It took me just 40 seconds to reach “Sky Garden” at 273 m by the fastest elevator in Japan, as it boasts a maximum travel speed of 750 meters per minute. The Sky Garden is located at the 69th floor of the Landmark Tower, which was completed in 1993 and thanks to its height of 296,3 meters is the tallest building in Yokohama and the second tallest building in Japan. Landmark Tower really is like a landmark among other high-rise buildings in Yokohama.
Walking towards the Landmark Tower I passed by this guy feeding pigeons and seagulls
Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Building is the closest tall building, dark tall building is Minato Mirai Grand Central Tower and the white triangle building is Tsutaya. The roof in the middle front belongs to the Museum of Art and the right front roof belongs to MARK IS minatomirai shopping centerBank of Yokohama Head Office is the building with the interesting blue roof in the left front of the photo and to the right is the Mitsubishi building. I love their rooftop heliports. And also the fact that despite their height of 152,5m and 152m respectively, I am well above them from my observation point at 273 m 🙂New Otani Inn Yokohama is that interestingly shaped building in the middle frontÓoka gawa = Big River is to the right from the Kitanaka Bridge and notice the Kishamichi Promenade to the left. Blue coloured Yokohama stadium is also to be seen. The ship Hikawa Maru can be seen in the upper left corner of the photo, docked next to Yamashita Park and I can even decipher the Marine Tower close to themClose-up of Yokohama Stadium and baseball match is under wayPeople like little ants 🙂Yokohama Bay Bridge, more to the front appr. in the middle of the photo Osanbashi International Passenger Terminal can be seen and in the front right corner of the picture are Red Brick Warehouses converted into shopping and exhibition centreTsurumi Tsubasa Bridge from 1994, total length 1,021m Nippon Maru, a Japanese ship from 1930, 97 m long, is permanently docked under Landmark Tower at Yokohama harbor. It has 4 masts and 32 sail. It is a museum nowClose-up, cute <3Sail shaped building is the Intercontinental Yokohama Grand Hotel, which remembers me to W Barcelona hotel, it is 140 m tall and was completed in 1991. Snow white building to the left is National Convention Hall of YokohamaBrown and green box- like building behind the Ferris wheel is the Cup Noodles MuseumYokohama Cosmo World amusement park with Cosmo Clock 21 giant Ferris wheel 112,5 m tall. One rotation of the 100 m diameter wheel takes 15 minutesThere are 60 pasenger cars for up to 8 persons eachMARK IS Minatomirai shopping centerMitsubishi Heavy Industries Building roof – close-up
The Bank of Yokohama Headquarters roofNew Otani Inn
Kuboyama graveyard close-up
Aka Renga Soko = Red Brick WarehouseHikawamaru – Japanese ocean liner from 1929, now a museum next to Yamashita ParkYokohama World Porters building roofSakurachigó StationKeyiyu Hospital
Queen´s SquareAirplanes at Haneda = Tokyo International Airport are seen in the backgroundAll photos I took were taken from behind these glass windows, which are on all four sides of the Sky Garden and so you get to see the full panoramic view, except the corners of the buildingLandmark Plaza shopping mall located in the lower part of Landmark Tower2nd Floor from the top = darker windows with a little roof above them – is the 69th floor where the Sky Garden is
