Index

Message from the President

FeatureCorporate Philosophyand CSR

Environmental Initiatives

Safety & Security Initiatives

Responding to Social Change

Community Involvement

Utilization of Human
Resource Assets

Improving Management
SystemFeature

Learn, Connect, Act
Community Building
through Creating"Spaces"

We have established City Lab Tokyo in 6th floorof Tokyo Square Garden as a space to engage
in building a sustainable city and society. This
space is an open innovation platform that provides
support through provision of knowledge andsupporting community building as well as new
business startups.

Solving Social Issues through Solving Environmental Issues
Tokyo Square Garden is a large-scale office building with
24-floor building with four underground floors completed
in 2013. Located closed to Tokyo Station and has directaccess with Kyobashi Station. The building is highly praisedby third parties for its high environmental performance
while also offering approximately 30 meter-tall Kyobashi noOka that stretches to the 4th floor and having an area ofapproximately 3,000 m2 is a place of relaxation in an area
where little green space exists. We established Kyobashi
Environmental Station in the 6th floor and offer informationand consulting about the environment to promote CO2
reduction in the area.
While large-scale office buildings that consider energysaving and environmentally-friendliness have become
prevalent in the society, many issues that needs to besolved such as climate change, disaster prevention, andsuper-aging society remain as address in the SDGs.
Concentration of population in urban areas are acceleratingaround the world and many social issues are becoming
closely connected to issues in urban areas. As such, finding
solutions for issues in urban areas will lead to sustainablecommunity building and are thought to contribute to solving
the issues raised in the SDGs.
Tokyo Tatemono renovated section of the Kyobashi
Environmental Station and created a new "space" called
City Lab Tokyo to engage in solving social issues throughcommunity building from perspective of a developer.

Tokyo Square Garden

Kyobashi no Oka that stretchesfrom 1F to 4F

Chuo City Environmental Information Center in Kyobashi Environmental
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Message from the President

FeatureCorporate Philosophyand CSR

Environmental Initiatives

Safety & Security Initiatives

Responding to Social ChangeCommunity Involvement

Utilization of Human
Resource Assets

Improving ManagementSystem

City Lab Tokyo's Approach of Solving Issues in Urban Areas
projects or businesses; and bring innovation through making
them into shape in the society.

City Lab Tokyo is an open innovation platform for building
sustainable city and society. It focuses on nine out the 17
goals of SDGs which are related to building sustainable city
as material goals.
It also provides support programs from three perspectives:
provision of knowledge, community building, and supporting
business startups. We aim to contribute to solving issuesin urban areas through offering programs that enable
individuals, companies, and business startups to gain
knowledge and community that match their goals; workwith public entities that are faced with challenges, venture
capitals, or other entities that offer funds to create new

Focused 10 goals of the SDGs

Concept of solving issues through the three programs offered by City Lab Tokyo

Matching

Provision of knowledge
Learning Program

Community building
Sharing Program

Supporting
business startups
Matching Program

Offers information aboutsocietal trends related tosustainability, newtechnologies, and other latestknowledge and information to
encourage participants to find
new perspective.

Encourages creation of shared knowledge base andcommunity consisting from diverse entities
consisting from business startups with potential,
large corporations with resources to create new
business, public entities that are faced with issues inurban areas, academia that offer knowledge, andfinancial institutions and venture capitals that
support businesses.

Supports matching withbusiness operators that arecan create business andproject and also making theminto shape in the society
through cooperation withgovernment, municipalities,and other public entities.

Large corporations
Buildingcommunities
Building partnership
Universities,
Government,
Building sharedresearchmunicipality, etc.
knowledge baseinstitutions
StartupGain knowledge
Joiningcommunities

Starting
business/
projects

Financial institutions,venture capitals, etc.

New events and programs are held consistently
Events and regular programs are held by various entities at the CityLab Tokyo. In 2018, Urban Development College program consistingfrom six courses (five sessions each) hosted by Japan Society ofUrban and Regional Planners (JSURP) was offered. Upcoming
events, after reports, interview articles, and other information areavailable on the City Lab Tokyo official homepage and Facebookpage.

© nozomu ishikawa

Official website: https://citylabtokyo.jp/
Official Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/citylabtokyo/

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Innovation/Solving issues

Sharing

Actualization

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Message from the President

FeatureCorporate Philosophyand CSR

Environmental Initiatives

Safety & Security Initiatives

Responding to Social Change

Community Involvement

Utilization of Human
Resource Assets

Improving Management
SystemCity Lab Tokyo: Atmosphere Filled with Relaxing Scent of Woodgeneral rental meeting rooms in the area.
Desks, stools, flooring materials, and carpets all use
timber from forest thinning or recycled materials. Ishimaki
Stool born from the program to support areas affected by
the Great East Japan Earthquake is also used.

City Lab Tokyo is a facility offered for rent to its members,
with approximately 300 m2 of space consisting from ameeting room that can be used for seminars and saloon
and long table for meeting and as individual work space.
If the purpose of use is for solving issues in the urban
areas, it can be used with reasonable price compared toThe meeting room can be used for seminars and workshops of up to 100 participants. Walls are approximately 15m long white board
which images can be projected and written on. Meeting room and saloon can be used flexibly with movable partitions.

Saloon offers movable desks and sofa tables. This enables layout to be changed freely, allowing for discussions while standing orengage in work. Network building parties can be held by using a catering service.

The long table offers open working space. We hope the library specializing in books on sustainability will be an opportunity to discover
new perspectives. Staff from Urbanist that operate the facility is present at all times. They will offer various consulting if needed.

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Message from the President

FeatureCorporate Philosophyand CSR

Environmental Initiatives

Safety & Security Initiatives

Responding to Social Change

Community Involvement

Utilization of Human
Resource Assets

Improving Management
SystemMessage from the Key Person of City Lab TokyoMESSAGEA Place for Diverse People to Participate in Creating City of Tomorrow

Hideki Koizumi
Professor, Department of Urban Engineering,
The University of Tokyo

The United Nations estimates that approximately 70% of the world's population willbe living in urban areas by 2050. Importance of issues in urban areas is increasing
as we enter an age that is unlike what we have ever experienced before. In addition,
spread of latest technologies such as ICT*1, IoT*2, and AI*3 is rapidly changing thesociety. These cause what cities, towns, regions, and society as whole should strive
toward. This is why searching for a new goal which communities within urban areas
and regions or society as a whole should strive toward is required. Connection with not
only urban planning and development with important but also with other fields such as
economics; finance; IoT, AI, and other latest technologies; and measures against aging
society. It is not an easy task with a simple answer. It will require discussions withpeople with various stakes. City Lab Tokyo is a place to build a space where people
can think about the city of tomorrow in an innovative way.
Open innovation isn't always simple. A true open innovation is like creating somethingfrom nothing through working on new challenges and bringing in new values. As such,City Lab Tokyo offers programs to support that innovation. I hope people that visit willuse it as their stepping stone.
How to bring innovation and what roles City Lab Tokyo will take should become clearer
as we continue trying. City Lab Tokyo is there to create space and environment where
new communities can be built.

Representative of Urbanist*1 ICT: Information and Communication Technology*2 IoT: Internet of Things*3 AI: Artificial Intelligence

MESSAGE

Bringing Astonishing Innovation through Network Building
I have been participating in this project since its launch. One of the focuses we hadsince its conceptual stage is "expanding networks". Building network with people
and organizations in different industries is sometimes difficult but is very refreshing.
At the same time, I truly feel that that kind of network is required. As the term "openinnovation" has become familiar, business are required to go beyond its own field
and have more flexibility and capability. City Lab Tokyo is a new initiative of the Tokyo
Tatemono Group which looks at the future based on social issues, diverging fromprior projects centered on greenery and environment. City Lab Tokyo will continue toexpand its network while enriching its content to bring astonishing innovations.

Masaaki Tomiya
Business Planning, Commercial Properties
Tokyo Tatemono
Project Manager of City Lab TokyoMESSAGE

Serving as Bridge to Innovation

Kenji Fujii
Business Planning, Commercial Properties
Tokyo Tatemono
Project Director of City Lab Tokyo

I have been involved in the operation of the Kyobashi Environmental Station since itsstart. It has been five years since its completion and needs for solving social issues
has rose drastically. There is now a need to consider economic and social aspects tosolve environmental issues. We thought that if we could become a bridge between
communities that demand solutions; business startups that have ideas to solve them;and large corporations that see solutions for social issues as a potential market, newbusinesses would be created. This project is embodiment of that idea. Our roles is
not only to offer "space" but also offer opportunities to various connections between
communities, universities, companies, and business startups using the networks webuilt through Kyobashi Environmental Station while holding events and projects withvalue. I would like to continue taking part in moments which business start and new
innovations are made.
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