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Exterior of the Mitsui Main Building with its colonnade

Offices · Historic Buildings · Modern Heritage

Mitsui Main Building三井本館

Location
Tokyo Chūō City
Completed
1929

Photo: 663highland, CC BY 2.5, via Wikimedia Commons

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Overview

A colonnade of early Shōwa classicism. Nihonbashi's monumental wall of stone.

Completed in 1929 (Shōwa 4) as the headquarters of the Mitsui zaibatsu. It replaced the earlier building damaged in the Great Kantō Earthquake and was designed by the New York firm Trowbridge & Livingston.

Its classical exterior, with a continuous row of Corinthian columns, is regarded as one of the high points of historicist architecture in early Shōwa Japan. It was designated a national Important Cultural Property in 1998.

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Completed
1929
Architect
Trowbridge & Livingston
Use
Offices
Location
2-1-1 Nihonbashi Muromachi, Chūō City, Tokyo
Designated Important Cultural Property
1998
Category
OfficesHistoric BuildingsModern ArchitectureTokyoNihonbashi

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Location

2-1-1 Nihonbashi Muromachi, Chūō City, Tokyo

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  • 01Mitsui main building01s3200.jpg

    Photo: 663highland

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  • 04Mitsui main building02s3200.jpg

    Photo: 663highland

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