Monday, July 21, 2014

"Abeno Harukas", the tallest building in Japan

Japan's tallest building "Abeno Harukas" is in Osaka, Japan. This building is made by Kintetsu Corporation (近畿日本鉄道株式会社 Kinki Nippon Tetsudō Kabushiki-gaisha), named Kinki Nippon Railway Co., Ltd. in English, is a Japanese rail transit corporation commonly known as Kintetsu (近鉄).

They broke old buildings and made this Abeno Harukas in March 2014. Originally they had planned to height of 270 m because of the limit of the aviation law in 2006. But the limit is no longer due to the revision of the aviation law in spring 2007. Kintetsu announced the revised plan to rebuild the skycraper of 300 m in height and the total project cost is about 130 billion yen.





There are the shopping mall inside and outside of the building.
This is from the official website.
You can buy a ticket for the observation deck on the second floor of the building. The cost was 1,500 yen for an adult.
It took about 45 seconds to go up to 300 m by the latest elevator.
And you can see the very nice view of Osaka city from this tallest building.






Approximately 2,670,000 people lives in Osaka city.



There was a hanging garden inside the building. That feels good!



There were so many nice restaurants just below the observation deck.
"Miso ramen (noodle soup) was sooo good!
Next time, I want to go there at night time. It must be so nice! Tokyo is the biggest city. Osaka is the third largest city by population in Japan. There are a lot of remarkable places in Osaka. Like this Abeno Harukas, Universal Studio Japan, Umeda Sky Building, Osaka Castle, etc. If you have a chance to go to Japan, please go to Osaka to get nice atmosphere.

Thank you!