Urban Development in Tokyo
Evolving into an “Environmentally-advanced”
City that offers appeal and vitality to emerge
as the world’s role model

Regional Coordination Section
TOKYO METROPOLITAN GOVERNMENT 1

Contents
 Outline of Tokyo Urban Development in Tokyo
・The Urban Development Vision for Tokyo2

Location of Tokyo
Tokyo Metropolis
GDP: 85 trillion yen
Population: 13 million
Area 2,187km2

GDPTokyoother regions

Population

18%
Tokyo’s share to 10%
the nation
0.5%

Area
0%

20%

40%

60%

80%

100%

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Tokyo Megalopolis
Tokyo Megalopolis
Population 34 million(the world largest)

Tokyo Metropolis(jurisdictional area)
Population 13 million

4The population of Tokyo will start todecrease in 2020
(10,000 persons)Projection

23 wards
Tama area
Tokyo(year)

5Unprecedented speed into an aged society(10,000 persons)Projection

Child population(age 0-14)
Productive-age
population (age 15-64)
Elderly population 1(age 65-74)
Elderly population 2(age 75 and older)(year)
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Contents
 Outline of Tokyo Urban Development in Tokyo
・The Urban Development Vision for Tokyo

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Situations surrounding today’s Tokyo Intensifying interurban competition, diminishinginternational competitiveness Worsening global environmental problems, i.e.

global warming Enhancing consciences toward nearby greeneryand landscape Urgent preparedness against a futureearthquake Aging large-scale housing complexes

8Basic Philosophy and Goals
TMG revised Urban Development Vision in July 2009 in
response properly and swiftly to emerging needs of residents
and issues of the era.
Emphasis on Environment, Greenery and Landscape in
addition to reinforcing international competitiveness andsecuring public safety

Evolving into an “Environmentally-advanced”
City that offers appeal and vitality to emerge asthe world’s role model
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Basic Philosophy and Goals

10Basic StrategyTo realize Basic Philosophy and Goals, TMG demonstrates basicstrategies concentrating on infrastructure development.

Basic strategy 1: Reinforcing wide-area transport infrastructures
Basic strategy 2: Forming hubs for boosting economic vitality
Basic strategy 3: Converting Tokyo into low-carbon city
Basic strategy 4: Creating Water and Greenery network
Basic strategy 5: Creating beautiful urban space
Basic strategy 6: Creating a higher residential standard
Basic strategy 7: Creating a disaster-resistant city11Basic strategy 1
Reinforcing wide-area transport infrastructures
Reinforcing wide-area transport infrastructures as thefoundation for enabling integral delivery of metropolitan
functions and maintaining / improving international
competitiveness

12Building a regional land, sea,
and air transportation network
National Capital Region
Central Loop RoadTokyo Outer Loop Road
Yokota Airfield

Approx. 50％
completed（＝270/520km）

Tokyo Metropolitan
Expressway Central
Loop RouteNarita Airport
220,000 ⇒ 300,000（FY2014）
Haneda Airport
371,000 ⇒ 447,000 flights（FY2013）13

Basic strategy 2
Forming hubs for boosting economic vitality
Concentrating international business functions and otherdistinctive functions with many appeals at urban hubs in city
centers and sub centers, in order to boost Tokyo’s economicvitality
Tama Silicon Valley

Sub centers: identity and diversity

Suburban cores

City center: international businessNew centers
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Urban renaissance Project（平成23年4月現在）
緊急整備地域名

都市再生特別地区及び国土交通大臣認定箇所図

秋葉原･神田地域

3SM G

環状四号線新宿富久沿道地域

神田駅

新宿駅

9 D OH

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東京駅･有楽町駅周辺地域

I

東京駅・有楽町駅周辺地域（約320ha）

C

東京駅

環状二号線新橋周辺･赤坂･六本木地域

PF

7Q
T

有楽町駅

N18111K
R 17155環状二号線新橋周辺
・赤坂・六本木地域（約590ha）

渋谷駅
浜松町駅

21612H17.6.15
告示

D

大手町地区

H18.1.23
告示F

丸の内２－１地区

H18.8.22
告示H

大手町１－６地区

H19.8.22
告示I

日本橋室町東地区

H19.8.22
告示K
7

銀座四丁目６地区

H20.3.7
告示97
N

京橋二丁目１６地区

H20.6.20
告示O

大手町地区Ｂゾーン

H21.3.6
告示P

丸の内二丁目７地区

H21.3.6
告示Q

京橋二丁目3地区

H21.6.22
告示R

銀座四丁目１2地区

H21.6.22
告示T

京橋三丁目１地区

H22.3.5
告示1397

東京駅八重洲口開発事業

H16.12.10
認定

139

大手町地区
第一次再開発事業

H17.11.18
認定

13

三菱商事・古河ビル・丸ノ内
八重洲ビル建替計画

H18.11.20
認定

17銀座四丁目１2地区

H22.2.24
認定

18

京橋三丁目１地区

H22.7.12
認定51

南青山一丁目団地
建替プロジェクト

H15.1.30
認定

115

東京ミッドタウンプロジェクト

H16.5.14
認定

11G

赤坂五丁目TBS開発計画
虎ノ門・六本木地区
第一種市街地再開発事
業
淡路町二丁目西部地区

H21.10.21
認定M23

神田駿河台三丁目９地区

H20.6.20
告示S

神田駿河台四丁目6地区

H22.3.5
告示423

UDXビル計画

H15.10.24
認定

G3
秋葉原・神田地域（約160ha）

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東京臨海地域（約1,010ha）

都市再生特別地区

品川駅

五反田駅
16J
大崎駅

大臣認定事業

新宿駅周辺地域（約220ha）

大崎駅周辺地域

108 A（約60ha）

B
渋谷駅周辺地域（約139ha）

H19.4.6
告示

臨海副都心有明南LM2･3区画開発事業
晴海二丁目地区
都市再生事業H15.10.24
認定

1210
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勝どき六丁目地区第一種
市街地再開発事業

H16.12.10
認定

1210E

フジテレビ臨海副都心
スタジオ計画

H18.3.23
認定

12AE

豊洲二丁目4-1街区・6街区
商業施設建設事業

H18.6.19
認定

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有明南プロジェクト

H21.3.16
認定21（仮称）晴海二丁目第２－４街区計画

H23.3.28
認定

ABE

西新宿一丁目７地区

H18.3.10
告示A
B
J

大崎駅西口Ｅ東地区

H16.1.20
告示

8B
J

大崎駅西口Ａ地区

H17.3.11
告示

8L
J

北品川五丁目第１地区

H19.8.22
告示

8L

大崎西口開発H17.3.11
認定

16（仮称）東五反田地区（Ｂ地区）開発計画

H22.2.24
認定L

渋谷二丁目２１地区

H20.3.7
告示2（⑲H22.8認定）

H18.3.23
認定1064642東京臨海地域

備考

丸の内１－１地区

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4

渋谷駅周辺地域

大崎駅周辺地域

称

C

新橋駅

L

凡 例名秋葉原駅

E

新宿駅周辺地域

番号（⑳H22.10認定）

H16.2.27
認定

Designation of urban renaissance district： ２０ projects
Minister authorization：２１projrcts

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Various urban development schemes
Schemes that intend to give incentives to a buildings plan, which contributes tocreating good-quality urban environment, regarding building volume

50,000㎡

Bonus building
volume50,000㎡
50,000㎡
Floor area ratio 500%
Building coverage ratio
80%
Site area 10,000m2

A building without
incentive scheme

Public accessibleopen space

A building with public accessible
open space incentive

Public accessible open space in private domain: open space inside building site that
open to the public all the time and that are usable for pedestrians to walk through16Basic strategy 3
Converting Tokyo into low-carbon city
Reducing environmental strains to coincide urban development
projects, and completing trunk motorways such as the three loop
roads as the city’s transport backbones, in order to reduce CO2
emissions and promote the development of low-carbon city17Basic strategy 4
Creating Water and Greenery network
Preserving valuable greeneries in city areas, creating
accessible waterfront space, and enriching greeneryalong trunk motorways in order to create a network ofwater and greenery18Basic strategy 5
Creating beautiful urban space
Establishing world class landscape around the Imperial Palace,and preserving other historical and cultural landscapes, inorder to create beautiful urban space in the capital Tokyo
Landscapes harmonious with natures and geography
Conservation of historical and cultural landscapes
World class landscapes around the Imperial Palace

Architectural views and stately landscapes
Attractive urban waterfront
Islands area:
Harmonious landscapes with nature and climate

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Basic strategy 6
Creating a higher residential standard
Promoting urban living to establish a residential
environment with work/living proximity, and establishinghigh quality and environmentally friendly residential
stock in order to raise the residential standard

Areas to promote housing
Areas to improve close-set wooden housing
Areas to improve close-set wooden housing with high priority
Areas to maintain/improve living environment
Areas to renew built-up urban districts in planned ways
Major large scale TMG-owned public housing

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Basic strategy 7
Creating a disaster-resistant city
Resolving areas with heavy concentration of wooden residential
homes, improving firebreak belts (e.g. Disaster Control Axis
Framework), and upgrading quake-resistance of urban
infrastructures/public facilities, in order to actualize a disasterresistant city
Disaster Control Axis Framework

Fire/quake-resistance of buildings(Areas of dense wooden houses)

Wide area disaster preparedness center
Measures against torrential rains
Quake-resistance of urban infrastructures and public facilities

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Urban Development based policyinducement
Urban structure that Tokyo aspires to be○

Urban structure of Tokyo



Tokyo metropolitan district
Formulation of The Circular MegalopolisStructure

Local district
Realignment for the development ofcompact city hubs○

Local characteristics Zone
Five zones based on the underling framework ofthe Circular Megalopolis Structure
Five zone’s Strategies

Urban development that reflects
local characteristics

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“The Circular Megalopolis Structure”

Scheme of the structure23

Urban development that reflects localcharacteristics
Five zones based on the underlining framework of the Circular
Megalopolis Structure

24Central Core Revitalization Zone

Ohhashi JCT

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Tokyo Bay Waterfront Vitalization Zone

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Urban Environment Revitalization Zone

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Core Cities Regional Collaboration Zone28

Natural Environment Preservation andUtilization Zone

The Ogasawara island chain in the Pacific south of Tokyo becomesJapan‘s fourth natural heritage site according to the decision by theU.N. Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization's World
Heritage Committee in June 2011.

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ขอบคณุ Terima kasih 谢谢Thank you for listening

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