Nishi-Shinjuku - The Skyscraper Story
Show: Dive in Tokyo --> Season: 2 - Season 2
AirDate: 10/18/2023
Runtime: 28
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Overview: We visit Nishi-Shinjuku, home to one of Tokyo's biggest clusters of skyscrapers. We learn how the buildings came to be built and uncover a centuries-long relationship with water, including the construction of a large treatment plant. Echoes of it still remain among today's towers. Omoide Yokocho, or Memory Lane, evolved from a post-war black market, and witnessed Japan's economic boom. Dive into the urban neighborhood of Nishi-Shinjuku.