish market, moving it away to Toyosu and building another luxury housing, hotel, shopping and entertainment complex in its place makes central Tokyo less exciting and more mono-functional.”

“Questions must be asked whether the current redevelopment model is sustainable. Yet, despite this and other insights, Tokyo’s scrap-and-build development model still remains largely unchallenged.

City officials say final details of progress are still uncertain. They are saying that a sufficient amount of the past can be allowed for national comment.

Mitsui Fudosan is dealing with the complaint with alternative works, including the redevelopment of the leafy Jingu Gaien branch between Tokyo’s Meiji Shrine and the Imperial Palace. Fighters of the enterprise, which comes to renovate the two sports activities grounds, particularly object to the lack of the famous rows of gingko trees within the branch roads. The company says that the trees and the entire herbal soil will be protected.

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