Jingu Gaien Redevelopment

The Jingu Gaien Redevelopment is a phased, roughly 349 billion yen reconstruction of the historic sports and parkland quarter straddling Kasumigaoka in Shinjuku and Kita-Aoyama in Minato, led by Mitsui Fudosan with Itochu Corporation, the Meiji Jingu shrine and the Japan Sport Council. Its structural move is a site swap: Meiji Jingu Baseball Stadium and the Prince Chichibu Memorial Rugby Stadium are each rebuilt on the other's ground, freeing land for a renewed public realm while keeping both venues in continuous use through construction. The new rugby stadium is conceived as a compact, roofed home for Japanese rugby, and the replacement ballpark carries a modern seating bowl and hospitality tiers into one of Tokyo's most storied venues. Around them, the plan layers office, hotel, retail and civic space into new towers, widens pedestrian promenades and plazas, expands green space and adds disaster-prevention functions to a district that has served as central Tokyo's sporting commons for a century. The scheme's treatment of the celebrated ginkgo avenue and mature tree canopy has made it one of the most publicly contested developments in the capital.