Shinjuku Park Tower

The Shinjuku Park Tower (新宿パークタワー) is the second-tallest building in Shinjuku, Tokyo.

History
It was designed by Kenzo Tange and completed in 1994.

The building is owned and managed by Tokyo Gas Urban Development, a subsidiary of Tokyo Gas, and was constructed on the site of a decommissioned gas storage facility. Tokyo Gas operates a regional cooling center on-site, which provides heating and cooling to the high-rise district of Nishi-Shinjuku, and supplies electricity to the adjacent Tokyo Metropolitan Government Building.

The hotel featured prominently in Academy Award-winning film Lost in Translation.

Architecture
Shinjuku Park Tower is a single building consisting of three connected block-shaped elements; S tower, which is 235 m tall with 52 stories, C tower which is 209 m tall with 47 stories and N tower which is 182 m tall with 41 stories. Floors 1 to 8 are occupied by retail stores, floors 9 to 37 are office floors and floors 39 to 52 are occupied by the luxury Park Hyatt Tokyo hotel, which includes a swimming pool with panoramic views on the city.

Tenants

 * L'Oreal
 * Tokyo Gas

In media

 * The Park Hyatt Tokyo hotel on the top was the main setting of the Sofia Coppola film Lost In Translation.
 * The building was depicted as being destroyed by a UFO in the film Godzilla 2000.
 * A version of the building was included as part of the Asian tileset in the city building simulation game Sim City 3000 and named as Futa-Ishii Plaza.