On January 26th, the Sony Group held the grand opening of “Ginza Sony Park,” the final form of its project to rebuild the Sony Building in Ginza, Tokyo.
The Ginza Sony Park Project, based on the concept of “a facility open to the city,” aimed to reinvent the Sony Building, which has watched the growth of the Ginza district for over 50 years.
No tenants or permanent stores will be implemented. Each floor will offer activities that change over time.
For example, the B3 floor will be used for casual dining, and “blank” spaces throughout the building, such as the aboveground atrium, will be places where people can freely stroll or rest.
Sony also wanted its building process to be unique, so the first phase was an experiment in which the new building was not constructed immediately, but rather the partially demolished building was turned into a park from August 2018 to September 2021.
Afterwards, the second phase of the demolition and new construction was resumed, with the project being completed in August 2024.
By deliberately keeping the building low, at about half the height of the average Ginza building, Sony created a blank space and a new landscape in a city with a high concentration of buildings.
Name: Ginza Sony Park
Location: 5-3-1 Ginza, Chuo Ward, Tokyo
Floor configuration: 5 above ground, 4 below ground
Site area: 707.42 m2
Total floor space: 4,357.49 m2
Height: 33.9 m
